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Last Played: Jan 04, 2008 - 11:45:06 PM
Downloads: 33
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Uploaded: Jun 30, 2004 - 03:44:07 PM
Last Updated: Jul 22, 2004 - 05:43:46 PM
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Description:
This song is a true experiment in assymetry. The drums start off in 5/4 and the bass guitar is in 10/4 (two phrases of 5). It's a nice rolling-along-on-elephant-back type feel with heavy influences to the Police.

In the middle, I jack around with many different ideas: the bass changes to 13/8, the marimba is in 5/8, the claves are in 13 but are doing a pattern opposite of the bass groove, the triangle is in 7/8 and the drums are in 4. It all finds its way back home somehow. Hope you like it.

Hardware:
iMac DV, Korg X5D, Tascam US-428

Software:
Digital Performer 4
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Space reggae &mdash 07/01/04 - 05:23:22 AM
Nice sound, great production... but about 3/4s of the way
into it, a strange wooshing sound (in my right speaker)
burst in with no reverb and sounded like digital distortion
(yet none I'd ever heard before). I had headphones on and
it made me think Rastafarian aliens were trying to
download something in my right ear. Freaked me out.
But the mix of meters is wonderful interplay. Nice track.

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interesting &mdash 07/01/04 - 06:23:28 PM
I like your ideas on this track very much. Very nicely
produced too.

However, I felt like there was something missing....an
identifiable melody or voice on top, perhaps. To me it
almost sounds like a "Music-minus-one" sorta thing. (Just
my opinion, please take with HUGE salt shaker.) The
combination of textures and rhythms are wonderful, and
you create a nice mood in this song.

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Great job &mdash 07/05/04 - 07:51:36 PM
I think it would have been a challenge to do this in
GB because of the time signatures.

I am glad to have discovered your music. It is truly
wonderful.

Still stuck in Indiana...

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