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Sober October Demos

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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Sober October

Noggin – Orkas

Wednesday 2 November 2011 – 13:30
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Title: Orkas
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

Here is the longest track from the album at ~12 minutes. It’s a 2 part piece that I wrote pretty much entirely on Orcas Island in the North-West islands of Washington State.
While there, I came across a tiny, cheap casio keyboard in the closet where we were staying. The keyboard barely worked – it was stuck on one preset that was like a hybrid organ / piano / vox thing, and then drums. If you hadn’t noticed, I love working with restrictions so I fired up the sampler and pulled about the 4 or 5 sounds this thing could make, and set to working digitally dicing them with the rudimentary functions of the mpc to create entire instrument sets.
From those sets of sounds, these two, very related tracks sprang forth. Again with the further refinement and couple of garage sessions, and the finished piece was put to tape. Every sound from that crappy old broken keyboard found in a closet. Work with what you got.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via Mackie mixer and LXP-1 on send.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 09 – Orkas (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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