Vernon on 18/4/2008 at 06:05

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http://bandcamp.com/files/34/43/3443773880-1.jpg

Is an album I made (albeit in 2004). I was convinced by a friend to upload it, so here it is. I wrote the tracks way back during the height of the techno/electro scene in Sydney and even got the chance to perform some of them live on a friend's setup.

Anyway, if you like glitchy minimal techno, you might like this.

(http://gedanken.bandcamp.com/) bandcamp

(http://www.last.fm/music/Gedanken/The+Egg+Nightmares) It is also hosted at last.fm for streaming and downloading

It is also also available via what.cd and has a thread in their vanity house.

please enjoy comments welcome love you all

Aerothorn on 19/4/2008 at 13:49

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Great. I'll give it a listen.

(OMG I'm actually posting)

Vernon on 20/4/2008 at 05:13

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Haven't heard Black Dog or Plaid, but for years I was a Detroit Techno purist and at the time I made this, I was listening heavily to Drexciya, Moodymann, Paperclip People, Geoff White, Carl Craig, Underground Resistance etc. I was particularly infatuated with Stewart Walker's themes, and Anthony Child's method of reducing rhythm structures. However I obviously can't have a decent objective idea about what it sounds like, only tell you who I was into at the time. :)

Vernon on 20/4/2008 at 06:03

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Well I am sure this is subjective too, but if you take a rhythm, and look at what gives that rhythm its relative 'speed' or lack thereof, you can start taking away the components that don't contribute to that speed or negate it in some way. Practically, this might manifest itself in offsetting instruments from their natural centre and then making their new centre the natural basis of the new reduced structure. This is how I interpreted the idea of syncopation, but used the stressed beats as a tool to remove/replacement for unneeded rhythmic devices.

You will note in most of the tracks on The Egg Nightmares that many of the rhythms are pretty far removed from the 'four to the floor' disco beat because they instead place more emphasis on their time-based interaction with melodies etc. Of course not all of the tracks follow this ethos strictly, and I struggled at the time to make music that I felt was both 'listenable' and adherent to it. The tracks that form this collection of tracks are just eleven of around sixty and they were mainly chosen based on various compromises, with that being the main one.

In my opinion, the best examples of tracks that pull it off are 'Little Edward's Toy' and 'Leslie's Migraine,' because the rhythm sort of falls apart in certain places then pulls itself back together again. I don't even really know how I made the dense drum bit work near the end of Leslie's Migraine, because when you look at them on a midi map, they shouldn't work that way, however the dynamics processing I used all happened to fall into place that day. :joy:

^ That all makes sense in my head, and The Egg Nightmares is just my interpretation of one of the many branches of minimalism in music, and quite a bit of thought went into it. However it isn't up to me how you interpret this music. Let me know what you think. :thimb: