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Reverb City

Noggin – Walk Around (reverb track)

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Title: Walk Around (reverb track)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Reverb City
Date: 2010

This one grew out of a desire to roll tape, roll out reverb, and roll up… Kind of came out of nowhere, originally a beat I was working on for Karl, I believe, which likely might have been a beat I was originally working on in Oklahoma with Smile T. These things get mixed around sometimes in the heat of it all. If you don’t know the story by now, I recorded 4 tracks…two dry aux tracks and two reverb returns (stereo), only to find out that I didn’t really know how to use this new tape machine, and so only the reverb tracks got recorded. Still makes for some interesting listening.
Mpc + lxp1 -> tape.
Download: walkaround-reverb (right click and choose ‘save as’)

And the Bass Kicks the Remix collaborations remixes remixes and covers

And The Bass Kicks The Drum – Forget All The Memories (Immersion mix)

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Title: Forget All The Memories (Immersion mix)
Artist: And the Bass Kicks the Drum
Album: And the Bass Kicks the Remix
Date: 2011

It’s messed up, cause as much as I want this ‘category’ page to turn out like an album page, that would mean I would have to post the tracks in reverse order…since it sorts everything by date, newest first. Well I screwed that up with the first post for this EP by posting track 3 first.
Who cares though, here’s the fifth and final ATBKTD ‘remix’…which is really just a super-screwed version of another remix. It’s a nice chance to peak into harmonics that you might not have known were there, as they are suddenly brought down into the audible spectrum.
This one’s got em. In droves.
Download: atbktd-remix5(immersion) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

And the Bass Kicks the Remix collaborations remixes remixes and covers

And The Bass Kicks The Drum – Forget All The Memories (Extrapolation mix)

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Title: Forget All The Memories (Extrapolation mix)
Artist: And the Bass Kicks the Drum
Album: And the Bass Kicks the Remix
Date: 2011

This is the most jammy remix of the bunch. Stays pretty true to the original, barring some manual tape speed changes. This one sees the drums kicking back on the bass.
Once again, recorded to 1/4″ tape from MPC1k through an LXP-1 reverb.
Download: atbktd-remix2(extrapolation (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Sober October Demos

Noggin – Non-Chalant (piano version)

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Title: Non-Chalant (piano version)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Date: 2010

More hybrid Sunnybrook garage/Redhouse attic jam. This one completes this suite of mixes.
Ran with the melody a bit more in this one, and this one comes out as one of the most focused efforts from these samples / sequences.
MPC + LXP1 straight to 1/4″ reels.
Download: noggin-nonchalant(pianoversion) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

Sober October Demos

Noggin – Orkas (Invitation)(vers 1)

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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’)

Reverb City Sober October Demos

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

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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’)