Canton Becker's Electronic Music Noizums

The other day my kid had me listen to this haunting Tool track Faaip De Oiad which samples a phone call made to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM radio show. The caller frantically relays a bunch of Area 51 conspiracies, and that got me to remembering about an afternoon in January 1998 when I […] The post Area 51 appeared first on Canton Becker.

Moody thick drum ‘n’ bass. Starts off with almost classical/orchestral elements, then the drop, then a little more banging. Lots of arpeggios and melodic content. The post Cost of Difference appeared first on Canton Becker.

This was the third track in my one song a month project. Here I’m playing around with polyrhythms (3 against 4 against 5 against…) and some nice pure synth tones. It’s in a major key, which is really rare for me. The post December V appeared first on Canton Becker.

This was the second track in my one song a month project. The sample you hear in this deep tribal house track is from a wonderful collection of records I found recorded in 1952 — famous anthropological field recordings by Hugh Tracy. More or less, the fellow who introduced African music to white people. This […] The post Kipsigis Love Song appeared first on Canton Becker.

Happy melodic techno. 122 BPM, starts off in a mellow place then gets bouncy and fun. Vocal sample is from Richard Kilmer’s LibriVox public domain reading of The Night Horseman by Max Brand (1920). The post The Great River appeared first on Canton Becker.

I love the album “Chants of India” by Ravi Shankar, and in particular the track that features this chant: asato ma sad gamaya / From ignorance, lead me to truth tamaso ma jyotir gamaya / From darkness, lead me to light mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya / From death, lead me to immortality. Here’s a funky […] The post Gamaya appeared first on Canton Becker.

My first original techno track in a long, long while. Lush, layered, moody, epic. Composed in daily 20 or 30 minute stolen workday moments over the course of several weeks. Finished this during a moment in history when 2,000 Pakistanis have died and 20 million are injured or homeless as a result of massive flooding […] The post Floodwaters appeared first on Canton Becker.

On this very snowy Santa Fe morning and with one week left until the 2008 Winter Solstice, I’m pleased to release this new song for free under a creative commons license. Snow Break is a 92bpm ‘breaks’ piece based around a sampled string melody from a 1960’s Mellotron tape loop. (The Mellotron was the original pre-digital sampler, a […] The post Snow Break appeared first on Canton Becker.

Wow this song was a long time in the making. 12+ months? Not sure if it’s done yet — this mix feels a little thick and awkward at times — but it’s done enough to let me move on to some other tracks in the near term. 174 BPM d’n’b, growly nasty bassline, occasional explosive […] The post Serious Song appeared first on Canton Becker.

Composed for Benjamin Becker, born Feb 12, 2008. 102 bpm. Ambient groove deep ethno dub. Usually I make music on a Macintosh running Logic Audio and a sizable amount of outboard gear… but this one was composed entirely on a Palm Pilot T|X using Bhaji’s Loops between the hours of 3am and 5am while lying […] The post Benbient appeared first on Canton Becker.

168 bpm, lush strings, jazzy fun drum ‘n’ bass with a couple of deep-beat breakdowns. The post Stringy appeared first on Canton Becker.

Melodic breakbeat, dissonant pianoish melodies, hard-hitting resonant bass and lots of fun with harmonics and phasing. The post Harmonic appeared first on Canton Becker.

Atmospheric / rolling drum ‘n’ bass with a many-layers jazzy feel. Giant heart-bursting pads. The post Big Chord appeared first on Canton Becker.

Trance-techno, 131 bpm. Hints of kraftwerk. Oldschool drums and even a siren. Breaks too, so maybe it’s not really trance. Sounds best while wearing roller skates. The post Rollertechno appeared first on Canton Becker.

Medium-fast breaks. Deep resonant (squirty!) basslines and a catchy melody. Inspirational bass-blending music. The post Bassomatic appeared first on Canton Becker.

Does anyone have a Xbox 360 I can borrow? A while back I was hired to compose two songs for Konami’s DDR UltraMix 4, and they sent me some free copies of the game… but I don’t have a console to play on (or stomp on or whatever it’s called when you do the blinky-light […] The post Indian Summer (Licensed for Dance Dance Revolution) appeared first on Canton Becker.

Hard acid techno. The post Schvisen appeared first on Canton Becker.

(Recorded Winter Solstice 1999) Cosmic trance-techno. Hard hitting kicks, but nice spacious pads and bass blasts. The post Solstice appeared first on Canton Becker.

Remix of Henry Mancini’s “Lujon”. One morning in 1999, I woke up to hearing this song (the original) on my clock radio. While in a half-dreaming state, I imagined hearing these extra layers and rhythms underneath the song. Later on that day, I put this together… Because this is a remix of a song belonging […] The post Lujon (Henry Mancini Remix) appeared first on Canton Becker.

Is there such a genre as Atmospheric Acid? That’s this one. Melodic soft strings with a funky beat and a gentle acid baseline. The post Lewd Day appeared first on Canton Becker.