Two mostly improvised fifteen minute tracks, with C64, DMG, nylon guitar, slap bass and mandolin. Sprawling tunes that lie somewhere between ambient folk and instrumental hip-hop. Available as a free download or as a cassette tape, in all its low fidelity glory
Nerd Talk: The drum samples came mostly from a friend's MIDIbox SID, sampled and layered into Ableton drum racks, then controlled through an Alesis SR-16. Most of the "real" instruments (guitar, bass, piano) are running through a hardware rack into individual instances of Ableton's Looper. There's a DMG with Nanoloop 2.5 running into a Roland RC-30 for looping, then into a massive AUX chain that most of the other instruments dip into on occasion. I'm also using a MIDInes and an mGB doubling each other for a cool out-of-phase effect, with the MGB in polyphonic mode. The tape sample sounds (oboe and horn) are coming from a Super Genie organ fed into an Ableton Looper. Each track was close to two hours at first, then I went back and cut down each section to the "meat" of it, losing the sloppy parts before and after transitions.
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