Short: Experimental ambient tune, OSS, 8ch. Author: neurodancer@gmx.de Uploader: neurodancer gmx de Type: mods/neuro Architecture: generic "Glacier Dream" It all started long ago, during a chat with Razfaz, himself creator of very fine and technically brilliant songs (hey, respect where respect is due). He uses OSS' echo function excessively, playing it as a rhythmic echo that repeats every quarternote. We talked about the problem that, using echo this way, the echo of a bassdrum is right "over" the next beat, thus killing much of the "kick" of that bassdrum. Back then I said that I'd like to try some sort of ambient tune (without drums) to play with the beauty of that echo function and see how it works out this way. Some idle afternoon I remembered that chat and started with some extremely wacky-sounding 5 or 6 patterns. The fragment lay there on my HD, I didn't want to delete it (after that shitty work of finding the correct delay value according to the 110 bpm), and I couldn't find the motivation to continue it, either. What you are hearing now is, about half a year after the first steps, the result of my constant idleness :) - the basic patterns and ideas are still there, yet I changed many many instruments and re-arranged the whole thing many many times. Concerning this part, I believe that I never put more work into a damn song than this one. The rest is rather simple. I used this rhythmic echo to play single notes following my "allround" scale Es-Major, and these add up to some sort of chords by echoing into the following notes. I found that "technique" (uuuhhhm) extremely catchy during composing as you'll hear. :) During composing it was indeed my intent to let some harmonic development in the arrangement "unfinished" and return to the start of the sequence, as so to keep the listener waiting for more to happen. One might say that the monster climax the song reaches doesn't fit the arrangement, and I partially agree with that, after all it was just a try which carried me away, but in the end I was so touched by the simplicity and power of that part, and that led me to keeping it the way it is now. I hope you enjoy this song as much as I do now. Alex aka Neurodancer/1oo%, 28-Feb-1999, 20:57. neurodancer@gmx.de