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

Fuchsia Outhouse

     Built around a double-tracked note from one of the lovely Glauco presets, more an obvious homage to than a blatant ripoff of someone that you will know if you're halfass cool.

    It helps that treating my own vocals would be part of the design of such a homage because it's the best way to make them not quite as boring to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-XlMvnyWnc&t=46s

There's something to be said for creating a heavy groove and then taking it apart. Any suspected homages will be neither denied nor confirmed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cBHvVM50dk&t=133s