#dave smith instruments

[catsonsynthesizersinspace]

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: this @blippypixel #BBCMicro high resolution graphics animation celebrates #DaveSmithInstruments' 2002 analog-digital hybrid #synthesizer the #Evolver. This piece was included in the recent music-themed MIST0224 artpack collection.

[sandalstrapchronicles]

There are many times I thank myself that I bought a DSI Evolver as a first synthesizer - there have been many other synths that have caught my eye - but the Evolver usually does whatever they can, and better. Even the badgear guy likes it.

[thedynamicuniverse]

MOPHO Last Analog Transmission

Blog post with a comic and music video just dropped! Stop by and check the works.

In 2008, the Editor in Chief of Producer’s Edge magazine, Drew Spence, was inspired by the Dave Smith Instruments synthesizer MOPHO. Sound designer and Media Editor Griffin Avid released a soundpack of elements created purely by the MOPHO. Rap Artist Lenzmen Dynamics Plus released the album Dynamic Universe Volume 12 Battlestrux Year One: Captain of a Starship. The bonus track “MOPHO Last…

[cygnusred]

CIRCA 2016

Studio angle-shots (iPhone 6s).

[gbhbl]

Album Review: I Hear Sirens - Acheron (Post. Recordings/Dunk!Records)

USA (Utah) based post rock band, I Hear Sirens return with their latest full length offering titled Acheron, due for release on the 23rd of August via Post. Recordings in the US and Dunk! Records in Europe. I Hear Sirens are an instrumental band formed in 2005 by founding members Daved Harris and David Qualls releasing their first full album, Beyond The Sea, Beneath The Sky, in 2009. The band has…

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

1955 Chevrolet 210

TECH CHECK Owner: Eric Mead, Evansville, Indiana Vehicle: ’55 Chevrolet 210

Engine Type: BluePrint Engines Chevrolet LS3 Displacement: 376 ci Compression Ratio: 10.7:1 Bore: 4.070 inches Stroke: 3.622 inches Cylinder Heads: BluePrint Engines aluminum Camshaft: BluePrint Engines hydraulic roller (0.612/0.585-inch lift, 225/238 deg. duration) Ignition: E38 Engine PCM Assembly: BluePrint Engines Exhaust: Church Boys Racing by Stainless Works 1-7/8-inch primaries to 3-inch collector and 2.5-inch stainless pipes bent by Dave Favor’s Performance Exhaust, MagnaFlow Mufflers Ancillaries: Holley mid-mount accessory drive, PRC radiator and core support, SPAL Fans Output: 530 hp at 6,100 rpm, 508 lb-ft at 5,200 rpm

Drivetrain Transmission: ’99 GM 4L80E Automatic with TransGo valvebody kit prepared by Wathen’s Transmission (Owensboro, KY) Torque Converter: FTI Billet 3,200 stall Driveshaft: Driveline Plus Rear Axle: Strange Engineering 9-inch with Truetrac differential, 3.70 gears, 35-spline axles

Chassis Chassis: Roadster Shop SPEC Front Suspension: Strange single-adjustable coilovers, stabilizer bar Rear Suspension: Strange single-adjustable coilovers, parallel four-link, Panhard bar Brakes: Baer four-wheel disc, 12-inch front rotors with four-piston calipers, 11-inch rear rotors with four-piston calipers, Baer Remaster master cylinder

Wheels & Tires Wheels: Bogart Racing Wheels D-5; 17×4.5 front with 2.25-inch backspace, 15×10 rear with 5.5-inch backspace Tires: Mickey Thompson Sportsman S/R front, 26×6.00R17; Mickey Thompson ET Street S/S rear, 295/55R15

Interior Upholstery: Holtsclaw Custom Upholstery (Francisco, IN) Carpet: Cars Inc. black loop carpet Seats: Original bench seat with black-and-white vinyl Delray pattern Steering: Summit steering column with Eddie Motorsports steering wheel Shifter: Lokar Dash: Original Instrumentation: Dakota Digital VHX HVAC: Vintage Air Wiring: American Autowire by Andy’s Hot Rod Shop (Mulkeytown, IL)

