In the end we decided to do both.  And the show we did can be heard in here! The selection of tracks is done entirely by organic_io, great thanks to him!

If you want to enjoy the smooth DJ mix of 38 minutes of SDC goodness, then click on the album cover, which will take you to SDC bandcamp, which has been specially created for this occasion.

If you would prefer to listen to us chatting about the nature of the tracks played, history of SDC in a familiar  Remixta podcast format, then feel free to listen to this podcast.

If you feel like checking out how all those amazing tracks have been made, then click on the track name in the track listing. This will take you to the SDC page where you can download the original XRNS file.

Tracklisting

1. Chotoro – SCA Type 2 (SDC #14, March 2007)
2. Sonicade – Reon Kadence (SDC #1, April 2006)
3. Tenfour – Chinese Identity Conflict (SDC #21, November, 2007)
4. ambtax1 – Nowhere (SDC #53, November 2010)
5. Kalachnikov – You wanna Rock (SDC #39, June 2009)
6. Mick Rippon & Mr. Mark Dollin – Freedom (SDC #25, April 2008)
7. Juolac – One single Pattern (SDC #50, September, 2010)
8. Knetter – Waiting for the water to Rise (SDC #52, September 2010)
9. Groovyone – 80′s State of Mind (SDC #3, May 2006)
10. Keith303 – Due Midnight (SDC #17, July 2007)
11. NT – Background Music for a splatter Movie (SDC #53, November 2010)

(Backtrack during chat is m0d – Inert State)

Check out the excellent anniversary DJ mix by organic_io:
http://sdcompo.bandcamp.com/track/sdcompo-5th-anniversary-mix (No chatting in here, just some good music in a fluent mix)

Visit the Sound Devotion Competition, and join the next round: http://www.sdcompo.com

Listen to the XRNS radio, by flight aka prom aka f7 aka p7 aka pilot aka promnesia aka GuyWithTooManyNames: http://www.xrns.org (Thanks dude for lending us airtime!)

Another month has passed and it’s time for Remixta Episode #11. This time we are bringing you lots of different music from all over the world. Keith303 starts the show with his above great House music. Lot more rhythmic dance music by Noby, Amok, Tarek-FM who keep the tempo up. Some really evil Zombiecore by Dead By Silence. Really excellent IDM from a newly found act Aech Rom, that picture in the header is also connected to his music, it really sounds like the picture, doesn’t it? (Picture itself is made by excellent concept artist Bastien Grivet).

Also we are playing some Hip Hop, ambient, and lots of other stuff. So, enjoy the show, keep sending us great music and see you next time in Remixta episode 12!

Track list

1. 00:00 :: Keith303 – Devil in Disguise (evoke’10 cut)
2. 03:37 :: Noby – Monophonique
3. 07:02 :: in_tense – Minus Touch
4. 13:12 :: Amok – POP-IT!
5. 21:03 :: Simon Harris – Ecstasy – The Sheer Fun of It
6. 22:11 :: Dead by Silence – Invisible Zombie
7. 25:26 :: Tarek-FM – Mindbender
8. 30:19 :: Aech Rom – Sick Duck
9. 33:31 :: KOTR – Brain On Drugs (Production by dtunez)
10. 38:09 :: Void Pointer – Tuesday
11. 41:50 :: Bad Bandwidth – On The Edge Of The Bandwidths

During the show we had fun on Renoise IRC. Some people thought IDM is pretty cool genre, but the name sucks. People started think new meanings for the acronym. Some of those were, “Intellectually Decadent Mess”, “I Dig Modulations”, “I Drink Milk”. Also someone mentioned that Zombiecore is a dead musical genre…

Show begins with a track by Renoise technical music guru It-Alien who may not be called Eye-Tea Alien, because his name does not come from Impulse Tracker nor Information Technology (nor Internet Things for that matter), but is a pun on word “Italian”.

Next, we play lots of different electronic music introduce couple of amazing albums and talk about the brand new release under Remixta netlabel.

Tracklist

1. It-Alien – A Comet Passing By
2. Amok – Sea Of Tears
3. S-Wrong – Captain Hastings
4. Braintwister – Blockade Runner
5. Hitori Tori – Cold As Fuck
6. Binärpilot – Underground
7. The Hooligan – Viper mk2 Closing the Spacestation
8. Braintwister – Calculus
9. D Fast – Consideration
10. Slippycurb – Chlorine
11. Ashkan Asgary aka ashy!mpala – Lower Back Tattoo
12. Braintwister – Structure
13. Makunouchi Bento – Rain Dragon, Hidden Genius
14. keith303 – From My Halcyon Heart

Braintwister – Identity Matrix

The same day as this show was broadcast, Remixta netlabel released an album by Braintwister. The album contains four tracks of quite original Drum and Bass with lots of sub bass and mathematical rhythms.

