Showing posts with label ELECTRONICA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ELECTRONICA. Show all posts

Friday, 30 December 2011

30.12.11 - DAY 364 - Failures (ft. Duke Special)



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Very late night SADFAY with the amazing Duke Special! Musing on failing epically. Come hear us perform this and other SADFAY classics tonight at the Black Box for the Song A Day For A Year - END OF YEAR EXTRAVAGANZA. See ya there!

Enjoy

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Wednesday, 28 December 2011

28.12.11 - DAY 362 - Stitch And Mend (ft. Katharine Philippa)



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I am very pleased to have had the chance to work with the amazingly talented Katharine Philippa tonight! Wait until you hear this track! So I started with a bit of a sweeping groove beat thing, followed by a couple of layers of toy glockenspiel, Philippa added keys and organ bass, then those awesome vocals! The lyrics she wrote have a few nice layers and meanings to them too. Lahvaley.

In her own words:
It was great to have the opportunity to work with Marty on one of his songs, which are written every single day, for a whole year. It's nice when two musical brains collide. Hopefully you will enjoy the music. If you want, you can go to these links: http://www.facebook.com/katharinephilippa or http://katharinephilippa.com/ to hear some of my solo work.

Enjoy

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Wednesday, 7 December 2011

07.12.11 - DAY 341 - My Beast



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A bit of a beastly one this. I started out playing some nice guitar chords. I was happy to call that take a finished song. That was about 9:30pm. I decided to explore some other sounds and grooves, just for fun. Things then got a lot deeper.

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Friday, 2 December 2011

02.12.11 - DAY 336 - Hype Meg



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It's Friiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiday... Some upbeats and ambience in an old skool kinda style.

Enjoy

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Thursday, 24 November 2011

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

27.11.11 - DAY 327 - Ether Drive Mounting (ft. 2ndMOUSE)



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A collaboration with electronic guru 2ndMOUSE tonight. I've been a fan of his music for a few years now, so it's quite cool to have had the chance to work with him!

A bit about 2ndMOUSE:
2ndMOUSE is about trying to achieve a balance between experimentation and melody , and using sounds and ideas in a different context to what they were originally meant for. I'm perfectly at home building a spaghetti western "dulcimer" and laying it over some french vocals, a bit of rap and an electro beat. No two tracks are ever the same.

For more info , point your browser to http://www.2ndMOUSEofficial.com for news,
and http://www.soundcloud.com/2ndMOUSE for the latest tracks.

Enjoy

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Saturday, 2 July 2011

02.07.11 - DAY 183 - A Box of Stars



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Aye, so big beats, PHAT bass and stuff. I ran out of time when working on the vocals, but this is a good step up from the quality of a lot of recent SADFAY tracks, so I'm fairly pleased!

Enjoy

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Wednesday, 29 June 2011

29.06.11 - DAY 180 - I'm Tired



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Started to play around with Max/MSP tonight, I was able to route some randomising stuff into Ableton, but that's about as far as I delved into custom made patches. Also, my brain is on about 20% capacity tonight, so this clash of screaming synths and jarring rhythmic mess will have to do y'all!

Enjoy

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Tuesday, 28 June 2011

28.06.11 - DAY 179 - Blame



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More piano based stuff, with some vocals and beats. A formula I'm enjoying quite a bit these days.

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Saturday, 25 June 2011

Friday, 24 June 2011

24.06.11 - DAY 175 - Pier Head



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Back in Mullaghmore for the weekend! This one starts crunchy and dark, then slips into a 3/4 piano and voice piece. Finally, back into the noise!

Enjoy

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Tuesday, 21 June 2011

21.06.11 - DAY 172 - Do Monkeys Wonder?



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Today's track is a collaboration with the fairly amazing John D'Arcy.
http://johndarcy.com/ John played a few chords and licks on Spanish guitar that we chopped up and arranged into a bank of samples. We spent a while deciding how to loop, pitch and arrange those samples, then laid down beats and vocals on top. Lots of glitchy re-sampling and 'random' type chunks also pepper the arrangement. John seems to have a flair with abstract lyric writing, where does he get his crazy ideas from?

Enjoy

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Monday, 20 June 2011

20.06.11 - DAY 171 - Sweet Song Don't Fail Me



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A big string pad and big chords, to reflect how I feel. Some sombre over-processed vocals, in reference to the struggle for clear communication. A slow song to soothe, or to reflect the need for a good night's sleep.

Enjoy

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Saturday, 18 June 2011

18.06.11 - DAY 169 - Apologies Twiccepted




Pretty chuffed with this track. The words are taken from random Tweets with the word "sorry" in them. The music is made up of some nice 'music box' type notes, which I layered up a bit, with different settings, to separate the parts. I added some tinkle-y extra stuff, then processed the feck out of it (as one does). That section is quite pleasing and soft! The next section was actually created first and was where I spent the most time: GLITCH-KRIEG!! (Actually, I must use that as a song title for a future SADFAY!!). A tiny bit of drum-and-the-bass at the end. Robert's your father's brother!

Enjoy

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Monday, 13 June 2011

13.06.11 - DAY 164 - Eromhgallum



So, we made it from Galway, all the way to Mullaghmore. Today's track was arranged and then pitch shifted and reversed (a bit). I found a nice piano patch in Reason and recorded a couple of sounds around the bungalow. Thanks to Andrew for the photo and creative input!

Enjoy

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Wednesday, 8 June 2011

08.06.11 - DAY 159 - Lynch Mob



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Tonight I felt like taking my time. I decided to just play piano for a couple of hours and enjoy that. The song writing came along at a slow pace. And that was just fine. It was very therapeutic. I think / hope I'm getting better at adding subtlety to my songs, as I feel the vocals and beats just sit right, not too overpowering or taking away from any other element.

Enjoy

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Tuesday, 7 June 2011

07.06.11 - DAY 158 - I'll Tell You What It Is Mate



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I like the new Radiohead album, King of Limbs, in terms of production. To me, there are a couple of fairly obvious influences for that sound: Four Tet and Caribou. Still, it's a real pleasure to hear how Radiohead have pretty much stripped away all notions of a band in the traditional sense: There are few obvious instrument parts that play out through the songs, (with a couple of exceptions, such as Codex), instead the songs are a big mash up of off-kilter rhythms and layers of sampled bits and pieces. It can sound somewhat chaotic at times, yet there is rarely anything close to a cacophony. It's like a trick: Things sound messy and full, without becoming tiring. It's very organic and I love this approach, as I have always done with Four Tet and Caribou! Whether it's Radiohead's best collection of songs, is a different debate, but anyway, I thought I'd have a go at this particular 'messy-but-controlled' sample heavy type of arrangement.

Enjoy

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Monday, 30 May 2011

30.05.11 - DAY 150 - Skinz



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Today's track plays with a variety of percussion samples and some moody strings. I kept this track a slow builder and padded out with some squelchy synth action for added atmosphere. It's something that would hopefully sit well in a computer game or a movie soundtrack, perhaps something set in a jungle, with machines... Or something.

Enjoy

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Saturday, 28 May 2011

28.05.11 - DAY 148 - Fightin' Talk



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Today's piece was a collaboration between myself and Crawfty. Along with the voices of some friends in Ryan's bar, recorded earlier today. The Craic was mighty and this tune captures the atmosphere (we hope). In memory of Henry Cooper.

Enjoy

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