Exterior Bodywork and Paint: Reisinger Custom Rebuilding (Evansville, IN) and Andy’s Hot Rod Shop Paint: Sateen Silver/white by James Smith of Road Runner Restorations (Johnston City, IL) Hood: Stock Grille: Danchuk Bumpers: Danchuk Glass: Auto City Classics Fuel Tank: 15.5-gallon Tanks Inc. galvanized powedercoated silver

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Fourth MLM Ship Bracket Propaganda Submissions

Below you will find all of the submitted and approved ships for the Fourth MLM Ship Bracket Tournament along with the form to submit further propaganda at the bottom

This is another opportunity to submit propaganda for your favorite ships. Wether you were unable to submit propaganda for them in the initial form or you spot your favorite ship who has no propaganda submitted. Ships with a strikethrough have propaganda submitted, I will continue to update this post as propaganda is submitted. I will accept further propaganda for ships with already submitted propaganda but please prioritize those with out.

The goal is to have propaganda for all ships but I understand that may not be possible. Therefore I will be leaving the form open for a few weeks to see if we receive propaganda for at least half the ships.

Note: Please reach out to me if you spot any mistakes in character or fandom names, even if it is only formatting or spelling issues.

Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)

Kyojuro Rengoku/Akaza (Demon Slayer)

Mikhail”Misha” [Heavy]/Dr. Ludwig [Medic] (Team Fortress 2)

Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)

Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng (Guardian, 2018)

Oliver Marks/James Farrow (If We Were Villains)

David Starsky/Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson (Starsky & Hutch)

Tinn/Gun (My School President)

Loki Odinson/Mobius M. Mobius (Loki)

Jaime Reyes/Bart Allen (DC Comics)

Levi Schmitt/Nico Kim (Grey's Anatomy)

Ren Amamiya or Akira Kurusu/Goro Akechi (Persona 5)

Wallace Price/ Hugo Freeman (Under the Whispering Door)

Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny (Looney Toons)

Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan (Guardian, 2018)

Isak Valtersen/Even Bech Næsheim (SKAM)

Henry "Monty" Montague/Percy Newton (Montague Siblings)

Nico di Angelo/Will Solace (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)

Argos/Mr. Plant (The World of Mr. Plant)

Richard St Vier/Alec Campion (Swordspoint Universe)

Klaus Hargreeves/Dave Katz (The Umbrella Academy)

Woody/Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story)

Victor Lawson/Hap (In the Lives of Puppets

Charlie/Babe (Pit Babe The Series)

Fred/Shaggy (Scooby-Doo)

Simon Snow/Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Grimm-Pitch (Carry On)

Gaius Octavius/Jedediah Smith (Night at the Museum)

Sound/Win (My School President)

Pat/Pran (Bad Buddy)

Mike Wazowski/James "Sulley" P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)

Nicholas “Nick” Bell/ Seth Gray (The Extraordinaries)

Evan 'Buck' Buckley/Edmundo 'Eddie' Diaz (9-1-1)

Sean/White (Not Me: The Series)

Vegas Theerapanyakun/Pete Saengtham (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Runaan/Ethari (The Dragon Prince)

Larry Daley/Ahkmenrah (Night at the Museum)

Tintin/Captain Archibald Haddock (Tintin comics)

Bai Lang/Jin Xun An (My Tooth Your Love)

Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin (The Man from U.N.C.L.E)

Wario/Waluigi (Mario franchise)

Peter Parker/Miguel O'Hará (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Steve Rogers/Anthony "Tony" Stark (Marvel Comics)

Dave Miller/Jack "Old sport" Kennedy (Dayshift at Freddy's)

Boston/Nick (Only Friends)

Kinn Theerapanyakun/Porsche Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Satoru Gojo/Suguru Geto (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Craig Cuttlefish/Octavio Takowasa (Splatoon)

Tulio/Miguel (The Road to El Dorado)

Sun Wukong/Neptune Vasilias (RWBY)

