Friday 26 February 2016

Kaoss Octagon

The Kaoss Octagon

A strange time here indeed...working on a series of mutated jam sessions that grew out of working with a Korg Kaossilator - strange in that after the original beats and samples were worked out, that all eight they were remixed, multi layered and generally evolved into shape, all within the space of a week. A busy time indeed.

So, without any further ado, let us nonetheless as soon as possible...



...and to round things off nicely, here are additional notes on each of the tracks featured on the album:



Theme One
Presenting for your delight and delectation the first in a series of pieces developed using a Korg Kaossilator fed through effects and multiple layers. THEME ONE was based on a mutated jam session and getting tow series of different samples that they had to just get on with each other!


Theme Two
The second in a series of Themes based on jams, loops, edits and general madness evolving from working with samples from a Korg Kaossilator. This one is a noisy little beast with a great bass riff.


Theme Three
Chaos, Dischord, pulled back into rhythm, spinning off back into dischord and back into a beat; layers of Kaossilator served on a bed of white noise...


Theme Four
The Fourth track in the series of themes from these Kaosillator sessions saw a journey into dronescapes, where ambient doesn't always mean a new age chill, but instead can produce something altogether more unsettling and discordant.


Theme Five
Possibly the most complex track from this series of Kaosillator sessions - although only based through two samples fed through Ableton and numerous effects, they were a series of loops produced direct through Kaossilator and then edited to create just the right amounts of sync, glitch and discordancy.


Theme Six
The mighty Theme Six from this Kaossilator series of sessions. What make this unusual - yes, well may you laugh - is that this is the only one from the entire series of eight pieces based on a single sample with only a little fade in and out to make it ever so neat and tidy. Metallic, unsettling, beautiful and irritating, all in one.


Theme Seven
Number Seven in this Kaossilator series sees a move into in yer face beats, white noise swirls, and a scratchy loop somewhere in the back of your brain. There are two mixes of this track, and this is the one without the extra delay added.


Theme Eight

Theme Eight and the final piece from this series of rather insane Kaosillator themed session moves into epic territory with a piece of sweeping multi layered cacophony that should shake loose those stubborn bits of ear wax and remove those last few feeble brain cells. Enjoy!






Friday 12 February 2016

Monstrous Black Centipede


This started off its' life while listening to a spoken word piece from my favourite beat writer. Mentioning no names, though the initials WSB may be a clue. Anyway, this scion of the inventors of the adding machine spoke this amazing piece about a psychological experiment reducing the patient to a monstrous black centipede. And it suddenly occurred to me - that although I had produced comics, posters and video images based on this guy's work - not a single piece of muzak. So here we are: The instrumental is a big band number fed through paulstretching and ping pong delay filters and added flange added. I think the whole thing works really well together, and old Bill himself may well have approved!