The fantastic cptr have put out a cassette release of my project titled bloom. There’s a short teaser for it below for the type of thing you can expect.
Here’s the release:
It’s kind of a significant one for me, particularly in relation to here and the old elektron-users forum, as I went back to my Monomachine and Machinedrum roots… I’ll add some detail to this thread about that as and when, but think of it as a 20 year anniversary for my Monomachine love.
More to come…
Friday’s the day it seems - I’ll update in due course, and probably waffle on about the process/meaning/approach before that…
In a nutshell this started out as a celebration of my 20 years of owning the sfx6; I added a couple of other close friends to the party for the end result…
Monomachine, Machinedrum UW and E-Mu modular on sound duties.
Ooh, it came early!
Words to follow…
Right, so it’s out and for whatever reason it’s significant to me in that Jan has seen through the process of putting out a first physical release for me. Buy it and support his label!
The other significance is that I went back to my roots for this one, in that it started off as me celebrating 20 years of Monomachine SFX6 ownership. Ultimately, for musical reasons I decided to add the MDUW and E-Mu modulars to the party, but it felt very much like a return to how I made music in the old days…
Some of the Monomachine patterns on this had evolved/tweaked their way through that 20 year period - I think one of these might have evolved from an @nils original preset!
It was a pretty hectic approach to putting them down into tracks - I tried to work fast a fluid, with all but one section* a live record first take… even the sequence arranging was haphazard!
Output wise I’ll let others be the judge, really I’m rambling just to mark the occasion of 20 years of owning what remains to be the most inspirational box of tricks I’ve ever owned… I could rinse that SFX6 for another 20 years and still find new tricks!
(*made a mess of it first time!)
Congrats on the release @tIB ! That’s certainly a nice occasion to celebrate with a release. Nice to know that you still find inspiration in the old silver boxes.
Looking forward to listening to this 
Thanks man, if/when you get there see if you spot the (fairly obvious) preset sound and whether I remembered correctly. It was either yours or Daniel’s…
Just listened through the whole album, many capticating atmospheres and timbres. Nice work!
I didn’t notice any immediately familiar sounds, so maybe Daniel was the responsible
Ta very much for listening - the hope is there’s enough going on to keep it interesting enough!
A pretty thing:
that’s fantastic! and very inspiring! Congrats, and thanks for sharing
These two long-form pieces are far too complex and laced with so many layers to discover that it’s hard to find words for them.
funny, and true! Let’s try
I would say it’s like slowly wandering through different rooms on a labyrinth shaped exhibition at a museum, except it’s not a museum but more like a confused dream with unexpected surprises. And you’re not wandering, you’re very much being taken for a stroll - definitely not a place prone to holding on, elements sneak out quickly.
Yup, fantastic stuff, glitchy but musical.
Thanks very much, I’ll take that!
I’m dreadful at writing about the stuff I make - not even sure on genre half the time. It was nice to have someone else write something for this one.
And with your take I’m glad you found surprises - I always like things that take me somewhere unexpected when I listen, and the worry with my approach is that it can a bit samey/ploddy at its worst… I hope that this is not that!