[disquiet0431] KrakenKraftwerk 7'', Side A (DeDe Hanrath Remix) by how the night came

I would like to take this opportunity to thank disquiet and everyone else involved for playing your part - from such great distances - in helping me stay focused on something positive, creative and (in an odd way) liberating.

I really love the music krakenkraft has been involved in, so I decided to create a fake 7" single.

For Side A, I used the lush "Virtually in a Berlin School" by wil and added an octave harmonized version of DeDe's ebow guitar spiralling in and out across the stereo field. I then added a layer of programmed drums in Ableton.

For Side B, I split Jet and krakenkraft's playful "Hotel Double Room" into two mono files, panned one slightly left, one slightly right, then duplicated and dropped one file 12 semitones, adding a booming drum buss in d# for some low end.
The drum track was complicated. First, I converted the "Hotel Double Room" track into MIDI drums, then slowly hand-picked where I wanted the kick and snare to fall. Then, I converted three phrases from the track name to Morse Code: "d sharp phrygian" plays the hihat, "77 bpm" plays the low tom, and "krakenkraft" plays across the mid and hi toms.

To make both Side A and Side B sound like they were from the same 7" single, I subjected both to similar processes: same kick and snare sound, a public domain sample from NASA, a little vinyl crackle, and a slowly increasing "Outer Space" reverb across the duration of the tracks.

I hope you enjoy the KrakenKraftwerk trip.

Space is the place!!

With love from Japan, htnc