Track number 4 "EthNiziZazi" from the iTsAbEat albumsite:
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Home page: http://www.tuncak.com/
Alternate link:
http://www.itsabeat.com/

Press Release: http://www.tuncak.com/Press/TuncAk_iTsAbEaT.pdf 
hi-res album covers: http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/albumcover/


DESCRIPTION:
The debut albumsite by Tunç Ak – iTsAbEaT – is an urgent, stereo imaged, tribal, electronic instrumental beat psychedelia. Please visit http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/ to experience the music & recording package.

PLAY / listen online. The site “lights” up when the music is played with hypnotically changing colors (use arrow keys for songs).

DOWNLOAD album for free in four formats of your choice: MP3, AAC, AppleLossless, or AIFF. Delivered in (app installer like) DMG files that launch when downloaded. The electronic “record” package.

POST a widget of any song to any site. The ability is by a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. This is the modern 45 single that can proliferate the Web.

REMIX. For those who are musically inclined have the opportunity to be part by remixing any song from the playlist. The raw and pure nature of the music encourages creative elaboration. Stems for every song are available in a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. The completed remix is then submitted to the site where it will be posted and played on www.tuncak.com/itsablog with its own site number and its own generated widget that can be posted to any site. In addition, album covers for these remixes are offered in layered files for those who are graphically capable to visually remix the art to place in the ID3 tag before uploading. Read submission details found at legal line at the bottom of the playlist page.


Tunç Ak • EthNiziZazi

Track number 13 "maHgaZma" from the iTsAbEat albumsite:
http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat
Home page: http://www.tuncak.com/
Alternate link:
http://www.itsabeat.com/

Press Release: http://www.tuncak.com/Press/TuncAk_iTsAbEaT.pdf 
hi-res album covers: http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/albumcover/


DESCRIPTION:
The debut albumsite by Tunç Ak – iTsAbEaT – is an urgent, stereo imaged, tribal, electronic instrumental beat psychedelia. Please visit http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/ to experience the music & recording package.

PLAY / listen online. The site “lights” up when the music is played with hypnotically changing colors (use arrow keys for songs).

DOWNLOAD album for free in four formats of your choice: MP3, AAC, AppleLossless, or AIFF. Delivered in (app installer like) DMG files that launch when downloaded. The electronic “record” package.

POST a widget of any song to any site. The ability is by a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. This is the modern 45 single that can proliferate the Web.

REMIX. For those who are musically inclined have the opportunity to be part by remixing any song from the playlist. The raw and pure nature of the music encourages creative elaboration. Stems for every song are available in a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. The completed remix is then submitted to the site where it will be posted and played on www.tuncak.com/itsablog with its own site number and its own generated widget that can be posted to any site. In addition, album covers for these remixes are offered in layered files for those who are graphically capable to visually remix the art to place in the ID3 tag before uploading. Read submission details found at legal line at the bottom of the playlist page.


Tunç Ak • maHgaZma

Track number 16 "mEkAnItRoNiK" from the iTsAbEat albumsite:
http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat
Home page: http://www.tuncak.com/
Alternate link:
http://www.itsabeat.com/

Press Release: http://www.tuncak.com/Press/TuncAk_iTsAbEaT.pdf 
hi-res album covers: http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/albumcover/


DESCRIPTION:
The debut albumsite by Tunç Ak – iTsAbEaT – is an urgent, stereo imaged, tribal, electronic instrumental beat psychedelia. Please visit http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/ to experience the music & recording package.

PLAY / listen online. The site “lights” up when the music is played with hypnotically changing colors (use arrow keys for songs).

DOWNLOAD album for free in four formats of your choice: MP3, AAC, AppleLossless, or AIFF. Delivered in (app installer like) DMG files that launch when downloaded. The electronic “record” package.

POST a widget of any song to any site. The ability is by a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. This is the modern 45 single that can proliferate the Web.

REMIX. For those who are musically inclined have the opportunity to be part by remixing any song from the playlist. The raw and pure nature of the music encourages creative elaboration. Stems for every song are available in a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. The completed remix is then submitted to the site where it will be posted and played on www.tuncak.com/itsablog with its own site number and its own generated widget that can be posted to any site. In addition, album covers for these remixes are offered in layered files for those who are graphically capable to visually remix the art to place in the ID3 tag before uploading. Read submission details found at legal line at the bottom of the playlist page.


