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I'm burning up the mp3 charts at 397. Let's see, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Scorpions, Kanye West, Christina Aguilera, House Classics for Solo Organ... D'oh, think maybe I better start putting my name on my .mp3 files, now that I'm getting traffic from download sites I didn't know about.
"Something Clicked (Reaktor)" [mp3 removed]. This is an older tune reworked with Reaktor synths. An almost gentle calypsoid techno becomes very...obdurate. Originally written in a notation software program, which is where the screen shot below came from. A couple of people said they thought my music had evolved. I think it only got louder (see comments to previous post).
"Clip City" [mp3 removed] (reposted). Been massaging this tune, which was a crackly mess when it first appeared. I love the analog drum machine sound, but discovered the kicks and toms are so full-bodied digital audio won't capture them unless the gain is turned way down for the recording input. Sometimes you can raise it again in the mix but that's not working here. Nothing's lost in the final version, it just means the .mp3 is quieter and you'd have to bump the volume on your player to hear it at its best. I think some versions of iTunes adjust volume so all loaded tracks sound the same.
All the sequencing in this song I did, in other words, no found or cut-and-pasted MIDI. I know the lead line is ridiculous but sometimes I just rebel at doing a lot of musician-like variations in the melody. Octave jumps, that's all you get. The filtering is also all analog. It's kind of a prototype. I have this idea of doing a suite of 10 songs for the drum machine and Sidstation, which could be performed pretty easily live. I'm kind of bummed I can't get louder recording, though. Also, after I finished the tune I realized it sounds like Antonelli Electr. Oh well, if you're going to imitate people it might as well be your gods.