Ballistic jam with Elektron Machinedrum and Eurorack

Please support my work on Patreon: A live, semi-improvised track performed entirely on hardware. The Machinedrum is a strange piece of hardware: its sequencer is the earlier version of all modern Elektron boxes, but its 16 flexible tracks of drums haven’t been matched by anything contemporary. Despite the Machinedrum being old (in hardware terms) at this point, it still sounds new, like a gritty alternate-history-future device. And when you start to route audio into it, really interesting things start to happen. Here, I used my eurorack setup to create four voices, with the Westlicht Performer taking the reins as the sequencer. These voices are mixed down to a stereo output, which gets master-level effects (filter and glitch/noise), and then is routed into the Machinedrum. The Machinedrum takes some of the sheen off the eurorack, and also allows me to manipulate the eurorack’s audio at the same time as the drums. This song sounds like the music I hear in my dreams, messy, e