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Sonic Thoughts Sounds like, nothing you have heard before, hahaha… No serious though: There is something new emerging. When i check listen Incursions, they all sound like travel, through space, dimensions, states and different media… Interspersed and punctuated with explosions of melodic content, like grenades of sounds, Metal gauze strips ripped of space ships and floating to the ground like “angel hair”, then stops on an atom and dissolution of the visual content… Very machine like, unemotional and arpeggiated, with a small human figure in the centre looking like a sub in sub-space after a long power exchange session… Trance, but not as we know it Jim!!
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Unborn Come on, who is into Trance and has not watched “Dune” many time s over, except for the young-lings, lol?
Mentat Piter De Vries holding the flask up and citing the Mantra:
” It is by will alone i set my mind in motion,
it is by the juice of sapho that thoughts require speed,
the lips require stains,
the stains become a warning!
It is by will alone i set my mind in motion.”
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Incursions
Lotus Beat two is mostly dark psy trance, with breaks, techno, drum and bass configurations and an often times surreal presentation of the thematics, a bit like Dali or Escher on acid, if they had electric toys like we have now. A befriended DJ got me to slow some of this shit down so it is more danceable, and then i made it sound very haus-techno, with claps and hard kicks; But mostly you can feel the Bardo, all pieces have a distinct drive and vibe, travelling with panoramas to match their velocity. I played this stuff to a producer and he said that some of lotus beat II sounds ”harsh, impatient, driven, relentless and machine like”, and i replied: “You got it man!”
The Bardo beings perception is seven times more powerful then a human’s, imagine your senses that sharp! A lot of the samples come from a trancer friend, who biffed playing and gave me whole collection, awesome dude! Just going through the third pass of editing and fleshing out the drum texture smore, had a few funny accidents with PS 3 drum synth and guitar midi, which made for some interesting loops. i have chanted on a couple of tracks and there is a really cool loop of Tibetan monks i recored at Sera Je during my last meditation retreat, plus and that is going to be a big chnage; i sing in German again, mostly becasue the language allows for some expressiions that English is too contextual for and becasue that is the way the lyrics cmae out of the vortex.
Just being able to freely compose again after years of self imposed restriciton is very refreshing. So there is a definate avant-garde element in lotus beat II, which makes the music surprising and unpredicatble, just like a good power switch.
i am thinking i should start uploading and make it all available, but am too wooried still about the mastering quality.
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