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RadioSilence : Derelict Spaces

by Andy Pickford

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Paul Asbury Seaman
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Paul Asbury Seaman This album illustrates the magical paradox of sequencer music at its best. It can be dark, but not gloomy or harsh; it can have a rhythmic line that is propulsive yet unhurried. It often builds gradually and shifts in unexpected directions or moods, but done with such subtlety you find yourself listening to a different song and wondering when it changed. Rather than the post-apocalyptic landscapes of so much dark ambient, this album builds to a clearly hopeful ending. Favorite track: Fractopolis.
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Shrine 11:09
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Transhedral 10:52
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Carrillead 09:44
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Obliquity 10:28
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Heliopause 12:00
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Elucidelia 10:38
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Fractopolis 12:57
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about

I've little doubt the dudes over at Moog won't notice as I abuse the living bejeezus out of a Moog Subharmonicon! More precisely, I double-track it doing its funky stuff while I noodle around with it. Bass, cos I like bass, is either by itself or by my handy Bodyssey. Additional mod sources c/o MS-20, Model D & Neutron. FX & upper harmonics c/o Eventide Shimmerverb, followed by an ensemble chorus effect (Shimmerverb high end can sound overly metallic), then Eventide Blackhole set to Huge. Lastly, sometimes I Tomita the thing up with some mod fx like phasing, chorusing, some other weird shit, etc. Delay was by Fabfilter Timeless.
That's it though. No ivory tickling with this Subharmonicon, you just attempt to breathe some magic into it and hope it shits some out in return :-D
Seriously, I very much love this little beastie, having never owned a Moog anything before. Given its limitations it's a highly unique toy for the imagination and its sound is equally unique, but very moogy at the same time. Its slow ambient peels often sound grungy and primitive. Its rhythmic sequences can resemble gamelan polyrhythms in sound and complexity. But there's no arguing with its primitive Moog nature which is unmistakable really. The results sound primitive too, but in that lovely way we know and love :-)

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released May 31, 2022

Moog Subharmonicon, Behringer Odyssey & sundry other toys programmed and knotted up by AP. Engineered & produced by AP at Catshit Castle, May 2022. All files uploaded as 24bit wav being direct master copies. The 16bit whole file is flac.

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Andy Pickford Derby, UK

I make immersive synth music, create my own art, eat, drink, shit and exist. I'm not famous but everybody knows my name... like shingles.

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