mellotrongirl wrote:
>
> That $0.99 "phantom" flap over at Amazon last weekend...JEEZ!! That
> was the wildest roller coaster ride I ∗ever∗ embarked upon.
I ordered 26 albums. As of Tuesday they'd all vanished into thin air.
Oh well! I didn't really expect that I'd get any of them at that
absurdly cheap used CD firesale clearance price.
> Kind of reminded me of the story of a little old lady who went to Reno
> or Vegas>>some gambling casino in Nevada and started pulling the
> nickel one-armed bandits. Nickels turned into dollars, and dollars
> into thousands and thousands of dollars after a marathon two-day
> workout. However, she didn't know when to quit, and the next two days
> her winnings disappeared back into those slot machines. A TV camera
> crew caught up with her boarding a bus with her calloused hand wrapped
> in bandages...and asked "was it all worth it?". She nodded, smiled,
> and climbed on in.
That's a good story.
> Is the new Systems Theory a colection of all the mp3's offered on the
> soundclick site?
No. Some of the album tracks are represented on soundclick in earlier
demo or alternative mix versions. "Soundtracks For Imaginary Movies"
is very much an album of new material.
1) Green Miata Baja Bound. There's a shorter, fairly early, demo mix
on soundclick that has a Hammond organ instead of spanish guitar
mid-section.
2) The Cool Vibe Of Asia C. A fairly complete arrangement (sans
violin) demo mix is on soundclick.
3) Four Piece Suit. No version on soundclick.
4) Silent Service. A shorter arrangement of this is on soundclick.
Quite complete in form and structure.
5) A Lifeboat, Tallulah And Me. No version on soundclick.
6) Water Through Fingers. A much shorter demo version exists on
soundclick. In fact this might be the version I presented to Greg and
Mike. Or it's the version after Greg fiddled with the synth parts.
Anyway, it's a lot shorter and more to the point, this being the safe
haven for tronhounds, it has no Mellotron on it.
7) Zero Sum Equation. A very early pre-'tron demo mix exists on
soundclick. This is the last but one version that Greg and I worked
on before taking it to Mike.
8) One Step To Freefall. The version on soundclick is the version
that was on the ProgWest 2001 sampler disc. The album version has
come a long way. baby.
9) Last Letters From Stalingrad. No version on soundclick.
I recommend highly that anyone thinking about buying the album go to
our soundclick page and listen to "Concentrate #1". It can be streamed
in either lo-fi mono (good for dialup) or hi-fi stereo. Or it can be
d/l and listened to offline. "Concentrate #1" gives a very good idea
of what the album is about. Then go online with your pal Mr. Visa and
buy 10 copies... ;-)
> I spent a lot of time over there sampling the dozens
> of offerings. The music and overall affect is similar to what we
> create in the projects I'm involved with. I'm with a handful of
> musicians that occasionally get together and make a lot of free form
> spontanious creations as sort of the soundtrack to our main member,
> who is a videographer/projectionist. A lot of it is a light show, and
> a lot of it is a collection of home movies and still scenes of
> interesting photographs. During our last show, we assembled a stack of
> television sets piled into a large pyramid, and loaded up a bunch of
> VCR's w/various tapes hooked up to them all. It was crazy, but we
> achieved our goal of being totally misunderstood. In fact, our next
> show we're thinking of paying people to come. We want to induce
> rolling power blackouts next time we play. I bring along the
> Mellotron, an Optigan, Farfisa, and a handful of toy chord organs and
> other keyboards, and my bandmate brings in all these synths, mixers,
> amps and speakers. Sometimes we can be very ambient and flowing and
> sound like we have actually rehearsed something--other times it can
> sound quite abrasive and far flung. Very therapeutic indeed (at least
> for us). I sort of want to be more percussive next time (we actually
> use the rocker switch rhythm tracks from the Optigan to achieve most
> of this), but I'd like to convey more of a Organisation "Tone
> Float"/Ibliss "Supernova"/Jade Warrior "(early Antilles label era)"
> effect.
Sounds cool.
> I recently got a MicroKorg Vocoder, and was wondering if anyone ran
> any vintage/analog keyboards through it...and if so: are there any
> mp3's available I can listen to?
<paging Mike Dickson>
--
Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
Systems Theory internet music project links:
soundclick <www.soundclick.com/systemstheory>
garageband <
http://www.garageband.com/artist/systemstheory>
"Soundtracks For Imaginary Movies" CD released Dec 2004
"Codetalkers" CD coming late fall 2005
NP: nothing