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