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As Yet Unknown collaborations singles

Ethan Master of The Hawaiian Ukulele – Party

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Title: Party
Artist: Ethan Master of the Hawaiian Ukulele
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2008

EMHU goes Phil Spector…just kidding…but the amount of post-production this one endured is staggering. Ethan came out to Palo Alto and we tracked out a bunch of ideas one afternoon, this one got the most tracks recorded for it, so we just ran with it. I produced this one for Ethan during the summer of 2008.
Ethan is on tour right now with his band Spiked Punch, so definitely catch them if they hit up a town near you.
Download: ethan-party (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Divergent AI (demo) singles

Noggin – Incongruent Sequence

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Title: Incongruent Sequence (1st take)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Divergent AI (demo)
Date: 2003

This was a pretty fair-share Buzz / Reason hybrid. Most sounds generated in Reason then sequenced within the Buzz tracker environment. A lot of granular synthesis going on at the lower levels here. Hope you enjoy your glitchy sunday track.
Download: Noggin – Incongruent Sequence (first take) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

collaborations singles

Noggin vs Kaya – Mooki!

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Title: Mooki!
Artist: Noggin vs Kaya
Album: Mooki!
Date: 1997

Happy Hardcore Rave Saturday track. This was an early brush with staying up til hours to make a track for no other reason than it has to be made NOW. DJ Kaya aka Brewer was over, and I have to say, this dude was the biggest champion of techno/electronic music in our little Texas town. So basically we had only each other to talk to / jam with (the majority of kids at school were still totally hung up on Smashing Pumpkins and it would take a little Crystal Method and a lot of Moonshine [not to mention likely doses of x] to start bringing them around).
We sat down at the pc with Buzz generating sounds and then sequencing these loops in Acid. I’ll never forget how much fun we had that night, and how absolutely crazy it felt to go from idea to 100% fully realised (and packaged!) cassette-single in just a few hours. We celebrated by going to Jack-In-The-Box, getting some milkshakes then heading to the movie theatre parking lot and doing donuts in Kaya’s souped-up Trans Am (the closest thing to a spaceship I’ve ever been in, seriously).
I think Kaya actually ending up parlaying this one happy-hardocre single into a pretty fruitful dj career in the late 90s. Props buddy! This one’s for you.
Download: Noggin vs Kaya-Mooki! (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Classic Trash singles

CNCTR – Bottlecap Blues

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Title: Bottlecap Blues
Artist: CNCTR
Album: Classic Trash
Date: 1997

You could consider this an early experiment into just how far you could take a tracker / sampler. Somehow I got it into my head that I could record an entire track using nothing but the sounds of a ice tea bottle cap that I had. Got some sounds into cool edit, trimmed up and into Buzz, and this materialised pretty smoothly after that. Some of the samples are slapping the bottlecap, popping the lid in and out, dropping it, sliding it, and of course the bass drum which is not a bottlecap at all.
I chose this one to come next because it actually sounds good immediately following the last one.
Download: bottlecap (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Buzz Exports collaborations singles

Orion – Symphony

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Title: Symphony
Artist: Orion
Album: Orion
Date: 1998

What can I say, I’m a sucker for a request.
This is from a pretty fruitful collaboration with one Andy, aka Gabriel Winter. We met up via Buzz, and decided to start working together on some pretty epic buzz tunes. Gabe’s insane melodic sense and my don’t-know-what-I’m-doing programming and I think we had a pretty good thing going.
This one was our first collaboration, and we went back and forth with this one pretty crazy. I can’t remember if Gabe was in Dallas or Colorado. Working with Gabriel Winter taught me a lot and humbled me in ways I needed to be humbled. He was an outstanding musician and one of the most positive people I had ever met.
Gabe if yer out there drop me a line!
Download: orion-symphony (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Classic Trash singles

CNCTR – The Unmovable Man

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Title: The Unmovable Man
Artist: CNCTR
Album: The Unmovable Man
Date: 1998

As much as I was into ‘techno’ or house music or whatever you want to call it, I never wanted to be restricted to making just that…so a lot of my early stuff had a pretty firm ground in trying new sounds and just trying to be creative. Eventually though, I wanted to just make 4/4 floor ‘minimal’ stuff. This is what I tried first. I used some car speakers in a box as monitors, which i thought was awesome but was really pretty pointless because I was just driving them with a line level signal…so they didnt hardly make any sound. Still, I ignorantly assumed it would make my tracks sound better. Well, it definitely got them sounding different, but the production of this track is the only instance that setup lasted.
This is Buzz of course, and I will find the artwork for it soon…it’s been a pretty busy few days/nights around here. What with taking on about 4 new projects, all completely unrelated, all at once.
Download: CNCTR-The-Unmovable-Man (right click and choose ‘save as’)

collaborations Listening Room singles

Cooper and Spratt – Heptadecimal ER1

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Title: Heptadecimal ER1
Artist: Cooper and Spratt
Album: Listening Room
Release Date: 2008

(this one is long and I have to leave, so once again, the upload will be completed later tonight once it is done)(EDIT: It’s live now)
A tribute to Tsutomu Katoh, founder of the Korg corporation. Korg has made some really great synthesizers in their day, and, via the second hand market, I’ve come to work with a couple. First was an original ER-1 drum synth I picked up in Eastern Europe from my DJ partner. This is a really great synthesizer, geared for rhythm and drum lines. However, when it’s your ONLY synth, you can start taking it into territory other than clicky drums (clicky describes the overall character, but that bass drum is phenomenal).
One trick I got really into was using the audio ins to process other gear via a send. It didn’t take long before I started processing itself within itself, for some wicked, wild feedback loops. There have been open mics I’ve played with just this machine and a patch cable patched from one output back to the audio in. For drones, it really excels if you can manage to tame it.
This is a piece Kyle and I recorded early summer in Palo Alto, CA, using nothing but that one piece of gear and a cheap mixer. It almost feels like all the digital knowledge we had gained in such a frantic, short period of time, just came exploding out in one 45 minute speaker rape. We never intended to do this piece, much less record it, but once we got into the Hexagon, it wasn’t hard to get the ‘tapes’ rolling. This is largely untouched, minus a small section at the beginning where the gain pot started scratching. I don’t remember much talking between us during the practice, but communication definitely was going on as we both tweaked minor changes that would explode into much larger sonic metamorphosis.
It’s long, noisy, and droney, and loud enough, it will get the cops called.
Download: Cooper And Spratt – 00 – Heptadecimal ER1 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

As Yet Unknown singles

Noggin – Clockwatcher

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Title: Clockwatcher
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Release Date: 2001

Title comes from the fact that this song is set at 120 bpm. That is until you realise that one of the flaws in Old Buzz was the fact that the tempo was just straight up OFF. So this is 120 plus or minus a couple percent.
This one is in honor of the radio station I listen to while I’m coding, deepmix.ru. Amazing deep and minimal house.
Download: Noggin – Clockwatcher (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – 192c

Artist: Noggin
Title: 192c recording
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2008
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Title: 192c recording
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Release Date: 2008

Mellow house track written / recorded / mixed in the middle of the night for a school project. Not mastered in any sense so you will have to turn it up. It gives you better bass that way.
Entirely MPC2000XL.
Download: Noggin – 192c Recording (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Acid4U

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Title: Acid4U
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Release Date: 2010

This is yet another of those ‘Remember how much you love BUzz?!’ tracks I make from time to time. My head is often in many different places these days, vs the old days when all I had was time to spend on the one piece of music gear I had, Buzz software. Just wanted to get some acid going in the living room while eating dinner one night. Acid, for you.
Download: Noggin – acid4u (right click and choose ‘save as’)