Nils Quak - All That is Solid Melts Into Air

yghartsyrt · 2023-12-28T21:21:54.199Z

The last two years felt strange, since i didn’t really feel motivated to make any music. The usual way of just buying new gear didn’t spark any new enthusiasm (you would have thought that consumerism doesn’t fix having nothing to write music about…).

But one thing that made me record some music for a brief time, was getting an Octatrack. Funnily enough, the resulting recordings were not really like the ones, most people usually associate with this device.

Instead of going deep into sampling territory, the foundation of all tracks were just recordings of the empty inputs and normalizing the noise I recorded that way. With those noise snippets i went to town with the scenes and the crossfader jumping between different states of effect and play settings. Mostly it’s the bitcrusher/distortion, filter, delay and reverb

Only occasionally i used samples, i recorded earlier.

One big part of the final recordings was applying the Boss Metal Zone emulation from Mercuriall. It’s free and I highly recommend it to everyone looking for the extreme distortion
https://mercuriall.com/cms/details_freestuff

Hope you enjoy – it’s perfect for prolonging the festive mood

Here are some download codes for you all
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Papercutnoise · 2023-12-28T21:24:13.450Z

Excellent, thanks!! Big fan of your previous releases so looking forward to checking this out.

I used tsrz-bfwl.

yghartsyrt · 2023-12-28T21:29:05.544Z

Thanks a lot. But beware – this is more in the hnw/harsh noise territory – so “slightly” different form my usual output. But i’m not much of a fan of releasing music under different names.

I hope you enjoy it.

c0nsilience · 2023-12-28T23:18:32.683Z

Thank you. This is nice & will check out your other work.

disquiet · 2023-12-29T03:56:40.222Z

Thanks! I used rywv-whzw

fourhoarder · 2023-12-29T17:16:25.382Z

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thank you! I have also really enjoyed your previous releases.

yghartsyrt · 2023-12-29T18:22:41.818Z

20 characters of Thanks, enjoy the ride!