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The Other Side of Words
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Ambient with a beat. The pad is based on a short spoken sentence.
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daRem: Painting with sounds and experimenting with styles
daRem is a project that somehow evolved out my real life profession. I am working as creative director for an international advertising agency. I deal with words and visuals throughout the day, and when I come home, I have to do something different, yet creative. This is why I compose and play music. Most of the pieces are short ideas, but some of them I take a step further and shape them into songs. These songs are what I will release under the name of daRem.
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Electronic • Ambient
Charts
Peak #832
Peak in subgenre #66
Author
daRem
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Bernhard Rems
Uploaded
December 09, 2006
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MP3 5.0 MB • 128 kbps • 5:24
Story behind the song
The drone in the background is actually a looped vocal phrase, heavily altered in Reaktor 5. It isn't vocoded in any way, but harmonized, with added resonance and sent through a couple of filters. The only other tracks on this one are sampled percussions and a slightly randomized Stylus RMX preset. Percussions and drums are sent into a ping-pong delay and some reverb. So, just in case you are asking: Yes, they are deliberately distorted. How the recording was done: I first taped the drone, and then checked for significant moments to build the drums and percussions around them. For example, there is a sequence where the drone echoes and fades out (this isn't an added effect, but an outcome of the mostly random alterations that happened during recording). I thought about and tried adding a bass line as well, but actually, I thought the song was good as it was. I hope you enjoy it.
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