I spent about half an hour today making this. It was really just a studio test to make sure everything was working ok after some upgrades. But I listened to it a few times, and I kinda like it. It’s not very polished, granted, but it’s got a cool cinematic vibe
Untitled Render 09
Some of you may recognise this – coming soon to the Glasgow techno label ‘Full Dose’. Video, I think takes it to another level. I’ll keep everyone posted, but the test pressing has already been approved. In the mean time, please enjoy the video and audio clips.
Here’s some more bullshit I made. I like the drums and how the chords break halfway though it. Old skool house.
The Colourful Adventures Of Duckito
Made some noisy music and found a cool picture of a cat on an old air freshener – today wasn’t all bad.
Heavily deconstructed techno (I say deconstructed to make it sounds good, really the mix is a fucking mess). Lots of cool analogue drums and filters though and a more modern aesthetic that I can usually muster, although that’s not always a positive.
Smelardo Vs. Hoover
Have a listen below, I’ll put a download link up later. Maybe. Maybe not.
I’ve been busy recently, with pressing the last Untitled Render to vinyl as well as getting a cat (little Smelardo, if anyone is interested).
Anyway, here’s some music that I made this evening. I was listening to Bowie’s “Wood Jackson” before making it, although I’m not sure that transfers across, which is a crying shame.
There were problems in the render – one of the pots on my BassStation is on the way out and it made the filter jump like crazy. I like to render these things live because it give me a little more freedom and capture a slightly different feel.
Anyway it’s mainly drums and noise.
From the ashes of “Untitled Render 05” rises a new EP called Burro / Kingston. Two dancehall, ragga inspired popping joints. It all started when I bought an LP called “Soundbwoy Super Status Reggae Breaks And Beats” at the same time as a Chinese distortion pedal.
Tony Bernardo “Burro / Kingstone” Artwork
I’m not going to write big descriptions, but both are Jamaican Patois, hard as fuck drums and synths and shit. I find it pretty interesting to release these little demos and then the final edit a few days later, it’s something I hope to keep up.
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I felt a change of pace was needed, so I tried my hand at something 150+BPM. Initially it was a straight 4/4 hardcore/gabber piece, but it eventually morphed into this.
Chopped the vocal from an old Dancehall LP I bought this week, sounds a lot like Burro Banton to me but I’m not 100% on that. Burro Banton is the fucking man, so I’ve got no issue crediting him with it regardless of his involvement.
Everything is sequenced on an old, tired MPC4000. Drums are Vermona DRM MK1 through a Voodoo Octave guitar pedal. Percussion is a Roland M-DC 1 processed through a JomoX T-Resonator II and couple of other guitar pedals. Synth pad is the Waldorf MicroWave XT with a Boss RV-1000 on top. Outro synth was Novation Super BassStation and a T.C. Electronics Fireworx. Master channel; Art Pro VLA II compressor and an old Akai PEQ. All recorded to tape for the dancehall feel (and hiss, mainly).
Anyting Test Man, Mi Clean Fi Mi Gun
It’s my intention to do a little more work on this (the mix still needs some adjustment), create a b-side and press it under a pseudonym this summer. Download links available this week after I’ve made something close to a final master.
Here’s a couple of tracks I made this weekend. Well, I say couple but one is a version of an older track called Piedmont.
“Color Adjust” is a long, sprawling piece. Lots of texture and very deep bass pinning down fluttering rhythms. It has an effective key change that I really like, and just sonically I find it quite interesting. Beware there is a lot of dynamics in this track, and its most effective with a subwoofer present.
Color Adjust
“Piedmont Version” is a plodding, Moritz Von Oswald inspired remix of an ambient piece I posted here a while ago. I sampled everything from Piedmont in an MPC 4000 and tried to reimagine things a bit. This has sat on my HDD for a while now, but when I listened to it today I really liked it a lot. There’s something nice about it. I like the awkward rhythms and the overall deep feel around everything. Really hazy shit.
Again, all analogue instrumentation – no VSTs or software tricks. In fact the only software used is Logic X, and that’s only to record the stereo outs on the compressor. That’s become quite important to me.
Color Adjust
Piedmont Version
You can download them here: MP3 V0 24BIT FLAC]
What the fuck is this thing? Who are The Presets? Never having heard the original version of “Promises”, nor will I be making the effort to do so, I’m not going to say much about this remix.
I’m putting it up here for completeness really and as an oddity of a recording the I would never have recognised as a Luomo effort. If I had to make a guess, and far be it from me to put words in the man’s mouth, I would guess that VD didn’t much care for the source material given that the vocals are easily 6dB lower than they could be, and everything is deconstructed and layered in a way that exposes rather than beautifies. But, again, all conjecture on my behalf.