A happy 2011 to everyone!

As most of you have listened to THIRTEEN NIGHTS several times now, i wonder what your favourite songs are… chose up to three in this poll…

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THIRTEEN NIGHTS - THIRTEEN STORIES TOLD AT NIGHT

01 LIQUID NIGHT
02 NIGHTDRIVE TO YOU
03 ALL IN (All Night Long Mix)
04 BLINDING NIGHTS
05 STELLARIUM (Starlight Mix)
06 CHALLENGED
07 TRUTH AT NIGHT (Truth and Light Midnight Mix)
08 CUBISM
09 MUXED (Ricardo Reza & Mesia Remix)
10 STELLARIUM (Adrian Bahil & Niels van Gogh Remix)
11 ECHOVALLEY (Tim Sky Remix)
12 VERTIGO (Accuface High Energy Remix)
13 CHALLENGE (Elektricker Remix)

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is in the works, too… Begins like this

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Later it sounds like this

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featuring again several tracks done with my EXPANDED ENERGY…
for those interested here are some soloed

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its funny that this little analog synth can sound a lot like an 80s computer as well…

and… considering my very personal arsenal of sound tools there is something bigger coming up

Good news for fans of modern trance… I just got an ACCUFACE Remix of my song VERTIGO that will of course be part of the upcoming release…

Here is a very short snippet, the remix originally is seven minutes long:

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…still under construction, but nevertheless, thats what this blog is about…

This is how the new LIQUID RITE mix is beginning:

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…and how it develops:

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And this is how ALL IN sounds for now:

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Some time ago i posted about a little analog synth i bought, the doepfer DARK ENERGY…
And although it sounds quite cool out of the box it mainly whet my appetite for more…

My dream is to build a tool for sounds that are full, warm, original but still have an edge, are exciting. For the warmth and “aliveness” i´d like that tool to be analog not digital. Full and “fat” screams for several different oscillators and to have punch but still give “room” for thick drums i like to combine a lowpass and a highpass filter… I dont think that all of this can be achieved by only expanding this little synth, but its a great opportunity to check out several things: Does analog still sound “better”? Is it that easy to “build”? Will playing it be more fun and inspiring than “mousing” with plug ins?

Good that there are many modules for a system called “Eurorack” that is compatible with the size and the voltage of the DARK ENERGY. These Modules not only have knobs to play with but you also can plug in cables to route signals as you like. I only had to chose modules, build a box around them…

…and put cables everywhere to “pimp” my synth.
Born was the EXPANDED ENERGY.

A mixture of modules from MFB and Doepfer are giving the newborn synth the total of 4 Oscillators, 4 LFOs (all 4 can reach audio frequency!), 2 Envelopes and 2 very different Filters. The new Filtermodule is a clone of the famous Korg MS-20 Filter which is known for its dirty sound and nice distortions. Appetite!

Then i started patching sounds. This is a snippet starting with one single bass sound with a different sound doubled left and right later.

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This is two recordings of the same synth sound spread left and right.

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Here again is a single sound followed by two additional recordings of another sound left and right. I used some patching tricks to get an aggressive but still playable sound…

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And here are those three sounds with some drums in the “musical context”. All synth sounds done with the new EXPANDED ENERGY.

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And here is some percussive stuff and some bass tracks i did with it:

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Oh, and its painted white now:

This week is dedicated to my own remix work… and i would like to share some Pre-Versions with you…

Here is kind of a “triplet remix” of 1971/7/4… it still needs more drive at the end…

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And here is one of two remixes of STELLARIUM… i somehow really like the new melody at the end…

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And one of my favourites for now… a dark TRUTH AND LIGHT remix, slowly building up… the break between the two parts is too sparse still…

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Everything is only “Pre”, so there might be a lot of changes…

Here is a full version of a wild elektro remix of CHALLENGE made by the two germans Elektricker. With vocals that include the german translation of CHALLENGE… Works best very loud

http://fairtilizer.com/track/58204

Its an old idea, of course, but several people have asked for it, so here wo go:

If you produce music and are interested in remixing a THIRTEEN STORIES song, then please mail me. Send a snippet of one of your productions in the style you intend to remix and some information about you. I will answer with further details, if the style fits the general scheme of the remix album

If you really like to remix a special THIRTEEN STORIES song, include that info too… I can and will provide samples/files for ANY of the thirteen songs.

ATTENTION all remixers *****************************************************************************

If you have finished a remix, please only mail it as an mp3 to me as a standard email with your full name… i will then listen to each remix and answer, but it may take some days… good luck