The final album of recordings of 2021 from Conny Plankton is an eclectic mix of modular electronics, atonal soundscapes, and explorations in hypnagogic trance: A bit of everything really, using a whole range of different hardware, software, synths, modular devices – just about anything that came to hand.
Friday, 24 December 2021
Friday, 19 November 2021
Aebbe
Aebbe is a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton. The sources of these recordings were made during a recent vacation to a remote lighthouse cottage near St Abbs on the Scottish Borders: Most of the recordings were originated on Ipad software with further mixing and additional hardware and software worked into the mixes upon return to the home studio. The isolation and remoteness of location found its way into the recordings, as did the additional challenges of developing new approaches with older IOS based software on the Ipad.
Thursday, 21 October 2021
Ajeeb
October 2021 sees a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton, bringing the Hive VST synth back to the fore - either as its own stand-alone sequences and astral soundscapes; working alongside new use of other VST plugins - such as Lector by Waldorf - a vocal processing app, that allowed use of microphone based explorations from Saxophones, Shenhais, Rainsticks, and African Shakers; or as additional pads and textures woven into sessions with the Nifty Eurorack and MC505 Groovebox.
Friday, 1 October 2021
Communitas
Communitas
Communitas is an epic Triple Compilation CD featuring a whole spectrum of luminaries from the Musical Underground. It is produced by my old chum, Mick Magic on his own Music and Elsewhere label. As well as featuring Mick's own Experimental Electro Project, Magic Bullet (in collaboration with his Alter Ego, Skit), there are over 25 Artists involved, spanning three full-length CDs. Each CD is released in three separate volumes, with Volume I and Volume II now available.
Direct Links to each volume of the Compilation are at:
Conny Plankton is very much involved with this epic event, contributing the Track, Asparagi to Volume III, and producing the portrait illustrations for the contributing artists.
Full details of this Amazing Project can be found over on Mick Magic's website on:
http://www.mickmagic.net/MB%202021-10-01.htm
The Track Details for the full Communitas Compilation are as follows:
Volume I:
01. Magic Bullet - We Are Magic Bullet (0:40)
02. Magic Bullet vs Ehrlich Bullet - We At Grain Festival (33rd Anniversary Remix) (4:13)
03. Magic Bullet & Friends - Unitas I (0:13)
04. Magic Bullet vs Gypsy - Clubbin' With Twizzle (4:50)
05. Magic Bullet & Friends - Unitas II (0:10)
06. Magic Bullet vs Levente - Astra Cum Distorta (Orion / Outland / Arecibo) (13:35)
07. Magic Bullet & Friends - Unitas III (0:14)
08. Magic Bullet vs MMATT - The Electric Age (5 Years On) (5:15)
09. Magic Bullet - We Say IFAR Compilations Very Good (1:00)
10. Shaun Robert - Côté Intéressant (3:01)
11. Magic Bullet & Friends - Unitas IV (0:12)
12. Magic Bullet - Neil Crud On Tudno FM (Studio Remix) (3:09)
13. Spam Javelin - Rate, Like, Subscribe (1:51)
14. Magic Bullet & Friends - Unitas V (0:16)
15. Magic Bullet vs Spam Javelin - The Assimilation Of Spam Javelin (2:42)
16. Magic Bullet & Friends - Unitas VI (0:16)
17. Magic Bullet & Friends - Unitas VII (0:12)
18. M.Nomized - The End Will Come (8:18)
19. Magic Bullet & Friends - Unitas VIII (0:16)
20. M.Nomized & Magic Bullet - Du Ciel À La Terre (7:45)
21. Magic Bullet & Friends - End Of Volume I (0:18)
Volume II
Well done Mick Magic, you have put together a Compilation of Epic Proportions!!!
And here is Mick Magic's Link Again!
http://www.mickmagic.net/MB%202021-10-01.htm
Friday, 24 September 2021
Vox Humana
Vox Humana is a series of new recordings by Conny Plankton, based around the concept of using the human voice as a key instrument: However, not a voice as straightforward vocalisation, or fed through the formulaic filters of vocoders - more an experimental approach with banks of modulation, filters and in sync with other instruments and devices. Unheard Voices Await...
Thursday, 19 August 2021
Deeply and Creatively Weird
August 2021 sees a new album's worth of releases from Conny Plankton. A common theme here is continuing explorations with using the Waldorf Nave VST Synth - now synced up to different instruments and exploring a series of alternative approaches - everything used this time round from Bassline Synths, to Waldorf's own Desktop Synth, Rocket, as well as other synths such as Behringer's Crave and Neutron. It's all here folks!
