http://www.simulated.net/audioblog Press Play and Record Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:52:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Posted some older individual tracks: Eric Cook: "Underscores and Asteriks": Mitten State Transmissions compilation (2006). Eric Cook: "PassAgg" (unreleased track, 2004). Persona: "Tinnitus": My Malady compilation (2003) http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2008/06/01/eric-cook-persona-misc-compilation-and-unreleased-tracks/ Recorded 2004, released 2005,on Public Eyesore. Download it here. Buy it here. Reviews: (Dead Angel) I was very impressed with this. It's hard to tell what he's using. Mr. Cook has an excellent grasp on using little pops and hisses well. This whole album is a swirling trip through broken electronic sound... ... http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2008/06/01/eric-cook-asymptosy-2005/ I received a request via email last month from an Italian music journalist who was writing some kind of retrospective Gravitar review, asking for anecdotes about the band. This was one of the things I jotted down in response. Rehearsal spots 1993-1994: We used to have a rehearsal room in an ... http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2008/04/01/gravitar-rehearsal-spots-1993-1994/ Look what turned up in the mail yesterday from John -- A new hand-crafted WSG:RB! If you look at the knobs, you'll notice that everything on it goes to 11.. Sound samples to come soon. Thanks a ton John! http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2007/10/24/new-noise-box-from-noizehole/ I hesitate to even call them 'sketches': 1. newdrummachine + decaying delay feedback 2. newdrummachine + gated feedback http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2007/08/06/2-more-new-drum-machine-try-outs/ I bought a new drum machine off of ebay a few weeks back. Not entirely sure why, to be honest. Something satisfying about the knobs and buttons. Technoish try-out w/synthopotamus drone. http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2007/08/02/new-to-me-drum-machine/ Drone jam (excerpt): 5/20/07. http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2007/06/06/i-still-heart-the-synthopotamus/ The fourth and final track is now posted. This one rounds things out on a bit of a positive note, with a bit of lightly resonant percussion turning into something like repeated guitar strumming. It turns a little more questioning on the end, with brushed metal and close-mic'ed ... http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2007/05/25/mouthless-part-4/ Part three of four posted. This one is a bit darker again -- slow drone build-up then layers of static rain sizzling before scraping and clanking out to a finish. Manages to have a good forward propulsion for the main section without being explicitly beaty. http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2007/05/19/mouthless-part-3/ Mouthless part 2. Reaktor klank-banking, turning into long tone drones with light cymbal-scratch overlays. The base of these tracks are taken from an appearance on Jason Voss' show on WCBN in March of 2003. I've always been partial to pieces of them, but they needed a bit of editing, cleaning ... http://www.simulated.net/audioblog/2007/05/15/mouthless-part-2/