Tight Like a Fist by illuminati [Email]
Genre: Twentieth Century
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The first of the six songs on my Dragonfly Dance EP from 1996. I decided to post some of my older work in an effort to consolidate my music somewhat. After the breakup of my band, New London, I went back to college to get my teaching license. While finishing my coursework, I completed work on a batch of songs, rented an Adat for mastering, and had cassettes made at a local duplication house. Then I gave them away to friends and family. I know some of the tracks even garnered a bit of airplay on radio stations in California and in Boston. Nothing like the hype behind New London, but that wasn't important. For the most part, though, this was a vanity project, designed to get me to actually finish some songs. The first track is called Tight Like a Fist, and it might be my favorite of the bunch. Please remember that this was done at home using a Portastudio to mix and one outboard effect rack that responded to midi program changes. My sequencer was a wacky entry level Opcode product called EZ Vision that I got to know pretty well that ran on my trusty piece of junk Mac Performa 6214. I love Macs, but this machine was always an underperformer. Ah, the days when you had to play everything! Every note, every drum part, every non-diegetic sound had to be placed and ordered. I think back even further to a time when all I had was a Radio Shack dual cassette stereo, my Casio CZ-1000 and a Roland TR-505 drum machine. You had to be damn creative to get music out of that simple rig. I recollect tricking the drum machine into driving the keyboards to get some sequencer like effects. I still have a copy of the first song I wrote with that setup. But I digress. Tight Like a Fist is a song in three parts. It should be played loudly. I hope you like it. View it as an antique found in the MacJams vaults. Hardware:
Alesis ADAT, Midiverb II, Roland Alpha Juno 2, Ensoniq SQ-2, Casio CZ-1000, Roland TR-505, Roland MC-202, Tascam PortastudioSoftware:
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You must be registered and logged-in to comment. I played it loudly &mdash 12/19/06 - 06:15:07 PM
Thanks PV &mdash 12/19/06 - 10:04:38 PM
Unique ...! &mdash 12/20/06 - 04:40:23 AM
lots of depth &mdash 12/20/06 - 11:58:42 AM
nice to go back a decade. &mdash 12/20/06 - 04:41:31 PM
Infectious &mdash 12/26/06 - 04:15:02 PM
A great listen &mdash 01/14/07 - 01:01:13 PM
Awesome &mdash 02/09/07 - 09:19:28 PM
My Portostudio Must Be Broken &mdash 08/03/07 - 04:28:06 PM
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