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| Date | Artist, Title | Description |
| 15 Feb 2007 | ocp, awk | micro modular, Macbeth M3X, Analogue Solutions Red Square, Danelectro Spring King, Pure Data. |
| 28 Dec 2006 | Shalmaneser, Revolutionary Women's Mechanized Suicide Brigade | |
| 2 Nov 2006 | Anode Glow, Uh-Huh | One 10-year old sampling keyboard + outboard lowpass'n'ringmod, one honest-to-god makes-air-move trap-set, two decent musicians and a bar of enthusiastic people. |
| 19 Aug 2006 | ocp, amb | internal combustion... |
| 6 Aug 2006 | Paul Maddox, The Red button | Minimalist electronica. |
| 6 Aug 2006 | Paul Maddox, Temporal Vortex | Schulze inspired tune in 9/8, with guitar solo (courtesy of Hermann Seib), Running time is 9'24" |
| 6 Aug 2006 | Paul Maddox, Nivelo 159 | big, brash, electronica |
| 5 Aug 2006 | ocp, trip in fluorescent bulb | Exercise your abstraction skills through this "trip in fluorescent bulb". Ambient for the "bulbnaut" in you! Have a nice journey ; ) |
| 28 Jul 2006 | Charles Graef, Freeing The Chickens | A bouncy, cheerful combination of Celtic rockbeat and druggy strangeness, ending in a mob scene. EWQL Colossus, EWQL Symphonic Choirs, EWQL Symphonic Orchestra XP Pro, Stylus RMX, Atmosphere, Trilogy, Reaktor 5. |
| 12 Jul 2006 | Mark Mahoney/Michael Peck, Stars End Perfomance | Michael Peck and I recently performed live on Chuck van Zyl's radio program, Stars End, in Philadelphia. Here's the first 9 minutes or so of the performance. There's a pic of us on our website performing in the beautiful WXPN-FM studio. |
| 10 Jul 2006 | Third Sound (Joe McMahon), "an ocean of liquid helium" | A metallic texture from _Shatterday_, stretched 10x with Soundhack; processed several times through Thonk and mixed down. |
| 1 Jul 2006 | Charles Graef, Pouting Roosters | Funky number with an Otis-Redding-style brass section and a fake-guitar solo. Colossus, Kick-Ass Brass, Trilogy,Stormdrum, Stylus RMX. |
| 19 Jun 2006 | Charles Graef, Pavement | Recalls the melancholic urban mood of Shaft and various other 70s cop/detective movies, if in a trippier, modder way. Doepfer, Colossus, EWQL SO Gold Pro XP, Vienna Instrument Solo Strings, Stormdrum, Camel Phat and Camel Space filters, Stylus RMX. |
| 13 Jun 2006 | ocp, hard | This track was produced using a Red Square v.2 and a Macbeth Studio Systems M3X. Some delay was added. |
| 13 Jun 2006 | ocp, soft | This track was produced using a Red Square v.2 and a Macbeth Studio Systems M3X. Some delay was added. |
| 12 Jun 2006 | Brian Good, Dents | Dents is a clangorous piece of asymmetrically-phrased pan-tonal electrojazz, the result of a cheap and sordid weekend infatuation with the whole-tone scale. My brother says it sounds like jazz from hell; I'd like to think he meant the Zappa album. |
| 12 Jun 2006 | Aether Drift, first narrative | first narrative is one movement from Six Narratives for an Ensemble of Plug-ins. Garden-variety dark ambient. |
| 11 Jun 2006 | Sound Commandos, Into The Ether | A short intro to the final tune on the Sound Commandos album. |
| 10 Jun 2006 | charles graef, Soap Bubble Cannonballs | A quick, almost-pervertedly-cheery,rhythm-heavy,synthy ditty with a reggae-like Doepfer backbeat. Doepfer, Colossus, Trilogy, Atmosphere, Reaktor 5, Stormdrum, Camel Space filters, Stylus RMX. |
| 4 Jun 2006 | Charles Graef, Dolphins Under The Ice | Swirly bluesy electric Celt-folk meets stoner trance rock. Standing on a shore staring at a body of water too long, until it breaks your heart, or maybe you've just had too much coffee, or not enough, but whatever it is, it won't solve this thing in front of you. Fake electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, recorders, etc. Colossus, Trilogy, Stormdrum, Kontakt and Camel Space filters, Stylus RMX. |
| 27 May 2006 | Mercaptan, Graduation Day | Once every few years I manage to finish a set of lyrics. These came out a bit Enoesque. Thanks to Megan Lynch for the vocals. |
| 27 May 2006 | Mercaptan, Taleggio | I imagine this as the network theme music for some very dubious, second-tier sport. Maybe rollernerfball--like rollerball, except that instead of indulging in bloody mayhem they just hit each other with foam rubber bats. |
| 27 May 2006 | Mercaptan, Subjunctivitis | I never wanted to be the Chuck Mangione of techno. It just kind of happened. |
| 22 May 2006 | Charles Graef, The Clotheslines Letting Go | Influenced by Happy Mondays. All the shirts, pants, dresses, and skirts are letting loose from their clothesline atop a green grassy hill and swirling off into a wide blue sky. Panoramic groove with searching (fake, as usual) guitar. Colossus, Trilogy, RD700 piano, Camel Space filters, Stylus RMX. |
