John Frusciante - Maya (Timesig/Planet-Mu)

Yes, John Frusciante from the Red Hot Chili Peppers..

https://johnfrusciante.bandcamp.com/album/maya

The track that's available now is fucking top notch, I still can't believe I'm listening to the guy from RHCP... being friends with Aaron Funk did him well.

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John Frusciante releases the first instrumental electronic album under his own name on Aaron Funk's Timesig label. The record is dedicated to his cat Maya who recently passed away, a fellow traveller in his otherwise solitary music making sessions. He says "Maya was with me as I made music for 15 years, so I wanted to name it after her. She loved music, and with such a personal title, it didn't seem right to call myself Trickfinger, somehow, so it's by John Frusciante."

'Maya' is inspired by his favourite music: '91 to '96 UK breakbeat hardcore and jungle. It’s a varied and personal take with sophisticated, authentic production balanced against John’s acute sense of melody, an inspired blending of machines and samples infused with a joyful energy.

The process of making his tracks changed over time as John explains; “For a full year before I started this record, I worked within self-imposed limitations and rules that made the music-making process as difficult as possible, programming for programming's sake. After a full year of that, I decided to make things easier, to the degree that I could regularly finish tracks I enjoyed listening to, while continuing many of the practices I‘d developed. Throughout the recording of Maya, I would prepare to make each track very slowly, but would finish tracks very quickly. I'd spend weeks making breakbeats, souping up a drum machine, making DX7 patches, and so on. By the time an idea came up that seemed like the beginning of a tune, I had a lot of fresh elements ready to go."

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huh

Yeah his music is amazing. And Timesig releases nothing but gold. 
 

Instabuy.

cool. nice to see it on mu, also. JF does good stuff. did an acid album a little while back that was good, and different.

His other releases are under Trickfinger ? Or has he used other names as well?

Huh. Interesting. I remember around the time of TCH, one of the BOC guys recommended this guy's stuff. Looking forward to checking it out. 

  On 9/1/2020 at 6:59 PM, goDel said:

His other releases are under Trickfinger ? Or has he used other names as well?

that's the one i was thinking of, and i guess it's his only alias, though he is in some groups. ataxia is good. https://www.discogs.com/artist/79827-John-Frusciante

On a tangent: Anyone knows where to find his Renoise tracks album. Supposed to be on his bandcamp, but it isn't there anymore!? https://jfdirectlyfromjf.bandcamp.com is empty

I pretty much like the crossover side of it.

Speed Dealer Moms

Eager for more!

*Frusciante guitar solo*

I wonder how old he thinks an average IDM fan is?

John is king! 

  On 9/3/2020 at 2:00 PM, zkom said:

I wonder how old he thinks an average IDM fan is?

 

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I'd put most RHCP fans into the 38 - 43 age band tbqh

  On 9/3/2020 at 2:21 PM, Soloman Tump said:

I'd put most RHCP fans into the 38 - 43 age band tbqh

I'd put most IDM fans into the 35-45 bracket. People who were in their late teens in the late 90s or early 2000s.

His Trickfinger stuff is pretty great, especially the first album. 

Under his own name, Foregrow is a lovely record. PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone is basically late '90s SP/Aphex mixed with his own lo-fi solo stuff.

  On 9/3/2020 at 2:43 PM, zkom said:

I'd put most IDM fans into the 35-45 bracket. People who were in their late teens in the late 90s or early 2000s.

i solely exist within the 33-45 bracket

  On 9/3/2020 at 3:02 PM, purlieu said:

His Trickfinger stuff is pretty great, especially the first album. 

Under his own name, Foregrow is a lovely record. PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone is basically late '90s SP/Aphex mixed with his own lo-fi solo stuff.

Enclosure is pretty terrible though.

  On 9/3/2020 at 3:11 PM, kieselguhr kid said:

i solely exist within the 33-45 bracket

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Mine goes from 16 to 78!

I can’t stop listening to Amethblowl, what a track!

I meant to post this thread a while back, around when the OP did heh. Looking forward to this, first track is p f'ing nice.

Name-dropping a healthy chunk of my heroes in this clip. I don’t expect to fully jive with his jungle joints but good on him for knowing what’s up. 

The Centre Of Everything: John Frusciante's Favourite Electronic Music

  On 9/3/2020 at 6:17 PM, goDel said:

Mine goes from 16 to 78!

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ay nice I have an L78. The extra speeds are not much use but it's good to have. I never figured out if that slider has discrete values or if you can play anything from 78 to 16 rpm (as in, 60 rpm for example)