Planet Unrealm feat Cobus Potgieter (drums)

Minotaur Project

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Minotaur Project

Minotaur Project is the musical journey of french-hungarian bassist/composer Matt Gabnai, writing a sort-of fusion metal music with an enormous variety of class

Minotaur Project is the musical journey of french-hungarian bassist/composer Matt Gabnai, writing a sort-of fusion metal music with an enormous variety of classical and jazz influences, often themed on literature, mythology, movies, or his own experiences. He started to play bass at the age of seventeen, but music quickly turned out rather a lifestyle for him, than just a hobby. After finishing his years in the local contemporary music school he was a bassist for Budapest-based metal group My Small Community, co-founder of the blues group Peef-Poof Project, and was also known for his work as a sound engineer. In 2010, as he decided to move to Strasbourg, France, and beside joining the heavy-metal group Mystery Blue, the long-waited distribution of his own music -Minotaur Project- has begun, with only a handful of aims to achieve: to provide music with an uncompromised quality of his influences, and to invite as many of his friends and favourite musicians to play with him as possible. Since 2011 he's one of the west-European endorsers of Prolude Amplification.

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Metal • Progressive Metal

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Peak #351

Peak in subgenre #71

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August 02, 2011

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MP3 3.8 MB • 128 kbps • 4:10

Story behind the song

The story of this video is that the guy who first gave me the idea to make videos of my songs came out with a "songwriting challenge" (sort of...), in which he proposed his drum-only tracks to be used to create a new, original song. I made a song for that (Synthetic Minotaur), and when I saw how well it was recieved, I decided to make two more, this is the first one of them.

Cobus Potgieter was a drummer I always wanted to play with, and even that I'm after my long journey (1300km) to find a new home, I am still too far to make it happen. Nevertheless he made a chance for all of us to play one-on-one with him, and I kinda miss these situations since I left my hometown, so I jumped on it. (Not a lot of good drummers offer their drums-only tracks you know :D)
Cobus once again represented what I expect from a drummer - precise drumming with that feel in it. I like how much it is predictable when he is going to play something different, you can actually hear it before. High-end communication between musicians, that's what I like. It was a pleasure to play and compose to his cover once again.

The original song was Ludacris (ft. Kevin Figs) - StandUp. I turned the drum parts into Minotaur once again. It was fun. I don't think it has a lot to do with the original :D

The subject of Planet Unrealm is more-less the videogames I was constantly influenced by when I was a teenager. I still grab my good-old CD's time-to-time to play with the oldschool stuff. It was different then, you had to have a lot more imagination to really enjoy the games... so this way I'd like to pay tribute to my favourites, hence the quotes, the title. (Btw, the title (the word Unrealm) has came up in my head about a month ago, when I finished the video of Born Solaris. I woke up at night and the word kicked in, I wrote it down, and totally forgot about it until yesterday, when I made the master track for the song, accidentally I found it in my phone as a memo. So, I suggest to write down everything you came up with at night, either you'll laugh a lot on it, or it will be used for good :D)

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