hanging out with audiophiles

A huge Multi welcome to the multi multi talent that is Jack Garratt! He's a tremendous player and  musician/man that's well  aware of his mental health and how it all effects the outcome of the art.  Love thyself people. Love and dancing. There’s much merriment in this convo alongside some real talk. Hope you enjoy :) Was a treat to finally catch up with this gent! Here’s some Jack Links for ya. HOME  INSTA  TWITTER  ____________ Music for the show comes from Brendan Bosworth. He used a bunch of sounds available on the HOWA patreon. So good! LINKs: INSTA  SOUNDCLOUD  ____________ In the Nitty I get into exploring a take on vocal techniques discussed in EP79 with Atom™ regarding vocal morphing and manipulation. I turn myself into a … well ...  you’ll hear. ____________ Kind sponsorship comes from SOYUZ microphones. They make tremendous equipment as endorsed by Nigel Godrich! Say no more. I run the flagship 017 model thro its paces and I loved it so much I had to get one. It’s now my go to mic for the pod :) Check the line of offerings here: https://soyuzmicrophones.com

Kieran Hebden is one of the most uniquely talented UK electronic artists working today. He’s produced a wonderful stack of LPS and a remixed some of the best, from Aphex to Radiohead to Jamie Lidell. He’s walked an unconventional path but the seemingly strange choices of gear and methods he’s landed on are all very much considered. He is literally building a physical line of records that will stand as his legacy and that’s at the forefront of his thinking. There’s this drive to be finishing music and finding ways to keep inspired and making the whole thing feel free and live. He finds an amazing balance in his work between meticulousness and chaos. The collaborations with Jazz legend Steve Reid in particular showed how live electronics could be just that. LIVE! Messy, ever changing and satisfyingly intense. Unsurprisingly, he works best outside the traditional music making spaces, favouring his home and small, manageable setups over the monster rooms. Minimal amount of gear but huge amounts of vinyl!!!! We toured the states in 2005. I was opening for Kieran and it was a hell of a run. I’ve very fond memories of that time. He’s a super smart and warm man that is the only person I know that plays cool edit like a violin. Please welcome onto hanging out with audiophiles Four Tet! ______________ Music on the show comes from Colin Fry. Find his music here. Kams on Metr music. Find the goodies here! METR MUSIC Website  |  Soundcloud  |  Bandcamp ______________ In the nitty I delve in the beautifully noisy needlescape that can be made with the Gakken toy record maker ! Lots of fun but I fried mine somehow though power issues. This nitty was the last time it shall be heard. Shame. I was just getting the hang of it. Here’s a link if you fancy building one (instructions in Japanese ______________ Special thanks to Jake Aron for this tremendous help getting the interview sounding good and building a new vocal chain. I love the changes. Love Jake! If you need mix/production work he’s your guy. So talented and great to work with Find him here jakearon.net ______________ Thank you also to the show sponsors Spectrasonics Makers of SERIOUS soft synth magic! Check them out! https://www.spectrasonics.net Check these ace YouTube sessions to see the quality and the sheer playing! It’s wild KEYSCAPE TRILIAN 1.5 So good! HAPPY HOLS TO ALL OF YOU!!    

Hello!! Please join me on the patreon https://www.patreon.com/HOWA My Guest is unquestionably one of the grandfathers of Hip Hop. Please Welcome, the Visionary Inventor of music making instruments that have truly stood the test of time. Dave Rossum Maker of the SP-1200, Emulator samplers, Proteus, Assimil8or And Whatever next? It’s a true pleasure to chat with such a brilliant mind and generous, warm soul that has given us so much.   Nitty sees an alias of mine getting gritty with a tin lid and slowing the hand prints of Hainbach many octaves. It’s true.   How about Something a little different? There’s 3 musicians on the pod! We have tracks from Juliaan music https://juliaan.bandcamp.com/album/analog-dancers-ep Lakeshouse https://soundcloud.com/paper-disco/sets/lakeshouse-folkemusikk-ep Tidal : https://tidal.com/browse/album/121389507 Marty Byrne Music http://www.martybyrnemusic.co.uk _______ Kind sponsorship comes from distrokid. Your music steaming in minutes! Take advantage of the savings HOWA offers ya! Use this 30% off code http://distrokid.com/vip/lidell

