Just a small diversion from my usual stuff. Any donations would be gratefully received as they will help out with funding the recording of the drums on the next Ravetank album immensely, as well as pay for mastering the final product.

To some people who know me personally, they will not find it surprising that I'm a big fan of Noise and Electroacoustic music, so much so I dedicated a lot of my time during the final year of my degree to learning more about performance and compositional techniques.

This record was inspired by the Onkyo movement, specifically the works of Toshimaru Nakamura and Sachiko M. One thing that caught my attention in regards to Nakamura's work was his concept of "No Input Mixing", which is taking the outputs of a mixer and plugging them into the channels, by doing this you create a basic feedback loop that can go from rumbling lows, to ear piercing highs with a few slight movements, plugging more outputs into the inputs, as well as aux sends into other channels allows one to create even more complex sounds as all the signals start to fight and interact with one another in rather interesting ways. When you start processing the results with pitch shifters, delays, reverbs etc. you can wind up creating some remarkable textures.

I have used a similar technique in the past with guitar pedals (taking a stereo pedal and feeding it back into itself, using other pedals to further manipulate the sound), but I wanted to give No Input Mixing a try as it is a lot more versatile, even if it's more volatile. After a few sessions of practicing, I eventually decided to make this album in it's entirety on the 11th of April, 2019. I did it over the course of the afternoon and evening. There has been very little post processing besides throwing on an extra limiter to further smooth out dynamics, a gain plugin to raise the overall levels, and a stereo tape echo to give some stereo width to the mono recordings.

This is quite far out of Ravetank's usual work, but I hope you will enjoy this diversion as much as I have enjoyed making it! Who knows, some of these ideas and techniques might make further appearences on future Ravetank records?