I received the material quite long time ago and I was planning for a grandiose release, but I found myself short of time to do all the stuff required, so the release was postponed several months until I finally decided to just release it on bandcamp and let the music do the talking.

Great release nevertheless, and thanks to everyone who helped us to get it on the internet. If you enjoy it, show some love to Braintwister (kasmo) on renoise forums: http://www.renoise.com/board/index.php?showtopic=27228

Hitori Tori – Kinematics

“This collection of songs evokes the disorienting feeling of daily commutes on high speed trains in the Kansai region of Japan. The view out of the cabin window was an endless blur of bobbing telephone wires and slanted trees.”

In 1998 Julian La Brooy’s four track recorder was tragically destroyed. A sound tracker completely changed everything and Hitori Tori was born. Agitated breaks became combined with tweaked arpeggiated synth lines, and a few lugubrious tones were thrown into the background for good measure.

Early releases included tracks as part of the electronic duo Finch on the Sugarmonk Omniscience Complilation in 1999, followed by several electroacoustic tracks out on Luumu recordings. Fasp, another musical incarnation, released an album on the Nishi net-label in 2002. In 2010, Hitori Tori continues with his meticulously detailed productions releasing series of 8 digital singles on Balanced Records.

Having played shows in Japan and Canada, Hitori Tori currently performs and resides in Vancouver.

(Description taken from: http://www.notype.com/drones/cat.e/pan_047/)

Hitori Tori is also one of the well known Renoise artists and is specially notable because of his amazing Renoise live skills using LividIndustry Ohm64. Read more about this and watch a video at Renoise In:Depth.

Makunouchi Bento – Swimé

Probably one of the best Renoise related albums from this year.  One of the most interesting Ambient albums of all time. Filled with atmospheric textures and strange sounds from very wide spectrum of superb acoustics.

Strange melodies mixed with animal voices, sounds of nature and city into psychotic composition with amazingly clear sound image which won’t leave anyones emotions untouched.

Definitely an album worth getting, and you can get it for free on Bandcamp:

http://makunouchibento.bandcamp.com/

Binärpilot – Nordland

Not really a Renoise album, but Binärpilot does use Renoise from time to time, and I just find his music great enough.

Binärpilot comes with a brand new album Nordland. Another 10 tracks of chiptune inspired dance music that just makes your feet move.

“Due to our symbiotic state, the memories of my host have begun seeping through. It comes to me in vivid fragments, saturated with the hopes and ideas of human adolescence. How beautiful it is to aspire, how delicate a process it is to construct an identity through pieces of idolatry and inspiration. Now, these are all memories I am happy to share. Reflections on abandonment, opposition, but most of all joy. Don’t forget to dance.”

The album is available in several different formats, some of them free, go check out the options at http://binaerpilot.no/

Kaizoku

Lots of time has passed since last show again. Lots of things happened during this period. Including the crash of my computer which put things off for some time. Even now I had technical problems which delayed the broadcast for an half an hour and made me go live with a bit unfinished set.  Sorry for the low volume on voiceover and some glitches in mixing. Going to be lot better next time!

Tracklist

1. Ankst – The Wicked (Damnation Remix by Cyvergence)
2. Kaizoku – Something In Blood
3. S-Wrong – Everybody Pump
4. Modlys – Det Nu (breakcore remix)
5. Sodiufas – Shhhhhhhhhhhh(h)
6. Saine – Rocket Science
7. D Fast – Liquid Cool
8. Braintwister – Identity Matrix
9. Beatslaughter – Frozen Dawn
10. Transient – Deep Robot
11. Keith303 – Thumbworker
12. Vivace – Zaaderdag
13. Amok – Endless Autumn

Renoise 2.6 has gone to beta

This show also celebrates the Renoise 2.6 going into beta. This time the tracker gets the long awaited scripting and extension capabilities. Lots of people are working on this right now, playing with the available tools and writing new ones. If you haven’t already, join the fun in Renoise forums.

Renoise also got a Long Sample Support (aka Autoseek) which makes it much easier to handle vocal takes, guitar riffs or any other kind of longer sound clips. The samples are still kept in the memory so one still can’t mix whole recording sessions, but this is not what renoise is meant for anyway.

As an interesting sidenote, Remixta is also broadcast and recorded using Renoise 2.6, it is used in the chain as effect processor and for mixing voiceover and the music. The bit unfortunate configuration this time was not the fault of Renoise (which performed perfectly) but my own misconfiguration due to limited time before going live.

Saine

Soundcloud

Soundcloud has grown to be the most important music distribution place for Renoise users. Many artists in this show have lots of great stuff up in the SoundCloud.

Saine for example, who Released one of the greatest Renoise albums “Break a Pattern” some time ago, has soundcloud page which has gained several new sets in last months.