Gloves on! My guest on Ep 76 is the excellent Imogen Heap. She's a lady unafraid of asking some big WHYS. Like for example WHY does the record business have to look the same as It did in the time when physical records and label structures were the norm? WHY must the artist have to hire teams of people to negotiate complicated wiggly pathways of the old clunky industry that really ought to be simplified for the good of getting the art to the ear? Imogen has been so open and transparent in her career moves and it’s a lesson in the value of meaningful fan connection.  She found her own way to share music and was an early Advocate of cultivating a caring and engaged Internet community and it’s paid dividends! She keeps the doors to her process open and welcomes fans to get involved with the process of her making. She looks at her real life makes changes to fit shifting priorities at home. She’s highly adaptable, highly talented and very down to earth. No wonder she has so many supporters that get behind her wild, pioneering visions. We get to chatting about a very important and exciting project “the creative passport” thats going to be available to try in Beta this month of nov 2020.  The future as a simpler place.  I say bring it on. Check it out! here’s the link (in the Showwwww notesss!) https://www.creativepassport.net __________ Music for the show comes from the wild experiments of Mr Max/MSP Tom Hall. Good stuff ! All music is selected from a new EP - bestowed-order-on-chaos .. CHECK IT OOOT. https://tomhall.bandcamp.com/album/bestowed-order-on-chaos _________ Kind show sponsorship comes from splice.com who are providing a VAST library of sounds for royalty free use. It's not all hip hop as I demo at the top of the show! All the foley was found from simple searches. Everything from the Babbling Brook to heftiest 808s can be found upon splice in seconds. Wild modern tech! I use it all the time. No need to look for that pesky missing piece anymore. If you can search it, you’ll likely find it :)              

My guest, Heba Kadry is a superb Mastering engineer now based in her brand new mastering facility in Brooklyn, NY.  She’s super busy so I’m really thankful she spared me some time to chat about her new room and some wild insights into the world of the mastering professional in 2020. She’s worked with SO many talented people like Bjork, Slowdive, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Deerhunter, Beach House, Cate Le Bon, Alex G, Battles, John Maus, serpentwithfeet, Blonde Redhead, Diamanda Galás, Lightning Bolt, Black Lips, Lucy Dacus, Cass McCombs, Princess Nokia and The Mars Volta to name a few. In addition to mastering original soundtracks for films such as “Midsommar”, ” Jackie” (Oscar-nominated for best original score in 2017), “Paterson” and “The Dead Don’t Die”.   Check the discography and bio for full background.   _______ Nitty 75 sees me making a max for live patch called “Dose of Clap” which aims to make available the Simmons Claptrap in modern form. It controls the playback of samples in a unique way that randomizes and spreads in time. it’s available to my patrons so hop on if you’re not on the good train. YES!!!  Join my NEW Patreon for hanging out with audiophiles :) Get samples every 2 weeks, behind the scenes action, max for live patches… and searchable nittys as an inspirational audiobook in 75 chapters as it were. Plus you really help me out directly with some cash!  Having a crew I can talk to for feedback and to directly share new ideas and music is the business! Let’s hang.  https://www.patreon.com/HOWA Links Kind sponsorship comes again from distrokid:  click here for a TASTY 30% OFF deal exclusive to the show ! https://distrokid.com/vip/lidell ____________________ Music for EP75 comes from an EP called “Feet Of Clay” by Cephas Teom. It’s coming from a new label check the links! Really good stuff! METR MUSIC Website  |  Soundcloud  |  Bandcamp    

Super chuffed to have Oliver on the show! Such a big fan of the man. We’ve had a chance to make a track together called “Charisma” What struck me was the musicality and speed of the guys. Now Oliver is one. Vaughn Oliver. A true badass that has been making amazing tracks for ages and now some of the most useful and successful splice sample packs. There are now Two “Power tools” packs. Here’s a link to the second that I was chatting about with him in the show: Oliver power tools 2  In the intro segment I mention my collaboration with the terrific folks at Sounds of Saving for world mental health day. To quote them "Music has been clinically proven to have a positive impact on mental health. The right song can affect our psychobiological stress system and create feelings of motivation, happiness and relaxation.We think the world should know that music can fight mental illness." Hers’a link to my cover of Sly stone of “Thank You” cover  Music on the show comes from the ace Platz wave  Music linked here  Nitty 74 sees me demoing my latest modular synth creation - the Sergio 4 voice poly synth made with serge oscillators and very handy doepfer poly modules During the segment I mentioned my fave max for live device. Grab it! So cheap, so good! It's called Chordimist  Also the essential Div kid ocht - https://divkidvideo.com/modules/ Kind sponsorship for the episode comes from Splice.com   When you use the promo code audiophiles100 you get a month of Sounds 100 and it's valid until the end of November. 

