neon electric nights

Sunset Highway

January 28, 2021

I made another funky, little jam on the iKaossilator app. It made me think of a smooth drive towards the sunset. Decided to call it Sunset Highway. Check this out on my SoundCloud.

https://soundcloud.com/joelectrick/sunset-highway-ikaossilator

I’m liking this iKaosillator app for a quickie run and gun style jam when I’m on the go. It’s on my phone or iPad and I can do a live jam recording and export to a wav file or straight to SoundCloud, or I can export a loop with 5 separate track stems to an Ableton file and tweak it up more later.

Let me know what you think of this jam. If people like it enough, I’ll spend some time tweaking it up more and make a proper track for release with it. I’m considering making an EP worth of these tracks and releasing them.

If you hadn’t checked out my first iKaossilator jam, here’s the link…

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 02

September 24, 2020

Joe Lectrick drops another techno jam with Neon Electrick Nights 02 available on YouTube, SoundCloud, and MixCloud. For this jam, Joe goes for a bit of a Wild West feel to this beat. It kind of ends up feeling like music for a spaceship chase scene from “Firefly”.

Plus this jam is notable for Joe sporting his cyberpunk goggles hat.

So get your dancing shoes, your cowboy hand, and your laser beams and shuffle to this jam.

And if you missed it before, check out Neon Electrick Nights 01

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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