A colorful image of a box and some gears with the artist name Phaneronaut and the album name "Tik-Tak" on it.

Tracklist

  1. Mechanical Dust 04:13
  2. Subharmonic Spaze 03:18
  3. Motorik 2 08:35
  4. Subharmonic Spaze 2 03:41
  5. ἀνερρίφθω κύβος 04:05
  6. La espantable aventura de los molinos 04:17
  7. Fyrtårn 03:31
  8. Eine letzte fundierende Einheit 04:02
  9. Mechanical Dust: Coda 00:46

Free download: phaneronaut.bandcamp.com/album/tik-tak

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This album is built around Gotharman’s SpazeDrum (the “Blue” version), an inspiring analog/hybrid drum machine. Most of the tracks started off with a SpazeDrum pattern or two, around which the rest of the music unfolded itself.

Credits

Composed, produced and performed by Udo Gerhards between June and December 2020

Album cover art by Ulrich Miksa

Instruments:

Gotharman’s SpazeDrum Blue
Moog Matriarch (tracks 1, 3, 6, 9)
Moog Subharmonicon (tracks 1, 2, 4)
Gamechanger Audio Motorsynth (track 1)
Dreadbox Typhon (tracks 2, 4, 5, 6)
Spitfire Audio Symphonic Motions (track 7)
Spitfire Audio Studio Woodwinds (track 7)
Spitfire Audio Bernard Herrmann Composer Toolkit (track 7)
SonicLab Fundamental (track 8)
Spitfire Labs Granular Whalesong (track 8)

Samples by:

Soundsnap (track 5)
Pro Sound Effects/BBC (tracks 6, 7)
Herbert Eimert, “Einführung in die elektronische Musik” (1963) (track 8)