Dub Electronica Explorations
I have a record out today! linked here
I am really interested in dub techno, but I’m from Texas.BUT, I will say that the Houston electronic music scene in the 80s was, at least the listening scene, alive and well, so I’m not coming from nowhere. I always loved dub techno. I think I originally checked it out because I thought it would be like Jamaican jams, but I was really wrong. Regardless, I loved the sounds and the feel and just kind of the nature of it all.
All of these tracks were just kind of studio jams that I’d set up and then would go with, all in the box--Push 3. I spent December collecting sounds and getting my synths together so that by January I just sat down, came up with some musical idea, faders up, and went.
When I came back and listened a year later (years later=reasons no one cares about), I really was happy with the jams. So much so, I feel like I just had to randomly pick stuff because I was liking most of what I was hearing. Rest assured, the bad stuff was bad, I’ll tell you that for sure. (never see the light of day)
But is there a volume two, etc.? I don’t know. I seem to be spending my time these days setting up for the next iteration of stuff. I have a songwriting session coming up, more sing-songs, songwriter type stuff, and I’m mentally setting up set-ups then trying them out downstairs. You know, it' the common theme in this blog? What are you looking towards? What's next?
I called it Dub Electronica Variations for a reason. No way was it going to be called dub techno because people on the internet will just yell at you, so the title makes it easy on myself so it can’t be pinned down in the names. Some grace!
Most of the song names are names of trails around here. I do a lot of walking on streets and trails and stuff like that, and I just kind of took them, morphed them a bit, and went with them--made quick decisions and didn’t think too much about it.
So hope you enjoy this collection. I’m far enough away to actually enjoy listening to some of it, not that I drive around listening to my own garbage all day, but there are worse noises in this world.