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French Soler - LA Love (Zeds Dead Remix)

La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix - High Contrast Remix)

From Glow in the Dark Treasure Hunt (2012)

Most sounds made with Korg's DW8000 

There are two images/memories in my head when I listen to and was making this song:

1. A documentary on assisted dying by Terry Pratchett: http://youtu.be/slZnfC-V1SY

2. Driving through the Mojave desert in Joshua Tree

Lions Tigers and Apes

From Glow in the Dark Treasure Hunt (2012)

Part I: http://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow/lions-tigers-and-apes

Most sounds made with Korg's DW8000

Lions Tigers and Apes Part II

Download this song: http://jakechudnow.bandcamp.com/track/carlin-dream
Watch the video: http://youtu.be/HaOzCxSXScU

Context:

Asleep, dreaming, on a wintry night in 2011, bundled up in the bed of my Brooklyn apartment.

That's when and where I made this song. I remembered the soundtrack to my dream so vividly that when I woke up in the middle of the night, I got out of bed to recreate what was to become the beginnings of "Carlin Dream." It makes me wonder what buried corner of consciousness that melody came from, and why these sort of things come to people while they sleep. This isn't the first time I've dreamed of a melody and turned it into a song later.  I guess it's not totally crazy that we can dream music though: where do melodies come from while we're awake anyway? I'd bet it's the same place. 

As for this piece, I recently stumbled across the original music files and decided to build on that 3am stream of consciousness to finish it here, one year later.

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Sage Gwatkin