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mummyshroud - Soul Scrap! [tracks]

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:20:00 +0000

A new track from LA's mummyshroud hits the internets! This one's dubbed 'Soul Scrap!' and features some characteristically lush production blending dancehall, hip-hop and blunted soul with a crunchy trashcan beat and enough funk to ride to in your drop top. You know what to do!

The Cremation of Care: Record Label Records Festival [gigs]

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:30:00 +0000

All the California readers out there take note! Bay Area-based Record Label Records is hosting their first 2 day festival on September 23rd & 24th at Zool in Oakland and it's a massive line-up chock full of Gravity Halo regulars. "Cremation of Care" is the first ever multi-day festival from RLR and here's hoping they continue it annually if they're able to put together acts like this. Tickets are $9 per night or $15 for a 2-day pass and both nights offer plenty to drool over.

Friday Sept 23rd:

Wisp (rephlex, sublight, recordlabelrecords)
Brian E (recordlabelrecords)
Identity Theft (recordlabelrecords, katabatik)
R.M.S. (katabatik)
Fluorescent Grey (recordlabelrecords, isolate)
DJ Brindle Spork (recordlabelrecords, tigerbeat6)
DJ Paul Wolfowitz (PNAC)

Saturday Sept 24th:

Terminal 11 (hymen, phthalo, recordlabelrecords)
Exillon (ad noiseam, recordlabelrecords)
Xanopticon (zhark, hymen)
Scuzi (recordlabelrecords)
Kush Arora (recordlabelrecords, kap)
William S Braintree (recordlabelrecords, futureimage)
Thee Source Ov Fawnation (psydust, katabatik)
DJ John Yoo (torture memos)

Visuals by Circuit5, and intermission films by RLR

Presale tickets are available from the RLR site and you can view the Facebook event here.

Oxynucid - Refreshed & Compressed [albums]

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:15:00 +0000

Oxynucid has been a busy boy lately, prepping his upcoming "Vault 13" full-length on Complex Sound Sagacity, gigging, playing festivals and even helming the August Rotation here on the Gravity Halo site. And somehow in the middle of all that, he's found the time to deliver these 20 searing bangers in the form of "Refreshed & Compressed", available as a digital download from his Bandcamp page for ₤6.99.

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These 20 tracks are loaded with fuzzy synths, emotive melodies and video game landscapes paired with an almost shoegazey vibe that really sets Oxynucid apart from the pack...it's even got a Radiohead cover (of sorts). While more of a compilation of assorted tracks than a cohesive album, this one is well worth the time and money and will almost certainly get you hyped up for the "Vault 13" release.

Acidburp / Rat-Faced Boy EP [albums]

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:35:00 +0000

<p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://acidburp.bandcamp.com/album/acidburp-rat-faced-boy-ep"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Acidburp / Rat Faced Boy EP by acidburp &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; rat faced boy&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;</p>

Multiple personality disorder is a rare and misunderstood mental condition. Sometimes, a patient's MPD can turn ugly. In some exceedingly rare circumstances one personality can turn on another, creating such cognitive dissonance within the patient that recovery becomes nearly impossible. Please note the case of Acidburp vs Rat-Faced Boy. In this study, patient A, herein referred to as Acidburp - a normal English man in his early 30s - began showing signs of a second personality, who referred to himself as Rat-Faced Boy. While early treatments showed signs of the Acidburp personality maintaining a dominant role in the patient's psychology, when heavy doses of acid were administered through the aural pathways, CAT scans showed that Rat-Faced Boy's prominence began to grow within certain areas of the brain. Repeated tests involving various doses of acid all yielded similar results and the conclusion was drawn that in select cases personalities could be called up and controlled with some reliability. For now, the Acidburp/Rat-Faced Boy personalities remain compartmentalized within the mind of the patient, but concerns have been made by many medical officials that further testing could result in a complete collapse of cognitive function.

