Wednesday, February 01, 2023
CJ Bolland Interview: Techno Legend Talks Electronic Music Production and the Gear He Loves
video upload by Honeysmack
This one is in via supporting member Honeysmack.
"CJ Bolland discussing how he makes music and the gear he loves: TR-808, MC-202, Quadrantid Swarm, Arturia synths, Korg Flanger pedals and more!"
"Legendary electronic musician, DJ and techno producer, CJ Bolland sat down for a candid unscripted interview in my studio in the first week of 2023 discussing his approach to making music and how it has evolved over the years, through to revealing the synths and drum machines that have shaped his work.
CJ Bolland is a pioneering techno artist from Belgium who first released his seminal early techno tracks on R&S Records in the early 1990s. Since then his electronic music production and projects has him weaving through a combination of techno, pop and electro genres over the past 3 decades. He provides insight to how he creates and the music technology that he loves. CJ also reveals a few hidden gear secrets! Has a little jam in my studio and there's even a surprise guest.
Tracks featured in this video:
📡 CJ Bolland - Golden Dreams 1990, R&S Records
https://music.apple.com/au/album/gold...
📡 Magnus - What It Is 2017, Universal
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Axzi...
📡 CJ Bolland - The Fire 2020, Harthouse
https://www.beatport.com/track/fire-o...
📡 CJ Bolland - Horsepower 1991, R&S Records
https://music.apple.com/au/album/hors...
📡 Honeysmack - Entity, CJ Bolland remix 2022, Awesome Soundwave
https://open.spotify.com/track/7yUKUq...
*All tracks used with permission for educational purposes only.
CJ was in Australia for some shows in late Dec 2022 and we recorded this chat in the first week of 2023. Mr. Bolland has been a great friend of mine since we first met at the end of 1999. He's always been upfront, genuine and humble about his career for as long as I've known him and he knows I can be a professional idiot at the best of times 🤡 Thanks again to CJ for his time and friendship! This channel is supported by my Patreons, become a member here: https://www.patreon.com/honeysmack and yes I also offer one-on-one tuition/lessons/coaching on making and performing live techno."
A Single Switch
video upload by Todd Barton
"Lately I'm fascinated by the uses of long envelopes and self-propelled patches. This one plays out with the flip of a switch engaging a function generator into self-cycle. Enjoy!
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"
Korg Z1 - Custom Sounds Big Journey
video upload by LFOstore
"Z-1 is a great analog modeling synth with 12-voice polyphony, thirteen waveforms, four LFOs, two resonant filters, two effects units and more.
BUY: https://www.inspireuplift.com/Korg-Z1...
The ability to create unique sounds is endless.
Introducing "Organica" soundset with fresh 128 presets in wide range of categories:
Big lush strings
Complex Pads
Evolving Arpeggios
Cutting leads
Plucks & Bells
Sequences & modular
Classic Analog Sounds emulations
Basses
And many more!
128 amazing presets are waiting for you and ready to fill your compositions with new colors and inspire creativity.
From Ambient & Electronica to SynthWave & SynthPop with benefits of Z1 synthesis.
Made by Nick Klimenko aka Chronos, a creator of 'Organica' for Waldorf Blofeld & 'WS Universe' for Korg Wavestation
Enjoy and may the music come with you!"
Moog One 16-Voice Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer w/ Original Box
Novation X-Station Remote 25 Synthesizer/ USB MIDI Controller SN XST25011210 w/ Original Box
Let's build an atmospheric patch!
video upload by MAKEN0ISE
"This week, Pete from the Make Noise Instagram channel guest hosts with a walkthrough of a recent patch created for our social media pages, the original of which can be found here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2xR3xLReI/
Some notes on the video:
This is an 0-Coast, 0-CTRL, Morphagene patch, which uses XOH as a stereo mixer and Strega as a hyper-atmospheric delay processor. In this walkthrough we re-build the patch from scratch, sharing tips and tricks galore along the way.
Some concepts discussed in this video are covered in greater detail in the following links: [video playlist below]
Also, while not mentioned in the video, the Morphagene's Gene Smooth control (as found in the User Defined Firmware options) was set to "1" for this patch. For more information on Gene Smooth, check out this video: [last video in playlist below]
Manuals for the instruments used in this video can be found on our website"
Playlist:
0-Coast PGM Pages, pt. 5: Page 4, MIDI B CV
0-Coast Patch of the Week #10: External Processing
MG155 Firmware update w/ User Definable Firmware Options: Organize Option (omod)
MG155 Firmware update w/ User Definable Firmware Options: Record Splice Option (rsop)
New Morphagene Firmware!
MG155 Firmware update w/ User Definable Firmware Options: Gene Smooth Option (gnsm)
Expert Sleepers disting EX firmware 1.18 Update - Macro Oscillator improvements, Granulator, Resonator
video upload by Expert Sleepers
"In firmware v1.18 we've added some features to the Macro Oscillator (quad Braids), which taken together enable its use as a four voice poly synth."
disting EX - new Granulator features in firmware 1.18
disting EX - Resonator
"New in firmware v1.18, an implementation of Rings.
Rings written by Émilie Gillet.
https://github.com/pichenettes/eurora...
https://expert-sleepers.co.uk/disting..."
01-The Arturia MiniFreak- Oscillators- Basic Waves
video upload by AutomaticGainsay
"This is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the Basic Waves oscillator functionality found on the Arturia MiniFreak.
The theme was created out of presets and crafted patches over an assemblage of GarageBand loops. For all intents and purposes, it is a MiniFreak-Only composition."
Arturia MiniFreak demos by AutomaticGainsay
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