"George, it's come to our attention that someone is using the THX Sound without authorization."
"Who is it?"
"Some obscure synthesizer fan site has a page called Famous Sounds."
"You shut down those little rat bastard motherfuckers, RIGHT NOW, you hear me? Get the lawyers on their asses."
"Gotcha."
"I mean, if these people are allowed to post crappy sound clips of the THX Sound, then every little rat bastard will be doing it."
"Gotcha, George, we will burn the motherfuckers."
"Blighted Industry" [mp3 removed -- a revised version of this track is on Bandcamp]
The type of music enjoyed by hormonal boys (e.g., speedbass) but the world needs more things hard, fast, noisy and arty. Used a rather severe compression plug-in, with a hard limit at -3 dB, suggested for broadcast. It's still plenty loud and had the effect of unifying a piece slightly marred by swooping and dipping volume levels. Normally the one-click maximizers are avoided. Am happy with the almost-atonal melody line.
"Experimental Hoedown (Excerpt)" [mp3 removed]
The bouncy part of "Experimental Hoedown."
"Experimental Hoedown" [mp3 removed]
This song is in several movements a la classical music. It's almost all done with hardware and there is some actual audible knob turning at the beginning. One groovebox is feeding audio into an Adrenalinn pedal's phaser FX while another alters the phased sounds with MIDI notes (tunes as opposed to simple on-off messages). Altering the wet-dry mix in the pedal slowly brings up the un-effected drum sounds. Also, the phased sounds are sometimes further altered by running them through Mutator filter sweeps. I like the matter-of-fact feel of this suite--it's 7.5 minutes and not getting anywhere in a hurry. The phased sounds resemble plucked strings--the "hoedown" part comes in around 1:45 and is on the bouncy side.
