Great to see you back, ENC !!! You brought a nice tasty touch of acid to the table.

Looking forward to your next stuff, man. It's great to hear you again

Great to see you back, ENC !!! You brought a nice tasty touch of acid to the table. Looking forward to your next stuff, man. It's great to hear you again :)

Like this chilled acid sound.

Like this chilled acid sound.

i need more of you in my life thank you
i am going to come back every week with joy to hear

i need more of you in my life thank you i am going to come back every week with joy to hear

yeah this chill acid sound is dope. I like the idea of compiling year-end influences in just a paragraph. I should use M8 to sequence external gear more myself..

yeah this chill acid sound is dope. I like the idea of compiling year-end influences in just a paragraph. I should use M8 to sequence external gear more myself..

This is great! Love those quirky, out-of-tune plucks toward the end!

Gorgeous sound design!

This is great! Love those quirky, out-of-tune plucks toward the end! Gorgeous sound design!

Encowell back at it again, awesome! This is a great dreamy track!

Encowell back at it again, awesome! This is a great dreamy track!

love the shift around 1 min and those higher synths around 1:20. What a vibe!

love the shift around 1 min and those higher synths around 1:20. What a vibe!

we are so back

we are so back <3

Cowell be like "bit of a throwaway" and it's like the banginest drippy droppy thing you've ever heard in your life damn

people don't think it be like that

Cowell be like "bit of a throwaway" and it's like the banginest drippy droppy thing you've ever heard in your life damn people don't think it be like that

Daaaang the drums are so nice and punchy right from the start.  Chill pads that support the acid line.  Love how it builds softly and gets thrown into the clouds.  All the added percussive elements sound great too.  Hell yea for Prodigy, Muziq and Pluribus S1 \m/  lets go!!

Daaaang the drums are so nice and punchy right from the start. Chill pads that support the acid line. Love how it builds softly and gets thrown into the clouds. All the added percussive elements sound great too. Hell yea for Prodigy, Muziq and Pluribus S1 \m/ lets go!!

Yes we are!

Like the textures and synths choices!

[quote=jwh]we are so back <3[/quote] Yes we are! Like the textures and synths choices!

Really nice layers here, great start to the year!

Really nice layers here, great start to the year!

that acid line is tasty awesome tune, thanks for sharing!

that acid line is tasty :) awesome tune, thanks for sharing!

It is always fun to have some new goals for the year! Love the sound of this. I love the sound selection for the little droney thing at 130.

It is always fun to have some new goals for the year! Love the sound of this. I love the sound selection for the little droney thing at 130.

Welcome back! This was a lovely "sound test" lol, very melodic and chill, and gotta love Plaits for versatility. How did it go with the M8 as your midi brain?

Welcome back! This was a lovely "sound test" lol, very melodic and chill, and gotta love Plaits for versatility. How did it go with the M8 as your midi brain?

this has a really cool vibe. subtle but expressive, i liked it!

this has a really cool vibe. subtle but expressive, i liked it!

This. Reading “manual sync” had me all !!! up in this. Superb work…

[quote=gesceap]i need more of you in my life thank you i am going to come back every week with joy to hear[/quote] This. Reading “manual sync” had me all !!! up in this. Superb work… <3

bro dropping sound tests like they're pressed on vinyl

bro dropping sound tests like they're pressed on vinyl

Loving this. The acid lines reminds me of one of my all-time favourites Tinman. Great stuff.

Loving this. The acid lines reminds me of one of my all-time favourites Tinman. Great stuff.

Welcome back, this is cool!

Ps also love me some Philip K Dick

Welcome back, this is cool! Ps also love me some Philip K Dick :)

WB26 let's go

WB26 let's go [img]https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExd3dlM3VwNXU5cXF1N3RlMXQ3YjUzZmk0bDNybzkyMnFxODBodWpoOSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/HNtm9TDgxGza8/giphy.gif[/img]

Bouncy and fun! I dig it

Bouncy and fun! I dig it

Welcome back, you and your wall of words.
- Devieus

Welcome back, you and your wall of words. - Devieus

very nice vibes, loving that wonky 303. great chill second half

very nice vibes, loving that wonky 303. great chill second half

This is really cool.

