Archive for February, 2008

rpm challenge: finished

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

It’s done. One track, 36′41″:
State Vector Collapse - Unlistenable Yet Far Less Annoying Than The Sounds Looping Continuously Inside My Head
It’s basically one continuous power electronics piece, so if you’re not sure what you’re getting yourself into, here are some smaller excerpts:
Unlistenable Excerpt A
Unlistenable Excerpt B
A postmortem analysis will be forthcoming.

rpm challenge: the conundrum

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

It’s been a hectic time since I last posted. Lots of encroachments from Real Life have left me with less studio time than intended, but that’s just the nature of this modern, wiggly world…
The time that I have been working on music has been split about 70/30 between learning production techniques in Ableton Live through [...]

rpm challenge: rebuilding the sound

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

I’m pretty close to having a working set of instrumentation now. The drums are solid and I’m getting better at controlling the guitar. I’ve got a few solid, simple, easy to control noise-based synths patched together that sound good. Most of the last few nights have been filled with experiments in trying to get the [...]

soulburn rapoxtech backcatalog posted for download as mp3

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Here’s our backcatalogue in mp3 format:
}hexdump{ - Unit (1994)

Prophecy
Iyam, Master of the Universe
Transdermal
Consume or Die!

}hexdump{ - Nybble Plus 2 (1995)

}hexdump{ vs. the International Shadow Government
Warped
United States of Production
Encapsulate
Diminished Expectations
Neurobyte (live)
Stalking the Interim Enterprise
Xenophobe Circus
Technojunkyard
Re-Entry (O-Ring Malfunction in Engine Two)
Nybble (Bit Bucket Bottom Breach)
Zen Kitchen (Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Buddha mix)
Cabin Fever

da’ath [...]

rpm challenge: subliminal inspiration techniques

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Sunday was pretty much a wash, as I got pulled into a non-musical project that lasted all day. There were poodles, raspberries and Latin involved. Don’t ask, it’s complicated. =8)
One thing I did get done on Sunday was putting together an mp3 compilation that’s going to serve as an inspirational soundtrack over the course of [...]

rpm challenge: drum rush

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

It’s taken most of the day, but I finally got the drum kit built and behaving. I’ve already got some patterns programmed for the first song as a test, and it’s working very well so far.
This evening has been spent familiarizing myself with the different synth instrument plugins and noisemakers that I plan to use [...]

rpm challenge: tripping at the start

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Fresh from the daily work-grind this evening, I hit the studio running… I started Live and patched in a set of VSTi plugins in efforts to start building a wall of noise. Unfortunately, after a few minutes of noodling, I found that three of the keys on my M-Audio Oxygen 8 magically stopped working at [...]