Kiana Li

gyrofield Patreon August '24 Samples

 Hi! Welcome to August, exciting times ahead as I gear up to release my next project.

This month of samples is inspired by another collection of works-in-progress. Keeping it playful yet...

Oh Brightly They Led (2024 Remaster) (Track Drop)

While I was planning for my NTS Residency I trawled through old folders for forgotten gems. There was something quite charming, cyberpunk gothic, about this club track I wrote back in 2020. Having ...

Patreon Archive Packs uploaded!

Hi all, I've just returned from a four-day trip around Brussels and for Audioriver Festival, latter of which was sadly cancelled and evacuated due to weather conditions. Big thanks to everyone I me...

All About Bass (Part I)

This has been a long awaited tutorial for my Patreon supporters, but they might be surprised by the route I've taken on this 90-minute masterclass on all things low-end.

I wanted to put forwa...

All About Bass (Part II)

Here is the Patreon Exclusive second part of the bass design masterclass. This part delves into basslines I've written for tracks unreleased and released, in context with their respective drumloops...

Patreon Tutorial #18 - All About Bass

Hi all, as I've got a busy month ahead I've decided to kick into gear and prepare for you (finally) my masterclass on bass & bass design for dance music.

The aim is to keep it accessible ...

Question about my upcoming Patreon store...

Hi all, I've decided to bring back a pack containing the best of my older samples & music.

How much would you be willing to pay for a pack of about 240 samples containing mainly sequence...

Generations (Patreon Exclusive)

A transportive cut of astral jungle with playful synths among samples among drums. This one was an ugly duckling out of all my unreleased tracks, but it's been given a good balance of weight and co...

gyrofield Patreon July '24 Samples

Keeping it simple but evocative this month with a dose of drum hits/loops, bass hits/loops, and synthlines. Gritty and warmed through but hopefully still very functional for building out ideas, wri...

Talk Up (gyrofield's Tooth & Nail Mix) (Track Breakdown)

Hi all, this remix ended up being quite interesting to delve into as it involved a lot of hardware parts, recordings, & using digital tools to trace over the musical characteristics of those re...

Patreon Hangout #17 - Talk Up Remix Breakdown

Back in October I was approached by Kasra for a remix of my choice off his album 'Dream Metal'. Two versions later I wrapped this remix in late January, which landed somewhere between a 00s grime f...

gyrofield pres. Field Research (w/ PEROXIIDE)

Tomorrow is the first broadcast for my residency at NTS and I'm really thrilled to kick it off with my good friends at PEROXIIDE. 60 minutes of Autonomic-Footwork-Junglist Aerospace Exploration! 2024-06-02 18:21:41 +0000 UTC View Post

gyrofield Patreon June '24 Samples

We've reached two years of Patreon! I might put up something special to celebrate.

But first we have more samples for your use. Some really functional loop layers that are extractable with ph...

'Temper' (Patreon Exclusive)

I wrote this one for therapeutic purposes during last October. A sort of mesmerizing collage of washboard drums, cozy rhodes keyboards and spaced-out synth bass and lead.

2024-06-01 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Samples Demo Reel

Hi all, if you're looking for more reasons to join the Patreon besides exclusive tracks, 12+ hours of tutorials, and behind the scenes content, here's a little reel of some samples I've created ove...

Noisecraft (Synthesis focused on noise)

Rationale:

• A tonally destructive way of synthesis can open up new possibilities and bring about unique textures

• Understanding and harnessing the processing behind at...

  2024-05-24 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Tutorial Session #16 Demo Track

Titled 'Northprecession'.

A little sneak peek to the chaotic unpredictable noise fuckery I'll be showing you tomorrow. Make sure to join the discord for it!

All instances are live Serum...

Patreon Tutorial Session #16 - Noisecraft

As promised, I'm bringing you a detailed look into digital synthesis using noise sources for my next session held on Discord.

22nd May, 21:00 BST, 16:00 EDT, 07:00 AEDT.
2024-05-14 17:16:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Disclosure - BOSS (gyrofield Mix) (Track Breakdown)

In this re-recorded segment originally held in the last Patreon hangout, I sift through a disco-inspired drum loop with a fine toothed comb, talking about the details of sample selection and arrang...

Bao - 52-Hearts (gyrofield Remix) (Remaster)

I took a little time today reminiscing on my old "shitpost era" works, the reckless silly energy I had, and was growing out of during the pandemic years.

I wanted to shed some light on a tra...

Antiprojection (Patreon Exclusive)

'Antiprojection' has been in my sets for nearly a year, and was written for a now-scrapped project. A simple but effective cut of club-electro that has affinities for dubstep, garage or techno in t...

gyrofield Patreon May '24 Samples + Update

You may have noticed I'm giving away this bit a day earlier... No mistake, I wanted to speak to you about plans for the near future.

I'd like to do a Patreon session on 'noisecraft', the way...

gyrofield Patreon Hangout #15

...or thereabouts.

I was going to hold this hangout earlier in the month, but I was affected by illness. To make it up for you all I'll be combining the two topics I wanted to talk about: A t...

gyrofield Patreon April '24 Samples

Swinging into April like these samples swing between empty space and industrial noise. Roughly 140bpm experiments in analogue sound sources scrambled by digital processing. I love Izotope Trash2. 2024-04-01 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Dogma (Patreon Exclusive)

Hi all! Bringing something out from the vault again that still feels timely. Dogma sources an instantly-recognizable Michael Jackson sample & gives it a no-war, fuck-the-government treatment. B...

Synthworks (Techniques for synth design & programming)

Updated version as of March 2024 - Added new insight, original midis, bonus look at a synths in an unreleased track with this re-recording.

The IKEA showroom for synth patches: monophonic vs ...

Harvard Academic Fraud 2023 - An influences playlist

Some music I've discovered and enjoyed during downtime these few months. Winter mud and sludge and grit and skeletons in your closet. Hope you enjoy!

Outward link here:
2024-03-07 18:48:11 +0000 UTC View Post

gyrofield Patreon March '24 Samples

Hey all! More abstract designs here for you - I tried to create or derive a lot of the tones and textures in these samples by myself. There's a lot of comb-filtered synths and noisy metallic tones,...

Had You Once (Patreon Exclusive)

Nursery-rhyme toy-keyboard astral-neogrime. 

There is a childlike purity within this track with a counterpoint of deep sub rumbles and whirring reese bass. I wrote this one after my firs...

More on my VISION Radio selections (& recent digs)

Rarely have I taken a proper dive into my record collection (all digital, mind), but with the recent VISION Radio co-host I did I felt it very appropriate to look into the artists whose work I show...