Name: Mining The Asteroid Belt Part II by Marc Dauncey in Marc Dauncey - Cosmos LP (release version)
Duration: 4 min 8 s
Description: Strangely calming considering I literally sampled a pneumatic drill

alien industry indeed. loving the pneumatic drill detail lol

Piece creates exactly the mood the title describes.  Really works.

This is the release version of the album I've been working on for the last three months of my life. Thank you to all my listeners for your support and I hope you enjoy this version, which has been professionally mastered.

The bandcamp version comes with a 20 page colour digital booklet featuring many of the cosmological structures the album focuses on:
https://marcdauncey.bandcamp.com/album/cosmos

"The album is a darkly satirical look at humanity’s relationship with the cosmos. Looking into the near future where human beings mine asteroids for precious metals with all the attendant exploitation present in terra-based industries today. We start from the sun and move outwards. 

Heavy Metal Rain On Venus is stark warning on the consequences of climate change on earth, presenting a literal hellscape of molten metal raining on the scorched plains. 

Next we view Earth through alien eyes recieving the scrambled &  babbling radio signals we’ve been emitting for over a century, before moving on through the solar system taking in comets, asteroids and moons of Saturn and Jupiter. 

The album then leaves the solar system with Voyager 2, takes us to the deepest darkest interstellar voids before leaving us standing on the shore of an alien planet buzzing with life.

I wanted to base each piece on my emotional reaction to the location in question, which turns out to be a mixture of awe and even fear. These are after all, huge natural forces the scope of which is so much larger that our tiny lives. So when I think about places like the bootes void, millions of light years of nothing, I try to imagine what it would be like to be in the middle of that, just for a split second. A place so alien, dark and cold that it defies any human experience. It is that strangeness and mystery that I wanted to capture in my music. We are made of the same stuff as all of these structures. The universe exists within and without us.

I'm influenced by so many great musicians who've addressed this subject matter in the past. Eno & Tangerine Dream spring instantly to mind. But also nineties ambient like the sadly missed Pete Namlook, Monolake, modern classical composers like Max RIchter, Philip Glass and even drone rockers like Sun o:))). I was watching Star Trek alongside producing these and that is also a huge influence. I hope you enjoy listening to these songs."

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Marc Dauncey - Cosmos LP (release version)

Sagan discusses the story of the Heike crab and artificial selection of crabs resembling samurai warriors, as an opening into a larger discussion of evolution through natural selection (and the pitfalls of intelligent design). Among the topics are the development of life on the Cosmic Calendar and the Cambrian explosion; the function of DNA in growth; genetic replication, repairs, and mutation; the common biochemistry of terrestrial organisms; the creation of the molecules of life in the Miller–Urey experiment; and speculation on alien life (such as life in Jupiter's clouds). In the Cosmos Update ten years later, Sagan remarks on RNA also controlling chemical reactions and reproducing itself and the different roles of comets (potentially carrying organic molecules or causing the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event).

Cosmos Part II - One Voice In The Cosmic Fugue

here's a song about my beautiful daughter.

You And I

Heavy Metal Rain On Venus (Atomic Weight Breakbeat Mix)

A journey through the free fields of space...
The "track art" image is this time a computer generated graphic from my pixel kitchen
The ingredients to this song this time are:
Electra, Prophet V, SQ80, JV-1080, Dune 3, EMU II, ANA 2, Zebra2 and Nave.
Enjoy it


Eine Reise durch die freien Felder des Weltraums...
Das „Track Art“-Bild ist dieses Mal eine computergenerierte Grafik aus meiner Pixelküche
Die Zutaten zu diesem Song sind dieses Mal:
Electra, Prophet V, SQ80, JV-1080, Dune 3, EMU II, ANA 2, Zebra2 und Nave.
Viel Spaß damit

Free Fields

Strangely calming considering I literally sampled a pneumatic drill

Mining The Asteroid Belt Part II

Earth

Heavy Metal Rain On Venus (Ansound Rework)

Transmission III

Thirteenth Century Cosmonauts

The growing pain of a new DAW.. But looking forward to the adventure.

Accidently Like a Martyr (Warren Zevon Tribute)

Mining The Asteriod Belt (Breaking Rocks Album Version)

From the new world percussion album “Vibrations Empowered Within”- https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/vibrations-empowered-within

Mood Exhibit - Naja Sumatrana

Wired

An Empty Safe

Pigment Phantom 12-23-24 [Full Version]

mix/master : Skrapes (@officialskrapes)


et dans la nuit je cours, je tombe 
je m’acharne comme un ange qui pleure  
des fois j’aimerais quitter ce monde
alors dans la neige en silence je creuse ma tombe  
j’veux pas leur dire, au fond j’ai peur 

j’attends, je cours, je tombe 
alors dans la neige je creuse ma tombe 
 je cache mes secrets dans l’ombre 
je veux pas te partager avec le monde

je veux pas te partager avec le monde 
______

and in the night i run, i fall
i’m fading like an angel crying
sometimes i wish i could leave this world
so in the snow i dig my grave in silence
i don’t wanna tell them but i’m scared

i wait, i run, i fall
so in the snow i dig my grave
i hide my secrets in the dark
i don’t wanna share you with the world


i don't wanna share you with the world

je creuse ma tombe

Welsh musician and composer. If you like my stuff, please like, repost / share. And follow for more tunes

Mining The Asteroid Belt Part II

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