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GeorgeL909
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Hi
My name is George.
I make music for pigeons.
Stay a while and listen
My name is George.
I make music for pigeons.
Stay a while and listen
Of Blood and Rain「SP404 - Dungeon Synth | Lo-fi Hip-hop | Black Metal」
Made August-September 2024 on the Roland sp-404 mk2 with heavy sampling of the Sonicware Liven Mega Synthesis and solos a little of the JD08 and vocals.
Atop an isolated castle, beneath a raging storm, a noble knight slays their rival. A lifelong history of torment and brutality ended by the blade as rain and blood mix in a grisly scene beneath the melancholy night. What should have been a moment of glory is tainted by the grave image of the rival's desolate corpse. A once feared and respected foe, they are reduced to a small, ravaged, lifeless husk. A face twisted in fear and resignation. A face that haunts the noble knight, lingering like a disease, spreading within. The knight graduall...
Atop an isolated castle, beneath a raging storm, a noble knight slays their rival. A lifelong history of torment and brutality ended by the blade as rain and blood mix in a grisly scene beneath the melancholy night. What should have been a moment of glory is tainted by the grave image of the rival's desolate corpse. A once feared and respected foe, they are reduced to a small, ravaged, lifeless husk. A face twisted in fear and resignation. A face that haunts the noble knight, lingering like a disease, spreading within. The knight graduall...
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Видео
George L - Compulsion (Full Album)
Просмотров 3221 день назад
Made in 2024. Uploaded for convenience. 0:00 Ogre 7:40 Compulsion 17:13 Tome of Eyes 28:13 Are You Afraid of Me 38:50 Artifacts of the Ivory Zealot 47:39 Last Night Alive Also exists here: georgel909.bandcamp.com/album/vol-xxvii-compulsion #industrialmusic #blackmetal #hiphop #sp404 #jd08 #technomusic #synthwave
Last Night Alive 「Sp404 + Syntakt + More - Nightmare Techno」
Просмотров 13621 день назад
Made August 2024 on the Roland Sp404 using the Elektron Syntakt and Sonicware Liven MegaSynthesis and more. A song about losing yourselft to the music and enjoying nightlife activities, such as: dancing, drinking, meeting people, socializing, having sex, doing drugs, murder, cannibalism, occult rituals, human sacrifices, communing with the shadow realm, inviting the undead hordes from said shad...
Artifacts of the Ivory Zealot「Sp404/JD08 - Avant-garde Big Beat」
Просмотров 399Месяц назад
Made August 2024 on the Roland sp404 mk2. All synth sounds sampled live from the JD-08. A song about the Ivory Zealot's insane quest to obtain six cursed artifacts to achieve mastery of black magic. The artifacts include the crown of the crimson lich, the tantric idol, the eyes of the swamp king, the purifying blade, a vial of the water of life, and the porcelain mask. If this isn't making any ...
Tome of Eyes「Sp404/Mc101/JD08 - Synth Hiphop | Industrial Metal | Dark Ambient」
Просмотров 193Месяц назад
Made July 2024 on the Roland Sp404 Mk2 with synth sounds from Mc-101 and Jd-08. A song about salvaging a collapsing relationship by reading from the Tome of Eyes, a book of ancient magic that grants insight into the minds of others. However, the tome lies, distorting reality and creating paranoid delusions leading to confusion, anger, and violence. The chaos created then feeds an ancient nautic...
Are You Afraid of Me?「JD-08 + Sp404: Jazzy Synthwave | Industrial Black Metal | Dark Ambient 」
Просмотров 283Месяц назад
Made July 2024 on the Roland sp404 MK2. All synth sounds sampled from the Jd08, with additional noise from Relics Waves/Flow, various samples, and rhythmic 404 distortion effects. A song about the struggle to meet your lover in a dangerous gothic city. Agreeing to meet near the clock tower beneath the twin moons, the city crawls with otherworldly horrors. The living nightmare beckons the cosmic...
Compulsion「JD-08 + Sp404: Synthwave Hiphop | Industrial Metal | Dark Techno」
Просмотров 379Месяц назад
Made July 2024 on the Roland Sp404 Mk2. All synth sounds were performed and sampled from the JD-08 with a few extra sounds from Korg iOdyssey and Relics Waves. A song about the sensation of being drawn deep into a liminal dream realm by a beautiful naked figure that guides you further and further from reality. As she leads you deeper into a world of perplexing architecture, ravenous dream paras...
Ogre 「JD-08 + Sp404: 90s Synthwave + Industrial Drum and Bass」
Просмотров 3262 месяца назад
Made June 2024 entirely on the Sp404 Mk2 with all synth sounds coming from the Roland JD-08. A song about a detective investigating a murder at a luxurious island hotel. Upon arriving, the detective discovers some of the most beautiful and seductive people, all enjoying a lavish lifestyle carefree on this paradise island. However beneath the facade of sensuality and opulence lies an ancient cul...
George L - Existential (Full Album)
Просмотров 1492 месяца назад
Released June 2024. 0:00 The Purifying Blade 9:07 Noctis Aeterna 19:02 Lord of the Astral Fields 29:34 Existential 36:33 Backroom Apathy 45:33 Dead by Summer Just an upload of the full album in case anyone wanted to listen to it continuously. Also exists here: georgel909.bandcamp.com/album/vol-xxvi-existential #industrial #hiphop #rnb #darkambient #blackmetal #sp404 #megasynthesis #georgel909
Dead by Summer「Dungeon Synth | Lo-fi Hip-hop | DSBM | Synth Jazz」
Просмотров 1412 месяца назад
Made June 2024 on the Roland sp404 mk2 with heavy sampling of the Sonicware Liven Mega Synthesis and various Korg softsynths. A song about the aftermath of the Vampire Holy War where the world is in ruins. A remaining survivor wanders the streets of the desolate cities, shielded by the long days of Summer. The vampires have retreated to their lairs to rest after winning the war. The survivor ha...