Zachary Ezra Rawlins/Dorian (The Starless Sea)

Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek (The X-Files)

Thomas/Newt (The Maze Runner)

Fulgrim/Ferrus Manus (Warhammer 40k)

Kim Theerapanyakun/Porchay Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Alec Lightwood/Magnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments)

Tan/Bun (Manner of Death)

Qrow Branwen/Clover Ebi (RWBY)

Rhy Maresh/Alucard Emery (Shades of Magic)

Yashiro Isana/Kuroh Yatogami (K Project)

Jaskier/Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

Dustfinger/Mortimer "Mo" Folchart (Inkworld series)

Brandon/Sky (Winx Club)

Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum/Phillip Carlyle (The Greatest Showman)

Alfred Hillinghead/Henry Ashe (Bodies TV Show)

Baal/Inanna (The Wicked + the Divine)

Timothy "Tim" Drake/Bernard Dowd (DC Comics)

Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun Stampede)

Anthony Lockwood/Quill Kipps (Lockwood and Co)

Henry Winter/Francis Abernathy (The Secret History)

Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Dainix/Falst (Aurora Comic)

Prince Rupert/Prince Amir (The Two Princes)

Finn/Poe Dameron (Star Wars)

Jean Luc Picard/Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Will Stronghold/Warren Peace (Sky High)

Heart/Li Ming (Moonlight Chicken)

Wallace Wells/Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off)

Sunai/Veyadi Lut (The Archive Undying)

Linus Baker/Arthur Parnassus (The House in the Cerulean Sea)

Aaron Slaughter/Jace Boucher (House of Slaughter)

Hercule Poirot/Captain Arthur Hastings (Hercule Poirot)

Phaya/Tharn (The Sign)

Hercules/Iolaus (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys)

Todd/Black (Not Me: The Series)

Julio "Rictor" Esteban Richter/Shatterstar (Marvel Comics)

Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu (Word of Honor)

Siffrin/Isabeau (In Stars and time)

Kendall Knight/Logan Mitchell (Big Time Rush TV Show)

Yuichiro Hiyakuya/Mikaela Hyakuya (Owari no Seraph/Seraph of the End)

Palm/Nuengdiao (Never Let Me Go)

Khatha/Dome (Midnight Museum)

Asterix/Obelix (Asterix Comics)

Bowser/Luigi (Mario Franchise)

Lucien "Luc" O'Donnell/Oliver Blackwood (London Calling)

Kazuki Kurusu/Rei Suwa (Buddy Daddies)

Benjamin “Ben” Tennyson/Kevin Ethan Levin (Ben 10: Alien Force)

Lumière/Cogsworth (Beauty and the Beast)

Damian Wayne/Jon Kent (DC Comics)

Spy/Dell Conagher [Engineer] (Team Fortress 2)

Shanks/Buggy (One Piece)

Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Ecks (Six of Crows)

Harold Finch/John Reese (Person of Interest)

Ulrich Stern/Odd Della Robbia (Code Lyoko)

Vincent Freeman/Jerome Morrow (Gattaca)

Eustass Kid/Killer (One Piece)

Christopher Hitchcock/Jalil Sherman (Everworld)

Frodo Baggins/Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)

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Noel Gallagher / Oasis / Johnny Marr

A Gibson Flying V Electric Guitar Formerly Owned By Johnny Marr, Used By Noel Gallagher During The Monnow Valley Sessions Prior To The Final Recording Of Oasis’ 1994 Debut Album ‘Definitely Maybe’ At Sawmills Studio

Catalogue Note

“Johnny Marr sent down some guitars because I only had one guitar and Bonehead had one guitar.”

-Noel Gallagher on the Monnow Valley Sessions.

“I then lent [the Flying V] to Noel Gallagher who used it on Definitely Maybe, recording Cigarettes & Alcohol & possibly more.”

-Johnny Marr, 2019

This Gibson Flying V is representative of one of the most significant guitar lineages of the 1990s: between Johnny Marr, virtuosic guitarist formerly of The Smiths and the The, and Noel Gallagher, on the cusp of Oasis’ global success. Originally obtained by Marr in 1989, he had used it on some sessions of his own before lending it among a group of his instruments to Noel in January 1994.

