LACKLUSTER

composed on 18/09/05
gear used: Ableton Live, Roland Alphajuno1, Korg ER1, Steve(Halfset)'s Novation Bass-station, Steve(Halfset)'s MFB Synth Lite, Richard's bass, and my melodica.

05/2005
composed using Ableton Live and Revisit by Chris Nash

Composed with buzz tracker. samples used: Yamaha pss170, casio pt30, snare+hihat from a random singlecd

random comment:
"delves deeply into classic Lackluster territory, with shuffling percussion, layers and layers of pure sinewaves drifting over the top, and echo after echo symbolising the wind drifting icily over the ships in Helsinki harbour, perhaps?"

composed on 03/05/2004
Korg 03R/W sequenced with Logic, fed via EFX.

track composed with buzz tracker - no external samples, purely softsynths

random comment:
"hollow flanged sounds - lackluster vs. the '80s? sweet melodies and all that."

mikko havukainen vs. esa ruoho
jammed live on a roland juno-60 fed thru behringer virtualizer dsp1000.

classic lush childchime ambient.

track created with AXS.

random comment:
"just chill out, put your feet up and check out this most glacial of grooves. yet again tending towards the Pete Namlook/FAX stylings. For home listening, nobody beats the biz, and the biz is Distance in da mix :)"

composed with impulsetracker.

random comment:
"this track finds him in typically drifting, understated, beautifully pin-sharp ambient form. Chords steal quietly over the top of quietly pulsating drums and weirdly insistent bass, like the slow conquering tides.. perfectly balanced, electronics practically sound natural when they're like this.
Compare and contrast to any other mellow ambient idm you like, in the end nobody sounds quite like Lackluster (but, of course, he doesn't sound lacklustre at all - and there's the paradox.)"

composed using Impulsetracker
~1999

Composed using impulsetracker on 08/05/1998