#11

Time has a habit of taking everything and everyone, so your strategy seems especially wise and, if the product of your experiences is any measure, especially beautiful. Courage, and thanks.

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#12

sounds beautiful & love love the artwork

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#13

The preview tracks sound very inspiring, looking forward to the full album, thankyou! :slight_smile:

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#14

The opening track sounds absolutely incredible, it’s so alive. Thank you.

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#15

Love the sound of this. Very looking forward to the release

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#16

thank you, all, for the positivity! you have created such a warm welcome for this weird lil collection of clips, I’m excited for the whole batch to be released :slight_smile:

ooo doggie. a lot of the filter modulation on ‘phylum’ is the last stage of a chain of modulated modulators. typically, deerhorn’s various outputs fm’ing the ultrasound which fm’s gong/av dog, which is also being modulated by the 3-roll and 4-roll which are also receiving modulation from deerhorn. one or many of these fm’ing the deerhorn oscillators.

having a touch controller (deerhorn) at the core of the patch is really lovely. small gestures, when chained and cross-chained, have wide-yet-recoverable affect. do it a little quicker, a little gentler, side-to-side instead of up-down. these are considerations that I wasn’t able to explore as deeply when working exclusively with eurorack.

hope this helps!

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#17

Hello!

If you missed out on the first run of phylum tapes, no problem! We are doing a repress of 25! they are up for pre-order right now! They will ship out on 10/11, the same day that phylum will be released on streaming services!

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#18

Great to see this being so successful - I am really looking forward to listen to my brand new cassette tape!

…will the first edition be signed then?..

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#19

I pressed play before I read your description and was thinking this sounds like what it feels like to fall in love. Reminds me of fennesz and pita in that whole romantic noise genre.

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#20

this is a really meaningful note, thank you lee :revolving_hearts:

to riff, I think the partners we choose are very much expressions of every phase of the stuff touched on in the first post. we sometimes find others who give us opportunities to re-play those traumas, to give us another chance at addressing them as adults. we sometimes are able to find others who have had the same experiences and want to build a life of alternatives, to build the structures we wanted/needed but never received. love is a big piece. how we love others and how we ask to be loved are extensions of those themes, for better or for worse.

I had a grand plan that fell through, because the production process is split between Chicago and California :sweat_smile:. if we ever physically cross paths, though, I’ll make it right! :slight_smile:

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#21

Cool, so I will always take it with me, where ever I go from October on…:smiley:

#22

purchased, this is so good! i love how every track has its own variety of either noise or bitcrushing- makes it feel like there’s a gentle rain throughout the whole album. :relieved:

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#23

Finally got around to listening to the album in full today - really beautiful stuff @dan_derks, thank you so much for sharing it with us.

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#24

thank you so much @n-So + @rbxbx and everyone for letting phylum be a part of your lives for a little bit. it means the world :revolving_hearts:

this is such a lovely sentiment :slight_smile:
those ciat-lonbarde circuits are :sparkles: magic

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#25

Preordered this then moved house. Fingers crossed I’ll have my music listening setup tonight to finally play it!

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#26

i feel a sense of relief knowing the thread exists
somehow i missed it

was wondering why nobody was discussing this masterpiece and did a quick search before making a post to share with others

i like this album SO much
it is a full flood of emotions and i feel wonder, curiosity, joy and kinship while listening

there are more than a few tracks i wish i had made myself

wonderful achievement dan!
thanks for years worth of entertainment (and therapy)

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#27

j, it’s all muqarnas. your work + energy changed my life, in no small way. years of inspiration, a high watermark.

these words mean so much to me, thank you for sharing them :hugs:

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#28

Received the cassette today and I’m enjoying it a lot! Thanks for making this, @dan_derks! The sun is setting after a warm autumn day and your music is the perfect soundtrack for this moment.

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#29

Mine came in on saturday and we had a nice listen to it while cleaning some moldy records. It sounds even better on cassette - or is it the rusty old tape deck that is playing it again and again? I also noticed that I tend to listen deeper to cassettes then I do when playing files on the computer.

Thank you for this recording, @dan_derks !

…oh, and my record cleaning friend said, the cover design is nice - and right she is.

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#30

@dan_derks This is amazing and I LOVE LOVE it. We had a cold spell over the weekend and the heaters were not turned on yet. I put this in my ears and covered myself with blankets and the experience was indescribable really. Like being in the womb again perhaps. Anyway, bravo for another incredible release! Will be in heavy rotation for the foreseeable future.

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