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october71

"The fourth world war is over

About Me

About me: Hi, I'm Phoebe aka october71. I am an Experimental/Unconventional/Circuitbent instrument/Gameboy artist, but don't let that deter you from listening to my tracks...I also use conventional electronic instruments as well, and I strive to achieve rather interesting and rich sounds. I don't take myself very seriously, so neither should you. Please feel free to add me as a friend or send me a message!
About my music: The genres of music I make fall into these categories: dub, dark ambient, noise, downtempo, techno, idm, and some unclassifiable stuff. Most tracks are "sequenced" and recorded live. Post-production processing is done in Sound Forge, and is usually limited to editing for length, adjusting eq and volume, and adding reverb or echo, and compression unless stated in the production notes. I also use Sound Forge for generating drones and experimenting. I like to experiment with new techniques and equipment so my sound is always evolving.
About my instruments: Many of my instruments are ones that I made myself, and you can view all of my circuitbent instruments and electronic projects here .
There are many more tracks available on my soundclick website: click here .
I was featured in an article on wired.com on circuitbending: click here .
Want to see what I'm listening to right now ?
Equipment used: Original Gray Gameboy + Nanoloop , Realistic Stereo Reverb System, Realistic Mono Reverb, Robomber , Casio SK-1, CDemon , Microhard Drum Kit , iBreak , Hellphon , BDRM-1 Ring Modulator , Alesis Ineko, DOD digital delay fx pedal, Ibanez SM7 distortion pedal, SAM , Behringer UB1622FX-PRO Mixer , Behringer MDX1600 Autocom Pro XL Compressor , and on my PC : Soundforge 8, Acid 4.0, and other miscellaneous audio programs. MIDI gear - Alesis: Photon X-25, Brother: PDC-100, Korg: ER-1, ES-1 MK2, Poly800, x0xb0x (TB-303), Yamaha: AN200, QY70, SU10

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/18/2004
Band Website: soundclick.com/october71
Band Members: Phoebe October
Influences: So many things influence my music, and not just other musicians...but, here's some musicians that have had a very big influence on me: Johnny Rotten, Brian Eno, Suicide, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Akira Yamaoka, Herbie Hancock, Mad Professor, Autechre, Joy Division, Twilight Circus Dub Soundsystem, Tom Waits, Oval, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Squarepusher, Front 242, Phillip Glass, Public Enemy, Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, EL-P, Coil.
Sounds Like: Put Oval, Autechre, Akira Yamaoka, Brian Eno, Squarepusher, and Twilight Circus in a blender with ice and serve in a Mai Tai glass with a wedge of lime.
Record Label: self-released
Type of Label: None

My Blog

NO HTML IN COMMENTS!

You know the saying, "a few bad apples spoil the bunch"? Well, unfortunately this is the case here. People keep trying to leave comments in my myspace profile that are nothing more than advertise...
Posted by october71 on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:19:00 PST

TB-117 Bassline (x0xb0x Redux)

You will have to excuse the poor quality of the photos. I have two digital cameras, and neither one of them is good, and it's pretty impossible to get focused closeups (no zoom). I really need to get ...
Posted by october71 on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:27:00 PST

Coming soon...

New control panel for my x0xb0xProposed design for my TR-101 project: a heavily modified Boss DR-110 Drum Machine.MIDI sync/control, individual audio outs for each drum sound, individual tuning for ea...
Posted by october71 on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 06:24:00 PST

x0xb0x demos!

By popular request...The first one is "dry" (that means no effects), and the second one is with effects by my Alesis Ineko ("G Garage", which adds compression, detune, reverb, and panning). The links ...
Posted by october71 on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 10:09:00 PST

x0xb0x finished!

If anyone's interested, you can see the finished x0xb0x ..117 here. Even if you don't, here's a money shot for you anyway: The black knobs that are on there are just temporary; I have nice a...
Posted by october71 on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:39:00 PST

Live show: January 27, 2006 @ Gallery 119, Lowell, MA

http://www.cacophonophilia.org/tour/ for details. It will be at the 119 Gallery (http://www.911gallery.org/). You can expect to hear electro and other forms of techno from me.
Posted by october71 on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:37:00 PST

New side project

I've been asked many times to collaborate on music with people, and almost always I turn down the offer. It's not because I'm some kind of musician snob or anything, I just have a pretty experimental ...
Posted by october71 on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:15:00 PST

dorking, aka more new gear: x0xb0x, the DIY TB-303

I think I forgot to mention this due to all the chaos and stress in my life at the moment, but last week my x0xb0x kit arrived in the mail. I was on the waiting list for it for about 3 months or so, a...
Posted by october71 on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:00:00 PST

1071 Audio SW-037 Squarewave Synth

So, the SW-037 is just a heavily, HEAVILY modified Amerikit/Elenco AK900 keyboard kit that I just finished a week or so ago. It's not circuitbent; instead I have added controls in the form of potentio...
Posted by october71 on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:00:00 PST

New gear, New sounds

About 6 or 7 months ago I got my first piece of midi gear, the Korg ER-1 drum machine. (Actually...that's a lie...my first piece was the Casio RZ-1 drum machine, which I got a couple of years ago, but...
Posted by october71 on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:26:00 PST