This piece started from exploring the Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe pedal--a lofi dirty-up-your-sound pedal, which gets easily into noisy realms. It's a bit harder to make it sound pretty, but not impossible. This one stays more to the subtle end of the spectrum. Guitar: PureSalem Mendiola, three tracks. Recording was fairly efficient, but whittling it down into a structure took rather longer.

The Wardenclyffe is the only inline effect, and is just on one track (panned center). Mostly manifesting as a shimmery chorus or light vibrato. There's some convolution reverb send on each of the three tracks, and light multiband compression/eq.

The title comes from Altar near Schull, Ireland, which is on the scenic road 592.

This one developed along one direction and changed course a few times before veering into somewhat psychedelic space funkbot territory. I started with tablas and 909 samples, and put them through a vocoder, gate, and reverse reverb, which made them more accents than primary rhythm. I added the usual dry funk kit, but instead of auto-filtering the kick, I just punched up its level significantly--as a result, I think it conflicted less with the bass than it often does. As an x-factor, I added LFO to adjust the bit level of Redux randomly, which pumped the cymbals in a pleasingly weird way.

I tracked a bunch of soft synths and then took them out, finally returning to one soft synth. I tracked bass (through EQ8 to pull down sub-100Hz and side chain with the kick) and guitar (Reuss RF-01 fuzz, Vox Wah, and Auto-Pan with a square-wave tremolo in time), and Bastl Kastle modular synth for flavor.

I used three different convolution reverbs, one cascaded set of delays, and filter delay with LFO auto-filter in front.

Title from the use of the Kastle.