puggo
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…circa 2010 everything i released on netlabels was made only with a nord modular kb 
here more quiet stuff
here some sequencers involved
great synths to program and learn with (micro, g1,g2 engine)
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Mofongo
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A friend shared this with me today. A new release by nrl:ndr. All made with the Roland JV-2080.
https://boomkat.com/products/untitled-f643d118-16a4-4dca-b2d0-8c59332d59d9
Boomkat review: Sweden’s Blundar introduces late dance music convert nrl:ndr with a raft of ascetic yet playful exercises in rhythmelodic miniamlism rigorously gleaned from a Roland JV-2080 synth-sampler unit
The first nrl:ndr release slot itself into the label roster alongside its other rhythm dragon-chasers with a hands-on, asymmetric, economic feel for groove and texture shared by their Best Available Technology and Komet / Byetone releases. Their skewed take on club music derives from a background in hip hop and rock, playing with kraut-oriented bands like So Many Mammals and live techno group Tren Né, and absorbing the energy of playing at illegal raves.
Their music exists in space adjacent those strains of practice, discreetly getting inside their own thing - and particularly the limits of the rack-mounted Roland JV-2080 synth-sampler unit - with a careful yet approach to rhythm programming and tonal nuance that is found tucked tightly into takes on Kakuhan-like far eastern percussion in the opener, and threads thru the record’s nimble electronica on ‘A4’, to the pendulous, air-carving shapes and spaces described in ‘B1’, and puckered into a series of 2-steppy vignettes, culminating a pulsating, steppers’ ambient techno abstraction recalling Giuseppe Ielasi meets Vladislav Delay.
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Here’s the bigger story behind The Phenol Tapes, which I promised to share with you
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Just released an advance of “huellas” in YT only, it’s the companion music for a poetry book called “Tierra de soñadores” (land of dreamers), the first book written by my wife.
The music is all the buchla music easel, what an expressive instrument!
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new one i put out this week…all three of these tracks are just Novation Peak (sequenced via Hapax), tracks 1 & 3 feature some outboard compression & reverb tho. not a lot to each track in and of itself, but shows the diversity of the synth along with some of the more subtle aspects possible within a patch on it.
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JES
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Digging this. Will you put it up on Bandcamp as some point?
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I am not sure how much this qualifies as gear, but I made this longform piece a couple of years ago only using a gimbri I bought from a souvenir store in Marrakech titled, wait for it, souvenir store gimbri
there are some field recordings used from marrakech that come in and out to try to place the instrument in the context of where I first heard it.
Another, more recent, release that I finished a few months ago instead uses a single sound source (if this doesn’t fit the thread I will happily remove it). The whole album was made using samples of pealing plastic off plexiglass separators. It’s very noisy at points, but the raw sound really lent itself to that, it’s just a very harmonically-rich sound that I listened to on repeat for an unhealthy amount of time. Still don’t know when or where I will release it but thought I’d share one of the tracks here.
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This is such a great thread. There is something about these single-instrument (rolls off the tongue better than single-piece-of-gear) pieces that makes for really good listening.
Here’s my contribution - just guitar ‘n’ fx.
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A really great thread, so much cool stuff !! Here is my contribution, a piece composed on my first afternoon with the UDO Super 6
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I put this Digitakt-only album out a couple years back. Kinda noisy/industrial/techno-y.
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Gonzo
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So many good releases that I am embarrased to share mine… but this whole album was composed on the fly and recorded all in the “old” OP-1 (I know, almost cheating)
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Like the noise! What did you feed into your Digitakt?
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It was a while ago but I’m fairly certain all of the non-perc stuff was cycling waveforms that were included, mostly noise and basic tri or saw waveforms.
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I released this album a year ago which was all made using an MPC 1000 being played by hand (no sequencing). The sample sources were mostly electric guitar, Wurlitzer piano and sine waves. each track is a 12 minute long exploration of one set of sounds or an idea without overdubs or editing (beyond chopping the beginning or end off to make it exactly 12 minutes long).
it is definitely a slow burn of 12 twelve minute tracks.
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OKS
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This album has a very special atmosphere. My favorite is song 8. By the way very interesting concept with the 12 minutes length in relation to the 12 songs. Did you use any effects on the instruments?
Thanks so much.
I really mostly used the effects that are built into the MPC 1k - mostly the delay, reverb and tremolo/pan and the master bus EQ+compressor. Some of the sampled instruments might have had reverb on them but nothing special. All the stuff that sounds like granular processing was all done using the MPC
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