`|´ el blanco

Hanuel's Dance or Some Songs to Fish By. A couple little 6/8 tunes strung together rather happhasardlylike.

This is my second tune for fulcrum. This started off completely different, and rapidly turned into this as I messed around with the original 4 parts of the phrase/progression. I just kept tossing on and removing layers until I found something I really liked. Structurally it's pretty boring, the same thing over and over with new layers here and there, one key change up 3 half-steps, climax....then work it's way out.

I really focused on VSTi usage in this one. Pretty much all the instruments (except for the drums) are VSTis. I really enjoy using the Angular Momentum Additive Table Synth by Laif Oddson & Thomas Weber. Just love those delicious sounds it puts out. If only it didn't crash madtracker all the time! I mainly used some presets with a few minor tweaks. The piano is Steinberg's "The Grand" run through MT2's flanger to make it fit in with the trance sound. The drums are all samples I had lying around.

Fractus Soundtrack 3rd @ Revision 2012

Solar Prominence 4kb Sountrack - 1st @ ReWired 2012

I guess I got inspired by a really great sounding DSK VSTis (http://rekkerd.org/dsk-vsti/). There are some super gems in there. My favs are the Analog Matrix and the Asian Dreamz which I somehow managed to combine into this tune. I'm really super happy at how this turned out, using a Chinese Pipa in the second half really breathed something into this when I got stuck trying to figure out what to do. As soon as I added that instrument, the rest of the song literally fell together.

I cooked up this little old-skool demo-style tune for a group demo. The focus was on a nice traditional demo-scene style tune, with fast beats, funky bases, over the top synth leads and the rest. But I had to keep it short and sweet to fit within the lenght of the demo. Came out better than I hoped, plus it has a nice updated sound which I'm happy about. Other features: first tune that I really spent any time messing around with VSTs for effects. I have a distortion VST, a chorus, a compressor, some other stuff.

I set out to write a tune without the aid of drums or percussion (which I usually use with a bit too much gusto to cover up inadequacies in my song writing). I ended up with this little semi-minimalist tune. I got this far with it pretty quickly, but when I set out to try to expand upon it I always ended up hitting a brick wall. As I listened and listened and listened to the tune to figure out how to approach it again, I realized that my head was always ending up a good place after listening to this tune. I decided to leave it alone since I think this little song ended up giving more out of it than I put into it.

I really liked the full mix of "Accidental Ray of Sun". I also really like playing around with Steinberg's "The Grand". I realized the song could be adapted to a piano only tune without much complication -- so I arranged it for the VSTi. Turned out really nice. Due to some flakiness in "The Grand" I split the piano up between two different VSTi so it would have enough polyphony for the entire song.

This is a complete remake of an old tune of mine, done up with a healthy dose of reFX's Slayer2 for rocking goodness.

This song has quite a few firsts for me. It's my first tune since joining [fulcrum], my first Mad Tracker 2 tune, and the first new song I've written in like...5 years. It's a bit slow, but so am I now that I'm getting older. Enjoy.

A tune I made sampled very heavily from Lebo M's 'One By One' from the 'Rhythm of the Pride Lands' LP.

A 90's style industrial electronic tune.

A remix of a very old Impulse Tracker tune. Just a nice place to hang out for about 4 minutes.

One of my favorite movies of all time is the classic "Tron". Sure it's a bit goofy nowadays, but in way it was as important a movie as "Metropolis" from decades before. Long after the images, dialog, and scenes from the movie had left my memory, even after I got bored of playing the (incredibly fun and cool) arcade game, even *after* I tired of "discs of tron", the soundtrack from the movie still stuck in my head. So several years back I found some samples from the movie and wrote a crappy little tune (which back then was the best of my ability). It was never released as it was written for a game for one of my old groups Terraformer (the game was never released and the group disbanded quite some time after that). Recently while digging through my old archives of music I came across this tune, I knew immediately that I had to remix it up to my modern standards. It is essentially the same tune I had originally written structure wise, I simply rewrote it using more modern techniques, and using alot more of the capabilities of IT. A fun little project...The melody through orders 12-15 was originally done by a pal of mine ronin.

Test Pattern 5 by `|´ el blanco

I don't....really know what this is, just listen....or not.... ohh, and don't forget about the second part of the song....

