Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day 3 brings you a classic example of why I should not be allowed to make music like this, whatever this is supposed to be. I don't know how to classify it, and I wrote it. Creapy broken jazzy dub and bass? I dunno...
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/03-Impulsive_Behavior.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day21: Happy Modulation.
This is a track made with FM sounds. The drums are from a Yamaha PSS-170. It's way, way too happy for these times.
HQ download: http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/21-Happy_Modulation.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day 20: It's Thursday!
Well, yeah, but that's also the name of the track.
I woke up this morning feeling crappy, stuffy and headache-y, so I sampled a bunch of angry metal noises from a library called Black Metal, as well as a couple of Korg iKaossilator loops I made in 2016, synced using Ableton Link and sampled from my iPhone using a direct USB C connection (no external DAC), told my non-existent Sharp EL-640 to keep reminding me that it's Thursday, and made a track out of all that.
Appropriately enough, I was dealing with quite an annoying little bug in the current Move beta firmware while making this, so I was rather angry and annoyed. Totally fits.
HQ download: http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/20-Its_Thursday!.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day 18: Xander Square
This is an idea that I sequenced originally in May of 2006 on my Yamaha Motif, now redone in Move. It's still about as finished as it was in 2006, I.E. not at all, really, but I'm posting it anyway.
HQ download: http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/18-Xander_Square.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day19: My Paradox.
I woke up this morning with the chord progression from Black Street's 'My Paradise" stuck in my head, so I moved it... kind of. It's also a good excuse to have some solo fun with a synth lead sound.
For this one, I hooked up a MIDI keyboard, though I played most of the e-piano part on the pads. I made about 90% of this sequence without using the Move's screen reader.
HQ download: http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/19-My_Paradox.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day 17: No News Is Good News.
This is an attempt at making some kind of news bed type thing.
HQ download: http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/17-No_News_Is_Good_News.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day 16: Axel F.
In December, I had a goal to cover Harold Faltermire's Axel F for the 40th anniversary of the movie Beverly Hills Cop, which was December 5, 2024, using Ableton Move, so I did that.
Being a product of 1984 myself, it just seemed like a good idea.
At the time I did it, this was the most complicated sequence I had ever done on this little four track groovebox. Don't think that's the case anymore.
It's also a demonstration that you can really do a lot with only four tracks and a little creativity. There are lots of "but it only has four tracks" Move haters out there.
There is absolutely no way I will ever get the sounds exactly right using a tool like this. In this case, I'm aiming for close enough to be recognizable, both in terms of the sound and the sequence.
All sounds were stock, except for the kick and snare drums, which really could have been stock, but I found slightly better versions of those sounds in a sample pack and used them instead of the stock versions.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/16-Axel_F.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary 14: Bad Brailler.
This is a much extended version of one of my earliest Move projects, using a bunch of samples I recorded of my Perkins Brailler from 1962 as the drum track.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/14-Bad_Brailler.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day 15:
Winter Hates Your Move.
Several years ago, @FreakyFwoof showed me an advert for gillette energizing moisturiser, featuring the phrase "Winter hates your face."
Makes me laugh every time I hear it, especially the way this guy said it.
So, back in December, during a particularly cold, snowy day, I demucsed stems from it, so much as I could, and imported elements into Move to have some fun with it. This is the result.
Drums, bass, the vocal, and the mod-like power chord electric guitar all come from the original advert.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/15-Winter_Hates_Your_Move.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day 13:
Point and Click.
This requires a bit of an explanation.
In 1998 (May 19, 1998, specifically), I downloaded some weird, not at all accessible MIDI sequencer thing. I don't remember the name of it. Seems like maybe it had the word art in it somewhere.
Anyhow, I opened it, and clicked on a bunch of unlabeled graphics with my screen reader, which produced this odd thing in E flat pentatonic major.