RAVELAND - this friday in Belgium

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:41:00 +0000

CLICK ON PHOTO FOR TICKETS AND MORE INFO...

http://raveland.be

D&D

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:33:00 +0000

who is this then? - the music that is
Latest tracks by d&d

Sitar Sessions 2

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:10:00 +0000

Sitar Sessions 2 by Oxynucid

Sitar Sessions 1

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:08:00 +0000

Sitar Sessions 1 by Oxynucid

Sitar Sessions

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:17:00 +0000

interested at all in hearing the results?

Setting up for todays Sitar recording sessions

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:15:00 +0000

LIVE @ FREELECTRONICA

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:03:00 +0000

you can possibly download my recent live set here

Mumkai - Pistola [tracks]

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:35:00 +0000

I haven't been updating much lately, mostly because I moved into a new place last month, which was a huge ordeal...unfortunately, while I was away I missed a lot of cool stuff. Our boy Mumkai has been doing his thing down in Los Angeles, playing a bunch of shows around town since the release of his EP1 on Gravity Halo and he also dropped this new track, "Pistola" recently. In fact, this isn't a new track, but a new version of an old unreleased track that we posted many moons ago when we first profiled Mumkai. Check out the track below and stay tuned for more upcoming show dates!

PISTOLA by Mumkai

Freelectronica

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:14:00 +0000

iAM9

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:25:00 +0000

heres a track i did with the beautiful and talented iAM9, who is currently working on a full length with the equally beautiful and talented Mrs Jynx.

visit back later on tomorrow for (hopefully) some live videos and pics of FREELECTRONICA

peas

freelectronica

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:43:00 +0000

i am playing at this tomorrow with some other droogies in London

in the process of deciding whether or not to take the MS10 with me

i do want a curry though

Acid Tea Party

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:39:00 +0000

reaktor + rebirth + ms10 + flute + accordion + acoustic guitar + electric guitar + bass guitar = acid tea party

and you will know me by the trail of fried chicken

noreply@blogger.com (Oxynucid) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:14:00 +0000

well for the next month i have to do my best not to play too much minecraft and spend some time writing to you.

feel free to ask any questions or whatever

for now im just gonna post videos you may not have seen

that ok with you?

me on ms10

the doog on drums

and stevolution on guitar and i think goose on keys

anyway as you can see improvisation is a passion

Rotation 8: Oxynucid

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:45:00 +0000

Surprise! I've decided to merge the Rotation(s) blog with the normal site, so from now on all you'll find all of that content here on www.gravityhalo.com. The old posts are being imported, so those should be up soon.

This month we've got Dominick Schofield a.k.a. Oxynucid taking the helm for all of August, so get ready for some knowledge!

Schofield has been on a steady roll for the last few years, producing albums and EPs under the Oxynucid alias as well as teaming up with Vertical67 to record as Moth Conk Midi. He played keys in the indie-electro band Turncoat for 10 years before leaving to pursue his own brand of playful, melody-driven, acid-fused techno IDM for the likes of The Centrifuge, Complex Sound Sagacity and Caoutchou Records.

"Vault 13" is his next release, coming soon on C.S.S., and you can listen to a preview mix of the record below in preparation for his residency here on the blog. Check it out and enjoy!

Acid Adventures - émission #30 : Oxynucid Special by Acid Adventures on Mixcloud

impermance

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:38:00 +0000

Following on from my last post.... if you can think that far back. I'd thought to dig out and post a song from the Split EP I did for Zaftig Research about 8 years ago. It was probably my first attempt at taking a more technique based approach to writing a song. It was when I'd first got my Juno 6 and I was taken by the idea of writing a song using only that and a patch for my Nord Micromodular that was an emulation of the Juno 6. In my own way I was laughing up my cuff about the fact that the elements of the track which sounded more typically "analogue" were generally coming from the Nord and the more abstract and digital components were cut and processed out of recordings from the Juno.

