Title: Sideslipping Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2000
One of the most epic Noggin classics from the pinnacle of Buzz-dom.
It’s big ass trip-hop, some guitar, huge beats, the freshman movie sample syndrome, and somehow this mystical 10 minutes that kind of evaporate into the ether if you stay through the whole thing. Download: Noggin – Sideslipping (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: And the Whole Face of the Earth Smiled Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2002
Every now and then, this inner cornball in me stands up and shouts loudly messages of love and sentimentality and corndogs and cheese.
This is one of those moments.
Kind of a killer beat, some glitchiness, tons of melody, glide synths, beat box samples (like from yer mouth, yo), all wrapped up in computer nerdom that is the tracker-tune.
This one’s all Buzz. Download: Noggin – And the whole face of the earth smiled (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Ride with us Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2002
More midweek chill (thanks Keith).
My friends at SWT and I used to drive around the hill country a lot. Many evenings and setting suns spent sailing the serpentine spine of the Devil’s Backbone.
This might be an un-naturally skewed chill representation of that time of life, but it was definitely developed in the darkness following one of said drives.
This is all Buzz and also includes guitar (I did get really into that I had forgotten). Download: Noggin – Ride with us (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Noël Étude de Fahey Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2011
Take note cause this is probably about as close as I’ll get to recording a Christmas track.
The other day while ripping the wonderful John Fahey Christmas record to computer, I started seeing what I could do with it using the mixer and a delayed (thanks soundcard latency!) version of the signal. These are the short snippets I managed to catch to tape, edited together audacity time-line style.
To clarify, these are live manipulations of the John Fahey record.
Merry Xmas. Download: Noggin – – Noël Étude de Fahey (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Charlie’s Song (Cha Cha!) Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2001
A C I D
Happy Birthday Charlie. I wrote this song for Charlie cause he was like a huge reason I got into this music in the first place. He needed a theme song and we were both brought up on high-energy and psuedo acid/rave sounds out of Europe. As such, this is the most dj-friendly tune I’ve ever done, I think. The casual listener might be a little put-off by the twelve-inch-ness of it, buildups and whatnot, but to my dear fellow DJs, please take this one and run with it.
All Buzz.
Did I mention acid? Download: Noggin – Charlie’s Song (ChaCha!) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Here’s some random late 90′s ravin.
Title: Trop Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2004
Let this one just unfold on ya.
Snaps, beats, atmospherics, this is me revisiting my trip hop vein after a minor absence with the dabble into more psy-styles. Phil heard this and was immediately down to flow over it. Where you at homey? Drop them bars for me. Download: Noggin – Trop (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Distral Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2011
Small glitch in the matrix, but we’re back now.
Dwight Yoakam and wobble bass. You could call it a dabble in wobble. Download: distral20090519 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Common Ground Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2000
Shout out to my buddy Lyman on this one. At the time, one of the only people I actually knew who was producing electronic music in Central Texas in 2000. Think about how for granted we all take ‘producers’ these days – every dude with a computer and awareness of beatport is an ‘edm producer’ nowadays. We didn’t call it edm, we called it ‘techno’, not because it was accurate but because it was a perfectly good term and nobody cared and I’m kind of bitter that people keep trying to come up with a ‘better’ term.
Plus, if anything, this is IDM (the most loaded genre-term in the history of pretentiousness).
I really put a lot into this, from recording raw material, editing the sh*t out of said raw material, dropping it into buzz, and coming to terms with multi-band compression for the mastering that followed production. Download: Noggin – Common Ground (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: The Atchison Affair Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2000
I’m calling this style Final Fantasy Epic Breakbeat Growliness.
Named after a prof I had in school who I just didn’t get along with at all. Somehow, this piece grew to be over 10 minutes long. Heavy breaks and lots of growling synths.
Not really a Wednesday track, but I’m trying to get it so December (the last month!!!) is just killers every day.
All Buzz. Download: Noggin – Atchison (right click and choose ‘save as’)