Backroom Apathy 「Sp404 + MS20 Jazzy Industrial」
Просмотров 903 месяца назад
Made June 2024 on the Roland sp404 mk2. All synth sounds made on the Korg iMS20 softsynth and Relic Flows with added drums and effects from the sp404. An uncomfortable song about heading to the changing room of a clothing store to try something on and accidentally ending up in a never ending maze of hellish rooms filled to the brim with absurd horrifying beings of unexplainable origin and malev...
Existential 「Sp404 & MC101 Combo - Modern Vocal Pop + R&B +m̷̑̽̽̎̾̿o̶̝̍̐̅̄͐̌͆̃͐̇̊̓̈̈́͘ŗ̶̺͓̽̕ẽ̶」
Просмотров 2503 месяца назад
Accidentally made May 2024 in a Fugue state using the Roland Mc-101 Sampled into the Sp-404 Mk2 with additional samples. Vocals added in post. // A song about attempting to impress your lover by quoting a famous philosopher, but misunderstanding the core concepts and realizing something much more profound as a result, ending up victim to the endless perils of philosophical inquiry.// Modern Voc...
Lord of the Astral Fields「Sp404 + Synths - Black Metal | Cosmic R&B | Industrial Hip Hop」
Просмотров 2813 месяца назад
Made May 2024 on the Roland Sp-404 Mk2 featuring sampling of the Roland Mc101, Korg iM1 and iMS20, Relics Flow, and old school sample CDs. A long song following the events of the Noctis Aeterna... the space explorer narrowly survives the cosmic war waged by the ancient ones only to find his species close to extinction. Aboard a megaship in refuge, he gathers his brethren and begins a campaign o...
Noctis Aeterna「Sp404 - Cosmic Drum and Bass | Power Noise Industrial | Synth Jazz」
Просмотров 1844 месяца назад
Made May 2024 on the Roland Sp-404 Mk2 with heavy sampling of the Sonicware Liven Mega Synthesis, Korg iM1, the Roland Mc101, and Relics Flow. // A love song about a space explorer attempting to terraform the moon of a gas giant only to discover a portal to a realm of ancient space-farers corrupted by millennia of exposure to the horrors of dark space - returning to consume and annihilate the r...
The Purifying Blade「Sp404 - Jazz R&B | Blackened Industrial | House Music」
Просмотров 1544 месяца назад
Another wild track from the heart of Boston, made April 2024 on the Roland Sp-404 mk2 with heavy sampling of the Liven Mega Synthesis and Korg iM1. A song about a 12th century Vampire who learns from a mystic Oracle that in several hundred years the world will be overpopulated by humans, allowing for a massive blood feeding frenzy. Blinded by their insatiable appetite, the Vampire enters a deep...
Fashion 「Sp404 - House Music + Industrial Black Metal」
Просмотров 3005 месяцев назад
Fashion 「Sp404 - House Music Industrial Black Metal」
Broken By Time「Liven Mega Synthesis + Sp404 - Black Metal | 90s Gothic Rock」
Просмотров 3485 месяцев назад
Broken By Time「Liven Mega Synthesis Sp404 - Black Metal | 90s Gothic Rock」
Liven Mega Synthesis - Can it Black Metal?
Просмотров 5505 месяцев назад
Liven Mega Synthesis - Can it Black Metal?
Pain Is A Currency 「Sp404 - Dungeon Synth Hip Hop | Industrial Black Metal | Psytrance」
Просмотров 4765 месяцев назад
Pain Is A Currency 「Sp404 - Dungeon Synth Hip Hop | Industrial Black Metal | Psytrance」
Structure 「Sp404 - Ambient Synthwave | Drum and Bass | Black Metal | Industrial Music」
Просмотров 3046 месяцев назад
Structure 「Sp404 - Ambient Synthwave | Drum and Bass | Black Metal | Industrial Music」
Wake Up「Sp404 | R&B | Industrial Post Black Metal」
Просмотров 3356 месяцев назад
Wake Up「Sp404 | R&B | Industrial Post Black Metal」
Lavish Black Obsessions「Elektron Syntakt | R&B & Industrial」
Просмотров 2607 месяцев назад
Lavish Black Obsessions「Elektron Syntakt | R&B & Industrial」
Nights of Amn「Sp404 - Dungeon Synth | R&B | Industrial | Black Metal | Electronica」improved mix
Просмотров 2447 месяцев назад
Nights of Amn「Sp404 - Dungeon Synth | R&B | Industrial | Black Metal | Electronica」improved mix
Area Denial Lover 「Jazzy 90s Synthwave | FM Synthesis Black Metal | Industrial Horror」
Просмотров 3957 месяцев назад
Area Denial Lover 「Jazzy 90s Synthwave | FM Synthesis Black Metal | Industrial Horror」
The Tantric Idol「Sp-404 + | Dungeon Synth Hip Hop + WorldBeat + Industrial Black Metal」
Просмотров 4378 месяцев назад
The Tantric Idol「Sp-404 | Dungeon Synth Hip Hop WorldBeat Industrial Black Metal」
Into the Pool of Radiance「Sp-404 + | Dungeon Synth Hip Hop + Industrial D&B Black Metal」
Просмотров 2988 месяцев назад
Into the Pool of Radiance「Sp-404 | Dungeon Synth Hip Hop Industrial D&B Black Metal」
Last Stand of the Crimson Lich「Sp-404」
Просмотров 1129 месяцев назад
Last Stand of the Crimson Lich「Sp-404」
Bane of the Cosmic Winter 「Sp-404 & Mc-101 | Dungeon Synth Hip Hop + Industrial Black Metal」
Просмотров 4649 месяцев назад
Bane of the Cosmic Winter 「Sp-404 & Mc-101 | Dungeon Synth Hip Hop Industrial Black Metal」
George L - The 8th Black Orb「Sp-404 Doom Metal」
Просмотров 2219 месяцев назад
George L - The 8th Black Orb「Sp-404 Doom Metal」
mythical algorithm pull, this is such a vibe
It's still a wild mystery to me which tracks people end up finding randomly on here, but whatever magic is behind it all, I'm glad you found this one! Thank you a ton for listening!
