it is now confirmed that CROP will be a 2 CD digipak with the main full length compiled CD and a shorter new EP. brain scraper death dive has been rebuilt and a new track 'amnesia' from the forthcoming all new CD [scheduled for year end]
we are often asked which DAW we use: our current DAW's of choice are reaper, sonar and ACID7 pro, reaper is a small program but fully featured, capable and stable - it is easy to set up with screen layouts, key bindings and macros. it has a loyal following and active forum - in our workflow it is an essential creation tool. ACID remains the best sample/loop based environment and sonar is deployed to finalise timeline arrangements and mixing - just edging out reaper. we also have fl studio and reason on our machines to sketch ideas and build midi sections. following CROP we have a number of tracks starting to take shape and featured 3 of these in our transmission at tinitus on 11.04.09 - as well as the rebuilt brain scraper death dive...
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
i staggered mentally
part of 'document' will include postings regarding the software we deploy in modern day portion control as well as comments regarding our long time existence with music technology. this article looks at the equipment used to produce i staggered mentally 1982/In Phase
our principle synths were the roland SH-09 -a single oscillator machine with just PWM, ramp, square and noise waveforms, despite these limitations it became a pc workhorse machine supplying many leads and bubbling/noise effects. next the roland RS-09 which was a string/organ synth best heard on out of order - it was possible to blend organ and strings into some sort of a pad sound then fatten it further with the onboard chorus - the drumatix drum machine TR-606 and the, now legendary TB-303 bass line were deployed on drum and bass duties, both boxes were bought on day of release, from londons camden town rock shop - prior to this we were using the roland CR78 which just didn't have the edge we hoped the new machines would... roland had developed a 5 pin DINsync connection which locked these two silver boxes together the other synthesizer, and breaking the roland monoply, was was the moog rogue a cheap analogue subtractive monophonic moog with two oscillators that continuously drifted but gave it a thick unison buzz best of all we could force it to feed back on itself and it created some huge saw sweeps he is patriotic is a good example as well as pretty good bass tones and screeches higher pitched washes that contributed to the overall chracter of the material-sex crimes shows these to good effect - the sample and hold feature allowed us to experiment with pulsing tones and throbs which were synchronised manually- the manual had a spare A4 patch sheet which we photocopied to carefully recorded the slider and switch positions, it felt good owning a box with the moog logo- cassette tape voice sections, toy whistles and some manual percussion - materials were clamped into a large bench vice and played with drumsticks, the vice had a metal resonance which added to the effect - i staggered mentally was recorded to 8 track 2" tape with all parts played manually except the drums and bass- effects were spring reverb, roland space echo, rack reverb, mxr guitar distortion, phase pedals- some parts were driven through a guitar amp and miked up, various tempo and vari speed tape techniques were also used - once mixed to 1/4 tape some parts were cut and spliced to add repetitions and to tighten sections - pat bermingham the in phase label owner engineered and recorded it at gants hill on the east london/essex border, apart from sort out that was recorded with van kaye and ignit at ding dong discs in holland
I staggered mentally is available on 'archive'
archive microsite
pic: recording sort out [ding dong discs]
pic: [left to right] TR-606, RS-09, TB-303, SH-09, moog rogue
