Another piece for the "Convocatoin of Wizards' Album/Playlist overall a series of "Hard mixes"

11/14: 1st major update: remixed wav in TRacks with Sunset Studios Accousitics/Reverb, Adding "interesting" air to backing, mix was sent to reel to reel tape for compression and added bias and then Stealth Limiter for final stage. All presence brought up, overall mix is cleaner and percise--most all transients left entact. Base mix and busses unchanged. This track has evolved (revolved ? :) )  into the "cornerstone" and  "keystone" of the whole album/project..

The story below shows the contrast of ideas of peace and war that drive this song (and even this album) and give this songs hard edge but also a somehow lamenting yearn for better times.

The Story:
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Zimmerhahn ducked quickly to the right, just as a huge rock crashed beside him but then rolled harmlessly down the hill. "Those Orges are getting better aim, time to make them forget that" 
As he bathed the Orges in a blue light, he had a sudden flash back to the day the assistant to the high mage had stopped by to tell his parents that he had been invited to enroll all tuition paid into the "School of Magearchy and Mastery". He was so young and just didn't comprehend how this would change his life, how... he would eventually wind up a Warcaster on a faraway battleground... *ZAHKK* again he instinctively dodges a Cantrip, that a rival Mage who didn't like his meddling had casted, as he dodged, he spun right and let off a flare of red fire that was slightly stronger than what his adversary had decided would be hit to stifle Zimmerhahn. The enemy Mage clutched at his throat as the pure fire collapsed his esophagus then shot straight up through the top of his head, he fell over just a smoldering husk. "Now all I have is killing and war" 
Zimmerhahn thought back to those innocent days, "If only I had not gone with the high mages assistance that day, maybe now ... would be .... Home..."

The Mage

I have always had a general rule about Wintermut3, "I make music I want to hear" A Part of that has been to overcome barriers and "traditions"  of what Electronic music has been and continues to be--the upshot being, Wintermut3 will move in directions (Funk, Metal, Rock, etc ) that are of interest, despite being a pure electronic artist. Note this does not exclude me from making more "common" types of Electronic music. I will never stop making--as long as I breathe--Trance, Jungle, Breakbeat, Techno, etc. In Fact for about 15 years I have been exploring the idea that we may be not just at an Post Electronica but may in fact be nearing a musical Epoch (for lack of a better word) what I am saying is we might be heading for a music metamorphis on the order of when Baroque became Classical Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann (most prolific composer in history, over 3000 compositions (Late Baroque-->Early Classical)  Mozart,  Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert. These types of musical epochs are a hundred to over two hundred years in length. The period that is being bridged for us is the hundred or even nearly two hundred period in which Blues and Jazz was born and then over a hundred years influenced nearly all forms of music that we know which all music was. Electronica was born around the mid to late 1920s as that was the time several electronic instruments (Theremin ). For the most part Electronic music has been amazingly resistent to Blues and Jazz, but there are definately times that resistence has lessened. I feel all the various forms of music that where born out of Blues and Jazz or heavily influenced by it are fusing back into Electronica. I am not the only artist who strives for a hybid of "real" and electronic. Only time will tell...  

to that end, from Blade Runner: 

Dr. Eldon Tyrell:  "More Human than Human"
which I extend to Wintermut3:
"More Real than Real"  (on creation of "virtual" music)

Overall I am inspired even driven by this quote:

“Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So, nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do…"  :Giorgio Moroder

In addition to living by the above quote:
Welcome to my nearly 20 year journey:  my music project Wintermut3 originally created in late 1998, with a first public release in early 1999 on mp3.com and other Music sites...

Originally inspired by the works of William Gibson, Wintermut3 is about bringing the listener into the sights and visions of the music. 
The music is highly story and concept driven and is made to immerse the listener in mood and feeling. 
The overall goal is to take the listener to a place they have never been before.
Highly infused with the music of Progressive Rock (Yes, Rush, Genesis, etc.) and early electronic (Tomita, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, etc) all blended in with more "contemporary" electronic sounds (Massive attack, Enigma, Orbital, the Orb, BT, etc) into something I call: "Concept Electronica". None of the sounds you hear in Wintermut3 are "loops" or "samples" especially the more organic sounds (electric guitars, horns, etc), I lovingly lay every note and run them through various software (DAWs, VST, VSTi, etc) and or model the Instrument that renders them. I have spent many many years to get Wintermut3 to sound as "real" and organic as I can... I take great pride in this ;)
Regardless, what results is music that follows the original premise of my musical "project" Wintermut3--music that is a logical progression of what is known and loved up to the point of the project's inception over 16 years ago--In short, it is music "Built for the Future", not now...but it is always fine to like, love it now...

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