Trance Music, Philosophy and Politics. The official homepage of philosopher artist: Illusive Mind.
What a piece of work is a word,
Without shape or form or faculty,
And yet to apprehend the thing,
To understand so as to be understood.
To be searching and left wanting,
To be careless or too cautious,
To utter such a thing and in the doing,
Expose my soul.
This track is hot off the press, a simple but perhaps beguiling progressive trance number that I put together in about two hours. This was at around 4am this morning when most sane people are asleep but for the artists amongst us, it is so frequently when the muse strikes.
Pellucidus is Latin, meaning, “shining, transparent,” from pellucere, “to shine through,” from per-, “through” + lucere, “to shine.” It refers to transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity or of language: transparently clear; easily understandable.
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One of the beautiul things about Creative Commons and online collaboration in general is how some piece of a jigsaw you tried your hand at creating can be taken remixed, reused and re-contextualised into some other piece, complete and inspiring in its own right.
Milieu is an old song of mine from 2005. Octavian was browsing through some of my songs at MakeTunes and happened upon it. He sampled it, looped it and proceeded to create the truly haunting song: Laughing Shadows.
Be sure to check out more of his tracks on his MySpace pages Assfault14 & Sumerian7. There are chilling soundscapes with detailed and ponderous emotions as well as raging vehement metal with some serious guitar shredding. Don’t miss Nuclear Tomorrow.
I’m looking forward to future collaborations with Octavian, I think it is safe to expect great things.
Other Links
Octavian - Laughing Shadows@MakeTunes
Octavian’s songs@MakeTunes
www.myspace.com/assfault14
www.myspace.com/sumerian7
Song art for Deep In Ya Self
Photo by Matt Cinque
Polaroid by Hugoslv
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Window by Mnadi
Mountain by popjosef
Mountains are Mountains @ Deviant Art
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Random Ambient is a new concept in which the pieces are not composed, but performed by short pieces of music in the appropriate key. Each piece lasts between 5 and 45 seconds and is placed into a playlist that is played at random.
By multi-tracking these playlists, extraordinary results are produced.
Submit short snippets (between 5 and 45 seconds) of sound that consist of a single note (eg. C).
Through random playback and multi-tracking a veritable orchestra of ambience via online collaboration is born.
You can get all the details and hear examples here. The video below illustrates the concept in action.
Details: http://www.reverbnation.com/randomambient
YouTube Video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=epEkoue2hzk
Email files to neil@kubbuk.org
Or submit them to the Random Ambient CCMixter Project
Winner of the MakeTunes Electronic Music Contest 2
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http://www.myspace.com/mimiandteft
Mimi and Teft are a dance/house duo who know how to pump out some sexy pop melodic tunes. Tracks like Fairy Tale (What I’m Saying) sound like they were born for a club dance floor with perfectly delivered vocal hooks and a nice combination of ‘naked’ synths. Have a listen and see if it doesn’t stick in your head. There are also tracks like Chocolate off their debut EP ‘Look Into The Mirror‘ which are more laid back and contemplative but retain the upbeat synth melodies whilst bringing out the soulful quality of Mimi’s vocals which are perhaps best displayed in North Star.
On their website, M&T write about their technique of writing and mixing a song in one hour. To my ears this results in great clean mix that isn’t over-produced. You can see a video of how they pull it off here. Not every track is a hit however, Wachu Wanna falls a little flat for me but that may well be because it sits on the more mainstream pop section of the music spectrum. But then you have songs like You Addicted Me which manages to bring a trance sensibility to a house track, a great combination.
Teft (Christopher Teft Hughes) also has some killer photography you should check out on his site or on flickr. I wonder how many music producers are also into photography? Haha, it’s down to the hard wiring of the ‘artistic’ brain I’m sure.
After reading how Teft puts it all together I’m impressed at the sounds he’s gotten out of Vanguard, I’ll have to try my own hand at it. I don’t think I could pull off a song in an hour, but with a vocalist like Mimi, the hooks write themselves.
Look out for these two, you are going to be hearing more from them in the future I’m sure.
http://www.mimiandteft.com/
http://teft.mimiandteft.com/
http://www.myspace.com/mimiandteft
http://www.purevolume.com/mimiteft
‘It’s a Fine Day’ was a hit when I was growing up and remains a trance classic to this day. It has been remixed by musical giants like AT, Ruff Driverz and recently by Leon Bolier. I humbly submit my rendition.
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The original vocals by Opus III are copyright
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