our principle synths were the roland SH-09 -a single oscillator machine with just PWM, ramp, square and noise waveforms, despite these limitations it became a pc workhorse machine supplying many leads and bubbling/noise effects. next the roland RS-09 which was a string/organ synth best heard on out of order - it was possible to blend organ and strings into some sort of a pad sound then fatten it further with the onboard chorus - the drumatix drum machine TR-606 and the, now legendary TB-303 bass line were deployed on drum and bass duties, both boxes were bought on day of release, from londons camden town rock shop - prior to this we were using the roland CR78 which just didn't have the edge we hoped the new machines would... roland had developed a 5 pin DINsync connection which locked these two silver boxes together the other synthesizer, and breaking the roland monoply, was was the moog rogue a cheap analogue subtractive monophonic moog with two oscillators that continuously drifted but gave it a thick unison buzz best of all we could force it to feed back on itself and it created some huge saw sweeps he is patriotic is a good example as well as pretty good bass tones and screeches higher pitched washes that contributed to the overall chracter of the material-sex crimes shows these to good effect - the sample and hold feature allowed us to experiment with pulsing tones and throbs which were synchronised manually- the manual had a spare A4 patch sheet which we photocopied to carefully recorded the slider and switch positions, it felt good owning a box with the moog logo- cassette tape voice sections, toy whistles and some manual percussion - materials were clamped into a large bench vice and played with drumsticks, the vice had a metal resonance which added to the effect - i staggered mentally was recorded to 8 track 2" tape with all parts played manually except the drums and bass- effects were spring reverb, roland space echo, rack reverb, mxr guitar distortion, phase pedals- some parts were driven through a guitar amp and miked up, various tempo and vari speed tape techniques were also used - once mixed to 1/4 tape some parts were cut and spliced to add repetitions and to tighten sections - pat bermingham the in phase label owner engineered and recorded it at gants hill on the east london/essex border, apart from sort out that was recorded with van kaye and ignit at ding dong discs in hollandI staggered mentally is available on 'archive'
archive microsite
pic: recording sort out [ding dong discs]
pic: [left to right] TR-606, RS-09, TB-303, SH-09, moog rogue
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
CROP
our first release for sigsaly communications will feature a collection of immediate tracks from our recent releases as well as witness transmission intro, a rebuild of brain scraper deathdive from pycho bod saves the world, defend speeded up and remixed by NTRSN and amnesia the first piece from the new material scheduled to follow by end of 2009
listing:
HARDMAN [FILTHY WHITE GUY] GLOBAL [SLUG] PURE MENACE [WELLCOME] BLOOD RUSHED TO HEAD [STANSTED] BLIND EYES [WELLCOME] TOO MUCH DAMAGE [FILTHY WHITE GUY] ONION JACK ll SEGUE [WELLCOME] CHEW YOU TO BITS REBUILD [STANSTED] SICKMAN [SLUG] DEFEND NTRSN REMIX [UNRELEASED] BRAIN SCRAPER DEATH DIVE REBUILD [UNRELEASED] WITNESS/TRANSMISSION INTRO_01 [UNRELEASED] AMNESIA [UNRELEASED 09] ONION JACK lV SEGUE PEARLY KING & QUEEN COSH BOY ONION FREAK DRIVE BY SUNBEAM
release june 2009 in digipak format
listing:
HARDMAN [FILTHY WHITE GUY] GLOBAL [SLUG] PURE MENACE [WELLCOME] BLOOD RUSHED TO HEAD [STANSTED] BLIND EYES [WELLCOME] TOO MUCH DAMAGE [FILTHY WHITE GUY] ONION JACK ll SEGUE [WELLCOME] CHEW YOU TO BITS REBUILD [STANSTED] SICKMAN [SLUG] DEFEND NTRSN REMIX [UNRELEASED] BRAIN SCRAPER DEATH DIVE REBUILD [UNRELEASED] WITNESS/TRANSMISSION INTRO_01 [UNRELEASED] AMNESIA [UNRELEASED 09] ONION JACK lV SEGUE PEARLY KING & QUEEN COSH BOY ONION FREAK DRIVE BY SUNBEAM
release june 2009 in digipak format
salerno transmission
21 february 2009
intro,hardman, global, hey hey, sick man, brain scraper deathdive, more than just a nuisance, amnesia, green hills, defend, untitled, blind eyes, chew you to bits,havoc man, too much damage
salerno lies about 40minutes from naples at the start of the amalfi coast in southern italy, the transmission was organised by raffaele and toto at club iroko
intro,hardman, global, hey hey, sick man, brain scraper deathdive, more than just a nuisance, amnesia, green hills, defend, untitled, blind eyes, chew you to bits,havoc man, too much damage
salerno lies about 40minutes from naples at the start of the amalfi coast in southern italy, the transmission was organised by raffaele and toto at club iroko
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