Title: What’s your sign (demo)? Artist: Pizza Party Album: Pizza Party demos Date: 2010
The Red House Studio was like an orphanage, we left so many tracks to fend for themselves in the wild.
This is a demo I worked out solely on the ESQ-1 to a) prove that I could do it and b) get that 80’s teen movie vibe. Mix that with ultra-smooth r&b vibe and now yer getting into stirring territory.
Pizza Party vocalist – let’s get some vox, alright?! Download: Pizza Party – What’s Your Sign (demo) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Short one. I got groceries getting warm I gotta tend to.
This is mostly Buzz, but judging from the title, I imagine I used some VST instruments / fx. Really guessing at the date, this one was a very quick throw together. Download: Noggin – bleepsVST (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: The Eclipse Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown, The Shoebox Release Date: 1999
Request Thursday! I must say thank you to all the new requests, and the new requestees, but do hold your horses as I had a couple in mind already and the key here is patience (aka dragging it out). Do keep those the requests and comments flowing. We’ve a long way to go yet.
I was very proud of this song when I produced it. It covered a few styles cleanly, and at least didn’t sound as much like ‘tracker music’ as I was thinking all my stuff did (in hindsight, my stuff rarely sounded like ‘tracker music’). I wrote this around the time of some great eclipse happening in Europe, and I really wanted to be there experiencing it. It happened for us Americans at night.
On a sidenote, I’m learning that my instincts on dating these things is often pretty wrong. For example, I originally thought this was from 2001. I thought I was in college, I thought I had ‘matured’ (musically) a bit, and then I thought, well wait, it’s still early sounding, maybe it was 2000. Looking at the txt file I wrote for the song, it was friggin August of 99. I was still 17.
Funfact: one of the machines in this song is named ‘pickles’.
This was “a Binary Distorsion Inc. / Alternative Rumblingz release”…originally at http://surf.to/bdi. I miss those guys. Download: Noggin – The Eclipse (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Southwest Texas trip hop.
I can pretty distinctly remember making this track as a means to test a buzz instrument (qpiano), and to try getting a very compressed drum sound, way before I had a real clue what compression actually was. To this day this is one of my favorite tracks I’ve made and I’m wondering why I never shared with….anyone? Download: Noggin – Pheldt (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Same story as last one…ambient lo-fi sound snippets from an unexpanded EPS sampler + nylon guitar. Download: Noggin Etc – 02 – Track02 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Another World Artist: CNCTR Album: Phase Date: 1997
Here’s some bubblegum techno-pop from 1997.
This was the first track I ever finished and released using what would be become my main sound production tool, Jeskola Buzz. Seems appropriate to use a ‘first’ for this, the first post of this daunting endeavor. A little hesitant because it’s so different from most of my other stuff, but twice this week people have brought this track up and said they liked it, so just giving the people what they want.
This track was also my first international release, as it was released on a New Zealand comp ‘Self Unbound’ shortly after I shared it.
It’s crazy when I think about making this track, because I was just so new to producing using a computer, and these new concepts of ‘patterns’ and ‘loops’ completely blew my mind. I think this track actually grew entirely out of my amazement with another friend who had made a little beat that was based on a two-pattern (8 beats) loop…thanks for the inspiration Cliff.
Also, this track ignited my love affair with my favorite synth of all time, Geonik’s PrimiFun.
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