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96 Nog Jams collaborations remixes remixes and covers

Karl Blau – Great Eastern Shade (nogmix)

Thursday 22 December 2011 – 15:12
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Title: Great Eastern Shade (nogmix)
Artist: Karl Blau + Noggin
Album: 96 Nog Jams
Date: 2010

Probably the first piece I did to create backing tracks for Karl’s “96” record. I loved those crunchy drums, and took it upon myself to see if I could turn his voice into a bit of an electronic instrument via the power of digital sampling in the mpc.
I’ll never forget the first moments I was working on that vocal, Elena came over with Murphy and he just started singing along with Karl’s endless tone.
MURPH!!!
Download: Karl Blau – 05 – Great Eastern Shade (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Dirty Tape demos

Noggin – Picking up and leaving

Sunday 4 December 2011 – 17:08
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Title: Picking up and leaving
Artist: Noggin
Album: Dirty Tape
Date: 2010

Ambient track produced from a couple George Strait samples on the EPS. Damn, that is a deep keyboard. Not even software samplers come close to what it could do with built in functionality.
Recorded to cassette tape in the early summer of ’10 in Anacortes, WA.
Thanks again, Karl.
Download: 16 Picking up and leaving (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October Demos

Noggin – Meteoric (demo)

Tuesday 22 November 2011 – 16:53
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Title: Meteoric (demo)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October demos
Date: 2010

This is another song written in 2009 very late at night in a very wet, very dark, mildly heated Anacortes upstairs room. Pretty sure I was up waiting for the meteor shower, or I had just come back from it. I think I wrote the majority of mawL on this same night.
Finally recorded last winter in the Sunnybrook garage.
Yer basic MPC-trip-tech-to-tape traversal.
Download: meteoric (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Dirty Tape demos

Noggin – The Prophet

Sunday 20 November 2011 – 20:21
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Title: The Prophet
Artist: Noggin
Album: Dirty Tape
Date: 2010

Straight from the MS2000 faceplate to tape one evening in the red house. This ambient track is dedicated to the struggle inside all of us.
Download: 01 track01 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Side B

Noggin – Pictures of Clouds (an homage)

Sunday 13 November 2011 – 17:52
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Title: Pictures of Clouds
Artist: Noggin
Album: Side B
Date: 2009

This is an homage track to the Pictures of Clouds releases, technically by Noggin. Shortly after the POC sessions, I still had the studio set up very POC-ish and so I got to work making some new tracks. This one came out of running the mpc into the mixer with a feedback channel set to my secret weapon.
This song has even been played live a couple times, once at the very mellow, very rainy DOS proto-ambient show, and once more shortly thereafter at Ike’s in Wimberley.
Shout out to Robby Neighbor.
Download: 15 Pictures of Clouds (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October Demos

Noggin – Orkas (walk there)

Saturday 12 November 2011 – 18:41
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Title: Orkas (Walk There)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

Call this the ‘demo’ for the final ‘Orkas’ that just about tops out the album.
This one is not too dissimilar, but was definitely recorded about a month earlier than the version which eventually made the cut, and is completely unedited (the final version was actually recorded backwards, and then sections swapped after the fact). It’s still gonna be markedly different because I tend to record things ‘live’ vs setting up sequences in advance, so they definitely will take different paths to get to the same place.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – Orkas (Walk There) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Sober October

Noggin – Orkas

Wednesday 2 November 2011 – 13:30
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Title: Orkas
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October
Date: 2011

Here is the longest track from the album at ~12 minutes. It’s a 2 part piece that I wrote pretty much entirely on Orcas Island in the North-West islands of Washington State.
While there, I came across a tiny, cheap casio keyboard in the closet where we were staying. The keyboard barely worked – it was stuck on one preset that was like a hybrid organ / piano / vox thing, and then drums. If you hadn’t noticed, I love working with restrictions so I fired up the sampler and pulled about the 4 or 5 sounds this thing could make, and set to working digitally dicing them with the rudimentary functions of the mpc to create entire instrument sets.
From those sets of sounds, these two, very related tracks sprang forth. Again with the further refinement and couple of garage sessions, and the finished piece was put to tape. Every sound from that crappy old broken keyboard found in a closet. Work with what you got.
MPC straight to 1/4″ reels via Mackie mixer and LXP-1 on send.
Full album available at http://soundcloud.com/djnoggin/sets/sober-october
Download: Noggin – 09 – Orkas (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Pictures of Clouds

Pictures of Clouds – Untitled Track 03

Thursday 20 October 2011 – 15:31
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Title: Untitled track 03
Artist: Pictures of Clouds
Album: Pictures of Clouds
Date: 2010

Reeeeallly close to wrapping up the Pictures of Clouds release, but, as is the nature of the beast, it’s a bit of a nebulous thing. More tracks bearing the moniker are still to come, but for the most part, the set is complete and presentable.
This is the intro track that set the stage for what was to come, and also make us feel good about hitting the stop button on the tape player. You know, something is only finished when you deem it so, and it’s good to do that ever so often.
Download: 03 Tapedeck03 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Pictures of Clouds – Untitled 06

Thursday 6 October 2011 – 19:44
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Title: Untitled 06
Artist: Pictures of Clouds
Album: Buzz Exports
Date: 2010

One that fits the original ‘ambient’ vibe of the POC release a little closer.
This is basically track 3 off the album, not counting the intro track. We are just riding a vibe here, sequencer off, fx routed and fedback on each other, Elena chilling under the window.
Part of the magic of this short track is how it opens up for track 7, so you’ll have to burn this whole album to experience that proper-like.
Download: 06 – Pictures Of Clouds – Tapedeck06 (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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Live at Stafford

Noggin – Under the Mountain, Over the Ocean (live at Stafford)

Monday 29 August 2011 – 10:11
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Title: Under the Mountain, Over the Ocean (live at Stafford)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Live at Stafford
Date: 2009

Another track from the well received Noggin set at the 2nd Stafford Skullf*cker extravaganza. I had just written this song a short while before this, debuted it at the Department of Safety on 30 October, then redid it with a bit of sync lead for the Stafford show.
Notice the crunchiness – this entire set was mixed and processed through a Yamaha DMP-7. It’s one of the first digital mixers, and it’s got a really unique sound as it takes analog input, converts it all to digital, does all processing digitally inside the machine, then does another DA conversion on output to provide regular old analog outs.
This song to me is the sound of all the house music that wants to exist on a rainy Washington island finding refuge in one, strangely slanted room.
Download: Noggin – 04 – Under the mountain, over the ocean (Live at Stafford) (right click and choose ‘save as’)

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