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neil (spatialize)

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  1. I haven’t checked out the new Puff Dragon yet. It’s really ambient I think? But I always enjoyed the Sazanami album.

     

    I’ve also been enjoying the new Pan Electric. Quality stuff that rewards repeat listenings. Nicely spread out and unhurried.

     

    Beyond the Radar has been the best received and best selling Spatialize album so far i would say. I think people have noticed that the album has taken things up a level and as an artist it’s nice that people seem to recognise this. 😀

     

    But yes 3 artists with a similar approach to music I would say. First time I heard Puff Dragon and Pan Electric i felt like I was listening to a musical brothers.


  2. I haven’t checked out the new Puff Dragon yet. It’s really ambient I think? But I always enjoyed the Sazanami album.

     

    I’ve also been enjoying the new Pan Electric. Quality stuff that rewards repeat listenings. Nicely spread out and unhurried.

     

    Beyond the Radar has been the best received and best selling Spatialize album so far i would say. I think people have noticed that the album has taken things up a level and as an artist it’s nice that people seem to recognise this. 😀

     

    But yes 3 artists with a similar approach to music I would say. First time I heard Puff Dragon and Pan Electric i felt like I was listening to a musical brothers.


  3. https://experimentsinsilence.bandcamp.com/album/suspended-form

     

    A 70 minute album in two parts which combine seamlessly to create a single long-form work of suspended ambience.

     

    The first piece is based around sparse treated piano and electronic textures which sit deep within a meditative soundscape.

     

    Ishq then steps in for the second half of the journey with a remix that delicately deconstructs the original sound palette into an even deeper minimal space.

     

    This is a contemplative and beautiful minimal extended soundscape which adds a new dimension to the Experiments in Silence discography.

     

    A limited edition CD release is available via the Virtual label at ishq.org/release/Experiments%20in%20Silence/EIS02


  4. My favorites headphones:

     

    Live setup: Sennheiser HD-25 (good isolation, nice bass and power)

    Studio setup: Beyerdynamics DT-770 (closed) or DT-990 (open) (can be used for hours, warm bass, smooth treble)

    Agreed

     

    Beyerdynamic are nice for studio production. However I often find when I have worked on something on headphones and then move to speakers there is usually a lot of readjustments to be made. It doesn't seem to matter which headphones I use. Definitely open backed for studio use though, closed back for djing.

     

    I would say that sound sculpting and getting the core of your tune together is better on speakers. I think where headphones come in for me is during the arrangement part when you can pop a laptop on your er lap and get stuck into creating an interesting arrangement flow.


  5. I think with the older producers (and I include myself in this) music was a little harder won with more basic technology. You had to construct a track from core elements.

     

    Just managing a studio (what with atari, samplers with floppy disks and a room full of synths) and getting it all to work together was quite a feat and would only be done by people who really had a massive interest in producing music.  It was hard to be a dabbler in those days and even harder to release music.  Samples weren;t that amazing and were in a low bit rate so you had to be able to construct your own stuff, or be adventurous in sample searching.

     

    Now you can literally drag and drop and few samples and have the bare bones of a track and the means of releasing is easy.  Plus there are millions of amazing synths sounds on tap too.  So some of the basic elements required in track building get skipped.

     

    I think a lot of the difference lies int he lost art of sampling.  When you sample something - even a synth pad - and play it back at different scales on a keyboard, you get really unusual and unique things happening.  Samplers aren;t used so much now what with the flexible audio side of a DAW.  The sampler was once the heart of the system, functioning like a hard disk recorder really, and tracks would be made up of a slew of interesting, unique and self made sounds.  I think that's the key difference.

     

    With th above poster mentioning about more simple music - well once you had managed to get a well cool groove going with your army of synths and samplers then you wanted to milk it.  All the glitch effects which completely drown out most people's productions at the moment would have taken weeks to achieve on a sampler! 



  6.  

    Encrypted Transmissions shifts the mood from the pure atmospherics of the debut album to an ambient electronica style. While deep basses, slow pulsing synths and low key beats provide a rhythmic structure, the arctic atmopsheres and fractured textures add a darkly beautiful edge. 

     

    Additional sound design and a remix comes from Matt Hillier of Ishq and there is also some cross-fertilization with Spatialize, blending and bending embryonic audio from Neil’s other project into more experimental directions.

     


    150 Limited edition CD copies available from July 3, 2016 

     

    Sequences, atmospheric manipulations, oscillators, rhythmic devices, mastering – Neil Butler 

     

    Additional Sound on Tracks 3,4,6 and Remix track 10 – Matt Hillier 

    The Number Stations – Voice samples track 2 

    Vox Samps Tracks 3,4 – Jacqueline Kersley 

     

    Cover photography by Scott Howse 

    CD layout – Matt Hillier 

     

    Dedicated to the all the unknown purveyors of sound 

     

    www.experimentsinsilence.bandcamp.com 

    www.facebook.com/experimentsinsilence 

    www.soundcloud.com/experimentsinsilence



  7. i would have thought that in a live situation you wouldn;t be able to detect the "sound" of the mackie very much.  I've had my mackie 1202 vlz for 20 years now and i used that for dub delays / mixing live etc and had no problems.  Still usedin my studio for porting synths in and out of the computer.

     

    I do think that sometimes the internal signal architecture of the mackie is a bit weird though.

     

    What about the Roland Aira Mx1?  Nice lights on it  ;)

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