lectroniceMay 24, 2022

I've managed to kind of accidentally make a new album. Which is nice, since I haven't released anything substantial in years.

It's only 35 minutes long, it's full of fat drones and mangled steel tongue drum, drowned in glitches, reverb and delay, everything has been patched together somewhat randomly with even more randomness, yet it feels, I don't know, wholesome?

Maybe I'll hate it tomorrow. Not sure when I'll release it. For now, here's the cover art.

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Show threadlectroniceMay 25, 2022

Agonizing over whether I should mix all tracks to make them fade into each other, or keep them all separated by silence.

A full mix would make sense, we're clearly in ambient territory with long drones, and silences feel like interruptions. It would in fact be the same process I followed to make the tracks, but at a higher level.

The only reason I wouldn't do this is that I never did it before, and it may be harder than I think, but it's in fact one more reason to do it, right?

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Show threadlectroniceMay 25, 2022

Plot twist: I don't like a couple of tracks, and I have more ideas for more tracks. So, maybe releasing this album will take a bit more time than expected. But it's freaking great that the juice keeps flowing!

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Show threadlectroniceMay 28, 2022

Time to stop messing around with my various tracks and attempt that full album mix. I think I'll just approach the whole thing as a bigger track made of long samples. Technically, it's nothing more than that... I just hope the process won't show me the tracks with a different perspective and make me hate them.

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Show threadlectronice

So, here comes my new album.

It's a blend of heavily processed live RAV Vast recordings. I'd say it's quite experimental, mostly #ambient, though it flirts with #drone while also having a few rhythmic parts.

I made it for myself, on a sudden impulse, with no other goal than to have fun. And maybe a little introspection. It's a mess, but a mess I'm happy with.

https://lectronice.bandcamp.com/album/neurodiverging

neurodiverging, by lectronice

9 track album

lectronice
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Show threadlectroniceJun 2, 2022
Boosting this for other timezones. I feel weird boosting my own posts, but apparently people seem to like my stuff, so... 😅
Show threadDuncanJun 1, 2022
@ice evocative and moody. I love it. Am really enjoying network of the dead.
Show threadlectroniceJun 1, 2022
@minimaldotclick Thanks! It's one of my favorite tracks. At first, it was very short, but I felt it needed more space, so kept extending it... then I realized it had become the longest, haha.
Show threadwoozong 🅅Jun 1, 2022
@ice oh wow! Great album 👍
Show threadlectroniceJun 1, 2022
@woozong Thanks, glad you like it :)
Show threadanandJun 2, 2022
@ice strong work
Show threadlectroniceJun 2, 2022
@anandra Thanks :)
Show threadleeJun 2, 2022
@ice it's a good one!
Show threadBad DiodeJun 2, 2022
@ice Finally have time to listen to it, really nice! It was my work soundtrack in the morning ;)
Show threadlectroniceJun 2, 2022
@bd Thanks a lot! Great to hear it makes a good work soundtrack, it means it does its ambient job :)
Show threadlectroniceJun 2, 2022
@bd Oh and thanks for the support, it's very nice :)
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@ice kulupu ni pi kalama musi li pona mute tawa mi.
Show threadlectroniceJul 10, 2022
@athan sina pona a! tenpo kama, la me wile pali e kalama musi sama.
Show threadfroxJul 16, 2022
@ice This is some nice ambient. I like the steel pan-like sound on the first tracks.
Is it me or is there some clipping on the first track? or maybe my PC audio is worse than I realised
Show threadlectroniceJul 16, 2022
@frox Thanks :) I've used loads of noise and lo-fi effects to create accidental textures, not to mention the original recordings use different parameters, so it's quite possible what you're hearing is intended. Or maybe that's some Bandcamp hiccup. In any case, it's not supposed to sound like harsh clipping, it's more like subtle grain and small glitches.
Show threadfroxJul 16, 2022
@ice Oh it's definitely a small thing and I'm nitpicking 😁
So is it due in part to the original recording and in part to all the effects layered on top of each other?
It somehow reminded me of this track https://oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.com/track/love-in-the-time-of-lexapro
Where you can hear some clipping on the bass drum roughly between 0:50 - 1:10
Love In The Time Of Lexapro, by Oneohtrix Point Never

from the album Love In The Time Of Lexapro

Oneohtrix Point Never
Show threadlectroniceJul 16, 2022

@frox Oh yeah, Oneohtrix Point Ever is among my favorite artists, though it's been a few years since I've last checked out his work. I didn't know this one, I'll have to dig deeper in the newer releases :)

In my case it's a blend of several things: long samples of me playing the steel tongue drum, layered with variations of the same tracks (or others), most often slowed or pitched down, with added random/glitch effects, and slowly evolving global parameters, like volume or FX intensity.