Sound is transmitted through as vibrations, detected by the ear drums, and interpreted by the brain.

track notes

Inspiration:
this entire track was inspired by the source of the audio sample - the BBC archive, and an 1969 look at their Radiophonic Workshop. It's amazing to think how far we've come. There's also heavy use of Ableton's spectral resonator device, which is just mental for creating vocoder, and totally new sounds. The main pads here are a spectral resonated sample of Indian singing..

This track's challenge:
I've gone for a triplet time for this track, i think it gives it a more happy skippy feel, without the need for adding groove or swing to anything. It's also the first complete track I've made in triplets, which was a challenge getting to grips with triplet timing in arpeggiators, delays, and arrangement.

I have specifically chosen not to use crashes, cymbals, risers, or other such effects on this track. An experiment on whether it's still possible to get the flow of energy in to the music without those things. 

Sound design:
I've also chosen not to synthesise bass again on this track. Instead fishing out 5 or 6 samples and loops from loopcloud, and then chopping them up, converting them in sampler racks, and rearranging. I find bass synthesis a drain on energy, and found sounds usually sound better anyway. But it does limit the range of notes that can be used, which makes me want to get a Steinberg Backbone license, since it's great at resynthesizing from samples.

Most synth sounds here are, however, originals. Some are made from scratch, others are presets or tutorial patches that have been tweaked and layered. I'm particularly happy with the main synth sound and how the layering and stereo field reminds me so much of shpongle's early tracks.

matering:
this still needs some EQ work, but that's a thing I'm almost never 100% happy with - I'd say it's 90% of the way there, and sounds good across the devices I've tried it on, even in the car. However, I can see from the wave form there's not a consistent loudness, so that also needs working out, but for a first pass it will do.

frequencies interpreted by the brain (original version)

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English hobbyist DJ and psytrance producer, his head in the clouds and his ears in the psychedelic back allies of the past. Decades ago jrb deejayed with tactile formats - vinyl, CD, mixing desks, now it's all done in software. Not live, non-destructive, remastered and spliced to high heaven. Earlier still jrb made music with the primitive fasttracker2 software music software for the PC, and ran music groups OnyxTrance (nxt), Blackhole (bh) as well as releasing for other internet module labels, such as Chill, Twist, and LoK. In between he released a few bootlegs (mixing vocals from one track with the backing from another track, with often hilarious results).

Some random modules or early DJ mixes from this yesteryear era may appear here from time-to-time... don't be alarmed!

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