listening to the list in the background as i relax on a sunday afternoon … so far my favorites are #6-9. nice vibey ambient techno, which is right up my alley tastewise. reminds me pleasantly of tracks i’d hear on subsource.de’s mixes back in the early oughts.
i’m listening through cheap speakers, but fwiw there are a few spots (midsection of sketch 7, for example) where i think some of the higher-pitched percussion is mixed a bit too loud. that’s the only thing i’d suggest checking if you decide to polish these up and multitrack, as i hope you will.
@dubathonic
thanks for your feedback! as i was starting listening to electronic mid 90s like you, there were quite plenty of good netlabels with ambient/techno like thinner and autoplate from germany. i gues i was influenced by them, and many others. nevertheless, you are right as for the high frequencies coming in too loud/harsh. this is when tweaking goes a bit out of hand… .maybe ill polish the recordings and track them down again.
@kippertoffee
thanks mate, means alot when people like music outside of their hometown
I’m sitting in the studio right now, you are right about the high percussion. Some of it actually is to loud, pretty nasty needles and shards there, ouch.
These sound lovely. I’m on crappy internet right now so can’t play them reliably, so am partially writing this as a reminder to myself to come back when I have a better connection and listen to more!
Love the atmosphere on number 7. Inspired me to try a similar vibe.
A jam from this night. Started by trying out the new DSI Pro2 update (lin. FM) and ended up in balancing to some other gear (Avalon for Bassline, MD for hats, Matrix 1000 for pad, Mbase11 for kick)
My only “critical ears” feedback would be that the “hissyn noisy damaged tape” effect that seems to be pervasive on the master mix is probably too music, and often doesn’t allow the nice air in the minimalistic music breath - since it is ever present. I’d just drop it all.
These are live performances direct to tape? Awesome! Do you perform these out at venues? If so - where? So great to see others do this kind of thing live!
Thanks for the Feedback mzero. Yes, the hiss is too loud. Maybe due to some hearing problems on the left ear after a bike crash…another story. But for some specific vibe i love hiss, crackle etc. I did sample some runoutgrooves from my vinyls for this. I do sometimes play live, which means totally live without computer and reprogrammed patterns. I love this, but mostly I work in the studio. Sometimes with a friend. I’m from freiburg, Germany.