Maelstrom

This is the latest (and final) version of a song I've been working on for 5 years. It started as a techno track, with the main synth line and a kick drum, but I wasn't satisfied so I kept working on it year after year, reopening the project and adding one new element at a time. It started solidifying after an afternoon session in Jeremy Chatelain's living room in Paris a few years ago, but still didn't feel like it was where it needed to be. Then I received an offer to produce a track for a sex scene in the last season of HBO's Euphoria, and that's when I added the vocals, the ambient intro, some melodic elements, and took most of the drums out. It didn't make it to the final cut, but I still have a special connection to this song, which sounds like nothing else in my discography. 

This is an exclusive Catalog.works record - it isn't (and won't be) available anywhere else

(Photography by Marilyn Clark)

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Satori

MAELSTROM - MAALISH 
From the Album « Rhizome » released march 12th, 2021 on RAAR

1. The (initial) winning bid will be able to unlock access to the (token-gated) stems of the project = 19 individual tracks/sounds from this song exported as .wav files. Unlock -> https://rebrand.ly/maalish-stems

2. The (initial) winning bid will receive 2 Maelstrom vinyl LPs (Rhizome *2021* and Her Empty Eyes *2017*) by entering an adress through this (token-gated) link -> https://rebrand.ly/maelstrom-vinyls

Ressources : 
- Elektron Digitone Presets by (d) a.k.a. “glitched” & Boris Potschubay
- Various SFX samples from the Wave Alchemy SFX Collection by J. Rowland 
- Elektron Analog 4 MKI preset by Eric Liberda

Artwork by Elizaveta Porodina 
Mastering by Rashad @ Clunk

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Maalish

Hardcore demo version of Maelstrom & Louisahhh's "Silence is Violence" single, previously unreleased, but has been played in raves, warehouses and clubs across continents #BeforeCovid 

Artwork based on a picture by Marilyn Clark

Drums : Elektron Analog Rytm 
Bass : Analog Solutions Telemark mkII
FX : Strymon Timeline 
Microphone : Shure SM58
Editing : Ableton Live 10.1
Mixer : Midas Venice F16

Don’t forget. I’m a predator. I’m an addict. And my drug is more. I’d rather go with the devil I know. The work now. Is love the void

Did you taste the words. Before you spit them out. Rip right through. That pretty pout. Silence is Violence. Don’t you know. It always hurts the most to grow

Hound of heaven. Got me by the throat. Learn the ropes. But I won’t choke. Silence is violence. Don’t you know. It always hurts the most to grow

You know that I can’t be told. Now hold the line
While I implode

The doubtful wolf Is having a feast. Is this a set up. Is this a siege. Now I come to believe. They like it best When the artist bleeds 

So come on, Come on, Come on

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Maelstrom & Louisahhh - Silence is Violence (Hardcore Mix)

Alternate version of "Looking At The Protocol" from Maelstrom's Rhizome album (released march 12th 2021 on RAAR)

Ressources : 
- 808 kickdrum from a Waves Alchemy sample pack
- Various SFX samples from the Wave Alchemy SFX Collection by J. Rowland
- Kick drum from the Cinetools Hell Drums pack by Utku S.
- Lead preset from the Absynth plugin (Native Instruments) - No designer specified
- Digitone Presets by (d) a.k.a. “glitched” & Boris Potschubay
- Vocal sample from Alison Pill in the Devs TV series on Hulu
- Patch from the "He Morph Here" Reaktor ensemble created by Bernd Keil, Philippe Loiseau and Catman Dude David.
- Reverb tails based on samples from "Peint En Bleu" by Otto Cross (Mathieu Friss)

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You Can't Name a Random Event

Alternate club version of « Signal to Noise » from my forthcoming « Rhizome » Album, out on RAAR - march 12th 2021. (Exclusive to Catalog)

Ressources used on the track :
- Kontakt Woodwind Ensemble (Clarinet) by Soundiron
- Moor : K-Devices sequencer by Alessio Santini & Simone Fabbri
- DSCHIHATDELAY MAX4LIVE Plugin by Mr. Flakey
- Chords preset from the Native Instruments Massive plugin by Mike Daliot 
- Pad sample from the Wave Alchemy SFX Collection 3 by J. Rowland
- Buchla Easel V Pad preset by Maxime Dangles

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