Ocean Star Empire - A Nebula Portside - LIVE STUDIO VERSION

Performing "A Nebula Portside" in our studio. 

Bookings: faxinadu@hotmail.com

Session with Rebekah Nitsan Feiticeira, a childhood friend of Oss

No midi no scale just guitar doing weird pitches with fx and vocs with delays on them :)

Session with Rebekah Nitsan Feiticeira, a childhood friend of Oss.

Wave Editors and Why You Love Them (Sampling Tutorial)

Working on and practicing our live act

Notation, electronic musician style!

AKAI APC40 + MPK25 Reviews

We are very busy putting together our new live act and as part of that got some new gear, here are some imrpessions of the AKAI APC40 and MPK25.

Harmonic Layering and Hypnotic Trance

we've been exploring some "new" production methods and way of thinking lately, and when we tell our friends about it they indicate they don't really get what we mean. it is in strict terms "progressive" but the end result doesn't have a lot in common with the prog sound and vibe.

instead of working with a short loop and expanding it, we are starting with a really long loop to begin with - 128, 256 bars. each channel evolves within that loop, some can be as hooks and some can be with evolving scoring, but the idea is that the automations evolve and dynamically change each channel, almost all the channels have a ton of delay with massive feedback, and as more channels are introduced the interaction between them creates harmonizing and story. the channels pretty much all run at the same time together, with little interference in editing, for many minutes. there is little room for a huge bass or a lot of drums because the synth layers "steal" the spectrum. the snare and hats evolution and interaction provide the progression of the groove.

end result - almost a new subgenre - part goa, part prog, part something else. there is no instant gratification smash-the-dancefloor type of vibe with this, but it is very deep and mushroomy....  you get something that is both oldschool and simplistic, yet clever and refined, i would dare say "classy" and very musical, like waves of an ocean.

Working on a Faxi Nadu Remix to Digicult - Every Single Second

Faxi Nadu - Yamaha DX200 Review / Demo

Messing with Korg MS-20 Mini External Input

Some cool features of the MS-20 Mini. Sorry for the dodgy video quality, from now on only HD promise :)

Korg M-Oss-20 + B-Oss Metalzone

Faxi Nadu - Processing Synths with Synths - some fun in the studio

Putting in some acoustics in the new place

Almost straight even :D

Faxi Nadu - Making of Ocean Star Empire - Three Dots on a Map Remix

Sorry for the bad tablet quality, can't really get the sound here i know, but a peak into our vibes.

Working on a remix to Ocean Star Empire - Three Dots on a Map. Recording a line with the Slim Phatty getting some modulations from A-100 modules and a Dark Energy.

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Synthesis and Fun - Youtube playlist

Made a playlist of all the current synthesis and studio videos we have on Youtube :) have fun!

Oss Faxi Nadu - Psytrance tweaks with Doepfer Dark Energy and A-100 Modules

Oss experimenting with our Doepfer Dark Energy and first Doepfer A-100 modules over a track we are working on.

Arrived! Our Doepfer A-100 Analog Modular Synthesizer case!

Arrived! Our Doepfer A-100 Analog Modular Synthesizer case. First step towards euro(c)rack addiction!

Lunch and a studio session with Manny Zagri

Our musical collaborator Manny Zagri came over for lunch and a fun synthesis session with his Korg MS-20 Mini. Incredible sounds experimenting with different routing between the MS-20 and my Doepfer Dark Energy. Got some intense channels layed down for a track in progess :)

The girl, the beer, the virus

New toys - Nord Lead2, Tube Compressor, Patch Panel