More than two years ago, I bought a µFreak, it is easily the most fun synth I’ve had in 30 years… but I had a few thoughts…
So, I had a conversation with the brilliant welcoming people at Arturia.
That ended up with me being quite deeply involved in the development of this absolutely superb instrument.
The Arturia miniFreak, If your a synth geek, I definitely recommend checking it out.
And the lovely Loopop seems to like it !
just more chilled noise
“Thanks. I dig this. It’s spacious and succinct at the same time, It’s got a Bill Laswell vibe a bit.”
Just very VERY poorly edited (NeedleDrop) set of moments from a 2 and a half hour improvisational session with Patrick Higgins, aka… Badrico.
We are both contributing synthetics, and percussion etc… Patrick via a wind controller and keys, (I think), im playing Bass, El guitar, µFreak and percussion and sound effects.
Mix is a mess because its a live performance and we have to manage as we go…
Just Hit Play: and trance out for 23 mins.
Or… if your a sucker for punishment, or need a longer time out…
The 90 min version, Still some bad edits…
THIS,(link) is brilliant use of Scot Rails release of its announcement audio.The samples are all HERE! https://scotrail.datasette.io/scotrail/announcements
Just to prove how great humans CAN be!
Some serious skills from Badrico, Foid, SlowGaffle and … me.
New graphic from @XTOTL & me: let's make wearing a mask as natural as popping on a seatbelt! pic.twitter.com/EydrKToPqy
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So back in1989 a friend (C Giles) and i did a STEINSKY inspired track, all done on a Tascam 4 track cassette, Ensoniq, SQ80, a DX7 and an Akai S900. We created a beat track, then performed the rest in live to tape then sampled bits of the radio news reports as it was coming in live.
The way the reporter was expressing totally justifiable fear, (understandable) but also some indignation that he was not ‘TOLD’ really spoke volumes about US entitlement!
We finished the track 45 mins after the news report had ended ran off a normal cassette and walked down to the national radio station, 2JJ.
We told the on air DJ what we had done, and he playefd it (unlistend) to Australia 10 mins later. One of the best experiences of my musical production life.
THIS WAS IT:
