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NEW DESK, DAMMIT!

Got a new desk today.  Bought it at Target.  It was called a “writing desk”.  The guy at the check out counter said, “New writing desk eh?  Doing some writing?”

I said, “Nope!  Proppin’ up some synthesizers.”

He said, “Oh!  Musician?”

I said, “Where?!”

FUN!
Korg Volca’s (3) Beats, Bass, and Keys with the Electribe Sampler.

Got it all set up, wired everything into the little black 4 channel rolls powered mixer (in the upper right) and marveled at how much living room space I have reclaimed because of the new desk.

FUN!
Yay! More living room space and more toys actively connected!

I connected the sync cables for the 3 volca’s.  I have not synced them to the electribe YET.  Just for giggles to test them out, I hit play on the pattern on the Beats, then play on the pattern on the Bass and was amazed at how the 2, completely independently created Beats and Bass sequences, magically worked together, now that they were sync’d for the first time.  I did a corny key’s diddle on top just for fun’zys.  Check it out!  It’s called Ode To A New Desk.

Like they used to say on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, More to Come!!!!

MORE TO COME!!!
MORE TO COME!!!

 

Korg Volca Beats FREAKOUT!!!

Shake your ass off! Entirely! Till the tape melts at the end!!!
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Korg Volca Bass FREAKOUT!!!

Might as well get it all out of my system…

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Rain Keys

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Using the Orion Sound Module v1.1 for Win 10×64 VST on the Frost Piano setting soaking wet in haunting reverb. The rests were intentional in places, and in other places to change the setting. Neat sound. Better in headphones. Fun to play. Lonely, big, wet, grey, rainy.

The Jam That Wont Quit! Funk Ola 1 !!!

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This was all done on the Korg Electribe Sampler. (I haven’t given it a name yet. It’s labeled as Funk Ola1″ on the Electribe).

The track I made was influenced by the bass line in the following song by Kamasi Washington.

Loneliness + Holiday Blues = Wooda Womp El Grande

This has been sitting on the Electribe for months. I figured I’d let the Adobe Audition run and just groove around with it and just let my holiday and seasonal depression disorder flow through the trigger pads. This, of course, created the magic or madness I’ve named the “Wooda Womp El Grande”.

This is an image that I think best describes the song (if it had a video, this animation would be it).  This would also describe how I feel after being sick with the flu for 2 weeks and the holidays coming up:

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The Stinky Finger Boogie

Extend your finger and GIT DOWN!!!!

I used the Korg Electribe on this one. Sure to be a hit with a bullet! Right up da charts with The Stinky Finger!

(Move over Taylor Spears or whatever her name is).

The animated gif of Donald Trump (below) is intended to go to the beat of the song. Stare into his cold, dead, good, talented, sensational, strong, rich, and successful eyes, as you shake your stinky finger.

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GreedyBot: I’m Keeping This (This One is Mine)

Fooling around with the Electribe Sampler 2 and Plogue Alter Ego this evening (hell, it’s better than drinking in DC).
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Here’s the result:

Another Musical Loss: Dieter Moebius Passed Away Today.

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This has been a very difficult year for me musically.  Another favorite of mine has passed.  This time it is Dieter Moebius.  He is from the German electronic collective known as Cluster and Harmonia.  I have highlighted their stuff before on here:

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Here’s a live concert video with Michael Rother. Wonderful music.

Here are some of my most favorite tracks:

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Deluxe (Immer Wieder) – I love this track like crazy. Total genius!

Dieter Moebius was one of these electronic music pioneers who sat behind a table of boxes and wires and made some of the wildest crazy noises anyone has ever heard.  I have most of his work in my collection.  I listen to it a lot when I’m in that Kraftwerk and Can sort of musical mood.  His music inspires me to make electronic noises of my own.  I think of him fondly when I create stuff for CHOB and Hozpitality.

This year has been very painful for my musical taste.  Everyday we lose another and we are left with the crap that passes for musical entertainment that floats around today. Honor this man, and make some funny musical noises today!