Ype, little concours for the Creative Sound Studio member (Tbob, Pype and I) realising a small module with at least 15 patterns and using all the instruments from the original VPC1.it in 8 channels.
Well, i finally switch to 16 channels, to finalize the mod before going to Tbob’s house… A hommage to the V-Drums drumkit, just after realised a great drum part in the track Sunday Bloody Sunday.
A force de jouer et rejouer le titre, j’ai fini par avoir envie d’en tenter une version “Dance Tracker” sans oublier le solo de Batterie de V-Drums (Vivien Vanoirbeek) ! … le tout avec un petit coup de main de mon frangin Pype.
Don’t laugh, i only discovered the pop band U2 in 1996, with the songs Sunday Bloody Sunday and With or Without you… In fact, my pop rock culture stops with The Beatles and The Shadows and switch to New Beat, Techno and Dance Music… so i only heard songs from Depeche Mode, U2 and R.E.M. at that time, with my Virtual Music Pop Formation…
Pierrick and Teddy Bear realy like the sound of U2, we needed at that time new influence for the concert of “La Mare aux Joncs” and then we trashed John Lennon and Johnny Be Good for Sunday Bloody Sunday, that would be a key song for our band.
In the first concert, i only played bass theme with my keyboard during a sequencer played the violin parts, but later, i’ll do it myself and sometimes also sing chord parts…
So, i finally would like to write a dance tracker version !
Salut à JedD, Tbob, Pype, Pierrick, Delphine, La Puce, V-Drums
That nights, i have watched MTV and was intersted by the song Apollo 440 - Ain’t talkin’ ’bout dub, a song that sounds as The Prodigy… Another inspiration source was songs i’ve listened from the last Assembly Demopary in 1996, that i’ve found in my PC Fun CD-Rom.
So i also try to write such kind of Dub/Demoscene song letting evoluate my melodies in different moods…
A great thanks to Laurent Mazzapicchi for the abuse of his synthesizer… V, you could hear that it would be difficult for you to play a drum like that !
It was hard to choose a category for this song as i was inspirated by two differents tracks. First the electro hit Faithless- Insomnia and the OST of the Super Nintendo game Donkey Kong Country. Sure that’s why my brother like this song and have reconverted it from this 16 tracks version to a 6 tracks S3M version that fits his assembler player.
Thanks Parmy for your Roland E38, i love its sounds !
Here is a new chiptunes track where I try to be close to the Commodore 64 ambients : with smooth electronic sounds, arpeggiators and using 3 tracks only. Anyway, i was far of the SID rendering. My drums is too realistic and electronic samples sounds Gameboy.
This second year season let you discovered the first production of Cyborg Jeff but also so tracks always under Mc Piet’s nick. Since january to augustus, i was tracking under an 386 DX and my brave Scream Tracker,.. My main style was dream music (BBE, Robert Miles, Boris,..) but i still trying other kind of music : techno, game, ….
Next part of year 1996, my brother Pype bought us an Pentium 120 so i was able to let run Fast Tracker II faster and began to create my personnal samples collections and not just rip from other modules.
And finally in the last days (29 december) i found the incredible Impulse Tracker that really fit to my needs !
The file contain 204 modules in MOD, S3M, XM and IT
Quality of those tracks was improved but still sounds as PC-Module.
I found that saterday afternoon two old magazine sold out. O&M was a Computer Assisted Music magazine speaking about MIDI, but i found a new incredible software called : Impulse Tracker (programmed by Jeffrey Lim) that was my fellow during long, long years !
As Scream Tracker beta version i used till that moment only manage 16 tracks, Impulse Tracker proposed 64 tracks and 256 virtual tracks. As Fast Tracker II, we could create instruments starting from sample managning attack, release, delay, volume and panning effect.
With the virtual track, i could have here a better rendering of a piano instrument using different samples and let the samples finishing its wave during he allready starts a new note, on a virtual track.
But IT have some bad parts. The Qwerty keyboard it need was not easy for me, some notes and effect use unlogical keys. The .IT file will not be read by my other musical software as Scream Tracker, Fast Tracker and Cubic Player, so i should wait my brother pype create a dedicated player.
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reprise Virtual Music (Chant Pierre ‘cyborgjeff’ Martin et T.Dubois, guitare T.Dubois et Sylvain ‘Pype’ Martin, basse Laurent ‘Parmy’ Mazzapicchi, Batterie Vivien ‘V-Drums’ Vanoirbeek)
Who don’t know the punk rock band Green Day ! At time i didn’t know it. For me, metal rock was an obscure part of music that have catched my friend Alain Gillon. So well i just discovered U2, R.E.M., Oasis and Green Day in 1996 !
So i have tryed with my brother Pype to rewrite in Scream Tracker III…
Last night, i had seen on MTV Dance hit, on the 8th position an average disco song. It seems that the disco come back is arriving ! So, i’ve also try to write dance/disco song using brass samples from HEAT.MOD (written by Antti Mikkonen) and some distorted organs from Jazz Jack Rabbit…
Hello JedD, V-Drums, Parmy, Ced, Len, Pascal, Tbob, Franco and all the other !
During summer holidays our Pop band : Aliens from Seraing have moved. Around the original team with Pype playing guitar and singing, Vivien at the drums and myself on the keyboards, arriving Parmesan in the end of 95, also playing first keyboard then, when Geoffrey Ducastle completly leave the band, Parmy switch to the second guitars. Later Thierry Dubois joined us on the 3rd guitar… But, yes 3 guitarist was not easy to managed… Well, we were searching new songs to add to our catalogue and then had just found the chord of “Comme d’habitude” from Claude François… That’s why i’ve thought to remix it in a modern dance version.
Back from La Troupe de l’îlot, I’ve met there Perinne Lejeune who impressed myself with his voicie… So we porosed her to have a test on the band… Great experience, anyway she will not continue with us… May be her parents was not so happy she played with older boys… Anyway we’ve work on the song from KS Choise for the occasion.
Well, i had there a new song to present to my friend Valentin who should come at home that day ! … And thanks to Vivien for the CD Single Pinnochio Vaï where i sampled the dance melody instrument.