Scratch Ambulance CD

scratch ambulance CD front cover

Spent some time today on the CD Baby website getting my disc with earcon ready for physical and virtual distribution. The CD will retail for $10.99 and tracks will be purchasable on iTunes (suck it up) and other venues.
Categorywise we're describing it as "electronic/electro" (genre/subgenre 1) ; "avant garde/computer music" (genre/subgenre 2); and "lo-fi" as a third level.
The tag line is "earcon's electro-style remixes of Tom Moody's Macintosh SE tunes from the '80s"; additional description is the text on the front cover (above):

The raw material for this CD is a series of recordings made by Tom Moody on a Macintosh SE computer, using its poignantly limited 4-voice, monaural sound chip. The bulk of the songs were produced in 1988 but efforts continued sporadically until the machine died. On this disc earcon remixes the tracks using the imperfections of the digital source material as the starting point; the CD is a hybrid of ancient digital signal processing and current music composing tools.

More info about distribution to follow.

"Labyrinth Remixed"

"Labyrinth Remixed" [2.8 MB .mp3]

Shorter, digitally rearranged version of ex-Happy the Man keyboardist Kit Watkins' instrumental prog anthem "Labyrinth" (1981).
Took what I consider the "essential riff" (four variations of the same tune, plus a bridge) and jettisoned all the classical dynamics, theatrics, artificial buildups, and throat clearing as well as expressive soloing. Reordering the riffs and overlaying them to make new counterpoint turned a progressive rock song into a techno-prog song--kind of sped-up Philip Glass, what I always wanted to hear when I played this song.
Some excellent "real time" keyboard and drumming being massaged here--but I am interested in the song's "money shot"--structures of the sublime in their most compact form.