A little audio nostalgia in the form of my early and unreleased solo works.
For the most curious and desperate who want to know what my music was like a decade ago.
All three “albums” are characterized by extremely low sound quality and are united by the not very successful name Android Borring (which was later renamed to Borin Android).
rockpost (2009)
I have just purchased my first (and until 2021 the only) external audio interface M-Audio EMU-0202. Without any knowledge and understanding of the principles of recording and working in DAW, I began to built my first tracks in Fruity Loops.
In my arsenal there were libraries of various samples and loops that came from nowhere, from which I made backtracks, and then improvised bass guitar parts on top of them.
There is no mixing as such: as I done everything in Fruity Loops, so everything remained, and the sound of the bass guitar was not processed in any way and was simply recorded in line, with the exception of some effects pedals (for example, Digitech Bass Synth-wah, which I dearly loved).
Despite some borrowed loops, 90% of the drum beats, as well as piano and synthesizer melodies were composed from scratch.
In Google-Drive Folder full album in mp3 format, bonus track and cover.
Side A (2011)
This collection of tracks, like the next one, is nothing more than a kind of reflection on the breakup of relationships and the beginning of a protracted depression against this background.
Here I have almost completely abandoned the use of loops (with the exception of a couple of tracks). I programmed the drum beats and all the other synthetic instruments in Fruity Loops, after which I rendered them in separate tracks and tried to mix something digestible in Cubase. But these attempts were unconscious, I just acted at random.
The Google Drive folder contains a full album in mp3 format, a cover, an artisanal video clip and a bonus track – a remix of a song by a band in which I was playing bass guitar at that time.
Noise.Shadows.Dreams (2011)
An experimental and very dark album, as a consequence of my emotional state at that time.
Inspiration was drawn from the record Sonic Youth – Confusion is sex (1983).
Among the tracks there is also a cover (suddenly), a free interpretation of the song I wanna be your dog 🙂
The Google Drive Folder contains the full album in mp3 format and covers.