Toasty Blanket Sessions 5 | Gourmet Sound Bath + Visual Phenomena | Live Ambient Soundscapes Travis Benjamin Simpson 2026-09-22 | Toasty Blanket Sessions 5 | Gourmet Sound Bath + Visual Phenomena | Live Ambient Soundscapes
The Full Saguaro | Perkons x Bassline x MRC Ubique | Heavy Sludge Industrial Breaks & Noise Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-10-07 | ✨🤘😸🤘✨ The raw, uncut desert club session live from Tropical Paradise Studio, bringing the heat for the Fall/Winter 25/26 jam season! ✨🏝️☀️✨❤️✨💫✨💃🕺🎉🕺🎉💃✨🕺💃🎉🕺✨✨🤘🔥✨! Super heavy and rocking sludge breaks and wild laser kicks and noisy, smashing sounds. Maybe my heaviest, bassiest, glitchiest madness I’ve ever put together…. Hadn’t played the Perkons in a minute and it was an absolute blast tonight! 🤘😸🔥✨✨✨I submitted 5 minutes of this jam for the HWJ Weekend Challenge of the storyline challenge of the wild taxi ride to the underground desert rave club. I wanted to go with a sludgy, industrial heavy desert groove and this jam goes there and beyond. Stoked at how this one turned out. ✨🤘😸🔥✨The water droplet sounds at the beginning are from the IFM Dunst going through the TipTop Forbidden Planet filter. Cool wet sounds! Perkons doing the rhythm work with Erica Synths Bassline doing the warbles and melody. Big help from the MRC Ubique and an array of fun eurorack and 500 series modules and some awesome pedals… enjoy the hard, heavy and sludgy desert grooves! ✨🤘😸🤘✨🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✨✨✨✨✨✨✨Favorite Parts00:00 Water Drips and clicks01:15 Heavy Feedback Grooving03:10 glitchy feedback grooves09:00 glitch grooves and bass11:45 wild crunching13:13 HWJ submission part - Cactus Juice20:00 Headbanger!!!22:05 Glitch break22:22 Headbanger!!25:03 total chaos!!25:58 cutting it loose, shutting it down
Cactus Juice | Perkons x Bassline x MRC Ubique | Heavy Sludge EDM Breaks & Noise Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-10-04 | ✨🤘😸🤘✨ Maybe my heaviest, bassiest, glitchiest madness I’ve ever put together…. this goes hard from start to finish. Hadn’t played the Perkons in a minute and it was an absolute blast slowing the tempo down and rocking out tonight! 🤘😸🔥✨✨✨I did this one for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of the storyline challenge of the wild taxi ride to the underground desert rave club. I wanted to go with a sludgy, industrial heavy desert groove that might be playing in the club and this jam goes there and beyond. Stoked at how this one turned out. ✨🤘😸🔥✨🤘😸🔥🔥✨✨Perkons doing the work with Bassline doing the warbles and melody. Big help from the MRC Ubique and an array of eurorack and 500 series modules and some pedals… enjoy the hard, heavy and sludgy desert grooves! ✨🤘😸🤘✨🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Cougar Mama | MRC Ubique x Dual Metal Fetishist x SV1-b | FM Shifting Heavy Techno & Breaks Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-10-01 | Come for the beats, stay for the bee attack! 🐝 ✨✨ ok, it was more like a bee encounter, and I was the one who freaked out. 😅✨ More phase feedback freq-outs shredding the circuits! ✨🤘😁🤘✨This is the whole uncut, raw live jam. So many fun, out of control techno grooves and big breaks. I set up 2 Metal Fetishists going head to head against the Erica Synth Bassline controlling the Pittsburgh Modular Sv1-b. Bastl FX Wizard and the TimeTosser were up in here along with some other modules. Last but certainly not least… I just got the Manifold Research Centre Ubique.. OMG… I am in love. 💯✨ This is gonna be on every patch now. Great sounds and so much fun to jam with. So sick! Enjoy this wild, hair & noise, techno breaks/breakcore rocking jam! 🤘😸🔥💜✨Hot parts00:00 warmup groove01:58 harmonic breaks and hi-voltage bass03:30 galloping squeakers06:45 laser glitches07:14 banging rhythm of murkiness09:30 quirky bass groove/feedback11:30 rezzy feedback groove14:15 cool melody beats and squeeks15:51 heavy banging!!17:35 glitchout19:10 deep crunch groove19:50 wild crazy!22:02 FM melody and rumblebass24:29 breakdown/heavy groove26:18 BEE ATTACK!26:25 glitch breaks and lasers28:02 dinosaur calls and tribal techno build up29:49 Boooooom!!!!31:08 slick hihat/feedback wrangling34:00 bam!34:38 sludgy breakdown35:20 jungle breaks mania35:43 FM sludgefest36:48 slow melody bass meandering37:15 noisehop noodle37:53 gnarly feedback sludge!39:25 feedback glitch groove40:50 heavy AF!!42:16 squeeky bass grunge beat43:38 sick bass slam!44:30 everything falls apart…45:13 res bass groove46:45 mysterious bass melody and slamming breaks51:32 booooom!!52:30 rumble groove53:55 winding down the jam
Baked Out The Gate | MRC Ubique x Dual Metal Fetishist x SV1-b | FM Shift Heavy TechnoBreaks LiveJam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-09-28 | Booyah! ✨🤘😁🤘✨ Smashing the frequen phase out of the park!🔥🔥 Out of control techno grooves and big breaks erupt when 2 Metal Fetishists go head to head against the Erica Synth Bassline controlling the Pittsburgh Modular SV1-b. Bastl FX Wizard and the TimeTosser were up in here along with some other modules. Last but certainly not least… I just got the @manifoldresearchcentre2685 Ubique.. OMG… I am in love. 💯✨ This is gonna be on every patch now. Great sounds and so much fun to jam with. So sick! I was all inspired after last week’s @HardwareJams Inky Fest. 😸💜✨ There were so many awesome jams and stoked I could listen in. Everyone really brought their A+ game. Hopefully I’ll see the signup sheet in time next year. 😅✨ The challenge for this weekend’s HWJ Weekend Challenge is using FM synthesis. On this patch, I had cv controlling the fm amounts on the Sv1-b and there was plenty of frequencies being modulated and smeared across the ether through the Ubique. The TipTop Forbidden Planet and Eowave Quad filter were squelching it up too. I later realized that I forgot to sync the bassline clock to the clock on the drums, so they are both kind of free running. *facepalm* 😅✨The groove still pretty much synced up through the fx and cv modulations which were clocked to the drums. Sweet! 😁✨ It was hard to stop jamming, it was so fun and interesting to hear as this jam evolved. I especially enjoyed playing with the Ubique. It was also a blast to jam outside in the Beermuda Triangle on a beautiful fall day. 🍁🍂✨ I’ll post the full hour long jam later… lots of other magic moments on this jam… Enjoy this hair & noise, techno banger jam! 🤘😸🔥💜✨
