Trachx and Digital Adventure
Happy 505! Celebrating again with two FREE releases: Trachx and Digital Adventure by Xrei. Like the TR-505 drum machine, we’re also in classic territory now with this start to releasing the best of our solo works from the archives through the end of the year. Enjoy.
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Trachx
Nine-track album formed a couple tracks at a time over the course of 2016 as new equipment and techniques were explored – mainly building up live multi-track play-throughs while roaming the cosmos (with a lot of electro bounce).
Latest of a trilogy of releases produced during 2013 - 2016 experimenting with new synths, software and composition that lead directly into the resurgence of aphasein in recent years.
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Digital Adventure
21-track album improvised live during a single late night session in late December 2013, featuring a new Novation MiniNova and the M-Audio Venom. Beat-driven with a strong melodic synth presence running through it, from epic arpeggios and slowed rave-ups to warm pad-beds and icy space-echoes.
From a forthcoming trilogy of sessions that all produced the same number and kind of tracks, so a similar name and organization was adopted alternating longer tracks with short vignettes (similar to many Plaid and Boards of Canada releases).