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Title: Early Demo Tapes
Post by: PLAYSWITHMACHINES on March 18, 2013, 11:43:02 PM
While digging through the binary labyrinths of my computers, i found a folder called 'GTM remastered' and had to take a look....
It turned out to be one of my old demo tapes that was lost for 15 years, i remember it once fell into a vat of oil & started to dissolve!
I managed to digitise the remains of the tape a few years ago, then forgot about it ::)
As you may know, i love all music, especially electronic / early techno & even house 8)
I thought it would be nice to let you hear some of it, & give you a bit of my early history at the same time :P To start with, the original cover was lost, but it was something like this:


(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/brain-3J.JPG)

Cool, or what?
It goes well with the 'hippy-trippy' & avant-garde experimental phase of my life.(Yes, Robomont, i used to smoke stuff)

Most of this music was made in the early 90's on my beloved Amiga 500, the 1200, and the Roland i bought, i actually went without food to buy that damned keyboard, it has been my pride & joy for many years, but i rarely, if ever, play it these days...:(.

First off, there were some 'jam sessions' i recorded at Manic Studio's.Yes it was my very own place, batcave number 4, i will never forget that beautiful studio i hired together with a buisness partner, it was in Tesla Straat in a small city in the south of Holland 8)

This jam session, called 'crazy guitar & keyboard' was recorded in 2 takes, one where i played the ancient battered Roland Juno synth i had borrowed, and in the second take i raped a Fender 1964 Stratocaster with mother-of-pearl inlay & a whammy bar 8).
Then i mixed the 2 tracks together  :o
The guy i lent it from asked me to drill holes in it & fit an extra distortion circuit in there!
That guitar was / is priceless, LOL If it survived that is....
These you can simply download, none of that streaming stuff :)
{crazy}mp3
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/crazy.mp3 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/crazy.mp3)

Next up is one of my first ever MIDI sample programs written on the Amiga.
As usual, i went OTT and used 100's of instruments, mostly all at once, LOL
Let me know what you think :)
(This one's Windows media format, might give some of you problems)
{agro}wma
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/agro.wma (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/agro.wma)
Here is one of my later attempts, using just MIDI & the Roland, i find it 'relaxing, refreshing even' :D
{light}mp3
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/light.mp3 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/light.mp3)

Next is a project called 'death techno' i remixed this number more than 12 times, each one totally different. I was trying to combine classical instruments & tones with a thumping Techno beat.
Lots of church organ & piano in there, and you may recognise Ben Kenobi in there too :P
{dt3.4}mp3
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/dt3.4.mp3 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/dt3.4.mp3)

Now for you HARDCORE fans, i dabbled in that, too:
{threat}wma
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/threat.wma (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/threat.wma)

And this one i like, because it's called Yo, Freddy :)
{yo-freddy}wma
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/yo-freddy.wma (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/yo-freddy.wma)

This is another jam session i recorded, it turned into a really cool piece of music, IMO:
{jamm}mp3
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/jamm.mp3 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/jamm.mp3)

Another mega-project at the time was called 'the Test', this was on the most damaged part of the tape, so please excuse the quality.
If you had been lost for nearly 20 years AND get dipped in oil, sound as good, you will not :P
{testrem}mp3
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/testrem.mp3 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/testrem.mp3)

For you DANCE fans, i was dabbling there too, this was my first ever number written on a PC, using Ejay in 2002, i called it simply 'pc2002' LOL
{pc2002}mp3
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/pc2002.mp3 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/pc2002.mp3)

Here are some of the more experimental, shall we say, avant garde pieces i recorded:
{tengo}wma
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/tengo.wma (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/tengo.wma)
{reprise}wma

And a one-off play on that old Juno synth, what a sound!!
{teslast}mp3
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/teslast.mp3 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/teslast.mp3)

To round things off, i would like to post here a copy of 'Fukishima fallout' written by Amaterasu. I tried to do justice to the lyrics (which you can find in the thread linked at the bottom) but what we really need is some girl with a sweet voice willing to sing the text, with the backround music:

Preferably we should make a video of this & place it on the PRC channel on the Toob, don'cha think?

{fallout5}mp3
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/Fallout5.mp3 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/inventors_group/files/music/Fallout5.mp3)
ENJOY!
PWM
:D
{link}
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=1216.msg12651#msg12651 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=1216.msg12651#msg12651)
Title: Re: Early Demo Tapes
Post by: robomont on May 08, 2013, 02:03:04 PM
love techno.
i use to have mtv music generator.that program was awesome until my sony playstation crashed.
half my music on my droid is techno