I have a little eurorack system I noodle on and make weird noises with but never integrate into anything, and hearing yours working with M8 makes me want to get mine talking to my M8.

This is really cool. I have a little eurorack system I noodle on and make weird noises with but never integrate into anything, and hearing yours working with M8 makes me want to get mine talking to my M8.

Oooh, this sounds so good! I dig the contrast between the flowing acid line, the ambient pads and the staccato, almost choppy, drums.

And great to see you're back this year. We share _a_lot_ of common interests with regards to media consumption, as well. :-)

Oooh, this sounds so good! I dig the contrast between the flowing acid line, the ambient pads and the staccato, almost choppy, drums. And great to see you're back this year. We share _a_lot_ of common interests with regards to media consumption, as well. :-)

This subdued acid bass works very well against the yearning reverb-drenched melodies.

This subdued acid bass works very well against the yearning reverb-drenched melodies.

woah I love the bassline and sound design for all the layers

woah I love the bassline and sound design for all the layers :o <3

happy new year ENC!
you've got a lot swimming around in your head - feels familiar
i like the energy of this track
wishing you well on your life and music journey!

[img]https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbHZjZ2g4ZzU1azBiMWpvMTB6ZXRwYWJsb2RjZHl1bGwzbXQybGk5ZCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/Pvuf56bWDuEP6/giphy.gif[/img] happy new year ENC! you've got a lot swimming around in your head - feels familiar i like the energy of this track wishing you well on your life and music journey!

Lovely lighthearted vibes of this track but with depths below the surface

Lovely lighthearted vibes of this track but with depths below the surface

Lovely acid, lovely tunes, great track!
Also, Hi!

Lovely acid, lovely tunes, great track! Also, Hi!

I really really like your first track of the year. I'm touched by it honestly. Thank you.

I really really like your first track of the year. I'm touched by it honestly. Thank you.

Bit of an old school acid vibe going on here and experimenting is what it's all about.
I like the media consumption list too!  I really should try and do that.  I did it with xbox games but film and tv would be kind of good to do also.  Do you have a system?

Bit of an old school acid vibe going on here and experimenting is what it's all about. I like the media consumption list too! I really should try and do that. I did it with xbox games but film and tv would be kind of good to do also. Do you have a system?

Thank you, the feeling is mutual. Great to be back with my fellow WB folk. I think it'll be a good year.

Always can use more Gesceap in my life (how ever you pronounce it ). Missed hearing your stuff in 2024. Always good seeing/hearing you in the Nano Loop discord.

Thank you for checking it out! For the paragraph... In 2024, I started documenting the details leading up to tracks including mindset, things used, process, and file names along with my WB submission. It's mostly to help keep track of things. As a common place book, it's been super useful when going back to edit things or just to look back developmentally on progress. I didn't do that in the past and it's been a mess archiving and finding old files when I wanted to release them or review.

M8 + External gear is a really fun time. M8 by itself can do a lot but I do miss having a polyphonic or tweekable addition on occasion. The roland Sy-1 and m8 was my go to system for writing for a while. It was great for brining a little studio setup while traveling.

That's the Tal-Pha, a Roland alpha Juno clone plugin. I used to own an Alpha Juno 2 but, traded it in for a Juno-6 in the late 00's. I got it for something like $200. I still think about that Alpha Juno, very much the one that got away. I still use old samples I made from it. I'd buy a rack version in a heartbeat but the prices have gone up, too much for what it is IMHO. The plug-in does a good enough job though.

OH YEAH BAY BEE!

Lol IDK about that I can tell you in the moment it just felt like... "This sounds ok, IDK what to do, I guess I'll throw another acid line on top, this time with the modular" or "I guess I can layer that other poly synth plugin I just bought". It Felt a bit excessive and scattered

The pads are from the Tal-j8. I've been needing a dual oscillator poly to write with and picked that up on a whim since I was already a TAL plugin fan. So far so good. Never used a real Jupiter 8 but the emulation sounds great. Nicer sound oscillators then the Junos IMHO.

Took me way too long to sit down the Prodigy. I previously mostly new the hits I sometimes saw on tv when I was a kid. It's been fun diving into big beat in general and re-visiting that era. Just finished Pluribus! so good.

AWWWWWWWWW YEAH. LETS GOOO.

