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Author: FailedSitcom on December 25 2007

--> This is hopefully my first step back into the EM411 community, I've been loitering about for ages without commenting or being properly involved and it's not been very productive.

As for the track, I guess it's quite similar to what I've released in the past but hopefully a bit stronger as a whole (but then again...). Absolute honesty is encouraged as always.

It was after meeting Leafcutter John last month (admittedly on an entirely mindless fan level, we didn't really talk as fellow musicians) that I was actually inspired to push something beyond the very basic loop stage, he was so friendly and completely normal that I thought I might as well try to do something even remotely as good as him. Admittedly it's still completely sketchy, but I hope some of you enjoy it anyway.

And many thanks to Emma for her drums.

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12/26/07 + astroid

this was fun. i liked the pretty part it breaks into at the end, and thought it could use a bit more of that kinda thing throughout, like it crumples and unfolds into something of unimaginable beauty, and then is crumpled hopelessly again. but it think what you have here is cool. maybe kinda short?

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12/26/07 + FailedSitcom

Thanks astroid.

I was definitely planning on extending it, but having beautiful bits to break it up rather than just adding things onto the end is something that I hadn't thought of. I look forward to trying it out.

Just to explain a bit further, that bit at the end is a very basic generative MIDI Max/MSP patch (it picks a random note from a scale and plays it at a random velocity in either a set time-division or a random one) mixed with a a similarly basic randomly restarting, gating sampler. Apart from the backwards record loop.

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12/26/07 + Fredo

wow, really love the sine-wavey organ synth. What is that instrument? This is a really fascinating track with a lot of passages of striking beauty. Great work!

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12/26/07 + FailedSitcom

Many thanks Fredo, very kind words indeed. That synth (and every other one for that matter) is u-he's Zebra 2, you can download the demo here:

Zebra Website

My sincerest gratitude to you both again.

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12/26/07 + Fredo

are you using on a Mac or PC? And again, congrats on the lovely track.

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12/26/07 + FailedSitcom

Just my MacBook, although I'm pretty sure it runs just as well on either. I'll gladly send you the patch if you want.

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12/26/07 + Analog

good stuff.
reminds me of fourtet a bit in tone / sound / timbre.
For me i'd like a strong melody, hook line type thing to intersect the jumbleness, if you get me.
really nice stuff thought mate.

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12/27/07 + FailedSitcom

Thanks Analog, it's funny but I also thought of Four Tet (particularly his Everything Ecstatic-era for some reason) when I was making it.

I was having difficulty trying to keep a consistent melody running through it, but I agree that it definitely needs a thread to tie the sections together. I'm going to experiment a little, but I want to try some kind of subtle chordal thing which turns into a waltz later in the track.

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