Hostipal - Oscillating Thoughts (Dawless Experimental Improvised Jam) Hostipal 2025-06-09 | Dawless jam playing around with some low frequency oscillationEquipment used:- Elektron Model:Samples (various LFOing on perc and synth sounds)- Korg Volca Keys (LFOing cutoff)- Roland E4 (using an octave autopitch and whatever weird LFO they have in the scatter function)- Yamaha Reface CP (some tremolo, phaser and lots of reverb/distortion in absence of an LFO)
Hostipal - Menu Muzik (Chill Ambient Beat Jam) Hostipal 2025-09-30 | An impromptu ambient beat that almost played itself in the end so decided to film a couple of shots along side it while doing minimal tweakage. Name inspired by the beautiful menu music at the start of GTA V, with a track that could be listened to forever by the ever-talented Tangerine Dream crew.Equipment used:Elektron Model:Samples- TC Electronics Forcefield- Joyo American SoundArturia MicroFreak- Zoom CDR- M-Vave Elemental- M-Vave Mini Universe
Hostipal - Beneath the Experiencement (Distorted Ambient Beat) Hostipal 2025-09-27 | Was playing around with some sounds and possibilities for the Hardware Jams FM challenge, but before taking a break to record my radio show and recreate something similar after, decided to just hit the record and take it for a spin from thereThe MicroFreak is running its FM 2 Op. Oscillator and the bass comes from an FM stock sound on the Model:Samples. Distortion, reverb, and wonderment from elsewhereEquipment used:- Elektron Model:Samples--- TC Electronics Forcefield--- Joyo American Sound- Arturia MicroFreak--- Zoom CDR Multistomp--- M-Vave Elemental--- M-Vave Mini Universe- Roland E-4- Roland RC505 Mk1
Hostipal Live Stream Hostipal 2025-09-25 | An impromptu live stream. Only noticed after the fact that it was only getting audio from the Model:Samples and not the musical magic I was definitely creating with the MicroFreak and audio samples into the RC-505 (we've no evidence to prove otherwise so...)Going to attempt to do more regular Wednesday evening streams as it seems to be a day for creativity without too many clashes but until then enjoy this accidentally one box stream
Hostipal - Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (Outdoor Set on Model:Samples) | Breakbeats and Rave Techno Hostipal 2025-09-22 | Dedicated to the wonderful Inky Da Cat 🐈😺 and all the Hardware Jams crew as I was unable to make the festival last weekend.Created a live set solo on the Model:Samples with a couple different ideas that began to come together after the previous Dolmen Sessions. Had an idea of getting a campsite session going at a festival but the vibe wasn't right so what better place than to do it in isolation on a South Dublin beach. Couple dodgy transitions but such is the joy of live playing The set's title comes from the ever-wise Timothy Leary, who would have a field day in these current times, while also replicating the creation process, as equipment is turned on, sounds and vibes tuned in, followed by a dropping out from this strange consensus reality, and into one of pure creation#synth #outdoors #electronicmusic
Hostipal - A Set in 5 (Frenetic Breakbeats on the Model:Samples) Hostipal 2025-09-09 | With some excess creative energy after the fun of this weekend's improvised set at Dolmen Sessions (and the stress that comes with that), decided to bash out a couple beats and ideas on the Model:Samples for the Hardware Jams BanJam challengeTwitchy freneticism and breakbeats it is. Hope you enjoy!