Great piece! The dark and gloomy aura of Black Metal and the nostalgic and eerie touch of Dungeon Synth. Love the Artwork as well... the "Nekro" aesthetic works really well with the washed up pastels. Beautiful tale too. Sounds almost like the dark side of the old French "Amour Courtois" (Fin'Amor) set of values : Desire is greater than Pleasure. Longing for your Dream is more rewarding, spiritually, than the Pleasure of conquering it. Your knight feels the same, albeit towards his sworn enemy.
What a fantastic comment! Thank you so kindly for listening and I'm very happy you liked it! Great analogy to "amour courtois" literary style. I feel like you perfectly understood all the intentions behind this long and strange song, from the themes to the aesthetics, and I really appreciate the listen very much!
Magnificent!!! I've just started to play 101. It's a masterpiece!!!
@@Eddie_CYH thank you! Yeah no kidding, that's by far the synth from which I've gotten the most bang for my buck. I've used it on at least 30 tracks I've put up. As a work horse romplers and polyphonic sequencer, it's absolutely indispensable to me at this point. Paired with the sp404 those are my two desert island pieces of gear. That being said, I still find myself drawn to other gear for the tactility that the mc101 kinda lacks. But if I'm looking for a very specific sound, I feel like I can find it on this little box. I'm sure you've done this already, but I don't think it was available when I made this jam, please for the love of Sauron and all the children of Mordor, update to the latest firmware so you can fully edit the oscillators and establishment unlock all parameters for every voice. That was a game changer I didn't have for many of my early tracks on the mc101
@@GeorgeL909 WOW! I'll learn more and try more in the future. I've already started to upload videos on RUclips to record how I learn MC 101 and likewise record all my works. Wish I could be an expert as you do as soon as possible.
Man, this is so good. One of my favs I think. That instrumental intro leading up to the vocals was complex and interesting and atmospheric, then the vocals came in and kicked it up a notch. Love the lyric themes in the description. Also that transition riff at around 5:00 and then the spiral into madness the melody does after that, incredibly cool. And then we're back out in the rain and the hip hop, solo away your sorrows, knight! 😂 Also the atmosphere on the outro into that tape stop, chefs kiss.
Thank you very kindly!!! I'm so glad you liked it. It was actually a combination of your jams with Vermis sitting in frame along with @josuakarlson 's vermis stuff that inspired me to lean a little harder into the dungeon synth for this one. No idea what's coming next, but I know if I'm running out of inspiration I can always pop by one of your perFourMer x digitakt mega jams and start mining 💎 ⛏️💀
@@GeorgeL909 Much appreciated!! Not that it sounds convincing coming off recording a 6 minute ambient jam but your stuff definitely influences me a lot as well. So does that mean that you are, at the end of the cycle, influencing yourself? 🤔🤔🤔
Great song, classic tale/situation
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it *casts "aura of appreciation" spell*
WOW, this is pretty awesome! Great job, you should release that. Also love the artwork a lot🫀🫀🫀
Thank you very kindly!!! That means a lot to me. This track will eventually end up on both Bandcamp and here for free as part of the full album. Just gotta work on the rest of the album first, but if I ever need inspiration, I definitely know where to look 😉
This totally fucking rocks! Mad props, dude! Subbed (natch). NO idea how I ended up here but glad I did.
Thank you very kindly! Welcome to the channel too! No idea how you found me with my very high stealth skill, but I'm glad you did! More music to come *disappears into the algorithm shadows*
Do you release cassettes? I live the J-card covers
@@irradix213 unfortunately I'm still a little too small scale to do physical releases. The cassette covers are just for fun and wishful thinking. But the new albums are available for free on Bandcamp, so you're more than welcome to download them for free and make your own cassettes, hopefully the j-card is sized right. One day I'll probably have the means to do physical releases, but until then it's a very sleepy one man show, so any free moment I'll probably spend on making more tracks. I have to reach 1000 tracks, then I'll evolve into my final form. I hope I have wings. And night vision.
Fun fact the "record label" in Japanese on the cards translates to Mishima Zaibatsu records. As in Tekken. Don't tell bandai-namco 😅. I'm not actually part of a real record label. Just a dude dressed as a dude playing another dude.
