The debut EP from Auto Von Bismarck, also known as sleem of sp00. This disc started as an experiment to learn new techniques, but Bismarck decided that someone out there may enjoy the results. The album consists primarily of a funky, odd blend of electro house with a taste of dubstep in the final track, Fangs.

Vocal snippets in the song Bludkind are courtesy of coppe’ : sweetrice.com.

Some stats about this experiment:

Arpeggiators used: 3
Flangers used: 1
Compressors used: 14
Delays used: 11
Distortions used: 40
Drum samples used: 39
Equalizers used: 7
Loose samples used: 32
Maximizers used: 6
Mixers used: 23
Reverbs used: 12
Stereo imagers used: 6
Synthesizers used: 48

Sequencers used: Reason 5, Ableton Live

All synthesizer patches created by Auto Von Bismarck in Reason 5. Approximately 80% were designed from scratch and approximately 20% were derived from existing patches.

The following is a short film titled Well Enough Alone, featuring music by Ariel Gross of sp00. Three minutes of scarecrow-induced horror at which you are likely to cackle maniacally! (we root for the monsters over here at spoomusic)

Well Enough Alone – available on YouTube in glorious HD!


Please feel free to comment here or on the youtube video. This is an entry into the Monster Mash-Up competition sponsored by Synthetic Cinema and Chiller. The five winning entries will be shown on Chiller TV on Halloween. No voting necessary, just go check it out!

Directed By: Tony Prizevoits
Director of Photography: Alexander Mejia
Music By: Ariel Gross
Sound Mix By: Byron Evora
Title Created by: Jon Meilike

Cast:
Scarecrow: JaKobe Burton
Farmboy 1: Rob Rini
Keith: Mike Pizi

After his third release, gigging in the East Texas area, and some national recognition after being a staff picked artist on Purevolume.com, Matt took a hiatus from releasing music in order to redefine his sound and make a product that would truly bring in a new era of his musical progression. After several years of songwriting, skill sharpening, and instrument collecting the end result was Matt & The Dronings and “For Torching”; an album that pulls from the folk stylings of Elliott Smith, Donovan, and Bob Dylan and merges that sound with the experimental attitude of The Dandy Warhols, The Beta Band, and Radiohead. With the help of various reclusive musicians, the album was recorded in a home studio in two weeks during the fierce Texas summer. A live band was assembled and shows have begun in the Tyler/Longview area promoting the new album.

About “For Torching”

CD Baby – www.cdbaby.com/cd/MattTheDronings
Singles – “Nothing Wrong”, “Forest Fire” (explicit)

Pulling from influences as far stretched as the pop sensible, yet sorrowful Elliott Smith to the paranoid rock styling of Radiohead, Texas rockers Matt & The Dronings set the stage for their fresh approach to music with the debut album “For Torching”. Following a true DIY ethic, “For Torching” was recorded, mixed, and published by the band themselves in a living room turned studio during the sweltering heat of an East Texas summer. The album kicks things off with three bare-bone songs built on singer/songwriter and band front-man’s beautifully simple guitar parts and introspective lyrics (“Forest Fire”, “Was This In Your Five Year Plan?”, and “Quarter Past Three”), but as the third track shifts into it’s second half for “Be Free” we begin to hear the first subtle example of Matt & The Dronings electronic/experimental influences. Leading the way for the next few tracks (the folktronica love song “Keep Talking” and the mellow, psychedelic “The Sun”), the single “Nothing Wrong” features swirling guitars, full instrumentation, and lyrics straight from a therapist’s couch (with a chorus anyone with youthful angst can sing along to).

Following six tracks written from Matt’s perspective, the album shifts direction with a three part, spoken word piece that displays the roller coaster of human emotion from a different perspective. “Mvmt. 1 (Death)” starts off with a gentle, rolling piano part leading to the story of the anonymous narrator’s experience with death. A sleepy, simple guitar underlies an account of a dream, but quickly becomes unnerving and restless in its’ shifting tempo for “Mvmt. 2 (Dream)”. The album concludes with the noisy, Reznor tribute of “Mvmt. 3 (Response)” which features droning guitar and piano parts, distorted vocals, and blaring feedback; a surprise ending for the otherwise calm album, but a symbol for Matt & The Droning’s unwillingness to settle with one specific sound.

What are your favorite songs featuring 808s?

Cheers,
ramen/sp00

p.s. i stole that image

The redesign is afoot! Woohoo! I’m so excited.

We write this comment due to the absolute first, literally the first and only bug report generated by the late James Morgan. As you may know, the spoomusic.com site is faultless, and therefore, anyone providing information that might lead to the public discovery of its fallibility must be handled promptly, discretely, and without mercy, and will be elimidated on sight. We apologize for the heinous lack of oversight that our service has provided to our loyal, paying subscribers. Oh, wait a minute, this service is free. Anyway, James has been disintigrated per an e-mail sent on this great day of November 9th, 2007. Congratulations are an
odor.

Sincere salutations,

spoomusic.com

PS: srsly… everything should be working right now. if you find something that doesn’t work correctly, it is with great probability that you will be disintigrated AND that your bug will be addressed.

PPS: Coming soon — two great new albums, a highly anticipated remix album, and the highly anticipated, nay, CIPATED sp00 album. Stay tuned.

First up is the second release by our trip-hop tranceadelic IDM megawalrus, Hasse B, titled An Adventure In My Life With A Fish. Our dear friend returns with an eclectic mix of dancebient and click-hop: heaping mountains of head-tappin’ knee-bouncin’ tunes that are sometimes subtle, other times blatant, and always badastrious!

Second up is the debut release by our now-resident synth-classical harpist, Nikmis, titled Eine kleine nekopanmusik. We draw upon images of recliners, patch bays, smoking jackets and harpsichords as we retire to our studies to read books and look at maps. Drawing upon the power of the wigged ones, you may liken Nikmis to a slightly drugged Wendy Carlos.

We present this music to you here completely free, in its entirety, as full-length high quality mp3s. Please, enjoy them to your heart’s maximum enjoyance. We love you. We do it for you.

Announcing a brand new artist to the spoomusic.com, Second Act Overture, bringing his release entitled Ode to Strings. SAO smelts orchestral with trip hop to create a flaming sword of rad. Listen casually or with great gusto, but listen. You heard me! Quit reading this and go listen! Presented to you freely as high quality, full length mp3s. We maintain!

Love always, your dear friends at spoomusic.com