Miss Linda Lee
By Disposable Planet on May 23, 2024 12:09 am
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"'Hey. Case, good buddy....'
He looked up, met gray eyes ringed with paint stick. She was wearing faded French orbital fatigues and new white sneakers.
'Ive been looking for you, man' She took a seat opposite him, her elbows on the table. The sleeves of the blue zip suit had been ripped out at the shoulders; he automatically checked her arms for signs of derms or the needle. 'Want a cigarette?'
She dug a crumpled pack of Yeheyuan filters from an ankle pocket and offered him one. He took it, let her light it with a red plastic tube. 'You sleepin' okay, Case? You look tired.' Her accent put her south along the Sprawl, toward Atlanta. The skin below her eyes was pale and unhealthy looking, but the flesh was still smooth and firm. She was twenty. New lines of pain were starting to etch themselves permanently at the corners of her mouth. Her dark hair was drawn back, held by a band of printed silk. The pattern might have represented microcircuits or a city map."
Neuromancer-themed album, Track 3 - Miss Linda Lee.
Of all the tracks I made for this album, this one is my favorite. It is also the shortest track, much like the life of its subject.
Linda Lee is Case's not-so-official partner at the start of the novel and, in my opinion, the most tragic character in all of Neuromancer (yes even more tragic than Armitage/Corto). She's a street kid and has some major struggles with addiction as well as some serious struggles in general just trying to survive in Night City. Unfortunately they get the better of her and while I imagined this track as a much sadder piece when I started out making it it became adrenaline-fueled, dreamlike, and happy all on its own, kind of like the drug haze Linda inhabits when she's got a fresh fix and is riding high in one of Chiba's arcades. In a way this track represents the future she is struggling so hard to make for herself and hold on to, with her paintstick around her eyes, lost in an video arcade deep in a game of Wizard's Castle (one of the video games mentioned in the book, the other being Tank War Europa, which made an appearance in the first track, "Case").
So Linda and Case's respective songs are linked that way- through video games. They both feature the two video games in the book which I felt I had to incorporate into the album due to the heavy chiptune influence on its sound. This track uses a very modified struck drum macrosynth for the main lead which is stretched out and sounds a little Owl City with its portamento. A chopped and then not chopped amen break forms the backbone. Again a hypersynth (carried over from Molly's tune but more heavily automated) rides up on the first three channels and a slightly punky bassline (using the hatchback traffic of the future - a bass which reappears in other tracks) glues it all together. There is also a tamborine in there supplying some extra rhythm. There's no pulse leads and only one long drawn out arp so It's not really chiptune but it also is, in a way, in its bouncy spirit. Linda's spirit.
Thanks again for listening!
The full album is here for free licensed under CC Non-Commerical Share Alike with all M8 song bundles included: https://disposableplanet.bandcamp.com/album/the-color-of-television
All character names and quotes from Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
This is entirely unofficial.
Dedicated to my folks, Ralph & Sandra. RIP & infinite love.
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