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The Minotaur
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Moody piano/synth instrumental.
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Scrap Metal
I upload music to under the alias 'Extar'. The music is primarily heavy metal, but I like trying my hand at other things now and again. I record my music in my bedroom with an old PC and a bunch of sub-standard equipment.
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Alternative • Alternative General
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Peak #166
Peak in subgenre #57
Author
Extar
Uploaded
February 24, 2011
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MP3 1.6 MB • 128 kbps • 1:43
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I created this song mostly on my newly-bought electric piano, which if you're interested is a Casio Privia PX-130. The Casio has a kind of rehearsal/recording feature where you can make a recording and then play it back and play over the top of it. It's mostly used for practicing such as recording one hand playing and then practicing the other, but I used it to make this two-part song. For ease I recorded the parts seperately, but it would have been possible to make it a 'one take' if I could have been bothered practicing it a bit more. The synth part bubbling underneath was courtesy of--surprise, surprise--the Micro Korg. I was probably thinking about Tori Amos' cover of Slayer's 'Raining Blood' (!) when I came up with the piano part. I was definitely thinking about it when I did the synth part. It's called The Minotaur because it sounds kind of dark and moody. I was recently on placement in a school where the children were learning the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, and so I was probably thinking about the labyrinth or whatever. The song would probably be improved with some distant vocals. But I didn't record any because it was late.
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