2600 drones for my baby, by mylar melodies

2600 drones for my baby

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1.	right on the mummy 09:12	buy track
2.	here come the warm horns 04:46	buy track
3.	a noodle an underworld 09:15	buy track
4.	tonezone 09:57	buy track
5.	shh shh shh shh shh 11:32	buy track
6.	a portrait of eliane radigue 13:03	buy track
7.	2600 waves to sleep to 01:08:31

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An album of simple enveloping drones performed one handed on an ARP2600m synthesizer, to soothe the week-old baby I was holding in my other arm. And soothe me. And you too?

Big warm waveforms to bathe your baby in.
Functional drones to work to.
Sounds to soothe, sleep, hypnotise, forget yourself in.
The music of just one small thing, over time.
Music to explore nooks and crannies of a very nice synthesizer.

People say it’s a gimmick that a 2600 has speakers. But not only can you just whack the thing on and make instant noise, but it becomes all you need to perform very simple music to tiny audiences, to help them sleep.

You can queue up three tones, drive them hard into the internal mixer and they knit together with wonderful warm drive. By just carefully riding levels, you give focus to certain frequencies moment to moment. Moving slowly, so that things are evolving, but mostly imperceptibly. There are glorious beats that a 2600 can generate between the oscillators. Create a nice rolling LFO to make the filter rise, and fall, like waves on an glowing neon electronic shoreline. Use the sample and hold clock and you can cause the ADSR to fire regularly, to mark time like a grandfather clock. And that’s not to say anything about two glorious filters, able to pick out beautiful singsong harmonics, a sample and hold generator for randomly stepping them, and electronic switch to create pingpong stereo effects. There’s wonderful spring reverb but which was not used here (it cancels out in mono), and instead Valhalla DSP plugins offer lush stereo on all tracks except startle reflex which is totally dry.

All tracks are one-pass performances, except shh shh shh shh shh, which is two layers. Album ends with "2600 waves to sleep to", a full hour of electronic waves on the beach courtesy of the 2600, to help you sleep, too.

Did you really record it with a baby in your arms? Yes, mostly. Did he sleep? Yes, mostly. You can’t record a 2600 with a crying baby in your arms. And I've subsequently fallen asleep to it too.

People say Eliane Radigue’s music sounds like a washing machine. Yeah, well he loves the sound of our washing machine. People have closed minds when everything is fair game. So shall we hold onto this moment and live within it? Just listening to sound, like waves on a beach, wind in the trees, or a machine, humming pleasantly?

Merci bien.

Mylar Melodies plays one handed:

➡️ Korg/ARP 2600m
➡️ Intellijel Shapeshifter VCO (providing additional chords on some tracks)
➡️ Pico VCO (as an LFO when all VCOs required)
➡️ Valhalla DSP Plate/Vintageverb/Shimmer/Delay effects.
➡️ Mastered with FabFilter and Universal Audio plugins.

For Joseycat. Mr Fuss. Aw jeez.

Thanks for inspiration:
Eliane Radigue
Bitchin Bajas
Raymond Scott
Sunn O))))

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released April 4, 2023

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mylar melodies Leeds, UK

mylar melodies is a synthesizer person from north yorkshire in england who has a youtube channel about synthesizers and podcast about making electronic music.

he has been making tunes variously for over 20 years.

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