gesceap - monitor serve (ilzxc remix) - ilzxc

gesceap - monitor serve (ilzxc remix)

By ilzxc on July 10, 2022 11:58 pm

Remix / reproduction of Gesceap's Monitor Serve.

› Let's talk about gesceap for a second

‹ Let's talk about gesceap for a second

I don't know exactly when I followed gesceap on twitter, but it was before WB. I bought a Nanoloop FM and followed Oliver Wittchow (its maker), which led to twitter algorithms doing something useful: it surfaced a gesceap's response to "list your DAWs in chronological order" and Gesceap's list ended with Nanoloop. There's no universe where that alone is not worth an instant follow.

I was a gesceap fan before Trash80's mailing list informed me about WB -- and it also took a week or two to realize gesceap was on WB. That's kind of like accidentally running into Autechre on an online forum: act cool you must, but there's a nontrivial part of you that doesn't want to. Not in an uncool, drooling fan way (gesceap may beg to differ), but in a "I know your stuff, I love your stuff" kind of way.

I spent the whole of last week mostly looking at gesceap's nanoloop file for Monitor Serve--what I want to get from the remix project is not content as much as an excuse to properly digest work I admire, and remixes are as good of a forcing function as any. Spartan is a good word to use for gesceap's means of music making, but not the music itself: in Monitor Serve, layered copies of unique timbres play similar patterns for a unique phasing / chorusing effect. These doubling are remarkable and inspiring (e.g. the mono/stereo components for chords split across two different tracks of barely differentiated sounds).

I'm not particularly interested in spending much time reflecting on the remix itself, but it's important to point out that I could not make that initial bass appearance slap anything like the original. :]

Thanks for your permission to let me to do this, @gesceap.

› A mini-guide to gesceap's tunes

‹ A mini-guide to gesceap's tunes

As a proud owner of gesceap's currently available discography, I really wanna say ALL OF IT and eff off to do the next remix, but here are some links to some of my favorites from gesceap's WB22 so far w/ shortest review I could muster:

* love this
* love how beautiful this is
* ayyyyyy, love this
* not a fan of 2022, love this tho
* love this also

Bandcamp highlights:

* Smilzo (from Fools)
* Nonna Meal (from Sonic Desert EP)
* Deadsnare1654 (from Prime 16)
* Workout (from minima)
* Dpbt01 (from Novum)
* Grvit01 (from Default)

› Project Files

‹ Project Files

This track was made using Elektron Analog Rytm mk2 (bass / drums) and Elektron Analog Four mk2 (chords / lead).
The project is more disorganized than the usual M8 work and was assembled piecemeal in Ableton out of A4/AR recordings using Overbridge (multitrack over USB).

In the spirit of Gesceap and IPAGhost's exemplary open-sourcing their work, I am making the following available from my Google Drive

* Project Files for Analog Four and Analog Rytm
* A zip of all the drum samples used in the track (can also be obtained by unzipping the Analog Rytm project file)
* 6 bounced stems: A4 keys / AR bass / Gesceap's samples / A4 chords / AR drums / SubLab Bass
* The complete Ableton Live Project file containing all recordings / files (and plugins that will probably be missing).

TODO: more stuff to share, this will be removed once things are added.

Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)

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Tags: analog four, analog rytm, week 27 2022, View by:ilzxc

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July 11, 2022 12:41 am

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sounds HUGE. amazing work ethic.

I don't know how you got all these crazy glassy sounds with that gear but they're excellent. the transitions with the pads are delicious.

go get some rest!!