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groove box recordings

 

This is mostly my new homemade groove box and 2 effect pedals , these short pieces are cut out of longer sessions .It was hot July and August so these are recorded usually early in the morning ,or late in the evenings .In this collection there are 9 short pieces .

Compilation

This is a compilation i made 2 years ago sometime in October 2023 .There are 36 short excerpts from various electronic and electroacoustic artists that sum up to around 9 minutes . Here is the full playlist :

1.irr. app. (ext.) Ozeanische Gefühle - 1 2.Taku Sugimoto 3. doremilogy 2.12 [taku sugimoto 2007] 4.Obst, Michael - Kristallwelt - 1983-86 - Part I, II, III + Intermède 5.Harold Budd - Jane 7 6.Gordon Mumma Pontpoint(1966-1980) 7.Robin Hayward, Rhodri Davies & Taku Unami 8.Z'ev - KPFK 9. Mandolini Ricardo 10.Natasha Barret -1 11. Vaggione, Horacio - Thema - 1985 - sax baixo e tape - 1 12.Ivo Malec - Actuor (1983) 13.irr. app. (ext.) - Their Little Bones - 2 14. Kiyoshi Mizutani, Hideaki Shimada & Kiyoharu Kuwayama 15. Tom Djll 16. Eva Perouk-Auto Da Fé-La Semaine D'Une Somnambuliste Unlikely Records URT96 `85 17.Lionel Marchetti, Yôko Higashi - Pétrole (2009) 18.Robin Hayward, Rhodri Davies & Taku Unami 2 19.FURT The Field Recordings 2 FURT Live in Amsterdam 1994 - 1 20.Mendes, Gilberto - Nascemorre - 1963 - coro misto, 2 máquinas de escrever e tape - 2 21.The Pulses Of Time (Electro-Acoustic Music On Tape) - Denis Smalley - 2 22. Bayle, François - Espaces Inhabitables - 1967 - 1 23.Eva Perouk-Auto Da Fé-La Semaine D'Une Somnambuliste Unlikely Records URT96 `85 3 24.Robin Hayward, Rhodri Davies & Taku Unami 4 25.Une Le Würg Production - Don't Fight Against The Time -See It Destroy Tape Eigen `87 - 1 26. Tod Docksteder - 2 27.Xenakis, Iannis - Orient-Occident - 1960 - 1 28.Roy, Stéphane - Paysages Intérieurs - 1988 - 1 29.Cognitive Disorder 3 - Detrition - irr app - 1 30.Stockhouzen - Kontakte 31.Ferrari, Luc - Und so weiter - 1966 - 1 32.Schaeffer, Pierre - Etude aux Allures - 1958 33.Denis Smalley 34.looper SQUAREHORSE 35.Mario Davidovski 36.Patrice Sciotino

 

some more break beat bloop

 

I recorded some 40 minutes already when this pattern turned up ,so i had to stay for a few more minutes ,as this is all played live and many random things happen .

I wake up very early these days so i called this one - dawn .

slightly edited 

unedited 

I didn't mean to record this loop ,and still i did . It was not easy this past month to record since i am yet to install AC here ,and it really was tempting as this is a brand new build .

I call this one Dream/Son cause it's not the first time i dream od synthesizers .That night i dreamt i was editing a recording and it's this one . Few times i dreamt of a mystery keyboard similar to Yamaha SH101  . 

Mechen V06 (Review)

 I bought a handheld recorder . At the time i meant to buy the Xvive Portable but later i discovered thru reviews that it has a 3.5mm stereo line in ,and further more some reviews about Zoom H1n describe recording via line in as troublesome that needs lot of attenuation . So i couldn't afford a more pricey recorder and just noticed this recorder at Ali Express - Mechen V06 . Now at Ali Express there are maybe 100 types of handheld recorders ,many advertise crazy resolution but no brand at all ,so i dug a little deeper about this one once i noticed there is actually a real company with line of products . Thanks to a review over at You Tube ,and it is a single one review on this machine i gambled so i bought it .

First i did was using a wrong output from my mixer so my recordings were lacking the effects . Next i had the Noise Reduction at 1 ,there is a scale from 1 to 7 i think ..when it comes to Noise Reduction ,but there is also Noise Reduction off - Thank God ! 

..and it records well . The specs somewhere describe some odd kbs resolution of the recordings , i used the highest bitrate and Sound Forge says it is 16bit 96kHz ,unlike 24bit it advertises.. I never cared about that difference , i grew up with cassettes and making music on Amiga ,so 16 bits and 96kHz is more then enough for me ! 

Thru out these 5-6 recordings i did these past few days i used a Studiomaster mixer to record on to the Mechen  ,the faders are at 2-3 and feeding well this little thing while the gain settings on the Mechen are at 2 ,so you would need some attenuation to record sound from mixer .The recordings are not too loud which is expected and it needs some leveling afterwards ,with these settings the waveform is peak to peak on Sound Forge, but one thing i noticed is that Resampling the recording to 48kHz helps a lot to sort of clean up the waveform . The rest is little bit Soft Limiting and you have a descent WAV recording twice cheaper .

This portable recorder really looks nice with metal housing and a big screen .It is not advertised as studio tool ,and having only one 3.5mm socket that switches internally from being line in and line out can be annoying to some maybe ,but for me it's very easy to just copy the recordings onto my computer .It has 144Gb memory and it will auto shut down when not in use .Really happy with the quality of recordings , it's a winner! It holds well after using it extensively for over a month and making over 50 recordings .

This is recorded with Mechen V06

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Chiruru

Sal-Mar Construction

 

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This is recorded using VLC Media Player set to shuffle the playlists ,there are 3 short playlists here made from a Sample Bank i made from earlier recordings

Few Reason Loops .

in 120 BPM .

feedback music

 

This is recorded with diy mixer and pedal.

20 Years Electronic Music

 

These miniatures were composed 20 years ago , and released for Shkart Netlabel in 2006.

Canvas

 

These are made 14 years ago using nothing but Sound Forge and simple one shot samples , i wanted to make some music with tempo but without the use of a classic DAW and a Sequencer. There are 4 miniatures in this release.

Uncorrelated Rhythms

 

This is recorded over the last two months , there are more then 100 recordings i did with my DIY Groove Box ,and sometimes using a VCF and a Ring Mod from my DIY Modular . The only commercial piece of gear is a Mini Universe Reverb Pedal . This is more of a Automatic Hip Hop . Automation is made using Wiard's Neural Pulser's Clone and Buchla 208 URV . In this Bandcamp release there are 18 short loops/pieces ,free to download . 

Перекрёсток - 1989 - Я культурист

 

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