By this point, Oasis was working on the latest in a string of studio sessions building towards the album ‘Definitely Maybe’, this time at Monnow Valley Studios near Monmouth, Wales.

“… A few of Johnny Marr’s guitars, including a Flying V which he used on ‘Slide Away’.”

-Engineer Dave Scott on Noel Gallagher at Monnow Valley Studios, Melody Maker, 1st October 1994.

In addition to the Flying V, Marr had sent his iconic black & white Rickenbacker used during his time in The Smiths; and a Gibson Les Paul conversion (itself formerly owned by Pete Townshend). The latter guitar quickly became one of Noel’s favoured guitars played live in 1994 and 1995. The precise extent of its track usage at Monnow Valley Studio may differ according to contemporaries and engineers, but Michael Spencer Jones’ photography at the time shows Noel playing this Flying V beside Liam during these formative studio sessions.

The Flying V returned to Marr’s collection sometime after Monnow Valley, but the Flying V was a model that Noel would revisit. In the 1997 Oasis music video of ‘D’You Know What I Mean’, Noel plays a Gibson Flying V ’97 reissue with the same ebony finish as Marr’s guitar which he had used four years earlier.

Description

Serial number 82590004 and Made in USA to rear of headstock, 1980, solid mahogany body and neck with black finish, Indian rosewood fingerboard with dot inlays, two pickups, three-way selector switch, three rotary controls, with white pickguard; in shaped hard-shell case with blue plush-lining.

Used by Noel Gallagher during the Monnow Valley Studio sessions for ‘Definitely Maybe’ in January 1994. Previously studio-used by Johnny Marr.

Accompanied by provenance documents comprising:

A Manchester/New York import note dated 22nd August 1989.

A handwritten & signed postcard from Johnny Marr, dated 2019.

A Sonic Editions black & white photographic print, no. 5/250, photo by Michael Spencer Jones, of Noel and Liam Gallagher during the 'Definitely Maybe' sessions at the Monnow Valley Studios in Wales, 26th January 1994.

A Fujfilm polaroid illustrating the guitar, undated.

Provenance

The collection of Johnny Marr, 1989.

Lent by the above to Noel Gallagher in January 1994 for the ‘Definitely Maybe’ recording sessions at Monnow Valley Studios.

Acquired directly from Johnny Marr by the current owner in 2019.

Usage

8th-24th January, 1994 Monnow Valley Studios, Monmouth

Image Captions

Detail from a Sonic Editions photographic print, no. 5/250, photo by Michael Spencer Jones (included in the present Lot). Noel Gallagher with the present Lot at Monnow Valley Studio, January 1994.

source: [Sotheby's Popular Culture Auction | Lot 45 | Sept 12th 2024]

[doedipus]

jazz season continues, in spite of inclement weather

I don't have anything clever to say about this album but the first track really strongly brings to mind pbs bumpers from when I was a kid

credits under break

Neil Ardley keyboards, synthesizer, liner notes

Bob Bertles alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute

Paul Buckmaster cello, producer

Tony Coe tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet

Ian Carr trumpet, flügelhorn

Geoff Castle piano, synthesizer

Dave McCrae piano, synthesizer

Roger Sellers drums

Ken Shaw guitar

Brian Smith tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute

Roger Sutton bass

Barbara Thompson alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute

Trevor Tomkins percussion, vibraphone

John Taylor keyboards, synthesizer

Stan Sulzmann wind instruments

Martin Levan engineer

W lacquer cut

John Pasche design

Gull Graphics design

Phil Jude cover photography

Derek Jewell liner notes

[burlveneer-music]

Mudd - In The Garden Of Mindfulness - languid grooves pack the new solo album from Claremont 56 label head

