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Under The Ice ------------- Lamont (Vincent Lauzon) ---------------- Finished September 2002 ----------------------- Length 4:26 ----------- This is the first song that I've decided to release publicly. I'm not part of the "tracker scene", which seems to be an environment with very definite and not immediately discernible rules of etiquette. So, for what it's worth, none of the samples in this tune are mine. I've swiped them from all over the place. Those that were traceable to a specific individual or entity are duly credited. My apologies for the uncredited ones. -------------------------------------------------------- I love to read the comments to the tunes I download. The more info, the better. So I'm including a few things here for those who like that sort of stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the tune: it's smooth synth ambient nonsense with a nice little ostinato throughout. I'm not unhappy with a couple of the chord changes. Plus, it incorporates a bit of the very first melody I came up with, which my wife loves. I usually do my own beats, but I discovered that slowing down a drum loop gives a cool whoosh sound to the rythm track, so I tried that here. I got that trick off a fantastic track by Acumen called Serenity of Silence. Brilliant brilliant song. Go download it right now, it's better than anything I'll ever do. All the sound effects everywhere make the whole thing a little cheesier than I first envisioned (it's all very Pink Floyd, and there's a bunch who are not aging gracefully)... but I put them all in there because a colleague of mine really likes that crap. I do realize that some of the harmonies are pretty wonky, but I know they are, and I know why, and I like them like that. And I just realized that the reason the tune is so huge is because of this one cymbal sample: the damn thing is more than 1.2 MB! And I only use it twice! But darn it, I can't take it out, it sounds great. Perhaps there's a way of making it smaller without affecting the quality too much, but I'm clueless. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- About me: I live in Montreal, Canada. First language is French. 33, married, 2 kids. I started tracking about 6 months ago. I love doing music this way, but I'm told it's a hell of a lot more work than using standard studio software. So I'm saving to upgrade my equipment. Still, I would miss the Excel-style interface, so who knows, maybe I'll just keep using this method. I input everything by hand: I don't have a keyboard and couldn't play it worth crap if I had (I played the French horn - reasonably well - 15 years ago). It is a very cerebral way of making music, and I find it delightful that my music theory knowledge has not vanished over time, and is finally put to limited use. My nom de plume comes from my love of popular fiction from the 30s, often called "pulp fiction". Lamont Cranston is one of the identities of the Shadow, the greatest of all pulp heroes. ---------------------------- Un peu de francais (meme si cette cochonnerie de pseudo-traitement de texte ne prend pas les accents): les langues sont une richesse. Ne vivez pas qu'en anglais. Je m'adresse specifiquement a mes amis americains, qui ont tendance a etre et demeurer unilingues. Ca ne demande qu'un peu d'efforts. Et c'est gentil de ne pas toujours s'attendre a ce que le reste de la planete nous parle dans notre propre langue. -------------------- Etwas Deutsch (fuer meine Frau): wie immer, dieses Lied ist fuer dich, Sabine. Das Leben ist nie einfach, aber du bist trotzdem alles was ich brauche. Ich liebe dich. ----------- Back to English (your eyes can stop glazing over now). I'm not half as pompous as this message may lead you to believe. Well, maybe half. Oh well. Should you have any comments about the song, don't hesitate to email me at vlauzon_arobas.net ------------------ Thanks, Lamont
Under The Ice by Lamont September 2002 No copyright (who the hell puts little copyright notices on these things?) Download the song Serenity of Silence by Acumen. It's brilliant. None of the samples are mine. Absolutely none. I'm too inept to make my own. Thank you for all the great building blocks. The building itself, however, is mine. ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled untitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled ntitled
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