Hostipal - Handpan, Will it Freak? (Ambient Jam) Raw Sound From MicroFreak Hostipal 2025-09-03 | Belatedly updated the MicroFreak's firmware to include its sampling capabilities, ahead of a gig this weekend, and loaded up some samples. Quite liked the sound of this particular sample so did a quick jam on it.Excuse the noise on it. Added a couple samples too low in volume, though it does add a certain element
Hostipal - Last Orders (Model:Samples Dark Evening Beat Play) Hostipal 2025-07-22 | On my final catsitting night, had a quick play around on the Model:Samples as the evening came to a close. Decided to bust out the camera after first thinking I wouldn't. Hope you enjoy the result
Hostipal - Stay TriP(l)ut! (Chill Model:Samples Solo Beat) Hostipal 2025-07-21 | Playing around with Triplets and threes in this chill beat. I used a major chord transposed around as the basis for the jam but may have ended up with a minor sound in the process. Had a lovely shot of my sister's cat while housesitting but wasn't she eager to run off as soon as the camera turned on with no notions of staying put
Hostipal - All Rise (Dark Hip Hop Beat) Model:Samples Solo Hostipal 2025-07-18 | Missed a one box challenge from Hardware Jams and do love taking the Model: Samples on a solo spin so decided to cook up one of my own in this dark beat
Hostipal - Mans Chest or Something (Dawless Experimental Beat Jam) Hostipal 2025-07-07 | Was getting hip hoppity vibes from the street art for the Hardware Jams picture challenge so jammed up a cluttered jam with some local accenting for the icing on top
Hostipal - Dont Know What To Say (Experimental Breakbeatings) Hostipal 2025-06-23 | Playing around with some sounds and samples alongside a propaganda type cartoon promoting capitalism to Americans in the post WW2 period
Hostipal - Throbbing Crystle (a P-Orridge inspired Breakbeat Dawless Jam) Hostipal 2025-06-22 | For the weekend challenge, I created a Genesis P-Orridge inspired jam after watching the great documentary "S/He Is Still Her/E" about the lifelong occultist and all round interesting character. As someone who delves into the occult, it was a fascinating and inspiring watch making me want to create once I got home. There's some inspiration in there somewhere if even just in the urge to create and "short circuit control" as William S Burroughs once told GenesisEquipment used:- Elektron Model:Samples- - TC Electronics Forcefield Compressor- Yamaha Reface CP- - Joyo American Sound- - M-Vave Universe Reverb- - M-Vave Elemental Delay- - Lekato Looper- Korg Volca Keys- - Zoom CDR- Roland E4- - Mosky C4 Mini Compressor
Hostipal - Ambient Workout (Dawless Improvised Jam) Hostipal 2025-06-20 | Picking up where I was at when I decided to press the record button
Hostipal - Braving Th(r)ee Elements (Outdoor Model:Samples DnB) Hostipal 2025-06-03 | Braved The Elements this weekend for the HWJ 3 Elements weekend challenge, playing through some DnB centred around one bass sample with the addition of drums and baselines. Good excuse to bust out the drone. May eventually upload an edited version but here's this one to enjoy for now anyway
Hostipal - Dronesing (Improvised Dawless Ambient) Hostipal 2025-05-23 | Improvising my way through some noisy and occasionally harmonic ambient drone with limited knowledge and various sounds set up for dronage whether they were hit or not and whether they were maintained or not. Defo a style to be experimented with againEquipment used:- Korg Volca Keys -- Joyo American Sound -- Zoom CDR- Yamaha Reface CP -- Tomsline Greenizer Vintage Distortion -- M-Vave Universe Reverb -- Lekato Looper- Korg Volca Sample -- TC Electronics Forcefield- Koala Sampler -- Roland E4
Scatter Brained Creatives | Visual Experiments with Infinity Screens + Accompanying Dawless Jamming Hostipal 2025-05-19 | Recently got a HDMI adapter for my Sony so decided what I could do playing around with some infinity screening effects by aiming the video feed at itselfEquipment used:Sony A7SiiKorg Volca Sample- TC Electronics ForcefieldBehringer Crave- Joyo American Sound- Zoom CDR MultistompYamaha Reface CP- Tomsline Greenizer Vintage Distortion- M-Vave Universe ReverbRoland E4