When Paul Murphy released his critically acclaimed debut solo album, Claremont 56, in 2006, many thought it would be the first of many. In a way, it was, as in the years since he’s released a string of collaborative sets alongside Benjamin J Smith (as Smith & Mudd), and as part of underground ‘supergroups’ Paqua, Bison and Hillside. But that second solo album? Well, it just had to wait. In early 2023, Murphy finally decided to scratch that itch, roping in some of his most trusted collaborators (keyboardist and bassist Michele Chiavarini, percussionist Patrick Dawes, guitarist Dave Noble and HF International’s Kashif included) to lay down a sumptuous set of tracks that not only showcases his now familiar (bit hard to pigeonhole) neo-Balearic sound, but also proves how much he has matured as a writer and producer since 2006. In The Garden of Mindfulness is richly musically detailed, expertly arranged and full to bursting with fluid instrumental solos, with Murphy and his collaborators serving up tracks that brilliantly blur the boundaries between languid jazz-funk, downtempo, vintage synth-laden krautrock, dubby grooves and sun-splashed soundscapes.

[emj-lane]

A little About me🤷‍♀️

My name is Emma-Jean Victoria Lane

Most people call me EmJ but some call me Em or Emma...all those things I respond to. I have a hyphenated first name so it's a mouthful lol!

I'm 18 years old and have an identical twin sister, Mazee. Our birthday is Halloween 🎃

Mazee and I were adopted from China when we were 2 months old

We live and were raised in California.

Besides Mazee, I have a sister, Natasha, who is 19. A sister, Morgan, who is 14. my sister, Sydney, is 11. And the youngest is my brother, Hunter, and he's 7. These siblings are my parents biological children.

We have 2 dogs that are golden doodles, Luna and Courage, and we have a cat. Her name is Boo.

I find it weird how friends or dates/boyfriend are sketched out, leary and scared off by the fact that my mom is a psychiatrist. That's her career/ her job but she is a regular person, wife, mother individual outside of her psychiatrist title/career. I promise she's not analyzing or diagnosing you if you aren't her patient in her office or in the hospital

My dad is a teacher at a boarding school for high schoolers gifted in the arts like music, theater, dance, writing, painting etc

Surfing is one of my favorite things/passions/talents. My whole family surfs.

Equal to surfing is my passion for writing.

I started playing soccer in second grade and the rest is history. From then on year after year I played on the soccer team for my elementary school, middle school and high school.

Should have been a mermaid. Love the water and swimming and diving. I was a competitive swimmer and diver from 7th grade and on through the rest of my middle school and high school career

I train and practice karate and kick boxing. In a fist fight I will kick your ass & I love it

My life motto and really driving phrase for my life and personality is "Underestimate me. That'll be fun..."

I'd say I'm very outgoing, friendly and social.

It can get very heated and tension does get very high at home with my older sister, Natasha. She has a diagnosis of ARFID which is avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. She has a lot of Orthorexia traits and tendencies as well. This has been a battle and an issue for almost 12 years now. Natasha doesn't really want full recovery...she doesn't want to weight restore or be healthy. She wants to maintain where she is...still sick, still disordered, still underweight but not getting worse- just completely maintaining & existing forever as she is. It is really really frustrating and sad. Sometimes I would like to kick her in the mouth, grab her and shake her and scream at her but it would not get through to her. It would not help.

I get self conscious sometimes being out with my family. Because I am Chinese and my parents and siblings, except Mazee, are caucasian American many people don't see us as family. They assume my parents are hosting foreign exchange students or if I am out with my 7 year old brother people assume I am his babysitter or his nanny- these things get said to me and my family and those things make a home in my head . They hide out a lot but still are there, lingering.

I enjoy music and playing music. I play piano, guitar, violin and saxophone. They are more hobbies and escapes although I am told I am talented and gifted in playing instruments I like having it as just something enjoyable, not necessarily something to pursue and train for career/performance/competitive purposes. The same goes for drawing.

My favorite artists and musicians right now are John mayer, Dave matthews band, Green Day, Nirvana, The Smiths, Bruno Mars, Billie Eilish, Yellow card, Lindsay Stirling and switchfoot.

