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Sober October

Noggin – Jouges

Tuesday 8 November 2011 – 18:07
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Title: Jouges
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

Definition of Love-Hate here.
This track was originally a favorite of mine, though I figured it might not appeal to a wide range. However the first few listeners loved it.
It went through many permutations and edits.
I eventually started to despise it because it’s so nasty to begin with, its not easy to tame.
It almost got scrapped, but held on as being the first reviewers’ favorite – how could I let it get relegated to b-side-land?
It’s an ER-1 feeding back on itself and pressed really hard to tape in the garage with Jon.
ER-1 straight to 1/4″ reels.
Chuck originally called this one “Dirty”.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 04 – Jouges (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – That Old Orange Guitar (Live Remix)

Monday 7 November 2011 – 16:52
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Title: That Old Orange Guitar (live remix)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Date: 2011

This track isn’t exactly suited for playing out at a bar where everyone is drinking looking to get their groove on. However, one time I played a gig out in the forest of east Texas where I thought I might could pull this one off without being too crazy (thank you Birds and Beats). I came up with this extra bit of beat to add to it though to give it a bit of a special touch for the night.
Here is the live ‘remix’ played live earlier today. If you can, take yourself out to the forest with me and your close friends, real late at night on the hottest night of the year. Take yer shirt off, embrace the dirt, smile at the dichotomy of so many colored lights amidst so many darkened trees, veg out.
MPC (w/ FX card!) straight to Logic.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: That Old Orange Guitar (Live remix) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October

Noggin – That Old Orange Guitar

Monday 7 November 2011 – 16:51
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Title: That Old Orange Guitar
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

Final version of the ambient track I posted earlier this year (bonus track after so you don’t think I’m double dipping).
All the sounds in this one came from my first guitar, recently rigged up with piezo, plugged straight into my sampler. I got to say thanks again to my uncle for that guitar, cause it basically was my gateway into wanting to learn to hone my craft.
I want to dedicate this one to my good friend Kyle of California.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via Mackie mixer and LXP-1 on send.
Chuck originally called this one “Leftovers” (and I like that).
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 05 – That Old Orange Guitar (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October Demos Spring Tape

Noggin – Walk around (Furnace version)

Sunday 6 November 2011 – 17:19
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Title: Walk Around (Furnace version)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Spring tape
Date: 2011

Maybe you heard, but I have no idea how I recorded the original version of this that ended up on Reverb City and Sober October. So in an attempt to recreate it, I jammed this out one night.
It’s obvious a lot cleaner, but I think I still like something about that uber-washed out reverb-only version.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – Walk Around (Furnace Version) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October

Noggin – Walk Around

Sunday 6 November 2011 – 17:18
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Title: Walk Around
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

Here’s the one track from the Reverb City sessions (sort of a Sober October sessions alpha version) that actually made it to the album. I just liked the jam so much I couldn’t let it go. And yes, since I already posted this, bonus track is included.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via LXP-1 on full reverb.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 06 – Walk Around (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October

Noggin – Thumb

Saturday 5 November 2011 – 15:05
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Title: Thumb
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

One of the oldest tracks, and most played out, I’ve been performing this piece at shows since December of 2009. I wrote this track one night in Anacortes when I couldn’t sleep due to excessive pain.
The beats came from wanting to honor DJ Screw in a way. The melody is a program I created on the MPC after sampling Alyx’s keyboard.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via Mackie mixer and LXP-1 on send.
Chuck originally called this one “One amazing evening”.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 07 – Thumb (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Reel to Roll [Paulbur edit]

Thursday 3 November 2011 – 16:52
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Title: Reel to Roll [Paulbur Edit]
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

The saintly son of Sunnybrook comes back again in record time with this an ‘edit’ of probably the most divergent track from the release. Lovin the vocals and just the whole idea of hearing something I have spent so much time with take on a life of it’s own outside of my habitat.
Muchas gracias!
http://soundcloud.com/sunnybrook-1
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Reel to Roll [paulbur edit] (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October

Noggin – Reel to Roll

Thursday 3 November 2011 – 16:51
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Title: Reel to Roll
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

Great! My plan worked perfectly according to …. plan(?).
Here we are on a Thursday (collab days) and the track we come to is pretty heavily collaborated on. I posted this track earlier this year, so yes, get ready for a bonus track today to quell any chances of haterism from the naysayers out there.
Jon played some guitar and I played some ER1 and we turned the gain to the tape reels up really high. Then I got crazy with the scissors tool and the spectral plugins in Logic.
This is the weirdest one.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via Mackie mixer and LXP-1 on send.
Chuck originally called this one “Untitled”.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 08 – Reel To Roll (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October

Noggin – Orkas

Wednesday 2 November 2011 – 13:30
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Title: Orkas
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

Here is the longest track from the album at ~12 minutes. It’s a 2 part piece that I wrote pretty much entirely on Orcas Island in the North-West islands of Washington State.
While there, I came across a tiny, cheap casio keyboard in the closet where we were staying. The keyboard barely worked – it was stuck on one preset that was like a hybrid organ / piano / vox thing, and then drums. If you hadn’t noticed, I love working with restrictions so I fired up the sampler and pulled about the 4 or 5 sounds this thing could make, and set to working digitally dicing them with the rudimentary functions of the mpc to create entire instrument sets.
From those sets of sounds, these two, very related tracks sprang forth. Again with the further refinement and couple of garage sessions, and the finished piece was put to tape. Every sound from that crappy old broken keyboard found in a closet. Work with what you got.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via Mackie mixer and LXP-1 on send.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 09 – Orkas (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October

Noggin – Do You?

Tuesday 1 November 2011 – 16:28
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Title: Do You?
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

This track was, for the most part, created in a very short time frame art project / experiment / live experience / promotion done at The Business in Anacortes.
For this project, I came into The Business (a record store) early in the afternoon armed with nothing but a turntable and an empty sampler. The idea was to create an entire set of songs from nothing but the vinyl available in the record store, on the same day as the show (thanks Nick for helping me live out a dream). I grabbed anything that looked interesting … some BTO, some aerobics training, some Burl Ives (a necessary Anacortes original), some proto-industrial, and most notably for this composition, some Olivia Newton-John.
The first couple hours were spent sampling and chopping, with a couple hiccups due to poorly planned memory usage – resampling in an mPC2kxl takes an excruciatingly long time…I’m talking 20 minutes to resample a 30 second sample. I learned this the hard way on this day when I had nothing but short time to work with.
This piece definitely came together the easiest, and continued to be refined throughout the next few months, culminating in a couple recording sessions in the garage to tape (see Reverb City). I’ve chosen this markedly dissimilar track to close the album out on a high note.
I will continue to post the album in reverse order.
Thank you.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via Mackie mixer and LXP-1 on send.
Chuck originally called this one “Love is the opening door”.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 10 – Do You (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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