WHY WE BLEEP 012: SUB FOCUS
Today we meet Drum and Bass artist, producer, songwriter, DJ, and extremely good dude Sub Focus. Usually found headlining major venues and touring the World at the highest level, on a quiet Saturday morning we sat down in his London studio to chat.
What followed was a thoroughly excellent geekout on modular synths and favourite modules, on production tools, software, about playing live and touring, delivering the hits, algorithms, art, open source, and Manuel Gottsching's E2-E4.
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Links to Things we discuss in this Episode:
Carillon Computers: https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/carillon-ac1-core-4xt
Me Metropolis Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9-XA5MPwY
Intellijel Metropolis link: https://intellijel.com/shop/eurorack/metropolis/
Halls of Valhalla card for Z-DSP: https://valhalladsp.com/2014/01/18/a-new-reverb-cartridge-for-the-z-dsp-halls-of-valhalla/
Mutable Peaks: https://mutable-instruments.net/modules/peaks/
Tiptop One: http://tiptopaudio.com/one/
Intellijel uScale https://intellijel.com/shop/eurorack/legacy/
Richard Devine https://richarddevine.bandcamp.com/
Ladik R-110 Random Clocked Gates http://ladik.ladik.eu/?page_id=998 (Thanks Mark on Patreon)
Pamela's New Workout: http://busycircuits.com/alm017/
Surgeon https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/surgeon
Beasts Chalkboard http://busycircuits.com/alm002/
Doepfer A110 http://www.doepfer.de/a110.htm
Mutable Instruments Rings https://mutable-instruments.net/modules/rings/
Nerd moment, I mention there were no physical modeling commercial synths, but there were: https://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/blast-from-the-past-yamaha-vl1-634920
Korg Kronos https://www.korg.com/uk/products/synthesizers/kronos2/
Yamaha Montage https://uk.yamaha.com/en/products/music_production/synthesizers/montage/index.html
Acorn Computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
Korg Trinity: http://www.vintagesynth.com/korg/trinity.php
Emulator II: http://www.vintagesynth.com/emu/emulator2.php
HxC Floppy Emulator: http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/
Roland JV1080: https://www.roland.com/us/products/jv-1080/
ALM Akemie's Castle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=403RuVSYYWQ
Elektron Digitone: https://www.elektron.se/products/digitone/
Moog DFAM: https://www.moogmusic.com/products/dfam-drummer-another-mother
Moog One: https://www.moogmusic.com/products/moog-one
Northern Light Modular: http://northernlightmodular.com
Make Noise Morphagene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRTkJ7Qx2o
Superbooth: https://www.superbooth.com/en/landing.html
Visit Anaheim! https://visitanaheim.org/
Sub Focuses Live Show (2013): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtTrW9i2RB4
Monome Grid: https://monome.org/docs/grid/
Monome Arc: https://monome.org/docs/arc/
Korg Monotron Delay: https://www.korg.com/uk/products/dj/monotron_delay/
Befaco Hexmix: https://www.befaco.org/en/hexmix/
Mackie CR1202: https://knowtech.tv/the-mackie-1202/
Mutable Braids: https://mutable-instruments.net/modules/braids/
Mutable Plaits: https://mutable-instruments.net/modules/plaits/
Ableton Live: https://www.ableton.com/
Max For Live Granulator: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/granulator-ii/
Prisma App: https://prisma-ai.com/
Katsushika Hokusai: https://www.christies.com/features/Hokusai-7458-1.aspx
Algorithmic Painting sold for $432,000: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/29/christies-ai-artwork-obvious-portrait-edmond-de-belamy-design/
Grayscale Supercell: https://grayscale.info/supercell/
Mutable Shades: https://mutable-instruments.net/modules/shades/
Dada Life Endless Smile Plug-Ins: http://www.dadalife.com/plugin/
Sport Modulator: http://www.toppobrillo.com/sportmodulator2.html
Shadow Boxing - Doc Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGj-bNTEIl0
Autechre NTS Sessions: https://autechre.bleepstores.com/release/98703-autechre-nts-sessions-1-4
NOTE: The tune Mylar refers to is '32a_reflected', and here's a really good article about how the 'trick' is more complex than just a reversing of one channel: https://aestheticcomplexity.wordpress.com/2018/04/14/32a_reflected/
James Holden and the Animal Spirits Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/1OiBJ2dEBhgza6geCcYslZ
James Holden - The Inheritors: https://open.spotify.com/album/6ljTPjGb8hwaRT6HPJYbfb
Laser Harps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_harp
Colin Benders: https://colinbenders.com/
Boiler Room: https://www.youtube.com/user/brtvofficial/videos
Manuel Göttsching on Making E2-E4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3fkGe8C6g0
Manuel Göttsching's E2-E4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys0HyevZpQg
Phew.