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Origin of Charles Preset runs like this…Back in 1996 I began to collect electronic music gear, and largely was seeking out vintage synths that had analog filters, oscillators and so on and so forth. Basically this boiled down to a pawn shop searching in out of the way places in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Northwoods of Wisconsin & Duluth area of Minnesota. My guides on this vision quest were a group of similar minded techno funk freak heads from suburban Detroit, with never ending lists, and seemingly a never ending supply of new acquisitions they were noodling with and then re-selling. I got my hands on a Linndrum, Arp Axxe, tr-606, roland hs-60, jupiter four. Eventually added a MPC 2000xl to the sound miasma. Subsequently began DJing at venues in and around Detroit, wanting to try out the tracks I was cooking up at home, recording off my mackie board directly onto cd-r.

By that time I had made friends with a couple guys that had similar gear, and were sick of dj’ing, hearing the same records over and over when out, and wanted to play shows, had belief, but everyone, with regards to techno and electro music, wanted to book DJs.

We began to jam on Sundays as sort of a potluck, bring a dish, a synth, a extra long midi cable, and called it Sunday Night Improv sessions.

This was at the now demolished lofts on Grand River which was also the Detroit Techno artist beehive where UR was operating and so many other artists. We used to get mail for Mike Banks…

One thing led to another and we forced our way into bringing our gear out instead of records to DJ gigs that one of us got hooked up with, at Forans or The Majestic Cafe, Traffic Jam, warehouse parties. People would always come up to me and ask if our music was pre-recorded or what presets we were using and I was like, ahhh we are doing this live, on the fly, no presets. So after while I began to list myself as Charles Preset, along with Abused Current, and p20, program 17, we formed this sn(i) collective. This went on for some time, money was made and we decided to use this money to start a record label that we decreed to be Kenaob Records. Thusly Charles Preset became my electro-techno-funk handle, and Charles R Pearson was for house, ambient, soundtrack, etc. That’s how Charles Preset came back to ride the sound waves again, with some new electro, techno shapes rolling about the 138bpm and faster level. Aww what you say?

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Mantis!!!

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The flower garden brings such peace to our lives from the organizing each year to the final days of the blooms before the true frost

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the tail end of this years flower garden no hard frost yet so these guys are just hanging around which is both disturbing and makes things light

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#ambient #soundscape

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#ambient #soundscape