Hainbach — Landfill Totems
One-of-a-kind electronics from a sonic innovator
One-of-a-kind electronics from a sonic innovator
Made in collaboration with Berlin-based composer, producer, and pioneer in experimental electronics, Hainbach, these one-of-a-kind, complex sounds have been expertly created from vintage test equipment collected from nuclear research labs and scrap heaps — given a new lease of life and transformed into instruments by the artist.
Developed further and presented in our award-winning plug-in, discover eerie morse code bleeps, comms signals and flickering bass pulses; deep drones, ominous pads and grainy textural rhythms; industrial drum hits and loops; electromagnetic noise and heavenly humanoid ‘voices’. Create high-contrast atmospheres of suspense, tension and beauty, whether you’re writing techno, ambient music, or a cutting-edge film score. It’s a library you can really get lost in, and it’s a ton of fun.
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Experimental electronic sounds
40 presets
Dedicated plugin
Hainbach x Wasteaid
These machines made to send rockets to the moon, or to look at atoms, quickly assembled into something humanoid...here, they can live again, and sing a strange song they never did before.
The Landfill Totems project started life as a performance installation at PNDT Gallery, expanding exponentially into a full album and an accompanying sound library recorded at Patch Point Studios, Berlin. When observing these anthropomorphic figures, a deep appreciation and affection for the engineering technology of the past is apparent; totally unique vintage machines, assembled for one final swan song (one of the presets captures the sound of a machine dying). Stacked into three monolithic towers resembling totem poles, each piece of equipment was chosen for its distinctive tone generation and modulation abilities — wired together much like a modular synthesiser.
Upcycled and redesigned, these totems act as a commentary on the environmental cost of progress; what was once the pinnacle of technology quickly becomes unviable and destined for the scrapheap, if not for the intervention of Hainbach — creating beauty from that which is thought to be obsolete. Among his collection are once high-end medical, telecommunication and scientific research equipment, vintage sound-testing devices, a Nuclear Instrumentation Modular, an outmoded medical signal generator, a mixer previously used by the Stasi, the state security service in former East Germany, and a Brüel & Kjaer 1613 Bandpass filter creating hi-hat, bass drum and watery sounds.
The plug-in provides 40 presets, split into four sections
- Kling — each preset contains elements from all other sections, with a huge range of textures available to explore using the modwheel
- Klang — tonal sounds, from evolving pads to pulsating drones
- Knarz — atonal, textural and FX style sounds, from watery to alien-like
- Krach — percussion and drum hits, as well as time-machine loops and patterns
Other features
- In-built effects and controls providing a wealth of complex sonic possibilities to drastically control and manipulate each of the presets — including Attack, Release, Reverb, Delay, Stretch and Distort
- Dynamics fader controls the processed signal, offering a spectrum of sounds within each preset
- Each sound is velocity sensitive for varying tones
- Available in Spitfire’s award-winning, dedicated plug-in
- One-of-a-kind sounds that are impossible to recreate — made from rare, obsolete test equipment which has been expertly curated and manipulated
- A library of stark sonic contrasts — from harsh, futuristic and dystopian to beautiful and emotive sounds from another world
- Designed for creating tension, suspense, beauty, for any setting — from electronic tracks to hybrid film scoring or abstract sound design
Limited edition 12" vinyl & sample library
There’s something special about the sounds made from test equipment which I absolutely adore — making music out of these obsolete machines not designed for making music. Just press one note and you can hear a whole spectrum of emotion.
What's included
Presets
Kling
- Distance
- Blip
- Tension
- Third Place
- Spacewalk
- Noise & Beauty
- Deep Space
- Malfunctions
- Penultimate Boss
- Resonate
- Conway's Game
Klang
- Data Drone
- Raw Beauty
- Beauty Oscillator
- Broken Oscillator Keys
- Test Equipment Organ
- Analog Motion
- Machine Drift
- Dark Motor Drones 1
- Dark Motor Drones 2
- Analog Shorts
- Analog Bends
Knarz
- Bug Zapper
- UFO
- Heat-Ray
- Flicker
- Pocket Dialing
- Water
- Noise Machine
- Circuit
- Light Bloom
- Doppelgänger
Krach
- Drum Hits 1
- Drum Hits 2
- Drum Hits 3
- Drum Loops 1
- Drum Loops 2
- Drums Hits & Loops
- Motors
- Machine
Controls
- Expression
- Dynamics (controlling Processed signal)
- Attack
- Release
- Reverb
- Delay
- Stretch
- Distort
FAQs
How do I add this library into Kontakt?
You don’t! Landfill Totems is a dedicated, free to use plugin available as VST2, VST3, AAX and AU, so it can be used directly in your favourite DAW.
What software will I need to install?
You will only need the Spitfire Audio App which you can download here.
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Mac system requirements
Mac OSX 10.10 to OS 12
Minimum: 2.8GHz i5 minimum (quad-core), 8GB RAM
Recommended: 2.8GHz I7 (six-core), 16GB RAM
32-bit DAWs not supported
Machine must be connected to the internet during install
PC system requirements
Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 (latest Service Pack, 32/64-bit)
Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2
32-bit DAWs not supported
Machine must be connected to the internet during install
File size
0.8 GB download size