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that bit is the bit I was talking about down here http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4414648#r7012919 - the bit I came up with first but decided it was better just dropped in the middle somewhere rather than being the basis of the whole piece

works better that way I think

mostly square or shaped pulse waves mixed with the noise generator, very short attack & decay with 100% keyboard follow on midi notes set at 1/32th length put through band pass filters at varying cutoff & resonance

a bit of cross modulation on one of them, a bit longer decay and more noise on others

You shall be slipped in alongside a Muse cover of Sign O' The Times.

If you don't mind?

Are the shows archived online? Can I 'listen again' ?

Thanks
Not sure how I missed it until now

thanks, that's good to know
I don't really make any journeys longer than 15 minutes and most of those are on my bike

you reminded me also of Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings and particularly this favourite bit of mine

66

They watched the landscape, sitting side by side
—An Odeon went past, a cooling tower,
And someone running up to bowl—and none
Thought of the others they would never meet
Or how their lives would all contain this hour.
I thought of London spread out in the sun,
Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat:

99

I love that stanza

ha of course

umm well
I have one of these http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/jup6.php# and all of the sounds came from there straight into my soundcard

this track (it's the same track in two parts) started with me exploring how to make drum sounds with the synth so I began with a bass kick and after a few attempts got a nice one and recorded the audio

then I tried some hats, some percussion, some clap sounds and so on recording them in short clips into ableton

only having the one synth means recording each bit separately but it takes midi so I would write a 4 or 8 bar hi hat pattern and then play it through the synth, get a hi hat sound for example (noise generator, through band pass filter with a short filter (vcf) envelope and a medium short amp (vca) envelope etc) and then I'd record for a few minutes and slowly move the filters, envelopes etc by hand until I had a nice or useable take

basically I repeated this about 20 times with different patterns and had myself a pretty complicated rhythm track

then I tried to figure out a bassline - there's 8 bars in the middle of the track that has a melodic bass bit with chords - that's what I came up with first and it's a nice melody but I wanted something that just rocked tight with the rhythm so I took one of the percussion patterns I'd written and put it through the synth with (and here's my bass sound if you can follow) osc1 at -2 with a saw wave synced to osc2 at -1 with a sine & noise with the 24db lpf at 15% and the vcf env at 25%

...and it sounded great so
I built the track kind of around that - or rather I rinsed every idea I could get out of the synth and ended up with about 40 channels and between 5 and 15 riffs on each channel

at this point I usually think to myself 'fuck, how the hell am I going to arrange all of this' and this time was no different but I thought I'd try and do a live take building up the track and triggering different parts

I have one of these http://midiland.godo.co.kr/shop/skin/default/img/product/novation/ReMOTE_ZeRO_SL/angle.jpg which automatically maps to ableton so I just busted a live mix using that

the key with this track, as well as the nice sounds, and with all tracks in a sense, is reverb & delay. I set up a reverb send & return & a delay send & return and as well as triggering and fading the arrangement I'm doing a lot of work on the faders with the send & returns and I one point in the track I completely cut the reverb & delay and the track jumps really close

so yeah, one take 12 & a half minutes. It's not perfect but it's probably more interesting for not being perfect

then I did the second track with the bits I didn't use from the first take and used the same method, pitched and eq'd a few things in the rhythm track and tried to get a completely different feel

so I think that about covers it

unless you have some specific questions

What do you mean? Does the label have a hardcore fanbase in Castle Donington or something?

it's different in town I guess - traffic is steady, predictable & relatively slow - plus good cycle lane network

probably safer to blast this in-car if we're talking countryside A & B roads though

But it's very amusing

*Is Body_In_The_Thames killing music?* and he'll be all over it.

I liked it btw, though wasnlt actually that sure about the Bowie cover, but that is more down to not liking the original either.

If I ran off some stems I wonder if anyone would be interested in remixing it?

I already have a zip of the Malawi Moonbase stems

Anyone interested?

Downloading now, going to have some fun with this.

I hope it's been fun and that I labelled everything correctly and all that

look forward to hearing something

any news guys?

I will post you a mediafire link, have it uploaded to soundcloud anyway. http://soundcloud.com/skellywager/body-in-the-thames-i

Everything is being shitty on this connection I'm afraid. You might have to make do with the mp3 on soundcloud.