Remix of a Remix of a Remix

While putting together a long mix together based on samples from Kaossilator and Volca Sequencers - the results of which are up on the Mixcloud site and elsewhere in the Quaquaversity blog - there was this a test mix that got left behind. Checking it over, I realised that it simply had to be reborn with various additional samples, loops and reversed versions of different sections of itself. So here you go - a remix of a remix of a remix.

Four Loops Mix

This started off as a series of four samples which were edited together as loops to use with a longer ambient mix of a track which has gone up into Mixcloud and the Quaquaversity blog. But the samples seemed to work so well together just on their own, that it seemed a natural progression to feed them as loops through Ableton and add requisite and exquisite amounts of flanger, phaser and delay. Enjoy!

Ambient Cut Up Special

Originally based around four different samples, edited down as loops, this particular mix evolved to take in a range of additional mixes and sets, ranging from treated field recordings at beaches in North Yorkshire, to various timestretched drone pieces from other recordings. The whole thing was mixed together live with effects added on the fly and a minimal amount of editing applied afterwards.

Kaoss Spacenoise mix

This mix was based around working with a range of edited samples produced using my Korg Kaossilator, battling it out with each other, and also with a series of timestretched pieces originating from NASA space recordings of magnetic particles received as audio transmissions from various planets (some of which was used in the earlier mix of Astral Overdose, found elsewhere here in the QuaQuaversity blog). The whole thing looped and mixed and effects liberally spliced in.

Tea Bee Three

So this time round, it is a series of sessions developed with a Korg TB3 bass line - and a few other instruments devices and sound sources dropped into the mix here and there for a bit of gusto...





And now, a few extra details about each of the tracks:


TB3 vs Bass Station

What started off life as a jam session working through the fantastic sounds and convolutions of a Roland TB-3, soon developed into further edits from my vintage bass station rack and a kind of space bass war, with both sets of tracks weaving in and out of other in the final mix through different effects and different speeds. The result of what you get is the result of what you get!

TB3 and MC303 edit

...this time, the mighty TB3 bassline takes on the MC303 sequencer in a no holds barred taggy team contest, taking us into some off kilter beats and bad for your bits bass riffs. Enjoy!

TB3 and MC303 Part One Edit

...Here we have an edit culled down from a longer jam session made with the TB3 bassline running in tandem with a MC303 sequencer. Loopy lysergic madness in abundance here, with very little extra added and the live jam session that brought it to life, apart from a few fades and corrections to levels...

TB3 and MC303 Part Two Edit

...taken from the second half of a longer jam session made with the TB3 bassline running in cahoots with an MC3030 sequencer. This was a live jam session with only minimal editing made afterwards and believe it or not, is taken from the second half of the jam session that spawned TB3 and MC303 Part One Edit.  The middle session of the original jam session lost its way a little, but what we have here are two rather excellent sonic bookends!

TB3 and MC303 number 2

...from a series of different sessions made with using a TB3 bass line. I fell in love with the TB3 sound straight away. However, it wasn't quite as easy when syncing it up with my MC303 sequencer - using midi is all well and good, but it involved quite a bit of extra tweaking of the outer flanges to avoid an automatically synced up, electronic, robotic sound. After all, we all need a bit of the old chaos and bizarro quality in our lives, don't we?

TB3 and Crowd

...more from the TB3 seres - this time from a solo TB3 session, this time lovingly garnished with a field recording made from a crowd outside of shopping centre, looped and partially reversed and sewn back into the mix to give some unsettling bad ambience overtones.

Inside the Astral Overdose

While working on a recent series of mixes under the Astral Overdose theme, I was left with a big backing track that had been used from the MYDISYD mixes. This backing track was a mix and remix of various samples broadcast from outer space and made available via NASA. However, I thought this mix was a great piece to upload just by itself, without the MYDISYD bass riffs and sequencers mixed in. So here you go!

More Astral Overdose Vicar

This time round it's another mix of everyone's favourite space themed jam by PFC, this time with an even odder twist...



Here we have a full on mix based originally around the same PFC riff as used in the earlier mix for Astral Overdose, but this time based on a home made riff played through midi, chopped and looped, then played first through a Novation Bass Rack, and again through the rather excellent Ultrabass VST from G-Sonique. However, although the mix worked really well, the sound was still very cold and mechanical. So the backing track is based on a recording of magnetic particles from Neptune, lopped, chopped and timestretched - a fitting theme methinks considering the theme and content from the original riff. So there we have it - all happily mixed together. Enjoy folks!