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Jack Moss - Absorb on Future Music FM (pg. 3)
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| SYSTEM-J |
Here's this week's episode, in which I manage to pitch Robert Babicz at +5 in an ambient set. Lots of praise for this last night in the chat room, which made me feel very warm inside.
Oh/Ex/Oh - STS-115 [Bandcamp]
The Outerworld - Alien Abduction [Advection]
Robert Babicz - Koenigsforst [Tulipa]
Subforms - Black Swans [Complex Textures]
Vytis - Soundscape Song [Cold Tear]
Exif - Landscape Of Souls [Dewtone]
Zinovia - Northern Wind [Ultimae]
Marco Madia - Endemism [Dewtone]
Sync24 - Nanites [Ultimae]
Intex Systems - Glaciers [Covert Operations]
Purl - There Is No Other Path [Dewtone]
Deaf Center - Ashes [Type]
Cold Womb Descent - The Ultimate Beauty Of Infinity [Bandcamp] |
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| PaULiN0 |
| Nice, i'll take a listen soon after. |
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| Lews |
| Probably the best of the three so far, imo. Really ing good. I'll definitely need to look into that Dewtone label, and definitely need to give this many more listens. Some absolutely sublime tunes here, mixed damn well! |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Cheers! The funny thing is that we record the mix and the voice-over separately, and when I sat down in Dom's studio to do the intro/outro I still hadn't mixed it, or had any firm idea of what I was going to play. So I said "I can't introduce a mix that doesn't exist", bought a fistful of tunes from Beatport and mixed the whole thing pretty much in one go while he waited for me. It just came together perfectly, and seems to be the most well-regarded one so far. |
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| PaULiN0 |
| Yeah I really enjoyed part three. Great tracks and well mixed J. I don't know how to mix ambient at all. i wish i could find a tutorial some where rather than just blending in keyed tunes. Anway yeah man thanks for sharing. Looking forward to your next mix. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Well, most of my transitions are just harmonic blends. Making them sound good is more about listening to the particular sounds in each track, how they might fit in with each other, and cueing so the tracks flow nicely. I tend to cue up the track I'm playing again in the other deck and skip to the last 90 seconds to hear how it ends, so I can know when to start mixing in the new track. Because there's no 4/4 beat structure to guide your cueing, I'll note the time on the CDJ, so when the outgoing track has (say) 74 seconds left, I'll hit play on the incoming track knowing it'll flow nicely without getting too busy.
A lot of it is about creative cueing as well, finding mixable sections. A trick I use a lot is to take two tracks where the pads "swell" and fall into near silence. You can wait for the track to swell up and then as it falls down you mix the new track at a point where its own pads are rising up. This makes it sound more natural even when the tracks are nowhere near in time. And finding sections with sound effects, white noise, anything non-harmonic, is golden because you can mix anything underneath. I try and find tracks with sections like that when I want to change key to something that wouldn't be compatible. |
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| PaULiN0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Well, most of my transitions are just harmonic blends. Making them sound good is more about listening to the particular sounds in each track, how they might fit in with each other, and cueing so the tracks flow nicely. I tend to cue up the track I'm playing again in the other deck and skip to the last 90 seconds to hear how it ends, so I can know when to start mixing in the new track. Because there's no 4/4 beat structure to guide your cueing, I'll note the time on the CDJ, so when the outgoing track has (say) 74 seconds left, I'll hit play on the incoming track knowing it'll flow nicely without getting too busy.
A lot of it is about creative cueing as well, finding mixable sections. A trick I use a lot is to take two tracks where the pads "swell" and fall into near silence. You can wait for the track to swell up and then as it falls down you mix the new track at a point where its own pads are rising up. This makes it sound more natural even when the tracks are nowhere near in time. And finding sections with sound effects, white noise, anything non-harmonic, is golden because you can mix anything underneath. I try and find tracks with sections like that when I want to change key to something that wouldn't be compatible. |
Yeah that helps big time, fills some gaps that i had questions in. Will try it out on a new ambient promo, thanks Jack. |
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| Bierheld |
Been listening to these quite a lot the past few weeks. The second one is easily my favourite so far, I really like how it has more of a light to dark narrative were I've gotten used to hearing it being done the other way around, It caught me by surprise the first time through and I find it quite a powerful thing onto itself.
Highlight for me is Past Participle. But the entire thing is just beautifully executed pretty much all the way through.
As for the third one, I don't know. I've given it quite a few listens in an attempt to find out why it doesn't speak to me that much, but I'm still not really sure. I tend to tune out for most of it until I get to the letter stages. I think it's just a general lack of spectacle. I'd like to go into more detail but it's honestly almost completely been erased from my memory again despite numerous listens. That's just how it goes sometimes eh. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Just finished recording Monday's show. I forgot to post this one here last week, but Oxynucid took the reigns last time out. You can listen again here:
Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer's Theme [Warner Bros. Records]
Jeremy Soule - Under an Ancient Sun [Bethesda Softworks Inc.]
Stars of the Lid - Don't Bother They're Here [Kranky]
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb [Warp]
Henryk Gorecki - Symphony No. 3: II. Lento E Largo - Tranquillissimo [Elektra Nonesuch]
Jeremy Soule - Skyrim Atmospheres [Bethesda Softworks Inc.]
Boards of Canada - Kid for Today [Warp]
Aphex Twin - Blue Calx [Warp]
William Basinski - d|p 1.3 [2062] |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Bierheld
As for the third one, I don't know. I've given it quite a few listens in an attempt to find out why it doesn't speak to me that much, but I'm still not really sure. I tend to tune out for most of it until I get to the letter stages. I think it's just a general lack of spectacle. I'd like to go into more detail but it's honestly almost completely been erased from my memory again despite numerous listens. That's just how it goes sometimes eh. |
Glad you've been listening intently and enjoying. It's different strokes on this one - the third episode seemed to go down better with most listeners than the second one. I'm quite happy with both of them. Because I only have two weeks to compile, mix and record them I can't take ages obsessing over the finer details so they'll never be perfect, but I quite like that. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Here's this week's episode featuring some selections from ASC's new album. I've edited the original post to include the SoundCloud playlist featuring all the episodes.
Fennesz - Euclides [Ash International]
Loscil - Fury [Gizeh]
ASC - Slow Autumn [Silent Season]
36 - Home [3six]
Donald Wilborn - Alexandria [Embarcadero]
ASC - Half The Words You Say [Silent Season]
Seven Fields Of Aphelion - Sunburst Chemicals [Graveface]
Marconi Union - Blue Collar Parade [Just Music]
Marble Sky - Pulling Up Grass Under The Carpet [Students Of Decay]
Michael Mayer - Sully [Kompakt]
DeepWarmth - Snow [Entropy]
Five Minutes Alone - Enter Sadman [Terminal] |
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| SYSTEM-J |
Lots of beats in this one, including plenty of that deep dubby techno I've been playing recently:
Mint - Intro [Retrospective Zoology]
Ross Baker - Climbing Anti-Points [Terminal]
MER-A - Quasi-Stellar [Ultimae]
Dublicator - Plankton [AvantRoots]
Brando Lupi - Something Blue [Dewpoint]
The Stain - Dissembler Madames [Deep Dive]
Evan Marc & Steve Hillage - Delta Phase (P Laoss Dub Edit) [Thoughtless]
Taho - Alpha Rain [Lumina]
Ame - Tatischeff [Innervisions]
Lemon Interupt - Dirty [Junior Boys Own]
Pulshar - Act 1 [AvantRoots] |
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