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An exciting and adventurous intro track.
electronic ambient 2600 2600 hertz 2600 hz
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2600Hz makes electronic grooves and ambient experiments. No telephone companies are hijacked during the making of these tracks.
Someone once told me, "Music is meant to go somewhere, not to just be." What a sad, lost soul. This kind of music is all about just being. Initially, 2600 Hz set out to produce ambient music. This is seen in the song Space Ages. But when ideas hit the recorder, the stuff that comes out are more of the chilled groove sort. Perhaps this diversity will continue to show through as I progress as a musician.
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Genre
Electronic • Tribal House
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#200 in subgenre Peak #1
Charts
Peak #9
Author
Jon Davis
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Jonathan Davis
Uploaded
August 16, 2008
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MP3 4.3 MB • 320 kbps • 1:53
Story behind the song
I came up with the melody (and the name) of this song while tinkering with the Gemli patch in the Texture VSTi from UgoAudio.com. Any time a melody pops into my head I try to capture it, and then I often get impatient and build a song around it instead of let it sit there and be available for my arsenel later or something .. Anyway, in one place for a split second I "heard" in what I recorded a reminder of Bjorn Lynn's "The Forbidden Desert"; I wasn't about to even try to come anywhere near the depth, detail, and enginuity of that song, I was just reminded of it from one tiny audible detail. And one thing that stood out in Bjorn's song was the presence of profound percussion. I just happened to have in my arsenal, in East West / Quantum Leap's Colossus / Goliath, an industry-overused percussion track / beat track that I always loved (but I knew I shouldn't because it was already overused elsewhere) and always wanted to use but always knew I shouldn't because that's so cheap. Yeah, using prefab'd beats is really cheap in my opinion, I personally don't favor the idea of beat exchanges. One should be versatile enough as a musician to come up with his own beats and percussion tracks. On the other hand, I am a shameless user of ezDrummer .. *sigh* The problem is that after I just gave this percussion track a shot to live around this melody to see what it sounded like, I really liked its synchronized syncopation, as well as the mood it set, like, "Here we go, on a great adventure!! .. Wow it's so exciting!!" Even so, I really wanted to replace it outright, possibly make it a bit more subtle, but definitely make it my own percussion track and not an overused prefab one. Sadly, it hurt too much to even try to replace a wonderful prefab with a not-so-wonderful home grown attempt. The final mix is the sole goal, even if at the cost of honor. Photo source: http://bvcastilho3d.deviantart.com/art/Night-flight-87348595
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Ed Drury
Apr 18, 2009
Nice tension in the percussion and wonderful soundshaping. Really an enjoyable voyage.
Alex Cooper
Oct 01, 2008
really nice man, you sound very humble for such a good artist. Your song description was an interesting read.