This came out formally the last week of 2024, and I spent the first eight months of the year releasing a new song every week. This was a massive triple album featuring 29 tracks, and represent all the tracks I played live and composed starting at the tail end of 2021 and continuing on through up to the release. All but the last set of four tracks were composed for live shows and were later finalized and finished for this release. Those four were composed solely for this release and are explained in the final paragraph of this post.

The first eight tracks I composed in the fall of 2021 and spring of 2022 using only the Analog RYTM mkii drum machine and sampler as my sound sources. It was my attempt to see how far I could strip my live show back, with varying levels of success. Here are two live shows from that time period featuring many of the tracks in some form: “Live Techno: ‘Wigilia’” and “Live Hard Techno”. You can also view the tracks in YouTube playlists, like the “Techno Spring 2022” playlist which shows the full evolution of the tracks, and of course the “Black Album” playlist which shows the finished tracks in context of the album.

The next sixteen tracks I composed for two live shows. The first was for the “Crash Test: Resistance” live show available on SoundCloud and the second was the “Wave Zebra” live set which is available on YouTube as a video and also available on SoundCloud and available in some form afterwards in other live sets found on the “Live Techno” playlist on YouTube. These tracks added the Roland TB-3 to the hardware setup and focused more on acid and acid-adjacent techno styles because I felt the Analog RYTM was somewhat limited in what you could achieve.

The final 5 tracks added in the Access Virus TI2 to help me achieve the full range of what is possible with my hardware and released some of the limitations that using just a drum machine and a monosynth could provide. These were mostly composed towards the end of the process and included tracks like “The Truth”, “Africa”, and “The Book” which bumped up the BPMs to 146 and concentrated on bringing the style more inline with what people hear DJs play at bigger clubs and festivals, along with the hardcore track, “White MF” which I composed for the “Crash Test: Resistance” party and which I often played as the last track of my sets as a really fast (187bpm) banger to leave a super high-energy track as the final impression on the dancers and listeners as I closed my sets.

So happy to have this completed and already moving on to the next tracks, which will be techno in style and feature better production and more upbeat compositions. You can listen and purchase all these tracks on my BandCamp page.