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!00% Ensoniq SQ80. Borrowed the keyboard from a friend and he taught me how to operate the sequencer. This was the first thing I did with it.
original progressive rock
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I'm Ziggy Plato, a.k.a. Thomas Howard. One guy. I recorded some of my songs at home on my stereo. No professional recording equipment was used. I play a copy of a Les Paul and an old (late 80's) Ensoniq SQ80 synth/sequencer and occasionally a few other things. I've recently been dabbling a bit with loop software. I put myself in the rock/progressive rock genre, but my music is really in many different genres.
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Electronic • Experimental Sounds
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Peak #314
Peak in subgenre #35
Author
Ziggy Plato
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1997
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May 17, 2019
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MP3 8.3 MB • 320 kbps • 3:34
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The tune is made up of bits of things I made up on the piano. It sounded to me like a theme for a TV show about paranormal stuff. The ability to title songs on the Ensoniq is limited, and I didn't really have a title for it but there wasn't room for "paranormal" so it got shortened to Parano, which I though was kind of cool, so stuck with it. Incidentally, many years after I composed and recorded this song, the tv show "Fringe" (love the show) came out, and it's theme music has a very similar chord progression to Parano. They don't sound that much alike, and I'm not accusing anyone of copying me or anything... just thought it was interesting when I noticed it. Of course the Ensoniq SQ80 was from the late 1980's, so it tends to make everything have that 80's sound to it, and I didn't add any guitar or anything else to it. It's far from a masterpiece, but as the first thing i sequenced on the Ensoniq, I thought it was worth saving.
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