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Wasp Factory


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oldlibmike

 Genre: Experimental

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Inspired by Iain Banks Novel of same title - if you've read it you'll get it, if not, well its um...ambient. A mix of loops and Edirol PCR30 synths (Crystal and XLD synths). No dogs were harmed in the creation of this piece.
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Hits: 1523
Comments: 13
Fans: 1
Plays: 155
Downloads: 71
Votes: 11
Uploaded: May 28, 2005 - 02:54:17 PM
Last Updated: May 28, 2005 - 11:06:46 AM Last Played: Jun 23, 2009 - 10:11:32 PM
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Hardware:
IMac 17" 1GHz - Edirol PCR30 keyboard
Software:
Garageband, XLD synthpack, Zero-G Propack, Crystal synthesizer plugin, iDog
Comments
said 1638 days ago (May 29th, 2005)
Cool
This was fun to listen to.
oldlibmike said 1637 days ago (May 29th, 2005)
Cool
Thanks. Was a fun piece - took bits of the plot and tried to be impressionistic,
then just sort of went for an off-kilter disturbed feel.
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_nderscore said 1637 days ago (May 30th, 2005)
electric-bug-a-loo
break-dancin bees drivin the poor iDog crazee! some neat
sounds in there, enjoyable beat track
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oldlibmike said 1637 days ago (May 30th, 2005)
electric-bug-a-loo
Thanks, that was the sound I was trying for - a deranged buzz.
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perceptualvortex said 1635 days ago (May 31st, 2005)
Damn stingers
Those are some industrious wasps. Yellowjackets, if I'm not mistaken? The title made me think of Greg Bear's book "Slant", in which wasp or bee colonies were the foundation for a hyperadvanced AI. Nice job, I like this. --D
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oldlibmike said 1635 days ago (May 31st, 2005)
Damn stingers
Glad you liked it! The wasps in Banks' story are actually part of a machine the main character concocted to devine the future. Its a strange disturbing book but I thorughly enjoyed it - perhaps I'm just strange and disturbed!
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said 1625 days ago (June 10th, 2005)
True or False
a.) average score for an average song nothing orignal just
repetitive electro noise.


b.)Wow that was incredible so much talent way don't you
have a record contract.
oldlibmike said 1625 days ago (June 10th, 2005)
True or False
a) Thanks for the opinion - electro it certainly is and like most it does repeat
with variation

b) I'd have to quit my dayjob and then where'd we be eh?
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daphna said 1625 days ago (June 10th, 2005)
thanks for the
heads up on this piece. I don't often go for this kind of
music but this is well done. I enjoyed it. It's going in my
favourites. Thanks for posting.
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oldlibmike said 1625 days ago (June 10th, 2005)
thanks for the
Thanks for your listen! I've listened to alot of your songs here and elsewhere and
don't think I'm in your league but its nice to get the feedback.
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virtualruffy said 1625 days ago (June 10th, 2005)
very coool
Excellent use of sound that describes and fits the thing that it is. i.e. the bees man the bees! Sorry, wasps. Anyway excellent! the only thing I would suggest would be a racing sound that suggests flight, perhaps a machine sound like an air rachet or hammer, thus metallica wasps in factory etc. In soundtrack or powerfx I got a bunch of sounds like that.
Saw your post and checked it out as a result. I sympathize as I had the same thing happen with Annunaki Landing ][ in the mid 7's then bombed to 6. I wrote the admins but nothings changed. Slowly its crawling up the 6's now. Anyway, I gave you good marks which helped bring you it back to a better number. cheers.
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oldlibmike said 1625 days ago (June 10th, 2005)
very coool
Thanks so much for listening and moreso for the suggestions. Criticism is
always welcome and when constructive all the moreso. I rarely post asking for
comments since there is soooo much on this site better than what I put out! I
generally pay more attention to comments than votes but the half-bombing just
gets old after awhile.
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Justmescrewingaround said 590 days ago (April 11th, 2008)
I'm just listening to this
It's like taking a ride through soe sort of cold iron tube in some sort of weird movie. I dunno if that explains it very well, but it's really cool.

I liked the book too. Really warped, but really cool.

Actually o refelction this reminds me of the kind of thing the prodigy might do - only they'd do it alot louder XD
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Got into MIDI with an early Soundblaster AWE-32 and Cakewalk and later rediscovered with my Apple and Garageband. Musical influences in no particular order: Steely Dan, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Beatles, JeanMichel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Brian E... [see more]

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