The new project

[Dissily Mordentroge]

With all the other stuff I have going on (recording drum parts and trying to get 'Scenes' finished off), you'd think that starting a new project would be the most stupid thing to do but then you have to remember I'm not the brightest bulb in the box. So here's the first part of a second purely electronic/synthetic album of tracks I have been fiddling around with, tentatively titled Ebb & Flow - sounds like a happily married couple doesn't it! I am sure I will come up with another name along the way. Anyway part one is based around the emulated sounds of the Fairlight CMI, which in it's day was out of reach of most people due to it's hideously expensive price tag. Isn't technology wonderful - you can now have access to the exact same sounds for 30 bucks or less. You know where to go - http://www.auralscapes.com - this is only for electronic geeks like myself and other assorted nut jobs. The only time I have written a piece in a really offbeat time signature - first movement is in 9/8. That's the reason you won't be able to tap your foot in time to the rhythm - unless you are Simon Phillips of course. You just have to let it flow over you - geddit?

This is rude of me jutting into this discussion but from the perspective of an audiophile (audiophool?) I wonder what gear you’re listening to this stuff on?
Unfortunately a question like that could drag us all the way back into the studio with questions about how those drums , mentioned earlier as being too prominent, were miked (presuming it was a real kit and not digitaly generated - Fairlight?) Anyhow, more often than I care to think about drum tracks on my main system are so prominent it’s painful so you’re in good company.

I’ve tried to listen to the track/tracks I think you’re talking about but the link only brings up "404 - File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.”

Finally got to listen to a few parts of ‘Into Imagined Lands’ and although i didn’t encounter the drum track referred to I did notice one aspect I hear too often with digitally generated music. Different ‘instruments’ at times sounded as if they were being played in different ambient spaces. I notice many listeners younger than myself don’t find this disturbing but my brain appears to struggle in an attempt to imagine the ‘real’ space all this is taking place in. Call me and old fart if you want.