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This is a remix of Kaleem that I did solely to use live bongo drumming in a track. Slightly buzz altered of course. God, what a pain using large audio in files in Buzz used to be!
This one forgoes the huge brass and synths for a more intricate kalimba line + actual live instrumentation. Download: Noggin – Kaleem (Mondial Mix) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: The Eclipse Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown, The Shoebox Release Date: 1999
Request Thursday! I must say thank you to all the new requests, and the new requestees, but do hold your horses as I had a couple in mind already and the key here is patience (aka dragging it out). Do keep those the requests and comments flowing. We’ve a long way to go yet.
I was very proud of this song when I produced it. It covered a few styles cleanly, and at least didn’t sound as much like ‘tracker music’ as I was thinking all my stuff did (in hindsight, my stuff rarely sounded like ‘tracker music’). I wrote this around the time of some great eclipse happening in Europe, and I really wanted to be there experiencing it. It happened for us Americans at night.
On a sidenote, I’m learning that my instincts on dating these things is often pretty wrong. For example, I originally thought this was from 2001. I thought I was in college, I thought I had ‘matured’ (musically) a bit, and then I thought, well wait, it’s still early sounding, maybe it was 2000. Looking at the txt file I wrote for the song, it was friggin August of 99. I was still 17.
Funfact: one of the machines in this song is named ‘pickles’.
This was “a Binary Distorsion Inc. / Alternative Rumblingz release”…originally at http://surf.to/bdi. I miss those guys. Download: Noggin – The Eclipse (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Kaleem Artist: Noggin Album: The Shoebox Release Date: 2000
Thursdays are request day. And if you make a bunch of requests, you get the pleasure of waiting to see them roll out a week at a time.
I remember making this one to sound a bit tracker-y and funky on purpose, amidst a slew of trying to make things sound generic and polished. I was also still totally riding the high of some synth heavy stuff I had been jamming the year before. This was all about the FATness of synth programming and also using horns which is something I never do.
This one goes out to Ilya. Download: Noggin – Kaleem (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’)
