Meant to record my radio broadcast today and use that as fridays track, but that will have to wait til next week (I’m in the process of moving…everything’s all over the place).
More tiny random ambient noise jam via the Red House. This one probably has the most ‘friday jam’ feel to it out of all of these little studies. Download: RedHouseGreenHouse – Untitled 6 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Same story as last one…ambient lo-fi sound snippets from an unexpanded EPS sampler + nylon guitar. Download: Noggin Etc – 02 – Track02 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
This is one that my buddy Rocky and I threw together one spring day in Anacortes. Another friend of ours had donated a superbly awesome keyboard sampler, the Ensoniq EPS, and these short few lo-fi tracks came out of the first breaths that machine took in our studio.
We weren’t sure how to or even if this thing would work, and all we had for a sound source was my recently pick-up’ed nylon guitar. So every sound is from that guitar.
Major props to Rocky. Download: RedHouseGreenHouse – 3 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Things were simple Artist: Noggin Album: The Shoebox Release Date: 2000
This one is another Buzz classic, featuring a long 303 line out of rebirth, and my homey Patrick on vocals mixed in real low. Download: Noggin – Things were Simple (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Reel to Roll Artist: Jon + Noggin Album: Sober October Demos Release Date: 2010
Welcome back, Jon.
Here’s one that, after extensive editing, got pieced together from some tape Jon and I laid down one night in the garage.
It’s an ER-1, some harmonica, and that old orange guitar, cut to hell and edited in Logic. Download: jon + noggin – reeltoroll (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Recording doesn’t always go as planned. I sat down one night, recorded hours worth of stuff, only to listen to it the next day and realise I had somehow only managed to record the reverb sends to tape.
This is one of those tracks…I still kind of like them.
MPC2KXL hitting the akai reel-to-reel via some Lexicon LXP-1. Download: Noggin – Sunday Morning Sidewalk (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Buying Records, Buying Stocks (pt. 1 – The Mortgage Crisis) Artist: Noggin Album: Sober October Demos Release Date: 2010
I recorded this song entirely on the premise of writing some music for my homey DJ CockBlock on his birthday. I then sat on this for a month as I thought ‘oooh I’ll make a video too’. Birthday came and went, this continued to sleep, and I finally put it out there on Xmas.
All drum samples are from the poor man’s 808, the TR-606….a really great sounding drum box. Also includes some samples off of my first ever guitar (thanks Chuck) that I recently attached a piezo pickup to. It’s finnicky, but it’s where I come from and I am loving it.
The title isn’t meant to be a political statement or anything…it was inspired from homeboy’s own now-defunct blog. I thought the tag line sounded great, and then I just used it to inspire regurgitation of buzz-words from the last year or so. Hell, let’s make THAT my political statement…regurgitation and buzz words.
This track produced entirely in an MPC 2000XL, and recorded to 4-track reel. It’s funny to think about that, because the MPC is basically the one instrument that will pull me away from Buzz, and Buzz is the one instrument that will pull me away from the MPC. Still, they are basically completely incompatible as I use them…while Buzz might now have midi, it was not always the case, so I would resort to bouncing down sounds and then importing into MPC…this is not fun and I rarely do it.
There is a part 2, do you want it? It might appear in full length form on my forthcoming album. Download: Noggin – Buying Records, Buying Stocks pt. 1 (right click and choose ‘save as’)