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Songs and Places
Not surprisingly, our human brains require audio as mental stimulation to returning us to a particular time in the memory bank. Whether or not the memory has been altered be other circumstances, we are "transported" back to the sensations of that time - as in the brain goes into "trickery" mode and triggers the same impulses as to what was felt at the time (or remembered as being felt at the time).
I'll get the ball rolling:
Wolfsheim's "Once in a lifetime" - a strange goth club in Salt Lake City, where I poured far too much Guinness down the ol' gullet (almost out of spite of the hyper strict Utah drinking laws). There was some cat walking around like a maitre de - only to find this was just another patron, looking for LDS converts, probably.
Phil Fuldner pres. Superfaktor - "I Don't Care" - driving up and down the freeways in Las Vegas, looking for a place to have breakfast where I didn't have to be a "member" of the casino.
Rachel Stevens - "Crazy Boys" - Driving a winding 2 lane road called the 401 in Amish country, on my way to one of my company's manufacturing plants. Lots of dead deer.
Skinny Puppy - "Second Tooth" - Just leaving the campus computer center at New Mexico State University after hours. I had a two hour "chat" with a woman (probably twice my age) over the Internet who worked for some faction of the US government.
The Prodigy - "Poison" - Driving my Honda Civic directly into another car at some 45 miles per hour. Pretty much demolished his car, but left a mild dent and scratch on mine. Neither of us were insured.
Bird York - "In The Deep" - Sitting in a lonely hotel room in Los Angeles, waiting for the cats from Purr Machine to call me back. I had just watched "Crash" on the plane ride out, and recorded the audio track from my computer onto a CD. Must have played it about nine times in a row just sitting there.
Pop Will Eat Itself - "Not Now James" - Colfax and Speer, in the car with my younger brother. He was quite shocked that such a beautiful woman was not only my wife, but reciting the lyrics (with passion).
Your turn.
-=- Boom chr Paige
VSTi's
It's a really thick and versatile board, when you get down to nuts and bolts. It introduces enough personality to let you take over. And a built in sequencer gets you, well, writing songs in the middle of the desert. ;)
But, it's 2009 - I don't even wire in the old synths anymore (oh dear - my roland jp-8080 from '98 is now in the same class as my RMI Harmonic Synth from '73). I just looked up at the SQ80, and it's caked in dust....
But, but...
No, but's - blame Siegfried Kullmann - it's his fault, really. He basically ripped the guts out of the SQ line and slapped it all Visual C++ style into my cubase vstis!!! Just like that. And nevermind the scholar - the gentleman in the fellow allowed me to dump my own hardworked sysex files via midi and import back into the app! So I just import - and I'm back in action with a better recording resolution than before.
Seriously? How much did I pay for this beast behind me collecting dust? (Mind you, it does have much more responsive keys than my alesis...)
Run a goog on "SQ8L" or visit www.buchty.net/ensoniq/#sq8l
But - seriously - program your own bloody sounds and stop asking for mine!!!!
Honesty and best policies
In 1991, I spent most of my evenings tucked away in the terminal room of the dante forest (or should I say ring...too much 'AD' these days) of new mexico state's network. while probably not ideal for my health or sanity...no, there's not even a qualifier for this one. it wreaked havoc on my sanity.
so much so that I began inventing alter egos. ahh - sure - i plugged my band (then not named) society burning to anyone who'd listen, but let's face it: by about 3am Mountain Standard Time US, you don't find a ton of DJs on the net then (then meaning 1991).
So I began doing what people are barely starting to do today in second life. I created an virtual ego, called Bob who hosted a talk show. Never mind that Bob got yelled at and flamed incessantly - told which newsgroups he was to stick to and never post to again. Bored at Night, I called it - well actually BAN because I had been "banned" from so many newsgroups, and it's so nineties to backward engineer acronyms....
I even had people threatening legal action against me for my posts. :) I wasn't even legal to drink yet (I was still nineteen), and I had already managed to have a couple of virtual lawsuits thrown at me. Morons.
It's really so strange when you look back and detail out what bizarro things you've done, and how showing only the slightest hint at literacy (or at least typing skills) allows your life and words to be read by whomever, whenever. It's a little creepy, and beginning to catch up with me. :)
Later, friends!
-=- Boom
new psychal update
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Society Burning
Alright, alright... I'll post some sobu news:
State of Decay is coming to an iTunes near you...I'll give a complete update on when it's available.
What is State of Decay? Well - thank you for asking - it's the album that we completed in 1994 that would only go out to a handful of journalists and record label bosses - that would go on to be 'rockified' into TACTIQ - that would get forgotten for a decade and a half - that would be available on iTunes in 2009.
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Tactiq will be available on iTunes shortly as well. I'll get a note out on that one as well.
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Internal Combustion? Yep - it's being wrapped up this April. We've been a little bad and purposely leaked some audio here and there...go find it and enjoy...
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