Traveling & hiking is also something I love and something my whole family likes to do. Just being outside. We've been to the grand canyon, Niagara falls, Rocky mountains, smokey mountains, parts of the Appalachian trail/mountains, we've been to Hawaii, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Mexico, Australia, Alaska and Canada. And of course California has some hiking/national parks and nature too so we do a lot here too.

Favorite tv shows: Law and order svu, Criminal minds, Psych, and The Good Doctor

Favorite Movies: The Lord of the rings movies, Harry Potter movies, any of the Jaws movies, The Shallows, Hunger games movies, any X-men movies, Star wars movies, Man on Fire, National Treasure 1 and 2, A Beautiful Mind, I Am Sam, Dead Poet's Society, and Freedom Writers.

That's all. This is already longer than I intended.

[singeratlarge]

HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY TO DAVE "LOAFY" ALEXANDER + SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “My Love (She Means Everything)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVAX_iK8NVE Between 1993 and 2003 Davy Jones and I worked on 40 of his original songs. Most of the work was recorded and issued on 3 albums, the best known being JUSTME and JUSTME2 (refracting on JUSTUS, the 1997 Monkees reunion album). David and I had a give-and-take communication on the arrangements—sometimes he’d let me run wild with tempos and instrumentation, other times he had a song mapped out and I topped it off. His eclectic tastes went into country to r’n’b to Latin styles, and we explored glam, British rock, and old school Britpop. Many of the songs were new while some were songs he started in 1968, designated for The Monkees but not used. "My Love" (a newer one) was inspired by "Hurricane" Smith and ELO. This is one of my personal favorites and features key members of his road bands: myself, Aviva Maloney (sax, vocals), and two people no longer with us, the late well-remembered Jerry Renino and Dave “Loafy” Alexander—whose birthday was yesterday (9/22). When I made this “My Love” video for I intended for Dave and Jerry to have significant face time.

Dave was a proud flag-bearer for all things Monkees. My friendship and work history with him began in 1994, and (for 19 years) we intersected on Monkees spin-off gigs (including Davy’s first symphony pops concert in 2005). When I first met Dave, he had hair like a male Rapunzel. Davy needed a quick-study keyboard player for his band + an upcoming Brady Bunch musical tour. Jerry (then Davy’s music director) found Dave and introduced him as “the perfect person for the job,” arriving with bonus skills on guitar, ukulele, and very strong vocals. It helped that Dave had the temperament of a gentle giant, which was tested as he was often the brunt of Davy’s jokes—from the “short/tall man” vignettes (“I can see right up your nose”) to the Archie & Edith routine that always killed audiences. Then there was Dave’s spot-on Meatloaf parody, which may or may not explain why Dave’s nickname was “Loafy.” 

In time Dave became deeply imbedded in touring with The Monkees and with solo Micky Dolenz, and Dave took the Monkees songbook to heart. Speaking of heart, he and I had confessional conversations, and there are stories about him that range from hilarious to unbelievable (they’re still talking about the “Lefty & Loafy gig” in Green Bay WI). Yet even when he was living on the edge in private, he was always on point for the music. I could count on his uncanny memory for musical details, and there was no guile or competitiveness with him. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVAX_iK8NVE Meanwhile, heavenly HB Dave and thank you for always making me feel like a brother. See you on that great stage in the sky. 

#davidalexander #davealexander #loafy #meatloaf #davyjones #mickydolenz #monkees #justme #mylove #johnnyjblair #jerryrenino #birthday

[silverslipstream]

not sure why but here's my spotify playlists

I've ranked them from longest (time-wise) to shortest, with number of songs, the median song length in each (because I can't be arsed adding hundreds of songs together for an exact average) and a random selection of three tracks as a sample.

