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  1. Download here 1. Konami Codes 2. Emerging from the Void 3. Temporary Feelings 4. IBM Minus 5. Journey Outwards 6. SAMSARA 7. Cloudy Style 8. The Xenon Bridge 9. Icasean Robotics Lab 10. OA.SYS merry xmas - thanks for all of your support and love, hope you guys enjoy the music . it is full of pure love .
  2. cygnus

    Rare pics of Ae

    Yeah it was quite a time. Best time of my life - but it was such a rush - had never done anything like it before. First time I’d been out of the country. Lotta “firsts”, so my brain recalls the memories in a unique way. Feels like I never left in a way. Looking at one picture just floods my whole brain with recalls “oh that’s the day this happened” and “oh wait but someone said this Funny thing on this day” and its endless
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    Rare pics of Ae

    ah fuck it heres some more, theres so many . just been sitting on my drive for almost 5 years anyway, might as well share the good memories 1) rb,rh - i think, seattle or portland 2) sb, me, rh, rb (Chicago) 3) rb,sb, rh (florida) 4) rh, rb, ??, sb, nr (p sure this was LA) 5) rh, sb, me, chris cunningham (this this was LA)
  4. cygnus

    Rare pics of Ae

    wow took hundreds but heres a small handful of good ones. they contain anecdotal value. sorry would have posted earlier but the sheer amount ok so the cracker barrel thing, what was notable about this was an insane & comically huge tricycle outside of the restaurant. believe we were passing through Florida. thats mark,sb,rh in that pic. sean said something about the monster bike that made me die laughing but dont remember what it was think next one was seattle or portland. chancellor booth and herr clark. think clerk had played decibel fest the night of or before. cant remember third pic was in vancouver . not special just a wholesome photo moment. some lore; beginning and end of the mezzanine recording is herr brown helping me try to record my set at the vancouver gig which didn't turn out right . the sound of the clinking bottles is the bar closing up. funny thing is i took a nearly identical picture 4 years later with andy ceephax and gareth clarke. should find it but this is rare AE and dont want 2 get banned fourth is the best one i took that whole month. florida again, we had 2 soundguys. jamie harley and nikhil ranade . jamie was first half nikhil was last. pic os nr, rb,sb . anyway, mark was on me about talking about conspiracy theories and nikhil noticed it within a day of joining, and joined in on me trolling mark , just ramping up the conspiracy talk, etc. absolutely hilarious. i have done a grotesquely poor job in keeping up with these guys and i am comprehensively ashamed of it. greatest time ever last pic is shameless/plug, pic of my gear onstage
  5. cygnus

    Rare pics of Ae

    oh nice topic, i got loads of pics from the tour. ill upload a few later on today. not all of them but some funny ones. think i have a pic of us all at cracker barrel in the middle of nowhere chilling next to a huge lol
  6. cygnus

    AE_LIVE

    im sorry man that's just the way he wanted to release it... Alex will def not release any digitals , it's like super collectors edition shit... yr supposed to like hand it down to your kids and stuff and prob doesn't want it extremely public. he handmakes every single 808 box and even payed shipping for mine so it's a different kind of release...
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    AE_LIVE

    You OK again? Someone posted about some illments a couple of weeks ago. Also, the track on the compilation on fundamental records, funky intellect, will that get an actual proper release as well? And whats the deal with releasing patronen a+b through them? Sorry to tangent, but these questions are burning my mind yea i got super sick man. worse than the illness was the bill i got from this 24/hr shit clinic i went to. i appreciate all of the help everyone sent in more than words can express. i appreciate it i will probbably not release those tracks that are on the 808box alek wanted to release patronen on vinyl, i would have done it but could afford the pressing . me and patronen had talked about it doing it but alek approached me and was ready to press it and we all thought it was a perfect idea. it was nevr an exclusive biosoft thing. i think alek is going to put out more,too!
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    Electro

