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Canton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsA Secret MusicComposed entirely on a Polyend Tracker. Harkens back to 1995-era Omni Trio / Good Looking Records style drum and bass. Download available on Bandcamp.
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“Everything obeys a secret music” sample from Joshua Schrei’s podcast The Emerald, Episode “All of My Lessons Come in the Form of a Sound“
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2025-01-2803 min
Canton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsMinaretDubby, breaky, spooky, moody.
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2024-08-0504 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsListen CarefullyLush harmonic techno, giant chords and a persistent beep to the beat.
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2024-07-0504 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsArea 51The other day my kid had me listen to this haunting Tool track Faaip De Oiad which samples a phone call made to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM radio show. The caller frantically relays a bunch of Area 51 conspiracies, and that got me to remembering about an afternoon in January 1998 when I explored the area myself.
I was demoing my company’s Internet music software at NAMM – the annual music business convention in Las Vegas. We were given a spare day, so I rented a car and drove as close as I could to Area 51. At the...2024-06-0404 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsPeace ChannelAn Endlessly Looping Audio/Video Space Music Composition
dedicated to Michael P. Becker (1944-2018)
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ABOUT THE MUSIC
I remember one time when my friend Matt was taking a break from work, playing a Zimbabwean melody on his mbira (thumb piano). I told him I liked how he made the song fade in and out, eventually playing so quietly you could just hear the flesh of his thumbs brushing the metal tines.
Matt said, “These songs don’t really have beginnings and endings. It’s more like ‘Ancestor...2019-02-1203 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsCost of DifferenceMoody thick drum ‘n’ bass. Starts off with almost classical/orchestral elements, then the drop, then a little more banging. Lots of arpeggios and melodic content.
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2016-07-3005 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsDecember VThis was the third track in my one song a month project. Here I’m playing around with polyrhythms (3 against 4 against 5 against…) and some nice pure synth tones. It’s in a major key, which is really rare for me.
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2015-12-3005 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsKipsigis Love SongThis was the second track in my one song a month project. The sample you hear in this deep tribal house track is from a wonderful collection of records I found recorded in 1952 — famous anthropological field recordings by Hugh Tracy. More or less, the fellow who introduced African music to white people. This particular sample is from a humorous Kenyan love song from the Kipsigis Tribe.
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2015-11-3004 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsThe Great RiverHappy melodic techno. 122 BPM, starts off in a mellow place then gets bouncy and fun. Vocal sample is from Richard Kilmer’s LibriVox public domain reading of The Night Horseman by Max Brand (1920).
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2012-10-1206 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsGamayaI love the album “Chants of India” by Ravi Shankar, and in particular the track that features this chant:
asato ma sad gamaya / From ignorance, lead me to truth
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya / From darkness, lead me to light
mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya / From death, lead me to immortality.
Here’s a funky buzzy-breaks dance track I wrote that starts with this chant:
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2012-09-2805 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsFloodwatersMy first original techno track in a long, long while. Lush, layered, moody, epic. Composed in daily 20 or 30 minute stolen workday moments over the course of several weeks. Finished this during a moment in history when 2,000 Pakistanis have died and 20 million are injured or homeless as a result of massive flooding […]
The post Floodwaters appeared first on Canton Becker.2010-08-2806 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsSnow BreakOn this very snowy Santa Fe morning and with one week left until the 2008 Winter Solstice, I’m pleased to release this new song for free under a creative commons license. Snow Break is a 92bpm ‘breaks’ piece based around a sampled string melody from a 1960’s Mellotron tape loop. (The Mellotron was the original pre-digital sampler, a […]
The post Snow Break appeared first on Canton Becker.2008-12-1506 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsSerious SongWow this song was a long time in the making. 12+ months? Not sure if it’s done yet — this mix feels a little thick and awkward at times — but it’s done enough to let me move on to some other tracks in the near term. 174 BPM d’n’b, growly nasty bassline, occasional explosive […]
The post Serious Song appeared first on Canton Becker.2008-06-1606 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsBenbientComposed for Benjamin Becker, born Feb 12, 2008. 102 bpm. Ambient groove deep ethno dub. Usually I make music on a Macintosh running Logic Audio and a sizable amount of outboard gear… but this one was composed entirely on a Palm Pilot T|X using Bhaji’s Loops between the hours of 3am and 5am while lying […]
The post Benbient appeared first on Canton Becker.2008-03-3007 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsStringy168 bpm, lush strings, jazzy fun drum ‘n’ bass with a couple of deep-beat breakdowns.
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The post Big Chord appeared first on Canton Becker.2005-11-2907 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsRollertechnoTrance-techno, 131 bpm. Hints of kraftwerk. Oldschool drums and even a siren. Breaks too, so maybe it’s not really trance. Sounds best while wearing roller skates.
The post Rollertechno appeared first on Canton Becker.2005-09-1806 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsBassomaticMedium-fast breaks. Deep resonant (squirty!) basslines and a catchy melody. Inspirational bass-blending music.
The post Bassomatic appeared first on Canton Becker.2005-06-1906 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsIndian Summer (Licensed for Dance Dance Revolution)Does anyone have a Xbox 360 I can borrow? A while back I was hired to compose two songs for Konami’s DDR UltraMix 4, and they sent me some free copies of the game… but I don’t have a console to play on (or stomp on or whatever it’s called when you do the blinky-light […]
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The post Solstice appeared first on Canton Becker.1999-12-2103 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsLujon (Henry Mancini Remix)Remix of Henry Mancini’s “Lujon”. One morning in 1999, I woke up to hearing this song (the original) on my clock radio. While in a half-dreaming state, I imagined hearing these extra layers and rhythms underneath the song. Later on that day, I put this together… Because this is a remix of a song belonging […]
The post Lujon (Henry Mancini Remix) appeared first on Canton Becker.1999-07-0103 minCanton Becker's Electronic Music NoizumsLewd DayIs there such a genre as Atmospheric Acid? That’s this one. Melodic soft strings with a funky beat and a gentle acid baseline.
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