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Sober October Demos

Noggin – Meteoric (demo)

Tuesday 22 November 2011 – 16:53
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Title: Meteoric (demo)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October demos
Date: 2010

This is another song written in 2009 very late at night in a very wet, very dark, mildly heated Anacortes upstairs room. Pretty sure I was up waiting for the meteor shower, or I had just come back from it. I think I wrote the majority of mawL on this same night.
Finally recorded last winter in the Sunnybrook garage.
Yer basic MPC-trip-tech-to-tape traversal.
Download: meteoric (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Orkas (walk there)

Saturday 12 November 2011 – 18:41
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Title: Orkas (Walk There)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

Call this the ‘demo’ for the final ‘Orkas’ that just about tops out the album.
This one is not too dissimilar, but was definitely recorded about a month earlier than the version which eventually made the cut, and is completely unedited (the final version was actually recorded backwards, and then sections swapped after the fact). It’s still gonna be markedly different because I tend to record things ‘live’ vs setting up sequences in advance, so they definitely will take different paths to get to the same place.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – Orkas (Walk There) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – mawL (Live from Stafford)

Wednesday 9 November 2011 – 18:18
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Title: mawL (Live from Stafford)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2009

Once again, giving yall two tracks today so nobody can blame for taking an ‘out’ on a technicality. I posted the demo version of this track earlier this year, and here is the first recorded version. I played this song at Stafford in December as part of the Skull-you-know-what-er show that I also had participated in the year before. Basically, every musician still in town took over this empty bar in a time when the crowds are gone and so we can dominate and do what we do how we do.
The base chords out of this track came from Buzz samples, the drums all MPC, and this version even includes some An1x for fun.
MPC via a Yamaha DMP-7 (LOVE that sound) mixer to the cd recorder at Stafford.
Chuck originally called this one “Walking home”.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 02 – maWL (Live at Stafford) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – That Old Orange Guitar (Live Remix)

Monday 7 November 2011 – 16:52
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Title: That Old Orange Guitar (live remix)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Date: 2011

This track isn’t exactly suited for playing out at a bar where everyone is drinking looking to get their groove on. However, one time I played a gig out in the forest of east Texas where I thought I might could pull this one off without being too crazy (thank you Birds and Beats). I came up with this extra bit of beat to add to it though to give it a bit of a special touch for the night.
Here is the live ‘remix’ played live earlier today. If you can, take yourself out to the forest with me and your close friends, real late at night on the hottest night of the year. Take yer shirt off, embrace the dirt, smile at the dichotomy of so many colored lights amidst so many darkened trees, veg out.
MPC (w/ FX card!) straight to Logic.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: That Old Orange Guitar (Live remix) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October Demos Spring Tape

Noggin – Walk around (Furnace version)

Sunday 6 November 2011 – 17:19
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Title: Walk Around (Furnace version)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Spring tape
Date: 2011

Maybe you heard, but I have no idea how I recorded the original version of this that ended up on Reverb City and Sober October. So in an attempt to recreate it, I jammed this out one night.
It’s obvious a lot cleaner, but I think I still like something about that uber-washed out reverb-only version.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – Walk Around (Furnace Version) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Reel to Roll [Paulbur edit]

Thursday 3 November 2011 – 16:52
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Title: Reel to Roll [Paulbur Edit]
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

The saintly son of Sunnybrook comes back again in record time with this an ‘edit’ of probably the most divergent track from the release. Lovin the vocals and just the whole idea of hearing something I have spent so much time with take on a life of it’s own outside of my habitat.
Muchas gracias!
http://soundcloud.com/sunnybrook-1
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Reel to Roll [paulbur edit] (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Live at Stafford Sober October Demos

Noggin – Beat Friends (Live from Stafford)

Monday 1 August 2011 – 15:41
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Title: Beat Friends (Live from Stafford)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Live at Stafford
Date: 2009

Major props to all those who came out to Birds and the Beats vol. 3 episode 1.
And double props to those who came out to Murphys the following night.
Here’s a live version of a track I recorded at the Stafford Main Street for a semi-regular Holiday show in 2009. Thanks to Houston for making sure it sounded good, and for recording this performance.
Jon Alderson on the drums, which we recorded in Denton, TX, and which have somehow interjected into my life every day since (this fool can drum, let me say).
Look for the studio version of this track coming soon on the Sober October record.
And let me take this opportunity to give my love and support to the Stafford in Bryan, TX. Best sound from Houston to Austin (no BS), and a killer vibe…I hope to come back someday.
Download: Noggin – 05 – Beat Friends (Live at Stafford) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Non-Chalant (piano version)

Tuesday 5 July 2011 – 15:45
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Title: Non-Chalant (piano version)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Date: 2010

More hybrid Sunnybrook garage/Redhouse attic jam. This one completes this suite of mixes.
Ran with the melody a bit more in this one, and this one comes out as one of the most focused efforts from these samples / sequences.
MPC + LXP1 straight to 1/4″ reels.
Download: noggin-nonchalant(pianoversion) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Non-Chalant (restrained version)

Monday 20 June 2011 – 18:34
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Title: Non-Chalant (restrained version)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Date: 2010

From the depths of the Sunnybrook garage…..more remix/reshuffling of tracks originally conceived in Anacortes in 2009.
These tracks all share such weird parts, and stray so differently from them, that I find it damn near impossible to split them up in my head. So this one gets called the restrained version cause it kind of dances around you while you’re tied to a chair.
MPC + LXP1 straight to 1/4″ reels.
Download: tape1105f (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – That Old Orange Guitar (demo)

Monday 30 May 2011 – 17:06
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Title: That Old Orange Guitar
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October (demo)
Date: 2010

This a track I produced using nothing but a recently (and very diy) rigged-up-with-a-pickup parlor guitar (thanks Chuck). This is actually the first guitar I ever had, and I have since come to like it’s particular sound, so I decided to put to use a piezo I had lying around. Thanks Tom for helping out in the shed as we rigged this thing up. There might be some grounding issues and I might have to sometimes run a bare wire from the sleeve of the plug to the metal part of the guitar, but it works.
Anyway, here’s one to think on on this reflective day.
Download: orange (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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