This whole album has to make it up here eventually.
Epic dream house from the days when Robert Miles ruled the radio and the clubs. In my more wiser hindsight, I imagine this track sounds much better screwed. Hmmm maybe I can get two posts out of this… Download: Noggin – 10 Rainfall (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Naw, yall have been so nice to me I’ll just go ahead and include both…you be the judge.
Short one. I got groceries getting warm I gotta tend to.
This is mostly Buzz, but judging from the title, I imagine I used some VST instruments / fx. Really guessing at the date, this one was a very quick throw together. Download: Noggin – bleepsVST (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: ESQ1 Preset Jam Artist: Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Release Date: 2009
Much like yesterday, this one is in honor of another Ensoniq keyboard. The ESQ1 and the EPS look like brothers. Both coming to us from the future of 1986, they both were considered ‘workstations’, in that they offered sound design and a very similar, multi-track sequencer to arrange all this sound. They differ however, in their sound generation scheme. While the EPS was a sampler (which basically turned into a badass synth once you got the samples in it), the ESQ1 was straight up, a very tweakable synth. I have to respect this piece because, even though it’s not covered with knobs, as is the fad these days, no parameter is more than one button press away.
Anyway, it’s about the best synth you can get, and once I got mine, this Sonic The Hedgehog-ish jam came out instantly. That minimoog patch just BEGS for wheel modulation, and by god, I give it up.
All sounds in this are ESQ1 presets, with the exception of the bass, which I had to program to check the bass on this beast…which I had mistakenly been told was not very good.
This one goes out to Jason R, who I’d like to thank for the kind message regarding this site, but I haven’t called back because I’m just too out of it still.
The response to this work has been really great, and I want to thank ALL of you for all your kind words. If I could make one request, tell me in a comment! Immortalise your words and fill google with trash, LETS DO THIS. Download: esq1presets (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Kaleem Artist: Noggin Album: The Shoebox Release Date: 2000
Thursdays are request day. And if you make a bunch of requests, you get the pleasure of waiting to see them roll out a week at a time.
I remember making this one to sound a bit tracker-y and funky on purpose, amidst a slew of trying to make things sound generic and polished. I was also still totally riding the high of some synth heavy stuff I had been jamming the year before. This was all about the FATness of synth programming and also using horns which is something I never do.
This one goes out to Ilya. Download: Noggin – Kaleem (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Forom Artist: Noggin Album: Buzz Exports Release Date: 2003
More raw and uncut closet cleaning. Not much to say about this as it comes from a very prolific time, and I don’t remember making it. I was really on a role spitting out buzz music for a few years, then I got a real turntable and I focused on that for a while.
Buzz. Ambient. Download: forom (right click and choose ‘save as’)
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