TUNES: Replicants Project

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For the past 3 Years i have been working on a project called REPLICANTS..

The first taste of the music made was circulated last Xmas, and now it;s time to let the rest roam free..

Look here: http://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/result.../Offshoot.html for stuff..

The album and EPs contain different tunes, so it's alot of new material to take in.. I hope it amuses You

I'll write about the music in this thread, as in previous episodes..

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Album is due to drop soon - here is the Soundcloud yolk the Psychos put up.. some snips of the album..


https://soundcloud.com/psychonavigat...lay-with-wires

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EP1 & EP6 - INSIGNIFICANT and FAREWELL

The first Mass promo distro happend last week, featuring tracks from the first and last of the 6 EPs - entitled INSIGNIFICANT & FAREWELL..

The Tracks:

INSIGNIFICANT is an adventure in economic sampling, using the Fairlight CMI IIx & featuring the Elektron SidStation. The Fairlight stuff was all 'as seen in' Art of Noise sessions - not stuff that was SIGNIFICANT in any way - rejected or pre-mashed stuff that appeared on a series of 8-inch Floppy disks we 'aquired'. The drives in the Fairlight were perished, so we used parts from the units in a Sord m33 to read the disks. We had so little RAM to play with on this, we employed the Fairlight Favorite of speeding up the samples by running them to 1/4 inch at 7.5 ips, then re-sampling them back at 15ips, twice in the case of the main 'ow' stab sound. Sync was obtained using DinSync and Davinia's Garfield Dr.Click for the CMI, and good old MTC for the Sidstation which was running one of the presets with some live tweakage. This track is not on the album because it was deemed to juvanille by Sonja, who was extra grumpy on the day it was finished.

The '88 mix adds to the above mess some long vocal pieces that were recovered from a hard disk we believe was used with a Synclavier d2d system. I have posted on this forum about the excellent data recovery tool PHOTOREC - without it this track would have a lot less Holly on it. lol. Again, we sampled stuff at 2x speed, and kinda left it there as it sounded like LULU. This was excluded from the album as it it full of stolen stuff. This track also introduced the pair of Eventide h910 we had restored, and led to us starting THE ISLAND.

THE ISLAND is another tune that owes it's existance to data recovery tools - this time an 8mm data cart (aka a Data-DAT) that lost it's TOC. It's all about the Linndrum and the modulars on this one.. Plenty of System 100m (bassline) and Fenix (pluck and arpeggios) meet the bits of Claudia that didn't sound like broken glass being pushed thru' a cheese-grater. Ironic, that i spent so long hacking up PCM machines to make them glitch, and then ended up spending nearly 3 weeks making passes of a vocal take to try and assemble something un-glitchy from a mass of digital PCM fail.. heh. Again, this was excluded because it is full of stolen crap. As You should know by now, we run in realtime to DAT, so there are nearly 4 hours of out-takes of this, including some instrumentals - we felt the track needed the stolen crap to justify the work, This track took the longest of all the tracks in the sessions, taking up 4 days and 3 nights from the 2nd ever Replicants session.

BBC is all about Linndrum meets The DX7 and it's utter beauty when played with some feeling. None of us can play that fast, so there is some liberal use of short 'slapback' echo here to make the ripple-chords. The Kraftwerk vocal rips were added after the initial tune was devised, as miki-chan felt the track just sounded too much like something from the TOUR DE FRANCE SOUNDTRACKS album, so out came the BOING BOOM CHOK samples, and the track was named and laid down as a tribute to the lads. This also features alot of percussion from the Casio PT30, and heavy use of the Blacet miniwave doing the vocal grinds. Keeping things at 8-bit level in theis tune made it all melt together real good.