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#26,581
It's Bandcamp Friday... a long-awaited one! I had a very full wish list and a hard time narrowing down to an almost reasonable number of purchases.


A few weeks ago my wife was watching a Heilung performance on YouTube when I got home from work, and I immediately got hooked. I bought "Futha" without waiting like I usually do, and picked up the other two today. (If I had to pick a favorite it's probably Futha since it's the big ritual one with the most drama, but Drif is generally the prettiest while also including the biggest FU to Caesar.)




I've liked Garmarna's album Vittrad for years -- Swedish folk/rock/electronic stuff -- but kind of neglected to follow what they were doing. This one happened to pop up because a couple of Heilung members were involved in production and guest vocals (and inspiration for the cover art apparently), but it's a great band either way.


I don't know much about this one other than it came up when I was looking for other groups that were doing Viking stuff, and I liked the samples I listened to:


Mongolian metal. I used to listen to this album a lot when I had a Google Play Music subscription so I'm glad to be able to find it again (and it's pay-what-you-want)


This seems nifty, compositions for synths and orchestra, inspired by Archimedes:


Doomgaze stuff, sounded cool when I listened to samples.


I don't remember where I saw the recommendation for this, but figured I needed some really deep purely electronic ambient stuff on this list.


There's a limit on media in a single post apparently, but I bought stuff from JES and steubig too :cool:

I still have 21 albums on my wishlist. Some of them almost made the cut this morning...
 
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Starthief said:
It's Bandcamp Friday... a long-awaited one! I had a very full wish list and a hard time narrowing down to an almost reasonable number of purchases.


A few weeks ago my wife was watching a Heilung performance on YouTube when I got home from work, and I immediately got hooked. I bought "Futha" without waiting like I usually do, and picked up the other two today. (If I had to pick a favorite it's probably Futha since it's the big ritual one with the most drama, but Drif is generally the prettiest while also including the biggest FU to Caesar.)




I've liked Garmarna's album Vittrad for years -- Swedish folk/rock/electronic stuff -- but kind of neglected to follow what they were doing. This one happened to pop up because a couple of Heilung members were involved in production and guest vocals (and inspiration for the cover art apparently), but it's a great band either way.


I don't know much about this one other than it came up when I was looking for other groups that were doing Viking stuff, and I liked the samples I listened to:


Mongolian metal. I used to listen to this album a lot when I had a Google Play Music subscription so I'm glad to be able to find it again (and it's pay-what-you-want)


This seems nifty, compositions for synths and orchestra, inspired by Archimedes:


Doomgaze stuff, sounded cool when I listened to samples.


I don't remember where I saw the recommendation for this, but figured I needed some really deep purely electronic ambient stuff on this list.


There's a limit on media in a single post apparently, but I bought stuff from JES and steubig too :cool:

I still have 21 albums on my wishlist. Some of them almost made the cut this morning...
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Palehorse/Palerider is actually a friend of mine’s group from Denver! Keith is awesome and sadly leaving us for Baltimore as we speak.

Garmarna’s Guds Spelemän is a longtime favorite album of mine! The heavy rhythm section mixed with that droning hurdy gurdy and her beautiful song-story singing in a language I don’t understand just draw me in so hard every time I listen. I’ve never appreciated their other work nearly as much though.

Funny story about my intro to it- Someone dubbed me a cassette off a cassette off a cassette, etc of that album when I was maybe 18 and listening to lots of metal music and I would listen to it CONSTANTLY. He didn’t know what or who the artist/album was (or even what language it was in) and so neither did I, and the original dub also had parts of some early Ulver record mixed in weirdly (it sounded like it was dubbed over the Ulver record but occasionally the Ulver would sort of mix back in at a few points!) which made it even more mysterious and probably helped me tie it mentally with Scandinavian metal music. Years later (once the internet made such a thing relatively easier) I took it upon myself to try to find out what the heck this album I had always loved was, as the tape (and even a copy I had made later) by that point was quite degraded and I wanted to explore more similar music. Somehow I was able to finally track it down just using Google searches without knowing the language or anything else! It was a proud moment.
 
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Starthief said:
It's Bandcamp Friday... a long-awaited one! I had a very full wish list and a hard time narrowing down to an almost reasonable number of purchases.


A few weeks ago my wife was watching a Heilung performance on YouTube when I got home from work, and I immediately got hooked. I bought "Futha" without waiting like I usually do, and picked up the other two today. (If I had to pick a favorite it's probably Futha since it's the big ritual one with the most drama, but Drif is generally the prettiest while also including the biggest FU to Caesar.)




I've liked Garmarna's album Vittrad for years -- Swedish folk/rock/electronic stuff -- but kind of neglected to follow what they were doing. This one happened to pop up because a couple of Heilung members were involved in production and guest vocals (and inspiration for the cover art apparently), but it's a great band either way.


