For anyone who is interested in which audio tools I use, here is a big list.
Hardware
Synths
Novation Circuit Mono Station
Weevil
Mute Synth 1
Nebulophone
Shruthi
Noise Toy
Drum Machines/sequencers
Arturia KeyStep
Novation Circuit
Korg Es-1 Drum Sampler
Effects
Eoten B – glitch/fuzz/ring mod
Koma BD-101 delay
T-Resonator II
Zoom MS CDR70 Reverb/Delay/Chorus
Boss BF-3 Flanger
Software
Metasynth 5
Reason 10
Ableton Live 9
Reaktor 6
Tracktion
Audacity
Izotope plug-in set
A shedload of AU and VST plug-ins.
iPad applications
Effects
iDensity
Shaper
Eos 2
Harmony Eight
Replicant 2
FuzzPlus3
Utilities
AudioShare
AUM (MIDI and audio recording environment and host)
Atom (MIDI Sequencer)
Fugue Machine (MIDI Sequencer)
Instruments
iMS-20 (synth/drum machine/sequencer)
SECTOR (musical microworld)
Photophore (swarm based synth)
Patterning 1 & 2 (drum machine/sequencer)
dot Melody (freaky sequenced instruments)
Samplr (musical microworld)
iSpark (drum machine)
Bebot (!)
Ribbons (synth)
BeatMaker3 (drum machine/sequencer)
Tera Synth (synth)
SoundScaper (musical microworld)
Jasuto (musical microworld)
Borderlands (musical microworld)
Poly (freaky sequenced instruments)
Ripplemaker (synth)
Ruismaker (drum machine)
Mononoke (synth)
Model D (synth)
With thanks for – Top photo by Yukari Lagowski. Bottom photo by Carol Orriss.
I thought it would be fun to see photo’s of you all, holding your favourite Lagowski, S.E.T.I. or Legion releases. If you like, please send them to lagowski@gmail.com and I’ll put them on a new page here. It would be great to finally ‘meet’ all of you who have been so generously supporting my music!
The ‘studio’ at Du Cane Court, in Balham, South West London, where I recorded and arranged many albums and tracks including ‘False Dawn’, ‘Die Datenschleuder’, ‘Knowledge’, ‘Prismatic’, the Lagowski Chromium Industries 12″ series, Nagamatzu and engineered Lustmord, Terror Against Terror and Isolrubin BK. That is Lustmord’s Akai keyboard in the foreground, which we used as a MIDI controller and sampler. A while after this, I got a Yamaha DX11 to control my MIDI equipment and sold the TEAC 8 track and Seck 12-8-2 mixer to Paul Rooney, the guitarist from Vice Squad.
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I’ve never had a manager for my musical output and am not the kind of person who can schmooze his way to success. I don’t believe in kissing the backside of those who I think might help to increase my exposure in the electronic music/sound world. I find it hard to look at my musical output from the outside in – to me it seems sporadic and patchy with a few tunes here and there that I still enjoy. I’m always analysing my own tracks and wishing I could have done this or that better but ultimately, once a track is done and ‘out’, it’s like saying goodbye to an offspring and time to make another one.
So this week, in an attempt to increase my circle of listeners, and to introduce people to my music (which I’ve been making for 30+ years) I’ve paid FB to bring traffic to this page. Only a very small amount but without a manager, there is not much I can do to push it out there and spread the virus.
In the long distant past, I would have sent cassettes out to fanzines and later, cd’s to magazines and websites. I even met people and gave them cd’s in person! I soon realised that giving people your music free, in the hope that they’d review it or talk to others about it, was a very naive thing to do.
I don’t really know what I’m trying to say apart from, this is the way I’ve always done it and I don’t think it’s ever going to change. So paying FB to promote me is perhaps the equivalent of sending out that cassette 30 years ago and I don’t really expect it to go anywhere or reach anyone but you can’t hang on to your children forever and maybe this will push them further afield into areas that they’ve never been.
It seems that I’ve been busier than I realised lately. The first of the projects was two remixes for Maciek Szymczuk for his ‘Cloud Watching’ release. More info to be found here. I have also done two remixes for Attrition which are available for a limited time as detailed here.
As part of a relatively small campaign to publicise the Legion ‘False Dawn’ 20th Anniversary edition, there is an interview published in the Polish ‘Hard Art’ magazine which will soon be available from Zoharum at this link.
While we’re on the Legion tip, my re-release of Legion’s ‘Leviathan’ is now available for a very reasonable fee from my Bandcamp page here. The download-only release includes three previously unreleased/new tracks, photographs and a MIDI file from the original session for you to play with.
The re-issue of Nagamatzu’s ‘Igniting the Corpse’ album on vinyl as a very limited run, will soon see the light of day. It will have very special hand screen-printed works by Stephen Jarvis (VII Sins) for the first bunch of lucky customers. More details here and on the soon-to-be-open Motorcade website when they are available.
I have also begun work on the next S.E.T.I. projects too. One will be vinyl only entitled ‘Final Trajectory’, one will be a CD for LOKI and the other will be a 24+ hour live stream. I have also been asked to do something for Touch Radio, which I will endeavour to accomplish in the next couple of months. Large dish arrays of the UK – watch out for the S.E.T.I. mobile studio to arrive on your doorstep momentarily!
Finally, my collaborative project with a secret partner will also soon see the light/dark of day. We’ve been ‘hard at it’, as they say, over the last year – sending samples, files and mixes over the internet and producing something truly deep and cinematic. You’re going to love it 😉
