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ocp - awk

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:23:27 +0000

ocp, awk

micro modular, Macbeth M3X, Analogue Solutions Red Square, Danelectro Spring King, Pure Data.

Shalmaneser - Revolutionary Women's Mechanized Suicide Brigade

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:42:23 +0000

Shalmaneser, Revolutionary Women's Mechanized Suicide Brigade

Anode Glow - Uh-Huh

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:39:06 +0000

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.

ocp - amb

Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:54:20 +0000

ocp, amb

internal combustion...

Paul Maddox - The Red button

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:23:38 +0000

Paul Maddox, The Red button

Minimalist electronica.

Paul Maddox - Temporal Vortex

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:21:56 +0000

Paul Maddox, Temporal Vortex

Schulze inspired tune in 9/8, with guitar solo (courtesy of Hermann Seib), Running time is 9'24"

Paul Maddox - Nivelo 159

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:19:59 +0000

Paul Maddox, Nivelo 159

big, brash, electronica

ocp - trip in fluorescent bulb

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:17:24 +0000

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 ; )

Charles Graef - Freeing The Chickens

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:07:25 +0000

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.

Mark Mahoney/Michael Peck - Stars End Perfomance

Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:31:19 +0000

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.

Third Sound (Joe McMahon) - "an ocean of liquid helium"

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:26:06 +0000

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.

Charles Graef - Pouting Roosters

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:11:18 +0000

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.

Charles Graef - Pavement

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:30:26 +0000

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.

ocp - hard

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:52:09 +0000

ocp, hard

This track was produced using a Red Square v.2 and a Macbeth Studio Systems M3X. Some delay was added.

ocp - soft

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:50:55 +0000

ocp, soft

This track was produced using a Red Square v.2 and a Macbeth Studio Systems M3X. Some delay was added.

Brian Good - Dents

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:09:34 +0000

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.

Aether Drift - first narrative

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:05:10 +0000

Aether Drift, first narrative

first narrative is one movement from Six Narratives for an Ensemble of Plug-ins. Garden-variety dark ambient.

Sound Commandos - Into The Ether

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:36:43 +0000

Sound Commandos, Into The Ether

A short intro to the final tune on the Sound Commandos album.

charles graef - Soap Bubble Cannonballs

Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:55:54 +0000

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.

Charles Graef - Dolphins Under The Ice

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:31:17 +0000

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.

Mercaptan - Graduation Day

Sat, 27 May 2006 06:52:33 +0000

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.

Mercaptan - Taleggio

Sat, 27 May 2006 06:50:06 +0000

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.

Mercaptan - Subjunctivitis

Sat, 27 May 2006 06:46:32 +0000

Mercaptan, Subjunctivitis

I never wanted to be the Chuck Mangione of techno. It just kind of happened.

Charles Graef - The Clotheslines Letting Go

Mon, 22 May 2006 02:09:24 +0000

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.

Charles Graef - Rudbeckia Praecox

Wed, 17 May 2006 21:57:24 +0000

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.

ocp - sleeping aid

Wed, 17 May 2006 01:23:07 +0000

ocp, sleeping aid

Ambient soundscape...

Mon, 01 May 2006 20:32:49 +0000

Charles Graef, Je M'appelle Daniel

Fast, intense adventurers having fast, intense adventures.

Charles Graef - Yellow Tires

Mon, 01 May 2006 19:25:00 +0000

Charles Graef, Yellow Tires

Short trippy groove with full-tilt Garcia-ish fake-guitar solo, Talking Heads style drumming.

Matthew Davidson - Sanctus (edit)

Mon, 01 May 2006 18:45:25 +0000

Matthew Davidson, Sanctus (edit)

Matthew Davidson - Credo (edit)

Mon, 01 May 2006 18:44:45 +0000

Matthew Davidson, Credo (edit)

Archetribe - Cycle of Dust

Mon, 01 May 2006 18:43:54 +0000

Archetribe, Cycle of Dust

Archetribe - Dissociative Fugue

Mon, 01 May 2006 18:43:27 +0000

Archetribe, Dissociative Fugue

Charles Graef - I See You've Met Our Hitman. And That's Charles. He'll Be Scoring Your Whacking.

Mon, 01 May 2006 15:24:08 +0000

Charles Graef, I See You've Met Our Hitman. And That's Charles. He'll Be Scoring Your Whacking.

Things are looking grim.

Charles Graef - Plywood Enzo

Mon, 01 May 2006 14:59:03 +0000

Charles Graef, Plywood Enzo

Spaced out, slow-grooving, inspired by dub.

Charles Graef - "Unless It Rains Skunks"

Mon, 01 May 2006 14:56:48 +0000

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.

Paul Maddox - Teleport

Mon, 01 May 2006 13:37:56 +0000

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.

Charles Graef - 041606 "another school"

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:43:48 +0000

Charles Graef, 041606 "another school"

The Jambient Project - 119set1

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:33:10 +0000

The Jambient Project, 119set1

Jj Kidder - Peace in Kasmir

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:31:23 +0000

Jj Kidder, Peace in Kasmir

Alaska Highway - Darkness (live)

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:30:04 +0000

Alaska Highway, Darkness (live)

Shalmanser - Saltines Assemble!

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:29:01 +0000

Shalmanser, Saltines Assemble!

Charles Graef - 040506 "stonfluent smansion" (exotica version)

Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:28:35 +0000

Charles Graef, 040506 "stonfluent smansion" (exotica version)