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A Simple Thing
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Uplifting Synth wash with Acoustic guitar
electronica ambient guitarist uplifting mellow dramatic
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A genre crossing Guitarist. Programmed beats, Ambiet moods, sometimes uplifting, sometimes melancholy, with accoustic/Electric guitar featured throughout. Diffi
JJ is an artist who adopts a very eclectic, genre hopping approach to his music. Combining soft Accoustic guitars and wailing Electric guitars with Ambient Electronics and programmed beats, Joshua treads a line not often pursued. Inspired as much by the trance rock of Steve Hillage and the electronic textures of vangelis and Jean Michelle Jarre, to the Acoustic brilliance of Gordon Giltrap and Steve Howe, JJ wanted to express this by heavily featuring the guitar within an electronic setting, and crucially, still retaining a true sense of perfomance (as oposed to the mechanical and often 'fake' guitars found in tracks like '9pm till i come' for example. The music of Joshua Jouet swings wildly from almost completely traditional acoustic guitar, to full on dance floor stompers. Think that great electronic music cannot survive having a featured guitar?....think again!
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Charts
Peak #775
Peak in subgenre #163
Author
Joshua Jouet
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SPEED DREAM SOUND
Uploaded
February 18, 2006
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MP3 3.5 MB 128 kbps 3:49
Story behind the song
The simple answer would be to say i was muckin' about with the pitch bend stick on my keyboard, and got fixated on it. However there is a more complex answer, which was to restrict the melodic idea of this track to a simple alternating 2 chord pattern. Each chord is held long enough for it to start sounding like it needs to resolve to the next. And by adding sustained notes to the held chords you change the sonic nature, as the synths don't have limitless polyphony, which means by adding higher notes you lose others lower in the register which changes things and adds more diversity and interest without adding musical complexity. The track remains essentially very simple. The acoustic guitar adds a simple repeating melody reminiscent of early Vangelis.
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