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Never really got over to the Berkeley campus to take pictures until today. Definitely mean to go back soon.
Olympus EP-2 micro 4/3rds with 17mm f2.8 kit lens. Was preoccupied with shadows, reflections, and lines.
After getting over the fact that my boyfriend and I got each other the *exact same thing* this year for Christmas, we got to putting them together and playing around with them. Which was awesome because they were Meeblip DIY Synthesizer kits. This little 16bit digital synth kit is super easy to put together, and really fun to play. Here’s a short video I put together documenting the build and some of the sounds it’s capable of :
What is the Meeblip good at doing? I would say it excels at certain kinds of bass sounds (like the two-tone electro bass in the video above), noise runs, and even can pull off a decent wubwub. The LFO is great to play with when routed to the filter.
That said, I wish it had a little more range. The filter can be hard to dial in, it wont self-oscillate, and the envelope is really tricky to get *just* right. It’s hard to get a good distorted Acid bassline out of this thing, for instance.
That said, for 100 bucks and a little hard work, the Meeblip is a wonderful little piece of kit. I had as much fun building it as I have playing it, and I’m not really one to get off on soldering. It’s opened the door to other possibilities in terms of DIY synth building (808 clones and PAIA Fatman, watch out), which in itself is a great gift.
More info here : meeblip.noisepages.com
Happy New Years Eve, everybody!
Sitting around in my pajamas this morning, listening to some of my favorite tracks from 2011 (and a few from other years, maybe) and decided to share with the rest of the world. Not a super technical, surgical affair, mind you… more like a “mix-from-the-couch” sort of thing. But don’t let that dissuade you!
It’s a mix looking back over 2011 musically, while turning to face the rising sun of a new year. Hope you enjoy, and hope your leap into the future tonight is filled with light.
Download through Dropbox here (right-click “save as”) : Jeremy Blake — Look Both Ways
Stream through MixCloud :
Tracklist :
01. Toro Y Moi — Freak Love
02. A Gap Between — Orange Horizon
03. Jacob 2 – 2 — Nanny
04. Washed Out — Before
05. Vacationer — Trip
06. Neon Indian — Psychic Chasms (Anoraak Remix)
07. Stars — The Black House, The Blue Sky (Stars vs. Montag)
08. Lusine — Gravity
09. Dusty Springfield — Song Of A Preacher Man (Holtoug Bootleg)
10. Young Galaxy — Peripheral Visionaries
11. Eliot Lipp — It’s Time To Leave (Pretty Lights Remix)
12. Matthew Dear — You Put A Smell On Me (Breakbot Remix)
13. Onra — Change Of Heart
14. Com Truise — Iwywaw (Teeel Remix)
15. Erlend Øye — Lullaby & A Place in My Heart (Acapella)
16. Young Galaxy — We Have Everything
17. Gotye — Somebody That I Used To Know
18. Tycho — Dive (Radio Edit)
Barry Goldberg — Soothe Me (Savage Beast Edit) by jeremyblake
I found Barry Goldberg’s self-titled album (produced by Bob Dylan and Jerry Wexler!) randomly a few months ago. It’s got a lot of good stuff going on. This track particularly caught my ear and demanded a little re-rub action.
The whole thing sort of fell together on it’s own, actually. I had been building a session in Ableton Live for manipulating a bunch of vintage jazz and space-funk, trying to create an on-the-fly re-edit playlist. “Soothe Me” fell into line so well with the baeleric disco thing that it got it’s own session.
I used a bunch of Kontakt instruments to get this where it is now. The bass, claves, guitar, and organ are all Kontakt. I used variable side-chain compression to get the track to fit with a new, punchier, kick / snare. One of the big challenges was marrying the distinct vintage production of the original with something more modern, but a bit of creative compression and EQ helped a lot.
So here ya go : a disco-slow-jam re-work of a 1974 “classic”.
Check out the original “Soothe Me” on Youtube
