Yep, intro's at the end. Beginning albums with intros is for fools.

Entire thing is a re-arrangement of the stuff I already had here with some slight re-mixing, less awful playlist name and pretending I make "records" now. A-side material by my standards, though. Bigger restraint in plugging radio noises everywhere too.

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It has 3/4 time in the second half and a small mellotron and minimoog bit. And some pretty bad electric guitar too.

Did you know some spiders breathe with their entire body surface? Crazy cool huh.

Make it up as you go along

I dunno. More of the same. Spot the opera singer sample. Made with a drop D tuned Schecter C1+ and has a 5/4 bit. Bit of a video too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlWnjwwZ-EQ

renamed since I feel have lost listeners here.

Not that soar loser probably.

Samples from Conet Project and a kick drum that goes PONK because it's ring modulated (delightfully terrible sounding effect). Took me a while to get how to properly synchronize arpeggiator with step sequenced gate. Contains usual amount of unedited flubs.

It was meant to be short tune for a clip on the top of youtube channel, but I kinda lost control and it's four minutes long again.


Intro (eins zwo)

Ton of radio samples again, I'm like Holger Czukay, just younger and with less moustache. Features guitar noodling over some Indian (I think?) guy speaking motivational stuff, recorded from theirs Adventist World Radio probably.

Absent Mind

I made a new jam, finally. Hodgepodge of space rock, dub and  clap-yo-hands arena rock sandwiched between electro intro and outro. Has its moments. 

Presented in Dolby 120BPM, made using the finest selection of Dunlop guitar picks with naked girls on them. Not to mention my snazzy new Ibanez bass. Make no mistake, this is a high budget production.

Rearward Effort

More bleeps and bwoops in the background sampled straight from my nifty Tecsun world band radio - few meters of wire antenna and you hear North Korean propaganda or a broadcasts from furthest Africa pretty well right here in the middle of Poland. I keep a list of most distant and exotic received stuff on my smartphone, which is sort of sad.

The bit hidden under heavier guitar part is a broadcast from Swaziland, Swahili language I think. Not sure about the cool singing part about 2:30, but I suspect some middle east station. Still trying to catch some pirates.

Air4

Another one from my imaginary band, where keyboard guy never uses more than three fingers with three chords, owns a stack of old radios and everyone gets high on motion sickness pills. Also bassist should play more often to avoid getting blistered fingers. Ouch.

Samples that you don't even hear most of the time taken from 50s TV show, freesound(hospital_tv_channel_change by gezortenplotz CC3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) and own recordings of radio and the Hyena Man that lives the floor below.

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28.11.2018: multivideoized:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEAIMp-vbBM

Misfit Sorbet

I've got meself a little USB floor controller with expression pedal (L6 FBV express), so there's a bit of guitar quacking here courtesy of POD farm wahs.    Aside of this, usual business, heavy-ish (altough standard-tuned) guitar, a sprinkle of synth pads, 5 string bass and laborious editing  out of more jarring signal interferences.

Sample sources - great cold war era (70's and 80's) broadcast recordings found on youtube and archive.org:
- A taste of the Cold War, on Short Wave Radio in the UK, 1982 by HawklordPXR5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxY5DTS0jp4)
- Cold War Shortwave by Paul Dougherty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3ZAUEpnJA)
- Shortwave Compilation One from Early 1977 by Wireless Static (https://archive.org/details/ShortwaveCompilationOneEarly1977)
+ couple of own late night (and not cold war) recordings

Some abstract noises taken from the soundtrack of an animated short Maszyna Trurla(1975). Initial plan was to use only TV samples, but couldn't find many I'd really like :(. Picture is a crop of an old Radio Netherlands QSL I found on the internet.

Cold Waves

Lets take a break from radio noises: this time background is padded with some urban ambience samples, mostly by miastodzwiekow@freesound and some recorded by me while strolling amongst commieblocks of my neighborhood with Zoom H1. Commieblocks is totally a theme here. All keyboard sounds generated outboard, with my spanky new Novation Ultranova.

Fragment with a tip of my nose in frame on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYy5Vcsr1Rs
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Sample credits:

"after school_os.sobieskiego_06.04.2016.WAV" by miastodzwiekow/Zuzanna Pińczewska (https://freesound.org/people/miastodzwiekow/sounds/342285/)
"06062015_tv sound at university.wav" by miastodzwiekow (https://freesound.org/people/miastodzwiekow/sounds/275685/)
"110824-ambience courtyard.wav" by miastodzwiekow(https://freesound.org/people/miastodzwiekow/sounds/130951/)
"aimlessly walking around and slamming the door randomly" by me

Plattenblau

I really like this one despite lame sounding drums. Crunchy guitars gel rather well with synths I think. Strained my creative muscle too - used 4/4, 3/4 and 7/4 time.
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31.05.2017 - replaced with remixed version with changed drums (BFD eco to Slate EX). Carving in Calais, 5th Anniversary Edition!

Carving in Calais

the wind whooshing thru the trees
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composition, guitars, bass, keys, drum programming, field recording, signals reception, spacing out and existential stupor - ZZ Kat (aka Łukasz)

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