What's coming up from you next?
Well, apart from the new release I’m still focussed on performing live to get my music out in front of people - to me it’s important that people get to experience the dynamics of live, and to be fair raw, electronic music that isn’t processed & compressed to death. Like any other live performance with an instrument you’ve got prepare and practice but this is also where a lot of my new material comes from so playing live more should lead to new ideas and tracks later in the year.
People LOVE to chat gear, more than music sometimes so let's do just that! Which modules are used across the album. Without listing every single one, what stands out as the key pieces for say drums, bass sounds and the sequencing?
So in terms of the melodic & bass content, on the EP and live set, these are coming from the amazing Akemie’s Castle by ALM and the Hertz Donut mkII by The Harvestman. The Akemie’s is by far the most interesting and versatile oscillator I’ve owned in the 6 years I’ve been using modulars, and having the chord output is the icing on the cake. It would be criminal if I didn’t mention the Makenoise QMMG - is vital to my modular setup with it packing in 4 VCAs, 4 LGPs, 4 LPFs & 4 HPFs in just 24HP! A real shame that this module is no longer manufactured. Drum duties are mixture of the 808/909 Tiptop audio drums as well as Dinky’s Taiko again by ALM and in terms of sequencing you won’t be surprised if I’m going to say the Cirklon. This is THE hardware sequencer to have IMHO and it is seriously deep in functionality - I’ve barely scratched the surface so far, after having it for about a year, but a word of warning if you want one you’re going to have be patient…I was on the waiting list for 200 days before mine was ready, but without it I don’t think I could play the type of live set I’d want to.
As you’re reading this you probably
already know that I work with
Future Music magazine, if you didn’t
. . . I work with Future Music
magazine! Each month I provide an
article and tutorial along with
pictures for the magazine as well as
provide a video to go with that. For
those of you that don’t buy the
magazine some weeks/months
later Future Music upload the videos to their YouTube channel for everyone to see. The latest video to appear on their channel is about Mutable Instruments Braids. Those that have spoken to me will know that I love Braids, it gets lots of use and always sounds great in a mix. Check out the video above or click HERE to watch.