Title: Orkas (Invitation)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011
Figured it’d be a nice preview to start the record off with a little piece of the epic later to come. Plus, I really dig that snare glitch-splash through the reverb getting cranked up.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via LXP-1.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 01 – Orkas (Invitation) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Walk Around
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011
Here’s the one track from the Reverb City sessions (sort of a Sober October sessions alpha version) that actually made it to the album. I just liked the jam so much I couldn’t let it go. And yes, since I already posted this, bonus track is included.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via LXP-1 on full reverb.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 06 – Walk Around (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Luminescence (preview)
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2003
Coming from the same week probably, and exact same circumstances (idea->realisation, reason, moving on back to buzz right after) as yesterdays track, here’s some dream house for yall. You probably won’t wreck yer car jammin to this unless you’re checking this post on yer phone.
(original file: judhaus)
Download: Luminescence (preview) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Vantonder
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2009
Yea that’s an ESQ-1 tone. Not really effected either, minus of course the insanely compressed reverb.
Originally did this to give to a friend, who never did it anything with it, so it gets named after her. ;] One of my favorites.
Download: Vantonder (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Statues
Artist: Noggin
Album: Reverb City
Date: 2010
My favorite track from these sessions, and pretty much the reason why I decided to keep these reverb tracks that I unintentionally recorded.
Download: Noggin – Statues (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Picky
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2001
Guitar based lo-fi trip hop here recorded in my room in Bryan, while home from the first year of school at SWT. I really wanted to try to integrate the guitar in a way that went beyond short loops or just wailing over some pre-recorded tracks. I also wanted to keep it simple, and dirty.
Mission accomplished?
Recorded into Nuendo and all looped up there, which is 100% unlike anything in Buzz.
Download: picky (right click and choose ‘save as’)
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’)
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’)
Title: Hswowsh jam spring 2011
Artist: Noggin
Album: Spring Tape
Date: 2011
Hump day humpin for ya, acid style.
I will willingly attribute any awesomeness found in these digital frequency representations to be wholly due to the company of my homey Hswowsh, who was chilling in the Furnace with me as I reached over and hit ‘record’ on the tape deck while preparing for my show later that night.
This is therefore short, unrehearsed, distorted acidy excursions for your mind and your rear end.
Homebuilt 303 (x0x) -> amp sim + mpc all being digitally mixed through a newly refurbished Yamaha DMP-7. Whodathunk that analog -> digital -> analog conversion ala 1986 would sound so sweet?
Download: hswowsh20110612 (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’)
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