Name: Metropolis by Matt Gooderson
Duration: 4 min 26 s
Description: Build around a modular synth improvisation using Intellijel's Metropolis sequencer, this composition explores machine made music in contrast to what it means to be human. The fragility of human instruments such as xylophones, glockenspiels, pianos and bass clarinets play the music made by the machines to highlight what it would be like to be part human part machine.

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Build around a modular synth improvisation using Intellijel's Metropolis sequencer, this composition explores machine made music in contrast to what it means to be human. The fragility of human instruments such as xylophones, glockenspiels, pianos and bass clarinets play the music made by the machines to highlight what it would be like to be part human part machine.

Metropolis

This song is about human sympathy. 
A thought experiment: You go to a restaurant with your family. Everybody is very hungry and orders food, but for some reason, only you get your food. Can you enjoy eating it while your loved ones are staying hungry? Your happiness is in this moment linked to theirs. When they are feeling bad because they are hungry, you cannot enjoy your meal properly. So you share what you have, because you feel sympathy. 
Where does this sympathy for others end? Where should it not end? Is the mere anonymity of the countless people who are starving, homeless, sick or working under terrible conditions a valid reason to not feel sympathy? 
In a globalized world, the unhappiness of some will lead to the unhappiness of those who exploit them and try to ignore it or not to think about it. By caring, everyone will benefit. 
In my song, I illustrate this mechanism of “your happiness is my happiness” in a very simple way. The piano melody is repeated unaltered four times. In the last repeat, the surrounding harmonies change. The feeling of the piano melody changes accordingly. For being part of an arrangement, a world full of other sounds, its feeling is determined by its surroundings. This is true for music as it is for life.

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Thanks to Jude Beck for the original photo on unsplash.com:
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Your Happiness Is My Happiness

We’re bringing together two House music heavyweights for our next Nothing Else Matters release; UK Dance legends Alex Metric and Waze & Odyssey team up with US vocalist Russoul to present brand new single, ‘Jack To The Future’. With combined releases between them on labels including Relief, Unknown To The Unknown, Edible, Anjunadeep, elrow and VIVa, and multiple sold-out shows across the globe, this pairing proves to be the perfect artist combination to produce a straight-up, non-nonsense, jackin’ number. ‘Jack To The Future’ uses a combination of cosmic pads, plucky bass synths and wandering arpeggios married with Russoul’s hooky vocals, wonky acid b-lines and a pulsating low-end; resulting in a dancefloor-ready club anthem.

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A song "I got back up“ is created to show both sides “black & white”, from people wanting to knock you down but you rise back up even stronger and happier.

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Track taken from the new album 'Rites', released via Subtext Recordings.

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