From the set Elevator Music I played the track “Rocket Science”. The set has lots of nice downtempo dub-technoish music to Chill To. And yeah. It’s all free.

He also has just recently compiled another set Still Life which has more ambient, soundscape music.

Sodiufas has also a nice collection of tracks available on Soundcloud. This is where I acquired one of his latest tracks, Shhhhhhh. Although most of us now Sodiufas by his great ambient melodic soundscapes, this time he surprises us with more industrial and much more rougher sounding creation. Some people find this track bit irritable and disturbing, I find it pleasantly hairy and exciting. The dynamics and soundscapes could even be compared to the ones created by the grand master mr_mark_dollin on his Smargaid Maerd albums.

Talking about mr_mark_dollin, he has recently made his  albums available on Bandcamp for purchase. I wanted to play some of his tracks too on that occasion, but lost all of them due to hardware crash, and didn’t feel like purchasing them again. Which doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do that.

Also this show is dedicated to Renoise 2.5 which was released just few days ago. If you haven’t already go get your copy now, the best Music making software of all times!

Tracklist

1. Next Life – Anti Matter (From Ressurection split EP)
2. Visinin – House From Home
3. Transient – Time Slips Away
4. magOwl – I Thought I heard Someone Thinking (From Sowl Files)
5. Hunz – You Said Hello (From Thoughts that Move)
6. Braintwister – Extensive Search
7. Bachelor Machines – Method/Function
8. Priq – Nitrogeniq
9. Modlys – Uden Dig (From Flow)
10. Jonas The Plugexpert – Stride
11. Razor Shock – Heaven In My Hands
12. magOwl – Laugh… Gone

Tracklist

1. Overcoat – Evaporative Aircoolers
2. Bytesizeerror – Post
3. Kaneel – Backyard Bataille
4. Sodiufas & Fluffy Dryad – Forest Dub
5. Hseiken – Chase The Cats
6. Metylonia – Imagined Beauty (WIP, listen to new version here)
7. Braintwister – InLove
8. Cyvergence – Hypnotic (Album version)
9. She – Ride (From album “Orion”)
10. Vivace – Bad Hare
11. Structure Theory – Baby Seals

Tracklist

1. mr mark dollin – Take The Red Pill
2. Kaizoku – A Doomed Planet
3. Hyperartist – High Speed Lullaby
4. B-Complex – Beautiful Lies
5. Braintwister – Fluctuation
6. Benefit of the boomerang – Put Blinky On The Bill
7. Charly Linch – Choke
8. Achenar – Twin This Highlight
9. Transient – Old Ones
10. Misk – Subterranean Crawlspace
11. Neurobash – Wealth Of The Others (Platimatic Remix)
12. Void Pointer – Strawberry
13. Blac Waldo – Chicken Eggz 2.0
14. Eeter – Orgaaniline Hookus-Pookus

Excuse me my mistakes. This is first time for me to do remixta as live broadcast, and as always, I had some little technical difficulties and some stage fear, maybe.

Hope you enjoy the show and see you next time!

Like every time, every song in this show requires a hilight, but other than album tracks I would like to hilight the great track by DDtMM from year 2006, not much to say: there is a good reason why I would play that old track. Also, special mention goes to the ending track by Joulac. Starting off as really cheesy trackerish house track with a little twist that takes you somewhere totally else.

But who wants to read a lots of words, better start listening!

Tracklist

1. Polybius – Appleyard
2. Lackluster – Ism Psm Sm (EP Aeration)
3. Helvetikone – Bender (Album Bubble Hum)
4. Charly Linch – The Fall
5. Next Life – The Reunion (Album The Lost Age)
6. Next Life – World Map (Album The Lost Age)
7. mr mark dollin & Alex Strain – Saint Santa (Album mmd_as)
8. DDtMM – The Breakup
9. Transient – You and Me
10. Juolac – Feel Your Heart Started

Albums of Greatness

mr. Mark Dollin and Alex Strain – mmd_as

After long time of work two musical masterminds have created this amazing release free for everyone to listen. Mixture of complex ambient soundscapes, haunting lyrics and impressive rhythm sections are the keywords that can be used to describe this album, but there surely more than just those things that make this release as good as it is.

Remixta plays a track Saint Santa from the album which is a critical view of the commercialized holiday called christmas. This track was also released earlier as a christmas present for the community.

My favourite beside this track is Phoebe, but as said, this album is full
of greatness and you can hear from every single note that those two australian artists have spent more time working with each individual track than many other artists spend time on entire album.

Transient – Symphony of Curves

Transient brings us a new album filled with amazing collage of samples. A downtempo/triphop release which in it’s whole goodness is availabe as a free download for everyone.

Crisp master, positive and groovy melodies together with lots of
variations keep the listener engaged through the entire album and leave them wanting for more. Not much to say here but the same words I left in the Renoise forums under the album thread: This release just pure awesomeness.

