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Tuesday, 26 February 2008
New Jet Jaguar EP free for download
My first solo release in about 5 years is available now, thanks to ridiculously long-standing net label Monotonik 
. 5 tracks, all free. Hope you enjoy it.
Jet Jaguar - Biddy Bids
Here's a little blurb about each track:
Was working on it for a dub net label that's yet to see the light of day, so it's obviously got a bit of a skank going on. To add some grit beyond what software would do for me I actually used an FM transmitter to send bits of the track from my computer to my MP3 player and record them off-station, walking around the house and so on. Well, plus some recordings of Tokyo radio.
Japanese for "raw horse meat icecream". Search if you like, but, believe me, it exists. It's not popular at all, at least from people I spoke to in Tokyo, but it is available. More Japanese radio samples, some strings from a Dvorak recording at the end.
Name is a t-shirt slogan I saw on a young woman in Tokyo. The drums in this are all sounds of walking in snow through Hokkaido, processed and built into beats, recorded again, played at wrong pitches, re-rhythmed, re-sequenced, re-sampled... So basically it could've been anything, but I think a bit of the chilliness remains. Really happy with the stupidly grubby bassline, the sub bass wobbles, and the mangled melody.
Another t-shirt slogan title. I recorded the entirety of a subway ride to see one of my private students when I was teaching English in Tokyo, and you can hear big chunks of that in here. The ambient number, I suppose. Maybe, that describes all of these tracks.
A guy called Kent made these recordings of his neighbour's windchimes. This track is made entirely from those recordings - beats, bass, chords, and melodies. Figured the prosaic name was suitable - not often my track titles actually connect much to the sounds!
. 5 tracks, all free. Hope you enjoy it.Jet Jaguar - Biddy Bids
Here's a little blurb about each track:
Red
Was working on it for a dub net label that's yet to see the light of day, so it's obviously got a bit of a skank going on. To add some grit beyond what software would do for me I actually used an FM transmitter to send bits of the track from my computer to my MP3 player and record them off-station, walking around the house and so on. Well, plus some recordings of Tokyo radio.
Basashi Aisu
Japanese for "raw horse meat icecream". Search if you like, but, believe me, it exists. It's not popular at all, at least from people I spoke to in Tokyo, but it is available. More Japanese radio samples, some strings from a Dvorak recording at the end.
Enjoy Mask Aesthetic
Name is a t-shirt slogan I saw on a young woman in Tokyo. The drums in this are all sounds of walking in snow through Hokkaido, processed and built into beats, recorded again, played at wrong pitches, re-rhythmed, re-sequenced, re-sampled... So basically it could've been anything, but I think a bit of the chilliness remains. Really happy with the stupidly grubby bassline, the sub bass wobbles, and the mangled melody.
Disasters In Reverse
Another t-shirt slogan title. I recorded the entirety of a subway ride to see one of my private students when I was teaching English in Tokyo, and you can hear big chunks of that in here. The ambient number, I suppose. Maybe, that describes all of these tracks.
Kent's Windchime Recording
A guy called Kent made these recordings of his neighbour's windchimes. This track is made entirely from those recordings - beats, bass, chords, and melodies. Figured the prosaic name was suitable - not often my track titles actually connect much to the sounds!
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