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Thank you kind sir! I'm delighted that I was able to remaster this one with this degree of satisfaction. I'm beginning to think that Abelton Live 7 is capable of anything that you can imagine doing! The key of course being "imagination," and the helpful hints that other users provide! Cheers.

"a cross section of some hot springs in action" - planetjazzbass' description below is the best I've read yet, but I know what you mean. Wall0soundD. I like that "maximalism" a lot; occupying the opposite spectrum to Philip Glass probably needs to be done. Any volunteers? Cheers.

EuNegMa, my musical friend from S. Africa! Can you tell how much growing up in Cameroon effected my taste in rhythms? I'm glad you like this one, as it's one of my favorites. It's the gentle rhythms that really work their way into your spirit, you know? Thanks for the review - I'll be checking in with your latest later today! Cheers.

C69 - the first to ever listen to this track and instantly write a review! I had hoped you'd like the revision here. Soon some of those others you've commented on will be revised and uploaded, too. I look forward to seeing your take on them as well. Cheers!

Yes, I'm a bit fond of this one in particular, which is why I'd like to get it right. Originally 6 loops and me playing with volume and built-in effects amplitudes in real-time - this is when I realized that my resistance to electronic music creation was something to face. Music is music, and there are things that can be done with this approach that I've always dreamed of. And you looperman friends are a generous resource that I really didn't anticipate. Thanks Dave!

Can you hear my palm slapping my forehead? It was one of the first tools I played with and thought how useful it could be, then completely forgot about it as I explored other things. I'm on my way to check out the links you've provided. The melodic interval...show me? I think I need to rub the Buddha belly to grok it. Love you little Brother Abe!

Thanks for the listen and review! All done on a laptop with various Max MSP programs, this latest version with Ableton 7 LE. I've put a new version up since your review and spent a lot of time fine editing the wav in Audacity. I think it sounds even better!

Thanks for the listen and fav! It's still drafty, but I think I'm nearly there. The 3rd remix is now up, and hopefully I've resolved the issues I still had with it before.

Thank you kindly! The steel drums are almost verbatim of a set used on Frank Tovey's "Civilian" album, and this track really was created as an evolution spinning out from this loop. So the entire song is really inspired by a piece of punctuation. Thanks to victormusic01x for that loop in particular as it's the key. I've got 5 versions as drafts of this one now, and it may be my best bit of jungulation to date (imho). Still haven't found the 2:30 version yet!

I've hacked this one 3 times now and been so dissatisfied that I haven't updated it yet. The elements work for me, but the weave eludes me entirely. I think I've been fixating on jahknow's advice below and trying to break it up more than I should/can. If I understand you correctly, it's the juxtaposition of the drums and perc-melody where I'll probably find the solution to getting this one right. It's true, in the contrast of those two elements is a disparity. Like a "tribal hunter...in some mineral water commercial". Interesting...there are two approaches that immediately come to mind. The Borneo Dayak can look quite natural wearing a Rolex if that's not the center of attention. Thanks Donnie, I think this was exactly what I needed to hear for this one. I'm going to shoot you an email when I update this one. (I'm also going to see if "R2's Dream" is still up.)

This one Is what it Is. I reversed a sampled cello loop of Bach that's 10 sec. long and knew what to do as it pulled up incredibly visual memories. Six samples in all played and recorded live on an Max MSP standalone, after 5 or 6 'dry-runs' over 3 days. If you've read any Terrance McKenna, you'll get my reference to the Language Elves. It would lend itself to spectacular visual performances as it's already a sonic representation of just that. Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers.

Funny you'd invoke a war movie as one of the loops used from victormusic01x is titled, "Fallen soldiers ideas." Strange how people can intuit the original intent from strands of snippets. Though our interpretations are a bit different, I think my visualizing an imaginary jungle anime scene (sci-fi and not happy stuff) seems to translate pretty well in the audio experience. Thanks for the review and encouragement!

shinbaku - I'm glad I could motivate so many exclamation marks. It's great fun stumbling across tracks on this site that we really enjoy. I'm glad this one worked for you! Cheers.

