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: 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’)
Alright let’s do this.
Wrapping up the RedHouseGreenHouse collaborations with an illbient-reggaecide-tone-swathing. Same as before, EPS + nylong guitar, and that’s it. The sequencer in the EPS is pretty fun to use, and really gets 80s on ya once you quantise.
Work with what ya got.
Blog about it.
<3.
Download: Noggin Etc – 08 – Track08 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Call this one distorto-digital-hybrid-soft-fuzz from Anacortes, WA. EPS + Nylon guitar only went into this one, pretty much done entirely by Rocky, and recorded to cassette. Download: Noggin Etc – 07 – Track07 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
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’)
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’)
Here’s one I played a lot with my homey Karl. We would generally open with this one, the lyrics being nothing but a well timed, big smile from both of us. Worked as a pretty good dirty jam to just get the crowd funked up enough to know where things were heading. This is an early demo I made of this running through a bit of rack fx courtesy the studio quad. This one is labeled Pictures of Clouds cause that’s the tape it came from.
I walked outside yesterday and Mr. Blau was right there. Good times! Download: Pictures Of Clouds – 23 – B23 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Untitled b17 Artist: Noggin Album: Side B Date: 2010
Here’s some house jam I recorded to cassette tape one night in Anacortes with the MS-2000 hooked up. That is pretty neat little synth. The one I got for dirt cheap from the pawn shop has been mounted into what looks like was once a amp head. So it’s a self contained unit with a carrying handle now, instead of a rackless-rack synth. Fits the amp head perfectly, props to the person who did the modification.
Bonus mildly related lulz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXLnnDKqvMg Download: noggin-b17 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Nonchalant Love (guitar version) Artist: Plug / Noggin Album: Sober October Demos Date: 2009
Not really sure if you’d call this a remix or an original…the original idea was definitely to remix/remake/cover some random ass track from Mark’s friends in England. All we had was a 7″ record with 4 tracks on it to go from. Max and I got commissioned to do this track. I originally laid down all the basics, melody, beats, etc, hoping that he would just be able to drone/jam out over it if I left it open enough (a pretty winning formula for us, really). Well Max kind of went MIA for a time and so this pretty much stayed in the studio. Until the one time we were supposed to actually perform it, at which point we proceeded to annihilate (read, literally blow the tweeters out of) the speaker system with the absolute first noise we made…we were into feedback and high frequency stuff at the time. I’ve never heard of a blown tweeter before, but kids, it can be done with enough feedback and amplifiers.
The point it, this track never really manifested itself as a Plug ‘remix’ or ‘cover’, and instead gestated in the sampler up until my autumn excursions into garage-tapedom. It has since spawned 2 other mildly related tracks, mainly sharing elements of the drums. Download: nonchalant-guit (right click and choose ‘save as’)
More EPS noodlings from the Red House studio. This one features a break from a Violent Femmes record I picked up for like 25 cents from the Red Door. Jealousy ensued over that record but whatever it’s ok, and it def had this one great break on it. Dig how the sample interpolation just destroys the sound. Download: Noggin Etc – 15 – Track15 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
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