Marc the Darc Live Jungle @ HWJ Fest 2024

Jungle by Marc the Darc

Warning: Using phone/laptop speakers, small bluetooth units, bad headphones/speakers, and other subpar listening solutions, may rob you of the full experience, especially bass.

This is my entry for the Hardware Jams Fest 2024.
Uploaded 2nd Aug. will be fully published, once played at the online festival of HWJ Fest 2024, this is truly a special 3-track jam. And fittingly, I also believe it is my 100th video.

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About the production:
This interconnected trio of jungle tracks was spread across the past 1½ weeks, with some hours work here and there. I had planned to spend more time and energy, but family and summer vacation quickly eat a lot of time.
While it's not really in the spirit of the Hardware Jams, they're made entirely in Ableton Live 12, since this setup has actually been tickling my inspiration the most lately. Of course I've done my best to make it as "hardware" as possible in my performance approach.
All melodic parts are a mix of U-He Hive2 and Arturia Pigments, except the very first sound, which is a royalty free sample from the free Stranjah samplepack. Drum breaks are 3/4 classic samples (of which the sample CDs license claim I have legal royalty free use), and 1/4 self created. Additional hi-hats from NI Battery 4.
From a mix perspective it's fairly rudimentary. I would've liked to spend more time, fleshing out the finer details, and really getting everything to pop just so. But between a deadline for the upcoming HWJ Fest (which I overshot), and a crude mix aesthetic rather fitting for a Jungle mix, I just went with it as is. If I redo them in a different version later, I'll probably take the time to get it really crisp.

Gearbox:
Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 2nd gen, Behringer ADA8200.
Ableton Push & Suite 12
Akai APC40
Novation Launchpad mk2 & LaunchKey 49
U-He Hive2
Arturia; basically every plugin
NI Battery 4
FabFilter Q3
Toneboosters Barricade 4
House of Kush Silika

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