@@GeorgeL909 ok gotcha, thank you, that's beautiful
I've set my Bandcamp to free as well, but I'm still just making my John Carpenter and Claudio Simonetti dolls kiss and haven't found my new groove yet
@@irradix213 I mean... You could've picked way worse dolls 🤣
Gah, this is nice, I've just been using my Akai Force to run 8 synths bc i don't like their chop, but this makes me want to do some resampling again, Fing A man
@@irradix213 thank you! The resampling on the 404 is what gives it its power, being able to endlessly bake in effects until the final sound is unrecognizable. I've been using the Liven Mega Synthesis a lot, and dry it sounds like a Sega Genesis, but with the resampling, baking in chorus, delay, distortion, reverb, it brings it to life way beyond chip tunes. Highly recommended. If you don't like the Force's chopping workflow, try to just record loops in like... 8-bar segments. That way you only really have to chop the end once per loop. On the 404 in this track I don't even bother chopping the end, I just place the loop on a pattern set to 8 bars and when I switch patterns it automatically cuts off perfectly. The only thing is the tail gets lost, but if I really want a tail, it's ready to add to the first step of the next pattern.
@@GeorgeL909 nice, I record and cut everything in a 25yr old editor I was raised on first, and load back from stick, I use the FX suite in the Force live when I'm not just running 8 synths off it, and hadn't thought of resampling since the Zoom ST224
And FM seems a good way to go for plenty of things like ours now, I follow a guy who writes pieces for parts of Vermis on Digitone, I just use the old TX81z, volca FM and FM2, and the 2 op in the CS Reface between 2 analog monos and 2 ROMplers
@@irradix213 @JosuaKarlson ? The man the myth the legend, I follow him too. Very good stuff. 100% agree, FM gets you some delicious sounds, and I'm a fan of romplers and pcm synths too, the JD08 being my recent weapon of choice for nostalgic PlayStation esque synth sounds, but it definitely has controls like it's a subtractive synth so it feels almost in between.
@@GeorgeL909exactly, his name had slipped my mind, I still want theJV-880 and another Proteus1 is on its way now,btw this is what I come from, so long ago, first ritual jam then 2 real songs, ruclips.net/video/X793BCZb48E/видео.htmlsi=Fugh17NOPlAYQxWA
Yes mate, subbed
@@irradix213 woo! Thank you very kindly!
Great algorithm pull, this is amazing
Woo! Thank you very kindly! Glad you managed to find it and give it a listen.
This is probably my favorite album of yours yet, all the tracks here are so good. Compulsion (the song) might be my favorite, but I'm also very partial to that incredibly catchy, evil Donkey Kong Country ass main vibe of Are You Afraid Of Me. That melody sticks in my head for hours after. I listened to this on the hour long drive to the theatre to watch Alien: Romulus with friends. It was a lightning storm and torrential downpour and I feel like it really brought the whole "going to the movies in a storm to watch a sci fi horror" vibe perfectly. BTW, I really liked that movie if you haven't seen it yet. I'm not a hardcore Alien guy though so IDK if anyones freaking out about lore or any of that but as a person who likes Alien and things that are good, that was that. The visuals and sound and general tone of the movie was pretty much perfect to the originals I think. Anyway, congrats on the album release!
@hexwavemusic thank you very kindly! I'm so glad that I managed to get a track to stick in your head! That's the best complement. Donkey Kong country vibe is frighteningly accurate. I am a huge alien guy. I have at least a half dozen tracks inspired by alien and one rap verse about Sigourney Weaver's butt, so I guess that makes me a true fan. I'm on media blackout on Alien Romulus, but going to watch it maybe this coming Sunday. I remember when I watched Prometheus, I was in New York, and my nerd ass was standing on a crowded sidewalk in Manhattan having a full volume argument with my friend about what the hell that movie was actually about. Like practically yelling in the streets like we were about to throw down, but really we were just passionate about the series. I will maintain that that movie had enormous potential but was carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey for reasons we will probably never know...
@@GeorgeL909 Lmao I did also more or less get that takeaway from Prometheus, very cool movie visually and some neat ideas but definitely with problems (but I would love a flute operated computer, thank you). I am a murderer of spoilers so you do not have to worry from me, but I hope you enjoy it!
Oh man, this has a very dark and dancy vibe to it, nightmare techno is a perfect descriptor. I can feel that Labyrinth-inspiration, harsh morphing tones and unpredictable shifting rhythms. I'm into it a lot! I started playing the recently released "remaster" of Doom 1+2 with the new campaigns and listening to this while sprinting through that game and blasting demons would work very well I think :D I'm kinda in a pure 4 on the floor techno mood lately, both in making music and listening to random past artists I never heard of. I usually gravitate more towards electronica with unpredictable rhythms and such as both you and I often make, but it's quite fun and refreshing to make/listen to a straight up simple dance beat with crazy shit going over top. And with your brand of complex layered tracks it really gives a lot of ear candy to listen to while retaining that anchoring rhythm. Yeah this was good. And you know what, I was never a club person, but your description makes it sound kind of fun, if that's what's to be expected 🤔🤔🤔
Dude I adore the adore doom, especially Plutonia experiment purely out of nostalgia. Highly highly recommend Romero's Sigil 1 and 2 which should be downloadable within the new client, but for those two you gotta listen to the built in OST, cause it is a masterclass in midi based heavy metal/industrial. While we're at it, nightdive made a phenomenal Quake port with new expansions, and it will never get uninstalled from my steam deck. Don't get me started on THAT soundtrack.
