Speedy J – 808 100 10

Описание: 808 100 10 – One-sided 7" Green Marbled Lathe Cut Vinyl + Digital Release
https://speedyj.bandcamp.com/album/80...

The idea was to build a system that would generate endless variations from a simple set of sounds. The method is not new, but it often produces a mix of good and bad variations. I want to press play and hear back-to-back kick-ass stuff, potentially forever.

I started with an 808 kit and slowly built out the project to mangle things in endless ways. A standard 808 kit, probability, randomisers, mostly stock FX plugins in Ableton, that’s it. No fancy tools, just a small palette pushed as far as possible. The whole thing became more about behaviour than sounds, building a network of modulations that constantly reshapes the material while staying within a desired aesthetic range.

Over time I started to think of the system not just as a sequencer, but also as a kind of sound design and mixdown engine. Every time I hear it play, it feels like the machine is making its own decisions, suggesting sonic options I wouldn’t consciously choose or think up myself. Sounds appear, collide, and move, almost like found moments or accidental mixdowns. Instead of designing every detail, the exercise became more about curating the boundaries and letting the system surprise me.

The trick is to fine-tune the parameters so the system doesn’t drift too far off course. The more things that move, the wider the range of variations, and the greater the chance of getting crap. So it’s a balancing act: enough randomness to stay surprising, enough constraints to stay musical. Once it’s dialled in, the system plays itself.

It can be quite an intense listen if you really follow what’s happening. The variations jump from one extreme to the next at blazing speed, constantly shifting perspective. That restless, slightly chaotic aesthetic is exactly what I like about it.

Here’s where this exercise has landed. This digital release is a random hour of the system running autonomously. No arrangement, no edits, just the machine doing its thing. The vinyl records each contain a different and unique 3-minute, 3-second (3:03) variation, captured and cut directly from the same process.

The PVC sleeves were designed by vibe coder extraordinaire Studio Papi. Using a plotter and a 15 mm green marker, the graphics follow a similar rules-based approach to the music itself. Each sleeve features a plotter drawing generated from a small set of simple rules, creating a different variation every time. No two sleeves are the same.

One-sided 7" green marbled vinyl record. 45 RPM.
15 mm yellow marker plotter design on a transparent clear PVC sleeve.
Each vinyl copy is cut individually; each sleeve is plotted individually.

Written and Produced by Jochem Paap
Sleeve Design and Production by Studio Papi
Vinyl cut by Boss Priester @ STOOR Lab

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