rraAste tracks

I think I'll just set up this thread to post my various non-ambient tracks. More like IDM/techno/electro stuff mostly under the rraAste alias. Not going to be updated super often I think.. This one I started over a year ago in Cambodia.

Cambodian Acid!

Although not really acid, more like glitch.

Cool stuff, the beat is very disorienting in a good way.

 Thanks, man

Yes, I was disoriented and going crazy from the heat in my cheap non-AC guesthouse room making this

Here's another one. More mellow if you will.

love those kicks. very creative stuff

Thanks! The bit harder kick drum is actually my own kick drum instrument created with Reaktor mixed with a sample of a subbass kick.

Is it in the user library?

  On 9/18/2020 at 8:06 AM, dingformung said:

Is it in the user library?

Well, not yet at least, maybe if I clean it up a bit so it doesn't look like such a mess, lol. Also I would still like to develop it a bit.

Currently it's something like this in the UI. Basically a sinewave kick with some ways to distort and filter:

Looks pretty straight forward and not like a mess to me. You could add something like an FM sub bass or a super harmonically distorted sub 60Hz element.

  On 10/20/2020 at 11:11 PM, dingformung said:

Looks pretty straight forward and not like a mess to me. You could add something like an FM sub bass or a super harmonically distorted sub 60Hz element.

The wiring behind the UI is pretty messed. I need to clean it up.

I was also thinking about adding sub bass somehow so I wouldn't have to layer it with a sub bass kick drum sample. Subharmonic sinewave maybe, but let's see what sounds good.

Here's a new track. Glitchy & crunchy.

Has some more Reaktor instruments I've been creating lately. Renoise as a DAW as usual.

I really like it. Both sequencing and sound design are superb. Could be a bit more compressed for my taste

  On 1/23/2021 at 4:50 PM, dingformung said:

I really like it. Both sequencing and sound design are superb. Could be a bit more compressed for my taste

Thanks!

Ok, so this.. this is maybe some strange kind of minimal electro-idm shit?

"nama" is a pretty funny track. I would have liked some more extreme/noticeable beat variations. But maybe that would take away from the minimalism?

  On 2/10/2021 at 12:37 AM, sTeh B L said:

"nama" is a pretty funny track. I would have liked some more extreme/noticeable beat variations. But maybe that would take away from the minimalism?

Thanks

Yes, it's intentionally quite repetitive. The previous tracks have pretty chaotic beats so just to shake up things a bit I decided to play the electro-style beat pretty straight. Fun fact: the first draft was done with nanoloop on my phone and I then rewrote the whole thing in Renoise while adding quite a lot of new stuff.

It's not even that minimalist in the end, there is quite a bit of variation at all times. 

  On 2/10/2021 at 10:16 AM, dingformung said:

It's not even that minimalist in the end, there is quite a bit of variation at all times. 

That's how my tracks usually go. They are pretty simple in the beginning but then I start to do all kinds of small edits here and the whole thing eventually blows up, lol. But here I kept the 16 beat kick and snare pattern relatively constant instead of changing it every so often.

This one started as a kind of rave track and then got a bit out of hand

Nice kick! Loving that muted sound. 

  On 3/2/2021 at 7:26 AM, justanotheruser said:

Nice kick! Loving that muted sound. 

Thanks! I should sometime finish the Reaktor kick instrument that most of these are using but I keep tweaking it.

Very cool! Messed up and industrial but retains the groove.

  On 3/2/2021 at 10:56 PM, chim said:

Very cool! Messed up and industrial but retains the groove.

Thanks!

Some kind of deep techno/IDM hybrid with happy vibes 

  On 4/1/2021 at 12:53 PM, eassae said:

I really like how this one builds and progresses, with that almost ever present heartbeat like bass bell. Nick work! Really great little isolated modulation at 4:00.

Thanks

The modulation at 4:00 is arpeggio applied on the kick drum