Medicinals No. 1 (Full Album) | Erica Synths Steampipe x Oto Machines BAM | Adagio for Steampipe Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-09-24 | Slow it down and soothe your senses with these 5 deep, emotive tracks. Written on the NI Maschine+ and performed live on the Steampipe and BAM, these slow, adagio style pieces are sure to relax and inspire. Definitely inspired by Angelo Badalamenti, Carter Burwell and Samuel Barber type compositions. Available everywhere! Breathe deep and let the washes of tones lull you into a contemplative, hypnotic state. I also recorded a recent rainstorm and set that recording as the background to add some extra depth and interesting sounds. Enjoy the sonic journey! 🤘😸❤️✨✨00:00 Movement 1: Impulse14:50 Movement 2: Affect29:06 Movement 3: Meditation45:55 Movement 4: Echo57:07 Movement 5: Resolution
Ring Toss | Metal Fetishist x TimeTosser x Moog Ring Mod | Heavy Breakcore Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-09-22 | Heavy crunchy grooves coming in hot! ✨🤘😸🔥✨ 01:30, 04:40, 06:13, 9:55, 13:35, 17:50, 20:15, 28:15, 32:53, 35:55, 45:49 and 48:35 are a few of my favorite parts. This jam is an experimental adventure, so buckle up! Basically one big noisy drum practice. Lots of fun happy accidents and some rough parts too. I used the recently-revived chrome Metal Fetishist and ran it through the Moog Ringmod pedal (with expression pedal that I tended to ride too hard throughout for lots of shrieking vibes), the Benidub Digital Echo, Oto BAM and the TimeTosser which is being clocked by the MF and 2hp Div which added some fun, audio rate madness at times. 🤘🔥✨ My first jam with the Tosser (probably overdid it too!). Really fun to jam with. 😁✨ Enjoy the ruckus! ✨🤘😸✨
Back From The MF Dead!! | Metal Fetishist x Benidub Echo x OTO BAM | Heavy Hard Noise EDM Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-09-19 | The chrome Metal Fetishist rides again! ✨🤘😁🤘✨ In a display of unprecedented customer service, the likes of which I have rarely experienced in my life, Xavi from @BodySynths saw my recent jam where I mentioned the chrome Metal Fetishist had died and he reached out and recommended updating the firmware to V.2. Well, I did that and immediately the MF jumped back to life!!!!! 🤘😁❤️✨ I was so stoked. I had to do a jam as soon as possible as proof that it is living again! ⚡️✨ Thanks Xavi! This jam gets pretty experimental as I am still figuring out the settings on the new version of the MF and I took this jam in some unexpected directions. Really digging the odd timings and the different effects. Cool stuff!! I think I had it on the chorus effect for this jam. And I definitely jumped around on the odd timings. It would be cool if somehow the next version could blend the odd and even timings… Just sayin’! 😁✨Also, I had thought my Benidub Digital Echo had stopped working but I tried it tonight and it works fine. That was a relief too! 😁✨✨ So, that was fun to play with. The OTO BAM is incredible and a real joy to hear. Stoked to have that on the jam too. ❤️✨❤️✨ Enjoy the ruckus and some surprisingly pretty and lush sections too! ✨🤘😊🤘❤️✨✨✨✨The camera card ran out of space, so the last bit is just some filler video of tantalizing refreshments. Sorry ‘bout that! 😅✨Also, I am bummed I missed the signup for the Inky Fest 2025, so this is like my unofficial, overly long entry. 💜😻✨ I hope Inky would approve of the jam-from-scratch vibes. I even put on the disco lights for the party vibes. 💜✨Also, I recently made a bed desk out of wood/resin/metal-legs, so that I can jam in bed and be lazy. This is the first jam on the bed desk. It is awesome. I am now ready for cozy winter jams. ✨🤘😁❤️✨Here are my favorite parts:00:00 prejam/dialing it in01:17 gritty groove and fun delay02:15 still dialing it in… wait for it…06:00 rumbling rhythms07:03 cool space groove/lasers09:30 crispy break09:52 Boooom!!!13:00 slippery groove and then boom!14:40 plucky melody16:13 fuzzy pad melody18:15 beer break!18:39 clangorous cavern tones20:54 crumble kick, delay solo22:30 gritty motor and echoes23:09 blast off!!25:10 gentle HVAC sounds to air horn26:05 static/click groove26:50 blast off!! Galloping beat27:36 slow rocking groove29:39 funky groove in metal washing machine31:11 farts, lasers, madness!32:35 big, crunchy kick washes33:45 reverb glitches34:20 booooom!!!!36:15 big build to kick crunches37:20 laser banger!38:15 winding it down
Dream Boat | Wave Bard x Metal Fetishist x Bassline | Hot & Heavy Summer Noise Slammer Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-09-07 | Summer ain’t over yet! 🤘😸🏝️✨ Hot and heavy noise grooves here with a quick little jam on the Bastl Wave Bard and the Metal Fetishist and Bassline from Erica Synths. I have the Wave Bard loaded up with samples I made of the Dadamachines Automat banging away on various things. Pretty cool! I did this for the 2025 Bastl Summer Hits challenge. I ran everything through the Bastl Bestie too, so I hope that doesn’t put me over the 3 box limit, since the Bestie is mostly an output box. 🤘😸✨ I also did this jam for the @HardwareJams Banjam Weekend Challenge. Hope I don’t get the banhammer!! 🔨✨🔨✨🤘😸🔥✨ this jam is a big, knuckledragging noise mess so buckle up and enjoy the heavy groove! Happy end of Summer 2025!🤘✨😸✨🤘✨@bastlinstruments #bastlsummerhits25#bastlsummerhits
Rain Dance | Steampipe x Soma Cosmos x Meris Polymoon | Harmonic Ambient Hypnotic Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-09-05 | Ebbing and flowing on an interstellar wave of sonic undulations! ✨🤘😸💫✨ I wrote a quick little chord melody on the Maschine+ and used that to control the Steampipe. The Steampipe is going through the Soma Cosmos and then through the Meris Polymoon, which was fun to jam on during the recording. There is also a backing track of a live field recording from the backyard running through the Intellijel Sealegs and some panning/eq wizardry. Enjoy the peaceful, relaxing vibes! ✨🌊✨💫✨
Double Trouble | Dual Metal Fetishist x Wave Bard x Modulars | Heavy Glitchy Grooves Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-09-02 | Rocking beats and grooves! ✨🤘😸🤘✨ I did this jam before my chrome MF died, so I wanted to put this out there. Lucky I got the black MF to do these dual MF jams, so at least I still have the black MF now. Fun grooves here and experimental chaos. When I did this jam, I had some of @ElectronisoundsAudio samples on the Wave Bard, and those came through great in a few sections of this jam, especially early on. I also had the Vermona Melodicer doing some pitch on the one MF. Enjoy the fun experimental grooves! ✨🤘😸✨Cool parts00:00 whole thing02:05 funky beat and lasers04:00 drum solo and fart bass04:39 hold onnnnn!!06:30 metallic delay and aphexy melody08:05 deep stab groove09:00 nutso grooves10:40 floor stomping11:45 funky bass thing12:50 crunch grooves13:55 ah yeah!!! Headbanging15:45 bass solo and more headbanging16:45 noise lasers18:30 booming laser groove!!20:20 chill groove, really cool!23:00 noodle solo24:55 bass crunching26:00 staccato rhythms and big bass27:45 big farty bass outro