Hostipal - Irlande Pwaa (HWJVision Improvisation) Hostipal 2025-05-17 | I suppose making a jam is one way to boycott. Feel like Eurovision holds some cosmic influence on my life with various important moments, starting off as one of the few shows we'd watch every year as kids. Last year a fun DJ set of more cheesier tunes at a boycott event. The same weekend the year before, while Ireland's entrants sang "We Are One", was out trying to stop a homeless encampment from being burnt out in Dublin in a shift that Ireland has not recovered from since.Attempted to capture the gravity of the moment and included some vocals so here is the result:Equipment used:Yamaha Reface CP- Tomsline Greenizer Vintage Distortion- M-Vave Universe ReverbKorg Volca Keys- Joyo American Sound- Zoom CDRKorg Volca Sample- TC Forcefield Compressor
Hostipal - Repetitive Beats (Cosmic Improvised Techno) Hostipal 2025-05-10 | Switching up the setup a little and bringing back the Volca Sample for some organical grown free range beats Equipment used:Korg Volca Keys - Zoom G2Behringers Crave- Joyo American Sound - Zoom CDR MultiStompYamaha Reface CP- Greenizer Vintage Tube Distortion- M-Vave Reverb- Lekato Loop Pedal
Hostipal - Dawless Ambient Morning Meditations with a bunch of guitar pedals and a cheap looper Hostipal 2025-05-08 | After playing around with a few bits of kit, decided to turn on the recording machine to catch the end. I was playing around with the Yamaha Reface CP, alongside the Behringer Crave and Volca Sample. These were run through various pedals with the Reface being experimented on via a distorion pedal and newly acquired M-Vave Mini Universe reverb pedal and into an unsynced Lekato Loop PedalEquipment used:- Yamaha Reface CP--- Tomsline Aroma AGR-3 GreenizerValve Distortion--- M-Vave Mini Universe Reverb- Behringer Crave--- Zoom CDR MultiStomp- Korg Volca Keys--- TC Forcefield compressor
Hostipal - Its Hands Drift (Ambient Neo-Classical Piano Improvisation) Hostipal 2025-05-06 | An ambient neo-classical improvisation using Pianoteq's Kawai (K2) as a sound source. The recurring motif came to me while playing around after playing a couple of classical pieces#improvisation #neoclassical #pianoteq
Hostipal - Consumption)(Absortion | Ambient Breakbeat jam on M:S, Crave and TD-3 vs Guitar Pedals Hostipal 2025-04-29 | An ambient breakbeat jam on the Model:Samples, Crave, TD-3 with a bunch of pedals to expand the soundEquipment used:- Elektron Model:Samples - TC Electronic Forcefield- Behringer Crave - Joyo American Sound - Zoom CDR MultiStomp- Behringer TD-3 - Tomsline Greenizer Overdrive - Zoom G2#breakbeat #experimental #guitarpedals
Hostipal - Plantary Planet (Consumption) | Ambient jam on Behringer Crave and TD-3 vs Guitar Pedals Hostipal 2025-04-28 | An ambient jam created for Hardware Jams challenge, using a sequence on the Crave and one on the TD-3 with a bunch of effects to simulate the taking over and destruction of humanity as it is slowly consumed by plants and technologyEquipment used:- Behringer Crave - Joyo American Sound - Zoom CDR MultiStomp- Behringer TD-3 - TC Electronic Forcefield - Tomsline Greenizer Overdrive - Zoom G2 - Roland E4
Hostipal - Looping Lost Lullabies (Ambient Improvisation on the Reface CP and RC-505 Mk1) Hostipal 2025-04-18 | Prepping for an upcoming gig by figuring out some clockless ambience, playing around with the Yamaha Reface CP and the Loop Station looping without any clock or percussion to see what I could come up through experimentationEquipment used:- Roland RC 505 Mk1- Yamaha Reface CP