Saturday, 17 July 2021
Polestar
A new album of releases from Conny Plankton sees a moving away from the themes of working with Eurorack and bringing a new VST into centre stage - namely, Nave, the Wavetable Synth from Waldorf, which allows lots of new approaches and some incredible sounds along the way. Lots of different instruments, devices and samples joined the party during this series of recordings - including the evolving Eurorack system of course!
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
The Four Seasonings
It has been a long while since there was any Conny Plankton activity on the Mixcloud front. So now, to rectumfy the situation, here are new series of long Mixcloud mixes, all based on original work:
The Four Seasonings are a new series of long mixes by Conny Plankton, as published on the Mixcloud site. The four seasonings in this case being salt, mustard, vinegar and pepper.
Actually, none of the mixes have anything to do with seasoning at all, although there was a lot of Pepper in the very first mix:
Condiment
A long drone based mix, based around treated samples of various zippy pop nuggets as produced by the Four Kings of Emi themselves. Melodic yet atonal, this mix pushes the possibilities of what can be done with a samples and sounds to take you into new and uncharted territories.
Four Kings
Another take on samples from the Four Kings of Emi - this time rearranged as an intense acid fried mix. Guest appearances from Lord Frankie Howerd and samples from his 1965 advert for the Four Kings series of ice creams. Yes, well...
WonkaMix
A sort of tribute to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with samples from the 1971 film and soundtrack mixed and modulated into a new and wonderful place, while still retaining some of the Magic from the original experience.
Lost Voyage
Conny Plankton paying respect to a series of TV classics by Irwin Allen, with episodes from Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea remixed into something altogether damaging and extreme.
Monday, 21 June 2021
Wasp is the Word
June 2021 sees a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton - taking explorations with the Plankton Eurorack and many other devices into new and unexplored territories. Loosely based around the latest addition to the Eurorack - the Doepfer Wasp Filter, the recordings soon evolved into patching in lots of other devices, synths, loops and samples. The journey continues...
Friday, 28 May 2021
Infinite Number
The latest release from Conny Plankton sees a continually evolving exploration of working with a series of hardware and VST synths in and out of sync with a growing Eurorack system. Latest additions to the kit this time round, include the Plaits Macro Oscillator by Mutable Instruments and the Dreadbox Hysteria VCO – but of course everything can be reworked and resampled and re-patched into an infinite number of permutations.
Thursday, 29 April 2021
Whurliegirkie
Whurliegirkie is the latest release of recordings from Conny Plankton. The title comes from an obscure Scottish phrase meaning "a Fanciful Tale", which seemed strangely appropriate: The recordings are based around experiments and explorations with an evolving Eurorack System. However, many extra devices, both modular and beyond, were soon fed and sampled into the sessions, resulting in the Whurliegirkie you have now have before you. Leave all your genres, labels and expectations behind and enter the World of the Whurliegirkie!
Monday, 5 April 2021
A 80 B
April and Easter and still in the throes of Lockdown form the Coronavirus. In the midst of it all is a new series of recordings from the warped mind of Conny Plankton – produced with a fledgling Eurorack system, hooked in and patched up to other choice goodies such as the Behringer Neutron and Crave Synths, the MC505 Groovebox, the Arturia Beatstep Pro Sequencer, and the Hive VST synth. A World of Wonder Awaits...
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Natural Disorder
The latest release from the warped brain of Conny Plankton sees further explorations with modular patchings and permutations - taking you all into realms of dark ambience, drone, trance - and well, just definitely out there. Enjoy!
Thursday, 25 February 2021
A New Perspektiv
A new form of madness and obsession here with a new video produced by Conny Plankton - using the Hyperspketiv app for IOS for its own brand of special effects. This one is unusual (yes, well...) in that it has been designed especially for watching vertically on mobile phones.
And Why Not....
To get the video to play fully on your phone as a vertical movie, make sure you click on the option View web version just under the Home button at the bottom of the screen.
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Azimuth Of Sound
February 2021 – a continuing lockdown within the depths of winter. And in the midst of it all, a new series of recordings from Conny Plankton – loosely based around a series of explorations with the Cre8Audio Eurorack system connected and synced to a series of other modular and semi modular devices – and a whole bunch of extra samples and instruments piled on top, just for jolly.
Saturday, 23 January 2021
In Winter
January 2021 and deep in the heart of an English Lockdown- a new release emerges from the ruined brain of Conny Plankton: explorations and experimentations based around the use of the Cre8Audio Nifty Bundle modular set up - re-routings and re-patchings abound ,with a series of dark and atonal soundscapes - reflecting these dark and atonal times.
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