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lftoJp6Rduk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvErpRzlG98 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXkqMRdojM0
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    AE_LIVE

    oof, thanks man! much love . thank you glad u dig it
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    thought id' sneak this in here
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    i feel the same way about rob hall with his DJ sets - the tracks he chooses and the way he DJ's he is basically transforming the tracks into songparts. Love how he will play a raw riddim track and just space out the rest of the mix. He is basically up there jamming away and you can never guess that he's playing other pppls tracks. Before we went on tour I'm on facebook and I see him post "So we're about to go on tour across the united states! If you want me to play some of your tracks, send me a .zip file" and gives his email address So it's the 5th or 6th day on tour, we're in Chicago unpacking in the hotel room, and I ask Rob about that and he went "Fucking hell, that was the worst Idea ive ever had, Ive received over 500gb of music and couldnt possibly play half of it" or something like that , I lmaoed
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    me & sean talk about that quite a bit how its kind of like how when u listen to Dilla or Metro's beats (actually idk if sean is into metro) its really not about the complexity or intricacy but kind of like creating a dynamic situation whereupon emphasis&focus can be placed on certain sounds . and i mean from my point of view that's completely ancient, call & answer style rhythm programming. i was asking him once on tour about what his setup does and what does what and etc and he was like "ok so this thing does this, this other thing effects the other thing" and it seems to be kind of like a neural network. different from a traditional drum machine or groovebox where the human is deciding what happens in time and the sounds really have no choice it seems (to me and i could be completely wrong) that theyve given the sounds the freedom of choice in a kind of diminished way, not that the sounds are thinking. from hearing their set live with full dynamics on huge PA's i kind of get the idea that the sounds are aware of each other and interact with a modicum of intelligence, A.I. if you will . not super smart like a search engine or facial recognition but things like time are considered. whats interesting is that compression makes sounds "think " about each other and considerations are made about the dynamic interaction of sounds but its more political at that level, the compressor is kind of like a really stupid dictator, idk. sean & rob are fucking hackers tho because when u listen to the sets on headphones or on some nice headphones the trax take on a completely different form - when you hear it live you might come to the conclusion like me that the sounds are engineered to exploit the PA. like i said in a post in the AMAA i wish i had been able to ascertain the details of anything they are doing in max/msp but i just dont know enuff about it to prevent exhaustion and nausea from trying to understand it i feel like i might vom all over my jeans already starting to feel light headed from visualizing their rig . i dont get it
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    he died just before i went on tour. i appreciate your kind words tho man very thoughtful of u. peace & love
  14. cygnus

