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 |  Saga Musix presents: Ethereal Voices (4:44)                       |
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I've written this tune in 2009, but have not released it until now.
So here are some thoughts from back then...

Dark.  Darkness.  Pitch-Black.  Night.  This is dark.  Very dark. I normally
don't write tunes that sound as dark as this one. Why this darkness? I don't
know.  The first part is kinda spacy, chilled.  Then it gets a bit rocky and
also epic. I certainly hear 80s Rock in this one.
It's a bit like with "Timelord" last year (2008),  which I also wrote around
September. Maybe this month is influencing me?

Although this is pretty different  from my usual styles  (and I normally say
that every  tune that I do  is different, but  with this one  it's even more
obvious),  I'd say that there are a few Saga Musix "trademarks" in this one:
The running background melody that doesn't really change much throughout the
whole tune :P as well as the two bar break in pattern 30 that I use so much.
Can you find more? Another  new thing in this tune is the  fact that this is
the first time I'm actually using VST Instruments in a tune.

But this tune doesn't only contain new stuff...
This tune brings  back memories.  Memories of the music of the 80s. Memories
of times  when I  listened to less electronic  music.  Is  that change a bad
thing? I wouldn't say so.  My taste has changed,  I prefer electronic music,
but that doesn't mean that I don't listen to non-electronic anymore. It just
happens less often. I like the fusion of electronic and non-electronic stuff
and hence this tune has both.
This tune also brings  back memories of times when  music didn't  have to be
compressed to death to appear on an album.  So I've decided to leave out the
compressor / limiter  completely  this  time. This doesn't even  have  fancy
sidechain compression. Just look at this tune in a wave editor. Notice the
peaks the drums generate? Yeah, that's what it has to look like...

Ok,  so that's what I wrote  in 2009  about this tune. I've released another
track with  VSTis since then, so you  may ignore that sentence. :P  But it's
still worth mentioning because this track set it all off.
Since I  wrote this tune in September 2009, a lot of time has passed  by and
as I didn't  really see a chance to use this in a  demo or something else, I
decided to  enter the  streamed music  compo at Evoke 2010 with  a shortened
version of this track. Much to my surprise, it ranked 5th out of 19, beating
even many of the old stagers. ;-)
And now , you're listening to  the full length, full quality version of this
tune. It's quite a big module, but it's worth it. Don't you agree?

PS: The String Theory VSTi is very inspiring.

-Saga Musix, 1st of September 2010

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Greetings fly out to everyone I've met at Evoke 2010, in particular:
addie,  alk, Alpha C,  Axel,  Bit Arts,  cyraxx,  Deltafire, dipswitch, eha,
FishGuy876, Gasman, gita, Gopher,  halcy, jco, Joooo,  las, Leblane,  Maali,
maep,  malmen, manx, MedO,  m0d, mog, mouldyCat,  Mystra, ohli, Prince, urs,
Raven, Romeo Knight, seesaw, SilverLance, tEiS, Topy44, truck, T$, Ultrasyd,
Xerxes, Yes and Ziphoid.

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This work  is (c) 2010  by  Saga Musix of Nuance and  is  licensed  under  a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

This track ranked 5th in the streamed music competition at Evoke 2010.
Most work was done from 10.09.2009 to 13.09.2009,  the guitars were recorded
on the 26.09.2009. Small touch-ups have been done every now and then.

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You can contact me via e-mail at info@sagamusix.de.
If you want to chat with me...
- Jabber: sagamusix@jabber.ccc.de
- ICQ: 324324485
- MSN: sagamusix@hotmail.com
- EsperNet: #modarchive, #modplug, #mod_shrine, #modulez, #nectarine
  (Nick = Saga_Musix, Saga or S)
- IRCNet: #evoke, #bitfellas, #breakpoint, #tUM
  (Nick = Saga_Musix or Saga_Off)

Feel free to visit my websites as well:
- http://sagamusix.de/ - Here you can download all my music, free
  samples and other stuff. (German and English)
- http://sagagames.de/ - This website is German only (ATM).  You can
  download some free games  and applications (some of them are English)
  and more stuff here.
- http://openmpt.com/ - Home of Open ModPlug Tracker :)

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Sample credits:

All drum samples are from the Machinae Supremacy drumkit, except for the tom
samples, which are from the DKFH.
The guitar  samples were played by  a friend of mine on a Line 6 Variax 600,
using an Line 6 Pod X3 Live effect pedal.

// Jojo a.k.a. Saga Musix

• http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/Impulsetracker/Saga Musix
• http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/Impulsetracker/Saga Musix/ethereal voices.it
• http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/OpenMPT MPTM/Saga Musix
• http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/OpenMPT MPTM/Saga Musix/ethereal voices.mptm

1. Pluck
2. PWM Bass Pad
3. Delay Lama
4. Closed Hat 1
5. Snare
6. Kick
7. Closed Hat 2
8. Closed Hat 3
9. Open Hat
10. Crash
11. Synth Strings
12. Powerchords
13. Synth Pad
14. Space Melody
15. Guitar Drive
16. Toms
17. Solo Guitar
18. Lead Voice 2
19. Hipass Pad