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Servants of the Wireless Mistress (Lamarr mix)

By laguna on February 9, 2014 11:02 pm

Dedicated to Hedi Lamarr, Hollywood femme-fatale and co-inventor of the frequency-hopping and spread-spectrum technologies (blueprint for WiFi and Bluetooth, among others).

Ableton Live, Casiotone MT-68 and some Machinedrum influences (the musician, not the awesome Elektron instrument). I started with a very old (circa 2000) idea in OpenModPlug Tracker, then exported all the tracks and finally got rid of my outdated dull triphop loop and the 75 bpm mark.

Maybe it's not good, but I'm proud I created something new and contemporary instead of repeating my old downtempo early works.

150 bpm. Hope some of you twist and dance.

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hedley lamarr? blazing saddles?

seriously though, really fantastic track. one of my favorites from you so far. definitely hearing the machinedrum influence, and i love it (he's a favorite of mine as well, Vapor City has been in regular rotation). i can tell you paid a lot of attention to the beat. great, great work.

preciouskindred wrote:

hedley lamarr? blazing saddles?

seriously though, really fantastic track. one of my favorites from you so far. definitely hearing the machinedrum influence, and i love it (he's a favorite of mine as well, Vapor City has been in regular rotation). i can tell you paid a lot of attention to the beat. great, great work.

No, I meant Hedy Lamarr. She was a star of the Golden Age, circa 1940's. I guess Mel Brooks filled Blazzing Saddles with a lot of obscure classic references, like the gunslinger that "killed more men than Cecil B Demille" smile

Glad you feel some Machinedrum in there ... I often bang "Fantastix" in my car way too loud!

Initially the beat was quite more "trip hop" oriented, like my original track back from 2001, but I got rid of it and started from an old Casio "rock" rhythm. My MT68 is one of the last analog ones, so it gives clear and rounded beats with a little bit of mixing desk overdrive. After that, I chopped all in Ableton to create that, may I say, "kinda-housy" feel.

Again thanks for listening and keep your great tunes coming!

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