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the silent stars, sintéticos mixtape

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the silent stars, sintéticos mixtape by nofi

A 20m mixtape, featuring excerpts from my recent collection of weird tales:

  1. calma voces v.01
  2. fallos v.01
  3. la hechicera v.02
  4. pequeña maquina v.01
  5. dispersion vectores v.03
  6. ruidos extraños v.01
  7. transmigracion planetaria v.02
 

El libro principal by The Silent Stars

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I have released an album of experimental ambient, freeform and microsound compositions:

El Libro Principal by The Silent Stars cover

The Silent Stars is my “side-project” for exploring (slightly) different directions in music. El libro principal is a “concept album” featuring granular synthesis, microsound tone colors and freeform arrangements. These pieces are my take on post-ambient space music using modern digital methods; an homage to the early electronic music pioneers, post-prog-rock instrumentalists, early New Wave synthesists and proto-New Age experimentalists of my youth.

Production Notes

Granular synthesis and microsound techniques were used for sound generation. Sources include: flute, harp; strings; toy instruments; vinyl records; elementary sound waveforms and more.

Density GS and Pulsaret instruments were the primary instruments. Arrangement, mixing and mastering was done with Ableton Suite. Processing effects were limited to resonant filters, grain delay, reverb and EQ.

Track listing

El libro principal

  1. cadenas v.01 – 06m56s
  2. el enlace v.01 – 08m53s
  3. grana fina v.02 – 09m21s
  4. piscinas v.01 – 09m40s
  5. s’arpa v.01 – 07m02s
  6. masa brillante v.02 – 20m57s

el libro principal by The Silent Stars

Recommended: recent acquisitions

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  1. Amina – AnimaminA EP (iTunes, Amazon) and Kurr (iTunes, Amazon)
  2. Dubmood – Atari-Ska L-Attack (Internet Archive)
  3. His Name is Alive – Detrola (iTunes, Amazon) and Xmmer (iTunes, Amazon)
  4. Ida – Lovers Prayers (iTunes, Amazon)
  5. Keren Ann – Keren Ann (iTunes, Amazon)
  6. Miles Davis – The Peacocks (Amazon)
  7. Miss Kittin – Batbox (iTunes, Amazon)
  8. Pole – Steingarten Remixes (iTunes, Amazon)
  9. Ras Amerlock – Farther East (Internet Archive)
  10. Samantha James – Rise (iTunes, Amazon)
  11. Sia – Some People Have Real Problems (iTunes, Amazon)
  12. Various – The Dub Club Night (Amazon)
  13. Various – New (dub) Excursion (iTunes)
  14. Various – Resume (iTunes, Amazon)
  15. Vector Lovers – A Field EP (iTunes) and Piano Dust (iTunes)

Recommended: recent acquisitions

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Blue States – First Steps Into… (Amazon, iTunes), Disrupt – Foundation Bit (Amazon, Boomkat), Faithless – Forever Faithless: The Greatest Hits (Amazon, iTunes), Faithless – To All New Arrivals (Amazon, iTunes), The Future Sound of London – From the Archives Vol. 1 (Amazon, Boomkat), Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog (Amazon, iTunes), Lusine Icl – Language Barrier (Amazon, iTunes), Mum – Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy (Amazon, iTunes), Radiohead – In Rainbows (homepage), Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope (Amazon, iTunes).