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Technology
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A song specifically recorded for the Dreamsville Technology project.The picture was taken by my friend Kali Dugan after she destroyed her computer!
rock acoustic ambient blues comedy philosophical indietronic highly experimental
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Highly ExperiMental, Rock, Blues, Electronica, Ambient, Acoustic, Comedy, Philosophical...
Richard "Cool-as-Hell" Sinclair and Michael "Punslinger" Honsinger have been making spontaneously original music together since soon after they first met in 1985. After a jam or two, the Punslinger lent Richard his Fostex X-15 4-track cassette recorder; Richard impressed him so much by writing the song "Forwards in Time" that the Punman joined forces and the dynamic duo soon morphed into Quantum Mechanix by combining musical gear, ideas, and jokes; and taking cassette 4-tracks to their very limits... and beyond! The first few years were extremely experimental! Combining Rock, Pop, Electronica and Beyond together, they blazed their own trail through the underground of the Olympia Underground music scene (unseen by K records, Steve Fiske, Bakini Kill, Marcy Playground, the Melvins, Nirvana, Bratmobile and many others). They should have called themselves Secret Identity! Afraid to share their music with anyone, they languished in obscurity which fueled even more inspired songs of worth! They have released one album: Quantum Mechanix '88 (11 years after Talking Heads '77) There were only 50 cassettes produced. They later joined forces with drummer Patrick Padovan (who played at their first 2 jams) and transformed into Art Official... recently they have been known to call themselves Triple Dog Dare.
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Genre
Electronic Techno
Charts
#1,337 in subgenre Peak #6
Charts
Peak #56
Author
Quantum Mechanix
Rights
2009
Uploaded
February 17, 2009
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MP3 4.5 MB 128 kbps 4:55
Story behind the song
Richard and I wanted to try some of our old recording techniques by building up a song one track at a time. We started with the persussion tracks using a Djembe, drum kit, and a tiny circular wooden marimba. In keeping with the Technology theme, I then chopped those tracks up into loops which I then played back randomly. After tidying up the results of that, I added a synth-bass loop from my loop library. Next I added the vocals; the only lyrics I had when I pushed the record button was the chorus (technology is good to me...new technology is good) the rest I winged it; making it up as it went. The vocals were done in one take. After further tidying and working with the structure I had Richard add the guitar in one take, which I then cut and pasted and looped to fit. I learned a lot about my multi-track program (Live 7) with this project. I hope you can tell how much fun I had during this learning process.
Lyrics
Technology is good to me New Technology is good Change for the better Unchained for the best Turn to the future And all the rest Look into your Dream Places What do you see Look deep within your mind and See what you can see Every rule you use Remember what's using it Every tool you use Remember what's using it Technology can be good to me New Technology sometimes can be good for me Depends on how you use it Depends on other things ...It's something Going back to stone and wood And other primitive things Trying to get back Back to my roots Got to start a fire again today That Old Technology is still good I used whatever I could.....
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