So, because I'm feeling very uninspired at the moment, I hooked a MIDI interface up to move, and another one to my computer, recorded this MIDI file into Move, added a drum track, and now I'm posting it here. The Melody is unedited from it's original, except for one note that I didn't like.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/13-Point_and_Click.flac
Patrick Perdue
#movuary day 11: Ya Got Me.
This is based on samples from my Franklin Language Master 6000 SE talking dictionary. I sampled the really dirty pulse wave it produces in test mode, as well as some common phrases. This was all made with just three tracks, because I couldn't think of what to do with a fourth one. It's pretty busy as-is.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/11-Ya_Got_Me.flac
Patrick Perdue
#movuary day 12:
This is not a keygen. It is, however, a sequence I made from memory after hearing one in the early 2000s, not having heard it for years before that. I have since heard the original. I got some notes wrong, but oh well. I'm keeping it like that.
This also happens to be a variation on the Alf theme, composed by Alf Clausen. An Alf for an Alf. How convenient!
HQ download, for what it's worth: http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/12-Not_A_Keygen.flac
Patrick Perdue
#movuary day 10:
a Total Loss.
Several years ago, I had a dream. In that dream, someone (not me) was standing, watching as everything they knew and loved was burned in a fire. There was a sequence playing in the background. This is my attempt to somewhat re-create what I heard, at least in part, in this dream.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/10-a_Total_Loss.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day 9:
When Flipper the Dolphin (now known as Deejay Flippa) isn't saving people in the waters of the Florida Keys in the 1960s or whatever, he's in the studio making mad beats about the injustices of the world, with his man Calquale.wav from the 1995 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.
Yes, I was, in fact, rather bored a while back. Interestingly, by original Ableton Move broke while I was making this, so I didn't get to finish it until I got the replacement unit.
I have posted this before, but this is a slightly different mix with a couple of bugs fixed and new ones added.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/09-They_Call_Him_Flipper.flac
Patrick Perdue
#movuary day 7 isn't a track. Not exactly. It's an attempt to simulate shortwave radio conditions using a groovebox, which is, let's just say, not ideal, and certainly outside of the intended scope for such a thing. This was done by automating the parameters of a compressor, a phaser with it's frequency turned down all the way, and a couple of different high pass filters over time. The radio noise was sampled by plugging my Tecsun PL-990X shortwave radio into Move's line input, and tuning to a frequency somewhere around the 40m band with nothing going on.
I did this soon after I got my Move, but touched it up a bit since then.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/07-Radio_Move_International.flac
Patrick Perdue
#movuary day 8 is a thing that I put together in about five minutes. I call it the Dance of Doom.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/08-the_Dance_of_Doom.flac
Patrick Perdue
#movuary day 6. It's the log song from Ren & Stimpy Show. Some may recognize the first part from something else.
Short, boring, to the point.
I am just so pissed off today. I will make no further comments.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/06-Log.flac
Patrick Perdue
#Movuary day 4 is far less complex or refined than anything I've done so far.
I had a bad night's sleep, and a roaring headache, so I woke up and made this thing. Pretty much just slapped it down and said "to hell with it."
HQ download: http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/04-A_Bad_Nights_Sleep.flac
Posting for the forth time, because I keep breaking stuff.
Patrick Perdue
For #Movuary day 5, I decided to do something a little different. Thus, Cheap Plastic Oxygene was born.
This is a cover of Oxygene, Pt. 4 (1976), using slightly tweeked stock sounds from the Move, except for the drums, which I found from a sample pack of vintage drum machines.
I ran into a whole bunch of limitations making this one. There was more I wanted to do, but I ran out of space in the clips, and didn't have any spare pads left for resampling without further compromising stuff. There are a couple of glitches, which I left in there, because imperfections FTW, or something.
With apologies to Jean-Michel Jarre for butchering his fantastic work.
HQ download:
http://www.borris.me/audio/movuary2025/05-Cheap_Plastic_Oxygene.flac
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