Also thank you kindly! I always appreciate your comments. (Before I get distracted on another long comment tangent)
@@GeorgeL909 Yeah it's super cool that they bundled all those campaigns officially in the game and gave it as a free update. Nightdive does the lords work on these old games I tell you. I started Legacy of Rust and oh boy it ramps up quick.
Damn, heavy and dark! I love it! This reminds me a lot of, Velvet Acid Christ early albums like, Neuralblastoma and Calling Ov The Dead. Has that 90s vibe to it!
Thank you very kindly! That's one hell of a comparison. I'll be honest, I hadn't heard much of Velvet Acid Christ before, but checking out neuroblastoma, you're absolutely right! There's a lot of influence from that time period. It's crazy how that happens sometimes kinda by accident. I've definitely heard similar bands to them over the years, so there's no doubt I was influenced by the countless wax trax and ebm bands of the 90s. One other example, only a few months ago I was flipping through a RUclips playlist and I heard GGFH for the first time ever (specifically the album "disease") and I was like "wow it sounds like I've been ripping this band off for years" 🤣. I swear, it was uncanny. Anyways... Definitely adding Velvet Acid Christ to the listening mix. Great recommendation. Thanks again for all the listens over the years btw.
@@GeorgeL909 You're welcome. I love listening older music from the past as it's always fun to discover bands you never knew about. Be sure to check out the other albums by, VAC their a lot good stuff from that band.
insanely good
Thank you super kindly!
Love this! :)
@@ElectricMe woo! Thank you very kindly!
Please tell me that you have secretly been building this lore over the years and it's been planned into a 7 part novel to be published in 2025-2032? Or rather don't tell me, and I'll continue to live my life in anticipation of that event. This track is great and reminds me of Mortal Kombat for some reason 🤷 And then that big break at 6:40 is just massive, loved that! Would love to hear an acoustic cover of this (joking unless of course that is a good idea)
@@hexwavemusic I'd like to leave things mysterious. Are these just incoherent ramblings or deep lore to be adapted by HBO starring Timothee Chalamet? Only time will tell. Maybe I've been Timothee Chalamet this whole time! Anything's possible! I'm glad to invoke image of Mortal Kombat at any possible opportunity, and that makes sense, since big beat was a genre that was only really popular in the mid 90s at the height of mortal Kombat's popularity. The soundtrack to the first movie actually changed my life musically. What a freaking amazing soundtrack to hear as a kid, from Lords of Acid to kmfdm, Rammstein, fear factory, Megadeth, type o negative, it was all over the place in the best ways. And finally, the acoustic version of this would basically just be me breathing heavily while featuring ASMR sounds of my fingers tapping 404 pads and midi controller keys, since I don't own any acoustic instruments. That's an idea though...
@@GeorgeL909 Okay so acoustic version confirmed as this sounds like a platinum record in the making. Also this isn't the first time you've claimed to possibly be T Chal (you don't mind if I call you that do you) so I'm starting to think where there's smoke there's fire 🤔 I knew someone who used to exclusively work out to the mortal Kombat movie soundtrack, but I can't remember who it was.
@@hexwavemusic they probably got so buff that they became unrecognizable. I just recently learned that Tom Hardy actually raps under the pseudonym Frank Pulitzer aka facepuller. He's on several tracks from Czarface with a former member of Wu Tang. So stuff like this does really happen! I did not make this up, this is a tiny rabbit hole gift for you to dive into 😉
One of the many artifacts 🙏👁️👁️
@@hexwavemusic yup! The eyes of the Swamp King grant improved vision when traversing the poison mists. In case you were wondering...
@@GeorgeL909 I wasn't, I promise I'm not collecting artifacts, you don't have to worry about me 😶🌫️
🔥 is this recorded live or you mixing down in a DAW?
Thank you! The instrumental is recorded entirely from the sp404 played in pattern mode, manually changing patterns. I'll break it down for you. So, all drums were assembled on the sp404 using one shots and breakbeat chops played into pattern mode, then resampled with effects. All the basses, leads, pads and solos were sampled into pads on the sp404 from live playing using a keyboard attached to the JD08, but recorded in 8 bar segments. Then after effects were added, the drums and synth sounds were layered on top of each other in TR-rec mode in separate 8 bar patterns. Finally all those patterns were recorded in one sitting in sequence into a DAW by chaining the patterns manually. No stems, just one chunky wav file committed to audio. Only thing added after that is a little compression. But, the vocals were done all in the DAW over that wave file. That keeps this from being a "dawless" jam, but that's fine. It saves me a ton of headache trying to mess with vocal timing on the sp404. I suppose it's possible, but it saves me time to see the waveform over the whole song in the DAW. So it's neither truly live nor dawless, but some horrible abomination in between 😉
@@GeorgeL909human animal hybrids breeding human animal hybrids
Dang.
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randoml came across your work while researching the sp 404. Love what you're doing with it and it's very inspiring. I'm a fan
@ryankim3299 thank you very kindly and welcome to the channel! Hey I've been using the 404 for a hot minute as the centerpiece of my setup for the past 20 something tracks, so if you have any questions about it or how I make this stuff, lmk 🍻
Freaking amazing, dude!!!
You're a legend man, 🍻
Tome of lies more like it am I right? Listened to this while waxing a floor so no live commentary 😂 but it was a great one, very moody and textural. My favorite section was probably the brutal spacey bit in the 8 minute section, also that glitchy piano outro was super good. And vocals on point, keep getting better and better!
