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A Surprise Set of Remixes from Fosel

C. Reider — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:14:31 +0000

This afternoon, I received a surprise email from someone I don’t know and had never up ’till now heard of, with the subject line “remixed your tracks”. This is what the email linked to:
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My downloadable tracks are released under a Creative Commons license which says, basically, that as long as you are not making money off of it, and give me credit, you can sample and appropriate anything I do to your heart’s jolly content. It’s just that this happens quite infrequently!
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The tracks by the New Mexico artist Fosel are really stupendous. The title of the work is “problem of universals: c. reider remixes“, it’s an atmospheric reworking of some tracks from the Electret Quintet blended with some ambient guitar noises from Long Defeat.
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Listen to them and/or download them and THEN listen to them here:

http://fosel.bandcamp.com/album/problem-of-universals-c-reider-remixes

Mix!

C. Reider — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:23:58 +0000

I am the DJ I yam what I yam.
Don’t turn around no, don’t turn around.
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Uh. Here’s a mix I did of some minimal techno, and industrial, and other stuff, some of which informed my Electret Quintet project. I hope you like it.
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Electret mix by vuzhmusic
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You can download the whole thing at 320kbps at the Soundcloud page for this mix:
http://soundcloud.com/vuzhmusic/electret-mix

the Electret Quintet, part 5

C. Reider — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:49:58 +0000

Electret Quintet 5 Released today!
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I hope you’ll spend a little of what remains of this decade, and a lot of the new one with these sounds! My major project of the last two years is now complete and released, with the fifth and final part of the Electret Quintet seeing release on the last day of the Zeroes!
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For these five sets of five recordings each, I used a single analogue drumcomputer for all of the sounds. Here’s a track using only the Roland TR-606 from Electret Quintet 4:
3/29 r TR-606 by vuzhmusic

…and here’s one using only the Roland’s TB-303 from the Electret Quintet 5, just released today!
December24x TB-303 by vuzhmusic
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hm… wouldn’t that pair of tracks make a nice 12″?
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Check out the newest one, or download the whole bunch, it’s all free!

C. Reider – the Electret Quintet
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sneak preview

C. Reider — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:20:25 +0000

A sneak preview of the centerpiece of Electret Quintet 5, which is rumored to be the last release of the ZEROES.
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December24x TB-303 by vuzhmusic
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Mention in Disquiet Downstream

C. Reider — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:35:05 +0000

I was pleased to read today a nice write up of one of my tracks from the Electret Quintet 4 that I have posted on my SoundCloud page… Marc Weidenbaum writes:
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…his sole instrument is an early analog drum machine, one called the TR-606, which was manufactured by the Roland corporation in the early 1980s. Reider milks the machine for all it is worth, and what’s remarkable about it isn’t just that he’s taken a tool of percussion and turned it into a tool for space music — all wandering echoes and hallucinated canyons — but how much, to fans of his other work, it is immediately of a piece with things he’s made on far different instruments on other sonic journeys he’s taken.

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Read the entire article here:

Downstream, December 4, 2009
SoundCloud: Vuzh Does TR-606 Space Music

3/29 r TR-606

C. Reider — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:08:22 +0000

3/29 r TR-606 by vuzhmusic

Electret Quintet 4

C. Reider — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:55:28 +0000

The penultimate in this series of five free mp3 releases is out now. The Electret Quintet is an experimental series of recordings completed during the year 2008, using a single analogue drum machine to experiment with rhythmic and arhythmic sound fields, ending up with various shades of minimal-techno, industrial, noise and ambient.
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As it stands, all of the releases are rather challenging in various respects, and each release has its own characteristic strengths and weaknesses… the first release was explosive and unfocussed, the second reeled back the excesses of the first and stands quiet and reflective, the third is my favorite, with quite well-developed tracks and a very difficult centerpiece…
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Number four is quite strange, containing one of the more melodious tracks in the series, and then stretching out into several very long abstractions. It’s the longest release so far, at 45 minutes long.
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I hope you like it!

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http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/electretquintet.html
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E.Q. 3 banner

C. Reider — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:07:52 +0000

Electret Quintet 3

C. Reider — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:49:38 +0000

My personal favorite of the Electret Quintet series so far…
Electret Quintet part three is now free to find its way in this world:

Electret Quintet 3

This project may have stumbled inelegantly into the world, and may still seem unsightly to some…
but it clearly now has a strong idea of what it is.

Electret Quintet 3 preview

C. Reider — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:48:06 +0000

Looks like I didn’t make that personal deadline of getting “Electret Quintet 3″ out in April! Ooops. It IS ready though, and it will come out very soon. I’m excited about it because it’s my favorite of the 5 part series… although I like the others also.
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However, I did just upload the final track from “Electret Quintet 3″ to my MySpace page: myspace.com/vuzhmusic… you ought to find it right at the top of the player.
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… and if you would like to check out the first two installments of the series, navigate over to the Electret Quintet page at Vuzh Music dot com, the same page where you’ll later find the third release available for free download.