Format:

OctaMED Soundstudio MMD3

Size:

1029864 bytes

BPM:

136

Speed:

6

Channels:

11

Song Length:

48

Samples:

36

Patterns:

41

Tracks:

1

Track length:

451

SHA1:

d3468f1ff9426fc36d2d294b530333b2214ac1c5

MD5:

59cafbf0e327c536335051c5287cfd63

                         "Wings in the Wind"

     (an OSS 11 channel tribal/ethno goatrance track, 8:36 mins)

               Imagine a bird, on a tree in the desert,
        Unfolding its wings and spreading them into the wind.
        Soaring with heavenly lightness into the evening sky,
               Catching the sparkling of a setting sun,
     And on the fires below, upon the call of the Shaman's drums,
                      Imagine that bird is you.

                  by Neurodancer/1oo% on 23-Jan-2ooo


                               i N F O

    Finally! Another song finished. I started working on this tune
    after falling in love with kicking goa tracks that have tribal
   drumming, energy and beautiful simple melodies, stuff like "Nomo
      Butu" by Der Stern von Afrika or Elysium's "Wind of Dust".

     This is probably the piece that I've spent the most time on,
    ever. I think I began composing somewhere in the beginning of
    1999, having a cute track until the major break in the middle
     with the flutes. Then inspiration left me. At that time, the
    piece was very monotonous and much more percussive, with those
            dry and sharp samples from Dac over and over.

   And I was more and more unsatisfied with what I had done so far.
     In the end, I removed and/or shortened a lot of the original
     parts, replaced dozens of samples, added more different drum
            samples, and made the sound richer in general
                      by utilizing more tracks.

    The final touch of inspiration returned when I added the lead
    melody with the building and building resosample (the idea to
  stretch a reso riff over such a length was not mine, I've seen it
   in the goatrance tracks by Tarmslyng and was fascinated, thanks
        Mads - doing that in OSS is a lot easier, you know?:),
       and when browsing the Walkabout sample collection. Long
       ago, a friend said "new samples are like christmas for a
       composer", he was damn right back then, and he still is,
                         at least for me! :)

   Now that the song is finished I have the feeling that it is one
     of the most advanced tracks that I've ever created, and I'm
      really content with every damn bit of it that took so much
     energy and time to finish (sometimes I was really tempted to
                  delete it, just to get rid of it!)


                                  
     Please replay this song only with a replayer that is REALLY
     capable of replaying OSS modules correctly! I'm using upto 3
  command pages and patterns with varying length (up to 512 lines),
    ping-pong loops and lots of OSS effects. The OSS player itself
     will (of course) do fine, as well as the DeliTracker player.
  Replay in 14bit mode only, and if you can, use 44khz mixing freq.

          Other noticable features: 3 simultanous basslines,
 upto 6 tracks for the drumming, 36 samples, insane tribal drumming,
     and its the longest "Neurodancer" so far - 1 MB in size. :)

                And of course: play that baby *LOUD!*
  (due to the "mixing" its much more quiet than a regular 4 ch. mod)



                     S A M P L E   C R E D i T S

      I've really used a lot of ripped samples this time, wheee!
   I hope no one minds & the song has enough character of its own.
   Samples where taken from Dac/RR, the Walkabout sample collection
     (wonderful stuff! Tons of ethno/tribal sounds, the bongo's,
  flutes and stuff mostly are taken from there), Tarmslying/Loonies
  allowed me to use this killer resosweep sample (rendered with the
     Loonies "4bc" sound engine) which plays the lead melody, the
    chanting was ripped from another person, I forgot from where,
       sorry; the fat 303-alike barking is from Atomizer/Crux.

                        Thanks to all of you!


                            C O N T A C T

  If you like this track, please gimme feedback! Its so damn good to
 hear that someone out there likes my music. I promise to do further
  songs in return. :) I'm on the Octamed Amiga mailinglist (hi there
    everyone!), or just send email to neurodancer@gmx.de - thanks!

                      Have a good time everyone!

• https://aminet.net/mods/neuro
• https://aminet.net/mods/neuro/nd-wings.lha
• http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/OctaMED MMD3/Neurodancer
• http://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/OctaMED MMD3/Neurodancer/wings in the wind.mmd3