[analog] Mammoth DNA (OGG)

Sam_Zen · August 06, 2008, 02:44:18

Cubaxd wondered about things made in 1978, so this was a challenge to find earlier things.
I have processed 2 tracks so far from 1975, recorded from a reel tape.
http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/mammoths/1_hole_cloud.ogg
http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/mammoths/2_exploration.ogg

cubaxd · August 06, 2008, 18:52:09

The fact that this music is so old makes it interesting. If i wouldn't know it's age i would guess it would have been made not before early 90s.
The one melody in part 1 reminds me of the film "jaws" (made in the same year

). I'm not sure if there was really such a melody, i've seen this film when i was a child, but i believe it was somehow equal).

uncloned · August 07, 2008, 03:13:45

Quote from: "Sam_Zen"Cubaxd wondered about things made in 1978, so this was a challenge to find earlier things.
I have processed 2 tracks so far from 1975, recorded from a reel tape.
http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/mammoths/1_hole_cloud.ogg
http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/mammoths/2_exploration.ogg

Sam - do you have an academic music background?

These two pieces sound very much from the advant guard school

very nice btw!

Sam_Zen · August 07, 2008, 03:55:33

Quotedo you have an academic music background?

Not really. Most of my knowledge is self-made.
I once spend a year as a guest-attendant student at the Sonology-institute of the Utrecht university.
That's were I met the Synthi VCS3 on a table in some of the studio's. And I was sold..
Talking about what I would call 'avant-garde' electronic music, I experienced such outcomes during that times in concerts,
but I often didn't like the outcomes at all. Many times just random things going on for too long.

Sam_Zen · August 09, 2008, 02:44:50

In the meantime I remixed the recordings the next tracks for this album as well :
http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/mammoths/3_in_a_corners.ogg
http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/mammoths/4_soli_video_gloria.ogg
http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/mammoths/5_lost_sea.ogg
http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/mammoths/6_top_dirty.ogg
http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/mammoths/7_grote_vogel.ogg
The last one is a special case, because I had a realtime conversation in a room between my synth and a bird.

uncloned · August 09, 2008, 02:59:11

obviously a lot to digest - listened to the last first

it is awesome - and the bird rocks too!

uncloned · August 14, 2008, 22:45:41

The last piece seemed to be the best

Unfortunately the others sounded more exploration than expression to me but they were interesting to listen to

Sam_Zen · August 15, 2008, 00:40:37

It was indeed a period of exploration.

uncloned · August 15, 2008, 00:47:47

now Ice9 nice, a So On guy, has done like 100 of these with his synth

and now he is starting to mix them together....

it may turn out to be ineresting

mrvegas · August 15, 2008, 15:19:51

Actually, I really liked the second one -- "exploration." Experimental, but somehow musical, too.

cubaxd · August 15, 2008, 18:32:43

Thank you for this old treasures

My favorites are "Lost sea" and the vogel piece, but the others are good too

Are they all made in the 70s?

Sam_Zen · August 16, 2008, 00:45:55

Yes. I got my synth in 1975. I'm planning to publish more of this material in the future.
This was stuff from a digitized reel-tape recording on CD nr 01, which counts upto 34.
Still raw conversions, so I yet have to clean them, and maybe equalize a bit.