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#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the fifth day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... the track called poly and some oontz in a tree...

https://control.bandcamp.com/track/poly

a slightly more introspective track that builds and kicks it up a few notches further in. from the album cubed. skirting a weird time with some industrial, powernoise, dnb, ebm, atmospheric and noise elements, at the time some reviews were a bit shitty that it wasn't the same sound all the way through. I've never really done that and still don't so whatever. This era of stuff got a lot of underground club play in the UK maybe because of those element crossovers. I have always been a proponent of distortion but not like a lot of laptop and pedal jockeys did by decimating canned loops or just obliterating everything to the point of no meanigful space or rhythm. side note the relentless booming straight beat title track has samples from a cooking show!

from this album things are a bit: noisy – “twenty”, “access”, “whore” distorted dnb – “multi” smoke machine beats – “cubed”, “security breach”, “C2”, “crowd control” wtf – “rockstar”

so this track “poly” was made specifically thinking about live performance to add some space and atmosphere and a mild break the the frenetic drumming required for almost all other C2.

see also, if you are in the mood to scare the living bejeebus out of and/or PA battle with the neighbours they are going to absolutely love “rockstar”, that shit even upsets me slightly.

ok oontz on!

#powernoise #ebm #industrial #electro #noise #dark #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak

5/12

#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the fourth day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... the four thieves and some oontz in a tree... https://control.bandcamp.com/track/the-four-thieves

the first entry in the 12 days of oontzmas from the massive QUADRANTS project. this was a 16 track album, 4 EPs of four tracks each, themed to one of a classic human temperaments and each using only sound source mangled from each corresponding quadrants of the main album. There was also some written material and visuals in a very diy booklet. This project actually saved my life. I had been going thru some misdiagnoses and things with what has come to be my disability. working with some old mates for spoken word, sound source and the visuals I funnelled a whole lot of pain and anger and darkness into the whole series and it stands as a proud monument to survival.

this track was a live staple during the QUADRANTS and PENTALOGY era tours from C2. the CHOLERIC EP was a heavily dance orientated part of the release series.

#powernoise #ebm #industrial #electro #synth #dark #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak

4/12

#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the second day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... two in control and some oontz in a tree...

https://control.bandcamp.com/track/in-control

here is a track from my favourite album no one has heard, dj mindstalker.

in the mid 90s at uni (lol olde), my bandmate Andy said he met a chap making a movie and was interested in some electronic soundtrack. Cool! We met with the guy and it turns out a small missed detail was that it was a porn. These days, I rather hate the pron “industry” for how bad it chews up and throws away damaged such a massive percentage of participants. But at that time I reckoned no shame, if shit is consensual and with health and safety of all a priority, I wasn't adverse. We made an opening and closing track but I honestly don't know if the porn was ever made, nor did I ever find the master tape. The point is, the vibe was dark tech and that carried into what I eventually called dj mindstalker for various dj/drum/video performance tours around scandinavia, germany and n. america and a single self-titled album. see also “orb3” for even more introspective techno.

#techno #dark #electronica #house #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak