The Polyend Tracker Mini is a magical little device that’s forcing me to approach music in a different way. Typically it uses very short samples in an almost multisampling context, but here I’ve pushed it to use longer voice samples from my ever-growing library of 70s TV commercial snippets that I’m preparing for my hauntology project.
The ‘Uh huh!’/’Cool clean taste’ bit is from a 1971 Certs commercial, and it’s deliciously mangled using the PT Mini’s granular engine. ‘Purely For Pleasure’, believe it or not, is taken from a 1971 Butterfinger commercial! The laugh you hear was from a CB radio transmission I captured over the holidays. The broken melody is just a Euclidean sequence I used to fill out the bar.
Anyway, it’s a fun little track that is a harbinger of weirder stuff to come. Stay tuned, space cadets!
my new Fysen EP releases this Friday and today we gonna have a listen party on Bandcamp. It will start at 7pm CET (Berlin) time. I will be available in the chat, if you wanna join please check here:
If you are into industrial / dark electro music and/or sci-fi / horror movies and/or sampling, but missed the usenet era, do you know this awesome list started by Peter Cigéhn in
rec.music.industrial?
That was such an awesome source of knowledge and fun.
Enjoy ☺️
"Every time someone visits SonicGarbage, it performs a YouTube search with randomly generated phrases to discover videos. It then downloads these videos, processes their audio, and converts them into two formats ready for sampling: one-shot and loop."
Der Bundesgerichtshof legt dem Europäischen Gerichtshof Fragen dazu vor, ob #Sampling unter die urheberrechtliche Erlaubnis für #Pastiche fällt. Damit geht der wohl älteste Rechtsstreit des #Urheberrecht, Metall auf Metall, in die nächste Runde. Die Fragen sind so komisch formuliert, dass es danach sicher weitere Instanzenzüge gibt, aber sie erlauben dem EuGH grundsätzliche Ausführungen zu Pastiche zu machen. https://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2023/2023157.html
#OTD July 25, 1989
Beastie Boys release their second album, “Paul’s Boutique”
Before this, I was lukewarm on the Beastie Boys. Some of the songs on their first album had some pretty cool rock samples, but for the most part I found them mostly annoying purveyors of jock rap.
That all changed almost immediately the day Paul’s Boutique dropped. I was in college, a radio dj, and working at a record store. Perfect timing. We’d play this album constantly in the store, and over a great sound system, so I got familiar with it quickly.
Groundbreaking use of samples, clever lyrics, and some really cool beats thanks to their new production partners, The Dust Brothers. I was so glad they remastered this back in 2009.
When did you first hear this album? How do you compare it to their other albums?
My usual instinct coming from a #tracker / #MPC background is to sequence everything, but the SP is all about adding effects and re-sampling. In the end I'm using my other gear a lot more to make samples on the fly (and sampling youtube/tiktok straight from the phone of course)
The SP is great because it's very focused – it doesn't try to do everything. I sold my MPC Live because it felt like using a computer and I already have one of those.