u/Necrobot666

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Na5CQYG_1RQ

My wife and I are eccentric music geeks. Primarily, we are into just about everything that was born out of late 1970s experimentalism with electronic music and punk.. so that means we love stuff like Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, The Cure, The Dead Kennedys, Art of Noise, Coil, Psychic TV, Bauhaus, Eno, Roxy Music, Ramones, Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, De La Soul, Blondie, The Damned, Last Poets, The Misfits, Bruce Haack, 13th Floor Elevators, Captain Beefhart, Black Sabbath, Sleep, Hawkwind, Lords of the New Church, Tom Waits, Devo, etc...

But at some point, we were bitten by the IDM/glitch and breakcore bug. We often find ourselves enjoying music from Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, BongRa, Autechre as these acts took the exploration of electronic music and plunderphonics to entire new levels.

And so, we have sought to combine our influences.. taking the sensibilities of psychedelic experimentalism from the 1960s and 1970s, with the futurist experimentalism of IDM and glitch type music.

For this track, we sampled some very old blues and bluegrass elements, chopped them up and took the appropriate phrases and combined them with electronic percussion, breaks, and synthesizers.. with the hope of creating something new, from something very old.

Hopefully it hits for you the way it hits for us.

Cheers from Delco PA

We did a thing... this time.. with only Elektron boxes as the instruments. I think I created a Frankenstein when I told my better half about the Tonverk. She initially wanted it for the Granular engine. Now she can chop beats with the best of them.🤣 And she can still create all the different ethereal pads and heavy warbling drones that first got her into all of this.

But, she's still not quite as good at the more acidic stuff... so I still have a purpose!!😂

To make this track, she initially had been playing around with some pizzicato string samples. Eventually, I heard something and said, let me add some braindance/acid elements. Next thing I knew, we were chopping amens.

For future mastering purposes (in the event that we ever actually try to put out an album), we routed the electronic drums from the Tonverk to Outputs C and D, and sent them to the Cre8Audio Assembler, along with the Digitakt which was only doing chopped breaks. By routing all percussion sounds are together, into the Cre8Audio Assembler, it was easier to manage their levels, even though they came from two different boxes.

From the Cre8Audio Assembler, everything went into tracks 3-&-4 of the M-Audio 192|14 audio interface, which was hanging out off-camera.

The other pizzicato plucks and synths from the Tonverk were routed out outputs A and B, to tracks 1-&-2 of the M-Audio... while the Acidic-braindance and other synth elements from the Syntakt were routed to tracks 5-&-6 of the M-Audio 192|14 interface.

Cheers from Delco PA!!

It's kind of a darker piece.. mixing some elements of atmosphere that is not too unlike Coil, with dubstep, IDM, and perhaps trip-hop elements.

The Tonverk provided all samples and also was the midi-brain for the SH-4d.

For those keeping score, this is an updated version of a track I originally posted about two years ago, where I used a Korg Drumlogue, Polyend Play, and the same Roland SH-4d... but I always wanted to see the song expanded to become what it is today.. and so, my wife delivered.

Grim tidings from Delco PA!!

I love Elektron for their parameter locking and freely assignable LFOs.

In my Digitakt II, I can only parameter lock the amount of signal being sent to Delay, Reverb, etc.

Unfortunately, after sending the signal to the Delay, there seems to be no way to parameter-lock or assign an LFO to manipulate the delay-time-intervals.

I like a lot of islandy dub.. King Tubby.. Lee Scratch Perry.. Bill Laswell... so, those are the effects I'm trying to achieve.

Of course I can hold 'Func' and twist the knob between delay-time-intervals, but if I'm working other aspects of a track, it might be nice to be able to p-lock or assign an LFO to these parameters.

Does anyone know of a work-around for this?!

If not, does anyone know of any midi-capable multi-effects processors that allows you to manipulate delay time by using LFOs?

Thanks for any insights that can be provided!!

The track was built around some blues and bluegrass samples from almost 100 years ago.

These samples then became the inspiration for recontextualizing, to create new melodies, adjacent to the very old, blues/folk/country/circle-of-fifths motif.

No artificial intelligence technology was used to generate anything in this video. Everything was chopped, repitched, bent, manipulated, played, and sequenced by the two awkward people you see working the boxes you see in the video.

Everything was recorded live, in one-take, so WYSIWYG... clutter, blemishes and all.