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0bleak

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I forgot to post the improved version in the appropriate thread which isn't very smart since I'm otherwise just leaving a dead link on the above post.


One reason that I wanted to make a quasi-footwork version of this tune, besides just the joy of combining the two styles, was also to draw a parallel between wiping out on a surfboard and wiping out on a dancefloor since the latter is something that I (almost) have a lot of experience with in the past - not that it actually ever happened, but I'm guessing that there were hundreds of times in the past, especially in my early 20s when I was doing my own kind of footwork (I feel silly calling it that because I don't won't give myself props as if I was anywhere near on the same level as proper modern footwork dancers), I felt like I wasn't going to land properly, and therefore end up falling on my ass - thankfully, it never happened, but I did have a lot of "oh shit" "close call" moments when a foot was in the air where I felt like I wasn't going to land properly until I actually did land.
 
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rubysay

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Made this the other week for my partner, who asked for a version of guess by charli xcx where it suddenly cuts to the chorus of the new lady gaga song, abracadabra, and one is superimposed atop the other, In the course of fucking around with youtube stems i made this, and then dinner, and then uploaded it to youtube a couple days later. Needless to say, my partner was disappointed in me that i didn't make what they asked for, though i really mostly wanted to sit them down and show 'em how to do it in ableton or serato. I'm going to make what they asked for right now i think.
Tempted to keep working on it though...
 
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0bleak

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I'm blaming @sus for mentioning Orange Claw Hammer because I then stayed up all night making this when I realized that the line "I woke up in vomit 'n beer in a banana bin" makes a perfect 16 syllable drum/instrument rack as long as you chop two of the monosyllabic words in two where he sings them longer. Then I could make all sorts of noise with by applying all sorts of different effects to make different sounds.

It's a bit autechrish, I guess.

as said in the video description:
90% of all of the sounds and rhythms in this track were made by warping, modulating and affecting a single acapella vocal line sample heard at the beginning of this track, "I woke up in vomit 'n beer in a banana bin," sung by Captain Beefheart.
 
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0bleak

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Captain 0bleak - Vomit 'n Beer in a Banana Bin (funky Japanese joist hanger mix)

I thought to myself that it would be interesting to do a version with adding not only some funk bass and funky guitar, but also sounds derived from a Japanese joist hanger.

 
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gremino

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^ and music video: Shot in Helsinki's Croydon, Itä-Pasila, which environment is used as raw material for mundane psychedelia.

 
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wektor

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new youtube video by my favourite plugin nerd popped up so decided to give it a shot, ended up with this percussive quickie
 
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0bleak

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This is an unarranged demo - that is why is starts and ends abruptly with not much variation. The point of the project is to use sounds from guzhengs (either played conventionally or unconventionally) as the one and only initial sound source (besides vocals, at the point when that occurs) which I then further process to get the sounds I want. The idea initially came to me when I was thinking about what a modern update to 23 Skidoo's Urban Gamelan album from 1984 might sound like, but if it was taken in a different direction. Firstly, use different instruments (guzhengs instead of gamelan/drums/bass/guitar, etc.), and secondly, try to derive all sounds from just guzhengs (either played conventionally or unconventionally). This is why the project is named Sub Urban Guzheng - a nod to the album that inspired it, but created in a suburban environment, with added sub bass (the sub bass sounds here are also processed sounds initially generated by the sounds of guzhengs).
 
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0bleak

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someone (guess who) said, elsewhere on a different forum, that they would like to hear this with a 909 running underneath so I thought why not...
 
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mvuent

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glancing through the other music you’ve released on this label alone makes wonder how much of your output i’ve actually heard. maybe about 2%? below are just a few impressions, by no means exhaustive or set in stone.

a rollaway notion - feels like something powering on. rhythmachine components flickering all around you. readout lights blinking to life and cycling through colors. a warm wistful melody glowing in near the end.

constricter - a major proclamation then we’re off. funny sound character - some faint whimpering or laughing. calm mystery melody. paranormal surges in bass pressure. chatter, brass. radiance filtering in. violent cartoon ending.

a democratic fetish - have to admit i spaced out a bit during this one. definitely worth including but what it does well other tracks do even better. maybe. likely to change w/ additional listens.

spikeweed - iconic opening. weird longwinded syncopation-generating melodies. not huge on the pitchbendy melody that comes in a minute in just on its own, but it plays off things really well. pure funk. this quote gets at its effects imo:
Reggae… wants to pull apart, not condense into a solid whole. It has an inbuilt drive, as a necessary element in its sprung nature, to test itself at all times, to ensure that that tensioned spring stays sprung to the finest tolerance … yet never actually released. Reggae could easily fly apart, like a watch-mechanism or a universe, and that is always a risk. But it never happens… Reggae feels less supple than rocksteady, more articulated.
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narcosis alternative - selected ambient works 1 pads almost. background shimmering. bass shouldn’t work, pulsating on the offbeat, yet it’s very effective - modulating to a sound that’s almost choral for a few seconds near the end. ends with a heavenly surge.

in the sun - not sure how i feel about the main stabs. ngl mainly spent the first few minutes in pavlovian anticipation of the backbeat. the vocals are a nice change of pace. develops very satisfyingly.

harmonium track - kinetic intensity building towards the end through busier rhythmic texture

wigan - big fan of the wailing sound that keeps appearing. and the melody. and curt bass interjections. and breaks stuff. the s950tx16wasr10 (earth portal mix) of the album

tugboats - bass has a sneaking, tiptoeing quality. a more swaggering sense of motion develops as more elements come in around it. impossible not to grin when the old school dancehall/rap brass stabs come in. feels like there should be some specific dance invented for this track. wouldn’t necessarily guess it was one of yours until the keyboard part fades in during the second half. really fun track, maybe my favorite.

secret x - ...

overall a really fun and enchanted album that puts to death any notion that the e.b. magic touch doesn’t extend to beat science / groove. mastering still feels a bit lightweight in places but idk if it would be a better album with neck-snapping edm punchiness. long passages of locked-in kinetic clattering, shifting and evolving forward motion, but also well-judged moments variety and cartooniness. the only track i hear as darkside would be a democratic fetish (which displaces the earlier notion of it being superfluous). redemptive tonal luminosity (the sun) seems to seep into every dark rhythmic tunnel.
 
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0bleak

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