Title: Kagabol (preview)
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2001
Man, I really felt like RDJ when this popped out.
It sounds like it’s on the verge of a minimal analog breakdown, but of course it’s all buzz and its more of a break up, as it just leaves you hanging.
Download: kagabol (aka preview) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Dull
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2001
I remember this one birthed itself rather quickly, and I was extremely pleased with the quality of sounds coming out of our favorite tracker. I called it unfinished for so long, cause it just felt so cool I didn’t want it to end, but maybe the extended version I’ll leave up to you, dear remixer.
It’s going back to the industrial roots a little bit, but god forbid there is a bit of backwards acoustic guitar which I think keeps it firmly planted outside the realm of industrial.
Download: 14 Dull (unfinished) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: bleepbeat
Artist: Noggin
Album: Treeverb demos
Date: 2008
Sound of a drunk synthesizer.
Also from the TreeVerb by Spratt demos. I threw this one together with the mpc and er-1 on bleep mode just to get something with some pure tones going so you could hopefully get a clearer picture of the reverb effects. TreeVerb was designed to generate impulse responses that were made up of a virtual ‘forest’ of trees. Some unique properties came out of this in unnatural configurations, notably placing the trees in a spiral.
Download: 01 bleepbeat (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Sunshine
Artist: Noggin
Album: Classic Trash
Date: 2001
Here’s yet another example of vision quest via buzz tunage. Pretty much knew exactly where this one was gonna go when it came out. I remember this coming from really appreciating the sunshine while walking up to jck. Kind of idm-proto-house, longing for an emu sampler.
A classic favorite.
Download: sunshine (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: bliqbloq
Artist: Noggin
Album: Treeverb demos
Date: 2003
update: player fixed.
Chalk the name of this one up to a finnicky synth-keyboard interface and kind of letting it name itself as I stumble through the characters.
This one is actually entirely out-the-box, in that it 100% comes from a Yamaha AN1X being played live. You gotta love the sequencer on that thing. Add to that the complete bi-timbrallity and you can get pretty creative with multiple sounds at once and getting close to a full composition from the synth itself.
I know I recorded this one around 3am in my house off Dartmouth in San Marcos.
Rebirthed in 2008 to help with the demo at AES of Spratt’s TreeVerb algorithm.
Download: 11 bliqbloq (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: snipt
Artist: Noggin
Album: Buzz Exports
Date: 2002
Another one of these consciously trying to be hi-fi tracks right here from the glitch haydays.
All buzz as usual. Serious sine drops. Dynamics. Tone Loc!
Download: snipt (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: distroy
Artist: Noggin
Album: Buzz Exports
Date: 2002
Dipping back into the Buzz Exports – mainly today because I’m using the same computer these came from, and it’s driving me c r a z y.
This one pretty much sticks to the rhythms and minimal chord sequences to get you going in yer idm vein.
ps. in case you missed it, i went ahead and posted last weeks radio show in the correct spot.
Download: distroy (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Where did all my days go?
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2003
And wrapping an anniversary week up with a meditation. This is all Buzz, with that spectral Drink carrying a lot of the tune.
Download: Where did all my days go_-demo (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: Untitled 04
Artist: Pictures of Clouds
Album: Pictures of Clouds
Date: 2010
This is one of the hits off the Pictures of Clouds release. All props to The Young Master on keys here, for one of the best, recorded, impromptu jams of my life.
Download: 04 Tapedeck04 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
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