Orange Crush | Motor Synth x Godeater+ x The Tower x Modulars | Heavy Noise Harmonic Waves Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-30 | Moving harmonies of emotive chaos! ✨🤘😸🤘✨ I did this jam for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of Heavy Construction. I thought the Motor Synth would be a fitting base for some industrial tones and programming some chords through the Maschine+ was easy. I then soloed and tweaked some knobs on top of the chords I pre-recorded for the sequence. Gritty, somber and poetic undulations emerged from the noise. 💫✨✨ I had some Bastl Kastles doing some eclectic rhythms with heavy reverb too. I also had the Soma Cosmas (off frame) processing some stuff along with the Days of Yore The Tower reverb on the main signal. That added a lot of big atmosphere to this jam. Enjoy the contemplative and brooding jam! 🤘😸💫✨✨
Dirt Bath | Godeater+ x Metal Fetishist | Heavy Noise Grooves Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-30 | Super heavy noise grooves! ✨🤘😸🤘✨ I just got the Animal Factory Godeater+ pedal and couldn't wait to try it out! It is so heavy and grungy and awesome. I already love it. This is my first jam with it too. And also my last jam with the chrome Metal Fetishist... I'm super bummed, but right after I did this jam, I changed the setup a little, and when I turned the power back on, I must have overloaded the circuit somehow and I think the chrome MF is fried... 😢 It is at least not working currently.. Ironically, I had recently bought another black MF to link the 2 up for a dual MF thing, but now the black one is my only MF. I did a longer jam based on this set up and added some Bastl Kastle things for fun. It is a longer jam, but hopefully I can post that soon. Enjoy the rocking heavy noise! 🤘😸✨✨✨
Doom Dub Jazz Sessions Vol. 1 (Full Album) | DTB x TBS | Heavy Dub Jazz Grooves Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-25 | My good friend Dylan and I got together recently for some jam sessions, and this is what happened! 🤘😊❤️✨ It’s our first Album!!!! Available everywhere now! Go buy it, please!! 🤘😊❤️✨✨✨ lots of heavy beats and grooves, lots of trippy keys and experimental modular stuff. We did 2 live sessions and these are the curated edits from the one-take jams. 😁✨✨ I also recorded the summer cricket ambiance and layered that for some atmosphere since one of our jams was outside and the crickets were super loud! 😅✨ The album cover art is a couple of photos I took that same weekend of the full moon through the clouds. Anyways, it’s a lot of trippy, dubby, vibey and dope stuff here! Sick beats and keys. Can’t wait for the next sessions! 🙌🙌✨✨ Dylan is rocking the keys mostly while I mostly picked up drum duties, but we switched it up some too. Enjoy the dirty, sweet vibes and grooves! 🤘😁✨💫✨Tracklist00:00 Dinner At The Simpson’s00:14 Tiny Taco Full Of Awesomeness 06:38 Catwork07:01 Furpile12:14 Stompy14:38 Got Wiz’s Covid Variety19:17 The Miracle Of Plastic21:47 Cuckoorookoo25:45 Grumble Cat30:02 Athleisure Suit33:51 What’s Now?37:42 Puff Mama
As* Before, So Behind | Perkons x Motor Synth x Modulars | Wild Style Heavy Noise Hard EDM Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-23 | WTF!?!?! 😬✨😬✨✨ ok.. sooooo, twice this year, I tried to do outdoor jams pairing the Perkons with the Motor Synth. A natural match, right?! Well, both times, random storms cropped up, and I got rain delayed. 💧☔️🌧️💧☔️🌧️💧This year has been crazy. Weather. Political. Social. All of it. Crazy. I couldn’t believe it. So tonight, I set up my stuff, prepping for a fun, afterwork jam for the @HardwareJams weekend challenge of “All good things must come to an end”, a jam focused on the ending of the jam. Well, I was hoping I wasn’t going to accidentally end my life in a freak rain storm Latvian synth electrocution fiasco. So, I just laid out some plastic sheeting, put up an umbrella and waited until the rain stopped and then busted out the jam as quick as I could. Not too long after I wrapped up and packed up my gear, another rain stormed rolled through. I recorded both rainstorms with the sound of the drops on the umbrella above. I layered them over the live jam in the intro and outro, so you can hear what really happened this evening! I tell you, it has been the trickiest year to do outdoor jams in Colorado. It has rained nearly every time I have done an outdoor jam this year. And I really love performing outdoors in the Beermuda Triangle! I was bummed tonight because I try to time the outdoor jams to coincide with the sunset, but I missed it because it was raining then. So, now you just get the night-time vibes on this one. 🌙✨Enjoy the funky, experimental grooves and epic ending! I tried to make the ending extra epic and special. ✨🤘😸💜✨✨💜✨✨There are a lot of good parts, but I only submitted the last 5 minutes for the HWJ Challenge, starting at 6:09. Enjoy the friggin’ big-as* ending! 🤘😊❤️✨
Noise Nebula | Metal Fetishist x Vermona Melodicer | Noise Madness To Space Melody Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-17 | 🤘😸🔥✨✨ Smashing sounds to soothing melody! I did this jam for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of Per Aspera Ad Astra, meaning through difficulties to the stars. So, I tried to go from chaos grooves with the Metal Fetishist to a nice melody by patching the 1v/oct from the Melodicer into the pitch of the Metal Fetishist later in the jam. Enjoy the noisy sonic journey! 🤘😸🤘✨✨✨
Scratch That | Body Synths Metal Fetishist x Metasonix T1 x Walrus Slöer | Heavy Hardcore Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-10 | This jam from scratch is for Inky! ✨🤘😸💜💜💜💜💜💜✨✨✨✨ The @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge this weekend was a jam from scratch in memory of @InkyDaCaT Sad to think it has been a whole year now without Lisa. RIP!!!!! 💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨💜✨ Purple being her color, I set up the revolving wash light in purple, used my purple (kind of lavender, but oh well) surge protector and took a moment to light a purple candle before I plugged up the Metal Fetishist to the Mangler break-in on the T1 and then the output of the T1 is going into the Slöer. But I didn’t even turn anything on until I was filming!! No pre-tuning-up or anything. This is a raw jam from start to finish! The first couple minutes are just getting the levels and eq/feedback set (definitely had to rock the @AudezeHQ LCD-S20s for this so I could better dial in the tones and levels), but it takes off quickly after that. Enjoy the brutally beautiful hardcore beats and super crunchy bass drops! 🤘😸💜✨💫😸🤘💜💫💫✨😸🤘💜✨💫✨ #BeMoreInkyBest Parts!00:00 powering up, dialing it in02:45 rocking groove04:40 f*****ck yeah!!05:23 cool harmonics05:57 ambient chillout07:30 humanoid tones from hell7:53 bass!!!!!!!! And scream lasers!!!10:10 fuuuuuuuuuck!! 10:58 harmonic distortion heaven11:20 cool bass groove and gabber11:59 hitting hard!! Booooooom!13:13 blast off14:25 lasers from the abyss!!!15:44 smacking kick/snare thing16:10 cool galloping groove16:30 glitched out!! Ahhhh yeah!!17:15 siren bass invasion banger!!18:14 T1 scream trifecta!!18:25 throbbing beat19:10 talk box formant-type shizz!20:00 plump kick glitch madness!21:36 entropy22:02 T1 screams and epic boomers23:03 dinosaurs with lasers in the distance as the jam endsCheers! 🤘😊💫✨💜✨
