Tag Archives: 1998

Phase

Noggin – From Perspective

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Title: From Perspective
Artist: Noggin
Album: Phase
Date: 1998

Super-melody and Geonik’s string synthesis combine to put forth probably the cheesiest track off Phase. This one is real similar in style to ‘Another World’, but with about a years worth of experience guiding it this time, as opposed to blind moseying through the corridors of tracker-style. Gotta say, for all the bubblegum brightness herein, the 909s are pretty banging.
Download: Noggin – 05 From Perspective (right click and choose ‘save as’)

As Yet Unknown

Noggin – Peanut Butter

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Title: Peanut Butter
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 1998

This ode to a favorite brown paste I recorded being bored on some school break during highschool. It might have even been just a standard weekend. I was definitely bored though. I felt pretty academic about this one.
Who doesn’t love peanut butter? Many Europeans I’ve met, that’s who.
Here’s to yall.
Download: pbutter (right click and choose ‘save as’)

unrequieted

Noggin – Hole in your soul

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Title: Hole in your soul
Artist: Noggin
Album: unrequieted
Date: 1998

Aaaah….nice sunday track here. This is one of my first forays into straight up loop sampling. God bless the akai s-20. I had to fill some nasty old tape on a reel I was trying to finish off, so I busted out my old trusty and tried to immortalise these tracks which would otherwise would be stuck in the late 90’s Bryan Texas garage rock scene.
A lot of samples from this time period (high school) I’ve noticed come from the tv. The lead vocal in this is definitely from some celebrity game show like 20,000 pyramid or something. Others from random infomercials. Strings from a bargain bin classical cd I got at circuit city to think my 15 year old ass was cultured or something.
Who is going to spot the oasis sample?
Download: holesoul20110530 (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 collaborations

Orion – Agnus Dei

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Title: Agnus Dei
Artist: Orion
Album: Orion
Date: 1998

Here’s a bonus drop for anyone who requested Orion last week.
More work here with the revered and respected Gabriel Winter. If I remember correct, Gabe had this sample + some very loose melodies programmed, and then I got it and added drums + strings. Unfortunately, this song never was finished, and I think might have been the last track we collaborated on (feel free to correct me if you know better).
edit: player fixed.
Download: orionmixagnusdei (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’)

Buzz Exports

Noggin – Midnight Fog

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Title: Midnight Fog
Artist: Noggin
Album: Buzz Exports
Release Date: 1998

Request (keep em coming…even if it’s just an idea or a feeling you want to request). Not that it really matters, but this could potentially be a 97 instead of a 98. Thanks to Ilya for reminding me that I was considering including this on ‘Phase’ but opted for ‘From Perspective’ instead (is that really real or are you making that up?).
I wrote this song one night after driving with Jon etc through the country to his house or some land or some other country place. Fog in this part of Texas is really weird when it manifests, really thick and patchy. This particular night, it just started springing up in the valleys out towards the creek bottom. Real thick stuff…we were turning on the brights and driving blind with the fog glowing back at us just to be stupid kids. So this track is all about driving a big blue oldsmobile up and down the hills, rolling in and out of thick patches of fog. Gangster.
Download: midnight-fog (right click and choose ‘save as’)