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 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.

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.

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.

Tweak

 A new series of recordings from Conny Plankton based on initial explorations with the Roland S1 Tweak – a stylophone-sized Synth that plays sequences ranging from techno loops to atonal soundscapes. Here it is put through its paces – as solo ventures, and in sync and alongside different hardware devices such as the Arturia MicroFreak  and Behringer Neutron Synths, the Roland MC505 Groovebox and  software VST Synths such as the beloved UHE Hive. There are a whole universe of different genres, styles and approaches here. Enjoy folks!

The Hidden Key

 The first series of recordings of 2024 see a series of exploration with various VST and hardware synths in sync with each other, in conflict and harmony, working through numerous ideas and experimentations. The Final Mixes are very varied in terms of style, genre, and approaches, from trance to atonal to modular synth electronics. And it's all for you!

Never On Sunday

A new series of recordings from Conny Plankton sees explorations with the Lush VST Synth from D16. These explorations were carried out with solo instances of Lush 2 and synced up to different VST Synths and other hardware devices. The Final Mixes see journeys into all sorts of styles, approaches and directions. Never the same way twice as someone once said!

The title of Never on Sunday came from a strange piece of flotsam found on a beach in Northumberland. This seemed based around an old theme of Never on Sunday as a happy drunk propping up a lamppost. The found object features in the title track, and the final track shows a copy of the family ornament on the same theme from my childhood. Strange repetitions...

Hinterland

November 2023 sees a new album of recordings and mixes from Conny Plankton. There seems to be a bit of everything here – from atonal drones and landscapes; to rhythm-based explorations; to ambient soundscapes to strange alien textures. Performers in this series of mixes include new presets with the Hive and Massive X VST Synths; new patches with the Nifty Eurorack set up; exploring the new sample libraries and settings within the Arturia Microfreak Synth; developing a series of freshly-edited loops and samples, and working with new Plug ins such as Wolfram for effects and further modulation. Hope it hits the spots before your eyes!