I lose track of everything so the vague long term goals really help me work towards something I think the drone is the Tal-uno or the tal-pha. One of the junos

M8 is great as a midi brain, though I wouldn't call it the brain for this particular song. Mostly in this case It was running a free running polymeter seperate from the computer. I lent my spare interface to a friend for running visuals with my band and never got it back. Unpluggigng everything for my main one would have been a bit of a pain so I opted to take a less conventional route. Basically I wrote the midi part in m8 and set the same bpm wit the laptop. Than I pushed play both devices for the manual sync. M8 sent the midi to a midi to cv converter and I tweeked knobs on the eurorack to go along with the song. The output of the eurorack was recorded to my Tascam recorder. When done I took the recording off the recorder and dumped it to the computer and ableton. I was a very covoluted and round about way to get what I needed I wouldn't recommend it.

I'll have to look them up! I don't know them. Always down for checking out new music.

Thank you!

I am new to PKD outside of the movie adaptations. I finished Do androids dream of electic sheep and Ubik. I have Man in a High Castle ready to go in my book pile. Slowly making my way through his work. The man knew how to tell a tale. I love how reality bending and paranoid everything is.

Too many words some might say good to see you again!

Thank you! Took your new EP out for a spin this week. Excellent chip work I had been listening to your LSDJ anniversary performance for a while. Glad to get to hear more.

Noodling on eurorack is great! I frequently do that for making samples or processing things. Currently, I've been using a Erica Synths Midi to CV modules for mono lines and use it's clock output to Pamela's Pro Workout and/or . That really opened doors for me syncing to other devices. it also saes on space for sequncing potentially. I can't recommend any Midi to CV converters enough. I think it's an underated topic in the eurorack space.

Thank you! Looking foward to your expertly crafted sequences as usual Funny enough the staccato drums were an area I was a bit critical of. The were a choice that didn't translate as well I had hopped due to the transients being so agressive. "c'est la vie" I suppose. IDK if you are in the discord but feel free to give me a ping if you want. I imagine it would be fun "talking shop" as they say.

Happy NY to you too. Too much swimming, some might say sometimes Best to you as well!

Cheers and Thank you for listening to my submission. Can't wait to see what 2026 brings. Happy to share this supportive community with you all

