BURG - 28 minutes to Cairo (late night modular jam, make noise, mutable instruments, intellijel)

If you like my stuff please support me on http://music.ollilab.com/ and   / theburg   My music: Bandcamp ► https://music.ollilab.com/ Spotify ► https://open.spotify.com/artist/5lPHa... Yeah, yeah... ever since I got my modular I wanted to create a classic long BURG style track. So I went back to the drawing board, hit some old melodies in C-minor and out came this tune. A lot of stuff going on in this one, it all starts off with the make noise morphagene doing a really weird and lovely chopped up sample loop of a melody I found...+ the 0-coast on bass, and an arp on the system-1. The modular has three sounds, the intro sample + sync bass/melody sequence + snare drum fills. The sync sequence is patched to really not play the same tune and/or note ... borderline regenerative, what I do is that I just open up the filter a bit to help pull in/out the main melody when needed. The elektron fills in with some percussion and bass + the volca bass handles the low-end notes. The other volcas are there as always and do the stuff they do best :) Ms-20 is treated with some really long tape echoes from the el capistan + a dual splash reverb in the space which really mashed the sound to a super wide palette.. its crazy nice, just love it. Reface CP, wurly + csidman and strymon bluesky .. + a reverse piano loop on the ditto X2. NLA1 does some fifth note strings that I control with a swell pedal on the floor, to pull it in/out with the filter ... Standard TB3 square bass and monologue 16 note modulated sequence to top things off at the end. Yeah... great fun, too fun actually, I had to do like 5 takes before I was able to nail a version that I was happy with. Apologies for the blinky blink lights but when turning the laser off between takes it defaulted to the annoying mode which I did not realize was on until I was done with the final take.. so tried to smooth it a bit with some faded film style when editing the film to kill off the worst blinky stuff. Hope you can enjoy it still !! BoOoOoM !