@@hexwavemusic your comments make me happy, and that strengthens me. Not like in a spiritual way, like wellness or wholeness, but more like an 80s cartoon or Sega Genesis game way where I actually become physically more buff, and my muscles enlarge and my clothes rip, I probably get hairier and my eyes glow. Thanks for listening and assisting me in getting closer to my final form 👌👍
@@GeorgeL909 That's great to hear, so I guess reading my comments makes people more like me, being a buff video game protagonist as I am. Great 😃
What's this? Another reliable banger? Why thankyouverymuch
@@cchampion6176 thank you very kindly! I'm really glad you liked this one 👽
Great combination..⚔️⚔️
@@cvrsesynth thank you kindly!!!
And... 3 weeks later I noticed I spelled ogre wrong on the artwork. I will fix this on the bandcamp art 😅, I gotta stop putting out tracks on 4 hours of sleep. 🤦♂️
Your music is genuinely next-level. Your Existential and Bane of the Cosmic Winter albums have made me more excited about new music than I have been in a very long time.
That's really kind of you! Thank you. I'm glad you dig this stuff. Despite pretending otherwise, this whole thing is a very small scale music project, but to see it get anyone excited means a lot to me.
Okay right away this opening riff, I love this so much. The chord melody is such a cool vibe and it is sparking some kind of nostalgia for me of something I can't remember 🤷 Really good vocals too. This spacey whispery transition at like 4 min or something is really something, the kinda distant drums going crazy as it builds into the harsh vocals, perfect. This is a very boring comment. I'm feeling boring today. But this song is A++🔥 😀🔥 The solo is delightful also holy moly, into this insanely good riff. 😮 Omg the ending 💀 Damned cool, you killed this one man seriously.
Thank you extremely kindly! All your comments are fantastic! Ok so the chord melody struck my nostalgia gland too. My guess is unintentionally, it sounds like the Konami intro music. It's almost the same notes, I think. The synth is also similar, but Konami probably used vocal pcm samples, likely from the D50 or the Korg M1. There's a ton of cross pollination with these 90s digital synths. The JD-800 is a nostalgia factory, I'm pretty sure I heard it going off in Star Trek, the next generation the other day, I'm like "what was that sparkly sound??" I love those sounds very much cause they're all over the PlayStation and CD era game soundtracks. They usually used the JV-1080 or 2080, and the D50, and Spectrasonics sample packs during that era. I have been mining the sample packs, but I got the JD08 because it replicated the jd800 "close enough", and contains almost the same sounds as those other boxes. The big difference: the jd800 has a TON of sliders and physical controls, where the other three are all menu based digital VCR-like interfaces, especially the JV series, and only have mostly buttons. Like changing the settings on your old TV. It's no fun except for selecting a preset and running with it. The JD was in response to backlash people had where there like "why can't we have more controls like the old analog stuff, instead of these menus. I wanna make my own stuff! It's 1989 damnit, we should be able to have individual controls for the envelopes on this bitch." At least that's how I imagine it went down 😅. Anyways. Thank you again for listening. I love it with you dig one of my tracks.
@@GeorgeL909 Hah okay maybe maybe.. Yeah probably kind of just a combination of sounds that it has the vibe of plus it being a machine emulating the older hardware. I love the sound of it too, even though the PS stuff was a miss for me, I still heard it all the time. And yeah, I guess it's hard for these companies to figure out if they should go more manual controls or more compact and sleek looking.. Seems like both schools are still heavily represented at least in some ways. I'm just glad we're still steadily getting nice shiny new pieces of sick synth hardware, I hope it's a world that keeps on spinning for a long time. Anyway, great stuff. I typed this comment over like three chunks throughout the afternoon as I kept forgetting to finish typing it when I got interrupted so it probably makes no sense.
A drum machine to recommend for this kind of drums? (preferably cheap)
@@asylumbeat4162 Alesis SR-16 or SR-18. They're crazy cheap in the u.s., but they're very old. In my opinion no modern drum machine can beat a hardware sampler for this kind of sound , so I highly recommend the teenage engineering KO-II, the Sonicware Sample trek or Lofi 12XT, or if you can shell out a little more, the sp404 mk2. Then you can load them up with samples of the Alesis of literally hundreds of other drum machines, but still tweak and edit the individual hits... Especially with the sp404 mk2, which has an assortment of EQ, reverb, and compressors that really add a ton of character to the drums. These options run you $200-450 new depending. If you're really tight on a budget: koala sampler will give you most of the functionality of an sp404 without the hardware component on your phone or tablet, combined with a sample pack for old Alesis or Roland R8 samples, your basically set for drums. Maybe 10$ plus whatever device you're using.
@GeorgeL909 thank you for your answers! I already have an SP 404 SX, I pre-ordered the Liven Ambient 0, and I'll maybe take a used Yamaha F51.. afterward as a reverb pedal I don't really know, I have a mooer echo verb
Soundcloud ??
@@asylumbeat4162 so I do have music on SoundCloud, however they have a 3 hour limit before they start charging money for uploads. I probably have about 30+ hours of music on here, real talk, so for every album I upload, I have to remove another to make space, or pay them gross human money so I don't upload there often. But if you really prefer SoundCloud, you can find me here: m.soundcloud.com/georgel909 However, if you wanna listen for free without ads, I highly recommend Bandcamp instead georgel909.bandcamp.com/ Ever 6 tracks or so gets uploaded as an album, free to listen, ad free, and they don't restrict the amount of music I can upload 😉. Hell you can even download the new stuff for free too, make a cassette tape out of it, and throw it at zombies as a projectile!
