Four Measures Of Fury final mix for February...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
As you can see, we’ve finished the first installment of Four Measures Of Fury. This worked out beyond my wildest expectations, so we’ll definitely do it again next month (and I already have a good loop lined up, too!)
I got (not including myself) 28 submissions, which is just a hair under 1% of the average unique daily readership of this blog. On the one hand, I thought more people would participate; on the other hand, I’m almost glad more didn’t, because with dealing with the BigSeq release, this almost got away from me. I’m definitely going to have a submission form for next month’s entries, to better organize everything so I can do it all in one sitting.
Without further ado, here is the MP3 of the whole mess, rendered straight from Nuendo. I used a pretty heavy dose of L3 to tame the levels, because the submissions were all over the map, so if you submitted, yours might sound a little more squished than when it left your computer. Including the original loop and mine, there are 30 in all, which ends up being slightly over 3 minutes long. It is a mind-bending collection that runs the gamut from nearly prog-rock to nearly ambient. The amazing thing you’ll immediately notice is that they all blend together quite well. Using the common source material is the cause of that, I suppose.
No favorites were played, and I added all the files in the order they were received or put up on the site. Here is the list, in order, with websites where applicable:
1. Original Loop
3. shamann
4. Peter Forret
5. Ruger Seeds
6. Switchonoff
7. Wade Alin
8. skOre
9. unempty
10. Angstrom
11. thephlexican
12. X. Cerveau
13. James Douglas
14. PBXorcist
15. Matt Giant
16. Jan Nemecek
17. Navs Abbanay
18. Niclas Markbäck
19. Till
21. Bjorn Vayner
22. Cain Torst
23. meto
24. Gösta Wellmer
25. Georg Bosch
26. D’ MacKinnon
27. Brandon Daniel
28. MarkmaN
29. Justin Walgran
30. Chris Cortier
12 comments
great stuff...I'm looking forward to participating in the next one!
btw, 0:13 (shamann) and 1:34 (mine) are a bit similar :)
Now that made my morning!
After listening to the final product I cant help but wonder if what an arranged version might sound like (All 30 each used once, but arranged for flow)
Hey, that turned out cooler than I expected. Fun stuff, actually sounds like it could be a one-take live beat mashup.
All we need is Rick Wakeman doing some widdly organ solo over top, and we could be the new kings of prog.
Weird that mine and Jan's sound so much alike. He and I should compare notes.
That is awesome. Period.
Keith.
That actually sounded pretty cool.
so I've gone over the original post with a fine-tooth comb, and I can't for the life of me figure out why all of the google ads it spawned are related to menstruation.
annnnnnd of course, now that I said that, they've all disappeared and everyone's looking at me funny.
Wow, that's amazing.
I'll have to do something with the next one. If nothing else, there can be some kind of junky-sounding crap in the middle to make everyone else sound better.
Very much like a mashup, or like hitting the random button on your synth while the arp is on, very cool indeed!
Hey, this turned out to be really cool!
Can´t wait for the next one
I was quite pleasantly suprised how well most of it worked together, most good times. Looking forward to next month.
yeah, looking forward to next month! (And an arranged version would be nice - for example mine would be better switched with the one before it... but well ;) )
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