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Formless Matter

By impbox on March 17, 2024 1:18 pm

Live take with no pre-existing patterns, all notes added/removed/tweaked live.

Analog Four and Volca Drum with FX via Octatrack.

A4 doing the main drums: 1. Kick, 2. Rumble, 3. Hats, 4. Percussion
Volca Drum providing some extra strange sounds, mostly randomly generated and then tweaked.
These both going into the Octatrack providing clock and compression, delays, reverbs.

Wanted to do try doing something without melody or harmony and focus on rhythm for a change and push myself to work quickly and come up with stuff on the fly.

Took quite a few takes until I got something I liked, most of the earlier attempts were way too long because I lost track of time, so I had to set up a timer so I'd have a sense of when to end things.

So cool! Love that this was all done live. 

Percussivetastic textures. That rumble rumbles and kick kicks. Seriously dope beat.

Definitely an interesting exercise! Focusing on the percussive element sounds good to me. It definitely allows for interesting evolution there, and indeed, the track sees more variation in terms of drums than techno usually goes for. I'd say this is a success!

Bubbly
- Ebrit

Some great sounds on this, this sounds like it was meticulously programmed, so awesome that it was done in one take, great idea/experiment to focus on the percussive elements

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