Pirate Drones by Only Wolf

This one in via Jesse Creed, aka The Passenger.

"I thought I'd pass on a guy who has been recording at CanMARC.CA who I think you will like, full of synthery and heavy use of the synclavier 9600!"



The following are the details from Only Wolf on SoundCloud:

"From my upcoming release TRUST.
Recorded at Only Wolf's home studio in Guardamar, Spain.
Produced in Berlin, Vancouver and Guardamar.
Mixed and mastered by Jesse Creed at CanMARC Studio.
Featuring The Passenger*
Gear used:
DSI Prophet 6, DSI Tempest, Moog Voyager w/ CP 251+VX 351, Synclavier 9600*, Korg 3M, MPC 1000, Xone 4D, Ableton live*, OTARI MTR-10*.
Moogerfoogers: MF 101, MF 102, MF 103, MF 104, MF 105, MF 107.
Eventides: Spacefactor, Modfactor, Pitchfactor X2, Timefactor X2.
Warm Audio WA 76*, LEXION Digital Delay System model 96 + PSM 80*.

Album art by Dinao MacCormick.

Lyrics:
Black madness forms the clones
Preserve the beast with robot drones
Transhuman desires will get us there
Filter the waste to breath the air
You can take what you want
So you take what you want
I don't know why you don't know this at all?
And you don't know why I don't want it at all

released September 4, 2016
Album art by Dinao MacCormick"

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with JON SOLO

You can find the interview on Sequential's website here.

"Jon Solo began playing the piano at four years old. In his youth he went on to become a top ten finalist in The International Young Keyboard Artist Competition, and a regular cast member of the television show Music Magic, which was regionally broadcast and filmed in Seattle.

Solo was awarded a scholarship from Cornish College of the Arts where he earned his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Piano. He moved to New York and began cutting his teeth playing in renowned Jazz Clubs throughout the city. In the last 11 years he’s been a regular band member for Angus and Julia Stone, Brett Dennen, Passenger, and Dope Lemon, playing sold out world tours and major music festivals, such as Coachella, Bonnaroo, Governor’s Ball, Outside Lands, Hang Out Festival, Austin City Limits, Bumbershoot, Osheaga Festival (Canada), Rock Werchter (Belgium), Pink Pop (Netherlands), Hurricane Festival (Germany), Montreaux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) Falls Festival (Australia), and many others.

Other career highlights include national television performances on The Dave Letterman Show, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, Good Morning America, and The CBS Morning Show.

In 2017, Jon Solo created Naneum, an ambient-piano based project. Since then, he’s released four full length albums and one EP. He was recently featured on NPR’s regularly broadcasted Echoes with John Diliberto, playing a live concert and interview. In 2018 he performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and licensed a song to Apple, which is on the iOS in the photo memories section.

We chatted with Jon on how he uses the Prophet-6 in his music"

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You can find additional posts featuring Sequential's Spotlight series here.

Synth Rorschach #21 - Mike & Rich - Mr. Frosty

Uploaded on Mar 2, 2009 DAVO1984FI·99 videos

This might be the first Synth Rorschach post that is actually meant to depict a synth. I see Buchla blue. 
via Jesse Creed on Facebook aka The Passenger, who posted it when asked what does he do with his eurorack system below. I thanked Jesse for tagging me on this one as we wouldn't have had this post otherwise. He replied "Synthendipity". I think he just coined it. See the Google search screenshot below. :)

YouTube video description: "Extract from the l.p. ' Expert Knob Twiddlers ' ( 1996 ) , performed by the combo Richard D. James and Micheal Paradinas: released by Rephlex Records.
The song is basically a stange and funny slow techno tune,with clear groovy taste filled all long the song,and some of the classic aphex' s ambient sounds. In the second part of the track the beats evolve into some kind of weird acid house."

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Roland SBX-1 @ CanMARC Studios

Published on Apr 6, 2015 Roland Canada

Awesome T-Shirt. :)

"DJ Lace and Jesse Creed of CanMARC Studios in Vancouver, Canada talk about Vintage Synths, Roland's new SBX-1 Sync Box and how they use it in their studio.

For more information on the SBX-1 visit www.roland.ca.

Check out Roland's SBX-1 Sync Box and find out how it can help you merge the world of new and old gear in your setup

http://www.roland.com/products/sbx-1/

Check out CanMARC Studios in Vancouver, Canada and their massive vintage synth collection. They even rent out time on the gear if you are in the area.

http://www.canmarc.ca
https://www.facebook.com/pages/CanMAR..."

