Welcome to day 5 of the 31 days of music!  Today is a really, really rare recording - The Orb Live at Glastonbury back in 1993.  Finding this one really triggered some memories for me.

I hope you enjoy.

The tracklisting:

1. A Morphine Drip
2. Little Fluffy Clouds
3. Sunburst
4. Blue Room
5. Towers of Dub

Well, with the things I have experienced the last few days I took my energy and focused on a new track - but it is for another project, not the one I had been working on the the last month.

Here you go: JP/VMS - Enhanced (Demo)

As with all other Demos this is not mastered and is in no way the final product. Rather, this is 6 hours of getting the form and structure down for the rewrite.   Some studio notes…

1) Need to change the lead guitar (maybe)
2) Remove the reverb/echo on backing hit
3) Rearrange lead synth, keep pattern
4) Shorten the high hats echo
5) Remove 32 beats from break, 32 beat from second lead, remove 32 beats from end

All things considered, for just sitting down in a few hours and putting something together, this is not bad at all.  With some polish this has a lot of potential.

Found this on a message board this evening - Meat Beat Manifesto Live at Maritime Hall in 1997.

The sound quality is quite nice, 11 tracks in total.

(as always, I have no connection to this upload - it was found via search engines and patience)

This live set has been around for some time but it is still a great download! Here is Paul Van Dyk DJing live @ Fritz Soundgarden… and it’s almost a 2 hour set.

Paul Van Dyk - Live @ Fritz Soundgarden

The following are new live sets equally worthy of downloading as well…

Paul Van Dyk - Enis Live Rocker

Paul Van Dyk - Sonyc Sessions (11-20-2008)

Please note: I have no connection to these files, I found it via my Google Alerts.

For anyone who is interested in a Fatboy Slim live set, head on over to dailybeats.de for a download.

I just couldn’t focus on track number four because of this track, so I decided to add a few more things and call this one “done” for the demo, so here you go…

EDP/VMS Demo #3

So, a few notes from the studio note pad.

• the samples fit perfectly, but I need a bit more atmosphere
• I am doctor up the sitar a bit more
• the bass hit may continue a few more times (maybe 1)
• depending on a few other minor changes I may make - after listening to this over and over - this may easily be the intro track to the rest of the album

I may simply be missing something when it comes to Joy Division but I never really cared for their music.  Yes, I like New Order (what Joy Division because after the lead singer committed suicide) but the original group never “yanked my crank” so to speak.

Their first song to chart, Love Will Tear Us Apart, seems to be one of the most covered songs in the history of music…  Just off the top of my head some of the groups who took a stab at the song include The Cure, 10,000 Maniacs, Fall Out Boy… umm…. Paul Young (remember him?) and now we can add Alabama 3 to the list.

Devlin Love sounds amazing, as always.  So does Larry.  Regardless of their talent and abilities, I just cannot get into the song.  Would I turn off the song, by no means but I won’t be running to play it either.

Here is the MP3 provided by One Little Indian, the Alabama 3 record label, for all to enjoy.  Yes, it’s free… No it’s not piracy.

I am in the process of producing my next effort, an ambient / dub / abstract venture. The project name is not yet released, and the official album title is unknown but a working title is in place (Half moon, half happy). As of this writing I have a total of 7 tracks in various forms of production which span a number of musical influences.

With the site up and running I’ve decided to document the entire process. This includes the early demos, studio notes, album and production changes all the way up to the final product. Understand these are EARLY demos. This means the track are not properly mixed, the FX are not in place, portions will be added or deleted, arrangements will be changed and, above all things, the final tracks will be properly recorded and mastered before pressing.

So, without further delay, here we go:

EDP-VMS Ambient Demo 1

• The song has was too much reverb in the water
• Need to find a way to clean up the samples, also add a few additional sample
• The Lead Acoustic guitar will come in once and fade into a long, long analogue delay that mixes into background and other samples
• The bassline will change to establish a new feel for the slong, more relaxed. I think I will use a Korg MS10 for this or a Juno 106. Have the ability to provide the structure I am looking for
• The muted Jazz Guitar may gain a larger roll in the final mix as there is a potential to use it as a transition into another song
• Provide more punch to the vocals chorus sample

• Change the vintage house piano out, change the pattern and the reverb used on that track
• Have a clean organ hit that can be processed by an auto filter delay
• Retool the highs
• Move the “oooos” up during the second break - make it constant
• add a jungle break beat theme for the last min of the song
• Filter the sample a bit more

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This was the original that set everything off for me, my first E.P. ”All the things that could have been…” This has a lot of meaning to me… more and more each day.

Sonicstate - Track 1 - 1221

Sonicstate - Track 2 - Dreamstate

Sonicstate - Track 3 - Morningstar

Sonicstate - Track 4 - Release

Enoy!

Here is another track for you…

An unfinished remix of Dreamstate from the “All the things that could have been” E.P., encoded at 320 KBPS. The remix has a nice blend of straightforward dance and ambient.  

Due to the high encoding rate and lenght (around 10 minutes) the file is rather large so take this as advanced warning.

Sonicstate - Dreamstate (Unfinished Remix)

I love how the 303 slowly comes into the track and simply blends in without standing out in the mix too much. Good stuff.