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Okay, this week I again had very little time. I decided to just rush and finish an lsdj project I was playing with. Obviously, I am still a beginner with lsdj and this was more something I created to try out various things than with concrete idea for a track in mind. It will have to do.

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heat wave is relentless

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dirtywave m8 tracker & fors/lo-bit club fms on analogue pocket & moog dfam & analog heat +fx

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Yes, the UK is due to get a ton of hot air from Africa for the next couple of weeks, so it's going to be sleepless nights and mega-irritability in this home.

Anyway, I sort of got a bit bored of this one. I like the initial idea, and wanted it much more stripped down than how it came out. I may try it again.

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Funny origin for this track. I wrote a small loop but was not pleased with it. So I decided to divide the tempo by to (ending up at 10.3bpm) and suddenly there was something that inspired me! Something slow and breathing, moving between different places.

The m8 tracker is not perfectly designed to work in that bpm range, but that's what make it interesting. Constraints = creativity blablabla. Had to use a table to insert a note because the phrase resolution was too low :)

I always do a final listen of the .mp3 file, and there are always a few tiny details lacking compared to listening with the m8. There is quite a lot of data lost when when converting from the .wav!

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I wanted to do more, but it is too hot!

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Hard, brutal rhythmic noise techno excerpt from my first live set in 22+ years. Well, from my last rehearsal jam before my set... as I haven't received the footage from the actual event yet. But I did something broadly similar. I loaded up a few samples, and pre-programmed a handful of patterns on my Elektron Analog Rytm. To have some basic building blocks to improvise with. Holy moly, that thing absolutely slays on a big club system. The kick pushed some serious air! Which  was fun!!

The event itself was the Pulsar Showcase. An open mic for (electronic) music. Where you had a 30 minute slot to do what you want. Very diverse line-up. With me definitely having the gnarliest sound. lol.

I was on 2nd to last act at midnight. There were people on the dance floor when I started. And there were still people on the dance floor when I finished my set. That wasn't the case for all performances. So I guess I did okay? But I have no idea how the audience experienced my music. As they were filming the event and put bright lights in front of my face. So I couldn't see the dark dance floor.

Anyway, it was fun to do! It was good to really focus on the Analog Rytm again. That thing is brutal as fuck! If there is another event like this I'm definitely signing up.

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Sometimes I don’t think sampling is the right way to do justice to music that I truly love. I prefer to let it flow as the musicians originally intended, in its complete and unaltered form. Of course, it is not my music, and I have to respect that.

In this case, I worked with a rehearsal recording by Zyma, a German psychedelic jazz-krautrock band from the 1970s. My friend Günther gave me a collection of their old tapes, which had been lying forgotten in his basement and slowly deteriorating for almost fifty years. The tape – and especially this track – turned out to be a real treasure. I invested a great deal of time and effort into restoring the recording and bringing it back to life.

These were merely rehearsal jams by Zyma and were never intended for release. Nevertheless, I fell in love with this piece. To create an atmosphere that gently draws the listener into the music, I added some subtle, Pink Floyd–esque ambient textures at the beginning. From there, the track unfolds and develops in a direction quite different from where it originally started.

I am proud to have helped preserve and revive a wonderful piece of music created by a group of fascinating musicians from my hometown.

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