Hostipal - What They (Dont) Want Us To Believe (Heavy Loop Experimentationings) Hostipal 2025-04-17 | A follow on from the previous jam, a second play around afterwards going for some heavier sound and seeing about creating a kick type sound on the MicroFreak before looping various bits. Unlike the more mellow ambient experiment, this one's more dystopian sound runs contrary in confrontation with a placidity towards the world of the richEquipment used:- Roland RC 505 Mk1- Arturia MicroFreak- Yamaha Reface CP- Zoom Multistomp CDR
Hostipal - What They Want Us To Believe (Ambient Loop Experimentationings) Hostipal 2025-04-12 | Playing around with the Loop station RC 505, I roughed out a few sounds on the Reface CP and MicroFreak also running a Gary Stevenson short audio clip through the Roland E4 to warp his vocals as he explains an understanding of the world manipulated by people who benefit from things continuing the way they areEquipment used:- Roland RC 505 Mk1- Arturia MicroFreak- Yamaha Reface CP- Zoom Multistomp CDR- Roland E4
Hostipal Attempts a Live Stream... Hostipal 2025-04-03 | Been thinking of attempting one of these for a while and the current setup seems right enough for the job so here goes nothingTime to rough out some tunage, do some jamming and hang out
Hostipal - Improvised Live Loop Sessions Hostipal 2025-03-29 | A loop session driven by some roughed out beats on the drums with everything else improvised
Hostipal - Trails of the Forgotten (Dark Live Looping Breakbeat Session) Hostipal 2025-03-17 | Before turning off the machines after having taken a break, I decided to replay out the last set of loopers (including some guitar loops after getting new strings) against the beats of the Model:Samples. The loops had reset to the same starting point so some felt a little off but was fun to play around with them. Hope you enjoy!
Hostipal - From March to Avril 3rd (Part 2) | Dawless Downtempo Loop Exploratory Jam Hostipal 2025-03-08 | Following on from the first Avril attempt, here is another exploratory version
Hostipal - From March to Avril 3rd (Tarragona Carnival) | Dawless Downtempo Loop Jam Hostipal 2025-03-08 | Three is a magic number. Here's my jam created around that concept. 3 sounds sources, 3 loops, witnessing a march from the first day of the 3rd month, creating 3 frames of light, using 3 Model D oscillators, somewhat based around Avril 14 (4 - 1 = 3 if you want to get all numerological 👀), 3 sources of lightEquipment used:- Elektron Model:Samples- Yamaha Reface CP - Into RC-505 Mk1- Behringer Model D - Into Zoom CDR
Hostipal - AbsOrbSing (Dawless Experimentationsing) Hostipal 2025-02-26 | Exploring the setup with some experimental beats from some roughed out ideasEquipment used:- Elektron Model: Samples - Beringer Model D - Zoom CDR- Arturia MicroFreak - Zoom G2
Hostipal - Pre-Iron (Four Knocks Megalithic Tomb) | Improvised Experimental Jam Hostipal 2025-02-24 | Created for the Periodic Table Hardware Jam challenge. My limited knowledge of the periodic table had me going to an old megalithic tomb. I thought I might be able to get a single element as a core component of the stone used to build it but that was not to be. Secondly, I discovered it was built in the Bronze Age. Turns out that's an alloy. Copper sounded a bit crap on its own, so pre-Iron it is to account for the subsequent age that followed....Hope you enjoy
Jamuary 2025 Day 31.2: Hostipal - A Retrospective (Melodic Exploration) Hostipal 2025-02-01 | For the evening of Day 31, busted out the full setup to play through and explore some melodies. With a couple of camera difficulties, thought it'd be a good idea to do a kind of retrospective of the month, speeding through the various video clips and hours spent creating. Hope you enjoy the journey, I know I did
Jamuary 2025 Day 31.1: Hostipal - The Grungering 2 (Dark Breakbeats on Model:Samples) Hostipal 2025-01-31 | For Day 31, a quick midday jam conjured up during a Zoom meeting I couldn't be f🤬ked with, using a grungey guitar sample from the day before to build up some breakbeats. For the day that's in it, I'll be doing another jam later but for now...hope you enjoy