Ah, what a merry japester I was.

Anyway, this all ended in tears when I discovered that my copy of the Split EP is gubbed. Zaftig was a CDr label and it seems that the quality of the CDr's used weren't all that great as when I now play it (or listen to tracks that have been ripped to WAV from it) there is a layer of digital distortion and bit rate weirdness. I think that I'll have back-ups of the old song files somewhere on an old CDr but I'm now wondering whether they'll even read given that they'll be of a similar vintage and are data.

I'm sure there is a lesson to be learned here about backup regimes and such like but I can't put my finger on it. In the meantime, I guess that I can have a trawl through the CDr as it is for some Oval style sample harvesting.

Sendy - Western Avenue & Second Limbo [tracks]

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:15:00 +0000

The elusive Sendy was able to pull herself away from a debilitating Minecraft addiction for long enough to bang out a few serious heat-seekers for your listening pleasure. Check them out below.

Sendy - Western Avenue by Sendy

She strips her typically dense, complex style down a bit for the acid work out "Western Avenue", focusing on a steady beat, throbbing bass and some dreamy synth chords that weave their way throughout the knob twisting.

Sendy - Second Limbo by Sendy

She then returns to her trademark progressive sound on the 8-bit inspired epic "Second Limbo". Featuring some super catchy Mega-man style melodies over a slappy synth bass and drum machine snares, this track is another great evolution of Sendy's recent chip-tinged endeavors. One can actually hear how the pixelated landscapes of Minecraft have seeped into Sendy's musical consciousness, molding tunes that evoke the vast, playful depth of that virtual world.

calibrate your pretentiometers... this is getting messy

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:13:00 +0000

I've recently been starting to pull together some songs with a vague notion about what my next release might be. As I've been going through songs, parts of songs and simple sketches that might be worth expanding on I've noticed that the songs can fall into a few different categories. Which in turn makes me wonder what drives other people to write music... maybe most musicians are more focused and as such more productive?? I'm not sure.

I'd say there are probably three categories: emotive, technique based and little vignettes. By emotive, I mean that the song starts out as an attempt to capture an emotional response perhaps in the way that vocal based song-writers do every day. But it seems moot, because when it's predominately instrumental who's to say I'm not just writing a track about withered prunes. The technique based songs (perhaps these are tracks?!?) are extrapolations of ideas in sound that interest me. Just really looking to come up with something interesting on an aesthetic level. The techniques? Anything from when I'm continuing to explore my home-knitted ideas of music theory to an exploration of specific synthesis methods. Lastly, the vignettes I mention are where there is an event that leave a strong visual impression that I want to describe in sound. I'm trying my best to dodge past the usual cliché's of electronic music being a soundtrack for a film that doesn't exist but perhaps there is a small kernel of truth in there. A good example of this would be the song Thick Accents And Red Leaves from my EP that just came out on Gravity Halo which was about a banal situation involving a Ukranian fellow in autumn.

I suppose one things that marries all of the above together is that I can't write anything when I've an instrument in my hand or I'm in the "studio". I can come up with ideas and "jam" to an extent, but I always find that I write my music away from it as I'm ambling about my daily business when ideas are just percolating away. Harmonic percolating maybe?

But enough for just now. I'll try to get back onto less indulgent footing for next time.

Missqulater / The Carrier Wave Split on Karakasa [albums]

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:00:00 +0000

This short and sassy split EP from Japan's Missqulater and Chicago's The Carrier Wave offers 1 original track from each artist and a remix of the other's original. Lush synth stabs float over playful choral chops, throbbing acid lines and those snappy 808 snares you crave on Missq's offering "Orion Busted". The Carrier Wave's "Gamma 9 Cruise" takes you to the depths of interstellar space with clap attacks, airy pads, a twisting 303 freak and some juicy analog warbles. The remixes, of course, twist and tweak the originals to wonderful new places. I'm especially digging the old school big-beat vibe on Missq's "Gamma" remix.

