Hi guys!
I’m Olof from Gubbology. I was told by the fine people at Kali Earth records about this thread and would like to say THANK YOU for listening to the album. I would also like to take the opportunity to share some thoughts with you on the production and influences and such.
So the album is a bit of a mixed bag as some of you have noticed. The tracks are written over the course of several years, roughly speaking about 2018-2022. To me most of my tracks end up sounding quite different from the last one. I like to work from the ground up alot of the times and put alot of effort into the design of sounds for specific use in just one track. That way i get the feeling that every track has a kind of personality and becomes a kind separate universes with its own laws. But generally speaking i see Gubbology as a project that aims at hitting some kind of sweet spot between classic goatrance and forest psytrance. Lately its been far more goa than forest.
Sometimes the sound-quality and the mix can be a bit rough around the edges as some of you have noticed. It’s not always that perfect and the reasons can perhaps partly be found in my abilities as a producer. I also use quite rudimentary equipment for monitoring etc. But another reason might be how my ears are tuned to hours and hours of listening to quite dodgy mixtapes and prehistoric goatrance artifacts where the sound-quality are not always the best. Cogoa’s protogoa mixtapes on youtube are super essential in my opinion and old mix-tapes from the goatranch-crew aswell. Some of you mentioned Kox Box and I was super stoked to read your comment about how I might have captured some of that vibe. Other musical influence are Ozric Tentacles, The Orb, Black Dog, Cabaret Voltaire, The Infinty Project, Atriohm, Hux Flux, Logic Bomb, Dungen, King Tubby ect..
I have also been nerding out on vintage production-techniques and love to read old copies of the music-magazine SoundOnSound where articles about midi-production and handling of taperecorders from the early nineties is a great source of inspiration. The huge thread on Gearspace on goatrance-production is also great. Generally I find technical limitations very inspirational and in todays computerbased musicproduction where everything is possible at once I find peace in limiting myself to some specific choices when writing music. I’m just a modern guy with a laptop making music, but I like to put myself in the headspace of a studioguy from the 1970’s or 80’s.
The first and the last track on the album is a bit more chilled out and also written more recently. I think the sound presented here has a lot in common with another project I’m working on called Axiom 23. Under that moniker I explore ambient techno and lofi dubscapes among other things.
AXIOM 23 - BANDCAMP
https://axiom23.bandcamp.com/album/omnitron
COGOA
https://www.youtube.com/@COGOA
GOATRANCH GOA MIXTAPES
https://goatranch.com/
SOUND ON SOUND
https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-past-articles-now-online-back-january-1994
GEARSSPACE – GOATRANCE PRODUCTION
https://gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/846372-ultimate-goa-trance-technique-thread.html
Hi guys! I’m Olof from Gubbology. I was told by the fine people at Kali Earth records about this thread and would like to say THANK YOU for listening to the album. I would also like to take the opportunity to share some thoughts with you on the production and influences and such. So the album is a bit of a mixed bag as some of you have noticed. The tracks are written over the course of several years, roughly speaking about 2018-2022. To me most of my tracks end up sounding quite different from the last one. I like to work from the ground up alot of the times and put alot of effort into the design of sounds for specific use in just one track. That way i get the feeling that every track has a kind of personality and becomes a kind separate universes with its own laws. But generally speaking i see Gubbology as a project that aims at hitting some kind of sweet spot between classic goatrance and forest psytrance. Lately its been far more goa than forest. Sometimes the sound-quality and the mix can be a bit rough around the edges as some of you have noticed. It’s not always that perfect and the reasons can perhaps partly be found in my abilities as a producer. I also use quite rudimentary equipment for monitoring etc. But another reason might be how my ears are tuned to hours and hours of listening to quite dodgy mixtapes and prehistoric goatrance artifacts where the sound-quality are not always the best. Cogoa’s protogoa mixtapes on youtube are super essential in my opinion and old mix-tapes from the goatranch-crew aswell. Some of you mentioned Kox Box and I was super stoked to read your comment about how I might have captured some of that vibe. Other musical influence are Ozric Tentacles, The Orb, Black Dog, Cabaret Voltaire, The Infinty Project, Atriohm, Hux Flux, Logic Bomb, Dungen, King Tubby ect.. I have also been nerding out on vintage production-techniques and love to read old copies of the music-magazine SoundOnSound where articles about midi-production and handling of taperecorders from the early nineties is a great source of inspiration. The huge thread on Gearspace on goatrance-production is also great. Generally I find technical limitations very inspirational and in todays computerbased musicproduction where everything is possible at once I find peace in limiting myself to some specific choices when writing music. I’m just a modern guy with a laptop making music, but I like to put myself in the headspace of a studioguy from the 1970’s or 80’s. The first and the last track on the album is a bit more chilled out and also written more recently. I think the sound presented here has a lot in common with another project I’m working on called Axiom 23. Under that moniker I explore ambient techno and lofi dubscapes among other things. AXIOM 23 - BANDCAMP https://axiom23.bandcamp.com/album/omnitron COGOA https://www.youtube.com/@COGOA GOATRANCH GOA MIXTAPES https://goatranch.com/ SOUND ON SOUND https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-past-articles-now-online-back-january-1994 GEARSSPACE – GOATRANCE PRODUCTION https://gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and-electronic-music-production/846372-ultimate-goa-trance-technique-thread.html