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It's a very cool track, Some nice re-mixing or programming of the Bossa drum tracks as well as the aforementioned guitar and sax tracks. Very nice bass line, too.........it takes a good one to be this simple and play it over and over again. There are times, where I'd swear that the Sax samples were drawn from a track whose underlying chord structure was based on a different mode of the same scale, which is a cool trick that I stumbled onto in a recording/remix session I once did for a client of mine many years ago when I was first in love with remixing and looping in Sonic Foundry's ACID (that's how long ago it was: it has been Sony ACID for many years now). He was playing a Celtic harp and I suggested that he try an improvisation in Lydian. We were just goofing around putting together a dance track for a South African label and just experimenting with adding modern electronica dance grooves to some Celtic underpinnings. I had him improvise at a certain tempo and create several potential parts. I was specifically going for this kind of track: sample based but creating the playing samples with this approach in mind, so I had him do a bunch of very high pitched rhythm parts and , finally, before our dinner break, I asked him to give me a single sample of each note in the scale in the bass end of the harp. He patiently did this for me and suddenly I realized that, unwittingly (and we were both really tired that day) we had been playing in Mixolydian the entire time and not Lydian. Well, we got a big laugh out of that one and because I was working in ACID, I just told him to go to dinner and I'd whip together a Lydian bridge just by repitching the parts we'd used so far in Mixolydian. Well, if you don't collapse the views in Acid, it's possible to have whole parts of the song looping away that are literally out of site of the main tracks you are viewing. Because I was tired and because I already knew exactly how to repitch all the parts to build a 'B' section for the song, I worked extremely quickly on the bridge but without ever listening to it. I was working at a break neck speed because I wanted my client to come back from the dinner break and be 'wowed' by the magic that I had been weaving in the computer. When the client came back from the dinner break, I proudly hit play to let him hear what I had been working on and realized that too my horror, I had kept my Mixolydian high octave parts running (above and out of sight) against all of my hard earned re-arranging of the last hour and a half. But it sounded really cool, because it had reharmonized the piece of music, causing some interesting suspensions, harmonically. Since then, that 'mistake' has been one of my favorite techniques for ringing some 'new' out of more prosaic melodic/harmonic tracks. rick walker On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Art Simon wrote: > Found this one on last.fm <http://last.fm>. I'm totally loving it. > Loop based, but in the Ableton clip paradigm as opposed to sound on > sound looping. Apparently it's a collective of nearly 70 djs and > musicians in Finland. This track has a solid groove that is deep and > complex. The haunting sax lines could be from some obscure Pharoah > Sanders or Carlos Garnett 70s album, and the rhythm guitar is just > killer. Definitely worth a listen if you like "nu jazz." > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ytBRcefaE >