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Classic Trash

Noggin – tolerant

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Title: Tolerant
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2001

I mean I really went crazy with Buzz…I have to admit that the high amount of output when that was my main (only) production tool is part of the reason I started this whole blog.
This is me trying out synths a lot more, well trying to tweak them to what I wanted at least KNOWING a little about what I was tweaking was doing.
Its psy, its acid, its breaks, big beat, whatever you want to call it. Got a bit of mid-career Orbital energy in it (a constant inspiration).
Download: tolerantupdate (right click and choose ‘save as’)

As Yet Unknown

Noggin – Intentions

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Title: Intentions
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 1999

Soaring, melodic, sophomoric, string-breaks. This is all Jeskola Buzz from when I was just starting out with this more electronic production. I felt real classy I after I spit this one out at 16. At 9 minutes long, this was an early epic.
Diggin on the primi-fun and the newfound favorite (at the time), Whitenoise’s Delta. Glide function on a synthesizer WOW.
Download: Noggin – Intentions (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Phase

Noggin – Jersey Reds

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Title: Jersey Reds
Artist: Noggin
Album: Phase
Date: 1998

An early foray into breakbeat acid via a classic sample you’ve heard in such places as Chemical Brothers B-sides.
It’s all Buzz here with the classic Jeskola Bass2 -> Jeskola NiNja Delay combo in full, s/h effect.
Dedicating this one to the first people I met from New Jersey, some cool girls participating in the national video competition in Kansas City (we got 5th). Never forget that lost correspondence – “hey noggin, nice meeting you. i want to hear what texas techno sounds like”.
Named after a sweet trickshot from virtual pool.
Download: Noggin – 02 Jersey Reds (right click and choose ‘save as’)

As Yet Unknown

Noggin – Out through the window

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Title: Out through the window (gateupdate)
Artist: As Yet Unknown
Album: Noggin
Date: 2001

Had a lot of fun with this one. I basically had this beat going, somehow managed to get a large chunk from Pancho and Lefty in here, and pretty accidentally cut out some clips from it and used them for flavor. I think it all started with that intro guitar (imagine that, it starting with the intro). This definitely doesn’t come out sounding like a remix or anything of that song, but I’m sure you’ll notice the sample.
There is also a slightly modified version of this that will come up later in the year.
Buzz
Download: gateupdate (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Phase

Noggin – Generations (H-Town mix)

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Title: Generations (H-Town mix)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Phase
Release Date: 1999

Got to get this one up as it just happens to be next in my list of ‘candidates’.
Funky breaks acid jam. The original is a ten-minute acid epic…this one was me using the power of Acid, which, at the time, was pretty unbelievable. Can you believe we used to MANUALLY loop and resample and tweak and stretch and pitch and tune our loops to be sample accurate, integer value multiples of each other!? WE DID! And often times, without a graphic display. Acid came along and changed all that. Finally, a digital audio workstation that was BPM-centric. You could somewhat haphazardly throw a ton of loops into it, and it would stretch all of them to fit into the same tempo. I mean this was revolutionary. Hardware samplers were just starting to do this, but their time-stretch algorithms were so slow and poor, that most all of them (Akai S-20, MPC, I’m looking at you) just resampled the loops (much like a dj changing turntable speeds).
This new technology gave me the power to loop up anything and everything and then just ‘paint’ songs together (I love that paradigm in Acid). This was a loop based composition then, and intended to be used as a live version of ‘Generations’. I did end up playing this one live quite a lot, required 2 or 3 floppies (so slow to load…haters), and the ‘score’ i printed out was like 6 pages of soundwaves taped together.
You can tell I’m still wet behind the ears cause I can’t get enough of those movie samples.
Download: Noggin – 07 Generations (H-Town mix) (right click and choose ‘save as’)