I don't know much about this one other than it came up when I was looking for other groups that were doing Viking stuff, and I liked the samples I listened to:


Mongolian metal. I used to listen to this album a lot when I had a Google Play Music subscription so I'm glad to be able to find it again (and it's pay-what-you-want)


This seems nifty, compositions for synths and orchestra, inspired by Archimedes:


Doomgaze stuff, sounded cool when I listened to samples.


I don't remember where I saw the recommendation for this, but figured I needed some really deep purely electronic ambient stuff on this list.


There's a limit on media in a single post apparently, but I bought stuff from JES and steubig too :cool:

I still have 21 albums on my wishlist. Some of them almost made the cut this morning...
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I absolutely love Palehorse/Palerider. Burial Songs was my favorite album of the year it came out (2017 I think). They're equally awesome live, and nice guys (they're from Denver). Unfortunately the drummer passed away but they got a replacement and I think they're working on a new album (don't quote me).
 
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sunbeast said:
Somehow I was able to finally track it down just using Google searches without knowing the language or anything else! It was a proud moment.
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That sort of thing is fun isn't it?

There was a specific whooshing sound effect that was used all over the place in the 90s -- Doom, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, a couple of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes, and other games and TV. It drove me crazy and I was never able to find anything about it, until last spring when I happened to randomly come across a mention of it. "DSBOSPIT.wav" from Doom aka "Fire, Ball - Impact And Large Fire Burst, Rumble" from "Sound Ideas Series 6000" and apparently was originally made for Disney's The Black Cauldron. It's not synthesized, but a slowed-down recording of fireworks plus a piece of sheet metal being shaken.
 

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#26,586
Maybe this is the place for this.

My wife and I play as a duo, muvvership. She's a drummer with a gamelan background and also a wizard with a soldering iron, 3d printing, general art and design. She made all these Eurorack modules and half the pedals on my board. All I have to do is play bass.

Anyway here's home base:

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Stubb said:
Maybe this is the place for this.

My wife and I play as a duo, muvvership. She's a drummer with a gamelan background and also a wizard with a soldering iron, 3d printing, general art and design. She made all these Eurorack modules and half the pedals on my board. All I have to do is play bass.

Anyway here's home base:

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Do you have close-ups of the rack and pedalboard?
 
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lucas303 said:
Do you have close-ups of the rack and pedalboard?
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The homemade pedals are clones she built of a Phat Phuk B, Meatball filter, and Doppelganger phaser.
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The rack is her territory more than mine, but we have two instrument interfaces we use sometimes, one from my pedalboard, the other from a bass drum trigger. All analog except two modules, I think, and all assembled by her.
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Stubb said:
Maybe this is the place for this.

My wife and I play as a duo, muvvership. She's a drummer with a gamelan background and also a wizard with a soldering iron, 3d printing, general art and design. She made all these Eurorack modules and half the pedals on my board. All I have to do is play bass.

Anyway here's home base:

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sound clips?
 
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Stubb said:
She's a drummer with a gamelan background and also a wizard with a soldering iron, 3d printing, general art and design. She made all these Eurorack modules and half the pedals on my board.
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The homemade pedals are clones she built of a Phat Phuk B, Meatball filter, and Doppelganger phaser.
The rack is her territory ...[snip]... All analog except two modules, I think, and all assembled by her.
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Whoa. Um...does she have a sister?

:)
 
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ugly_bassplayer said:
seems like a variation of the superego/superego +
looks cool but still confused on how every function works….sort of a must try in person I guess to bet the feel of it.
definitely of interest since the ehx freeze has been on my board for a long time and isn’t going anywhere
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I was thinking the same thing. One thing I like about the Superego is that the controls aren't overly complicated and there are no hidden features. I love complicated electronic stuff in general, but when I get something on my pedalboard that's super complicated I tend not to use it that much because I don't want to dedicate the brain power to learn all these button presses and menu dives. The Zoom MS-60b is an example; it really is a great multi-effect but every time I go to change it up I have to spend a half hour relearning how it all works.

Still, though, that MXR pedal is intriguing...
 
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Spectrum said:
I was thinking the same thing. One thing I like about the Superego is that the controls aren't overly complicated and there are no hidden features. I love complicated electronic stuff in general, but when I get something on my pedalboard that's super complicated I tend not to use it that much because I don't want to dedicate the brain power to learn all these button presses and menu dives. The Zoom MS-60b is an example; it really is a great multi-effect but every time I go to change it up I have to spend a half hour relearning how it all works.

Still, though, that MXR pedal is intriguing...
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Same, complicated pedals never stay on my board. The little brain power I have is used to actually play and not think about combo botton hidden features on pedals.
Thats why the ehx freeze isnt going anywhere. Stomp, it drones, let it go, it stops......need I say more.
The superego plus seems cool but it takes up a huge amount of board space. Still looking for a pedal to mess with my Freeze drones in my band, using 2 delays ATM, a DD7 and carbon copy post freeze in the signal chain.
 
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