Throttled (Remastered) | Perkons x Liquid Foam | Heavy Industrial Sludge Acidcore Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-06 | Big fuzzy bass-slamming jammin'! Skip ahead to the good stuff at 01:43 🤘😸✨ So stoked my friend reintroduced me to this totally rocking jam I did so so long ago. like 2 years now. I had forgotten all about it. My hair was way shorter! That’s how you know it’s an old jam 😂 My Liquid Foam still worked too, bummed it doesn’t really work anymore or at least not properly anyways. now it is just kind of like a hihat/hiss groovebox now… This jam gave me some ideas for different bass/synth module combos I might try soon though… We’ll see! Anyways, I was all stoked when I heard this, so I threw some comp/eq on it to freshen it up and give it some extra oomph and stankface. 🤘😸✨✨ enjoy getting dirty to this remastered TBS classic! I think this is my feel good hit of the summer🤘🤘🤘✨✨✨
Sonance | Soma Lyra-16 x Cosmos x Slöer | Ambient Dreamscape Doombient Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-04 | A portal to a world of swirling entropic/harmonic tones! ✨💫🌀✨ Some soft tones that build up to bold metallic lyra drones in wild harmony and then decay into oblivion! 🤘😊❤️✨this is like.. my make-up jam… I feel like I blew it on my HWJ Weekend Challenge this weekend by going full bore on the distortion and blowing out my sounds and mixer. I love my fuzz, but I went too far and overloaded my signals too much somehow and blew out the whole thing. Sorry! I tried my best. I did like 10 versions of that jam this weekend and that was the best one… 🤦✨✨ sometimes it just doesn’t work out. 😅✨Better luck next time!To make it up to you (and myself), I did another impromptu jam on the same Lyra setup I used the other night since I was feeling good about that whole setup and vibe. I didn’t change anything, but just powered everything back up and went for it and jammed. This is what happened! I think it turned out pretty sweet and mellow. I even took the risk of shifting the carefully-tuned pitches and repitched the Lyras mid-jam. Living on the edge! lol but cool results. It starts a little quiet and then builds in volume so watch out. I thought the part around 8:09 was pretty cool. Anyways, it was fun to tweak this one out. 😁✨✨ Enjoy the harmonic doombient drones! 🤘😊❤️✨✨
Satunga | Bastl Wave Bard + Soft Pop x Modulars | Smooth Breakcore Crushed Noisebath Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-03 | Ah yeah! Crazy noise grooves coming in hot! 🤘😁✨✨ @ElectronisoundsAudio has a remix contest going on and I have been working on some jams with his samples this weekend. Still dialing in my entry for the remix contest… I figured since the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge is reverse samples this weekend, I went ahead and reversed all of Dean’s samples, loaded them up on the Wave Bard and pumped the noisy results through the Soft Pop and a modular array. Really noisy, chaotic and wild sounds/grooves. Hopefully my jam for the remix contest will have more recognizable sounds and less distortion! 😁✨ Enjoy the reverse madness! 🤘😸💫✨✨
Lilting & Listing | Soma Lyra-16 x Cosmos x Walrus Slöer | Ambient Dreamscape Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-08-02 | Something magical about this one! ✨✨👌 This may be my favorite Lyra jam I've done yet. Really graceful without too much bestial wailing! maybe a little bit.. 🤟😸✨ But mostly lush harmonies to chill or doze off to. I tuned the Lyras up and then ran them through the cosmos and then slöer pedal. Sweet lush tones and some blissed out distortion and LFO/delay stuff. Very much a feeling of floating on a raft in the middle of the ocean at night looking at the stars. Enjoy the contemplative session! ✨🙌❤️✨✨
The Fuzzy Afterparty | Body Synths Metal Fetishist x Modulars | Heavy Metal Hard Noise Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-28 | ✨🤘😸✨Afterparty jam! Here’s the extended encore performance from last night. Lots of experimental noises and lasers and grime on this one! It kind of goes off the rails at times... kind of like off the rails on a crazy train... ✨🤘✨🤘 But, it was fun to just twist some knobs and lose myself in the patch. Enjoy the extended Hair & Noise madness! ✨🤘😸✨
The Fuzzman Cometh | Body Synths Metal Fetishist x Eurorack Modulars | Heavy Metal Hardcore Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-27 | ✨🤘😸✨I went overboard on distortion for some gritty noise beats! This one is a heavy jam for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of Heavy Metal. RIP Ozzy! I felt the Metal Fetishist fit well for the challenge since it has metal in the name and it is pretty heavy & brutal. Mostly hardcore, gritty bassy grooves here with some tweaking on the Kaoss Pad. Enjoy the Hair & Noise madness! ✨🤘😸✨
Triple Joy | Erica Synths Steampipe x Soma Cosmos | Peaceful Relaxing Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-20 | Triple Joy | Erica Synths Steampipe x Soma Cosmos | Peaceful Relaxing Live Jam✨💫🏝️✨✨ Sooth your mind with this enchanting jam on the Steampipe! I wrote the melody on Maschine+ and sequenced the Steampipe with it. I did this one for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of triplets in a major scale. I recorded a slow arpeggio in triplets and then layered some freeform jams on top. It’s just the Steampipe going through the Cosmos. Pretty simple and sweet. I am also rocking the new @AudezeHQ LCD-S20 headphones. Such a treat to listen with these! Super detailed and balanced sounds and huge soundstage. The closed back really helps to block out external noise and really focus on dialing in the mix. These came in super handy when I was setting up the Steampipe to get the right tone before jamming. I’d highly recommend these headphones!Enjoy the chill summer vibes! ✨🏝️☀️✨💫✨
Two Owls | Body Synths Metal Fetishist | Funky Hardcore Noise Grooves Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-17 | Slammin’ summer grooves! ✨🤘😸✨It was a lazy summer day, and a 1-box jam was totally the speed I was at. But, I got carried away and after I finished each jam, I would get inspired to do another jam. I ended up doing 4 jams, and this is 4 of 4. The Metal Fetishist came in strong with some sick, gritty sounds as I tweaked the knobs & pounded the trigger button! Mostly hardcore, gritty banger jams, but some electrically charged drone vibes shining through at times as well. I did some self-patching too with the cv ins + outs and just rolled with the unpatched grooves too. The Metal Fetishist is a brilliant and gritty groove machine. I totally love jamming on it & it’s bassy, gritty growls really warmed up the summer evening and put a big smile on my face! Enjoy the ruckus! ✨🤘😸✨