Tunç Ak • mEkAnItRoNiK

Track number 20 "beATsoFF" from the iTsAbEat albumsite:
http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat
Home page: http://www.tuncak.com/
Alternate link:
http://www.itsabeat.com/

Press Release: http://www.tuncak.com/Press/TuncAk_iTsAbEaT.pdf 
hi-res album covers: http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/albumcover/


DESCRIPTION:
The debut albumsite by Tunç Ak – iTsAbEaT – is an urgent, stereo imaged, tribal, electronic instrumental beat psychedelia. Please visit http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/ to experience the music & recording package.

PLAY / listen online. The site “lights” up when the music is played with hypnotically changing colors (use arrow keys for songs).

DOWNLOAD album for free in four formats of your choice: MP3, AAC, AppleLossless, or AIFF. Delivered in (app installer like) DMG files that launch when downloaded. The electronic “record” package.

POST a widget of any song to any site. The ability is by a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. This is the modern 45 single that can proliferate the Web.

REMIX. For those who are musically inclined have the opportunity to be part by remixing any song from the playlist. The raw and pure nature of the music encourages creative elaboration. Stems for every song are available in a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. The completed remix is then submitted to the site where it will be posted and played on www.tuncak.com/itsablog with its own site number and its own generated widget that can be posted to any site. In addition, album covers for these remixes are offered in layered files for those who are graphically capable to visually remix the art to place in the ID3 tag before uploading. Read submission details found at legal line at the bottom of the playlist page.


Tunç Ak • beATsoFF

Track number 8 "zApTuReZ" from the iTsAbEat albumsite:
http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat
Home page: http://www.tuncak.com/
Alternate link:
http://www.itsabeat.com/

Press Release: http://www.tuncak.com/Press/TuncAk_iTsAbEaT.pdf 
hi-res album covers: http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/albumcover/


DESCRIPTION:
The debut albumsite by Tunç Ak – iTsAbEaT – is an urgent, stereo imaged, tribal, electronic instrumental beat psychedelia. Please visit http://www.tuncak.com/itsabeat/ to experience the music & recording package.

PLAY / listen online. The site “lights” up when the music is played with hypnotically changing colors (use arrow keys for songs).

DOWNLOAD album for free in four formats of your choice: MP3, AAC, AppleLossless, or AIFF. Delivered in (app installer like) DMG files that launch when downloaded. The electronic “record” package.

POST a widget of any song to any site. The ability is by a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. This is the modern 45 single that can proliferate the Web.

REMIX. For those who are musically inclined have the opportunity to be part by remixing any song from the playlist. The raw and pure nature of the music encourages creative elaboration. Stems for every song are available in a hidden menu that reveals when scrolled over to the left of each song. The completed remix is then submitted to the site where it will be posted and played on www.tuncak.com/itsablog with its own site number and its own generated widget that can be posted to any site. In addition, album covers for these remixes are offered in layered files for those who are graphically capable to visually remix the art to place in the ID3 tag before uploading. Read submission details found at legal line at the bottom of the playlist page.


Tunç Ak • zApTuReZ

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THE VIBE

Tunç Ak (toonch ahk)
Music & Lyrics • Acoustic Guitar • Vocals • Editing

Michael Jost (yost)
Recording, Editing & Mastering • Electric Guitars: Slide, Wah, Overdrive, Chorus, Rockgod Solo, Bass


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THE PROCESS – HOW THE SONG WAS MADE

The Vibe was recorded after the iTsAbEaT mastering sessions were completed with Michael Jost. It started with me asking Michael that after we are done with iTsAbEaT would he do a simple recording of me singing and playing acoustic to this new song I had recently wrote. I just wanted a clean recording of me while I had him around.

When it came time to record The Vibe, he said before we start we should record you to a basic beat just in case you'll want to add anything later. He made a simple beat in Rebirth and then he first recorded me playing two acoustic tracks and then two vocal tracks over that. He suggested we do a third track of vocals over the chorus using this vintage 1950's bullet mic he had which gave it this somewhat distorted fuzzy quality to my vocals.

