Apollo Lee 52 Tracks in 52 Weeks

House

Purple Lunatic

In House, Music on 30 January 2012 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Purple Lunatic Date: January 30, 2012 Software: Ableton Suite 8 Genre: House Timing: 6:38 @ 128 bpm Purple Lunatic opens 2012 with a simple tech house track in which a few stabs, a couple of bass lines, and a trimmed down drum kit build [...]

Electric Reverie

In House, Music on 29 December 2011 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Electric Reverie Date: December 29, 2011 Software: Ableton Suite 8 Genre: House Timing: 6:36 @ 128 bpm Electric Reverie closes a challenging year by taking us into a daydream about the future. Multiple chorded rhythms pulse along over a heartbeat bass line. A bouncing [...]

Rings of Endeavor

In House, Music on 11 November 2011 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Rings of Endeavor Date: November 11, 2011 Software: Ableton Suite 8 Genre: House Timing: 7:08 @ 121 bpm Rings of Endeavor celebrates binary day with a nice mellow groove. We start with a dance around the minor seventh stabs, joined by the drum line [...]

Specters at the Door

In House, Music on 31 October 2011 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Specters at the Door Date: October 31, 2011 Software: Ableton Suite 8 Genre: House Timing: 6:50 @ 125 bpm Specters at the Door, the first track I’ve finished in my studio since Analog Dragons five weeks ago, speaks of two types of specters — [...]

Analog Dragons

In House, Music on 22 September 2011 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Analog Dragons Date: September 22, 2011 Software: Ableton Suite 8 Genre: House Timing: 6:50 @ 124 bpm Analog Dragons breathes fire into the end of summer, celebrating the warmest days of the year after a cool season that almost seemed like spring had been [...]

Amorphous Conversations

In House, Music on 8 September 2011 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Amorphous Conversations Date: September 8, 2011 Software: Ableton Suite 8 Genre: House Timing: 6:38 @ 128 bpm Amorphous Conversations is a reminiscence of times past, from the foundation to the shingles. I recently acquired a large collection of sounds sampled from old analog synthesizers [...]

Patterns in the Shed

In House, Music on 1 September 2011 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Patterns in the Shed Date: September 1, 2011 Software: Ableton Suite 8 Genre: House Timing: 6:47 @ 125 bpm Patterns in the Shed is a celebration of freedom, the excitement of drafting new plans and incorporating action steps into what’s next. A pulsing metallic [...]

Gyrating Continuum

In House, Music on 26 August 2011 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Gyrating Continuum Date: August 25, 2011 Software: Ableton Suite 8 Genre: House Timing: 6:38 @ 128 bpm Gyrating Continuum is a quick and dirty journey that capped off a tough Thursday. Here, we’ve got a meaty, rumbly bassline, comprised of two bass instruments, one [...]

Reductio Ad Absurdum

In House, Music on 17 August 2011 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Reductio Ad Absurdum Date: August 17, 2011 Software: Ableton Suite 8 Genre: House Timing: 6:44 @ 126 bpm Reductio Ad Absurdum is a rhythmic experiment, using Euclidean rhythms, named for the logical fallacy. In this piece of music, there are four instruments on such [...]

Squalid Euphoria in a Petri Dish

In House, Music on 14 August 2011 with no comments

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Title: Apollo Lee – Squalid Euphoria in a Petri Dish Date: August 14, 2011 Software: Ableton Suite 8, Reason 5 Genre: House Timing: 6:41 @ 127 bpm Squalid Euphoria in a Petri Dish starts out with a scratchy stab over a four-on-the-floor drum line. A resonated chord pattern [...]