Humidity | Body Synths Metal Fetishist | Funky Hardcore Noise Grooves Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-16 | Slammin’ summer grooves! ✨🤘😸✨It was a lazy summer day, and a 1-box jam was totally the speed I was at. But, I got carried away and after I finished each jam, I would get inspired to do another jam. I ended up doing 4 jams, and this is 3 of 4. The Metal Fetishist came in strong with some sick, gritty sounds as I tweaked the knobs & pounded the trigger button! Mostly hardcore, gritty banger jams, but some electrically charged drone vibes shining through at times as well. I did some self-patching too with the cv ins + outs and just rolled with the unpatched grooves too. The Metal Fetishist is a brilliant and gritty groove machine. I totally love jamming on it & it’s bassy, gritty growls really warmed up the summer evening and put a big smile on my face! Enjoy the ruckus! ✨🤘😸✨
Mosquitos | Body Synths Metal Fetishist | Funky Hardcore Noise Grooves Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-15 | Slammin’ summer grooves! ✨🤘😸✨It was a lazy summer day, and a 1-box jam was totally the speed I was at. But, I got carried away and after I finished each jam, I would get inspired to do another jam. I ended up doing 4 jams, and this is 2 of 4. The Metal Fetishist came in strong with some sick, gritty sounds as I tweaked the knobs & pounded the trigger button! Mostly hardcore, gritty banger jams, but some electrically charged drone vibes shining through at times as well. I did some self-patching too with the cv ins + outs and just rolled with the unpatched grooves too. The Metal Fetishist is a brilliant and gritty groove machine. I totally love jamming on it & it’s bassy, gritty growls really warmed up the summer evening and put a big smile on my face! Enjoy the ruckus! ✨🤘😸✨
Micro-Bun | Body Synths Metal Fetishist | Funky Hardcore Noise Grooves Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-14 | Slammin’ summer grooves! ✨🤘😸✨It was a lazy summer day, and a 1-box jam was totally the speed I was at. But, I got carried away and after I finished each jam, I would get inspired to do another jam. I ended up doing 4 jams, and this is 1 of 4. The Metal Fetishist came in strong with some sick, gritty sounds as I tweaked the knobs & pounded the trigger button! Mostly hardcore, gritty banger jams, but some electrically charged drone vibes shining through at times as well. I did some self-patching too with the cv ins + outs and just rolled with the unpatched grooves too. The Metal Fetishist is a brilliant and gritty groove machine. I totally love jamming on it & it’s bassy, gritty growls really warmed up the summer evening and put a big smile on my face! Enjoy the ruckus! ✨🤘😸✨
Ignition | Body Synths Metal Fetishist | Funky Hardcore Noise 1-Box Banger Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-13 | ✨🤘😸✨ ✨🤘😸✨ Boooooooom! coming in hot with a heavy solo jam on the Metal Fetishist! Probably the most stripped down jam I have done in the past year! Why? Well, I did this one for the infamous @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of the “One Box On Fire” jam! Also, it was a lazy summer day, and a 1-box jam was totally the speed I was at. The Metal Fetishist came in strong with some sick, gritty sounds as I tweaked the knobs & pounded the trigger button! Mostly hardcore, gritty banger jams, but some electrically charged drone vibes shining through at times as well, especially when pushing the tempo. I did some self-patching too with the cv ins + outs and just rolled with the unpatched grooves too. I did 4 jams tonight and this is an excerpt of the 4th one. I’ll post the full jams soon! I had a lot of fun with all of them, and I think you will enjoy them too. The Metal Fetishist is a brilliant and gritty groove machine. I totally love jamming on it & all of its bassy, gritty growls really hit the spot and put a smile on my face! Enjoy the ruckus! ✨🤘😸✨
Lazy Summer Days | Perkons x Modulars | Heavy Breaks & Industrial Bass Noisecore Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-08 | After Party Jam! ✨🙌✨🙌✨ I swapped out power strips after the first, ill-fated jam and got another heavy, Perkons jam in before packing it in for the night. This one is a little sludgier and dirty than the first one... ✨🤘😁🤘✨Erica Synths Perkons HD-01 doing the heavy-lifting with an array of pedals and modules. I even brought out the @DaysOfYoreAudio Tower reverb for some extra depth. Gieskes 4Relay is tapping away too. Enjoy the late night ruckus! 🤘😸✨✨
Off The Wall | Perkons x Modulars | Heavy Breaks & Bass Hair & Noise Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-07-05 | The jamming got so hot that I blew my power strip! I got an abrupt ending when my power strip died mid-jam. Oh well, it was a rocking jam while it lasted. Perkons doing the heavy-lifting with an array of pedals and modules. I even brought out the Days Of Yore Tower reverb for some extra depth. Gieskes 4Relay is tapping away too. I did this for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of interpreting a chaotic graffiti covered wall. I think this jam captured the chaos nicely, including the surprise ending. 😋✨Enjoy the headbanging grooves! ✨🤘😁🤘✨
Carnival Bachanal 2025 | Dadamachines Automat x Live Drums | Tribal Carnival Rhythms Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-06-29 | Well, this is super special! ✨🤘😸✨ Just got the @dadamachines Automat Toolkit (super fast, as always, from @schneidersladen_berlin ) and hooked it up to a bunch of drums, chimes and things at Tropical Paradise Studio here in beautiful sunny Colorado and programmed it all through the @NativeInstruments Maschine+, threw some mics around, added a pinch of delay and reverb and let ‘er rip! That’s me banging away live on the talking drum and beating on other stuff. ✨😸✨🥁✨🥁✨🥁🥁✨ Also, I spatially mixed this ham for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of “Stereo”. I love some nice panning and stereo action. I tried to setup the panning for the mics and mix to be interesting in a stereo/spatial kind of way… I would have liked to have added some spatial background sounds/layers too, but maybe next time!✨😊✨😊😊✨OMG!! I am so stoked on how this turned out. ✨😊✨ This jam takes me back to being a kid, super pumped up to loud, banging rhythms at Mardi Gras parades and running alongside with the floats that were throwing out the fancy stuff and hearing the syncopated percussion from the bands… So freaking cool!! I have always been trying to emulate those rhythms in my beats and this is the closest I’ve come to realizing this vision. 😊✨✨ I can’t wait to sync this up with the modulars and perkons and all sorts of other shizzxxx and add some synthy goodness… 🔥🔥🔥🔥✨✨✨ shit’s gonna git crazzzzzy!! ✨🤘😸💫✨✨✨✨ I’m really stoked on how this turned out. Maybe my favorite thing r er✨🤘😊 jeez, did you listen to 5:00 yet????? ✨ Enjoy the lovely, syncopated carnival rhythms, and stay ‘til the end for an exclusive tour of the mechanized bachanal drum action! 🛢️✨🥁✨🛢️✨🥁✨🔊✨✨🤘😸✨
