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C O M P O S E D B Y :
M E T S Y S / S E t
S A T E L L I T E E N T E R T A I N M E N T T E A M
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Check out the Official Satellite Entertainment Team Home Page!
http://www.seteam.com
I am open to all CONSTRUCTIVE critisism, ideas, suggestions, and so on.
So mail me at...
Metsys@seteam.com
THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG:
As you know, this is my first release, and it was entered into MC6
(Music Competition 6), and I HIGHLY recomend it to any new, or experienced
tracker. I finished it at about 1:21 in the morning, and after I got only
a few hours of sleep, I sent it off to the MC6 entries FTP site, 5 hours
before the deadline (I heard of some people that sent it only minutes
before the deadline. I'm writing this on the 15th, so I finished the song
yesterday.
I first had the idea for this song a while ago, and my friend gave me
the excuse to compose it for MC6. I accepted the challenge, and started
to compose the song only a WEEK before the deadline...
The original ideas for this song were done on my QS6, and I wanted to
use those same instruments in the song. So I hooked up my Alesis QS6 to
the computer, recorded some sounds as WAVs, and imported them into my
Impulse Tracker song (I forgot to mention, this is also my first song
using IT, but I composed with Scream Tracker III earlier, so getting used
to the interface was no problem).
I continued for 3 days, and then it was Monday... The deadline for
me (living in California) was Tuesday, 5:00pm. I sat on my butt for 18
hours, finishing the final parts of the song. I finished it at 1:21am,
and entered the song at about 12:00pm the same day. Now all I have to do
is wait... for a while... um... untill... <snore>... September, to get my
results back from the contest.
Some things I decided to do for this song was first... Most of the
trackers wipe the instrument names and headers to put their song title and
other info. I know what it is like trying to find instruments, so I left
the file names and descriptions in the song for trackers to use. Second,
I also found that some people who record their samples, say that you can't
use them, or you have to give credit. So, I decided to give trackers the
FULL right to use my samples, just to make everyone's lives easier.
In closing, this song was great experience for me, and anyone who is
interested in tracking, I suggest you start composing, and enter MC7 next
year (if there is one, the Hornet Archive is dispanding), and be a judge
also, musicians are ALWAYS wanting to hear from their listeners!
WHAT IS SEt:
SEt, or the Satellite Entertainment Team is the developer group that
I'm part of, and I'm one of the two founding members, and I don't want to
be the only musician and ANSI artist in the group! If you are interested
in the following: Programing, Artwork, Music, or anything else that might
help us... please join. Go to our site and find out how!
So far we are just releasing songs and pretty pictures. We WOULD
have released a door game, and finished our BBS, but BBSing doesn't seem
to be a big thing now, lets just hope that ANSI artwork doesn't go with
it. Our BBS was a big deal at the time, and total I drew 157 ANSIs for
NOVA BBS, also known as NOVA Station MSL-32. Thus the name of this song.
This song is a tribute to all of our old ideas that just never happened.
It is sad though... 157 ANSIs that are collecting dust not being used
(anybody want some? No, serious! Mail me).
SAMPLE CREDITS:
"Mechanism 8" and "Hypercontrol", by Necros, "Nine One One", by WAVE
(MC champ, 2 in a row), "Peekaboo", by Radix, "Aquaphobia", and
"2nd Reality", by Purple Motion of Future Crew (big hello!). Voice
samples from Shatterd Steel by Interplay, and the rest by me (that
American who thinks he knows so much), except for a cymble. I have no
clue were that came from.
- Glen Moyes (Metsys)
Metsys@seteam.com
ICQ: 20906082
July/15/1998
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POST STATEMENTS:
Just for future reference, my "Post Statements" are any comments that
I have after the completion of the song. I always write my first remarks
immediately after I finish.
MY BASIC OVERVIEW OF THE SONG:
It sucks. Well, it is not TOO bad, but after I sent the song off to
MC6, I found a lot of problems with it (some of the more anoying ones are
fixed in this official release). This is what happens when you wait
untill the last minute to compose a song. With homework, it might work,
but not with music.
The next song I'll be working on is called "Lazerium" (this one
shouldn't suck). I got the idea after playing Laser Tag. Laser Tag was a
good source of insperation at the time. So, I got home, pounded out some
notes on my synth, and wrote them down. The song has a lot more "techno"
elements that this one, so we'll see how it turns out. "Lazerium" should
be finished... whenever.
POST MC6 NOTES:
Well, I just got the results back from the competition (25 days
late due to the lack of votes turned in on time) to see what people think
about my crap-- uhhhh... music. Well, to put it plainly... my song
bombed. I do think the judging was a LITTLE unfair, but honestly there
was NO way I could have made it to the Final Round. I did get some really
good suggestions however. Most of the song comments I got back went
something like this...
"This is a good song, earned well above average. Good mix of bass,
background padding, decent leads, and a welcome chord progression. But I
can't give it top marks because it isn't a stunning peice. It's too
repeatitive, few mood changes, but the atmosphere created gets cool to the
end... good ending. Nice samples, but they were used to death. Probably
and early demotune-aimed melody,Find new ways to provide a 'hit' and
change the lead instrument more often. The key change could have come
earlier. Overall, a standard entry. Needs more creativity and more kick.
Generally tracked."
Well, there it is. The above paragraph is actually a mix of 5 song
comments. I got some good comments to make this song better (except one
guy who only wrote 3 lines). The main problem with this song was the
little amout of time I spent writing it.
Alright, I'm sick of writing. I think I'll work on "Lazerium" and
those dumb MIDIs for the Web Page. Untill then, keep tracking!
- Glen Moyes (Metsys)
Metsys@seteam.com
ICQ: 20906082
September/29/1998
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VERY POST STATEMENTS:
Finally released song today (1/30/1999) now that the Web Page is
finally up! I also just recently joined IMM, the Internet Music Monitors
(http://surf.to/the-imm/). Go there, cool site, great songs! I'm also
working on another cool piano/orchestra piece, "Ashen Skies". That's it
for now (it sure took a while to release it didn't it?). I'll try very
hard to get both songs done soon. It's time for some real commitment!
See ya!
-- Metsys@seteam.com