Eight Bit Eight Bit - Two Pieces of Eight

Here we have one of two takes of a home made 8 bit/circuit bent synth type thang, fed through a Kaoss Pad for a bit of extra flange together with a bit of Bass Station loop sequencing to help it all gel together.

....and this time we have a remix of the session from the circuit bent 8 bit synth and Kaoss Pad, now just with midi bass sequencers. A more ambient sort of hollowness in the back of the head kind of feel...

Radio under the Sea

This is a complicated beast - two radios, one circuit bent and running through distorted AM frequencies; one running UHF frequencies on white noise shipping forecast airwaves, fed through banks of effects through a Kaoss Pad, and then chopped up, mutilated and lovingly arranged on beds of various drum loops. Who can work out the source of the drum loops? Good Or Great?

Weevils Meetles Again

This all started its merry little journey from an unassuming home made synth noise maker called the Weevil Bugbrand, designed by the DIY electronics wizard, Tom Bugs (have another plug Tom, at www.bugbrand.co.uk/). Then it evolved through being fed through my noise maestro monster, the Powertran digital delay and alongside a Roland Mc303 sequencer - with much editing of the flanges and edges afterwards of course.

Eating Radio

Take one shortwave radio. Feed through Kaoss Pad. Add midi loops. Process through various effects. Simmer with shattered synapses.

Me and My Tubular Droner

The Kaoss Pad still in force here, now running through a series of hand built electronic devices and fed through multiple effects. File somewhere between ambient, noise, and beautifully damaged...

Big Changes in my Lonely Furrow

So when I started this blog idea thing, the original idea was to have a small select group of us putting in various tunes, videos, images and other bits of media on a sort of regular basis, and then interlinking with threads and themes. It started becoming obvious after a short while that this wasn't going to work and it was only myself putting in stuff....

...and that's alright, because after all it's what people want to do. No disappointments, no reproaches. On I go, winding my lonely furrow, putting in new stuff and weird ideas as the fancy takes me.

So, after a long think, and a long long time away from anything, bloglike, here we go again...

KG and the Ultramixes:



While working on a track using samples from the amazing Gristleism box of effects running it through midi sequencers and Kaoss pads for effects, I started finding I was developing one of the most complex tracks I had ever come across - or at least, one of the ones that I found was taking longer and longer and longer to get right. Fourteen takes and remixes later, I was coming away with something that I was happy with. Here is a little oddity that almost feel by the wayside during these sessions, being a track that was made entirely with midi sequencers and much processing of the flanges.





This track now shows the TeeGee samples modulated through Gristleism and the Kaoss Pad and now teamed up with a certain Tee Gee ditty. I can't think what came over me when I was putting this one together...





This is what I was trying to achieve with the track - but at Version 12, it is still something I am not happy with. Maybe I am just being picky but there is a series of clicks throughout that really get on my bits. This is one is the Gristleism Box, the Bass sequence loop, and the Kaoss Pad, all going at it together!



...and then finally from this series, we have the Tee Gee samples and the Kaoss Pad at work again, but this time supported by a solid piece of brain candy in the form of a loop from the PFC. I leave anyone vaguely interested  to figure out what that particular acronym stands for.