Pulp Shuttle (Full Album) | High Intensity Industrial Dance Music Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-06-21 | 🤘🤪✨Nutso beats coming in hot! Tony joins me for a listening session of the new album, Pulp Shuttle. Available everywhere now! Crank the volume & get ready to bang your head to some hardcore songs that are custom made for cats on valerian root extract! 😸✨😸✨😸✨ freak out to some woofer melting rhythms of maximum electrical recklessness with 25 new tracks of sub-trembling tone implosions. Lots of wild, heavy rhythms and bass-heavy, hardcore, headbanging moments on this album, along with lots of robot sirens & noisy shizzz.Most of this album is taken from one-take jams on the KOii that is loaded up with original samples from jams with the Perkons, D-2000 and the Blast Beats and Behringer Cat and other stuff, and then run through the modulars for some exciting enhancements. Then, I overlayed one take live sessions from the ERD/Worm running through a vocal FX pedal. Mixed & edited it down a bit and let ‘er rip! ✨🤘😸 I’m really stoked on how this one turned out, and I hope you enjoy the insanity. Peace & rock on! ✨🤘😸✨🤘😸✨🤘😸✨Track 6, “Quite The Cockeral”, is some heavy, donkey-kong, barrel-chuckin’ mayhem, just sayin’, check it out! 08:31 🤘🔊🔥🤘🔊🔥Track List: 00:00 Noise By Night (Intro)00:20 Lawdy03:03 Pleasure Portal05:05 Ease The Day06:58 Four Twan08:31 Quite The Cockeral13:11 Blucepherus16:33 Programmed To Snooze19:13 Get Your Body Enlarged22:05 Dudebot24:37 Upperclass Dinner Party26:18 Biscuits On My Mind27:44 Brain Rabies29:29 Can’t See The Funkiness32:52 Cat Butt Molecules34:45 Grumpy Ol’ Manchild37:59 Storage Pouches39:45 Stone & Bone44:18 Mauve My Ass48:26 Work On My Belly49:58 My Butt’s Already Hot Enough52:00 Sphere Of Awfulness54:01 Sir Tonicle59:18 Sleazy Success01:05:08 Escalator To Jungle Tower On The Mountainside (Outro)
Under The Canoe | Metasonix T1 x DIY Metallic Resonator | Cinematic Horror Soundscape Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-06-15 | Tension & suspense abound in this rumbling T1 jam! I did this jam for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of Friday the 13th. The T1 is the most beastly synth I’ve heard, so it seemed like the perfect fit for a scary movie soundtrack jam. I also did a really cool thing with some simple items to get the rumbly metallic tones… I have this large piece of steel or iron that I found a long time ago while walking home. It looked like it had been run over by a train, and I thought it looked cool, so I painted it on one side. It is really heavy and has a deep resonant tone when you hit it and I started wondering about using a bone-vibration speaker to play stuff on it... So, I got a little bluetooth bone-conduction speaker and attached it to the bottom of the metal plate with suction cups. Then, I have the output of the T1 going through a bluetooth transmitter to the bone-conduction speaker. I have a mic behind the metal plate which is then going through the Days Of Yore Tower spring reverb for some extra deep & ghostly vibes. I also ran another copy of the T1 output through the audio-in on the Erica Synth's Steampipe for some extra lush reverb. So, yeah! pretty experimental and a short little jam, but really interesting sounds. I’d love to do some more jams using this same setup with the resonated metal plate or other surfaces. Enjoy the spooky Friday the 13th vibes! 🤘😸✨
Allnut’s Boat Bong | Metasonix D 2000 x Noon x TMINTT x Tetragrids | Heavy Drumcore Uncut Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-06-13 | I added more cables to the patch and this is what happened… wildness! 🤘😁🔥✨skip on to 6:05 to get to the good stuff! This is raw & uncut, so you even get to experience me tuning up the synths for 6 minutes at the beginning… lol This is the last jam from this patch. I kept it going for over a week, adding cables and adjusting knobs. Now, it is done and deconstructed. Lots of glitchy bassy punchy grooves and hard feedback. Controlled by magnets with the Manifold Research Center TMINTT and Tetragrids. Really my favorite groove machine controllers. I love this setup! I recorded a bunch of other non-filmed jams from this patch and I think I’ll make an album soon with the fun parts… Stay tuned! 💫✨✨I took the inspiration for the name of this jam from The African Queen film where Humphrey Bogart saves Katherine Hepburn in a boat that looks like a floating bong. Adventures ensue…. This jam kind of represents an adventurous journey in a boat-bong, but in an electrically abrasive, bass-heavy feedbacking kind of way. 🤘😁🌲✨ enjoy the heavy hits, bass-heavy howls and magnetic rhythm madness! ✨🤘😸✨Best Parts00:00 Turning Stuff On (give ‘em a chance to warm up!)01:45 here we goooooo!04:27 Zombie Moans/lasers06:05 Laser Groove07:42 crumble glitches09:10 dancey bass fails11:08 big synth energy13:00 chaos and feedback crunch13:25 driving groove/feedback 15:20 punchy kick groove16:00 this rocks. Super gnarly/punchy17:15 dance time vortex18:20 solid groove/harmonic bass19:27 chaos rhythms rocking hard20:41 chill out time with banshees22:22 rolls of thunder23:33 chaos and feedback thunder24:22 here we go!!!!!!!!!26:04 chaos breaks and bass27:25 steady rocking/solid groove29:13 kitten purrs and beer break31:55 bass engine rumbles/glitches32:45 kick practice33:35 industrial smooth jazz34:07 PARTY TIME!! 35:12 clicks glitches kicks feedback36:55 hammering beat and feedback38:00 wild beat!! Wooooo!!39:20 rumbling hummingbird spasms40:52 sub rumbler shuffle43:30 slamming beat!45:45 chaooooooosssssss!!!!47:50 space siren/meteorite mambo48:54 half-hearted party bummer52:15 hardcore headbanger!53:00 outro rumbles
Peppery Asphalt | Metal Fetishist x Modulars | Heavy Noise Industrial Drums Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-06-10 | Rip roaring bass and distorted experimental grooves! This was my alternate take jam for the HWJ Weekend Challenge, but pretty cool in its own right. The end kind of sounds like water sloshing around or something. Nice! I have all 8 of the LFOs on the DivKid Ochd controlling CV on the Metal Fetishist which is then getting processed by some modulars which are getting some of the Ochd CVs too. Even though it goes off the rails at times, it was a lovely day to jam in the garden and this one goes wild! Enjoy the distorted kicks, bass and noisey rhythms! Enjoy the crazy kicks and glitches!
