lundi 24 décembre 2012

Merry Christmas!

Been silent here but not in the studio!

Garlic.lab has been updated with a new high performance PC and a few toys (big thank you to my family for contributing to this very nice birthday gift).
Since then, I've been working on a garlic.wav album and a new project called daark.wav. I hope to be able to work on both projects during Xmas break.

Speaking of Xmas, you can find an exclusive garlic.wav track on Under The Avalanche II.
Members of the Avalanchers discussion board have again teamed up for a Xmas comp. 23 tracks have been produced this year!

My contribution is one of the tracks that will constitute the aforementionned album I'm working on. However, this mix / sequence should remain exclusive to this comp.

Since the world is still turning, enjoy this year end festivities with people you love... and good music! :-)

Have a nice one.

lundi 3 septembre 2012

BIG update

OK, should have posted all those a long time ago, but better late than never. So here we go:

- Foghorn remixes: the goal was to use field recordings of fog horns as the only sound source and produce "music" with it. I've had great fun twisting these natural sounds and doing my first drone / dark ambient track. I'm very proud to be on this comp because the quality of other contributions is very high. Please note that this is an ongoing project (read details on the bandcamp page).

- Signalvoid : another comp contribution with a new challenge : noise! I went through different ideas but have finally chosen to keep it electronic and rythmic with some non musical frequencies attacks.
Contributors were supposed to give 3 pieces of one minute each so the final result could be played randomly. My contribution is a 3 minutes piece that has been divided in 3 pieces. You can download it for free or buy a very nice physical package.

- Niveau Zero : just when I decided I would not get involved in remix contests anymore, a musician and a label I both like a lot are launching a new one... I've tried something different, with a lot of "real" instruments (electric bass and distorted guitars), and spent a lot of time on it. As always, we'll see what happens.
Anyway, this was also the opportunity to start a kind of new direction, somewhere I want to go next. But it's too early to speak about it.

Enjoy.

mercredi 25 avril 2012

They're coming! Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks! 6 auditory invasions by garlic.wav is now available for free on bandcamp.
I took time to put notes about each tracks, so if you want to know more, go directly there.

Any kind of feedback is appreciated, so please express yourself.

I'm taking some rest from the studio. But I know I'll need to get in again soon.
So much stuff inside of me that need to come out, it's necessary.

jeudi 5 avril 2012

new EP out soon!

It's been a fruitful march 2012! Taking advantage of my son's naps on weekends I created 6 new tracks over a month. I've been playing them in the car since the beginning of this week and decided some of them just need a little tweaking here and there. I'll work on that next weekend, and also try to put together a little design for it.

They will be presented in chronological order of creation, because each track was a kind of reaction to the previous one. The main idea was to not leave the tracks too long on the canvas and quickly record something live with minimal editing afterward. I'm also very happy that I could use guitars on two tracks (+ my bass guitar on one). There's some kind of concept around sci-fi because of some of the sounds I wanted to use. Consequently, track names (still in the work) will be reference to space and sci-fi movies.

Allow a week or two, and you'll be able to check that on Bandcamp for free (as always).

Next, I'll begin collecting movie samples (I keep watching films and say "wow! that would make a great sample!") and will work on finalizing that album I keep talking about! :-)



lundi 19 mars 2012

new EP soon?

I've been quite productive lately. While I'm still thinking of releasing an album soon, there could be an EP before, likely in April. Nevertheless, I'll put things on hold while I go on vacations to Thailand with my beloved.

In the meantime, you should go and buy the new [P.U.T] album!

samedi 28 janvier 2012

new remix available

[P.U.T] will release a new album in march 2012. To prepare this release, a new free EP is available on Bandcamp. It features a remix by myself which came out quite quickly and naturally: cut some guitar loops,some bass loops, add a very simple bass synth, add new beats and a guitar solo from me and that's it! :-)
Vocals were a bit more complicated to integrate but I managed that quite quickly too.
All in all, I'm real happy with it and think you should check it out (did I mention it was free?)

Other remix news : OK, DJ Shadow didn't pick up my remix as a winner for his competition... but he took really time to write a long article explaining his choices and thanks every participants. It's not my first remix contest, but it's the first time I see so much respect for the people.

I was waiting for this contest result to start working on a remix comp. Don't expect it tomorrow:  have a few other things in the work, plus a daily life to deal with.