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15. red spectre 9:54
0:00 dark and intense.
0.08 delay and echo environment., but with a clear underpinning of 8th notes.
0:13 dark and ominous low sound, with a strong inner rhythmic pulse.
0:37 vox + megaphone
0:47 a harbinger of sounds to come . . .
0:51 the sound that was just harbingered, now revealed to be a rhythmic sequencer - maybe just a bit like Morton Subotnik
0:58 a fermata - in electronic music? Unheard of !!! - but here it is, that is, until . . .
1:02 A rough dark low pitched sequence rhythm, with a slight but disturbing 'out-of-meter' skip every time it loops.
1:59 a sequence in the same tempo, but with a new electronic sound.
3:06 man - this line has been going on a long time.
I'm going back to 1:59 so I can count the times.
(no pejorative reflection on the poetic outpouring of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's husband and lover, Mr. Show-biz . . . Robert "Big-Fig HobNob AppleBobbin' Browning, NOR on Bob "Bobo" Dylan's lyrical allusion to Burgundy as a 'gateway drink' and his ensuing journey to lower depths, then back to sanity. Welcome back, Bob! We know it was all just some poetry in a song
in fact, indeed, you were never really gone.
Sometimes everybody has to go back to someplace or sometime to find out if there is a better
choice. Don’t worry. Go or don’t go.
Either way, nothing bad will happen).
So, from 1:59: I get 8 repetitions of a 4 or 5 measure loop.
This loop is a little tricky, too. It seems to consist of an anacrusis occurring within the last 2 8th notes of a measure, then into 4 4/4 measures of active rhythmic material. It 'runs out of steam' on the downbeat of the 5th measure, and the anacrusis occurs on the 4th beat of the 5th measure. So we have a 5 measure loop - 17 beats of rhythmic activity, and 3 beats of repose. This loop is repeated 8 times.
3:09 Music change. Now we are presented with a 6 measure loop. Beginning on the downbeat of measure 1, there are 5 4/4 measures of active rhythmic material, which also seem to 'run out of steam', but this time at the 6th measure. The 6th measure seems to be in 5/4 or darn close to it. So, 20 beats of rhythmic activity followed by 5 beats of repose. A 6 bar, 25 beat repeating loop. Except for the added measure and the extra beat in measure 6, there is a clear similarity to the previous loop which began at 1:59. Somebody was having a “mathy” day!
at 4:35 & 5:02 there is a sequenced beat which seems somewhat reminiscent of Autechre or Aphex Twin when he put his drum machine through a fuzz box. Except here, one measure is all we get, then the material is cut up and 'randomized'. Really not that useful for raves or other trance events, like discos or Meat Packing District weekend nights - which probably by now is soo 10 years ago!. I guess I'm willing to do just about anything to make sure there is no commercial potential and no way to really make very much money with the old "musica originalis". Oh, well - I kinda liked the early Prodigy Experience better anyway.
On the other hand, listening to head bopping material that is cut up and 'randomized' feels like a language that has simply not been decoded yet. Hey - all I need is a Rosetta Stone that can translate the stuff I have intellectual rights to into the equivalent of a famous Mersey Beat band, like Gerry and the Pacemakers or Jay and the Americans. Then I'll be well on my way to realizing "The Dream" – Ahhhh - the dream . . . the dream of someday joining my contemporaries and becoming another in a short list of big-time American thousandaires!!!!!
Hmmmmm, let's see --- "life goes on day after day" - yeah, okay. I should be able to write something like that . . .
Well, let me finish this CD and I'll get started on my Mersey Beat phase.
8:09 finally - a semi-new loop, and this one only slightly
trips and falls over itself for about 1/2 a beat every in the middle of every 4th bar. Anyone could dance to that, right? And don't forget - you're not supposed to be dancing. You're supposed to be sitting down watching a film with a strange red tint that's over a century old. So, for a history lesson, I think this music is pretty darn bopable.
9:27 some echo-ish delay stuff in the background. Just than
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