[quote=laguna]Great to see you back, ENC !!! You brought a nice tasty touch of acid to the table. Looking forward to your next stuff, man. It's great to hear you again :)[/quote] <3 Thank you, the feeling is mutual. Great to be back with my fellow WB folk. I think it'll be a good year. [quote=gesceap]i need more of you in my life thank you i am going to come back every week with joy to hear[/quote] Always can use more Gesceap in my life (how ever you pronounce it :P). Missed hearing your stuff in 2024. Always good seeing/hearing you in the Nano Loop discord. [quote=Water_Feature]yeah this chill acid sound is dope. I like the idea of compiling year-end influences in just a paragraph. I should use M8 to sequence external gear more myself..[/quote] Thank you for checking it out! For the paragraph... In 2024, I started documenting the details leading up to tracks including mindset, things used, process, and file names along with my WB submission. It's mostly to help keep track of things. As a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book]common place book[/url], it's been super useful when going back to edit things or just to look back developmentally on progress. I didn't do that in the past and it's been a mess archiving and finding old files when I wanted to release them or review. M8 + External gear is a really fun time. M8 by itself can do a lot but I do miss having a polyphonic or tweekable addition on occasion. The roland Sy-1 and m8 was my go to system for writing for a while. It was great for brining a little studio setup while traveling. [quote=SQF]love the shift around 1 min and those higher synths around 1:20. What a vibe! [/quote] That's the Tal-Pha, a Roland alpha Juno clone plugin. I used to own an Alpha Juno 2 but, traded it in for a Juno-6 in the late 00's. I got it for something like $200. I still think about that Alpha Juno, very much the one that got away. I still use old samples I made from it. I'd buy a rack version in a heartbeat but the prices have gone up, too much for what it is IMHO. The plug-in does a good enough job though. [quote=jwh]we are so back <3[/quote] OH YEAH BAY BEE! [quote=kineticturtle]Cowell be like "bit of a throwaway" and it's like the banginest drippy droppy thing you've ever heard in your life damn people don't think it be like that[/quote] [quote=Judgement Act]bro dropping sound tests like they're pressed on vinyl[/quote] Lol IDK about that :P I can tell you in the moment it just felt like... "This sounds ok, IDK what to do, I guess I'll throw another acid line on top, this time with the modular" or "I guess I can layer that other poly synth plugin I just bought". It Felt a bit excessive and scattered :) [quote=Tone Matrix]Daaaang the drums are so nice and punchy right from the start. Chill pads that support the acid line. Love how it builds softly and gets thrown into the clouds. All the added percussive elements sound great too. Hell yea for Prodigy, Muziq and Pluribus S1 \m/ lets go!![/quote] The pads are from the Tal-j8. I've been needing a dual oscillator poly to write with and picked that up on a whim since I was already a TAL plugin fan. So far so good. Never used a real Jupiter 8 but the emulation sounds great. Nicer sound oscillators then the Junos IMHO. Took me way too long to sit down the Prodigy. I previously mostly new the hits I sometimes saw on tv when I was a kid. It's been fun diving into big beat in general and re-visiting that era. Just finished Pluribus! so good. [quote=djippy][quote=jwh]we are so back <3[/quote] Yes we are! Like the textures and synths choices![/quote] AWWWWWWWWW YEAH. LETS GOOO. [quote=dewdrops _tunes]It is always fun to have some new goals for the year! Love the sound of this. I love the sound selection for the little droney thing at 130.[/quote] I lose track of everything so the vague long term goals really help me work towards something :) I think the drone is the Tal-uno or the tal-pha. One of the junos :P [quote=neon liminal]Welcome back! This was a lovely "sound test" lol, very melodic and chill, and gotta love Plaits for versatility. How did it go with the M8 as your midi brain?[/quote] [quote=ilzxc][quote=gesceap]i need more of you in my life thank you i am going to come back every week with joy to hear[/quote] This. Reading “manual sync” had me all !!! up in this. Superb work… <3[/quote] M8 is great as a midi brain, though I wouldn't call it the brain for this particular song. Mostly in this case It was running a free running polymeter seperate from the computer. I lent my spare interface to a friend for running visuals with my band and never got it back. Unpluggigng everything for my main one would have been a bit of a pain so I opted to take a less conventional route. Basically I wrote the midi part in m8 and set the same bpm wit the laptop. Than I pushed play both devices for the manual sync. M8 sent the midi to a midi to cv converter and I tweeked knobs on the eurorack to go along with the song. The output of the eurorack was recorded to my Tascam recorder. When done I took the recording off the recorder and dumped it to the computer and ableton. I was a very covoluted and round about way to get what I needed :P I wouldn't recommend it. [quote=A-Cow]Loving this. The acid lines reminds me of one of my all-time favourites Tinman. Great stuff. [/quote] I'll have to look them up! I don't know them. Always down for checking out new music. [quote=myfirstpunksong]Welcome back, this is cool! Ps also love me some Philip K Dick :)[/quote] Thank you! I am new to PKD outside of the movie adaptations. I finished Do androids dream of electic sheep and Ubik. I have Man in a High Castle ready to go in my book pile. Slowly making my way through his work. The man knew how to tell a tale. I love how reality bending and paranoid everything is. [quote=DESLRV]Welcome back, you and your wall of words. - Devieus[/quote] Too many words some might say :P good to see you again! [quote=ess]very nice vibes, loving that wonky 303. great chill second half [/quote] Thank you! Took your new EP out for a spin this week. Excellent chip work :) I had been listening to your LSDJ anniversary performance for a while. Glad to get to hear more. [quote=roboctopus]This is really cool. I have a little eurorack system I noodle on and make weird noises with but never integrate into anything, and hearing yours working with M8 makes me want to get mine talking to my M8.[/quote] Noodling on eurorack is great! I frequently do that for making samples or processing things. Currently, I've been using a Erica Synths Midi to CV modules for mono lines and use it's clock output to Pamela's Pro Workout and/or . That really opened doors for me syncing to other devices. it also saes on space for sequncing potentially. I can't recommend any Midi to CV converters enough. I think it's an underated topic in the eurorack space. [quote=Dank Receptor]Oooh, this sounds so good! I dig the contrast between the flowing acid line, the ambient pads and the staccato, almost choppy, drums. And great to see you're back this year. We share _a_lot_ of common interests with regards to media consumption, as well. :-)[/quote] Thank you! Looking foward to your expertly crafted sequences as usual :) Funny enough the staccato drums were an area I was a bit critical of. The were a choice that didn't translate as well I had hopped due to the transients being so agressive. "c'est la vie" I suppose. IDK if you are in the discord but feel free to give me a ping if you want. I imagine it would be fun "talking shop" as they say. [quote=emily][img]https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExbHZjZ2g4ZzU1azBiMWpvMTB6ZXRwYWJsb2RjZHl1bGwzbXQybGk5ZCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/Pvuf56bWDuEP6/giphy.gif[/img] happy new year ENC! you've got a lot swimming around in your head - feels familiar i like the energy of this track wishing you well on your life and music journey![/quote] <3 Happy NY to you too. Too much swimming, some might say sometimes :P Best to you as well! [quote=rayjkayj]Like this chilled acid sound. [/quote] [quote=GregVK]This is great! Love those quirky, out-of-tune plucks toward the end! Gorgeous sound design![/quote] [quote=Wisefire]Encowell back at it again, awesome! This is a great dreamy track! [/quote] [quote=MoreMistakes]Really nice layers here, great start to the year![/quote] [quote=lasko303]that acid line is tasty :) awesome tune, thanks for sharing![/quote] [quote=ocean palace]this has a really cool vibe. subtle but expressive, i liked it![/quote] [quote=mzunguko]WB26 let's go [img]https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExd3dlM3VwNXU5cXF1N3RlMXQ3YjUzZmk0bDNybzkyMnFxODBodWpoOSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/HNtm9TDgxGza8/giphy.gif[/img][/quote] [quote=RPLKTR]This subdued acid bass works very well against the yearning reverb-drenched melodies.[/quote] [quote=DEARDOE]woah I love the bassline and sound design for all the layers :o <3[/quote] [quote=blighters_rock]Bouncy and fun! I dig it[/quote] [quote=Minnamari]Lovely lighthearted vibes of this track but with depths below the surface [/quote] [quote=As_Yoesual]Lovely acid, lovely tunes, great track! Also, Hi! [/quote] Cheers and Thank you for listening to my submission. Can't wait to see what 2026 brings. Happy to share this supportive community with you all <3 :)