Yes I do love drones. Actually fell into musical performance by teaching myself to play the didgeridoo, so it's no surprise that I'd go for this kind of sound with this digital media. The drone here was created with a bass loop done by Donnie_Vyros that I put in two channels and then played with 3 octaves separating them. It really is amazing being able to manipulate sound like this into entirely new contexts. Glad you enjoyed it!

The vox are actually several pitches higher than what you hear, and I think moving the tone down was a really good idea. I've got some more of these vocal samples (both male and female) that I'm itching to do something with, and this review certainly inspires me. Yeah, I'd love to hear radio stations offering up world music with some regularity. It's our exposure to other stuff that brings on the inspiration to try new things. I dig your comment about it making you "wanna move." For me this is where it's at, and I never press the record button unless my hips are wiggling in time with my groove. Gonna check out Engine-Earz right now! Thanks and cheers.

DV - you called it. Totally live with no alterations, just me and Cool Edit 2000 with a mic and two geng gongs. Banjo is such a brilliant idea, and gives me an excuse to hook up with a musical buddy I haven't seen for several years. Maybe I'll finally convince him to hand over that banjo....Cheers!

I like the idea of this being used as a mash-up. I think you've pretty much hit it on the head here: it's actually more like a couple of tracks spliced together than a song, in that it's a live recording created with iamthemightyjungulator. I think I'll pull this one into Live and see if I can't expand it into something a bit more complete. Thanks for the idea here. Cheers!

The genre situation... I'll probably go to my grave scratching my head over this one. Dub seems to be a good "generic genre" for just about any full-on sampling approach (sonic collage) so I think I'll stick with it until someone slaps my hands. It's funny how "questionable" this track sounds to me now. It's really hard for me to hear it without also hearing the limitations of the software I was using for this one. Thanks for the listen.

Thanks Reverse1984. Around here, I don't think there's a higher form of compliment than the faved track. Glad you enjoy this one!

Ah my fav gray financier! I actually owe you a thanks as your early reviews really encouraged me to continue with these stylistic experiments. Who would have thought "old school" chaps like us could make the paradigmatic leap into this mode of music creation? Now that I've upgraded my software, I'm really excited to see where this goes. It's so flattering to know that I've got somebody looking forward to hearing it, too! Cheers!

Thanks for the listen and review! In my youth in Indonesia at live gamelan performances I used to feel my spirit had left my body, and I'm happy I'm finding the way to recreate that with my stuff. I've been playing around with the next version of this one, and hopefully I won't lose this "trance-inducing" quality. Cheers.

I did this track on 7 Lite - now I've dropped the Lite I'm going back to this one with an ear on the possibilities now open! I absolutely love Live 7. I'm so glad my spouse talked me into getting it.

This was just an experiment, and from a collection of three solo pieces I tried at the time that I called "Nano-onaN". Though better than a "toss-off", it's not a song. Very incomplete - BUT a great example of how inherently psychedelic "primitive" instruments can be. Even without delay, my impulse is to play it in a way that imitates delay.

Now it's a temporary "listen and tell."

The best geng gong stuff I did was with my spouse in public performances. We'd play face to face sharing the same mic (no delay but with a gate). My favorite was a review of a bit we did at the Seattle Improvisational Dance and Music Festival one year. The guy said that he "kept blushing. The sounds and their proximity was just too intimate. I felt like a voyeur watching something more than sex." Nice one, huh?

The bamboo variety is played against the lips and not teeth, unlike the metal variety. There are a couple of spots where there's a kind of growling sound, and thats what's produced against the teeth (here, deliberately). For sure there's a similarity to the didjeridoo as all tonal shaping is done with the mouth as pitch chamber. Thanks for having a listen and response.