Soylent Ramen releases on                      Industrial Sustenance/Broke_Fi Recordings

      IND_000  Bank of Sodom (2001)       

                                                 https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-bank-of-sodom

             IND_001   Radio Unfriendly Dingus Pipe (Original Session) (2004)

                                        https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-radio-unfriendly-dingus-pipe-original-session
       

      IND_001B   Radio Unfriendly Dingus Pipe:The Broke_Fi Sessions (2018)

                      https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-radio-unfriendly-dingus-pipe-the-broke-fi-sessions

          IND_002  The Gods Must Be Douchebags (Original Session) (2005)

                

                https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-the-gods-must-be-douchebags-original-session

             IND_002B  The Gods Must Be Douchebags:The Broke_Fi Sessions (2018)

                 

https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-the-gods-must-be-douchebags-the-broke-fi-sessions

               IND_003 Music to Torture Detainees (2018)

       https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-music-to-torture-detainees 

           IND_004  Infrared Sauna (2020)

                    https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-infrared-sauna

         IND_005  Pipe (2020)

            https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-pipe

          IND_007  Whack Zeppelin (2020)

           https://archive.org/details/soyent-ramen-whack-zeppelin

          IND_008 Wake Up and Fail Live @Deepness (2021)

  

   https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-wake-up-and-fail-live-at-deepness

      IND_009  Courtesy Flush (2021)

https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-courtesy-flush

   IND_010  Virtually Unnoticeable (Live) (2022)

     https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-virtually-unnoticeable-live

    IND_011 Narcissisted Suicide (2022)

   

 https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-narcissisted-suicide

         IND_012 Vagina Dentata in the Epoch of Mishappiness (2023)

https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-vagina-dentata-in-the-epoch-of-mishappiness

      IND_014 Aesthetic Proctology (Live) (2023)

   https://archive.org/details/soylent-ramen-aesthetic-proctology-live

      Okay, so this is how the sounds get made live-more or less. The Tascam being the pivot point that joins the two systems and gives most of the levels that trademark Broke_Fi clip and buzz. 

       1) The main laptop (which does NOT angle downward far enough to get a superlative, professional-looking camera shot. Sorry about that). Contains the Glauco sequencer with all the presets and MIDI plugins not coming from the Music Station (immediate right)

       2) The Tascam, Grunge Box for a little extra nasty, 

       3) Asus tablet (atop Dell Almighty) mainly used to house extra samples and other audio files dropped into the mix via the selfsame Glauco sequencer albeit in a stripped down 2-track freeware version. A bitch to see a lot of the time when sharing the tablet's meager screen with multiple windows, including but not limited to a horrible camera shot....

       4) The SA 10. Yeah it's probably the single most underrated piece of musical equipment in the history of the synthesizer. We're talking deserted island shit here, my Ramenites. It's the ethanol that makes the dragster leave that distinct smell all over the venue.

                  I sincerely hope I have satisfactorily illumined what's going on in the shadows. I'm currently bidding on a couple of mid-range additions that I believe will fit into the current scheme and there's a "Buzz Box" pedal created by that Melvins guy I'm also seriously considering giving the proverbial day in court but, for now what you see here is what I'm workin' with. I gotta say I'm overall very satisfied with the results yielded soundwise. So there ya go....

                                                   thanks for the interest

                                                         ,Soyl

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pFNnPSaK3uT8x5o8gs2UrTN0eZk3d-8   

     The "Wake Up and Fail" package. With the better of the two camera angles (marginally) synced with the soundboard audio, which I'm extremely happy with. Not bad at all for a couple freeware sequencers and archaic synthesizers. The audio package will be available from the online store posthaste. The second angle may be uploaded at a later date, if I can find the stomach for the task. The video editing software has its limitations, but I'm definitely considering making a "mini-set" I've agreed to in the future into a full-on multimedia presentation. Stay tuned for that and also a diagram of my invisible setup from the above video shortly....

                        Thanks,

                       Your Brother in Circuitry, 

                           Soylent

     It was time to upload another one of these original session tapes from the early 00's. The original version was actually recorded onto the Porta02. I actually played the bass part (on a bass that is long gone-I believe it was a Fender, if my memory is correct.) ran thru the Grunge box just like the synth riff on newer version. I'm pretty sure I overdid it on the Arnold Murray samples, but the man was just a goldmine of material.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3EQXq0cv3Y&t=8s

   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NncjK_dG6qg&t=37s

  So, I was going through several older cassettes looking for material to throw into the mix on the new project I'm working on when I found what appears to be an extra take of Dogboy and Substrance (which originally were actually recorded consecutively) that I can barely discern, in the recesses of my memory, even recording let alone whether it was actually captured before or after the version I ended up using on the album.  I'm leaning towards before,  just from the way certain things sound when juxtaposed against the album version, but I'm in no way positive about this...

     Needless to say, it was a pleasant surprise to find still intact and listenable (after a fashion) and also transferrable across multiple file formats that all treated the original recording fairly well. Also happily, YouTube accepted the entire 17-minute suite (including the bonus noises at the end) within their often meager time constraints- at 26 minutes, "Fistful of Bimbos" was rejected as too long. Now I'm considering uploading it in two parts if  I can find a suitable place to divide them.

    Anyway thanks to all those who have shown interest in my library of work, past and present, and I hope you enjoy.

                                        As ever,

                                       Soylent

                                         https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pFNnPSaK3uC8Tb3HC692k6G-9NgsQlF
 

        Whack Zeppelin (front and back covers displayed) was meant to be a full "concept" album -much like  Infrared Sauna- whilst also a departure from anything coherent or pleasant in terms of compositional structure. Indeed its purpose was to disturb the listener's psyche as well as offend their sensibilities. The sequencer presets as well as the FX69 Grunge Box were employed to push nearly every level in the equalizer over the top - at least in the cases where the tracks weren't laden with plenty of circuit noise and interference already.

            While certainly only a semi-serious undertaking at best when devised, the process of crafting the actual tracks and the transitions between them ended up being every bit as tedious and sometimes maddening a process as the recording of "Sauna" was but in the end I'm very happy with the final result. Rest assured, that in no way means I didn't spend as much time in cringe mode listening to the final full product back as the average casual listener will. Of this I'm sure. Mission accomplished.

           There are further ideas in the proverbial cooker presently but I don't see myself releasing and/or uploading any future projects a track at a time as I have been. I feel I'd much prefer to have the entire finished collection of tracks ready all at once from now on-at least that's how I feel about it for now....

                                                 Thanks for your interest.

                                                    Your faithful friend, 

                                                        Soylent               

    Never actually recorded anything "for" anyone per se but an old social media cohort's last cryptic post about "swimming in a sea of statins" was the inspiration for the closer of this noise foray.

    A seemingly harmonious co-existence of machines/equipment, at least for a temporary period is what I was going for and feel like I captured fairly well. 

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6UkNRK25Sw&list=PL_pFNnPSaK3uC8Tb3HC692k6G-9NgsQlF&index=8&t=10s