You can find DJ Lace and Jesse Creed at:
the-passenger.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/the-passenger
soundcloud.com/lacedj

Jesse Creed of The Passenger

Pics via Djlace on Facebook
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Nice T-Shirt

"Jesse creed Playing live electronic at the Waldorf on thursday January 26 2012 for the release of his new Vinyl LP, released under the name 'The passenger'."

MATRIXSYNTH T Sighting - The Passenger at the Commodore in Vancouver

Jesse Creed aka The Passenger

"Sportin the matrixsynth tee at the Commodore in Vancouver"

The Passenger

via Mikëal Frazer on Facebook

"The Passenger show at Zoo Shop.... SO GOOD!"

On the gear: "Alesis MMT-8, FR Revolution, Ensoniq SD-1, Arp Solus, Korg ES-1, Roland CR8000, and a Boss re-20

Added to the MATRIXSYNTH T & Swag Hall of Fame.

\_| by the passenger

Bonz.ai 1.14 featuring THE PASSENGER

MATRIXSYNTH T sighting

via Bonz.ai's Photos on Facebook

"The Passenger workin' his synth magic. . .
— with Jesse Creed at LanaLou's."

Yamaha CS30

Link added to the MATRIXSYNTH Swag Hall of Fame

Live! Jam with Space X Starman: Volca Beats/ PO-12/ Alchemy/ Xynthesizr/ minijam hub

Published on Feb 16, 2018 Kalkartronic

"Space X Starman has a passenger! 😂
Put on my knitted space suit and my protective space helmet, beamed me up and sat besides Starman to jam around. Since there is no sound in space due to lack of atmosphere, I plugged the output of the minijam hub mixer into Starman's helmet radio, so he could enjoy the ride. Don't know whether he liked it or not - he did not show any emotion.... 🤔
Gear set-up: iPad in iStudio frame running Alchemy and Xynthsizr (being the master Midi clock for the Volca Beats), sync-out of the Volca Beats to sync-in of the Teenage Engineering PO-12 (bass and snare). All mixed mono with minijam hub.
Thanks a lot for watching, likes and subscribes!"

MATRIXSYNTH T Spotting with The Passenger

via Tristane on Facebook

Jesse Creed aka The Passenger

W ands (CSR285CD) by Western, Creed, Spybey

via Jesse Creed aka The Passenger:

"This one is from recordings with the late Phil Western and myself. Made into a proper album by Mark Spybe after Phil's passing. Made with VCS 3, Sh101, oberheim 2 voice, Yamaha cs30, Korg dv 800, arp solus, synclavier 9600, prophet 5, eventide h3000."

Album info and pre order here.


Phil Western helped found Subconscious Records with Skinny Puppy's Dwayne Goettel in Vancouver, BC, 1993. He was also a founding member of the bands Download, PlatEAU, Frozen Rabbit, and Off and Gone [via Wikipedia]. He passed away in February 4, 2019 at the age of 47.

Cool Hat

Jesse Creed/The Passenger and the first and only MATRIXSYNTH trucker hat in existence. Jesse had been asking me to make one for some time now, so I did, and it is now his.

He's been known to sport MATRIXSYNTH gear in the past.

Thank you Jesse!

Asleep in the sun

Asleep in the sun by the passenger
"arp solus, jupiter 4, tr808, tb303, jx3p, modular synth, tascam dm4800"

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Happy Solstice via More Than Human

via Jesse Creed on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

aka The Passenger

Update: that's Gareth Moses, founder of More Than Human Records.

CanMARC Studio Synth Pics and a New Track From The Passenger

Uploaded on Jan 18, 2011 canmarcvancouver

"An ambient piece using a Roland JP-8080, Waldorf micro-q, Oberheim Matrix 6, Kawai sx210, Tr-606, Tr-808, systech flanger, Korg DVP-1 vocoder. The video was created in Vegas and synced to ableton."

Also on MATRIXSYNTH-C.

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Solstice! & Merry Matrixmass!

Another one via Jesse Creed on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge.  A follow-up to this pic.

Jesse Creed aka The Passenger & Gareth Moses of More Than Human Records.

sombre landscape 07 by the passenger

"korg mono/poly, sci prophet 5, arp solus, roland sh101, systech flanger, ensoniq dp4"

sombre landscape 06

sombre landscape 06 by the passenger
"SCI Prophet 5, ARP Axxe, Roland Jupiter 4, Korg MaxiKorg, Tascam DM4800"

Phuture's acid

http://m.matrixsynth.com/2011/11/november-acid-patter.html
TB303, TR909, TR808, Eurorack Modular, MS20, MXR Phase 90, Tascam DM4800"

Also see beth's night time acid by the passenger.