Remixta plays first track from the album, You And Me. Not neccesarily my favourite track from the album, but as all the tracks are good and have their own special moments full of goodness needed to play I just chose the easy way out and started from the beginning.

Next Life – The Lost age

Something totally unexpected from Renoise scene. Some progressive metal music mixed with chiptune elements, complex rhythmic structures, ripping guitars and various electronic textures. This two man project from norway surely knows what they are doing, and not only on album — they have said to have great live shows. I have heard the claim from many people I trust so I am confident to recommend for you to go and see them next time they perform nearby.

The album contains 16 tracks, each of them less than two minutes long. The short tracks are bit problematic for radio DJ like myself, but together as an album work very well in continous pushing structure.

Remixta plays two tracks from this album.

Helvetikone – Bubble Hum

The artist name is said to be just some random made up word that doesn’t bring too many unrelated google search results, but thanks to the finger of fate the word sounds very close to Helvetin Kone which in finnish means “The Hells Machine”. This is actually what the music sounds like for me. Minimalistic electronica with touch of something really dark and hellish.

How exactly it sounds for you is up for you to decide as Remixta presents track number six, Bender, from the album. It is also interesting to note that the man behind this project is also the man behind Renoise. The allmighty Taktik himself.

Hilights of the show are probably the first track by Polybius and my inability to pronounce some song and artist names. I hope anyone doesn’t get offended of me twisting their names. And if you do, please let me know how to pronounce them correctly, so I wouldn’t screw it up next time.

In this episode we also have some great breakcore artists, my favourite Charly Linch, and everybodys favourite Venetian Snares. Also we have pretty cool Trance/House music artist, Scott Althams, who I discovered recently from CC Mixter, thanks to tip by himself. Also, let’s not forget the names of Keith303, an amazing techno expert. B-Complex, true dnb guru. Beatslaughter & ptrance doing an amazing darker techno mix together, and It Alien, super technical artist with musical variation as wide as a national
library.

Special mention goes to Benefit of The Boomerang with a demo track for the shiny new Renoise 2.0, which has had lots of feedback and interest from many people. His usage of bassline is extremely expressive and thanks to the technique the song truly connects to the listener using truly minimal set of instruments.

As a special thank you for the community for helping me to assemble the show, I give away one free renoise T-Shirt to one of the people who helped me. The hand of fortune, who indirectly picked the person, belonged to Taktik. He picked a random number which after some math made the selection. Who actually won the Shirt? Well, listen to the show and find out!

And after you have done listening to the show, go to Renoise.com if you haven’t done it already, and fetch yourself a brand new version of Renoise. I hear this time they give you a nice selection of samples together with the software for free.

Playlist

1. Polybius – Ephemere
2. Scott Altham – I wonder If God Was Sleeping
3. Keith303 – No More Looking Back
4. Beatslaughter & Ptrance – Crowbar Massacre
5. She – Gum
6. Charly Linch – Marbles
7. Venetian Snares – Gentlemen
8. B-Complex – Acid Trip
9. Benefit Of The Boomerang – Jong Belegen
10. It-Alien – Le Femme Et Le Chien

Discuss this episode
here!

For showcasing, we got our hands on the brand new album by Saine, I couldn’t wait to play it, truly amazing stuff. This is the album of the month (and also album of the year in my opinion). Also, we have exclusive track from Beatslaughter’s upcoming album. This time into IDM genre, but ofcourse with the touch of his other styles, making it one of the most interesting IDM releases I have ever heard.

Enjoy the music, and see you again next year.

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Album Showcase: Saine – Break A Pattern

The best album of this year came late enough to blast everyone else away and probably to pick some berries in the next year as well. Truly amazing chillout/electronica/dubstep, taking the listener on a trip that they will never forget. This album has more warmth and more air than any analogue recordings I have ever heard. This is really pleasurable listen.

Right now you can buy the album from iTunes or Digital Tunes netstores. But according to Saine, it will also become available as a double vinyl in few months.

I have listened to this album obviously more times than it’s healthy and I still can’t get enough of those ambient grooves. Check out the samples in digital-tunes.net, and buy that album! I mean it… Buy it now! NOW! Click click click!

digital-tunes.net: Saine – Break A Pattern

Track Listing

1. Aflare – Glow
2. Beatslaughter – Bliss (Exclusive preview from upcoming album)
3. Terry Sun – Buddah Fingah
4. Derek C. F. Pegritz – By The Masses For The Masses (From album THX 1138)
5. Wanton Kiosk – Meteor Shelter
6. Saine – The Grinder (From album Break a Pattern)
7. Sector Seven – Station Down
8. Xerxes – Cleopatra (Released in Kindergarden 2008)
9. CAG – Ode to Casion (SDC #33 entry, Remix of Mick Rippon)

Discuss this episode here (Renoise Forums)