You can download the split in a myriad of formats from Karakasa's website and I highly recommend that you do so, so as not to appear behind the times when these dudes blow up massively, as they most certainly will. Then you'd just look foolish, wouldn't you?

New William S. Braintree Album on the Way [news]

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:37:00 +0000

Gravity Halo regular William S. Braintree has a new record dropping next month and judging by the previews, it's gonna be a good one!

The full length, titled "House of Meats" will be released on Braintree's own Vae Victis! Records and features some slick artwork by Vincent Giard. It will be available as a digital download via BandCamp, iTunes, Amazon and the like, or as a professionally pressed CD release through his BandCamp page.

You can peep the album teaser on the player below. "House of Meats" will be available July 19th, so stay tuned!

House of Meats Preview by william s. braintree

partying like it's nineteen ninety nine

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:54:00 +0000

It dawned on me that getting into a millimetre by millimetre account of what synthesisers I use and why might not pan out to be the most exciting of reading. So I'll just talk about my latest acquisition for the now which is a hardware rack-mounted sampler. On the surface it might seem like an anachronism given the advances with software samplers. Perhaps doubley so as I have and use NI's Kontakt 4 on a pretty regular basis. Although I've seen signs of a rising fashion for "vintage digital" such as the clamour for classic Akai MPCs, that's not been my own reason for splashing the cash. I've a degree of skepticism about the "sound" that is attributed to this sort of gear which I often think is just hipster justification. I do agree that there is an audible difference but that is only part of the equation; the remainder being the interface, workflow and how you just use the thing. Which I think you can get from any sampler, not just the one's that the latest flash in the pan hip-hop producer suggests is their own personal magic bullet.

The sampler in question is a Yamaha A5000 which you could say is one of the last hurrahs of the hardware sampler along with the Akai Z series. It's amazing to think that in the 10 years since it was released it's gone from costing £1500 down to the level where I scored one that has nestled unused in someones rack for less than £200. Naturally, I've only just scratched the surface of it in the few weeks I've had it but I'm already seeing loads of potential. Once I get myself sorted with an internal hard disk for it I think the first port of call will be to use it in conjunction with a hardware sequencer for further experiments where I'm not using the computer at all.

If I get time before my rotation is up, I'll try to pull together some audio examples of some of the more unique features such as the expand/detune functions or the loop remix/divide functions. Loop remix/divide strikes me as an interesting alternative to combining Beat Repeat and Slice-to-Midi within Ableton Live which, given the scarcity of the A5000 in comparison to Live, will hopefully not sound so "familiar".

As a final note, I'd recommend the page at Sealed's Deep Synthesis site on the A4000 as a great source of information. Reading that was one of the main things which turned me onto the idea of tracking one down.

Jeye - Hatch End Dot [albums]

noreply@blogger.com (christopher oldaker) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:45:00 +0000

artist: Jeye

title: Hatch End Dot

label: Gravity Halo Recordings

catalog #: GRH-010

tracks:

01. Thick Accents and Red Leaves

02. Sun Son Son

03. Am I A Synonym

04. So It Goes

05. Gehen Zu

06. Son Sun Sun (LAN Formantique Remix)

07. So It Goes (Beaches of the Proud Remix)

08. Gehen Zu (Sequaq Remix)

Download "Hatch End Dot" by Jeye [88mb .zip file / 320kbps MP3]

Jeye's debut EP on Gravity Halo, "Hatch End Dot" boasts 8 tracks of sprawling, atmospheric and melodic-based soundscapes. The crunchy, textured beats and deep musical themes evoke the rocky highlands, sweeping hills and dense fog banks of his native Scotland, blending traditional instrumentation with lush synth work, ambient recordings and ever evolving rhythms to create a rich tapestry of sound that transports the listener to an eerily beautiful auditory landscape.

So It Goes by jeye_musik