Kiana Li posts
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VISION Radio Extended Interview (with Dave Jenkins)
Recorded after VISION Radio S4E08. Listen to my selections here:visionrecordings.nl/radio...Where we discussed further my selections for the VISION Radio episode I co-hosted, creative authenticity, pan-genre congruence, music culture on the internet and more! Hope you enjoy!Many thanks as always to ...
gyrofield BBC Radio 1 Drum and Bass Mix
Aired on the evening of 10th February 2024. A look into industrial yet humanistic productions in drum and bass, mostly my own. Up for streaming for two months on the BBC Website.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vy0g
gyrofield Patreon Hangout #14
update: postponed the session today the 15th as i am unwell. apologize for the late notice.Hey all! I hope you're well and good. I'll be taking a bit of time out of a busy month to talk about the ideas & inspirations & experiences & sentiments & late-winter depression that's been fueling...
gyrofield Patreon Feb '24 Samples
Hi all, just sending you the next installment of samples before a very busy month of gigs!This installment sources ideas close to my current interests and creative output which have been more industrial-inspired. I've taken unused parts from past works and given them a helping of grit, noise and...
Timid Rhythm (A Faint Glow of Bravery Demo)
As discussed in my 2-hour overview of 'A Faint Glow of Bravery'.This is a track highly influenced by the deconstructed forms of James Blake, Airhead, Ploy, Mount Kimbie, and many such acts who came from the Dubstep scene. Undeniably abstract and synthetic, it was an offshoot of the record th...
Folklore (A Faint Glow of Bravery Demo)
Hi, with this month's exclusive tracks I wanted to show an alternate vision of my latest record, 'A Faint Glow of Bravery'. This track was an instrumental that was meant to go under a vocal, with a bit of funk and intrigue in the scattered drum beats and drum rolls. Otherwise, the instru...
A Faint Glow of Bravery (Abridged overview)
"... a rekindling of passion - of what remained after drum and bass."I've decided to put up for public viewing 45-or-so minutes of a 130-minute epic detailing but only scratching the surface of what went into my new record.It was a real outpouring of love, loss, lust, hate, dread and eve...
'A Faint Glow of Bravery' - an overview (pt. 2)
"... a rekindling of passion - of what remained after drum and bass..."For the second half of this two-hour-epic hosted on my discord server, I delve into the remaining tracks of the record and discuss further the stylistic points and ideology that upholds the music and the presentation of t...
'A Faint Glow of Bravery' - an overview (pt. 1)
"... this EP was a long journey for me to find something less "describable" and less conventional in terms of emotional meaning. Drum and bass is a genre with so much intensity and energy but it's important for me (and back then I began to realize that) to harness that emotion and po...
'A Faint Glow of Bravery' - Release Hangout!
Very pleased to set into the world my next milestone record. The "Faint Glow of Bravery" to me is the ability to challenge my emotional capacity, to guide myself through troubling and uncertain states of mind in search for catharsis, or in the sake of art, something special.I'll be holdi...
gyrofield Patreon January '24 Samples
With a few days' delay here they are, happy new year!I had some time to think about the samples I've done over the past 18 months, particularly the breaks as they are to me most usable and malleable too. I thought about ways to leverage usability and mileage in drum arrangements and multi-tr...
Sinew (Patreon Exclusive)
Another rare cut straight from my DAW with this piece surrounded in bass weight and techno-mystical animism. 'Sinew' feels like a great compliment to brutal winter nights and hazy states of mind spent staring blankly into the cold. Hope you enjoy."My words were sacred, my time was sacred...
Notice for Producer+ Tier supporters
Hi, tomorrow we'll launch into the 3rd operating year of this Patreon, which is a big milestone for someone who's been delivering monthly exclusives for the entire time.I've unfortunately not had enough time to deliver the samples for your tier benefits tomorrow, but do know that I'v...
gyrofield @ On The Record (Full 90 min mix)
Hey all! I'm now picking up from where I left off at the start of the month after my visit to Hong Kong - many many thanks to all my friends, peers and family whom I spent time with!Let's finish off this year with something for everyone to listen to, the full 90 minute cut of my guest mix fo...
Disclosure - Boss (gyrofield's Space Electro Mix)
Something sweet and musical for the end of the year!I've given the Chicago-House-tinged original by Disclosure a classic sci-fi inspired rework, taking only the chords and vocal hook from the original. Great fun sourcing and installing new instrument samples, dubby basslines and synth bleeps, ho...
gyrofield Patreon Dec '23 Samples
This installment of samples includes Patches & Example synthlines from my last Patreon tutorial session...Most of these samples were created with singular serum patches! Various colors and textures of noise, punctuating percussion hits, grungy constructions of bass, mild synth oneshots and more!Upda...
