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The Future Will Be As Unrecognizable As The Past (Dissection 11)

By george bowles on February 9, 2014 8:01 am

so the theme reverse influenced this quite a bit. about half the samples are in reverse, probably more than 1/2. this is some free jazz/prog rock I recorded back in 2004, and the idea was to continue editing the original tracks of this improvisation (recorded drums/bass/2 guitars/analog synth/trombone/mixer feedback and studio fx). so I would have a bunch of tracks to work with and plenty of time to edit. each track of this gets more edited and reduced. track 1 is the least edited. this particular track is something I used the final edits of many samples on.

backstory is that I had 5 more tracks for this project years ago and the hard drive crapped out for these last 5, and I was never able to recover the data (I could send the drive in somewhere, but I can't afford it). so this week I've decided to set a deadline for this long running project and get it out there if anyone wants to hear it http://cosmiccolumnrecords.bandcamp.com

man, i'm a sucker for this type of music. fav'd / downloadin your album

checkTHISprivilege wrote:

man, i'm a sucker for this type of music. fav'd / downloadin your album

https://cosmiccolumnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/cc09-the-future-will-be-as-unrecognizable-as-the-past here it is man, thanks I am glad that you dig this weird stuff!

pretty good! unique and groovy!

Like. Crazy stuff!

in this project I ended up with around 200 samples after I had edited down the original material over and over

This sounds like me on a good day

I really like the minimal sound panned hard in the speakers at the start.  Really grabs your attention.  And that reverse snare gives it excellent presence in the mix.  Works a treat!

great tension in the beginning and awesome weird twist and progression later on.

Nice stuff, I like how it develops into unexpected territory later in the track.

great stuff. impressed with your attention to detail with all of your samples!

I love how one sound builds on others and it gets more complex as it goes.  Very cool industrial sound.  Makes me want to go work on an assembly line. (Not really, but it is sweet!)

Edmund Snyder wrote:

I love how one sound builds on others and it gets more complex as it goes.  Very cool industrial sound.  Makes me want to go work on an assembly line. (Not really, but it is sweet!)

this was kind of my one worry about it was that it sounded a bit too robotic or whatever, but then again industrial music and noise sounds is what got me into doing sound work (that and playing a guitar). I am glad everyone likes this, it was mainly about going through and choosing the samples as they were already edited for a long while, and then arranging them. the whole project was sequenced in FL Studio and edited in Sound Forge (I can't remember what I used to record it tbh).

Hey George, awesome stuff. I was really digging this as a peaceful (if still a little unsettling) groove to get lost in, then it transformed into something crazy.

Fantastic polyrhyhms, very visual. I'll be following your work closely (esp. since I found out you ain't no robot).

Jim Wood wrote:

Fantastic polyrhyhms, very visual. I'll be following your work closely (esp. since I found out you ain't no robot).

danke! glad you like my work smile

This is a great accidental-sounding hook, like broken robots taking over the Brill Building.  Excellent.

onezero wrote:

This is a great accidental-sounding hook, like broken robots takingm over the Brill Building.  Excellent.


yup this is a very deconstructed accidental composition pretty much... it was like figurung out how to fasten together disparate parts in a compellung way.

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