Title: maWL
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Date: 2010
This grew out of a live set I did one winter at the Stafford. I wasn’t really recording anything concrete with this, and the tape cut out at soon as I started to hit my stride.
MPC to tape.
Download: noggin-mawl (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Track 07
Artist: Pictures of Clouds
Album: Pictures of Clouds
Date: 2010
Another classic from the whirlwind-Pictures-of-Clouds-ambient-album-post-Whidbey-Island-recording-sessions-with-Elena. Seriously, from ‘let’s make an album’ to ‘damn near complete’ album just a few hours later, this was a magical time in the Red House studio. I attribute much of this to the 3rd member, whose only instrument during the session was good vibes. Plus The Young Master absolutely killing it on the keyboards on this one. Major impromptu props.
MPC+Ion to cassette tape.
Download: 07 – Pictures Of Clouds – Tapedeck07 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Orkas (Invitation)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October demos
Date: 2010
Yall are gonna get more of this one. This is what I call the ‘Invitation’ to the larger piece, which currently sits at around 20 minutes long.
I wrote these songs on Orcas Island during a visit there. The house we stayed in had a pretty generic, busted ass Casio keyboard, and, having brought my sampler, I figured this would be a good opportunity to use what I got, and make some beats/sounds using nothing but the broken keyboard I had in hand. I call it broken because I could only manage to get one sound out of it. Well, a few run ins with the sampler program editor, and this one sound turned into my entire palette for the bulk of this music.
More details as these songs find their way this way.
This is MPC fed through LXP1.
Download: Orkas (Invitation) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Afternoon (With My Sweettea) (aka dverb)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Reverb City
Release Date: 2010
This one came out of the Sunnybrook garage during the Sober October sessions. I had just picked up a Lexicon LXP-1 reverb for almost nothing in Galveston, and this was the first bit of signal I sent through it (I’m noticing a trend in my work lately where I try to/accidentally commit to tape ‘firsts’). Is somewhat of a remix of a nylon-guitar based tune you will hear from later.
Thanks Chuck for the much better title.
Download: noggin-afternoonsweete (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Untitled tmfm20100807
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Release Date: 2010
This is just a bs jam I did with a recently acquired Yamaha TX-81Z synthesizer running into my reel to reel. This is the first tape I ever made on that machine, I believe. Finally pulled the sounds off and sequenced this little diddy last summer…it was recorded in Nov of 09 I believe.
Fun fact:
The Sega Genesis sound chip was a 6 part multi-timbral, 4 operator FM synth from Yamaha (+sample channel).
The TX-81Z is an 8 part multi-timbral, 4 operator FM synth from Yamaha.
Is it any wonder everything you do on the TX sounds like Golden Axe or Altered Beast?
Download: tmfm01-20100807 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Untitled 11
Artist: RedHouseGreenHouse
Album: Dirty Tape Demos
Release Date: 2010
In honor of the newly resurrected Ensoniq EPS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2o0W5Y0pI), here is more dirty tape from the Red House. This one features Karl Blau doing dubstep.
The cool thing about the EPS, is that the LFOs are key dependent…you can hit a key, get the LFO going, then alter the LFO, hit another key, and as long as you hold down both notes, you can hear both LFOs going independently. I don’t know another synth/sampler that does that. So anyway, this was a two man, 10 finger collaboration.
Download: RedHouseGreenHouse – Untitled 11 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Hypnotise (tape demo)
Artist: Alyx Pryce
Album: Falling from Heaven demos
Release Date: 2010
This is from some sessions I did with drummer Jon Alderson and songwriter Alyx Pryce. We decided to test out my 4-track reel to reel before I had really gotten the hang of it.
Recorded at Opersteny studios 21 September 2010.
This song is by Alyx Pryce.
Download: alyx-hypnoTape20100921 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Island Love (reverb track)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Reverb City
Release Date: 2010
Another track culled from the reverb-only tracks.
This one is dedicated to all Anacortesians … vocals coming soon on the proper release. This one has been performed live one time with Mr. Shruters.
Download: Noggin – Island Love (reverb track) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Reel to Roll
Artist: Jon + Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Release Date: 2010
Welcome back, Jon.
Here’s one that, after extensive editing, got pieced together from some tape Jon and I laid down one night in the garage.
It’s an ER-1, some harmonica, and that old orange guitar, cut to hell and edited in Logic.
Download: jon + noggin – reeltoroll (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Title: Sunday Morning Sidewalk (reverb track)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Reverb City
Release Date: 2010
Recording doesn’t always go as planned. I sat down one night, recorded hours worth of stuff, only to listen to it the next day and realise I had somehow only managed to record the reverb sends to tape.
This is one of those tracks…I still kind of like them.
MPC2KXL hitting the akai reel-to-reel via some Lexicon LXP-1.
Download: Noggin – Sunday Morning Sidewalk (right click and choose ‘save as’)
About