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Ash Noodle
@ashnoodle@tech.lgbt
mastodon 4.7.2+glitch.techlgbtmid-50s. Thought dumping and sharing making music & games for a hobby; LGBTQ+ stuff; & sometimes about libraries. Into late 1970s & early 1980s music, TV & film (especially fantasy stuff & kids TV), games, comics etc. My thoughts ramble a lot. T*BQ gender wiggler wobbler. They/them.
My Music projects
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Ice Line Drift (ambient minimalist beat-free rhythmic electro-prog inspired by Jarre, Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis)
Replay in Neon (leftfield melodic electrocrunch with occasional single idea songs)
The Midnight Detective Club (Synthpop songs inspired by OMD, Eurythmics, Blancmange, YMO, Electric Youth, Yazoo. Vocals - Ellen & sometimes me. )
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Joined November 08, 2022
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Part 1 of the latest #Bonkwave compilation, Autumn Waves, releases this Friday (10th April) at 8pm UTC. 🎉 🥳
With a launch party at https://party.bonkwave.org/
Parts 2 & 3 are happening same time, same place on 17th & 24th April.
So many great tracks, including an album of submissions for the sample challenge that was running as part of it.
Be there....
Be #Bonkwave or be #NotBonkWave ...
Is that a question???
Another great #bonkwave release party tonight - this time focusing on the challenge of creating tracks using a handful of samples at their core. Amazed by the variety of music created with them. Such a fun chatroom too, as ever. Lovely bonkwave bunch of people. You can listen to the release here (Autumn Waves, part 3), along with all the other Bonkwave releases https://music.bonkwave.org/
This video premiered on Indie Beat TV earlier.
Replay in Neon - Theme From The Midnight Detective Club
https://spectra.video/w/k8iccRagGbCZ93VN4eHrdP
I originally wrote it back in 2015, but never found a home for it. It was also the inspiration for the synthpop project of the same name.
Last night I was thinking about a song I released last year (and I'd struggled to get the vocal tune right). I started singing it last night without any backing, and I really liked how it felt. But it was different to the original vocal tune. I ended up recording it and re-jigging the original verse and it's sounding much better that way. And I'm not trying to bury the vocals in a wash of effects. I'm finding that this is a better way for me to work if I want a vocal I'm happy with - sing without any backing, except maybe some drums, and then build the backing around it. #fedimusician
Decided to finally give this digital collage reworked from stock photos (Original photo by Gerado Infante @gerardo-infante-230434@www.pexels.com) a proper home for a new Replay in Neon release. This one is inspired by specific sci-fi films, books, and an imaginary 1980s TV series.
It's Flange Camp Friday. Please buy some to support your pipes.
Big thanks to @etherdiver@ravenation.club for this great review of my Maybe There's a Goose in the Machine release.
"...clever things going on here in terms of the sound design and sample mangling. And if you don’t give a f*** about that? Well, it’s still some extremely engaging and weird electronic music with a unique sound." :)
Over on their OPM page:
https://www.etherdiver.com/2026/02/27/opm-the-freaks-are-alright/
Fantastic set @ahihi@anticapitalist.party :)
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@bedlamsteps@sonomu.club @ordosmarkzero@ravenation.club I try and squeeze it into all my Midnight Detective Club tracks - I think all early versions of those songs have it on. The vst I've got behaves itself until I really need it to and then it goes wonky. :D
Maybe There's a Goose in the Machine (Danger Lift Machine project)
This EP release is a new direction for me.
An experiment with field recording and samples, with most tracks built from a single sample.
It's experimental, industrial in places, melodic in others.
A moment on campus; a goose playing a saxophone on a train (maybe); 3 visits to the local brewery; birds; voices; more journeys.
Also decided to release it under creative commons license and plan to do the same with future Danger Lift Machine projects.
Listen for free on Bandwagon https://bandwagon.fm/68c32e5cb5a01578d2216d55
Edit: Also now on Bandcamp https://ashnoodle.bandcamp.com/album/maybe-theres-a-goose-in-the-machine
One of the music projects I started ages ago is focused on electronic folklore songs - the 1st one of those is Under the grainstone (but tied in too is Beacon Lights & What destiny has planned). Been trying to tie it in with my local area, but even though Sussex is amazing for local folklore, the commuter belt of Surrey isn't. But I do have some general folklore tales like Jenny Greenteeth, and birds turning into men I've put my own take on. Hopefully they will suit Ellen's voice.
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@SamanthaJaneSmith@lgbtqia.space Great track. You are definitely no imposter - it definitely added to the mysterious ethereal mood that ran through a lot of the tracks.
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@gribbles@mastodonapp.uk Great to see this reference. :) The session singer I use reminds me of Maria Morgan in some ways - partly why I asked her to sing on the tracks.
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@ambientspace I'm curious... is half and half a thing over there too? And what's the preference?
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I'll probably watch A fist full of dollars alongside A fist full of travellers cheques. I love The Comic Strip.
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@Rob It was. They were both dark. Both brewed by the local tap room I was in. I'm going to start experimenting with what I think I might like with their beer combos.
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@ordosmarkzero It was also supposed to be going on Bandcamp, and hadn't decided where else, but it's been a tricky week - so not had a chance to follow up on it.
Instead of Bandcamp how about Bangcamp, where we upload our fringes. Currently streaming... a bit gingery honey blonde horseshoe bangs that have decided they want to be almost wavy curtain bangs instead.
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I watched Once upon a time in the west at my dad's recently (kind of a connection with him) & it it so slow, but really enjoyed it. But The Good, the video, & the ugly???
Spent ages growing my hair, but it's too fine and looks like stringy tendrils even in the softest of breezes. Seen too many photos of myself recently where I look like a mess. Going to the hairdressers this week - maybe I should just get a shorter cut. But I worry that will make me look more masculine. I don't want that.
DVD choices for tonight - I regularly re-watch the Kitaro ones (It's true, ghosts don't go to school.. and that's how it should be!), but not watched Instant Swamp yet. Exactly the sort of thing I need to watch right now though.
Imagining all sorts of Ballard High Rise shenanigans going on as I pass the NLA Tower in Croydon.
A few of the stars are amazingly bright tonight ... or are they satellites???
Such a great, mellow, eerie, mystical, cosmic music stream from @SamanthaJaneSmith@lgbtqia.space over on @strim tonight.