sitari - they replaced the magic with machines
By george bowles on August 24, 2014 6:24 pm
so, back in high school one of my best friends got me into weird music and being a musician. he was a year younger than me but much more knowledgeable on music and probably a lot of other things too. he's a big reason i started playing guitar and writing electronic music.
fast forward decades, and he has slowly trailed off being a musician, to the point a few years ago he didn't really do it any longer. on the flipside, i have slowly become an all out musician in a variety of styles. last year though, my old friend started playing acoustic guitar for his students in Cambodia, where he teaches English now (he moved over seas to teach English years ago, and has lived in Prague, Korea, Thailand, and Cambodia).
then this February, he actually fired up his Impulse Tracker software and wrote this track and asked me to collaborate on it somehow. since his style is quite a bit different than mine, and this is his comeback track, I didn't alter it drastically. I basically just became the "mastering engineer" for this and did subtle things with it.
I wanted to do more, but the idea came to me sort of the last minute, and I didn't have a lot of time to work with.... which is fine, because I'm not sure I would have brought much to the table for this. it's pretty cool as is.
his idea is to write a tiny album in one track based on the theme of the title of the track. it's not one of his best works, but it is pretty good for someone who had not programmed electronic music for a decade (he used to do it all the time).
so this is not only an overseas collab from Cambodia to Illinois, it is an homage to an old friend and fellow musician. i also used to use impulse tracker quite a bit and was my introduction to sequencing electronic music before I went all in with FL Studio in the late 90s and haven't looked back.
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