Two gyrofield tracks landing on Bandcamp this Friday!
It's been a long while since I've released music officially, and this was grounds for a lot of re-evaluating, a lot of planning, but in the end all work I'm deciding to do for myself.I wanted to feel in control of the release process, and I know that I've got the connections to push ...
(ARCHIVED) Synthworks - recorded Nov 2023.
Following hot off the heels of the previous "masterclass" on drums, this time we look to individual synth patches: monophonic vs polyphonic expression, synthesis, articulation, onboard and post-processing. All done within Xfer Serum.Unfortunately the computer audio has been doubled due to se...
gyrofield Patreon Tutorial #12 - Synthworks
Streamed live & recorded 17th Nov, 9pm GMT. 4pm ET. 8am AEDT. Join via my Patreon discord here.https://discord.com/events/657794462365384724/1171952358893305897Following hot off the heels of my last 'comprehensive' tutorial on my general approach to electronic music, and something more strai...
gyrofield - Never Before After (Track Drop)
Hi all. This month I'm offering a track I've been meaning to share with you all for a long time.'Never Before After' revolves around synthwork diving in and out of reverb, noise and interference. Written in 2020, it was the foundation of many more stylistic intuitions and careful cur...
gyrofield Patreon November '23 Samples
Hi all! Couple things to note here with these new samples. I'm currently compiling a best-of pack of samples from June 2022 onwards, ready to be released at the end of the year. It's currently looking to be 250+ samples total with long synth takes and plenty small ideas split into parts like...
Drumworks - A Deep Dive Into Drum Programming (pt. 2-3)
music taken from CamelPhat 'Cola (ft. Elderbrook) (gyrofield's Distant Relationships Mix), and gyrofield 'Antiprojection' (Unreleased). Tutorial session recorded 27th Oct 2023.Pt. 2 Notes: - Reverb in individual channels - Volume shaping vs Sidechain compression - Midrange definition...
Drumworks - A Deep Dive Into Drum Programming (pt. 1)
music taken from gyrofield 'Bohr' (Unreleased) . Tutorial session recorded 27th Oct 2023.- Processing Breaks from processed samples - Crafting Breaks from scratch - Breakbeat samples as a way to start ideas - Low end mixingRationale:I've really felt lately that I didn't put out nearl...
gyrofield Patreon Tutorial Session #11 - Drumworks
Save the date. 27th October, 10pm CET, 4pm ET, 7am AEDT.Join via the Patreon discord here: (also a public server) https://discord.com/events/657794462365384724/1166021828213473320I'm hoping to start a new series of concentrated, technique-focused tutorials on my perspective of dance music produc...
Harvard Referencing (An Influences Playlist)
Some music for you all this week. I spent a summer diving deep into hip hop, electro, house and techno and it has pushed me to explore different dynamics in my usual stomping grounds of Jungle and Drum and Bass. In the end, it's all music, it's all things you can learn to love. Hope you enjo...
A Statement (and what this means for you)
Trigger warning: sexual assaultIt pains me to have to deliver this message to you, having heard it enough from fellow non-men in the scene. I also hope not to be preaching to the choir.I was victim of sexual assault by a very high-standing and powerful person in the scene. The incident was born from...
gyrofield Patreon Oct '23 Samples
In this month of samples created from August to September I honed in on noise and amplifying the noisy character of sounds... I focused on intentional and simple use of compressors, comb filters, looping samplers, delay and reverb to create some very physical feeling sounds, fit for electronic music...
Cola (Distant Relationships Mix) (Track Drop)
See how she looks for trouble...See how she dances and,She sips a Coca-Cola,She can't tell the difference yet.This tune was one of the first big club tunes I really loved when I began paying attention to house music as a producer. There was something captivating and hypnotizing about the pace of...
Housekeeping post...
Video content collection - now visible to all tiers. https://www.patreon.com/collection/98674Archived content collection (Youtube playlist for all video content + select Track Drops) - visibility dependent on tierhttps://www.patreon.com/collection/98689This change in accessibility and patron benefit...
Oligarch - Track Breakdown (Stream Recording)
The devil is in the details... 57-minute session detailing the composite process of building up the main ideas, writing the keyboard parts with intent and restraint, bass design and mixing, transient energy, and much more to come out of an evening's rambling.Hope you enjoy!