Comfy Cat | Erica Synths Steampipe x Soma Cosmos x Modulars | Cinematic Ambient Strings Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-06-09 | Roll around in some cat nip & bliss out to these enchanting harmonies and relaxing tones. I wrote the midi melody on the NI Maschine+ and then that’s playing through a custom patch on the Steampipe. I was careful this time and didn’t have any ear-piercing high notes... You’re welcome! 😁🤘✨ Also pretty cool, I hooked up the Evaton Technologies Short Wave Radio module and ran the static and occasional spacey sine waves through some modules to get some washy ocean waves-ish sounds that pan around behind the Steampipe in the mix. I think this might be my best ambient piece yet. It is really relaxing! I nodded off twice when mastering it. lol Enjoy the really lush and tranquil vibes! ✨🤘😸✨
Stankface | Body Synths Metal Fetishist x Eurorack Modulars | Heavy Noise Hop Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-06-08 | Rip roaring bass and funky distorted grooves! 🤘😁🔥✨ I did this jam for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of LFOs. I have all 8 of the LFOs on the DivKid Ochd controlling CV on the Metal Fetishist which is then getting processed by some modulars which are also getting some of the Ochd CVs too. Even though it goes off the rails at times, it was a lovely day to jam outside and this one goes wild! Enjoy the distorted kicks, bass and noisey rhythms!
Precipitations | Koma Chromaplane x AMS Neve Reverb | Ambient Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-06-04 | Stoked that my Koma Chromaplane arrived today! This is my first jam with it. I can already tell this is going to be fun. ✨🤘😸✨ Really magical and shimmering tones. I bet it will sound good with the Soma Cosmos and Lyra and some other delays. I just kept it simple for this jam and ran it through an API preamp and then the AMS Neve Reverb for some extra lush ambiance. It is also set to the same tuning that it was set at when it arrived, kind of a melancholy feel to this one, but that fits with all the rainy weather we’ve had lately. Enjoy the meditative tones and harmonies!
Beermuda Triangle | Perkons x Motor Synth | Trashcore Hair & Noise Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-05-31 | Buckle up for a wild and crazy Hair & Noise jam for @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of Three Elements! I have the Perkons picking up the drums and bass elements and then the Motor Synth doing lead. I also had the natural elements of rain and wind… I got set up for the jam and then it started raining! Nooooo! I quickly unplugged and set up an umbrella. Then, as the rain passed, I noticed there was a sweet rainbow! ✨🌈✨ super cool! The rain let up some and I got to jamming. But I couldn’t use the kaoss pad because the light rain made the touchpad think I was touching it all the time! Bummer. After the jam, I had barely finished packing up before it started raining hard again! So wild that I only had a short window of time to knock out this jam and I’m thankful I didn’t get electrocuted or short-out any gear. I didn't have much time to dial in the Motor Synth, but I think the jam still came out pretty grungy and awesome! ✨🤘😸✨And now, I think I’ll name this little outdoor performance space after this jam, and I now call it the Beermuda Triangle at Tropical Paradise Studio. ✨🤘😸🏝️🌅✨
Pop Rox | Eurorack Modular x Metasonix D2000 x Landscape Noon | Heavy Industrial Dance Music LiveJam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-05-29 | ✨🤘😸✨want it jazzy? Try 3:30 or 6:39. want it rocking? Hit 10:00. want it experimental and noisy with sirens? 16:29 is your ticket. Tropical wubz? Coming in hot at 20:23. Whatever your preference, buckle up for wild rhythms and grungy bass ahead! I patched up the Manifold Research Center TMINTT and Tetragrids to control the D-2000, Noon and a bunch of modules. I even used the Bastl Dark Matter to get some gritty, primitive feedback basslines going. Pretty smoking hot jam! I love using the magnets on the TMINTT and Tetragrids to find out what the next rhythm and sound will be. Sometimes it is sheer chaos and other times it is pure magic. I had a lot of fun jamming this one out. Hope you enjoy too! 🤘😸✨
End Of The Abyss | Erica Synths Steampipe + Perkons x Soma Cosmos | Drone Day 2025 Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-05-24 | Melt into the ethereal tones! I did this live drone jam for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge for Drone Day 2025. A quick little outdoor setup with the Steampipe being fed MIDI from the Perkons and then the Steampipe is being processed through the Soma Cosmos. It is super deep and rumbly and there is one overly resonated high-pitched part to watch out for around 3:09. But it is pretty chill otherwise. Enjoy the spacey drone action! ✨🤘😸❤️✨
Endless Sunrise | Erica Synths Steampipe x Maschine+ | Cinematic Strings Ambient Session Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-05-15 | ✨✨🎻 Steaming up the airwaves with a live string session on the Steampipe! 29:30 - 34:45 is my favorite part but lots of beautiful moments on here. Don’t miss the bunny fight at 14:59! I didn’t film the live jam, but I did film some tranquil Colorado scenary to accompany the music. I sequenced the midi notes in Maschine+ and then played that through the Steampipe. I played with the cutoff/resonance some (sometimes too much resonance on some high notes, so watch out!) and tweaked some knobs, but that was it, just the Steampipe and some eq/compression. Enjoy the slow, shimmering, emotive, resonant tones and the slow nature videos! ✨🤘😸✨
Bard To The Bone | Bastl Wave Bard First Jam | Glitchcore Minimalist Modular Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-05-07 | Super stoked to tweak some knobs on the new Bastl Wave Bard! This might be my favorite Bastl instrument yet. Lots of glitchy wild rhythm potential. This was the first patch that I did straight out of the box. I just connected some cables and tweaked knobs until I found something I liked. I used the default samples for this jam, but I can’t wait to add my own samples and jam out with those. Looking forward to hooking this up to the Soft Pop and FX Wizard for even more excitement too... Stay tuned! Thanks for grooving with me on this glitchy little jam. I hope you enjoy! ✨🤘😸✨@bastlinstruments
Rainy Night At The Beachside Bungalow | Rain x Erica Synths Steampipe x Soma QO | Ambient Session Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-04-23 | Getting some much needed rest & relaxation… 🏝️✨back to new music soon! In the meantime, chill & bliss out to this live recording of rain falling on the roof as the Soma Quantum Ocean diffuses through the Erica Synths Steampipe for some ultra-soothing ocean wave textures and hypnotic atmospheres. I took a walk out to the bungalow at Tropical Paradise Studio when it rained recently, and recorded the experience with my camera and mic. I hope you find these sounds and visuals to be relaxing and meditative. Cheers and enjoy! ✨🤘😸✨
