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Reverb City Sober October Demos

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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Sober October Demos

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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As Yet Unknown

Noggin – Cobiflutesong

Monday 28 March 2011 – 22:34
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Title: cobiflutesong
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2010

I wrote this song in a whirlwind for my wonderful, beautiful, schazie Cobi. Quelle inspirationne!
Dig on that sidechain.
Speaking of Cobi, I feel a Bananahat post coming on soon…can you handle that?
Download: cobiflutesong20101013 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October Demos

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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Reverb City Sober October Demos

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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Old Town Acid (demo)

Noggin – x0x508 (demo)

Wednesday 2 March 2011 – 21:00
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Title: x0x508
Artist: Noggin
Album: Old Town Acid (demo)
Release Date: 2010

Last September I finally built my x0xb0x. That is a bass-synthesizer, clone of the infamous Roland TB-303. It’s amazing how, for 15 years I have been trying to emulate this one particular sound, and now, after about two weeks huddled over a circuit board and huffing solder fumes, all I have to do is plug this machine in.
A C I D.
This was recorded literally seconds after I turned the machine on for the first time.
Uploading today because I just opened her up to do a bit of surgery…the USB section (yes acid has been brought to the 21st century) is not working, and I thought/was hoping/am hoping it was just a bad resonator not letting the FTDI usb chip run properly…we’ll see…
Muchas gracias to the kind soul from Germany sending me a resonator so I could try it out.
Edit after the fact: WTF is my problem posting a 303 track on 302!? HAPPY 303 everyone. Request Thursday still stands…
Download: x0x20101010 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Further info regarding construction process can be found at CasaVista

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As Yet Unknown

Noggin – Untitled TMFM20100807

Tuesday 1 March 2011 – 12:03
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Title: Untitled tmfm20100807
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Release Date: 2010

This is just a bs jam I did with a recently acquired Yamaha TX-81Z synthesizer running into my reel to reel. This is the first tape I ever made on that machine, I believe. Finally pulled the sounds off and sequenced this little diddy last summer…it was recorded in Nov of 09 I believe.
Fun fact:
The Sega Genesis sound chip was a 6 part multi-timbral, 4 operator FM synth from Yamaha (+sample channel).
The TX-81Z is an 8 part multi-timbral, 4 operator FM synth from Yamaha.
Is it any wonder everything you do on the TX sounds like Golden Axe or Altered Beast?
Download: tmfm01-20100807 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Pizza Party Demos

Pizza Party – Spookane

Thursday 24 February 2011 – 19:14
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Title: Spookane
Artist: Pizza party
Album: demos
Release Date: 2010

Request!
This is from some Pizza Party sessions rocking a 1986 Ensoniq workstation synthesizer. Well, sort of, the original demo was kind of jammy, so I bounced down the constituent parts, edited, and added vocals this afternoon. Here’s hoping you dig.
ps. The mix/master slider on this one was set to -4.
Download: Pizza Party – Spookane (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Dirty Tape demos

RedHouseGreenHouse – Untitled 11

Tuesday 15 February 2011 – 15:42
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Title: Untitled 11
Artist: RedHouseGreenHouse
Album: Dirty Tape Demos
Release Date: 2010

In honor of the newly resurrected Ensoniq EPS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2o0W5Y0pI), here is more dirty tape from the Red House. This one features Karl Blau doing dubstep.
The cool thing about the EPS, is that the LFOs are key dependent…you can hit a key, get the LFO going, then alter the LFO, hit another key, and as long as you hold down both notes, you can hear both LFOs going independently. I don’t know another synth/sampler that does that. So anyway, this was a two man, 10 finger collaboration.
Download: RedHouseGreenHouse – Untitled 11 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Falling from Heaven demos

Alyx Pryce – Hypnotise (tape demo)

Wednesday 9 February 2011 – 22:22
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Title: Hypnotise (tape demo)
Artist: Alyx Pryce
Album: Falling from Heaven demos
Release Date: 2010

This is from some sessions I did with drummer Jon Alderson and songwriter Alyx Pryce. We decided to test out my 4-track reel to reel before I had really gotten the hang of it.
Recorded at Opersteny studios 21 September 2010.
This song is by Alyx Pryce.
Download: alyx-hypnoTape20100921 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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