just john
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Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM
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This version is from mid-April: Deep Zed
And, as always, I have no idea what genre this should be under, since "spacing out with my orange box" isn't a listed option.
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Danny K
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Monday, July 14, 2008 at 5:16 PM
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its like frogs having a conversation in the forest. Jazz frogs wearing shades....
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A Bit Crusher
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 7:28 AM
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Will listen later on.....
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~ Absurdist Lover ~
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 8:18 AM
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This is distinctly swampy, I like it! I imagine it as an ambiance for a computer game location or film, or a midway resting place for some long auditory voyage.
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(((stereofect)))
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 8:57 AM
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A nice experimentally progressive piece. Not too harsh. Not too soft. Just right.....
Steve
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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Subtronik
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 3:51 PM
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Reminds me of something Frank Zappa might produce.
JJ, where on the scale of 1 to 10 would you put this for your work? Do you have something else I could hear that you'd give really high marks for? I'd just like to get a better feel for your work overall.
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just john
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 6:21 PM
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Thanks, all. (I was worried that I was nuts for liking this track so much.*)
Subtronik: Listening-wise for me, it's certainly the most addictive thing I've done in a long time. Somewhat more complex in structure but related in execution are the two other new tracks on my local page, Windhandle and imiopia.
Then you might wander off to here if your curiousity and patience remain unexhausted. Gryltose is meant as a modern Raymond Scott sort of thing and Haunt You, Babe is the "rock hit."
* And yes, now I realize: I'm nuts for totally different reasons.
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Subtronik
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 8:17 PM
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I just listened to Windhandle and my brain feels raped 
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just john
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 8:33 PM
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Some brains need that.
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Subtronik
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 8:43 PM
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Well if my brain gets pregnant you're paying for the abortion.
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A Bit Crusher
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 8:17 AM
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Listening....
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Sonic Wallpaper
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:03 AM
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that Frog sound that Danny's referring to - that's quite an odd sound there! It seems like it's hollowed out and we're hearing the shell of the sound.
i think one of the cool things are 'experimental' music is that you have fewer cues as to what to expect, so the listening experience is much more of an adventure. I think it also make the music more visual. I'm seeing synchronized machinery, pistons, gears - yet they're organic by design.
the frog sound at around 5:00 changed up a bit - he sounds stressed out now 
Are you hand programming recordings like this or playing some parts in?
Interesting track JJ. Thanks for posting.
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just john
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:49 AM
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Sonic Wallpaper wrote:that Frog sound that Danny's referring to - that's quite an odd sound there! It seems like it's hollowed out and we're hearing the shell of the sound. i think one of the cool things are 'experimental' music is that you have fewer cues as to what to expect, so the listening experience is much more of an adventure. I think it also make the music more visual. I'm seeing synchronized machinery, pistons, gears - yet they're organic by design. the frog sound at around 5:00 changed up a bit - he sounds stressed out now Are you hand programming recordings like this or playing some parts in? Interesting track JJ. Thanks for posting.
Thanks!
First, let me remind you that an adjective I use in this track's blurb is "shameless."
The basic thing is a pattern I've been building on the XL-7 ever since the week I bought the thing, over half a decade ago. No, don't imagine painstaking craftsmanship here, I mean every now and then I've added tracks onto it when the mood (and vodka) hit me.
So what's recorded here is a pretty much straight playback of that pattern, and the live things I do are individual part enabling/disabling plus tweaking the synth parameters on that one part. And yes, it tickles the hell out of me how that thing that starts out as a bullfrog-like rhythmic figure goes on to become a pad that sounds like a sleeper's snoring sounds (to the sleeper.) But that's something I hit upon the evening I recorded this.
I do a similar thing to a drum part on imiopia, which you may notice about three quarters of the way through. (That track is also more complex because I fiddle with where the repeats begin and end.)
By the way, for more organic/machine sort of stuff, you might try Procedural. It's from a few years back, and there's no tweakage.
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A Bit Crusher
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 11:01 AM
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Hi John, although I often like music with a minimal touch, this just doesn't work for me...(listened several times)
The 'Frog'- sound is intrigueing (did I spell this correctly???), but for me after a while it gets a bit boring....
But...I think it could work as background-music for a game or something like that...
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just john
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 11:42 AM
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ABC -- Thanks for listening.
Hellpope Huey sez he's working on putting something on top of this track.
And, as noted above, I do have busier stuff, if that's more to your liking.
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A Bit Crusher
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 2:24 PM
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just john wrote:.....
And, as noted above, I do have busier stuff, if that's more to your liking.
Sometimes it can get too busy.....
Seriously....I have the feeling this track isn't finished yet....I really think the basics are OK..
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just john
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RE: Newly Uploaded: Deep Zed
Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 5:56 PM
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A Bit Crusher wrote:
Seriously....I have the feeling this track isn't finished yet....I really think the basics are OK..
Feel free to have at it!
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