Jamuary 2025 Day 30: Hostipal - The End is Near Van (A Grungey Beat on Model:Samples) Hostipal 2025-01-31 | For Day 30, the penultimate day of the month, it really flew in this year, I used a grungey guitar sample that after hearing looped had in my head a kind of DnB beat against it. In the end it turned out a bit less DnB and a bit more playful. Hope you enjoy
Jamuary 2025 Day 29: Hostipal - Transcendental Magickation (Melodic Downtempo Model:Samples Solo) Hostipal 2025-01-30 | For Day 29, despite feeling fairly under the weather, managed to pull together some melodic beats with some lofi game sounds to build up this track. Hope you enjoy
Jamuary 2025 Day 28: Hostipal - What Say? (Model:Samples Solo Beats) Hostipal 2025-01-29 | For Day 28, building from some samples from the day before, I created some beats to have a play around with on the Model:Samples
Jamuary 2025 Day 27: Hostipal - Clambering Clumber (Experimental Beats Exploration) Hostipal 2025-01-28 | For Day 27, adding the Model:Samples back into the mix alongside the Pro 800, MicroFreak and Reface CP built up some ideas to play around with originating from the use of a much loved acapella before becoming a different beast altogether. Hope you enjoy the madness
Jamuary 2025 Day 26: Hostipal - Elasticitys End (Pro 800 vs MicroFreak Ambient Exploration) Hostipal 2025-01-27 | For Day 26, I hooked up the Pro 800 for some explorations on this beautiful singing device. It had been a while since it had been plugged in so felt somewhat like re-learning it. Played that against some simple arppage on the MicroFreak, run through some effects with the added bonus of Valhalla Shimmer. Hope you enjoy
Jamuary 2025 Day 24: Hostipal - Eagle Ascension (Ambient DnB Improvisation) Hostipal 2025-01-25 | For Day 24, using the same configuration I'd used for previous ambience, decided to improvise a drum and bass track The video ran out so decided to experimental away the black screen with some layered video of what had recorded. Hope you enjoy
Jamuary 2025 Day 23: Hostipal - Further Ambience (Mellow Ambient Jam) Hostipal 2025-01-24 | For Day 23, decided to go for another spin of ambient music using a similar setup to Day 21 but minus any soft instruments. Hope you enjoyEquipment used:- Yamaha Reface CP- Elektron Model: Samples - Arturia MicroFreak - Zoom G2- Zoom CDR
Jamuary 2025 22: Hostipal - Samples of Times Past (Koala Sampler Trip Hop Using Previous Days Jam) Hostipal 2025-01-23 | Using samples from Day 21 (minus the drums), created a beat chopping up and warping various parts. Fun to see how different the result was from the original jam heading a more trip hop/hip hop route to the ambience. Hope you enjoy!
Jamuary 2025, Day 21: Hostipal - Beyond Time, We Reach (Dark Ambient Melodic Improvisations) Hostipal 2025-01-22 | For Day 21, decided to attempt some dark ambient in the style of artists like Øneheart without much knowledge but a vibe to see where I'd end up. I programmed a couple sequences on the Model: Samples and then improvised the rest. Hope you enjoy - Reface CP- Elektron Model: Samples - Arturia MicroFreak - Pianoteq
Jamuary 2025 Day 20: Hostipal - In Thru The Night (Improvisation On Julee Cruise) David Lynch Love Hostipal 2025-01-21 | For Day 20, after listening to some soundtrack music from David Lynch's work, got reacquainted with my love of the work of Julee Cruise alongside Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch with her ethereal work. After one particular motive rang out to me as having potential to recreate from "In To The Night", I laid down part of that sequence for the Reface CP and worked some extra parts around that. Decided to slightly rework the name too considering my jams of late have ran into the early hours if the morning. Hope you enjoy
Jamuary 25 Day 19: Hostipal - Melodic Interventions (Mellow Upbeat Jam) Hostipal 2025-01-20 | For Day 19, running late into the night decided to a nice mellow jam to lighten up the evening, playing some keys over a MicroFreak sequence and some beats and bass from the Model:Samples