@@GeorgeL909 super merci 🫡
Sick!!
@@kilgore-recordings woo! Thank you!
It's like having a fever dream hearing minus the bear and witch house at the same time. I love it
I really appreciate that! Fever dream is a wonderful description and exactly what I am always going for. I also enjoy comparisons to actual bands that make music as I'm a bedroom producer in the most literal sense, often under my bed, with a goblin mask on, hissing at people who enter my lair.
creates an awesome atmosphere I can almost smell it thats exactly what I like hails from drauglur from germany subbed
Ungh this is awesome, this middle part with like, bloopy watery sounds , like idk how to even describe but it sounds sick on headphones. This whole track is very atmospheric and interesting. Love the artwork too, great images and color palette, I'd have this one on my wall from the official George L print shop 😎 As this is a live stream of consciousness comment as usual, I have to mention this ASMR woman part was super cool and unexpected. Overall the mix and everything on this sounds great on headphones 🎧
@hexwavemusic thank you so much! I always like hearing if you dig a track. Means a lot to me. So all the pads basses and leads were the JD08 played into the sp404. But the bloops were a mix of random 2600, Syntakt, and a combo of Relics and Fractal Bits softsynths, depending on what I was near at the time. I actually did a lot of the texture recording while watching shows. Me and the crew were watching breaking bad and better call Saul for the first time, so there were a LOT of episodes. Plenty of time to multitask and record bloops with headphones on. The 404 fx make them sound a little more spacious and stereo too. I also sample random things I find from movie clips and Internet stuff too. I know it's kinda naughty, but Idc that much. It's usually something random or obscure and hopefully transformative enough to not get scolded over. I sampled a random episode the TV show Charmed once I think. That's the one with Alyssa Milano? I needed an attractive female voice talking about witchcraft to pitch down and add reverb to. Sorry Alyssa Milano. If you're reading this, message me and I'll take it down. Also while I have your attention, do you like Mexican food? There's this place nearby, they make killer enchiladas and they have a great spicy house tequila, they even give you a blood orange coated in sugar to bite into when you take a shot. We should go sometime. Anyways... What was I talking about?
@@GeorgeL909 Gotta shoot your shot my friend 😂 Btw both breaking bad and BCS are great, glad you're watching those 👌
@@hexwavemusic yeah! One of those shows everyone told me to watch back in the day but I never got around to. Finished all of it after a massive binge with the homies. Now my next fixation is going to be 2024 released Nicholas Cage horror movies.
Ready to gatekeep this awesome EP
Man! Your stuff should have millions of views! I mean, dude! This track is just incredible😮
I appreciate you so much man. Too kind, always 😁
This is a three act slay. Compulsion goes hard
Woo! Thank you very kindly!
this is so good.. algorithm, do your thing with this please
Hah I wish. My music is forever cursed to the dark corners of RUclips 😅 but I really appreciate the listen. Thank you very kindly!
totalement concept
This song is amazing! The synths are very well done, holy shit.
@@Dude1923Dumby thank you very kindly! Really glad you liked it. All the melodic synths in this one are from JD08 except for maybe 1 or 2 solo sounds in the heavy section. I'm loving the JD08 so far, it has a ton of character and sounds I'm very nostalgic for.
Damn, yeah this is sick as
@@Flixtrix466 thank you! You found one of my first ever tracks on RUclips! This was made on Orion, a very old saw DAW from synapse audio. I was still in highschool at the time so I couldn't afford hardware synths, but I got by with that DAW for years because it was cheap, flexible, and very easy to use. It had a built in synth called WASP which was actually modeled after the real life EDP WASP. I had no idea what that was at the time, but years later I learned it was a very edgy synth from the late 70s with some harsh and interesting tones that really colored my style of music going forward. It also has a built in tr-909 clone. Probably where I got the 909 in my username since that was the first virtual machine I ever used.
Whoa, how do you make the covers? Really cool stuff mane, keep it up!
Thank you! Each cover is a little different. I used to do a lot of photo collage stuff, mixing movie stills with drawn things. When stable diffusion and a.i. came out I started incorporating some of that into the artwork. Recently people expressed a bit of dislike for a.i. art, so I went back to some of the old ways of making the covers. This one in particular has 3 images: the background was a big cyclops octopus I drew with pen and paper, then I took a picture of it with an iPad and loaded that into Procreate. In Procreate, I traced over the image adding in shadows and shading and stuff. Then the final image went straight into GIMP and hit with a few "Posterize" filters and color reduction to give it a "clean" look. The second image was a hallway filled with water. It was actually a screenshot from a game on Steam called Pools. It's a weird little game about... Well... Pools. I took the screenshot, boosted the contrast all the way up and drew over it in Procreate. The little octopus monster in the back was drawn in just with procreate. The female figure was done the same way as the background octopus, but I had to use a stock photo reference to get the shadows right. It was a much bigger image originally so I could zoom in, and the poster filter did a lot of the work for me. In the the end everything was pasted together in GIMP and extra stuff like the texts, stickers, lines, and colors were added with just regular Photoshop style editing. I'm glad you liked the artwork, but it's never really been the focus of these tracks. I just like to put *something* to look at instead of a black screen while listening to the music. While some of my past artworks had a.i. elements, I don't think I'll be using any going forward. That means the track art will take a little longer to make, but it should still have the same effect.
@@GeorgeL909 wow, thank you so much for your detailed and thoughtful response. It always great to hear someone passionate about their art. Hope you have a great day/night whereever you are!
