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a piece I prepared to soundtrack a video of our student culinary team at practice.  Behringer Pro 800, Moog Grandmother, Roland Juno 106, and a little VST plate reverb.

great unwashed luminaries - chef's lament

A live version of one of my oldest tracks, "A Message To Screwtape", from the first GUL album "Like Watching Television In the Dark".  Featuring the following synths:
Vermona Lancet (bass swells, white noise pad, single saw lead)
Roland Alpha Juno 1 (strings, pads)
Roland Juno 106 (string pads)
Casio PT-10 (arpeggio)
Korg Monotron & Dave Smith Instruments Tetra (noise bursts)
Korg Monotribe (repeater bass, drums)
G-Media M-Tron (mellotron strings)
Alesis Picoverb (reverb)
Line 6 Echo Park (delays)


Message To Screwtape live 072111

Mahaffay vs SG and Tele

Every year I record an EP and give it away as a free download.  This year's will be a soundtrack for an imaginary 1980's cop action/drama "Mann V City".  This is the first track.

Gear used the entire song
Moog Little Phatty Stage I & MF-101 low pass filter
Roland Juno 106
Oberheim Matrix-1000
DSI Tetra
Alesis Bitrman, Picoverb & Ineko
Line 6 Echo Park
Acetone Rhythm Ace drum machine & real drum samples from the bluemonster file sequenced in Reason 2.5

0:00 - 0:50 Acetone drums; Juno noise crashes, DSI aliens patch, MF-101 self-oscillation, and M-1000 patch 801...all through huge Ineko reverb & Echo Park analog delay; Juno bass & LP triangle bass pedaltone layered
0:50 LP string bass patch (programmed from the Source patch sheets); LP triangle thru Bitrman ring mod, echoed & delayed as above
1:26 bass pedaltone ends, Juno soft pad enters
2:29 - 3:12 LP bass, Tetra saws 5th pad (buzzy), LP saws 5th lead, Juno high string drone
3:12 - 4:15 real drums; LP string bass; LP numanpad (basically LFO waveformed pad that I'm monkeying with the filter on); 3:53 the Juno pizzicato string
4:15 enter a super chorused filter LFO'ed PWM Juno string pad & LP 70s seq arpeggio thru Bitrman phaser
5:08 PWM pad goes low, LP 1 square lead thru slight reverb & echo
5:46 Tetra sync lead w/echo; a low soft-mallet cymbal roll I repurposed from another of my recordings
6:02 Juno noise crashes, return of the Juno/LP pedaltone (more prominent this time); monster synth string layer (M-1000 patch 601, Tetra 4osc strings & Juno strings), LP saws portamento

Main Title Sequence for Mann V City

Original version from Jay's 2010 album "Kicks Against the Pricks".I spaced out the original recording but never took it to the extreme I wanted at the time.Jay has an EP "Give Me the Go Ahead" he wants to include with the first pressing of "Alter Ego Trip", his new album, and asked me if I'd go ahead and take "Skin" to the original conclusion for the EP, so here it is.I took the original track and erased all but bass guitar, one lead guitar, lead vocals and the "weird" stuff I did before.So here's what you have now.
- fuzz bass from the original track (in a subsequent mix I low-passed the bass to take out a bit of the high end) with a patch from the Moog Little Phatty Stage I aping the part
- four tracks of Marigold's affected vocals, from the original mix.They were mixed way down on the album track, for the remix I brought them back to acceptable levels (ie. WAY UP!)Those vocals were low-passed, delayed, reverbed, ring modded, formant filtered, reversed, elongated, etc.Basically all around "fucked with"
- one lead guitar track reversed
- Jay's vocals comprised five tracks.I made a submix and then treated it to the Korg Monotron filter and bandpass filtering, distortion, reverb &amp; daily.Then I kept one stereo dry vocal (muted the rest) and used the treated submix for color
- my original Oberheim Matrix-1000 synth arpeggio was kept and then I added a host of other synths, mostly drones.The Roland Juno 106, Moog LP and Vermona Lancet all droned on B with a little taste of LFO warbling the pitch slowly.
- drums were added and played by hand to the original drum beat.Kick drum from the DSI Tetra (then "grinded" in the Alesis Ineko) and snare from the Moog LP (plus reverb) then compressed.
- three guitar tracks were added.I tuned my 93 MIM Telecaster's strings to B (all 6 of them) and played through a Pod.Mostly just drone, but two of the parts actually play a melody.I then took those three tracks and added LFO to the pitch in the DAW.
All toll it's a big whoozy MBV-styled mess, which is what it should've been in the first place.


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