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it was summer vacation, 1999. i would routinely stay up all night dicking around with my computer, talking on the internet. 3-6 AM everyone was in bed, so i wound up hanging on IRC channel for , since they were good to talk with and awake at 3AM EST. on this channel, i met the chap that got me to switch to impulse tracker for a bit. one morning (evening, for him) he was all: listen to this! it's the best thing i've ever done! it was either "retrospection" or "bliss" off this album -- because, for about a decade, the only tracks of his i had were "bliss" and "retrospection." after it popped into my hed one day, i googled him and found i could just download the rest of the album. and he moved to LA and works for pixar now one of my favorite albums for driving around in summer heat. from the web page: Many of the songs on Retrospection were partially done as a proud show of what you could do with a tracker if you employed a bit of sound engineering work. The music scene in the mid-1990s is pretty different from today: these days, hobbyist musicians can pick up a copy of Cubase, Logic, Live, about ten brazillion VST plugins, and can churn out stuff that sounds almost like it came out of a production studio. It’s not quite the same scene as the mid-90s tracker heydays, where we had serious trouble mixing together a mere 16 channels with no anti-aliasing on 486DX2/66s. Thanks to the incredible coding work by Jeffrey Lim, making professional-sounding work from the humble Impulse Tracker was actually possible. While Retrospection was published in 1999, most of the songs on here were written in about 1996, an era where the Gravis Ultrasound ruled over the Sound Blaster 16, and when we were still tinkering around with evil DOS memory managers |
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after checking over the surrounding facts: this is the guy that got me to try trackers. at the time, i'd only gotten as far as: collaging stock loops in sonic foundry acid 2.0, then after a while, using FruityLoops 2-3 to make my own loops. i used impulse tracker for a few songs, then very quickly realized modtracker was more technologically up-to-date; more or less stuck with that until i got nuendo and subsequently VSTs. if i'd never had this guy raving about trackers to me at 4am when i was in high school, i wouldn't have had the urge to go back to trackers for a laugh, and would not exist. (what if your mom never met your dad?) |
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oh, no, wait, i used reason for a year or two in between trackers and vst. reason was actually the first time i "got" subtractive synthesis. up until then, i thot "env" stood for "environment" instead of "envelope" because that was kind of what it sounded like the knob did anyways, i'm just being pedantic, at this point. i'll not be back until i have another summer track |
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two uk garage mixes of nicole wray... i think they've both got a summery vibe - from 1998 and the slightly earlier (and endearingly cheesy) |
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Am I alone in not really rating The Gasman? |
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not a fan either really. the caretaker, however, is great (heh) |
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thanks for those dude nice one |
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