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Noggin / Plug – Nonchalant Love (guitar version)

Wednesday 4 May 2011 – 14:01
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Title: Nonchalant Love (guitar version)
Artist: Plug / Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Date: 2009

Not really sure if you’d call this a remix or an original…the original idea was definitely to remix/remake/cover some random ass track from Mark’s friends in England. All we had was a 7″ record with 4 tracks on it to go from. Max and I got commissioned to do this track. I originally laid down all the basics, melody, beats, etc, hoping that he would just be able to drone/jam out over it if I left it open enough (a pretty winning formula for us, really). Well Max kind of went MIA for a time and so this pretty much stayed in the studio. Until the one time we were supposed to actually perform it, at which point we proceeded to annihilate (read, literally blow the tweeters out of) the speaker system with the absolute first noise we made…we were into feedback and high frequency stuff at the time. I’ve never heard of a blown tweeter before, but kids, it can be done with enough feedback and amplifiers.
The point it, this track never really manifested itself as a Plug ‘remix’ or ‘cover’, and instead gestated in the sampler up until my autumn excursions into garage-tapedom. It has since spawned 2 other mildly related tracks, mainly sharing elements of the drums.
Download: nonchalant-guit (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Louvrics

Sunday 10 April 2011 – 22:42
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Title: Louvrics
Artist: Noggin
Album: Reverb City
Date: 2010

This is named after the a shipyard in Anacortes.
MPC to tape.
Download: louvrics-reverb (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – maWL (demo)

Saturday 9 April 2011 – 22:55
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Title: maWL
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Date: 2010

This grew out of a live set I did one winter at the Stafford. I wasn’t really recording anything concrete with this, and the tape cut out at soon as I started to hit my stride.
MPC to tape.
Download: noggin-mawl (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Orkas (Invitation)(vers 1)

Sunday 20 March 2011 – 21:29
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Title: Orkas (Invitation)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October demos
Date: 2010

Yall are gonna get more of this one. This is what I call the ‘Invitation’ to the larger piece, which currently sits at around 20 minutes long.
I wrote these songs on Orcas Island during a visit there. The house we stayed in had a pretty generic, busted ass Casio keyboard, and, having brought my sampler, I figured this would be a good opportunity to use what I got, and make some beats/sounds using nothing but the broken keyboard I had in hand. I call it broken because I could only manage to get one sound out of it. Well, a few run ins with the sampler program editor, and this one sound turned into my entire palette for the bulk of this music.
More details as these songs find their way this way.
This is MPC fed through LXP1.
Download: Orkas (Invitation) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Afternoon (With My Sweettea) (aka dverb)

Monday 7 March 2011 – 22:33
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Title: Afternoon (With My Sweettea) (aka dverb)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Reverb City
Release Date: 2010

This one came out of the Sunnybrook garage during the Sober October sessions. I had just picked up a Lexicon LXP-1 reverb for almost nothing in Galveston, and this was the first bit of signal I sent through it (I’m noticing a trend in my work lately where I try to/accidentally commit to tape ‘firsts’). Is somewhat of a remix of a nylon-guitar based tune you will hear from later.
Thanks Chuck for the much better title.
Download: noggin-afternoonsweete (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Jon + Noggin – Reel to Roll (demo)

Monday 17 January 2011 – 17:26
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Title: Reel to Roll
Artist: Jon + Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Release Date: 2010

Welcome back, Jon.
Here’s one that, after extensive editing, got pieced together from some tape Jon and I laid down one night in the garage.
It’s an ER-1, some harmonica, and that old orange guitar, cut to hell and edited in Logic.
Download: jon + noggin – reeltoroll (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Noggin – Buying Records, Buying Stocks pt. 1

Saturday 15 January 2011 – 13:25
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Title: Buying Records, Buying Stocks (pt. 1 – The Mortgage Crisis)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Release Date: 2010

I recorded this song entirely on the premise of writing some music for my homey DJ CockBlock on his birthday. I then sat on this for a month as I thought ‘oooh I’ll make a video too’. Birthday came and went, this continued to sleep, and I finally put it out there on Xmas.
All drum samples are from the poor man’s 808, the TR-606….a really great sounding drum box. Also includes some samples off of my first ever guitar (thanks Chuck) that I recently attached a piezo pickup to. It’s finnicky, but it’s where I come from and I am loving it.
The title isn’t meant to be a political statement or anything…it was inspired from homeboy’s own now-defunct blog. I thought the tag line sounded great, and then I just used it to inspire regurgitation of buzz-words from the last year or so. Hell, let’s make THAT my political statement…regurgitation and buzz words.
This track produced entirely in an MPC 2000XL, and recorded to 4-track reel. It’s funny to think about that, because the MPC is basically the one instrument that will pull me away from Buzz, and Buzz is the one instrument that will pull me away from the MPC. Still, they are basically completely incompatible as I use them…while Buzz might now have midi, it was not always the case, so I would resort to bouncing down sounds and then importing into MPC…this is not fun and I rarely do it.
There is a part 2, do you want it? It might appear in full length form on my forthcoming album.
Download: Noggin – Buying Records, Buying Stocks pt. 1 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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