When we were done I asked if he would play a little slide guitar in there. I was thinking it would be cool for the fun of it to give it a bluesy old time'y feel. He said sure but took out an electric steel guitar instead which gave it a whole 'noter vibe. Cool, and it turned out great! He then asked… "anything else?" and I said well while we are it how about some wah guitar (to give it some funk). Little did I realize at the time that I was asking the wah king to which it turned out super groovy. Dam this was starting to sound like a finished product! That session ended and I went home wanting more. 

This was more than I asked for and now I wanted to finish the song the way I envisioned it with overdriven electric guitars. We met up a week later and he laid down two different distortions with two different guitars. It had the power and fullness of what was in my head. Let me add too that communication with Michael was made to seem easier than normally because he is so skilled, he just played simply what I wanted with no effort and mostly with just one take, I had unwittingly lucked out with this guy. Well now, he said, we need some bass, so he laid that down too! Session ended the song was pretty much done.

I came back a week later to do the mastering on it but instead I asked him to add this 3 note progression that I was hearing created in the symbiosis of the slide and wah buried deep at the intro of the song right before the vocals start. I described it to sound like a western scene of a showdown, a sound similar to the intro of "Shine On You…" on Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album. He knew exactly what I was talking about and chose to use an old MXR phase 90 that David Gilmour actually used on that song creating the chime like progression and giving this fast-steady song a sense of atmosphere. Also during this session I asked for a lyric change from "It's not conspiracy, to no conspiracy". He punched in that line of me singing and it sounds seamless in the song.

Now that I had a clean single cut of the song, for the experimental fun of it, I asked him (as an alternate "album" version) if we could extended the ending for a long time, like a minute or more, so he can throw some crazy shredding, a "never ending" heavy metal solo over it. He said "sure" and went to work extending the ending but leaving my vocal harmonies intact which I hadn't initially wanted but which worked out great for the cohesiveness of the song. Once again I had heard deep beneath the groove of his jams, this time towards the ending right at the change, a symbiosis of the 2 wah layers creating this groovy little riff. I told him to keep that in mind when doing the solo and accentuate or hook the solo with it here and there. So he rocket launched into it and let me tell you the best part of this was to watch as the cue came for him to start and how he jumped right in wailing. It was funny and amazing to watch him go nuts, which in actuality he himself looked calm doing. He laid down 2 different solo's on top of each other with two other guitars (he practically has a guitar museum). Wow, it was a cacophony of sound, a psychedelic masterpiece, really powerful stuff!

I went home to trip on it and analyze, It was all over the place and fantastic, almost avant-garde how nuts it was. There were parts in it that were maybe too similar or hard to digest and with further listening the more I wanted that solo riff to be used elsewhere. I started hearing where this riff could be repeated to anchor the mad genius soloxpolsion he performed. We met a week later and he did his magic in ProTools clipping snippets I wasn't crazy about and bringing the other track licks more up front to cover for it. We did this here and there on a few places. Then he copied the intro riff to the solo and we used it on the seventh measure of both of the eight measure sections of the solo, repeating it in each section back to back and stereo separating it to give it distinction. In the second section there was a lick I wanted removed but it left a gap in the solo but where Michael had a killer solution to fix it by repeating the last riff before the cut gap a couple times and then a couple more times in quicker repetition – that not only solved the problem but made for a natural sounding and exhilarating peak in the solo. Wow, the magic and the abundance of creativity with modern computer recording!

One more session was left and a week later I was there to work on the stereo panning to give it an extra psychedelic dimension. Though he had started it, it was getting hard too explain the pathway so I ended up tweaking this part myself. Ideally I probably would like one more attempt on it as I was pressed for time but otherwise I am happy with it. The solo really travels around now when the headphones are on – very psychedelic.

What started out as a request for a simple clean recording of me singing my new song turned into a finished product. Working with a guy who plays like my favorite guitarists all in one like a mix of David Gilmour and Jimmy Page and who has the bright, upfront and clear recording quality of like a George Martin was extremely lucky.

The Vibe is about not getting away with anything in life, you only kid yourself if you think you are. Life is actually transparent if you have the vision to see through it, all you have to do is look. Besides there will always be someone who see's it for what it is so it's really is no mystery. The universe holds no secrets that are not there, there are no secrets. So be honest and sincere!



Tunç Ak • The Vibe

Tunç Ak • Music & Lyrics / Vocals / Acoustic Guitar / Synth
Tracy Mills • Producer
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