love the softness of the pads and melody against the sharp short percussion. Also shout out to using the modular on a WB! I have told myself I'm doing that at least once this year, and hearing you turn out this jam with the modular and the M8 is inspiring

love the softness of the pads and melody against the sharp short percussion. Also shout out to using the modular on a WB! I have told myself I'm doing that at least once this year, and hearing you turn out this jam with the modular and the M8 is inspiring

Nice bubbles n' plinks. I dig the little off-key bits in the lead melody.

Nice bubbles n' plinks. I dig the little off-key bits in the lead melody.

I use Discord sometimes, but it gets too busy for my brain. Prefer good old message boards better. :-)

But let's talk shop in here!

[quote=ENC_]Thank you! Looking foward to your expertly crafted sequences as usual :) Funny enough the staccato drums were an area I was a bit critical of. The were a choice that didn't translate as well I had hopped due to the transients being so agressive. "c'est la vie" I suppose. IDK if you are in the discord but feel free to give me a ping if you want. I imagine it would be fun "talking shop" as they say.[/quote] I use Discord sometimes, but it gets too busy for my brain. Prefer good old message boards better. :-) But let's talk shop in here!

Love the track but darn you for posting those videos because I am LOCKED IN and now I have to watch ALL OF THEM lol thanks for sharing!

SAME!

Love the track but darn you for posting those videos because I am LOCKED IN and now I have to watch ALL OF THEM lol thanks for sharing! [quote=Dank Receptor] I use Discord sometimes, but it gets too busy for my brain. Prefer good old message boards better. :-)[/quote] SAME!

Very tasteful groove and patching, adore the rhythmic play, clean mix, looking forward to hearing more!

Very tasteful groove and patching, adore the rhythmic play, clean mix, looking forward to hearing more!

nifty groove and touching tail 🫶🫶🫶

nifty groove and touching tail 🫶🫶🫶