    AE_LIVE

    i could write a 400 fucking page book about the whole 4 month period beginning with my dad being diagnosed with cancer and the tour wrapping up. i feel like a black hole that sucked in all the rest of the black holes -- i have no idea what is positive,negative, at all. everything is just held in this weird centre. to attempt distinguishing results in failure, so i just hop on the machines and make a track about it from time to time. i have no idea what i am doing. i really miss hanging out with the tour crew. every day. i havent talked much about the tour cause tbh i dont want to appear braggadocious & i dont want to give word to things indescribable and ruin them for myself, or misrepresent them to other ppl. btw have y'all listened to 199X yet ??? :) <--- lets see who gets that i want to share stories from the tour but wana keep most of the best memories for myself. but then i realize that i have so many stories that its ridiculous and i can share some. its in the spirit of the tour anyway, i'm afraid theyd care but i dont think theyd care . they know whats up. b4 i really say anything, the basic idea that all the words orbit around is that i hope all of you are doing well and are seriously happy, if any of your relatives or friends are sick or anything like that, or if youre having to make trips to the hospital to see someone special to you, i know its inappropriate to even go here publically but man, i fucking love you and i know what youre going through and i'm right there with you. life is an indescribable mystery and aint it strange that it comes with pain too? its like a hyperreal video game where you can actually get hurt. hang in there and everything will be fine, there are people there for you to carry you if you let them, and just take it day by day. whether u believe in god or not doesnt really matter, cus atheist or theist you are surrounded by supportive loved ones and you should reach out to them, be with them. they love u and even if u dont think they do, they think about you before they go to sleep at night and wonder how you are feeling. if you lost something in the past or someone special to you, man i know that pain. that is terrible. i would listen to you talk for hours about it and it would be easy because it would be my own words becuase i have lost so much myself. lost everything except my rhythm. i dont know what the fuck i will do when i lose that LMAO, ill just post tracks on bandcamp that are all silence and ask for money. it's "art " tho anyway the funniest thing that happened on tour was actually on the very first night. we didn't have a bus yet, we were in Portland. i'll start from when i left from dallas. actually i'll just describe the entire day. this is super emotional for me. any single day i pick out from the tour is super emotional and it's weird, even one of the travel days where we weren't doing anything but lounging on the bus. so i wake up at my girlfriends place around 9am that morning and i grab my bags, we hop in her car and it's off to DFW. my composure is stable but theres a television set in my brain scrolling a ticker and it reads "you are about to go on a tour with a band you have idolized for 15 years. you are going to live with them and be in the company of nothing but complete strangers for 30 days. have a panic attack you bitch" and my blood pressure spikes, the readout for my blood pressure wouldve said "999999999 PSI" or whatever. my girlfriend drops me off at the airport, im concealing a panic attack the same way id be concealing a bomb and i'm at an airport which kind of makes me laugh internally, i calm down a bit. TSA fuck with me a little bit about my pelican case which has my elektron rytm,analog4,blofeld,mixer,tb3 and mpc in it. it's just over the weight that prices it at 60 or 70 dollars. bitch weighs 80 pounds and is not very easy to drag around. probably at 30-40 pounds, yeah, but at 70-80, its just unweildy. my girlfriend says very warm/honey/milky things to me , she loves me so much man, she's crying because we're going to be apart for a month. we say goodbye and the last thing she says is "they chose you, because you are awesome. if you were not awesome you wouldn't have been chosen. believe it." i'm holding back, at that point, tears, a panic attack, my knees are vibrating. i'm only mildly harassed for being brown by the TSA security check and then i hop on the plane. i'm seated next to a guy in a yellow shirt. TV screen ticker in my head starts scrolling "you are 30 thousand feet off of the ground, have another panic attack bitch", so the last panic attack goes nuclear. i order a gin & tonic, it subsides. i order another gin & tonic, its calm. panic attack goes from being a lion and i turn it into a soft little baby kitten. success. drink another one and I'm passed out. remember what i said in the last paragraph because everything in this paragraph basically means what i said there, the words are just orbiting and theyre meaningless. i wake up in portland, i text my girlfriend saying i