Title: Forget All The Memories (Distraction mix) Artist: And the Bass Kicks the Drum Album: And the Bass Kicks the Remix Date: 2011
While it’s fresh, why don’t we go ahead and make this an ATBKTD week?
Here’s remix #3 which is definitely the furthest diversion from the original track. This is two guys on one MPC 1000 in a garage…that makes like 20 possible fingers on the pads + leaves room for someone to be constantly modifying the sequencer functions while recording.
This one was all laid down live, I don’t think any sequence actually got saved for this one. Download: atbktd-remix4(distraction) (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’)
From the depths of the Sunnybrook garage…..more remix/reshuffling of tracks originally conceived in Anacortes in 2009.
These tracks all share such weird parts, and stray so differently from them, that I find it damn near impossible to split them up in my head. So this one gets called the restrained version cause it kind of dances around you while you’re tied to a chair.
MPC + LXP1 straight to 1/4″ reels. Download: tape1105f (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: What You Get Artist: Mr. Sprott ft. Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2011
Another pretty instant jam…recorded once again with KSwens. This is his Nord patch + idea, I just helped put it to tape….literally, this recording is off of the cassette bounce-deck I keep running pretty much 24/7.
Lots of experimental panning techniques happening here…if you can watch this one through a goniometer it makes a very pretty show. Download: whatuget (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Demanding Artist: Jon + Noggin Album: As Yet Unknown Date: 2011
One night Jon came over and we had a hell of a recording session, just hitting the reels real freeform style, just putting hot pokers to the tape heads. Then we realised we has only hit ‘play’ and not record. First time I tried out the demagnetiser to really see how it cleaned up tapes, so the tape that was playing was blank, and we never noticed.
Luckily, we just sat down and got to work and hammered out a bunch of the tracks right away.
This is a pretty collaborative drum n bass effort here coming straight off Jon’s mpc. Download: demanding20110605 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Hole in your soul Artist: Noggin Album: unrequieted Date: 1998
Aaaah….nice sunday track here. This is one of my first forays into straight up loop sampling. God bless the akai s-20. I had to fill some nasty old tape on a reel I was trying to finish off, so I busted out my old trusty and tried to immortalise these tracks which would otherwise would be stuck in the late 90’s Bryan Texas garage rock scene.
A lot of samples from this time period (high school) I’ve noticed come from the tv. The lead vocal in this is definitely from some celebrity game show like 20,000 pyramid or something. Others from random infomercials. Strings from a bargain bin classical cd I got at circuit city to think my 15 year old ass was cultured or something.
Who is going to spot the oasis sample? Download: holesoul20110530 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: That Old Orange Guitar Artist: Noggin Album: Sober October (demo) Date: 2010
This a track I produced using nothing but a recently (and very diy) rigged-up-with-a-pickup parlor guitar (thanks Chuck). This is actually the first guitar I ever had, and I have since come to like it’s particular sound, so I decided to put to use a piezo I had lying around. Thanks Tom for helping out in the shed as we rigged this thing up. There might be some grounding issues and I might have to sometimes run a bare wire from the sleeve of the plug to the metal part of the guitar, but it works.
Anyway, here’s one to think on on this reflective day. Download: orange (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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