sckdrwr

i feel like i owe the deluge so much. every song on my first album was composed pretty much entirely on it with all external gear sequenced by it. even before that, on my first two ep's there was only one song that wasn't made on it. the vast majority of synth sounds i use come directly from its internal synth engines. as a musician, it's pretty much a part of me.

this time last year, i was in a place where i believed that i was incapable of making music. it was just this thing that i obsessively consumed and could never make. but then last fall, i finally took the plunge and just started trying. quickly i discovered that this was a form of art that actually did gel with my brain. with visual art, i so often just wanted to try to capture and translate a feeling and found myself falling short. but with music (especially once combined with visuals) it suddenly started to work. it felt like when i showed someone a song i made, they at least were able to kind of take a peek inside my head and feel what i was feeling.

so yeah, that’s kinda what this album is. it’s just a document of how i feel about my daily routines and about how i spend my time. it’s got some old songs, some new ones. it’s all threaded together with field recordings i took during my whatever days. it’s short (and hopefully sweet) and it really does everything i wanted my first album to do.

if you wanna take a listen to the album, "infrequent life changes" is streaming pretty much anywhere you already listen to music.

and if you want a little sample here's one of the songs:

I think the embeds here only link one of the songs for some reason, you can check out the rest here.

Picked up making music last year and spent months stuck making 64-step loops before getting the Deluge and finally figuring how to expand my favorite sketches into songs.

The vast majority of the synths on here are just from the internal synth engine (both subtractive and FM) with a couple of the pads run through a Hologram Microcosm and recorded back into the Deluge. The drums are a combo of samples from my Digitone and from some of the SamplesFromMars packs (Found Sounds in particular).

I hope some of you check it out and enjoy!

@Heptagen

Thank you for giving it such a thorough listen! I agonize over the selection of drum sounds so you have no idea how much that means to me haha. Also I'm glad you like my little sock guy I drew

This EP hasn't been mastered, all the sounds are straight out of the Deluge. The recordings are the .wav files directly from resampling in the box. That being said, I did try to do as much mixing as I could on the Deluge given what was available. I just tried to be really careful about the levels of each track/drum sound and then did a bit of EQ'ing with the Deluge's 2-band EQ on each track. Add in the fact that each song (Chill Out Yeah, excluded) has one track run through the Microcosm and recorded back into the Deluge and I think that helped separate out the different elements of the songs.

@joesh said:

@sckdrwr said:
It's honestly staggering to me how far you can get with the Deluge without ever having to touch a computer.

Firstly, really like your piece, sounds great. Like you, I'm also enjoying 'not' using the computer. Furthermore, it's nice to see/hear all these interesting examples ... and get to see who's on Soundcloud too!

Yeah, this thread has been super cool for seeing what other people are doing with their Deluges. Some gear has a kind of specific genre that's largely attached to it but Deluge users seem to be all over the place. I checked out your Warhol Poems song you posted up above and I'm into it. I like me some good ambient bleeps and bloops.

@sssetz said:
Hey bud, just wanted to drop a line and say i'm digggging this track, love the slow burn! 2:42 gives me VIBEZZZ!

Happened to just post about a deluge-only album I just wrapped myself and then noticed your post! cant wait to hear the rest of the tracks....keep at it!

thanks @sssetz ! i just checked out your album on bandcamp and gave some of it a listen and that's some nice work. i'm personally into 270, it's got this dark, chillwavey vibe that's right up my alley. keep up the good work yourself!