This page interface offers two main selections.
You can download music.
You can not find information about performances by [(John Reeve XOR The Krellmachine) OR (John Reeve AND The Krellmachine)]. However, you can go to http://myspace.com/thekrellmachine if you would link information on upcoming performances.
At the bottom of this page, you can find some information about some of the instruments I have used.
Music For Download
This music has been produced over a long period of time by a lot of different folks. Some of it is really good, some of it is really bad. Mostly, this is a collection of stuff John Reeve or the Krellmachine has recorded or been involved with over the last few years.
The KrellMachine
The Krellmachine has made a lot of noise over the last few years, especially when agitated and manipulated by John Reeve.
Conversation One - The New Xtian
With Diego Imana: Sacred Cows
Recently, there is a whole album available. Below are some selections from The Krellsymptom. Each track was recorded and engineered by John Reeve and the Krellmachine, with John playing the instruments. All arrangements are by John Reeve, and the songs, with the exceptions from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, were written by him:
A Light in the Frankenstein Place
Fresno Pierce
John Reeve played bass with this little jazz combo for a while, and these tracks were recorded at Texas Moon Studio in Levelland TX:
Tom Foolery and the Mistakes
John Reeve played bass with the mistakes for several months back in 1999, when they drove to Ohio and back playing music along the way. TFaTM played their last show in 2006, and you can see Kyle Sowash's (the driving force behind the band) most recent efforts on myspace.com. Here, through the magic of 4-Track Cassette and the Krellmachine's digital logic, is late-90s Emo music:
Noel Williams
The Machine saved this version of Time in a Bottle from analogue degradation.
American Kitchens- Forthcoming
In general, it is a weak fetish of musicians to rattle off the equipment that they use, but here is a page to the Paia 4700 synthesizer John's dad built around 1972.
Also, the KrellDrumKit has finally developed a presentable visage:
It is a converted 5-piece cheapo kit.
It has a fur covered snare and high tom, and you can see the artwork on the low floor toms:
In the above picture, you can see the trigger pad and the sampler. It is an old Akai s2000 that I got for cheap. Since it uses the same mainboard as the higher level sampler, John Reeve soldered a 50-pin SCSI IDC header into the machine and replaced the floppy disk drive with a 100MB Zip drive. The details of how to do this conversion can be found here. You could see the mod clearer in this picture, if the drive weren't hiding behind the cymbal:
Once again, it is bad form to fetishize gear, but this particular combination of equipment is, without manufacturing triggers, the cheapest way to add samples to a live music.
The octapad seen above is a MIDI controller that, much like a computer keyboard, tells a computer what notes to play. It doesn't contain any sounds, and although there are nice units that can sample and are sutible playing surfaces, these units are very expensive and limited in how they manipulate, store, and play back samples.
This particular pad is also superior to the devices produced today because it has inputs for six additional triggers; for instance, in addition to triggering sound clips of people speaking or using the individual pads to play a sound, drum triggers can be attached to the snare and bass drum to produce ferocious tones in conjunction with the acoustic sound of the drum.
The Octapad controls the sample while the sampler generates the sounds and is hooked to a mixer or amplifer.
