Howdy there. I hope you're enjoying this assembly. I put quite
a lot of effort into it, actually.
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This piece has admittedly plenty of influence from a very old,
somewhat unknown song made by Fleshbrain, called 'Timebandit'.
Unknown, I assume, because it was not included among his songs
in the Mods Anothology CD. His 'Timebandit' was one of the
truly creative classics; it is very old however, born near the
very beginnings of the Amiga tracker music genre, so the sound
and the instrumentation weren't among the best (the very
concepts were being built around that time); however, the
mockingly cool melody and well made, working structure make it
a true delight. My regards to the old master.
Other influence that may show in this production are from
Purple Motion, Captain, and of course the amazing Mechanism
Eight by the even more amazing Necros. :)
Plus, of course, you may notice it has a rhythm structure very
similar to my earlier releases Rama Gardens, Omniphilia
and Data Jack. It's starting to look like a real series now,
isn't it? Eh. Either I'm still 'refining the concept', or am
just plain out of ideas. Hopefully someday I will learn how to
give a song a real STRUCTURE.
During the making of the song, my friend came to hear it and
said it sounds quite a bit like KMFDM's new stuff - and played
me the CD. Bleh. I thought this kinda music was something
new. :) Later after that, another friend of mine told me it
reminds him of Power Rangers. Aaaaaarghh!!! NOOOO!!!
*ahem*
This is not a 'real song', as it doesn't consist of parts of
equal length, repeated in a correct sequence, nor a 'base
theme'. Rather, it is a mere random sequence of rhythmic
components. This has always been my problem; I tend to come up
with a shitload of loose ideas, but cannot arrange them properly.
Check out the loose 'bonus part' for example. I simply couldn't
fit it in!
Necros's Mechanism Eight is, in my opinion, a very fine example
of how much one can build on a working basic theme; the simple
three-note main theme repeats through the whole song, but the
song doesn't suffer from this at all - vice versa. There is
enough variance and the rhythmically correct sequencing which
keep the song entertaining all the way. It is also fine example
of great mixing skills.
Sample credits go to Purple Motion and Edge's Korg 03R/W for
the ultracool IMissJimi guitar samples and the PowerRock blast,
Groo for the Bass Grind and MinorArp, HeatBeat for the hardcore-
ish Constructor techno drums, Travolta for the organ chords,
Bruno for the PetraSnare, Necros for the KorgTotalkit.snare,
Airwalk for the CannedSnare, and my larynx for the screams
except for #37. :)
The rest of the samples are sample synthetized, or from
unknown sources, thanks go to whoever they are. Special thanks
go to Liam the Lemming for coming up with a divine inspiration
for the name of the song. It's now been changed TWO times. :)
Signed,
-= Skaven
05/27/1997 A.D
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