So I was looking for inspiration (listening to the radio and some of my old songs etc.) and I found that I was almost continuously humming or thinking about the chorus from Pearl Jams' "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town". So I "borrowed" (if you will) the melody from that, bassified it, and this is what came of it. It probably didn't hurt that I had also been listening to some of Necros' old stuff (hence the guitar samples). I decided to add the crappy vocal sample at the end to verify the bass line (I ended up writing it from memory since I didn't have the song on hand) and it stayed in.

A little background study:coding:thinking:whatever; music called _All right (enough now)_. It's about 3:43 in length and has blue skin and a tie. Sorry if it seems a little tedious, but it's by El Blanco of that nifty group Audic. I guess that's it for now.

March 2, 1999 This is a slight remake of an old Kombo release of mine from 1998. I added mmx filter envelopes, redid the drums a bit and added/changed some instruments. This is/was intended to be played on Aahz's awesome LoudFactory (www.loudfactory.com) and some of the changes are by his suggestion (extra bass). Huge inspiration to Orbital and Underworld as well as a bit from the compilation album "Monster Breaks".

The Valve by `|´ el blanco

The Gull by `|´ el blanco

Section Ng by `|´ el blanco

Just a little ditty, I've been getting inspired by some stuff by the fine musician Dark Halo, his clockwork night and day tracks are simply unbelievable. Do yourself a favor and hunt around a bit for them. Amazing stuff. Anyways I borrowed some of the drum ideas and some synth ideas from those two tracks. The rest is my own insanity. I tried to funktify up the bass line a bit, but the current one just seemed to blend in so well that I couldn't bring myself to do it.

dyson five shell by `|´ el blanco

I know the name is pretty overused by other people, but I thought this pretty well reflected the kind of soundtracks I hear in my dreams. Yes I'm one of those wierd people who have full color, full soundtracked and scripted dreams. Anyways, this was written for my now defunct music disk 4 winds. Enjoy

Alot of the inspiration for this comes from various stuff that Mellow-d has done. I like his tracking style alot, it seems very flexible and suited for rhythm sections. But I also was a little tired of the never ending "moodyness" of alot of electronica. Thought something a little happier was in order. So enjoy.

I actually made this song during my pre-KOMBO days. But fixed it up and released it under the KOMBO "label". Enjoy this funky little 'Blanco' style tune.

Written for my now cancelled music disk "4 winds". Not much else to say, samples from all over. enjoy!

This is a little bit of a departure from some of my more normal stuff. I mainly wanted to use some old demo style music as inspiration, except use all modern samples and not worry about channel limits. Anyways, this has what are to me, many of my favorite things about old skool demo scene music. Transitions, funky bass lines and drums and best of all, *huge* melody lines (of which the general media seems to agree is one of old style demo music's greatest attributes).

This is my first "technoesque" song since my other group KOMBO died. I had been releasing my more "danceable" stuff under KOMBO and my more "artsy" stuff under CT but since KOMBO is pretty much gone CT is now my sole outlet. Not really sure what else to say....I had no real stylistic ideas going into this song, just made it by the seat of my pants.

This was a tune that I had been working on, off and err, on for a long time now. I kept changing elements of it, fixing things etc. I figure I should just put a freeze on it and let it be.

I did the core of this song about 3 years ago, redid it, then redid it again. I'm sorta proud of it cause it's so stylisticly "not me". I know the guitar parts don't sound like real guitars but hey, gimme a break I don't play guitar so I did the best I can GET OFF OF MY BACK!!!!!!!!!!! blahblah

Transitory by `|´ el blanco

Blah I know the begining suxors but, whatever the rest is good, and quite frankly I'm tired of working on this song. Some ideas from Siren and Necros as well (even though they probably don't know it).

I got the idea for this song when I was going through my cd collection. I had this great CD of bard music from 1100-1300 (Lo Gai Saber) and thought the singing was fantastic on it. I sat down, sampled some intrumental and vocal parts and wrote this ;) It's not meant as a super serious song, just some chill music more or less.

Defiance of 4 by `|´ el blanco

Not a whole lot to say.....an old unreleased tune that I spiffed up and am releasing now :)

I guess this is something of an artistic song (something I don't do much) for me. I tried to show two different moods in this a somber and conflicting beginning followed by a peaceful yet...."happy" ending (sorry couldn't think of a better word for it). I guess this song represents how no matter how hard or bad things are, persevere. Continue on, keep your inner strength and fight your way through the hard times. In the end you can find happiness and peace through the meaning of your struggle. hmm... I'm getting too philosophical for me so I'll shut up.