"Word Planet in Title (Variation)" [mp3 removed]
A remix of an earlier tune. Added a drum kit that sounds a bit like a live player struggling to stay in tempo with 8-bittish music. Also more filtering on the main voices and a kind of round at the end with two parts playing out of sync.
This is a repost of a song I put up in Jan. 2006. I changed the name because it was too much like some non-US TV show or something that was drawing insane amounts of unwanted traffic. Otherwise the post and the song are the same as they were.
"RT Controllers" [mp3 removed].
The Sidstation synth feels like a real black box sometimes--there are weird wavetable sequences programmed into the presets that don't come out unless you hold notes a certain way, and/or never come out the same way twice. "RT Controllers" is tightly organized (and short) and combines several hardware and software synths, but burbling in and around the regular sixteenth notes are these unpredictable "Commodore 64 game" swoops and blurps that the Sid just seems to make of its own accord. I've been avoiding overt videogame references but more and more I just want to let this machine go its own way, as Stevie Nicks might say.
"George, it's come to our attention that someone is using the THX Sound without authorization."
"Who is it?"
"Some obscure synthesizer fan site has a page called Famous Sounds."
"You shut down those little rat bastard motherfuckers, RIGHT NOW, you hear me? Get the lawyers on their asses."
"Gotcha."
"I mean, if these people are allowed to post crappy sound clips of the THX Sound, then every little rat bastard will be doing it."
"Gotcha, George, we will burn the motherfuckers."
"Blighted Industry" [mp3 removed -- a revised version of this track is on Bandcamp]
The type of music enjoyed by hormonal boys (e.g., speedbass) but the world needs more things hard, fast, noisy and arty. Used a rather severe compression plug-in, with a hard limit at -3 dB, suggested for broadcast. It's still plenty loud and had the effect of unifying a piece slightly marred by swooping and dipping volume levels. Normally the one-click maximizers are avoided. Am happy with the almost-atonal melody line.
