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Aleph Null - Rocket 303 to Cosmos 808
In lieu of anyone more qualified stepping forward, it fell to me to contribute this April’s pattern to the SoundCloud monthly acid group. (A high-resolution transcription of the pattern can be seen here for better legibility and easier programming.)
My version has - at least to my ears - an early 90s spaced-out techno-trance vibe to it; the blame for which I place on finding my folder of miscellaneous astronaut transmission recordings. Also, I’m pretty sure Pete Namlook is partially responsible somehow.
I’m really looking forward to hearing how other folks in the group interpret the pattern. DyLABs has already taken it to a very cool and crazy place.
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Wow. Social Entropy Electronic Musical Instruments are selling a replacement TB-303 operating system chip called Quicksilver.
As well as supporting MIDI - including remote control of all the machines functionality - everything can also be manipulated in realtime. That includes entering patterns, editing notes, changing modes, and brand new features like “all accent”, “randomise” and “chop”.
I’ll just let that sync in for a moment whilst your mind races with the possibilities for live performance.
All data is stored in an EEPROM so batteries aren’t required, and the OS can also be updated over USB as they intend to add new features in the future.
This looks to be an essential upgrade for all committed acid heads. If you know anyone selling cheap 303s with dead OS chips then now is the time to snap them up before the prices skyrocket!
[via awesome Australian acid aficionado Dylabs]
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Recorded this two weeks ago as part of the SoundCloud monthly acid pattern.
I’ve got to admit that I enjoy hanging out with the oscilloscope worms: underground, dirty, messy, wilfully unpredictable, surviving on scraps and detritus, just doing your own thing trying to ignore the continual heavy pressure from above.
Surviving without claps is a bit tough, though. Worms have no hands, y’see.
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My stab at the January acid pattern recorded live last night.
Rust Creep’s original pattern is a cool smooth 4 bar thing but I got tired after inputting the first 13 notes and then absent-mindedly left the door open for some weird mutants to creep in, confuse me massively with their monkeying around, and introduce stacks of hard-to-control layered distortion.
Eh, it happens.
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Faltering at dragging a large pile of nigh-abandoned track concepts to completion, I figured I’d take a break by dropping the tempo approximately 50 BPM, turning on the microphone and making something not quite so different after all.
Recorded live at Low Brow Eye Labs, 4th January, 2012.
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My interpretation of the December acid pattern.
Some of the other contributors took the pattern literally with regard to its 7 step nature and, well, I can’t resist such nonsense either and dived into the wonky, off-beat madness of half-bar loopy acid techno in 7/8 time.
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Slightly late, here’s my riff on August’s monthly acid pattern.
Recorded live at Low Brow Eye Labs, 7th August 2011. It’s the first and only take, hence the sloppiness in places and imbalanced arrangement. (Shhh — don’t tell anyone, but apart from the cables and headphones it’s all digital. I didn’t dare risk exploding any more of the real analogues.)
Kudos to:
⚫ d-Rektional for the cool acid pattern
⚫ Yamaha RM1x: drums, synths, effects, sequencing, live pattern switching and muting
⚫ Kenton Control Freak: control of the RM1x’s filter cutoffs, channel volumes and clap pitch
⚫ STEIM’s junXion software: mapping of the Control Freak’s sliders to the RM1x’s parameters (far easier than reprogramming the Control Freak)
⚫ Ableton Live 8: recording the jam, constructing the intro, adding a big glitch at 5:18
⚫ ExperimentalHomeLab for providing the intro samples
⚫ Grado SR80i headphones: vital aural feedback
⚫ White Sambuca: composition and performance fuel.
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Acid Station Zero by Mr_Union on Flickr.
Coo…
Mr Union says on this Flickr page that he prefers standing up to make noise and I’d have to strongly agree. It’s so much easier to make dance music when you’re not sitting down and can feel the groove, express your emotions as motion and, y’know, dance.
Also, big high five to another comrade who uses sheet music stands to hold “desktop” boxes.
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Shut Up and Dance - Lamborghini
So, yay, it’s the Society Warehouse party tonight! Retro raving from 1987 through to 1993! Acieeed! Hip house! Vintage techno! Hoovers! Lasers! Bleeps! Bass!
As you can see I’ve been saving up exclamation marks to represent how perfect for me an event like this is.
So, if you’re going and you see a tall, skinny, long-haired freak wearing spectacles and a “FUCK YEAH TECHNO” t-shirt then do say something like “I’ve seen you on the Internet” to see how awkward I get.
Party on, people!
