Noticias

Hey kids, haven’t come around to say a whole lot about what I’ve been doing recently. Been fighting a lot with hardware problems and financial trouble leaving me without a way of really doing a lot of production. I’ve made some really quality tracks over the last months since TRINITY came out, but I do not yet have plans for a new album. I’ve had quite a paradigm shift since my last release—I feel I’ve developed a much more keen eye for quality control, keeping me from releasing a ton of music without polishing it first (as seen in TRINITY, where I was actually mostly forced to leave the songs as-is due to very similar problems as what I’m dealing with now.) I still have plans to continue writing, but I do intend to do so under different aliases (as some of you have already curiously deduced by the releases I put out between July and August…)

Is this the end of Vektordrum? No, but I wish to not be directly associated with my previous work as it is by no means “professional”, and if that means I need to start over, that’s exactly what I’ll do.

But everything is very tentative right now, even my production itself. So, some more interesting news: Night Signals II is out. I worked on this one with dstnt, where he handled a lot of processing and did some pretty insane stuff to the tracks. The album is four lengthy (30min+) pieces combined into a massive glitch production spanning almost three hours total. The album is hard to listen through because of how strange it is, but for those interested, you can find a download link by clicking the album art…

dstnt and I have also been working on a bit of sound occasionally: a tape collage he and I have been toying with off and on for the last few months (started on it as we were finishing Night Signals II) and we’re not sure what we plan to do with it yet, but we might see a bootleg around since it’s a 25 min noise experiment (promise this one won’t be a contiguous track, though we do have an alternate version that is…) and completely unsuitable for official release. We do plan to find a distribution method for it, however. I’ve got a FLAC of it, but I don’t think a lot of people would want all that extra data for a release recorded entirely on home cassettes… More so, home cassettes which I sampled and then recorded over and re-recorded to a digital format via an analog mic.

We’re also still quite fond of the idea of a glitch Christmas album…

I need to start advertising again. Does anybody even read these posts anymore?

Going to see about keeping this post a bit more epigrammatic than I normally do… A quick update:

Releasing a collaborative piece with dstnt entitled “Night Signals II” (Yes, a direct sequel to this.) It’s comprised of four tracks, all of which are upwards of a half hour a piece. Very progressive, sprawling pieces. Of everything I’ve released, this album has the most elaborate production—though it’s very, very mindf*cked and certainly not something I’d consider recreationally listenable. However, the album is slated to release on October 31st (a bit over three weeks from the time of posting this) and planned to be initially released independently, though we may be able to make an appended/reworked version if a netlabel picks it up. Only an idea though. We’ll be posting the album art and tracklist with lengths soon, but in the meantime you can listen to truncated previews of the album on Soundcloud at this link or on this widget:

NIGHT SIGNALS II (Preview) by VEKTORDRUM

The new two-disc Vektordrum LP “Trinity” is now out for free download from Archive.org RIGHT NOW.

You can download either the full .zip archive or the individual mp3 tracks from http://www.archive.org/details/s27-047Vektordrum-Trinity. (these are all 320k cbr mp3; there is no difference in quality between the .zip version and the individual tracks hosted on archive.org)

OR, you can preview it and stream the entire album (full length tracks, too) from http://fairtilizer.com/playlists/36021. (Archive.org has streaming capabilities too, but no autoplay)

Discuss here or here.

:)

PART ONE

A dark ambient drone album. Comprised solely of old tape samples, slowed down and annihilated Vektordrum sketches/samples from 2005-2010 and heavy edits of previous pieces. With “dark” as the operative descriptor of this album, it serves as a subtly emotive yet undiscerning amassment of dreamy analog film footage. Possibly a bit too enigmatic for some, however.

TRACKLIST
01 - Wolfdrone (14:10)
02 - U004C (06:58)
03 - Pine Subsonic (16:11)
04 - U004F (08:36)
05 - Lambs Feldgrau (07:24)
06 - U0056 (07:48)
07 - Cocoon III (03:41)
08 - U0045 (04:38)
09 - Rdial Synthe (08:46)
Total running time: 78:15

PART TWO

Noisy beats and progressive ambient movements comprise the basis for this piece. Implementing samples from roughly twenty 78rpm vinyl records, the album is a bold step forward, following the same 70s/80s grimy late-night theme found so prominently in Vektordrum’s previous album, Discrét Night Signals. A fresh amalgamation of scratchy horror film samples with a heavy deviation from anything Vektordrum may have once been.

TRACKLIST
01 - Shinjuku Zybrian (04:28)
02 - Danse Macabre Shadowtrinity (03:48)
03 - Flashrainbow (05:28)
04 - Superwaltz (02:12)
05 - Setagaya Waverunner (07:34)
06 - Memm Puls Finae (06:26)
07 - Meaningless, Part One (09:28)
08 - Meaningless, Part Two (09:36)
09 - Freespace (06:28)
10 - The Widow (12:26)
11 - Cancun Amberburst (08:00)
Total running time: 67:54

Hey everybody - my good friend Argiflex wrote up a nice review for anybody who’s looking to go ahead and download Discret Night Signals. You can find the review on his blog at  http://argiflex.byethost16.com/?p=25, and his music at  http://www.myspace.com/argiflex. :) You can download the album from either of the links at  http://vktrdrum.co.cc/post/472924994/discret-finae.

I also re-released an old album of mine, “ I, Banished”, on Section 27 Records today. You can get more info and a download link at  http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=465720571&blogId=531813829 or if you’re more interested in the technical side of things, from this page:  www.archive.org/details/s27-041Vektordrum-Geese-IBanishedRecut.

Sorry for the wall of links! Enjoy.

drum

Now presenting Discrét Night Signals, finally available as a single entity.





After quite a while of preparation I’m pleased to announce the real release of this album. Though I had been releasing this progressively, I feel that a lot of people would be happy with an exhaustive copy where they wouldn’t have to tag and organize it themselves. Ah, right, and it also contains five unheard tracks. Have a listen if you please.

Sorry I didn’t post this at 2AM like normal. Feel free to wait until then to listen to it; in fact, such actions would be encouraged.

Download from Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JTPEUWG7

Download from Mediafire:  http://www.mediafire.com/?olz3yddy5n1

Download from Last.fm (Individual tracks):  http://www.last.fm/music/Vektordrum/Discrét+Night+Signals

Let me know what you think on here…
or here.

Thanks.

Drum

I’m trying to make sense of my irrational fears, maybe you can aid me in such.

So here are a bunch of things that I lose sleep over or used to lose sleep over, regularly. But mainly, here are all of the things that inspired Night Signals. Which, yes, will be released next month.

http://process.ytmnd.com 
(Unexplainable)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXq4wy35bOQ 
(The end credit music to Lost)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9-n9gpFVpk 
(Liquid Sky [1982])

http://www.mathwrath.com/ 
-> Work -> “We Belong to No Man”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cycVTXtm0U0 
(Max Headroom Hijacking Incident)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6b_lSQst0 
(Crispin Glover - Clowny Clown Clown)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntxxxj69UxA 
(EBS test, 1993)

http://www.strimoo.com/video/16970792/Begotten-MySpaceVideos.html 
(If you haven’t seen this before, I urge you not to watch it at night, seriously. It’s VERY disturbing.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9hrn1o2c_I 
(“Blue”, from Peppermint Park [Year: 198X])

I’ll add more as I think of them.