Welcome to HOWA, the accomplished fellow Dana Nielsen who has been working with Rick Rubin for ages as a mix/engineer guru and has worked recently with everyone from Bob Dylan, Billy Corgan to Neil Young, DRAM and more..   Music for the show comes from Speck of Dust who's new LP is up on bandcamp here :)   In the nitty I get into a comparison of the new S2400 which is a modern take on the classic EMU SP1200 which I own. I put them head to head. Old school/ new school challenge.    Kind sponsorship comes from distokid click here for a 30% discount that HOWA listeners are eligible for !

Welcome to EP 72 where I’m joined by Olivier Alary and Berlin-based composer Johannes Malfatti as we discuss the making of their new collaborative album ‘u,i’  A remarkably timely release that strikes a powerful resonance with our recently heightened experiences of connection and isolation under pandemic conditions. ‘u, i ’ was recorded over VOIP (voice over internet protocol), using the technology as both creative tool and conceptual frame.  Fascinated by the way technology materializes memory, and by “the sound of its failure, pushed to its limits and breaking apart”, they suggest that their sound here “might be described as ‘Hauntological music 2.0’, as it has a certain ghostly melancholia and foregrounds an awareness of the medium transforming what you hear.” Release date for u,i is 25th Sep 2020 I trust you’ll follow this link the label to find out more :) https://130701.com/release/ui/ _________________ _ _. _. _.  _. _. _  Here's Olivier's Spotify playlist of contemporary music that he is into :) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1QhfwekXCGuHVjQyiq0TOe?si=cQlrwPQ4T0y-tNiJYxa34Q ________________ _ _ _ _ Music in this episode comes from a returning badass “good glued barometer” He’s got a new EP to check out that you can listen to in the show.  It’s called “pedestrian-priority” and you can find it NOW NOW NOW! https://goodgluedbarometer.bandcamp.com/album/pedestrian-priority ____________. _.  _. _. _  In the nitty I try my hand at the low ways of the internet… Here’s that naughty bandwidth eating app! Network link conditioner lets you can explore the goodies in the bad call at will: https://nshipster.com/network-link-conditioner/ ___________ _  _ _ _. _.  Thank you to ADDAC systems for kind show sponsorship ! https://www.addacsystem.com ___________________                

Dana and I have known each other for 15 years now which is a bizarre fact to me. Feels about right, although I have no idea how 15 years ought to feel. I have so many fond memories of hanging out with her on our many epic road trips where we’ve traveled from Spearfish Dakota to Osaka Japan, played massive festivals and dive bars galore. I’ve been really happy to see her musical project Vorhees come so far and you’ll hear in our chat about the huge array of different disciplines Dana Has taken on and the way that it all begins with a leap of faith and an admission that you know nothing when you start out. It reminds me of a great interview with David Bowie where he talks about the necessity to be in over your head when you start a creative project so that you’re not going through the motions. It’s great to be reminded that we all start this as absolute beginners but Dana and I have definitely put in our 10,000 hours though by now :-) it’s great to have her on the show.  Check all her excellent work here: 𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘀𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰.𝗰𝗼𝗺  … In this episodes Nitty I will attempt to turn my humble acoustic guitar into a string ensemble and all for only four dollars!  Music for the show comes from REV One. Check him on bandcamp here : https://revone.bandcamp.com/album/patterns Kind sponsorship comes from distrokid.  For less than $20 a year you can upload your music to all The major streaming platforms with ease. It’s really a no brainer. https://distrokid.com    

NEWS FLASH. Jack Harris schooled Prince! He was a famous DJ in Minneapolis in the 60s when station KUXL was the only station playing R and B  It was a daytime station only run from a Motel! Prince would literally hang there as a 12 year old. Wild! Jack Harris also sang and had his own band, writing and releasing music on Chess Records where he’d hang out with Howlin Wolf and all those amazing artists! Just incredible to think of it.  He ALSO is an undeniable reason why I met my wife.  All shall be revealed!  Such a pleasure to invite this legend to the show! _______ Music for this EP70 comes from Becena (pronounced buh-see-na).  Support him here : https://becena.bandcamp.com/releases Wonderful stuff ______ In the nitty I get busy with the rare and magical box that is the Moog 16 channel vocoder. Immense sonic power that I run many vowels into and which provide 5 octave sample packs that I’ve packaged as 24 bit Kontakt instruments for the $10 Tier to get busy with. Every show yields a nice curated sample pack.  All the sounds are royalty free and you can get making with them. The $10 soul science level exists for the makers to make from my makings :) the cycle of make! _____ Yep, another fantastic company to buy from in 2020. BraVO Qubit  Thanks to QUBIT Electronix sponsoring the show :) https://www.qubitelectronix.com They Just recently they released “Surface” the super flexible multitimbral physical modeling voice.  Sounds like a wobbler. You know Ill be into it!