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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”

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My First Techno DJ Mix

April 21, 2021

After weeks of sporadic practicing, lessons, and tutorials, I finally built up the courage to record a DJ mix. So behold! My first ever techno DJ mix. I hope you give it a listen and enjoy. I did this one while a little tipsy on the train ride home after doing early happy hour with two good friends from the good old college days. I’ll admit, it’s a pretty rough mix, but way better than my first attempt at a mix, made on the train ride into the city.

Also, although I went with the DJ controller featured image, I actually mixed this on an iPad using TRAKTOR DJ 2, so it looked more like…

Most of the tracks here I originally picked up on a whim. But some have turned into personal favorites. Of course, I have to admit I did end up sneaking in a couple of non-techno tracks into this techno mix. Why? Because fuck yeah, that’s why. I felt like experimenting a little. That being said, if any of you actually make it far enough into this mix to complain about the random non techno tracks that I slipped in, first I will be sure to offer a personal apology, then next a personal big set of thanks for making it that far into the mix. So there you have it.

Here’s the track list below for those that wanted to know. I hope you all enjoy!

  1. On The Ground – Rods Franchin
  2. Scumbag – JoeLectrick
  3. Elision – Pointless Animals
  4. Mental Alert – Mehmet Özbek
  5. Dance – Vissar
  6. Modulate – Kolt Us
  7. Mha Iri – Burn Steadily
  8. Waveshaper – Mod Man
  9. Candy Man – Brown Eyed Girls
  10. Phase 303 – KUSP (UK)
  11. Be My Love – La Bouche
  12. Together – Lowshape
  13. Everything – Technoma
  14. Odd Look – Kavinsky
  15. Aircraft – Heinick (Heerhorst Remix)

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 05

October 16, 2020

It’s Thursday Night, so make sure to make it a Neon Electrick one. This week, I tried a little something different. Instead of a live hardware jam, I made this jam on my iPad, just using the Korg iKaossilator app. I figure a always good to try out new things, even when you’re a robot. I hope you enjoy this funky little House music jam.

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

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September 28, 2020

To start off the week right, I dropped some chillness on my YouTube and SoundCloud. A remix of an old school Jennifer Love Hewitt track “The Difference Between Us”.

This is my first time trying out a “vaporwave” style remix, although my comrades and colleagues X24r and Project Soda were quick to point out that all Vaporwave tracks are essentially remixes. They also said this sounded more like Chillwave than true Vaporwave. Still, X24r did give a single word overall review for the track “smooth!”

So relax and enjoy this smoothness, as you have yourselves a chill start to the week.

P.S. give a shout out in the comments if you’re a fellow JLH fan.

Neon Electrick Nights 01

September 17, 2020

I just dropped the first of hopefully many jam sessions to liven up your nights and give you a reason to slap on your dancing shoes, even if in the comfort of your own personal rave cave. I call it “Neon Electrick Nights” and I’ll be dropping a new edition each Thursday.

This first edition is a quirky techno jam that I originally streamed for Instagram Live, not realizing that it would not save the video for me to keep for later, so that’s why I only have audio and graphics to show on this one. Will have me on camera during future jams, I can assure you. 😉

Stream Neon Electrick Nights 01 at the following spots:

https://soundcloud.com/joelectrick/neon-electrick-nights-01

Be sure to subscribe and stay tuned every Thursday for more Neon Electrick Nights!

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Tekken Too Far

August 20, 2020

Tekken Too Far… This was the first electronic music track I ever produced long ago. I originally composed it as background soundtrack for a short film I worked on back in the day. Finally, after years in the background and on my hard drive, it’s getting a proper streaming music release on all platforms.

On top of releasing the track on all platforms, I’ve also used my rudimentary pixel art skills to give Tekken Too Far a little animated video of the cover art for the release.

I have to admit that I originally had a much more complex and epic concept for an animated music video planned, but unfortunately, the original concept revealed itself far beyond my current pixel art proficiency. So, I settled for the guy winking and yelling as lighting bolts light up his face. For those interesting in knowing what concept I had in mind, here it is below. So feel free to use your imagination to enjoy what it could have been.

Ride the Lightning!

Original Video Concept:
This purple hair fighter was supposed to be fighting like an alien Overlord looking guy. He would punch the overlord, sending him flying. Then he would be dancing for a bit while the flames burn behind him. Then the Overlord punches Purple Haired Hero and sends him flying into the abyss. Overlord starts dancing while the fire burns behind him. Another volley back and forth leaves our hero broken and bruises. He looks up to see the Overlord laughing menacingly. The Purple Haired Hero Grits his teeth, spits out blood, slips on the TECHNO POWER rings, flies into a rage and like HADOUKEN’s the Overlord. The Overlord lands far away. The Hero dances the rest of the song.

So what’s your favorite video game inspired track? Let me know in the comments!

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