And now, a song to get the ol' adrenalin pumping:
Name of this composition: "Pentagonic"
Style: Oddtrance goa, in 5/4
Influences: A real toughie. Probably, in general, a lot
of the modern electronic stuff is heavily
influential, as are a lot of the modules which
I collect regularly off the aminet myself.
A working definition of oddtechno: Techno music, of any style, which does
not fit into the standard 4/4 meter. Not only does this keep it from being
predictable, but a lot of intricate patterns are possible, too.
In this case, we have oddtechno in the goa style, in 5/4. Surprisingly,
though, the rhythm flows quite smoothly. And, as is a requirement of
goatrance ... it is mega-fast! (I really think Goa is becoming my favorite
style ... we will see ...)
The 5-beat drum loop used in sample slot #1 was created using a nice little
program called ps3mrec, available on the aminet in mus/misc I think. It
will take any S3M, MTM, XM, FT, or MOD and render an IFF or WAV sample.
This is my first attempt at using the program, and I think the results are
very listenable.
NOTE: This release is a bugfixed version. Due to a tuning idiosyncracy,
one of my drumloop samples acted very strangely on a PC Octamedplayer. I
have now corrected this error.
Credits go to: Teknique, Colitis, and others, for playtesting and support.
Saraba, for hugs, and for the Deep Forest Sample.
K-P Koljonen and Jarno Paananen, for writing the PS3M
player and recorder programs. I have found these VERY
useful.
Comments, as always, to bobclark@freenet.scri.fsu.edu
I almost have material for an album ... soon, soon ... :)
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