How I Spent My (Techno) Summer

Below is the music I made in June, July, and August (and early Sept.) of this year. This is roughly a CD's worth of tunes (approximately 54 minutes). I guess I consider this techno, because I like old school techno, but it's produced for bookshelf speakers or headphones, not necessarily the dance floor. It's not "art" music--it hews pretty close to certain genre conventions and isn't "deconstructing" anything. Except, I suppose, I'm not that interested in typical song composition dynamics where you always have to have a verse, chorus, bridge, break, and reprise. Simplest is best unless you absolutely have to use those dynamics. In any case, the music's not "electronica"--I hate that late '90s marketing word. If that buzzword refers to anything it's a hybrid of electronic dance and Les Baxter/Esquivel-style lounge exotica, and I'm definitely not doing that. "Home computer techno?" That doesn't quite get there either, because the sound is bit fuller than what I think of as the typical "amateur," or pardon me, Garageband sound. Oh, I give up.

Addendum: I also don't like the term "IDM," agreeing with Simon Reynolds that the use of "intelligent" to describe music you make or like is inherently wankerific. I want the music to be dumber, not smarter.

"808 Straight" [mp3 removed]

"Algebra 2 Trig (Beats)" [mp3 removed]

"Anthropos Essentia" [4.8 MB .mp3]

"Amiable Floater" [mp3 removed]

"Aruba '85" [3.1 MB .mp3]

"Bass-o-matic" [mp3 removed]

"Everyone Fights, No One Quits" [mp3 removed]

"Heartbleet" [3.6 MB .mp3]

"Hey" [mp3 removed]

"Hiphop Snares" [mp3 removed]

"More Marching Morons" [mp3 removed]

"Mutator OD Bass (Long Version)" [4.8 MB .mp3]

"Our Rulers From Space" [mp3 removed]

"Pitch Sequences" [mp3 removed]

"Pop Mechanix" [mp3 removed]

"Rubber Elephants" [mp3 removed]

"Sacred Machines Homage" [mp3 removed]

"Teleclysm" [3.3 MB .mp3]

- tom moody 9-08-2006 4:29 am




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