Jamuary 2023

MilesKvndra · 2023-01-31T19:00:08.295Z

Hey Elektronauts,
I hope you are all well and enjoying the rest of Jamuary! Here comes my contribution for this year’s Jamuary - unfortunately the only one as I recently worked on my hybrid synthesizer setup where I use Ableton Live in combination with the Digitone, Digitakt and some other hardware devices too. It took me some time to get this going and I’m still refining the setup but it feels good to put the first jam finally out - hope you dig it too!

Cheers and have a great rest of the week,
Miles

Oxenholme · 2023-01-31T20:38:16.616Z

31! Made it all the way through Ending on a bit of a chill note. Resampled yesterday’s jam into something new and noodled some guitar on top. All OT. See you next year!

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Affectionate-Bee-781 · 2023-01-31T20:52:18.924Z

A beautiful month, thank you all

no-thanks · 2023-01-31T22:09:05.500Z

Lil boomy, but we did it, folks! I missed three days, but still ended up with 31 jams. All in all I’d say this was a really nice Jamuary, and I had a great time playing along with all of you. Definitely learned a lot about the gear I have and how I like to work.

Here’s my playlist of all of the Jamuary recordings:

I was initially thinking I’d go back and refine some of these, but I think what will probably happen instead is I’ll just keep filling up my Elektron boxes with patterns in their current projects and see what keeps coming out of that.

Annihilation_Squares · 2023-02-01T02:19:14.028Z

With this I cross the finish line.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGkXAiAZF_/

BLKrbbt · 2023-02-01T02:33:11.384Z

Hey all,

We did it.

I am very proud of everyone who submitted, even if it was just once or twice.

Sinner6 · 2023-02-01T02:37:02.070Z

just under the wire:

Annihilation_Squares · 2023-02-01T03:25:54.286Z

Alrighty then. Now that I don’t have to polish these dang turds every day I can finally register some thoughts. First of all that opener was a joke. Yesterday was the only day that I truly felt like I was forced to make the best of a weak idea. It’s not horrible either, just not very nifty.

I’m surprised that I’m not really suffering any burnout. I suppose the only real difference was the pressing of record and the sharing. 99% of days I am hotknobbin’ the crap out of these poor devices so that all felt very normal. But I’m only used to showing anybody anything once a week and the daily release (of sorts) was a great way to loosen up.

It was great to focus on the Digitakt and Micromonsta 2. They are both deceptively simple and yet offer endless nooks and crannies in which to get dirty and explore. I did eventually get tired of MM2 and broke out the Circuit Mono Station instead. It was great to reconnect with that thing. It was my first ‘big boy synth’ after a Pocket Operator and a Volca. I find it to sound gorgeous and it’s a pleasure to use.

Some points I need to ponder: How do I end a song in a cool way without resorting to fading echo shenanigans? I seem to be kinda stuck on that. When should a song be simple because it sounds best that way and when should it be simple because I need to go to fucking bed? How does one actually use a Retroverb Lancet? That thing is a mysterious box of difficult to tame rowdiness to me.

It was hard to go to work, socialize, make my music and listen to all of yours. But I did it!! I listened to every last thing you fine people posted. It was shockingly good. Some of y’all are so advanced with it one would think you’d prepared extensively in advance. I know that’s not the case but some of these jammers sounded seriously pro and gave me lots to aspire to. Overall the whole thing’s been very inspirational and I want to thank all of you for sharing in here. Lastly, to @big_job_head, that pixel art is gorgeous so thanks for that too.

I think I’m looking forward to next year?

AphexEscher4422 · 2023-02-01T03:34:10.637Z

Congrats, y’all - we made it!! So proud to have finished a second Jamuary, and so grateful for all of the beautiful and inspiring music you’ve all shared this month. So many of you directly inspired me to hit record for another day! Truly so grateful to be a part of this community

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schoolbabyboy · 2023-02-01T04:34:43.839Z

got my final jam here. over the course of this exercise i feel like i went back to my “electronic blues” roots i used to joke around about. i love noodling weird sloppy synth lines over a beat, soothes my soul something special. and as always the m8 kicks ass

protrusion · 2023-02-01T06:34:15.718Z

happy last day everybody. what an adventure! enjoyed listening to others’ tracks.

jamuary 2023 - 31 ‘gurgling feelings’ - c64 mssiah + AK + roland s-330

what have i learned? i’ve learned that i’m destined to continue making chiptune+budget sega saturn game+lowbrow VHS rental+mid-90s rephlex outtakes music for the rest of my time on earth. and that i will need to dedicate more than 2 hours if i want to use song/arranger mode(s).

protrusion · 2023-02-01T06:36:21.604Z

schoolbabyboy:

got my final jam here.

that track slams.

big_job_head · 2023-02-01T10:00:20.857Z

Thanks a lot :), to be fair midjourney did most of the work ^^ but it was nice to have an image reference. It forced me to go to places i would not been without them.

Anyway : congrats to all who have produced and share their jams! once more i’ve heard some amazing stuffs done in no time! Jamuary is so refreshing i look forward for next year!

fl3shb4ck · 2023-02-01T13:12:45.329Z

The whole month. That was fun.

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Clarke_111 · 2023-02-01T16:43:22.470Z

Well done all!! I’ve not had the most successful of Jamuarys - having made it through every day in 2022 I’ve been a bit hit and miss this year, think I managed about half. I’m ok with that though.

It’s been great to hear some of your efforts as well, as ever some really inspiring stuff on here. Great work all!

elxsound · 2023-02-01T17:20:40.108Z

Still have to go back and listen to several days worth of jams, but congrats to everyone here!

I couldn’t finish the month out, but I loved the experience from participating and I think I learned what needed from it (or hope I did).

Anyone planning on building from what was done in January?

My brother and I are planning to sift through what we did, hopefully flesh out full length tracks and possibly put together an EP. It probably won’t be more than 4 tracks, but the goal is to finish by the end of February.

dhunterrr · 2023-02-02T18:02:06.352Z

Final jam, which I’m really proud of actually.

Video includes some epic mountains that inspired the music.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoKpfOigEpa/?igshid=MWI4MTIyMDE=

Annihilation_Squares · 2023-02-02T18:41:46.152Z

elxsound:

Anyone planning on building from what was done in January?

I saved nothing! Not even so much as one sample or preset. I will definitely use things learnt during the past month to up my game from here on out though :0)

elxsound · 2023-02-02T19:11:52.167Z

Damn! was that on purpose!?! I liked what I heard… I still need to go back and listen. I’m not the right head space to make music or listen to others objectively but I’ll get back there very soon but I remember one that was noisy or chaotic. I liked it.

Annihilation_Squares · 2023-02-02T19:29:17.976Z

It was on purpose. I deleted the patterns etc right after I recorded. Which is why many of my little insta videos had my sketchbooks instead of live video. But I’m a composition machine and I’ll just make more.

I would actually advise against going back and listening in this thread. Everything I linked is just a phone mic recording and sounds all crummy. I did full proper recordings of every jam and will be putting them up on the bandcamp (always free!) every Friday morning. I did post this in the Share Your Tunes thread but it’s relevant here so here is the actual recording from the 1st. As far as ‘mastering’ goes just it’s HP and LP filters from Tokyo Dawn Nova EQ and limiting from their Limiter6. These jams exist exactly as they were recorded live to two track stereo and I have no intention (and even less time!) to fuck with them any further.

The recording from Jamuary 2nd will be posted tomorrow at the same place for those interested.