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Author: astroid on October 25 2006
--> thiss was inspired by implex grace, hecanjog, bsr, tmns, roshi and all the other fine em411 ambient/noise/drone folks. maybe a little fennesz.

when i wasn't having nookie regularly, i'd occasionally have these wild water dreams, where i'd be swimming in huge waves around islands. huge waves.
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10/26/06 +  tmns
i really wanna hear this! but the mp3 doesn't seem to load into the player for me.
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10/26/06 +  soft
nice, i really like this. you should finnish it.....then make more.
and the stuttery bit needs more variation, id say. more randomness i think.

reminds me of dandy by kid606 (gq on the eq)
if you havnt heard that tune you really should track it down. possibly my favourite drony thing ever.
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10/26/06 +  Squeal
Dreams make for good stuff.

I love the reverse stutter trick (did I understand you right?) It sounded like an analog delay slipping into self-oscillation, but with the benefit of anticipating the following note. good times.
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10/26/06 +  astroid

link

direct link ^^^

thanks, soft. i'll try to find that track

squeal-that's almost exactly what that is.
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10/26/06 +  implexgrace
if you take that into a fuckload of HUGE spacious reverb before you distort it, sometimes magical things happen.
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10/27/06 +  mlbot
i have a new genre of music for you:

Medio-core
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10/27/06 +  Raaphorst
great one! quickly done? I love that.
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10/27/06 +  tmns
this is great, takes a few listens to make sense, which i like. i'm curious to hear how you'd approach adding acoustic guitar to it.
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10/28/06 +  tonearm
it's like Delia Derbyshire put through SID chips. well, not really. I like the pauses, then ....boom, drops down. sort of like being dumped in the surf.
murky and scary in parts
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10/30/06 +  lunatinker
the distortion is so thck and muddy, i thought you HAD lready used compressions.
the pacing is nice, makes me think of real big slow metal teeth ...
teeth, like a giant or maybe a lumber mill's blades.... like in twin peakses
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10/30/06 +  Artsigreg
Very Cool. The sound after it builds comes to a "splash" sound for the intro.
Almost kind of spooky. Perfect for Halloween! Nice job.
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edited: Dec 03 2006 +  F7Sharp11
Well...........you have a lot of toys to use! I am jealous.
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12/03/06 +  midimacman
Portamento Pizza Pie layered with Fromagge and a Crust stuffed with Reverb, Distortion makes my reach for my Mallox early on, and Acid Reflux isn't the only thing burning in the walls of my esophogas tonight...................An wave of Indigestion, Vertigo and Dizziness wash me around alright, and soon seasick, and surrounded in nausea that never calm nor let up their fury, force, and tempest throught the experience. I reach this time for Pepcid AC, more Mylanta, and consider that one........Purple Pill.

now coating the lining of my stomach and churning up a chalky flavor, the elixir of anatacid and bismuth soothe my indigestion, time now further settling of my stomach.

What a bunch of effects, and gates, and storsh tails, all swirled together and then sort of curdled like like juice on milk, like Malox just met with my stomach acids, yet true to what you obviously wanted with this work.

I give you compliment on the interest, it doesn't lack that. I also commend your knowledge of so many plug-ins and gating effects, as well as the ability to use distortion in a relatively controlled fashion, although just beyond my level of digestion, and the ambiance here a bit "out to sea" for my own taste.

I am interested in what the track sounded like before you demagnatized, degaused, reversed, filtered, applied some bit destruction, and then charged any remaining electrons with a positivel charged influx of radiation as you sent them manually through a gate............? Was there more melody, harmony, and variation in tone, pitch, volume, velocity, and overall mastering variation?

With the attempt to create an ambiance, noise and drone driven experience here you have done a nice job. I would say that you have the organic mood going on, and it is tantalizingly tortuous, and tattered, torn, and truly TEMPEST.

I'll be brutally honest with you on this one: I absolutely hated it and through the whole or hole as you called it, but credit your work, and excuse my dislike for such a flat sonic pallete and characteristically flat range of tone and pitch variation.

Also: Good job with so many different effects, and non MIDI sounding samples. I almost can't even hear your CPU making Binary to Digital conversions, surely your processor speaks fluent analog withouth the slightest sound of a flux......, even out to the least significant bit.

Thanks for sharing,
MidiMacMan.
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12/05/06 +  hecanjog
this is fucking awesome man, i think i missed its life on the front page because my compy was dead for a while least i get to listen now!

this is like an awesomer version of khanate, that sunn 0))) side project. i think you could develop the piece a little more texturally, but the sounds you're using are gorgeous - i loves me some waveshaping distortion.

super super nice - more please!
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01/18/07 +  delete
i enjoyed this more than the rest of your tracks. i think i may start listening to music like this and get drunk at home. anyhow, cool choon, i hope you see this sometime :P
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