Thursday 26 September 2024

Proud To Be Weird

 The Adventure continues, with a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton. Much use was made this time round of recordings made from external sources to be filtered, mutilated and mixed alongside samples, loops, and hardware and software synths. The Final Mixes span a whole series of different approaches and styles – but fear not, for all are have that Conny Plankton stamp of strangeness. Proud to be weird!

Monday 26 August 2024

Never The Same Way Twice

 A new series of recordings from the warped mind of Conny Plankton  features mixes and explorations using old minidisc based field recordings, the Filterscape, Hive  and Massive X VST Synths; Hardware synths and the Nifty Eurorack system, and banks of heavily treated samples and loops. Most of the minidisc recordings were made from a visit to Sweden some 20 years ago, which can be seen in various titles for tracks. A treat for the head awaits!

Sunday 21 July 2024

Of Scars And Memories

Of Scars and Memories is a new series of recordings and mixes released by Conny Plankton in this July of 2024. The Nifty Eurorack featured heavily in most of the mixes, adding elements of chaos and ASMR textures. Also featured were a range of hardware synths and devices and stellar performances from VST Synths such as Hive, Massive, Massive X and Filterscape. Interwoven into the mixes were a series of heavily filtered archive recordings recently rediscovered on MiniDisc. Expect the unexpected here!

Thursday 13 June 2024

Straight

Straight is a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton using various devices and software. A loose common theme seemed to be working with archive recordings from old MiniDiscs made some 20 years ago. Into these were interwoven samples, loops and beats, hardware devices such as the Roland S-1 Tweak, the Arturia MicroFreak Hybrid Synth, the Roland MC505 Groovebox, the Arturia Beatstep Pro Sequencer and the Nifty Eurorack system. The results range from stomping beat based mixes, to ambient soundscapes, to deranged sonic explorations.

Sunday 12 May 2024

semicolon

 A new series of recordings from Conny Plankton sees continued explorations with big time use of the Filterscape VST FX Plug in; drum based loops and patterns; heavily modulated field recordings; the synced up VST Synths of Hive, Massive, Massive X and Largo; treated samples; hardware synths and weirdness. Big mention must be made to the RX Audio Editor and its stripping out of key instruments from samples; and the rather excellent Filterscape VST Effects processor from UHE. The Final Mixes have mutated into all sorts of different directions as they began to take on a life of their own – but all marked with the Conny Plankton Stamp of Oddball Odd. The title itself refers to a serious operation undertaken during the editing stage of the recordings.

Friday 22 March 2024

Getting There

 Spring is just around the corner, and here are a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton. The recording sessions started off life with further explorations with the Roland S1 Tweak – however, these soon evolved into working alongside mutated loops, treated samples and heavily edited field recordings. Core beats were used big time with the development of dense layers of sound and the Conny Plankton stamp of aural derangement.

Saturday 24 February 2024

Neurodivergence

A new series of recordings from Conny Plankton sees further explorations with loops, VST Synths, Field Recordings and assorted hardware devices. These sessions started life with the unifying theme of bringing the Roland S1 Tweak Synth to centre stage and having everything evolve and develop around it. However, as is often the case, other samples and synths soon demanded an equal right to be heard and a whole series of new mutated mixes developed. So here we have a series of tracks which cover a range of styles and genres, with trance and ambient, industrial and atonal, all fused together with the Conny Plankton stamp of whatever.