#1. ignition sequence | 148 songs, 13hr 39min total length, median song length 5m 24s

Realizer - The Crystal Method

Atom Bomb - Fluke

Papua New Guinea (Hybrid Mix) - The Future Sound of London

#2. the soundtrack to a downward spiral | 205 songs, 13hr 26min total length, median song length 3m 50s

Magnificent (She Says) - Elbow

Blood - The Middle East

I Know It's Over - The Smiths

#3. yokohama expressway | 163 songs, 13hr 17min total length, median song length 4m 55s

Antares - Omniverse

GRAN TURISMO - Trashiii

The Band Played On - Glenn Underground

#4. 80s stuff | 137 songs, 9hr 46min total length, median song length 4m 03s

Fire In The Twilight - Wang Chung

You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

#5. club and dance shit but like only the popular stuff | 131 songs, 8hr 58min total length, median song length 3m 39s

Castles in the Sky - Ian Van Dahl, Marsha

Feel The Love - Rudimental, John Newman

The Rockafeller Skank - Fatboy Slim

#6. chill beats to shit and piss to | 90 songs, 6hr 57min total length, median song length 4m 20s

An Ending (Ascent) - Brian Eno

Sympathique - Pink Martini

My Tears Are Becoming A Sea - M83

#7. theme tunes for a hopeless romantic | 112 songs, 6hr 27min total length, median song length 3m 29s

I Belong In Your Arms - Chairlift

Je te laisserai des mots - Patrick Watson

This Charming Man - The Smiths

#8. britpop | 86 songs, 5hr 38min total length, median song length 3m 50s

Common People - Pulp

Chelsea Dagger - The Fratellis

Inbetweener - Sleeper

#9. boys night out playlist (co-created with three friends) | 94 songs, 5hr 31min total length, median song length 3m 24s

Paddling Out - Miike Snow

SPIT IN MY FACE! - ThxSoMuch

Novocaine - Valentino Khan, Kayzo

#10. the songs I do air guitar to when nobody's looking | 96 songs, 5hr 24min total length, median song length 3m 19s

Lobotomy For Dummies - Zebrahead

Lights and Sounds - Yellowcard

Blackjack - Airbourne

#11. summer: the motion picture soundtrack | 77 songs, 4hr 49min total length, median song length 3m 42s

16 - Craig David

Cheerleader - Felix Jaehn, OMI

How Bizarre - OMC

#12. random shit with a vaguely American teen movie from the late 90s or early 2000s-theme | 75 songs, 4hr 21min total length, median song length 3m 23s

Seven Days In The Sun - Feeder

Maureen - Fountains of Wayne

Partners In Crime - Vibrolux

#13. classical music | 40 songs, 3hr 22min total length, median song length 4m 29s

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op.64, Act I, Scene II: Dance of the Knights - Sergei Prokofiev, André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra

13 Pieces, Op. 76: No.2 Etude - Jean Sibelius, Håvard Gimse

Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332: II. Adagio - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maria João Pires

#14. i am literally humphrey bogart | 43 songs, 3hr 13min total length, median song length 4m 32s

Loungin' - Donald Byrd, Guru

My Queen Is Albertina Sisulu - Sons Of Kemet

Beatmaker - Matt Berry, Emma Noble

#15. kurtzing the gesagt | 24 songs, 2hr 56min total length, median song length 6m 55s

Alien Scale - Epic Mountain

Dyson Sphere - Epic Mountain

All The Bombs - Epic Mountain

#16. tofu delivery beats | 30 songs, 2hr 30min total length, median song length 4m 48s

SPACE BOY - EXTENDED ver. - Dave Rodgers

The Top (Extended) - Ken Blast

RUNNING IN THE 90'S - Max Coveri

#17. music to start a cyberpunk revolution to | 49 songs, 2hr 28 min total length, median song length 2m 58s

Stardust Circuit - Starjunk 95

Daft. - Kosu

Lost (Instrumental) - PYLOT

#18. nucking futs (goes fucking nuts) | 48 songs, 2hr 16min total length, median song length 2m 52s

Ready Set - Joey Valence, Brae

Get Your Dad Off The Internet - Dr. Syntax, Tom Caruana

BERRIS FUELLER - Billy Marchiafava

#19. valentine's day | 24 songs, 1hr 37min total length, median song length 4m 02s

About You - The 1975

Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer

Can't Help Falling In Love - Lick The Tins

#20. childhood ruined | 20 songs, 1hr 3min total length, median song length 2m 36s

So Long - Randy Newman

Stuff We Did - Michael Giacchino

Leaving Hogwarts - John Williams

#21. falling in love on a bridge in an old english city | 34 songs, 59min 41sec total length, median song length 1m 34s

Cambridge, 1963 - Jóhann Jóhannsson

Travel To Edinburgh - Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil

Whiffing - Borrtex

Hope you enjoyed this stupidly lengthy view into my music taste, if you've managed to read this far! I have no idea why I did this!

