ambient luuping modified electric mandolin quartet
electronica
progressive
punk
experimental
christian
heavy metal
psychedelic
avant garde
dark ambient
weirdness
psychedelia
slambient
Story behind the song
I had this punk song I was working on, but I couldn't quite make it sound or play it right somehow. The idea was clear: pound it out with totally b*** in' mandolin chords against a slammin' heavy metal drum beat. One night while watching a planet or something about Einstein on the Science Channel I was playing the Epiphone Mandobird VIII through my Digitech RP3 (a friend had traded me for a digital Echoplex emulator) and a looping digital delay, I happened to punch in a nifty sounding loop. That loop became my "percussion" track (I had to let just repeat for about 10 minutes or so). Then I played the punk thing against that through one of the RP3 programs w/ wah sound and voila! I found the way to do it. Thereafter it was a matter of playing the other parts onto the other tracks and mixing them.