Old, New, Borrowed, Blue | Acoustic Drum Jam | Freeform Drum Practice for HWJ Weekend Challenge Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-03-30 | It was raining all weekend, so no outside modular jams this week (but I got some nice slomo shots of the rain). I haven’t recorded any acoustic drums in a little bit, so I thought I would slap the skins for this weekend’s Weekend Challenge from @HardwareJams ! The challenge this week was to use 4 elements, something: new, old, borrowed and blue. For ‘new’, I used the new cowbell my brother got me recently and I mounted it onto the hihat stand which worked great. It has the same tone as the hihat at the beginning of lowrider and I love that song! the cowbell added some nice resonant tones to the mix. For ‘old’, I used an old drumstick (and a mallet for a softer cymbal crash). For ‘borrowed’, I borrowed my mom’s bodhran drum and hung it above the cymbals. That gave a nice tone to the mix. For ‘blue’, the shell on my drumset is sparkly blue (you can see a little bit of it on the back of the kick drum). I recorded everything mono with a ribbon mic mounted on the ceiling of the drum room, and I used an API preamp with the gain cranked to get some nice smack from the drums and ran the mono signal through the Neve reverb for some lush, stereo atmosphere. That’s it! I thought about doing some modular processing too, but decided to just keep it simple and live in the moment. It is rough at times (I should practice more!), but I hope you enjoy the grooves! 🤘😊✨
Doom & Doomer | Perkons HD-01 x Eurorack Modulars | Heavy Breakcore Hard Rave Doom Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-03-23 | Oh lawdy, here comes the abyss! ✨🔉🔥🔥🔥✨✨ Bringing you the hot breaks bathed in fuzz, freakiness & chaos! Buckle up for this brain-bumping banger of maximum bassitude. I did this one for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of... Doom! Yep, my kind of challenge. This is mostly Perkons doing the heavy lifting with some FX and other stuff from the eurorack modulars and spice from the Kaoss pads. Rock on jammers! ✨🤟😸✨
Endless Summer Vacation | Windchimes x Panharmonium x Cosmos x Steampipe | Tranquil Ambient Live Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-03-17 | Ground & center yourself with this relaxing and blissful soundscape jam! 💫✨💫✨💫 It was breezy today, so I recorded an hour or 2 of the windchimes outside (and the birds, cars, planes and other neighborhood sounds as they occurred) and filmed outside while having coffee and waking up. Then, later in the evening, I processed the recording through the Rossum Panharmonium, the Soma Cosmos and the Erica Synths Steampipe and some other spicy eurorack modules for some extra enchanting summer vibes. With all the blooming resonant tones and cascading, swirling layers, I think it came out really nice, like time and motion suspended in a breathing ocean of harmonic currents as the sun crests the horizon. ☀️✨💫✨ I filmed a lot of slowmo shots throughout the day that captured that similar feeling and summer fun! 🤘😊✨I did this jam for the @HardwareJams weekend challenge for jams with summer vibes. It’s way over the 5 minute limit, so feel free to cut it as you see fit! 🤘😊✨ Fortunately, the weather cooperated and I was able to do my first jam outside on the new table I recently painted. I found it for free in front of someone’s house while out riding bikes with my brother recently and customized it with acrylic paint, resin & glitter (which looked sick in the sunlight! 58:48). Sweet! ❤️✨I hope everyone can find some peace and tranquility in these crazy and stressful times, and I hope this jam helps soothe your ears and mind. The Dark & Stormy cocktails work well too. 01:02:10 🍹🍹✨✨ Cheers and enjoy! 🤘😸❤️✨
Soft Gestures (Full Album) | Hardcore Flashcore Breakcore Outbursts Of Rhythmic Analog Chaos | 2025 Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-03-14 | 🔊🔥🔥✨✨✨ Trash your speakers with red-hot rocking beats & sub-shaking woofer wreckers! Brace yourself, your system and your neighbors for 21 brand-new tracks of unrelenting aural insanity. ✨🤘😸✨ Drown your woes with deep thrilling, undulating hardcore, beyond breakcore rhythms of screeching robotic nonsense and ultra-rough subsonic satisfaction as crumbling walls of ecstatic electricity & apocalyptic doom bounce, boom & batter you with bass from the abyss. Turn up the volume! Stomp the floor! Shake your booty! Shake your fist! Bang your head! Shake the neighborhood! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! 🕺🔥💃🕺💃💃🕺🤘🤘🔥💃🕺🤘💃🤘🕺💃💃🤘🤘🤘🔥✨✨✨✨ Available everywhere now!My favorite tracks are Robot Horse Girl Summer at 15:01 and Dr. Simpson’s Marijuana Breathing Technique at 41:02. Once the beats get going, Hold The Mold (01:21) and Swampy Spots (51:45 ) are pretty rad and the ambient interlude/intro/outro stuff I did on the T1 turned out cool in a way, like if you could strip paint with sound. lol I really enjoyed making all of these tracks, and I hope you like listening to them as much as I do. Enjoy and rock on! ✨🤘😸✨Written & Recorded at Tropical Paradise Studio, Colorado.Rumble Ruckus Records 2025 Tracklist00:00 Weed, Wires & Waveforms (Intro)01:21 Hold The Mold04:10 Delicious Beef For All The World06:13 Filthy Magicks07:36 Molten Dance10:26 Smoke & Lightning12:47 There Will Be Mud 15:01 Robot Horse Girl Summer17:29 Raw Art20:57 Double Downlowed24:41 No Rain, No Mud Wrestling (Interlude)28:19 Data Wranglin’31:02 Throb Throb34:20 Brunch Boys37:30 Carless In LA41:02 Dr. Simpson’s Marijuana Breathing Technique 45:12 Slab48:40 Chicken Knuckles51:45 Swampy Spots55:00 Browbush01:00:00 We’re Way Too Crass & Opportunistic To Say No (Outro)
Knee Deep In Neon | Perkons HD-01 x Metasonix Penile Amputator | Heavy Breaks + Bass Jam Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-02-23 | ✨🤟✨ Crunching and crashing erupt when the Perkons gets the chop in the Metasonix Penile Amputator. yeoww! Fuzzy, funky & in your face beats are what you’re getting here. Nothing too fancy. Just some simple grooves and a rowdy little session. I did this one for the @HardwareJams Weekend Challenge of a hardware jam interpretation of an element. I went with neon. I find it pretty funny that half of my neon cocktail sign decided to go on the fritz as I was getting set up for the jam and… Let just say it puts the fun in malfunction. lol Enjoy the noise! ✨🤘😊❤️✨
Toasty Blanket Sessions 8 | Gourmet Sound Bath + Visual Phenomena | Live Ambient Soundscapes Travis Benjamin Simpson 2025-02-22 | Embrace the rumbling wall of electricity ✨💫✨ Wrap yourself in a rolling sea of harmonic thunder and sonic champagne as swells of sonic sensations ebb and flow. This session starts out strong with a thunderous, melt-your-face type vibe from the Soma Lyras but there are plenty of chill, meditative moments on this journey too, especially after 39:42. I hope you are inspired by these sounds + visuals and they bring you joy, peace & relaxation! ✨💫😸💫✨✨ Good stereo headphones highly recommended ✨Audio:Soma LyrasCasio CT-X5000Erica Synths SteampipeSoma CosmosA lot of other modules and processors too...Visuals:Panasonic Video MixerBPMC Video NastyMismatcher DeluxNLC LDRamaSoma Illuminatorjumbo Lava Lamp
