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96 Nog Jams collaborations

Karl Blau – 96 (Nog Jam)

Monday 5 September 2011 – 19:51
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Title: 96 (Nog Jam)
Artist: Karl Blau
Album: 96 Nog Jams
Date: 2010

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/karlblau/give-a-hand-for-klaps
The above is one of these kickstarter fundraising webpages for my good friend Karl. I’d like to point out that, by pledging to support the project, you’re not just giving money away. Quite the opposite, you’re investing in the most unique and delicately-crafted, totally 100% hand made in America projects that exists right now. Karl has a subscription service called ‘Klaps’ (Kelp Lunacy Advanced Plagiarism Society), wherein he records the music, does the artwork, hand-sews a lot of the packaging, and then sends it out to those who have paid the dues. I’m not joking around here, folks…it’s not only some of the most creative and honest music you’ve ever heard, it’s an entirely personal experience from the artist to the fan. Not to mention, it’s almost made from totally recycled materials – and I don’t mean recycled like, thrown in the trash bin, picked out, sent to a plant, and turned into an egg carton – I mean that the packaging for the 96 album is made from a trash-bound record sleeve, reformed and screen printed into a cd case.
Here is a remix I did of the title track off Karl’s ’96’ record. He lent me his original 4 track and I just went to town throwing bits an pieces into the sampler.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/karlblau/give-a-hand-for-klaps
Download: Karl Blau – 01 – 96 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Live at Stafford

Noggin – Under the Mountain, Over the Ocean (live at Stafford)

Monday 29 August 2011 – 10:11
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Title: Under the Mountain, Over the Ocean (live at Stafford)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Live at Stafford
Date: 2009

Another track from the well received Noggin set at the 2nd Stafford Skullf*cker extravaganza. I had just written this song a short while before this, debuted it at the Department of Safety on 30 October, then redid it with a bit of sync lead for the Stafford show.
Notice the crunchiness – this entire set was mixed and processed through a Yamaha DMP-7. It’s one of the first digital mixers, and it’s got a really unique sound as it takes analog input, converts it all to digital, does all processing digitally inside the machine, then does another DA conversion on output to provide regular old analog outs.
This song to me is the sound of all the house music that wants to exist on a rainy Washington island finding refuge in one, strangely slanted room.
Download: Noggin – 04 – Under the mountain, over the ocean (Live at Stafford) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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As Yet Unknown collaborations remixes remixes and covers

Noggin – Brinesta (Full Mix)

Wednesday 10 August 2011 – 11:14
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Title: Brinesta (Full Mix)
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2010

After too much delay, I got around to modding a Nintendo (graciously donated to science by DJ Dag-Nab-It) to output two independent channels of audio. The original NES is mono (one cable), and this mod has been described as a ‘stereo’ mod. What’s actually going on is a little bit cooler.
The NES can only make five sounds, 2 square wave tones, a triangle wave, a noise channel, and a very lo-fi sampler. From the chip inside the game system, the two square waves come off one pin, and the rest of the sounds off the next pin. That means you can hack in a couple jacks, run one channel (square waves) into one channel of a mixer, and run the rest into another…giving you hands on control of each track independently.
If you’ve ever heard me talk about mixers before, you might know that the mixer is probably my favorite instrument to play. So having such immediate, analog control over such raw, mathematical signal feels really good. This is the first time I fired up MIDINES with the MPC sequencer.
The second half of this track is a remix / rejiggle of Smile Transylvania’s excellent re-jAm / repurpose of a track from the Super Nintendo game Super Metroid.
We even made a video of what midines synthesises to the incoming midi messages.

Download: hutchines20100410 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
This the original version of this track: https://turntablearchives.com/trackaday/music/eps/live-at-johnny-picassos/noggin-brinesta-live-version

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Reverb City

Noggin – Walk Around (reverb track)

Sunday 7 August 2011 – 09:13
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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’)

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Live at Stafford Sober October Demos

Noggin – Beat Friends (Live from Stafford)

Monday 1 August 2011 – 15:41
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Title: Beat Friends (Live from Stafford)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Live at Stafford
Date: 2009

Major props to all those who came out to Birds and the Beats vol. 3 episode 1.
And double props to those who came out to Murphys the following night.
Here’s a live version of a track I recorded at the Stafford Main Street for a semi-regular Holiday show in 2009. Thanks to Houston for making sure it sounded good, and for recording this performance.
Jon Alderson on the drums, which we recorded in Denton, TX, and which have somehow interjected into my life every day since (this fool can drum, let me say).
Look for the studio version of this track coming soon on the Sober October record.
And let me take this opportunity to give my love and support to the Stafford in Bryan, TX. Best sound from Houston to Austin (no BS), and a killer vibe…I hope to come back someday.
Download: Noggin – 05 – Beat Friends (Live at Stafford) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Pictures of Clouds

Pictures of Clouds – Nematode

Monday 25 July 2011 – 22:21
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Title: Nematode
Artist: Pictures of Clouds
Album: Pictures of Clouds
Date: 2010

Not having a good day.
This is an amen break on auto-repeat, spit forth from a schizophrenic mpc, fed through an auto-tune and then feeding back on itself with careful application of the aux knob. Not really POC style, but came from those same sessions, so they can claim it.
Download: 16 – Pictures Of Clouds – Tapedeck16 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Pictures of Clouds Side B

Pictures of Clouds – Untitled b13

Sunday 17 July 2011 – 16:40
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Title: Untitled b13
Artist: Pictures of Clouds
Album: side B
Date: 2010

Unofficial Pictures of Clouds release…recorded to cassette one morning in the RedHouse studio in Anacortes with only half the band (that’d be me). I do believe it’s pretty much straight off the MS2000. I love the boing effect of the notes gliding from hi to low. I’m back in Anacortes for a couple of days so loading yall up with the Anacortes sessions seems appropriate.
This one is dedicated to those who departed in 2010.
Download: Pictures Of Clouds – 13 – B13 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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96 Nog Jams collaborations remixes remixes and covers

Noggin + Blau – Baby Alone

Saturday 16 July 2011 – 15:30
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Title: Baby Alone (Nog Jam)
Artist: Noggin + Karl Blau
Album: 96 Nog Jams
Date: 2010

Believe it or not, this is the version of “Baby Alone” I played with Karl. He wanted a more dance / upbeat vibe to his shows so this seemed to fit that bill / rhythm very nicely. This one doesn’t actually contain any source material from the 96 tapes, while the others are built on sampled hits and phrases pretty heavily. This one was basically a Noggin track that got commissioned for duty with Karl.
Download: Karl Blau – 02 – Baby Alone (nog jam) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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And the Bass Kicks the Remix collaborations remixes remixes and covers

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

Thursday 14 July 2011 – 14:43
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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’)

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And the Bass Kicks the Remix collaborations remixes remixes and covers

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

Wednesday 13 July 2011 – 08:31
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Title: Forget All The Memories (Compulsion mix)
Artist: And the Bass Kicks the Drum
Album: And the Bass Kicks the Remix
Date: 2011

Finally, the heart of where all this madness stemmed from*. This is the first remix we decided to do to tape, which is basically me blindly flying through Jon’s live set up of ATBKTD. Jammed it out while recording, loved it, then found out we weren’t recording…we never engaged the knob to ‘record’…we only made it halfway to ‘play’. And since I had just magnetically erased the tracks (gnarly!), we didn’t hear anything (I guess we weren’t monitoring the tape either).
So yada yada you’ve already heard all this, we just quickly rewound the tape and went straight back to work.
Thanks again to my ATBKTD cats.
Download: atbktd-remix1(compulsion) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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