Your Love Is Out to Get Me

Equal parts Chic, Ilaiyaraaja, hypercompressed disco drums and lazer synths. Get Psyched!
Chiclet (love comin rmx) - Vxtor

Disco Diary

the first mix is now up:
Flagellate - Vyxor the StarrFire Champion
and, because why not:
Flagellate - Bullet Hell RMX

Musicking

Just two things of significance going on right now.
Early Music:

&
Prehistoric Isle 2:
Commit Crimes - Vyxor the Starfire Champion

Dammit Heads and OS 7.5.3

This track began conceptually as the first of a multi-part instrumental/noisy sorta thing that would serve as a nostalgia device for my old Quadra 610, using all ambient and internal computer noises.  As these things usually go, however, it became something a bit different as I played along, and naturally compressed itself into one sitting.

It's a live(ish) recording...  I created a feedback loop with a few mics placed around the room and my monitor speakers, sent the sources (cd trays opening/closing, sipping coffee, eraser-tapping on juice boxes)  through grain delays and other assorted filters, and then ran the whole thing into Leafcutter John's Forester program and then back out again into Ableton.  As I began to get some source material, I reshaped the quantization, tempos, and made other little edits on the fly.  I mixed it down, and then added some guitar and keyboard to taste.

Not that that all matters, just crank it up and sip some tea.  It's got some nice dynamics.

DammitHead Fakers - Vyxxxor the StarFyre Champion

Unlike Movies Virtual 7"

Okay! Got a brand new special gift for anyone who drops by here!

Virtual 7" Single
A: Unlike Movies
B: Dopey Dream
plus: extra goodies and secrets! bleargh! can't you feel how special you are?!
(had to .zip it to preserve quality, but that's alright, right?)
Get it Here!

Lovable Word House

If days are wide open, then why not be deliberate and methodical about the work inside of it?

For example, how do you maintain clarity and and lightness with a painfully high Baroque tessitura while giving yourself enough heft to maintain tone during long passage runs? As soon as this cold breaks, I'm gonna find out, one ershutt're dich nur nicht after another.

And like the 12 inch space disco mixes that were always hip (Moroder, Cerrone, DonRay) but almost absolutely very hip now (Glass Candy, Lindstrom, Padded Cell), how do you maintain interest and drama for so long, notwithstanding Donna Summer's reverbed groans and of course those nice dynamic shifts and band re-arrangements?

I'm trying my hand at it, and in the past I've always been a bit, okay, lay down track after track, that's it, cut out the pops and whistles and mash it together with a running time of barely two minutes, hyper detail probably included. Long(er) form is going to be a challenge, since I'm really geared toward micro sound events and blitzkrieg editing, so I'm probably gonna have to switch keys every eight bars or so to keep myself going. I'll post the results.

And of course, Phantasy Star IV during breaks.

And today, a track I'm really fond of, all EQ'd and limited for the ultimate 2008 listening experience. Throw out those MySpace downloads if you got em way back when, this is some definitive 256 kbps stuff we're working with. It's about communicating.

Lovable Word House (Snow on Your Lips) - Vyxor the StarFire Champion

Climb a Tree

Hurrah!  Finally saved Hyrule, the Princess, the world, etc. etc. etc. Quite fun, even with its abundant fantasy story tropes.  As far as the genre is concerned, though, everyone MUST play Psychonauts, immediately... hilarious writing and brilliant design.

But on to other matters!  It's not the dance track(s) that I promised, but it's a short burst of dumbass drum programming, synth woodwinds and convoluted lyrics that is exactly the sum of its parts.  From sometime ago!

Climb a Tree and Kiss it - Vyxor the *Fire Champion

Oh, and Omega 3 has a new website up that is fantastic.