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.

Marlene Remembered

A complex track from Kev Trundley, being based on two different songs with the same tune which were popular in World War Two - one with the allies, one with the German Forces. The English version here is the irreverent send up of the original song, based on a largely forgotten and rebuked section of the British Armed Forces, where the likes of the 8th Army were ridiculed as "D-Day Dodgers" for not taking part in the D Day allied offensive - despite facing some of the most intensive fighting in the entire war.

Meanwhile, over in Germany, we have an equally complicated song - first used as a simple love song, then becoming a firm favourite with German troops on wartime radio, and then re recorded as a propaganda tool in English, sung by the gorgeous German actress, Marlene Dietrich, then living in America. This is based around the original version - in German with original lyrics.

As confusing as war itself, with two themes interwined around a single tune.

Too Much Gristle in the Blancmange

Another one from Kev Trundley - loops and multi layering galore, as everyone's industrial music innovators gets the Trundley treatment, and what stated off as a novelty noise making device evolves into something more intense and sinister.

Kaoss Pads and Circuit Bent Toys

Kev Trundley now runs us through a series of circuit bent toys, fed through loop devices and bounced in and out a series of sequencers and samplers. 

Anyone spot the Canada Geese in there?

Effe Em Gee Bee

Kev Trundley strikes again. This time with a jam session based on a freshly rewired midi set up. This was later remixed, cut up and rearranged, and then finished off courtesy of a guest appearance of James Joyce coming through the aether.