"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!
