Obliq Recordings

That’s for visiting. Obliq Recordings has been around since 1996 and we have many albums and compilations available on this site for you to freely download and enjoy! To help you out, if new to Obliq, Multicast is the flagship band with Replicast a more experimental outing. Freq Modif, Crix Madine and Ted Sturgeon are side projects of Multicast.

Free Tunes and Releases are in the Free Tunes menu available at the top of the website.

Try these releases for starters:
Multicast – Grrrr Video on Youtube

Multicast – Spirituality Through Technology Download MP3s or Stream Audio

Multicast – On the Backs of Soldiers (with Regis University Department of War History and Aurora History Museum)

Multicast’s Classic Album “Rural Sessions” Download MP3s or Stream Audio

Howdy. For those in rural Colorado you know the season is changing; we feel it too! We’ve released two new tracks and videos to commemorate the Equinox. Here is State. Enjoy!

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New video by Jeff on his recent sabbatical trip to Hawaii. Sit down, relax, put your feet in the imaginary surf and enjoy!

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Enjoy!

After most of the winter hiatus, Multicast is back! This time with a track to lull you into a trance…or simply to sleep! Sea-foam Green is about the seashore experience; I’m sure you’ve all been there and done that! Sitting on the shore listening to the waves unravels everything inside of you and brings out the relaxation in any of us. This track is a metaphor for this feeling…the lapping patterns of the waves making peaceful sea-foam.

Please don’t operate heavy machinery or drive while listening to this track. You’ve been warned!

In doing some cleaning of the Obliq vault I discovered a huge amount of cassette tapes and DATs of the early years; many pre-date Obliq Recordings.  I’ve been discovering that many DATs are no longer playing correctly and so I have my deck and borrowed two other decks from friends and have been able to get most into a modern format (WAV and MP3 for now).  Also, many cassettes are broken in one way or another; but nothing a little surgery can’t fix!

I have been also posting DJ mixes from the old Radio Station and Club days (starting in the late 80′s) as I get time over at davealex.com.  As I get time I’ll record more of these and likely make them available online (the easiest way for me to listen to them; so might as well share if anyone else may be interested too)!

Another great video by TheIDMMaster of our Freq Modif “Twilight” track from our berlin-based k2o records release.  Enjoy!

Just stumbled upon this today, TheIDMMaster on YouTube put together this cool HD video for our Freq Modif – Electrolytic Soul track available on the Berlin-based k2o records label release! Cheers!

Nathan and Jahnavi stopped by and we replaced broken potentiometers on our Elektron MachineDrums and MonoMachines! It was a great evening when we got everything working again!

Here are the basic repair instructions that inspired us to do this ourselves…although we found there wasn’t much of a need to take apart the encoders if you get all the solder with a good solder sucker and wick.

Check out Nate & Jahnavi’s photos of the session!

The weather is far less extreme this year than past; but there has been some fun storms. This one was June 24, 2011 in the Nebraska Panhandle. I chased with Adam Boggs this day and with the content I felt it was a great fit with our (Nathan & davealex) Freq Modif track “Mesocycle”.

Enjoy!

Back in “the day” when I was picking up analog gear like it was trash to the new “digital synth craze” I was able to procure this for $35 (it was DOA). I have purchased 2 CPU chips over the years but they were DOA as well. Finally, I ran across this new Turbo-CPU chip from Music Technologies Group. I have yet to install the MIDI part, but the SCI is working like new!

What a great piece of gear; I HIGHLY recommend MTG and appreciate his passion for keeping old synths alive!

Getting ready to replace the chip:

Before/After of the CPU:

The Pro One after it was 100% working!!!

Some cool etchings on the board! Anyone know what the bottom one says?

Here is a quick drone track I did immediately after it was working. The first time this machine has talked in at least 20 years!
Sequentialstein by davealex

Check out this great video with soundtrack by Ted Sturgeon and Nathan Wheeler.

Fever Dream from Citizen K on Vimeo.