music03spirref2

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Liner Notes: I was beside myself with joy when my brother showed me a new piece of software for creating music: Jeskola Buzz. Every one of these tracks was created with what was, to me, cutting edge technology. With Fast Tracker, if I wanted an echo or a pan effect, I had to type in hexidecimal numbers for every single musical note. There was no mixer per se, whereas in Buzz, all I had to do was slide sliders in an actual graphical user interface. I couldn't get enough of it. I started producing more complex tracks that actually started to sound somewhat professional. I also had the opportunity to play with filter sweeps and create my own sounds from the waveform generators in Buzz. 16-bit sound in all its glory. I discovered that the programme does, to a certain extent, influence the composition: FT2 lent itself well to pattern repetition and recombination, but it was impossible to get a bird's eye view of the entire song, and I was stuck with the sounds that were in the sample bank. Therefore, the focus of every song was to create arrangements rather than compositions. As soon as I got onto Buzz, however, my songs became more about the sounds than the arrangement; I'd spent half a day tweaking a sawtooth waveform to get the perfect bass sound, but I wouldn't spend more than a few minutes on the arrangement of patterns, and so on.

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Jealous Of Clouds.mp3
Fonkewon.mp3
Arrival To The City Of The Heart.mp3
Boo Wah Dah Dah.mp3
September 10, 2001.mp3
Ear Damage.mp3
Murmur.mp3
Driving Song.mp3
Fame.mp3
Simpleton.mp3
Rain Dance.mp3
Robust.mp3
Who's Writing The Future.mp3
One Zero.mp3
Lullabye.mp3
Departure From The City Of The Heart.mp3
Procrastination.mp3

dance
electronica/funk
trance
dance
dance
dance
dance
electronica
dance
trance
electronica/funk
drum n' bass
trance
drum n' bass
trance
trance
trance

Liner Notes: I was beside myself with joy when my brother showed me a new piece of software for creating music: Jeskola Buzz. Every one of these tracks was created with what was, to me, cutting edge technology. With Fast Tracker, if I wanted an echo or a pan effect, I had to type in hexidecimal numbers for every single musical note. There was no mixer per se, whereas in Buzz, all I had to do was slide sliders in an actual graphical user interface. I couldn't get enough of it. I started producing more complex tracks that actually started to sound somewhat professional. I also had the opportunity to play with filter sweeps and create my own sounds from the waveform generators in Buzz. 16-bit sound in all its glory. I discovered that the programme does, to a certain extent, influence the composition: FT2 lent itself well to pattern repetition and recombination, but it was impossible to get a bird's eye view of the entire song, and I was stuck with the sounds that were in the sample bank. Therefore, the focus of every song was to create arrangements rather than compositions. As soon as I got onto Buzz, however, my songs became more about the sounds than the arrangement; I'd spent half a day tweaking a sawtooth waveform to get the perfect bass sound, but I wouldn't spend more than a few minutes on the arrangement of patterns, and so on.