After hiding all the barn animals in the ‘remix’ of Round-Up, I decided to just blast yall with where I was coming from, in a decidedly casio fashion.
Here’s the ‘original mix’ which came as a remix the day after the original release of Round-Up.
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’)
Title: Welcome to the Jungle (book trailer)
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2010
My roommate at the time, Hilary Smith wrote a really great book called “Welcome to the Jungle”, and this was the soundtrack I made to a stop motion promotional video she had made for the book release. She had mentioned something about cutesy, so I imposed a 100% casio synthesizer policy to go with the animated pills popping and rolling around our basement fun / scary land. This all came about very quickly, but that’s something that’s nice about working professionally – deadlines.
Download: hilary20100425 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
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’)
Title: Crybaby
Artist: Anti-Body
Album: A Little Alien Music
Date: 1996
Kraftwerk meets Stevie Ray Vaughn. Another karaoke machine multi-tracking distorto-fest.
Download: Anti-Body – 09 Crybaby (right click and choose ‘save as’)
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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