Judson "Tettix" Cowan describes best designs, his new album of Electronica, as a "step backward" earliest work to his own. This mostly familiar with game influenced stuff like TKOEP and his fantastic savage remix of Igor of Stravinsky's Rite of spring the surprise is just a few seconds in, as Tettix's trademark staccato percussion and Bleepery new wave song not heard since Conformatigmatic joined.
"It is a strong departure from my usual style," Cowan said. "I felt like I sing me another album explore due to." It was simple, video-gamey stuff make complacent, because it so easy to get attention on the Internet with this kind of sound. "
In tracks such as simple, flicker and best designs there is a warmth and presence, which often feels forced in modern Electronica, but here it is well mixed with the severity of underlying sounds. Although sluggish and echo, this is the text (and their delivery) not to say that is a disillusioned LP: it indicates a lot of fun to have robots (a collaboration with Dana Swanson) and Hothlanta, a driven techno-pop number that reminds well about the 1980's in fucking, by the human League, shoot-em-up of Chris Hülsbeck's soundtrack.
"It is a scary thing to put your voice in a song for everyone else to hear." It was always much easier for me, put an instrumental to someone as a vocal song to hear. Closer to the heart, perhaps? "Personal?" ""
Cowan's process is probably familiar to people, create music without big budget: its easy setup is a Mac, a MIDI keyboard controllers, and a microphone on a FireWire interface connected: "I work only in software." I used a number of hardware-a Triton, a JP-8000, a microwave scrapped all XT - but I if I need, "A powerful program by propellerheads play."
Reason was called record recently by a companion app, together create a suite useful both for electronic music and recording real vocals and instruments, to go with it.
"Once, I could all in the same place, the way of creativity," Cowan said. "Less effort means that it is easier to dive right." So I only plink around on the keyboard for a little, building a synthesizer that sounds nice, then singing, while I work out the melody. "I program it all in the sequencer, then hop in the laundry closet and some singing record."
It takes him typically one or two nights weeks writing a song, but to tweak and master it, until he is satisfied with the results.
Best designs, such as Tettix's earlier work, license is provided to download free of charge and under a Creative Commons. You can donate with PayPal on the download page [Tettix.net]
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