landed, etc. i call mark parsons, our tour manager, get directions to the hotel we're staying at. marks voice is a lot deeper than i expected it to be. im feeling pretty stabilized after a bowl of soup at a restaurant in the airport. i lol to myself when i realize i'm in portland and there's an actual open mic with a dude playing the guitar in the airport terminal. straight out of portlandia. i catch a cab, we're driving to the hotel and the landscape just catches me. if you 've not been to dallas, tx - it is a godforsaken flatland, covered in concrete, buildings. there are some places with greenery, plant-life, but it's rare. and i mean it doesn't really count because someone put it there, right? i take out my phone and make a video . i arrive at the hotel , pay the cabbie with my card. first being i see walking to me is rob brown, wearing a white t-shirt and khaki's and sunglasses. gives me a huge hug and a welcome, warm smile . asks me how was my flight, i tell him it was good - takes me over to a courtyard where sean and rob hall are chilling. sean & rob are wearing sunglasses, the chairs are black, metal, the walls of the courtyard are short, its small - there's bees flying around. i'm talking with the guys, while i think mark is trying to find out which hotel room is mine for the night. feels like i'm hanging out with good old friends/brothers/comrades and all sense of panic or psychic destabilization subsides completely. it's around 4 or 5 pm. we all go to my hotel room, i drop my suitcase and gear off. we're all chilling in my room for about 2-3 hours just talking. me & sean vaping, rob halls talking about skam, rob b's talking about autechrey stuff, sean goes into it about electro in the 80s, man parrish, and autechrey stuff. rob browns talking about sound mixing. i could outline everything said cause i know u would want to read it i just dont feel like indexing all of that. they tell me about jamie harley (the sound guy), mark. from this point until i went home a month later i would have no sense that i was hanging out with idols or celebrities but brothers, friends, but even more importantly humans - good humans - because that's what you need. thats whats important ultimately in any scenario you get into in your life. you want to be around good people, people who you vibe well with and feel relaxed around. it is as important as oxygen imo. i want to expedite the part of setting up for the show when we get to the venue because its very routine -- except for one part when sean & rob were opening up their mixer and sean couldnt open the box with a knife, rob gives it a try and then gives it back to sean , leaving to retrieve something else. mark asks sean "what are you moaning about " and he's on stage with his arms at his side standing above this box with their mixer in it, frustrated af "I couldn't get the box open even with this knife, I felt like I might as well just start stabbing me-self in the face with it" causing me to laugh my ass off we play the gig and it's awesome . first gig of the tour, goes off great. we pwn everybody - my set is like 100 times better than i was thinking it would be. rob hall plays in the room adjacent to the stage @ holocene in his own booth. he kiled both nights with his sets even tho not too many people danced. visual crowd. anyways yea my sets were dope - elektron gear rly needs good subs to represent that bass but also needs something else, a kind of sweet spot that can single out the transient in the kick drum. i learned so much just on the first day from sean & rob & rob hall & jamie about sound mixing ,it was like space oddyssey 2001 when the apes find the obelisk. i'm like shit i've been doing that wrong for 5 years? ok. lol. after the gig i meet and hang out with claude young, golden donna (you guys hear of him? joel? from portland. hes dope, look him up) i get invited by some complete fucking rando's to go to a weird after party type thing. i don't. ANYWAY. we get crammed into a van because its first day of tour and we don't have a bus yet. me and sean are in the back and rob hall & rob brown get into the next row. rob hall puts his seat back as he's in front of sean. sean's obviously cramped to shit with his backpack in his lap and his legs folded like an armchairs almost. he goes, "What am I? A fucking mongoose?" for so many reasons, exhaustion related and just the visual image of a mongoose transposing over his cramped legs, and because mongoose aren't birds but have the word "goose", i died laughing . i literally was like lmao until we got back to the hotel. and thats is what i wrote all of this stuff just now for. the human mind is something indescribable, something u cannot put to words because for all the effort and writing i just did, i mean, all of that , with all of its emotion, the thoughts, is literally not even .001% of the total experience of just that first half of the day, or the gig, or after it . not even close. could literally write a 900 page book
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    AE_LIVE

