May 2013
3 posts
HAHAHA FOUR TET DOESNT MASTER HIS TRACKS HAHAH OMG CAN’T DEAL
source ~ 18:40
April 2013
5 posts
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4Live.me: HAPPY BIRTHDAY 4Live.me!! - celebrating one year + gifts :)) →
4live.me
it was exactly a year ago when i launched 4Live.me
here’s a little something i made:
/ inspired by David Abravanel :)
THANK YOU very much for listening, downloading, sharing and inspiring!
it was an amazing, creative year for me and i can’t wait to see what new cool ideas the…
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Bridges
This is the album I had been working on over winter break, and even though it has been several months since I arranged it, I’ve occasionally tinkered with it. I think my recent production is better, certainly more technically competent, but these works are heartfelt, and important considering the transitions that were taking place. And so I have decided to upload it and finally, finally share it. You can download the complete album here. Enjoy.
March 2013
10 posts
>that feel when great jam session and you didn’t hit record
goddamnit
Perc vs Sawf podcast - for |BEATNIK| and Reform #006: Perc Trax Showcase @ Six D.O.G.S. Athens
Perc vs Sawf podcast - for |BEATNIK| and Reform #006: Perc Trax Showcase @ Six D.O.G.S. Athens.
Sawf
1) Anfs - Chest [n/a]
2) Sawf - Kafra (Vox) [n/a]
3) British Murder Boys - Rule By Law (Sawf Drums) [Counterbalance]
4) Sawf - Vavasofa (Perc Dub Drum Tool) [Perc Trax]
5) Sawf - Solinario [n/a]
6) Sawf - Petres (Dubapella) [n/a]
7) Shifted - Chapter 69 [Our Circula Sound]
8) Robert Gorl - Psychoring [Disko B]
9) The Advent - Link (Sawf Tool) [Tresor]
Perc
10) Broadcast - Mark Of The Devil [Warp]
11) Broadcast - Monica’s Fall [Warp]
12) Broadcast - Teresa’s Song (Sorrow) [Warp]
14) Sawf - Skotos (Henning Baer Remix) [M_Rec Ltd]
15) Headless Horseman - Sleepy Hollow [Headless Horseman]
16) Yan Cook - Alptraum [Silent Steps]
17) Barker & Baumecker - Silo (Kobosil Remix) [Ostgut Ton]
18) Woody McBride - True Self (Meditation Mix) [Apex]
19) Forward Strategy Group - Code #3 [Perc Trax]
20) EDMX & Yuri Suzuki - Mental SX-150 [MPC Trax]
21) Blacknecks - Blacknecks 001 A1 [Blacknecks]
22) Subjected - Boom Boom [Vault Series]
23) AW \ PB - 209 [Brothers]
24) Objekt - Shuttered [Bleep]
if you have not yet heard this mix, download it. download it now!
Sheetspace
Rindigo - Sheetspace
I have completed a new track! Slightly slower, more textural techno. Oh, and a free download.
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February 2013
5 posts
eightKNOBS - 5 new oneknob effects + 3 old ones
this is probably my last post before Live 9 is out :)))))
so in honor of the unforgettable times we had with the great 8,
i give you eightKNOBS- a new DJ Rack made of 8 oneknob effects
music // Gesaffelstein - Opr
video // The Big LebowskiDOWNLOAD eightKNOBS
what’s new?
DROP ME - pitch drop CHOP ME - 8-step chopper ECHO ME - reverberation HIGH - high-pass filter LOW - low-pass filteralso check REPEAT ME, PUMP ME and TURNTABLE
cheers ~___~
I’m fairly convinced that Autechre gets their song titles from captcha.
January 2013
8 posts
Future Grooves →
futuregrooves.tumblr.com
oh wow Future Grooves posted my last track to the FG tumblr page. follow the link above, and give it a follow. Truly great music blog.
All The Things I've Seen
After an interesting weekend, and really appreciating some tracks I had not given the close listens they deserved, I sort of undertook a personal challenge to create something sounding like Burial. The vocal samples are taken from Kerosene, by Crystal Castles - another great tune I was enamored with this weekend. This took about a day to assemble, so it’s not the most polished it could be, but I suppose it started out as an experiment and quickly gained too much momentum to be a silly Ableton project that gets abandoned or cannibalized later.
