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The first Christmas single I've done in a few years (that I am happy to see the light of day, anyway.) It sounds very Portishead.

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Extar

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.

Song Info

Genre

Electronic • Industrial

Charts

Peak #289

Peak in subgenre #19

Uploaded

December 01, 2010

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:06

Story behind the song

This song came about after a session of messing around on the Micro Korg. Can you tell?

The main synth part was achieved by putting the drum machine into the line in on the MK's vocoder, and then having the Korg go into the guitar effects pedal (mostly for compression and distortion) and then into the guitar amp (it just happened to be plugged in that way at the time, it probably did interesting things to the frequencies?) and finally into the mixer and PC. I think Trent would be proud.

The drums are victims of my new interesting arrangement. The drum machine goes through the guitar effects pedal with lots of reverb, compression and noise gate, and then into the bass amp for further compression and EQing. I was also borrowing a seperate noise gate pedal, so that was used as well. The result is super-industrial/old-school hip hop 'beats'. Yo.

The sample at the beginning is from Sky News (I'm very lazy when it comes to sourcing samples. I just turn the TV on.) It's hard to hear what is said, so here's a transcript:

"The annual pilgrimage has begun... The Christmas indulgence starts here... In tough times, the gap between the haves and the have-nots, may just be a little wider."

You can always rely on Sky News to get into the spirit of things like that. Merry f*** ing indulgence.

The sample at the end is from some film that was on Film Four that had Colin Farrel in it.

There is a 'demo' of this which you can get here.

I used a melodica in this. That doesn't make it a Goat does it?

The drums sound kind of like Schoolly-D's song 'P.S.K. What Does It Mean?' Well, do you know?

Heaven and Hell did a version of this song. It's awesome.

Lyrics

Merry gentlemen,
Satan's power,
Comfort and joy. 

Comfort and joy. 

Blessed angel,
Certain shepherds,
Comfort and joy.

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