HEY PARTY PEOPLE WHERE YOU ARE AT?!

a $5 bottle of chardonnay really brings out the bad minimal techno producer in me, so i was sketching some sine-wave-and-miscellaneous-drumkits loops in ableton live tonight & just decided to hit record and start improvising.

i started with a few synths tuned in a way that i liked, effects sends configured and various parameters mapped to my midi controller, and five simple loops (two drum patterns and three synth patterns). after i played these elements out, i just started duplicating+editing them live. so about 50% to %66.666666666666666666666666 of this recording is programmed/sequenced live without a net (and no edits). all the effects+pattern changes are live.

the title of this recording is "somebody wants to have a party with you" because i came home from work tonight at about 11,30pm ready to shake my ass and drink glowstick juice, but everyone was asleep.

computer about it.

(hartz|hertz)
jake

see you at the drum circle bro

i just got a k-rad new usb/midi interface in the mail. also i have been playing with telephone-pickup recordings of computers.

this is a 23-minute improvisation using the midi controller and short loops of electromagnetic emissions from the guts of my thinkpad. i've been listening to a lot of ricardo villalobos who while making a record typically can't be bothered to change a parameter every 3 minutes, so this set is pretty slow, dubby and static-y, kicks at 126bpm and sounds like basic channel meets sleeping pills.

i call it 'college band' because it makes me think of three 17-year-olds with dreadlocks sitting on a couch beneath a jim morrison poster and talking about philosophy. maybe we're all just like bugs in a jar, bro...a jar labeled 'techno.'

put it in your drive

(hartz|hertz)
jake

a restricted palette

i've been *listening* a lot and i'm really stuck right now between this tight, uncompromisingly minimal shit on trapez etc (especially SLG/lukasz seliga) and this flood of lush, grimy disco shit from france/uk from the last year or whatever (la priest, justice).

this set-fragment is closer to the minimal+synthetic side. i made the material in this set in an effort to break free from all my disco habits, but there's still some tension there i think & it's really kind of awkward. the only samples here are 909+808, plus a certain iconic OS sound early on.

this is not strictly new; i sent it out to some folx a few weeks ago. but the juice is slow the last few days so i thought i'd post it here to keep this blog fresh.

download 'er

(hartz|hertz)
jake

broccoli werewolf

this is made to flow naturally from the last track (ie mixed); as such it starts very sparsely but quickly.

i changed my pitch up & used a handful of analog synths alongside samples from berlin (ie 'the metro').

i'd like to say something about how i have slept a cumulative 1.5 hours in the last 2 days, wrote this track in the last 2 hours and have just now switched from PBR to Jim Beam (having rebooted drinking since my last terminally banal meeting of the day ended 12 hours ago), but i think these autobiographical details may only detract from the awesome purity of your experience in listening to my masterpiece of 21st century composition 'broccoli werewolf'. thanks malcatraz for the track title.

lol download

(hartz|hertz|hurlz),
jake

attack ships on fire off the junk of orion

ok this track is getting kind of long and just winding up - maybe it's a good intro? almost entirely sampled from starship's 'sara', with some synth basslines and 808 mixed in.

teh download

(hartz|hertz)
jake