    when we were in chicago (@ the metro) sound checking, sean & rob were playing that banging middle track to get a feel for the space w/ jamie harley our soundguy, and for whatever reason it was taking a bit longer than usual ( maybe the levels were off or something like that, to me it was perfect, i was standing alone in the middle of the room by myself) they were playing the second movement of that beat (the part when the bassline kind of gets acid filtered/Highpassed or whatever and the cymbal/knife sound gets more flangey), and they played just that one movement for at least 10 minutes without stopping. just that one part alone, with all sounds activated. over and over, w/ the loop just regenerating itself in different permutations & shapes each time, kicks pounding like plastic explosives, and that bassline ,reason enuff to commit ones self to an asylum after hearing i mean this with no minutia of hyperbole, exxageration, or pretense- it was, without question, one of the most unutterable and unspeakable circumstances i have ever found myself in, and could ever attempt give expression to thru thought and word. i have probably never experienced anything so ferociously alien & hilariously dope in my 31 trips around the sun. like literally under pressure my desire to dance transformed into something alien and external to myself - i thought i would grow 2 extra arms and levitate off the ground, legs crossed & my eyes would blacken like a grey and my dredlocks would grow 10 feet long. i dont think (+ im not sure if) they intend for that track to be heard that way & for that i felt like i was partaking in some sort of endurance experiment. it cannot be described what it was to get absolutely rekt by that loop so many times in a row at full volume on pounding PA and that wasn't even the only time that something like that happened. something split open between the kicks & that knifing,metallic spraypaint can flange and i absolutely fuckin lost it, when it was over i flipped my bag over my shoulder and went "jesus fucking christ" the only thing that compares to it was seeing DJ krush in 2004 at the Sandaga 813 in dfw (it was the Minc Lounge back then, I think) he got to a part where he played that track "Black Hole" from Message At The Depth (amazing album btw) and he was cutting, slicing and scratching on the decks and butt-fucking the beat on a mpc or sp-404 or something, and he destroyed that ridiculous shit for for what felt like 10-15 minutes without stopping. he would drop the kick and re-do the pattern and then bring it back in and each time everyone in the audience was like "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" roaring like it was a football game . the energy in the room. he was just working the repetitions over and over again to fucking destroy the crowd. i was transformed when i saw that shit . do u guys know how fucking stupidly dope dj krush used to be live? i dont think he does that anymore but i could b wrong. hes mellowed out anyways yea its one of those experiences where words are just ghosts; you cant describe it. pure energy
  16. Rob r u into Stevie nicks she's good I'm listening to blue lamp rite now u guys would dig it she's deep
  17. what are your graff tags back in the day mine was VEXER do u reckon that sounded/looked threatening ?
  18. also did u guys make any more stuff with fitton when you were bringing the legofeet stuff back >?
  19. i just noticed that the skull snap logo does not say "gescom" that label seems pretty cognizant altho it doesnt seem like they released that much. how much of cake mic did u do live or is that all edits its so good
  20. who do u think is the funniest rapper? have u heard quelle chris yet hes good do u think that a scene/concert/event being mostly full of dudes has an effect on the longevity of the 'scene' or whatevr?
  21. i was talking to this friend the other night and he told me that when u hold yr finger up and move it from one point to the next its not really like pushing space out of the way or occupying new space but its more like pixels where your fingers disappearing and reappearing very quickly in the interim of that movement . (like thats what it would look like if u were to view the smallest individual things in the finger, u feel me) so first of all was he telling me the truth and if he is and thats the way the universe works then what can be said about things like biological systems that function on this macroscopic scale where things obey different rules ? what is the cause-determinant of the macroscopic thing and is this what they mean they say the universe is fine tuned? what is the fine tuner ?
  22. btw i think u got trolled a few pages ago when he asked u a question about questions
  23. on that third cut in tac lacora the kicks do something so vicious and its something ive heard in some of yr other tracks, its this thing where a kick behaves like reverb, or i dunno, like the opposite of a reverb - like if instead of creating the sense of things being on the outside with blues and greens what happens is its stuff on the inside with blacks and purples does that make sense, "dark reverb". when i listen to that track in my car its got this alarming/devastating effect and the timing of those kicks combined just makes it so brutal, it happens on reniform puls too and prob a bit more prevalent on that track. so what it does is this tectonic shifting that is funky and sounds like a kick drum but it sounds like it could definitely not be u feel me?. not even sure this is a question tbh. but like,do u have that capability with your rig, to where you can be like, "ok these two sounds need to be connected with this element" and program drums that way? do u miss programming drums with that bbox thing on the monomachine? i failed that drug test but i hadnt smoked in over a month do u think it was from second hand inhalation from my housemate ? i couldnt believe it but when i found out i laughed idk do u think that psi/mind/ is something important for kids to learn/know abt? thoughts on meditation/focus? prob will post more questions
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