acid techno

Meteor

May 5, 2022

JoeLectrick dropped a new cosmic adventure of a track. His latest track Meteor had originally debuted as part of CFK Radio: Transmission 1. Now it’s available on all platforms to purchase and stream.

A mix of experimental techno and acid house, this track brings together soaring melodies, quirky video game sounds, a pounding beat, and a groovy acid bassline. Originally envisioned to be more of a peak time/driving techno track, it took on this whole different atmospheric vibe during the production process as the music layered up.

“This track explores the loneliness of traveling through the far reaches of interstellar space. But also it’s about the existential thought that humanity on Earth is sailing through the cosmos completely alone. But then we spot something and it spots us back. So basically it’s about aliens coming to Earth,” says JoeLectrick about his new track.

Originally launched as an exclusive track on Crazy From Kong’s new music video series CFK Radio, Meteor’s visuals, directed by Arne Venema, showcased an aggressive Vaporwave storm above a cyberpunk city skyline. You can check out the music video for Meteor below.

Click the links for more places to listen to Meteor.

Celestial

May 25, 2021

Are you ready to blast off among the stars? Sit back and listen to Celestial, and be transported on a journey through time, space, and music. Now available on all platforms.

Story behind the music:

For this track, I wanted to make a synth tune that felt like flying through the clouds. The main melody was something I played around with on my Novation Circuit, while chilling at a coffee shop. I ended up with this airy, uplifting, ambient tune that I kind of filed away for later.

Another day I was trying out doing some 303 bass lines, I thought to give it a try to try sliding it underneath the flying through the clouds tune. I felt like it needed an old school, raw groove with percussion, so I dusted off my old MC-303 and jammed out the drums, trying to go for an old school, Detroit style vibe.

Celestial got it’s debut when I submitted it to Splitwire, a friend’s start up radio show for new music from off beat artists and he included it in the lineup.

In the end, I honestly don’t know how to classify this track. It was one of those things where I just let the music making take me in a direction and it turned into this acid techno track with an ambient twist. It’s also been told to me that this track sounds more towards Italo Disco with Acid House included, making it an Italo Acid track. Either way, let me know where you think this track fits in the realm of genres.

Celestial was made with a Novation Circuit, Cyclone Analogic TT-303, and Roland MC-303.

Click these links to stream “Celestial”

Amelie Dreams

November 23, 2020

Neon Electrick Nights 06 now up on my SoundCloud and MixCloud. For my latest jam, I wanted to do something kind of specific and well, I kind of got something else. Read below for the full story.

https://soundcloud.com/joelectrick/amelie-dreams-jam-session

They say you need to stay on top of the trends so I took to Spotify and listened to a whole bunch of the latest top Techno tracks. In particular, I listened to a bunch of tracks by Belgian DJ Amelie Lens.

Amelie Lens

So, decided that I would try to jam out a driving Techno track in her style. After playing around with my Novation Circuit a bit, I thought I had the tune to make it happen. So I went to recording my “Amelie Lens” inspired techno jam.

Then I listened to what I had just recorded and immediately was thinking that this doesn’t sound much like Amelie Lens. Reminds me more of Amelie the movie starring Audrey Tautou.

Audrey Tautou in probably the most famous shot from Amelie the movie

That famous shot of Audrey Tautou in the cinema from the movie, in particular, got stuck in my head when I listened to the track.

So, with that in mind, I decided to name this tune “Amelie Dreams” and voila! Neon Electrick Nights 06 was born.

If you’ve managed to read this whole story, I hope you will also check out the whole, now on SoundCloud and MixCloud. I’ll upload to YouTube soon.

Let me know what you think. Does it sound like Amelie Lens or remind you more of Amelie the movie?

Neon Electrick Nights 03

October 1, 2020

Neon Electrick Nights 03 featuring an acid styled techno jam from Joe Lectrick is now out on YouTube, SoundCloud, and MixCloud.

Joe connects up some of his favorite machines, his Elektron Digitakt, Novation Circuit, and Cyclone Analogic TT-303, along with a newer addition to his arsenal, the Behringer Crave. The jam is a nice 14 minutes long, for those that want just a little bit of rave in their pandemic rave cave.

Get yourself some techno jam for your Thursday Night.

https://soundcloud.com/joelectrick/neon-electrick-nights-03-live-hardware-jam

Stay tuned Thursdays for new episodes of Neon Electrick Nights from Joe Lectrick. I have my eye on you. 😉

Neon Electrick Nights 03 now available