Been fascinated by Detroit techno recently so I’m working on a 40-50 minute mix of composed techno tracks that I might then later chop into pieces and release using various pseudonyms. Otherwise people think I’m crazy.

KENT LOOP COLLECTION VOLUME 8 – TEC SYNTHS

This is a collection of various synthesizer  AppleLoops. 30 moog modular SW plugin loops, 30 NI Absynth, 30 Vanguard and 15 OSCar loops. They are very techno pattern centric even if some of the other loops are athmosperic and melodic.

APPLELOOPS-LOGIC

These are green AppleLoops. If you don’t the plug-ins, just drag the loops into an audio track so the pure audio is used.

Drop the folder inside your loops directory and Logic will index these loops.

ABLETON LIVE

With Ableton Live, just drag them in from any location.

LOOP INDEX NAMES

khx is my personal prefix.

abs – Absynth

moog – Moog

vguard – Vanguard

osc2 – OSCar 2

pat – pattern

atm – atmospheric

mel – melodic

seq – sequencer

arp – arpeggiator

bass – bass lines

chord – chord based

eff – effects

LICENSING AGREEMENT

You are not allowed to make crappy music with these loops. Make music, not war.

Download from MediaFire.

Have fun, Kent

Chron 11-9-25 by Kent Sandvik on Mixcloud

Two NI Razor synths running.

Having fun after upgrading Guitar Rig 4. 80% of the noises were done with a guitar.

An old 2005 project that I just released as a free album from Free Music Archive.

Here’s the link for accessing it.

At that time I used a lot o compositional parts re-assembled into new songs in combination with strange plug-ins such as CamelSpace. There are actually only eight tracks or so in the Ableton Live project panel so I just re-used various settings to see what happened.

Otherwise it was an exercise in writing ambient music with a twist. All I had to do to re-vitalize this project was to remaster it with VintageWarmer and Ozone 4 to make it sound a little bit more spacious.

Anyway, download it, listen, upload it, spread it around.

KENT LOOP COLLECTION VOLUME 7 – CHEEZE MACHINE

This is a collection of Cheeze Machine string AppleLoops. Cheeze Machine is a free VST/AU plugin available on Internet. Use these in case you want seventies style cheesy string sounds and arrangements. This set also has the corresponding MIDI files in case you get tired of the cheesy strings and want some other synth patch to be used.

The loops are clean so you could experiment with various compressor and other effect settings.

APPLELOOPS-LOGIC

These are green AppleLoops. If you don’t the plug-ins, just drag the loops into an audio track so the pure audio is used.

Drop the folder inside your loops directory and Logic will index these loops.

ABLETON LIVE

With Ableton Live, just drag them in from any location.

LOOP INDEX NAMES

chez – Cheeze Machine string sounds

atm – atmospheric sounds

khx is my personal prefix.

LICENSING AGREEMENT

You are not allowed to make crappy music with these loops. Make music, not war.

DOWNLOAD

Download from MediaFire.

Have fun, Kent Sandvik (http://wwww.kentsandvik.com)

I produced this track and did 70-80% of so of the instruments. Sam sang and did an excellent job with the rhythm guitar tracks and some of the keyboards. Should be released in a couple of weeks’ time on the PlanetoidPop sub-label. I’m hoping to produce/release 5-10 pop singles this year.

Might even redo the design of the site along the way if I find a good web template. So there’s more about music and less blabbing.

Just finished a Catapult of Noise EP called Amazonia, has material going back 4+ years with some kind of unified theme around South America. Never been there, by the way. But it’s similar to the concept of Ian McDonald’s Brazyl book.

I’ve worked with Sam Reyes with a seventies pop-single track that is now ready and maybe more similar early day seventies pop music to be done as well. Clavinets and pop organs rule!

Cat Puppet is a project to make “New Musik” kind of pop music with voices and simple synth arrangements plus acoustic guitars. The first single should be out very soon.

I have a ’shoe-gazing’ guitar-layer album halfway done, that should be finished this year, too.

And then all kinds of odd things left and right that will be done on a whim from time to time. Also interested to start a side-band project with a very much “Cheap Trick” like attitude on stage. As well as produce anyone who has a song and interested to release it.

All together, more voices and pop-songs this year.

It’s really amazing what you could do nowadays with Internet, such as upload huge amounts of your music for free streaming and downloading purposes.

That was a pipe dream in the seventies.

Now, the rest of the web site pages start to get too busy, getting into ‘MySpace land’, ack. Need to rethink some of the components.

Ten minutes quick test. Very good! Will purchase it!

  
Download now or listen on posterous

Izotope_Nectar_Testing.mp3 (507 KB)

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Also over at Free Music Archive. Maybe easier as you could download the whole album there with one single download. Kind of positively surprised how many downloads have happened at Free Music Archive within less than 16 hours.

This album will also go out through iTunes/eMusic et rest shortly as well.

Background: Long time ago I took part in an Ableton remix context and instead of remixing songs I thought what about making 10-11 songs as the remix. Recently I found the project inside my huge music project hard disk and I went in and did some tweaking here and there and broke the songs in to 10 songs as a separate album.

As for the concept: It was just fun trying to put together a techno band that is interesting in mental states rather then chrome, dark city skies and comics, or something like that.

This release has a special license: You are encouraged to re-distribute this material as much as possible.