| 17 May 2006 | Charles Graef, Rudbeckia Praecox | Trippy and euphoric, as if in some kind of incandescent field of nonexistent daisies. Add fretwork of polished hexagons and stir. Yamaha VSS-30 toy sampler, Colossus, RA, Stylus RMX. Kosta Potamianos has channeled from the piece a further episode in his serial drama involving penguins mystified by consumer-good relics in a deserted shopping mall in a distant future ice-age. |
| 17 May 2006 | ocp, sleeping aid | Ambient soundscape... |
| 14 May 2006 | Matthew G Davidson, Family | |
| 12 May 2006 | Charles Graef, 3 a.m. | Melancholic, nocturnal, contemplative. |
| 10 May 2006 | Inquisitor Betrayer, Sea of Fire, Fire of Four | Symphonic Electronica with an IDM twist |
| 10 May 2006 | Inquisitor Betrayer, Dark Crystal | Symphonic Electronica |
| 10 May 2006 | Inquisitor Betrayer, Jade Emperor | Symphonic Electronica meets Progressive Electronica |
| 10 May 2006 | Alex Saba, Prelude #1 (to Bob Moog) | A song written as soon as I read the sad news about him. Some inspiration from Chopin's Prelude could be detect. A song from the heart. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 8 May 2006 | cebec, drones for 631 | 1 of 9 drones improvised one afternoon with a Nord G2 and recorded to tape. |
| 6 May 2006 | synchro1, Here We Are (again) | died at age 40; what a waste. late 90s |
| 6 May 2006 | synchro1, Punting The Ganges | recent, from compilation Grok This! on Medicine Park label. |
| 6 May 2006 | synchro1, Edge of a Pool | vocoder & words |
| 6 May 2006 | WKGB, U235 | '78 - guitar, bass, drums, RMI, AKS, mini, EMS vocoder, and the end of all life on the planet. The good old days..... |
| 6 May 2006 | Simon James, Song of the Siren | Come swim in my underwater world that mixes soundscape and synthesis. |
| 6 May 2006 | Fred Welsh, Shape VII | I particularly like the transition in this one. |
| 6 May 2006 | Fred Welsh, Shape VI | Up tempo with deep bass drum. Can never have enough pulse-width modulation strings! |
| 6 May 2006 | Fred Welsh, Shape I | This is the intro track to an album I did about a year ago. A number of people seem to like this one. |
| 5 May 2006 | Richard Wentk, Hubris | Another in the Nzwrks series - this is another plug-in stack automated piece. (Anyone who gets all the way to the end is braver than I am.) |
| 5 May 2006 | Richard Wentk, Clone | I thought I'd remix the Acid 6 demo tune. Heh. |
| 5 May 2006 | Richard Wentk, dArK | 5 x Absynth. Nothing else. Ouch. |
| 2 May 2006 | Jim Aikin, Walk Away | Recorded in about 1990, entirely with hardware synthesizers. I wish I could remember what a few of those outside chords are. |
| 2 May 2006 | Jim Aikin, Peace in Palestine | Created entirely in Propellerhead Reason. The title is optimistic, but in the last verse you may hear bombs falling. |
| 2 May 2006 | Jim Aikin, Desolation Dance | Imagine a gigantic skeletal Snoopy doing his "dance to spring" on the smoking ruins of something important. |
| 1 May 2006 | Charles Graef, Je M'appelle Daniel | Fast, intense adventurers having fast, intense adventures. |
| 1 May 2006 | Charles Graef, Yellow Tires | Short trippy groove with full-tilt Garcia-ish fake-guitar solo, Talking Heads style drumming. |
| 1 May 2006 | Matthew Davidson, Sanctus (edit) | |
| 1 May 2006 | Matthew Davidson, Credo (edit) | |
| 1 May 2006 | Archetribe, Cycle of Dust | |
| 1 May 2006 | Archetribe, Dissociative Fugue | |
| 1 May 2006 | Charles Graef, I See You've Met Our Hitman. And That's Charles. He'll Be Scoring Your Whacking. | Things are looking grim. |
| 1 May 2006 | Charles Graef, Plywood Enzo | Spaced out, slow-grooving, inspired by dub. |
| 1 May 2006 | Charles Graef, "Unless It Rains Skunks" | In the words of Mike Rubens: "Beatles-esque, cheerful, the kind of music that might be playing while a smiling character is lobotomized." RealGuitar, Kick Ass Brass, Colossus, Trilogy, Stylus RMX. Production style influenced by Jon Brion. |
| 1 May 2006 | Paul Maddox, Teleport | Electronica with a beat, I've been told it sounds 'kraftwerky', judge for yourself. Originally written for the Onset of Illusion project, Teleport features the Hartmann Neuron, in fact the only part that is NOT Neuron is the vocal samples and reverb. No sequencers were harmed (or used) during the recording of this, everything was played live and multi-tracked into pro-tools. |
| 19 Apr 2006 | Charles Graef, 041606 "another school" | |
| 16 Apr 2006 | The Jambient Project, 119set1 | |
| 16 Apr 2006 | Jj Kidder, Peace in Kasmir | |
| 16 Apr 2006 | Alaska Highway, Darkness (live) | |
| 16 Apr 2006 | Shalmanser, Saltines Assemble! | |
| 16 Apr 2006 | Charles Graef, 040506 "stonfluent smansion" (exotica version) |
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