@@GeorgeL909Very cool to hear more details about your process! I know it's not your thing but it would be cool to see like a walkthrough somehow of you making one of these, but like, that would probably be a nightmare to record and edit 🤷
@@hexwavemusic maybe I could take some pictures and do a community post.
Man this track rules, probably my recent favorite, you really killed it. The vocal harmonies in the clean parts are so good, that drum pattern when the heavier part kicks in is awesome, so many good tones and just overall blends very well and sounds amazing. Love it 👏
Thank you SO much man! I found I kept gravitating towards the Korg iM1 sounds in many of my previous tracks because of how deeply nostalgic they were to me and I thought "man I really wish there was a hardware M1 with knobs or sliders so I could edit the presets more easily." Turns out that basically was what the jd-800 was in the late 80s (more like a Roland D-50 with sliders). But since I don't have space and repair expertise to invest in a massive JD800 I got the boutique version, the JD-08 and I am in love with it, even with the tiny sliders. A lot of this track was just performing with the "classic" factory patches with tweaks, but the heavier parts had custom patches. I swear this synth must have been used in a ton of 90s PlayStation and computer games since I hear so many familiar sounds. Also I didn't record anything to midi in this track so it was all played in live chunks recorded into the 404 (except the chopped up drums obviously, this) which kicked my butt a little performance wise. Ok. That was me busting out the excitement for the new synth. So glad you liked it though.
@@GeorgeL909 Oh sick I didn't realize you had a new machine, definitely sounding great then! Just looked it up and looks very cool. Enjoy it 😃
This track is absolutely amazing 😍 I love the idea of mixing dungeon synth and Lo-Fi that is cool as hell
As soon as this hit bandcamp I will buy it
@@summerlaverdure thank you kindly! I'm glad you liked it. It's up on Bandcamp as part of the album Existential, but real talk, you don't have to buy it, you can just download it for free if you want, it's more than enough for me that you listened and dug it 😉
@@GeorgeL909 i bought it! I'm hipsterpap on bandcamp! (i just buy music i dont make music on there yet) it so good, thanks again for all your awesome music <3
@@GeorgeL909 it’s a banger! What’s your bandcamp? If you make cassettes I will buy!
@@sooperheep thank you very kindly. Bandcamp is georgel909.bandcamp.com/ I am still a little too small scale for physical releases, and the fake cassette art is just wishful thinking, but I encourage you to download the music for free and record it to whatever media you like. Maybe one day I'll have the means to get some cool custom cassette production going with all the art in a little booklet. P.s. hang tight cause I got another album coming later this month once I finish this last track 😉
Should be the soundtrack for SMT Nocturne 2
I linked here from a SMT video lol
Thank you very kindly! I'll be honest that's a game series I've always known about and been interested in but never played through. I got a few hours into Revelations: Persona on the original PlayStation, and I tried to get through a Japanese rom of the original Shin Megami Tensei, but I couldn't get far because I don't know Japanese. The first persona though, it was literally decades ago but I remember wandering through a highschool in grid based first person and being accosted by strange creatures and getting yelled at by schoolgirls. Good times. Confusing times.
Absolutely!
been waiting for this
This is awesome, I imagine some dude walking down the dead streets playing a flute for whatever reason he may be doing that. And also it reminds me of the music from the Turbografx 16's pinball games Alien Crush and Demon's Crush (which are amazing by the way), specifically the song "Demon's Undulate" from Alien Crush. I've been going down a very deep emulation hole playing systems I never had and know nothing about (I mean legally acquired all ROMs from my own collection.. >_> ) and finding lots of cool stuff like that. Given the OST and visual style, I feel like you probably know of these games already :D
Dude alien crush is the coolest looking pinball game I've ever seen. I never even heard of it before. My turbografix PC engine knowledge is limited mostly to random RUclips videos. That being said I have an "emulator" machine and I went ham for a while on scrolling shooters. Turns out they are actually pretty fun when you have unlimited continues o.o Thank you for listening to this and comparing it to actual music from professional game designers. It won't be much of a surprise but, while I did grow up in the 16 but era, it was the PlayStation 1 that truly blew my mind music wise.Tracks that heavily heavily influenced my music style were the "menu music" from legend of dragoon and two tracks from blood omen: The Mausoleum and On the Road to Vengeance. If you listen to those you'll have a "yup. I know where he got that from" moment.
@@GeorgeL909 I never had any PlayStation except briefly PS4, but I have also acquired like, all the psx games and have been looking forward to diving into that world with random games for short bursts.. I'll check those out.
@@hexwavemusic dude you're in for a treat. The PlayStation 1 is a clunky mess, but it's also got an unmistakeable vibe, this dark dream-like quality to it, and amazing music due to early CD-ROMs Japanese romplers and digital synths. With save states and emulators you can overcome the things biggest weaknesses; load times and save points. Even if you never play the games, I'd highly recommend you watch someone play silent Hill 1, preferably a blind playthrough by a streamer you like. That game is an industrial horror nightmare some personified into a game, and has one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. Side note, you might enjoy majuular's "kings field" retrospective as well. Kings Field is near unplayable these days, but it captures a bizarre pixilated world that only the PS1 could render. It's probably the basis for the dark souls aesthetic. I could go on for hours about this and I often do to random folks on the street. "Sir... Do you have a moment to discuss silent Hill and the golden age of survival horror? SIR... don't walk away! Sir!"
FUCK YEAH.