Glue Sniffin’ Beats is a free, open source, mini album of synthbass & drum grooves. This is the album so far, up to part 5. It will be 7 parts in total.
(If you don’t see the player above, click through here to the bandcamp page or here to soundcloud.)
This music has been made with the intention that you should feel free to build on it, remix it, rhyme over it, write songs on top of it, mash it up in any way you like.
A quick reminder about our gig at Vinnie’s in Raglan tonight with Luckless and Great North.
Opens at 7, only $5 on the door. Karin and I will be doing stuff a bit like this live-in-the-studio recording:
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A couple of months ago I posted a recording of an early morning jam session with Karin Bettley, and mentioned that we’d be doing some gigs soon.
Our first performance together is at Vinnie’s in Raglan, this Thursday the 18th of August. We’re playing with Luckless and Great North, both from Auckland and on tour together.
We forgot to think of a name so this time we’re just billed as “Felix and Karin”.
Should be fun, if you’re in the area come on down. We’ll be heading to Auckland to play soon too. Here’s that recording again in case you missed it last time (more of those to come soon too).
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If you’re up to date with all this Glue Sniffin’ business, most of this might be old news, so skip to the album page and download part 4. But if not:
Glue Sniffin’ Beats is a free, open source, 7-part mini-album of synthbass and drum grooves. It’s released (one part at a time) under the Creative Commons Sampling+ 1.0 license which allows you to use these recordings for almost* anything you like.
My intention is that you should feel free to use anything from the album in any of your own projects without worrying about it. Use it as a backing track, use it in a mashup or remix, rhyme over it, write songs around it etc.
The whole thing is about 18 minutes long and can be played as one continuous song. It’s at 99 BPM, sometimes in double time and sometimes half. There are harder bits and softer bits but it’s all fairly tense, quite wobbly, a bit drum & bassy and a few other things.
It’s recorded in a “live-ish” sort of way (by electronic standards), there’s more info about the recording process on the album page.
Part 4
Part is more bass than beats, the other parts tend to be a bit more beaty. It might be the eye of the storm.
I hope you enjoy this music, whatever you choose do with it.
*The only use not permitted under the license is using it to “advertise for or promote anything but the work you create from it“.
My friend Sean is an incredible artist. His latest exhibition of painting, sculpture and furniture, “This Molten Coil”, finished on the weekend.
At the opening I played some live experimental electro, and Silke from bFM sang and played ukulele. This is a short clip of some of the music I played, with images of some of the artworks for those who missed seeing them in the flesh. Below the video, some detail about the instruments used.
The pulsing rhythm is the nand machine I built a few weeks ago, video here.
In places, the nand is driving THE DESTROYER to make squelchy rhythmic sounds along with it.
The constant sweeping harmonic squarewave sound is played manually on the Good Will Audio Generator.
The feedback echo explosion sound are made by manipulating a Boss DM-2 analogue delay pedal.
The helicopter sweeps and other sounds are made manually with a homemade LFO device.
