Not only happy with the final mix but also with the reception.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Neoaw7j_gGo&t=16s

In the latest Broke_Fi development: It turns out a potential failed soldering project is no longer necessary as the "5 AA batteries" restoration method has ensured the SA-10 (yes, THAT SA-10) is operational. No, I won't be leaving the batteries in when it's not being used and any amount of bummed-ness about not starting my first official c-bending project is replaced with the joy putting an old friend back to use in the studio scheme. Yeah this pretty much changes the game as they say...

Stay tuned and stay safe
                 SR

     The re-recording of the alternate mixes from the Dingus Pipe sessions is ongoing. The concept for the original "bonus disc" was nothing fancy; a few tracks that had riffs or other sound snips running at staggered intervals were recorded with the loops running simultaneously and the samples were re-embellished and certain surprises were added.
     Broke_Fi has come somewhat forward from the days of Acid 2.0 as has its methods of preserving its recorded output. Meaning I'm able to find the sunny side of my rectum often enough to get a few things done.
         The first track of three, courtesy of the generous folks at YouTube:

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLyQeoSFf58&t=9s



    Photos of the recent studio re-arrangement are forthcoming.

                                                               Ramen on, dudes
                                                                      SR

                                                Front and back inlays for "Infrared Sauna"


Just a shade over 22 minutes of minimalist machinations.

     It tends to be, in many ways, a true industrial E.P. I wanted the drums to sound as manufactured as they possibly could and that's one of the aspects of the overall recording that I'm probably the most satisfied with. The FX^69 Grunge box works well at putting obscene distortion on certain things. The presets on the studio app used to record and master these tracks also put effects into others that blew them right out of the water.
           The Soundcloud Playlist features the original mix of "Fine Lines", which was mixed on one of Dell Almighty's final days.
               https://soundcloud.com/chris-rafferty-806599000/sets/infrared-sauna



        The YouTube playlist contains the remastered version, which will be the track used on released copies.
                     https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_pFNnPSaK3sV3oMLor9VKkFs42CVZwDy

             

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-4OghPVdVA&list=PL_pFNnPSaK3sV3oMLor9VKkFs42CVZwDy&index=6&t=36s
So evidently, someone looped the drum fill for "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins for 30 minutes several years ago now. Not sure what their motivation was, but it has been used in a few projects that are floating around out there now. After a very short time, I realized this would be very effective as the basis of a composition. I figured -it would be complimented well by the "Known bug" setting from Reaktor 5. The rest of it is obviously my double- tracked voice and assorted outbursts from the Synths. The FX69 and presets from the DAW added a heavy amount of distortion.
  I felt like it was a good closing track for the album.

The vocals on this consist largely of material culled from a mountain of cassettes from the Mushroom Concern sessions with a few new additions to make a somewhat cohesive ,...well I dunno if "song" would be the right label to put on it (hell, I'm not even 100% comfortable even describing it as cohesive, now that I think about it), but I'm certainly pleased with the overall results- despite the fact that I had to spend a more-than-desired amount of time working around the limitations of a lot of my equipment that have ended up staring me in the face. That said, I certainly wasn't expecting to be finished with this track, but I sat down to see what I could drop into it and get done with it and the final necessary elements just fell into place. So here we are. Which is good, because the meat of the next (and final) track is already in the mental blender.
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHPQaIf2qF0&feature=emb_logo

Hope you enjoy.

    So I was talking to someone about how I honestly didn't have the stomach for a fuck-ton of Peter Sotos' work & they told me about his project where he transcribed conversations between Jamie Gillis and his "muses"- which I have to admit sounds interesting the way it was sold to me. After watching an interlude on the youtube that preceded one of his readings at St. Marks bookshop, I was scrolling the comments and it was pointed out the understated sexiness of the pleasant demeanor of a girl in the front row to his immediate left in the red leather jacket (who I had noticed since I love girls in leather jackets, nothing against black, mind you, but especially colors other than black) and a link to one of her performances was proffered in one of the replies. The rest is history.
    Of the musical pieces I've listened to & performances I've watched, I've definitely found them enjoyable, but the blog is where the truly fabulous, amazing body of her other forms of work is most impressive to me.
     This comes with the Soylent seal.
 http://lcvonhessen.blogspot.com/

           In the Broke_Fi related queue of upcoming trash & treasure files: The vocal horseplay is complementing the current track's use of a bare-bones freeware sequencer I installed a couple months back and a couple other pastiches of found sound and blatantly obvious homages quite nicely thank you. As are the logistics of the upcoming set @Deepness (last word was it was taking place sometime in spring 2020 - outside on the patio, weather permitting). And as it appears the original master of "Pipe" ( three extraneous mixes from the Dingus Pipe sessions) has been destroyed beyond playability, I've set about re-recording and re-embellishing them and so far am pleased with the results.

Sequencer at "work":

   You'll also all see this in the usual spots. Thanks for your time and interest.
                                          Soylent