Leikkuri "First Cuts" ongoing series (New track each month)

Hello Elektronauts !

LEIKKURI is my new experimental music project in which I’m stitching sonic Frankensteins with ripped pieces of Techno Industrial, Noise, IDM, Ambient, Drone, Experimental & Post-Punk.

It’s the early stage, and I still need to discover the “voice” of the project.
To do so, I decided to make and release 1 track every month.
The idea is to not overthink and just do music, wherever it takes me.
Those tracks will probably be quite different from each other, even though I’m very much into experimental dark techno these days. (Perc Trax, Stroboscopic Artefacts, French label “In Paradisum”, Kangding Ray, Container etc…)

When I’ll feel the project is mature enough to do more focused stuff (EPs, Albums), everything will be regrouped in an album called “First Cuts” that will represent the childhood of the project

Also, with each track, I’ll release a sample pack of the sounds I used to make the previous month track. The samples will be free to use as you want.
Read more about that here: http://cl.ly/400Q3y2B0W1R
I’ll be glad to hear what you do with them. :slight_smile:

Each month I’ll post the new track and sample pack here, with details on how I did the track, what I used (I own an Octatrack & Analog Four) etc…

Fell free to ask questions.
Feedback about the tracks is very welcome as well.

Thanks for listening !

Website: http://leikkuri-music.com
Mailing-List: http://tinyurl.com/l31kkur1
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/leikkuri-industries/

(“Leikkuri” means “cutter” in Danish btw… the name comes from a Pan Sonic track)

The release of the 1st track is scheduled 3/3/2014 but I released a “prequel” yesterday: Track 00, the well named “False Start”

false start |fɔls stɑrt|
noun
an invalid or disallowed start to a race, usually due to a competitor beginning before the official signal has been given.
• an unsuccessful attempt to begin something.


It’s kind of the weirdo of the pack since it mixes up so many influences & styles (from inviting whispers to distorted metal percussions) in the same track, but I guess it’s a good way to introduce the project even though the next tracks will be less « all over the place ».


You can also download it from Bandcamp in much higher quality (just enter an amount of 0): https://leikkuri.bandcamp.com/track/false-start

I’m afraid that the Elektron boxes weren’t use at all in this one, it was all done in Ableton. I bought a Push controller last November soooo…

Enjoy this one and see you on Monday for Track 01 + the sample pack of this one. :wink:

I’m (very) late posting this because it’s been out for a while now, but here is the 2nd track, which is the actual 1st track (do you read me ? :wink: ) of the First Cuts ongoing series.


This one is called “Mechanical Mystic

Of course, I’m even more late about the sample pack of the previous one, but its coming !

Here is the sample pack of “False Start”.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/njtt8ge4srrx2mz/00_False_Start__SamplePack.zip

Tell me if you end up doing something with those samples ! :wink:

Late again to post “First Cut” n°2: “Bang your head against the walls until you see God”:

The sea-sick synth inth e 2nd part courtesy of the Analog Four messed-up by a WMD Geiger Counter.

And the Sample Pack from Mechanical Mystic is now available here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/67jvl1x73v19bod/01.+Mechanical+Mystic_Sample+Pack.zip

Here’s First Cuts n°3: Pranayama.
Deep, ambient and glitchy techno.