The latest installment in the Analogik series is here! This time I've veered from the orignal concept a bit in that I decided not to stick to the original only modulars formula. Percussion and some post processing is done on computer and an Elektron Machinedrum as well as a Korg Monotribe. Also, this time around I'm using my own modular which amongst other things, has a Tiptop Audio Z-DSP, Cylonix Cyclebox, The Harvestman Piston Honda and many other digital modules.
We got to release Awt's excellent "Lost Found – Found Lost Love Album" on OXO-Unlimited today I've got to say I'm really excited about it! It's a really good album, when I first heard some of the tracks at the Blipp Blopp festival we arranged at Kulturhuset in Stockholm I was totally blown away. Now these incredible tracks have found a home, what are you waiting for?
Limit Cycle EP, containing the tracks Limit Cycle, Ax34 Suimle, Tryastvec Pattern and Mosaic, has just been released by Fools Forest! This EP basically started out with me getting into the Max4Live beta, spawning the track Ax34 Suimle. When Fabian at Fools Forest heard it, he said he wanted to release it and I said go ahead. Limit Cycle followed Ax34 Suimle and then Tryastvec Pattern. At that point there were going to be just those three tracks but before Fabian had the time to finish up the cover artwork I finished Mosaic.
These four tracks are in a sense experiments: They are all made using possibilities open up by Max4Live, the extension to Ableton's Live sequencing software, which allows for easier control over things such as algorithmic composition. And this EP is filled of just that. Variations on the concept spawned by Per Nørgaard's Infinity Series are restrained by mutating scale quantizers while psuedo-random pattern and weighted random generators create constantly moving rythmic material. These numbers comes to life via synthesizers in which all sound parameters are slightly, slowly moving, creating an organic texture of sounds. These tracks could have been created before Max4Live of course, but I can only imagine having to spend at least 6 months on every track, working out these tremendously complex mathematical relations between the notes by hand, in a traditional sequencing enviroment.
With this, I would also like to say that Max4Live is quite possibly, in my opinion, the greatest innovation within music technology in the 00's!
I hope you'll enjoy listening to it as much as I did making it!
I'm very proud to announce the release of Retrospective EP, released by The Centrifuge, home of prestigious drill n' bass artists Neutek, Gasman, Mark Swift, Gareth Clarke and many more!
"An action packed bumper 8-track EP from Sweden's Veqtor, curator of the OXO-Unlimited netlabel and all round hardware/software demon. The release twists and turns between melodic junglism, max/msp-fuelled glitch explorations and a dirty, dub techno vibe."