Oh, and January is almost over. Remember how I promised to reveal tracks form the new album? Take a free download of this track instead for now. I currently have 9 tracks arranged, but they need to be mastered, and some feedback has convinced me that fine tuning will be necessary.
that feel when the clip of Ghostek’s new track has an arp synth that sounds very similar to the things I am currently working on
that … feel
Sound bottle !!!! omfg →
aiaiai.dk
there goes my musical career. that’s everything i do in a bottle.
December 2012
5 posts
Hey there, I was looking through your blog and noticed that you have a maschine mikro. I'm looking into getting one, and I just wanted to see if you think it accomplishes everything you really need it to. I'm just not sure I want/need to spend the amount of a maschine/mpc or the mikro, where I might experience some drawbacks. Anyway, peace.
a whoooole lot of factors should be considered before I could recommend the Mikro with great confidence. First - What kind of music do you produce, and do you perform, or do you intend to perform? I do not use the pads to play in phrases the way I imagine many hip-hop oriented producers would. Since I’m geared more towards techno, I find that playing in parts is only useful for live. One of the reasons I really wanted the Maschine Mikro initially was the step sequencer function, which is absolutely phenomenal for putting together techno loops on the fly - which is why I ask if you intend to perform. I think it is great for live improvisation using the step sequencer.
Anyway, with that said, I do not want to discourage you from getting the Mikro if you do not produce, but I think that if you intend to only produce with it, you are better off with the full sized Maschine rather than the Mikro, which lacks knobs that make production easier. BUT, you get the same software, samples, and Komplete Elements with either. SO - if you are looking to START producing, from point zero, Maschine is a great place to start. Also, I dont even use the hardware if I am not performing, but I use the Maschine software in every single one of the tracks I am currently working on. It’s a phenomenal piece of software.
However, I don’t think Maschine software can stand alone fully. it needs a DAW to complete the tracks. I use Ableton. this raises two issues: Live 9 and Push are coming out probably within 4 months. Push is going to have a step sequencer and is likely going to integrate a very large portion of Maschine’s functionality. it might be better to save and invest in Ableton Push. Also, Maschine’s pads experience very irritating latency in Ableton 8 because of the way Ableton deals with MIDI input. It tries to compensate for latency, but there is some weird interaction with Maschine that creates latency. I guess this is usually the case with the computer’s integrated sound card. When I am using my Komplete Audio 6 and have Ableton’s audio set to its ASIO drivers, the latency is removed. I am not sure if this is the case with all soundcards using ASIO, of if it is specifically because it is a Native instruments soudncard.
Can’t wait until the semester is over and I am back at home in my own cozy, quiet room so that I can just focus on completing this album. I just have so many pieces right now, so many devices, instrument racks, textures and sounds and samples across so many ableton sets, like a toolkit. I have developed my “go-to” devices and constructions, developed ways to put the textures and progression in my head into the DAW. I just can’t wait until I can focus on synthing, arranging, and mastering deep into cold, christmas-light illuminated nights.
but for now, I need to stop shirking on completing these papers, and deal with finals. Then the music will flow. but before I go off to do that, consider this as being a declaration of a tentative deadline: if this album isn’t completed by the end of January, you will most certainly hear at least a few completed tracks. consider it a promise.
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November 2012
6 posts
Rindigo - Peel Away
A techno tune that came together between jam sessions with Draft34, preparation for our upcoming show, assignments, watching a documentary on Berlin techno, and so on. Might revisit it and make minor tweaks in the future, but for now, enjoy this 320 kbps download. It’s long and subtly evolving, just how techno should be.
do you know of any places online to to find videos for how to use the maschine?
Dubspot has great tutorials for everything related to production. they have a few Maschine ones. Winksound is also really good for very concise tutorials. Check out Maschineproducers.com as well. DJ Tech Tools also has great tutorials, primarily for digital DJing, but they recently had one pertaining to Maschine
October 2012
11 posts
Leaked images of Ableton Live 9??? →
djtechtools.com
Spread the word and start speculating. Allegedly Ableton put up a video briefly and then took it down, and here is what has been gleaned from it. I can’t say I am entirely blown away, but something seems more smooth about it. click the link to go to the DJ Tech Tools analysis of the video.
so stoked to perform tonight!
