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Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music

Review by Benjamin Bland

the best Venetian Snares album since Filth»

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Traditional Synthesizer Music is a collection of songs created and performed live exclusively on the modular synthesizer by Aaron Funk. Each sound contained within was created purely with the modular synthesizer. No overdubbing or editing techniques were utilized in the recordings on Traditional Synthesizer Music. Each song was approached from the ground up and dismantled upon the completion of it's recording. The goal was to develop songs with interchangeable structures and sub structures, yet musically pleasing motifs. Many techniques were incorporated to "humanize" or vary the rhythmic results within these sub structures. An exercise in constructing surprises, patches interrupting each other to create unforeseen progressions. Multiple takes were recorded for each song resulting in vastly different versions of each piece. 2LP A: Dreamt Person v3 Everything About You Is Special Slightly Bent Fork Tong v2 B: Magnificent Stumble v2 Decembers Can't Vote For Yourself v1 C:You And Shayna v1 Goose And Gary v2 Anxattack Boss Level19 v3 D: She Married A Chess Computer In The End Health Card10 Paganism Ratchets CD: 01/ Dreamt Person v3 02/ Everything About You Is Special 03/ Slightly Bent Fork Tong v2 04/ Magnificent Stumble v2 05/ Decembers 06/ Can't Vote For Yourself v1 07/ You And Shayna v1 08/ Goose And Gary v2 09/ Anxattack Boss Level19 v3 10/ She Married A Chess Computer In The End11/ Health Card10 12/ Paganism Ratchets
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