Free Samples From My Portasound

Thought I might share these with you guys. Got bored last week and ran a cheap Yamaha Portasound through my Lil Big Muff and several Audio Damage Plugins to see what type of noises I could get with varying results. Interesting stuff here.

Sorry. I had to use Megaupload to post these. Hope you like them though. All the samples are in Wav. Feel free to use them in your projects.

CLICK HERE TO DOWLOAD SAMPLES

Gems From Re-Copying All Of My CDs

Ok, so if you follow my blog you might have picked up that about a month ago my laptop crashed and with it I lost all of my music and all of the music I had been making. Shit. I know. But instead of letting it get me down I’ve been trying to take it in stride.

There are just a few good things that have come out of this whole thing.

1. I’ve streamlined my DAW’s and made my whole music workflow a lot lot lot lot lot smoother.

2. I’ve narrowed my plugins down to the essentials.

3. I’ve had a chance to re-visit every piece of music I own as I re-copy it to my hard drive (or should I say external hard drive…. fucking lesson learned)

And I guess the question after that would be why the hell is that a good thing.

Well, I’ve just gotten so bogged down with the shear amount of music that I own that it becomes really difficult do dig through any of it. I just find myself cycling through only my new cds and so many of them just fall to the wayside.

So here are some of my favorite unearthed gems from digging through my CD collection. Just a bunch of albums that I forgot how much I love.

Disclaimer. I don’t claim that any of these are obscure, just really well loved and genuinely missed by be.

1. Timo Maas – Maasterpieces [Mixmag Covermount 2005]

It’s hard for me to explain how much I love this CD. It’s just kick ass. It might have to do with  the bumg of Dinky’s Acid In My Fridge or maybe the over the top bass of H-Man’s Manga (which I finally heard someone play out recently and it was just as crazy loud as I imagined it would be), but mostly I think it’s the slow burner of Paradise Soul’s remix of Numb which is one of the most under rated tracks I’ve ever heard. Thick and sexy. Timo’s mixing is very sleek and forgetable but his track selection reminds me of why I plop my money down for Mixmag each month.

TOP TRACKS: Sia – Numb (Paradise Soul Remix), H-Man – Manga

2. Jacques Lu Cont – LRD (Revolution Magazine Covermount 2000)

Short and sweet. Here I am naive little 14 year old looking through a supermarket for something to do while my mom shops and I stumble onto this short lived gem of a magazine. It tried very hard to be what URB is today but it was just a touch ahead of it’s time. Oh well, they had free cds and this one is the best of them. 6 tracks mixed by super producer Stuart Price in a very awesome french disco vein. Might be the reason I fell in love with dance music.

TOP TRACKS: Mekon – What’s Going On? (Jon Carter Remix), Cassius – La Mouche (DJ Falcon Remix)

3. Christopher O’Riley – True Love Waits – Christopher O’Riley Plays Radiohead (Sony 2003)

I’m a sucker for music like this. Classical but instantly familiar. This might be my favorite cd I own to just relax to. I remember hearing this for the first time before the midnight release of Hail To The Thief and thinking it might be one of the best things I’ve ever heard. Slowly it’s fallen away from me but now that I’ve got it back I’ll be listening to this one for quite some time to come.

TOP TRACKS – Black Star, True Love Waits

4. The Beta Band – Heroes To Zeros (Astralwerks 2004)

I think a lot of people still remember that scene from High Fidelity where John Cusack is all like “I will now sell 3 copies of the Beta Band’s 3 Eps,” Great scene, great band. By the time this CD came out though I think a lot of people had moved on for some reason. It’s a shame because some of their best work is on there. One of my first experiments with production was making a bootleg of Liquid Bird that really didn’t work very well. Either way I sorta forgot about this album until the incredible Pure For came on random.

TOP TRACKS: Pure For, Liquid Bird

The Paused on Hair And Bone Records

Proud to anounce some of my music under The Paused being released on Hair And Bone Records, a new net label that focuses on dark and moody experimental type music. I’ll be working on some new ambient type music soon for them and hopefully things will take off for these guys. All the music posted so far is quality stuff from Angkrowat, Volnastar, and CWR so far and things only look to get better. Check out the label page below.

http://www.hairandbone.com

The Googly – Basement Mix Vol. 4

I could have sworn I put this mix up earlier. But I forgot. 30 Minutes or so. I forget most of the tracklisting. So I’ll try and get it right but I kinda forget what it is……..

Well it’s fucking techno muthafuckas! Get smacked in the face!

Right click and save the link below to download.

Basement Mix Vol. 4

Tracklisting????

(after 30 minutes of trying to figure out the tracks I just went downstairs and grabbed my records to figure out so the tracklisting is right now.)

1. Savinto – TST 2 [TST]

2. 2 Dollar Egg – Lebt 1 [Nummer-Schallplatten]

3. Funk d’void – Bad Coffee (Slam No Sugar Mix) [Soma]

4. Agent Orange – 2 Much Is Never Enough [Gotham Grooves]

5. Safety Session – Untitled [Drumcode]

6. The Aztec Mystic – Ascesion [UR]

7. Dave Clarke – The Storm (Surgeon Dub) [Deconstruction]

The Googly – Made Of Rayon (Free Download)

Hallo crazy web universe! It’s time for a new song for you!

More glitchy goodness from my basement to your ears. Made this over the course of about 2 days and thought I would put it out there into the world for you people to listen to. Hope you enjoy it.

Available in glorious wav. spectacular 320Mp3 and so so 192Mp3 for you suckers who don’t give a shit about sound quality.

Right click and save the links below to download.

Made Of Rayon.Wav

Made Of Rayon.320Mp3

Made Of Rayon.192Mp3

As always, thanks for listening. All feedback is super apreciated.