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On the one hand, I am once again wide awake at 1am because my belly hurts, the latest in a long line of unrelated ailments that seemingly insist on forming an orderly queue and playing out one after the other over years, instead of being mostly well with the occasional bout of sickness here and there like a normal person.

On the other hand, I just scored a barely used second-hand Keystep Pro, and a massively discounted B-stock DSM-03, a module I didn't even know existed until I stumbled across the listing. (In fact, I never even knew Dave Smith Instruments made modules, however briefly.)

The basic concept is Karplus-Strong in a box, but because it's Eurorack, all the building blocks have their own inputs and outputs. Karplus-Strong is a "plucked string" synthesis technique that works by feeding a short noise pulse into a feedback loop consisting of a low-pass filter and precisely timed delay, so you end up with a repeating wave with frequency based on the delay time, and decay as each repeat goes through the filter. Breaking that into its component parts, this module lets you feed in any audio, not just its internal noise pulse; the attack & decay of the noise pulse can be tweaked; and the filter cutoff & resonance, feedback loop gain, and delay length are CV-controlled. I particularly like how, with a smeared long attack noise pulse, it starts to sound panpipe-y.

The Erica Synths Pico Voice has a Karplus-Strong mode, which I used for the "guitar" on this track - along with overdrive for grit, a dash of volt/octave tuned squeal from a self-oscillating filter, a touch of reverb, then feeding the whole post-oscillator signal chain back on itself and blending back in with the dry stopping *just* before the point where notes would devolve into feedback whine rather than fade away, because why use real hardware if you aren't going to abuse feedback loops in ways DAWs can't do?

But I kind of like having the "real thing" in a module. Plus the thrill of having scored something slightly rare for a bargain price. The Pico Voice, being a fully digital, 3HP module, is awesome at doing exactly what it is advertised as doing, but has no patching potential beyond being an oscillator.

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However, it's 10HP I hadn't planned to fill this way; I had a plan for the remaining space in my case and this wasn't part of it. Oh well. A problem for future self. 🙃

The Keystep Pro I had planned to get for a while, because up until now I've only had a cheap keyboard with USB MIDI out, and only a single channel 16 step hardware sequencer, so I've had to have my PC on & DAW running, relying on MIDI-to-CV to actually pay my modular rig. Which kind of sucks for experimenting/meditating, and rules out live jamming, when you only have two CV outs and no expression or pitch bend. So I might start streaming at some point, just casually on twitch maybe.

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Ian plays guitar - he has a 1980 Takamine Hirade Model 8 that he learned (badly) on. He bought it thinking maybe it would help him be more sociable and hit on men. Spoiler: it didn't.

Kazuo played bass - he had a red 1999 Rickenbacker 4003 and played in a shitty punk band when he worked at the bar. After the accident, he passed it on to Anders.

Anders learns to play bass as a way to relax and to make Kazuo proud of him. Joke's on him - Kazuo was always proud of him.

Gav never really considered instruments until he got pulled into a trip to Guitar Center for Ian to buy new strings. He falls in love with a synthesizer and Ian asks if he wants it. It's a pricey Dave Smith keyboard synth, and Gav hesitates, but Ian has zero problem buying things to make his loved ones happy. Gav teaches himself to play through YouTube.

Young Ian plays Uilleann bagpipes because Dermot thought it would be nice for the boy to learn a traditional Irish instrument. He does not play well and it sounds like a semi truck running over a flock of geese. Good job, Dermot.