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THRU THE WIRES
WEDNESDAY MAY 28TH 2007

9PM-2AM
$5 @ the door / 21+ (sorry kids)

@ THE LOFT
420 South Mill Avenue / Tempe AZ 85281 (map)

PARKING: In the lot on Ash & 5th (west of the venue, same side of the street)
PROMOTER: Adam Stranieri (480) 200-0661
LOAD IN: Artists between 8:30-9:00pm
TENTATIVE LINEUP (listed in order of appearance)

Chop/Shoppe
ANgR MgMT
Menagam
Modem
RamenBoy
Chop/Shoppe

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by ramen
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HI SWEETIES,

Molly_eskonitron is a name that I gave to the type of work I was doing in that range of a year and a half. The older stuff (2002-2004) all had the name of vale_eskonitron. It’s a hard thing to try to describe certain period of life where you have a range of ideas and expressions that reflect those ideas, so I just give these periods names when the word sounds like it fits the ideas. These songs have a similar kind of idea as the vale_eskonitron period, but their differences are more audible to me than their similarities. It’s hard to explain, so I won’t bother. This is collection of songs I usually play live but have never actually released (aside from that one live cd… but that doesn’t count). Most of them are Nintendo-oriented and such. Here’s a bit about how they came about… Read more…

Posted on April 1st, 2008 by captainmarmalade
Filed under: Albums, Captainmarmalade | 4 Comments »

When I (ramen) worked at Borders at Fiesta Mall in Mesa, Arizona (Hi, Kai! Hi, Nick!), someone would always get on the PA around closing time and announce, “Borders Books and Music will be closing in 10 short minutes…”. I found this to be completely absurd, and would often complain, “no wonder it takes me so long to do all these dishes–they only give me short minutes…”.

This album is about not having time to finish. Most of the tracks are under a minute long. Some are longer. Others are finished. For the most part, this is what you get when life hands you the short minutes. The track list might grow if we can find the time to not finish more tracks, so watch this space! (What does that even mean? Watch space? WTF?)

I’d like to take this time to

Posted on April 1st, 2008 by admin
Filed under: Albums, sp00 | 6 Comments »

Hello, Reason users! Over the years, I’ve stumbled upon some novel techniques by using Reason’s features in unusual ways. I’d like to describe a particularly fun technique for manipulating sliced drum loops in a semi-automated way thanks to Reason 4’s new arpeggiator device.

The RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator is an instrument that controls another instrument by repeating sequences of notes in a particular order. Though arpeggiators are primarily used with synthesizers and other melodic instruments, you can also arpeggiate a drum beat. It’s not obvious how to do this, however; if you just connect the RPG-8 to a REX device, it doesn’t do anything useful. This tutorial explains how to pull it off.

First, you’ll want to find a REX loop that is evenly sliced. You can also get interesting effects with unevenly-sliced loops, but it’s easier to control the effect with a set of uniformly-spaced slices. Create the REX instrument, then right-click it and select “Combine”.

Now that you have the REX loop inside of a Combinator, it’s a snap to hook up an arpeggiator and have it “do the right thing”. Right-click on the Combinator instrument and select “Create -> RPG-8 Monophonic Arpeggiator”.

This is where the fun starts. If you select the RPG-8 and hold down a few notes on your keyboard, it will start playing a beat. Depending on which keys you hold down, you’ll get a different beat pattern. If you hold down four keys, you’ll usually get a 2-beat, and if you hold down eight keys you’ll get a 4-beat. If you hold down any other number, you’ll start getting odd time signatures and lots of other unexpected consequences. You can set the arpeggiator to go down instead of up, or play the notes randomly, and you’ll start to really mutate the original loop.

Once you have a beat you like, you can record it to the piano roll. It’ll look pretty weird, since it’s basically recording the fact that you held down the same block of keys for an entire measure. You can draw it in instead if that’s easier. If you cut-and-paste the patterns and move a few notes around, and you’ll get fills and other beat variations. It’s a great way to keep the drums live-sounding and add a human touch. Try it!

Until next time,
ramen/[sp00]

Posted on February 9th, 2008 by ramen
Filed under: Tutorials | 6 Comments »

If the world were to end today, this album would be its theme for doing so. Complete with beams of judgment, this album depicts the world ending the way it should be done: beautifully, and finally. Each original track was created from the ashes of a major crisis or other world-shattering event, and both remixes are completely annihilated versions of the originals. Enjoy, and remember to watch the show from a safe location: the edge of the solar system.

Posted on January 17th, 2008 by angrmgmt
Filed under: ANgR MgMT, Albums | 6 Comments »

‘Nikmis and the Mystery of the Blue-Blooded Wendigo, Which Had Undergone Musk Gland Enhancement Surgery, at The Expense of €599, in Order To Achieve Success With Members of the Opposite Sex. His name were Edward, and In Life He Had Been a Trained Ventriloquist, Although He Had Never Been to The Ocean’,

or ‘Nikmis and the Mystery of the Blue-Blooded Wendigo’ for short, is Nikmis’ second full-length release on spoomusic, or anywhere for that matter! Artwork by Randy Green!

Read more…

Posted on January 6th, 2008 by nikmis
Filed under: Albums, Nikmis | 15 Comments »

With this New Year we have launched the new, blogtacular redesign of spoomusic.com. Check back shortly as we will be releasing two new albums, one from Nikmis and one from ANgR MgMT. We’re still putting the finishing touches on this new website, so please let us know if anything is amiss. Thanks for visiting us, and best wishes for 2008!

Cheers,
ramen/sp00

p.s. i stole that image

Posted on January 6th, 2008 by ramen
Filed under: News | 1 Comment »

If you’re wondering what happened to our guestbook, look no further. Our legacy is here, in the comments attached to this post.

Posted on November 18th, 2007 by admin
Filed under: News | 81 Comments »

The redesign is afoot! Woohoo! I’m so excited.

Posted on November 17th, 2007 by ramen
Filed under: News | 2 Comments »

We did the following interview with a Venezuelan reporter, and it was to be translated into Spanish. We never heard back, and I’m not sure if it was ever published in any language (other than Klingon, in which all of our published writings are archived). If anyone sees this interview floating around on the net, please send a link! -ramen

Part 1 (spoomusic.com, the label)

*Hi guys, what is spoomusic.com (genres that you work with) / since when exist / where are you/ which acts you represent

Ariel Gross: Spoomusic.com is an indie record label that caters music of various electronic flavors. I think the general term for the style on our label would be IDM, but other buzzwords that apply are Ambient, Synthpop, Minimal, Techno, and Space Funk. One aspect of spoomusic.com that I think is greatly appreciated is that we have built a foundation of free music. You can go to the web site and there are 26 albums that are available to listen to completely free. You can even download the majority of them in their entirety as high-quality MP3s. Read more…

Posted on November 16th, 2007 by ramen
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