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Happy new year 2008!
Once again I'm faced with abusive traffic, this time from some fashion of spambots originating from various masterhost.ru domains. Their barrage has been daily and constant for a couple of months now, and after being unable to open a line of communication with abuse@masterhost.ru I've decided to ban the whole domain, at the risk of blocking legit traffic as well. If this affects you or anyone you know, get in touch (the contact e-mail is on the bottom of every page after the copyright remark).
Oh! And I just put up a couple of very different tracks in the demodir - both are currently easily available from the "demodir:newest" -box on the menu on the left.
mithemermx.ogg is a fun little tribute to the great game and equally great soundtrack of monkey island - and also a drum and bass experiment.
The new Fold-type distortion in Renoise1.9 is responsible for that neat stereo bass distortion prevalent in the beginning of the track. I can spend hours twiddling the controls with that - it's just that cool. Mind you, once I had actually found the best variations that would work with this track, I realized there was no way I could remember what the hell I'd been doing for the last 30 minutes, so the end result is kind of unexciting. Still, at least there's some attempt at showing what it can do.
departure.ogg is reminiscent of the kind of music I enjoyed writing back in my MPT times (although musically it's bland, so don't expect much). Working with horns was the way I got "Between here and Toronto" to sound as good as it does*), and today I felt like that's what I should be doing more often, instead of just mutilating low-quality drum samples into something they're not and never will be capable of. Just getting some harmony out of horns, flutes and possibly a piano can be all that's required to get a meaningful track going. If only I could work out some of the kinks in the orchestral vsti I'm using.
*) Well obviously I like the track, which makes no guarantee of objective "goodness". You'll have to decide for yourself.
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