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You've got a penchant for ambient tracks man. I like September. Feels Like it should be on some movie soundtrack. What are you using for your strings and synthesized sounds?

Are you working on any new tracks plasmate?

Hey Jonny. I'm trying to record some more arcane night night music stuff. I've got about 25 songs written for the project. My original intention was to do original artwork for every song as well. Turn it into a real multimedia project. I'm trying to work out the best way to do the artwork myself (we'll see how that goes). My goal is to try and record a couple more demos very soon and post them up. I don't know what it is but I'm always in the mood to do these kinds of songs. I must be a real morbid bastard. lol.

plasmate74 wrote: Cant wait. They really are great. Reminds me of Radiohead in a way. Keep it up!

Thanks plasmate! They do sound like strings don't they?? It's just some backwards guitar, with lots of distortion added on, and backwards and forwards reverb to give the guitar sounds of a sustained sound. And lots of other effects too I'm sure. By the way I really like your Obscured cover.

Thanks man. BTW do you know how to arrange the order of the "sets" on your SoundCloud page? Or do you need to have a paid account to do this?

Do you mean the order of the songs within the sets, or the order of the sets themselves? Because if that's what you mean...honestly I don't know if you can. I have a paid account and I have no idea. You should email soundcloud or ask around the messages boards...but you might just have to delete sets and re-add them in the order you want them in. That's what I had to do when I started putting my sets together

hey guys, it's been awhile! that album Rivers and myself were working on is finally done and you guys can check it out at www.flyingkards.com.

Very excited.
We're going to hit the studio today to record our first album.
Stay tuned for it...

DON wrote:
Nice one

Nice to see that activity in this topic is picking up. I just finished a new track called "How We Feel Right Now"..it has a ambient sound, but I think it has a driving quality to it as well. Check it out! soundcloud.com/klaus-marten

OK, here's the tracklist:

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s/t Demo Album

1. Best Of Satan
2. Boydyke (Phases 1 - 3)
3. Betazoid Mind Trick
4. Boxer
5. Black Is You (Sun Song)
6. Botox

7. Buddy Holly, Buddy Holly, Buddy Holly (Hidden Track)

Currently finishing mixes, almost there.

Some artwork:



The site:

hexenstehenimmerzwischenbirken.wordpress.com/

Soon we'll have the tracks uploaded & download links!!!
Just a few more days!!!

Mixing on the album is done, here's the actual artwork:



We currently have two mixes and feel unable to decide:
A very well produced and slightly compressed one (called "Wilson Cut"),
and a rather dynamic, calmer and more DIY one (called "Hipster Cut").
Any suggestions?

Tracklist didn't change.

Release has to be the 5th of April on our bandcamp site!!!

DON wrote:
Let Dr epitome listen to a sample of both...

epitome wrote: We decided to take the Wilson Cut for it makes us sound better than we actually do.
Stay tuned on April 5th for the album.

Best of Satan and the Boxer are wicked tracks! Don. The recordings are great. Really like your band, man.

Thank You
Stay tuned on Thursday for the album!

DON wrote:
From the small bit my ipad will play without cutting off, it sounds great. How much will the album cost?

It will be a WAV+MP3 download bundle for free
But feel free to donate on our paypal account displayed on our band camp / wordpress site from the 5th on.

If you're going to visit one of our shows you'll even get a physical copy .

Tracks of the album in-detail and my personal thoughts.

1. Best Of Satan (3:52)

Rehearsing one day, I used to play this Sonic Youth ripoff riff the song consists of. In less than 5 minutes we literally made up the whole tune.
For now, being that energetic, it still remains as the opener. I like the raw, fresh blast it is - a simple, entertaining intro track.
The naming is complete bullshit and came up as a joke.

Samples:
There's a sample of a German interview with Reinhard Bonnke, a charismatic Christian evangelist well-known in the U.S, Europe and Africa, running thru the whole track.
Bonnke is notorious for healing everyone in his shows and rather worshipping himself than Jesus...greedy bastard...maybe Best Of Satan isn't the worst title to it at all...


2. Boydyke (10:10)

This is a jorney.
Boydyke was slowly developed from two different ideas we had which finally blend together as one big piece since Basti had the same lyrical topic for both (and they sounded similar to me).
So here's an idea we called "Bring Back My Hagfish Soul" which became the first and the last third of it, while the other idea (called "Bookstore") became the center of it.
There's much more to the lyrics than I thought it would (before I started reading what he wrote), dealing with the definition of art, the conflict of generations, the loss of conservative sexual identities and so on...heavy stuff, read it on our Wordpress site.
I love the hypnotic and psychedelic monochord parts going on in Boydyke, it's always levetating.
I came up with these iconic, spacy tournarounds playing around with my Feedbacker.
Much of the music in Boydyke displays something I always wanted to hear by other bands that never existed.
So I guess, there's one or two new ideas there.
Again, the song's name is rather a joke; on the other hand queer themes are found in the lyrics and I have to admit to feel like a guydyke one or the other day myself.
It's Post Rock.

Samples:
Many samples are going on here; first of all, stock sitcom laughing and stock male laughing.
Then we have a long quote from the movie Catch 22 in English.
At the segue between phases 1 & 2 there's a German quote from my dearest favourite movie, the Swedish "Let The Right One In"; the main girl Eli (who used to be a boy) admitting to her boyfriend "Oscar, ich bin kein Mädchen!" (in English: "Oscar, I'm no girl at all!").

3. Betazoid Mind Trick (3:52)

This is one of the songs which were unfinnished until we recorded them.
We have a change in intruments here since I let my guitar fuck itsself whilest I pick up the bass and Basti gets over to the Synth (for the only time, yet).
The idea was to recreate a typical 80s wave piece, because we all pray to this decade.
Unfortunatly I find myself playing exact the same bass line as Peter Hook did on Joy Division's New Dawn Fades.
Nevermind, Basti does a great job on the keys and the drummer is fine (he always is, he is the only sane person and professional in our self-help group band).
Some pathetic lyrics dealing with cheating in videogames are found in the end but they were just put in to entertain you and give us some variety (and spoofing young Billy Corgan's voice, of course).
Don't get me wrong, the song is a fun piece.
Strange enough it's one of the live favourites.

Samples:
For the last time on the album, heavy sampling.
Right in the beginning, we have Krug from Was Craven's classic "The Last House On The Left" asking you to "Piss your pants!".
After that there's the native Nobody out of "Dead Man" asking in German "Welchen Namen gab man dir bei deiner Geburt, dummer weißer Mann?" ("What's the name they gave you when you were born, stupid white man?").
And to worship Bolly, there's also two BC quotes .
The first one is the talk at the end of Reel Time's "Vanilla" the other one is taken out of a Youtube video called "Billy Corgan wants to be part of your sex life".
It's always Billy in the end.

4. Boxer (3:54)

There's no one else to blame but me for the emotive riff in the beginning. Basti screaming things, Maxim blasting and all that stuff.
Lucky enough, I also brought on the jazzy post rock second half which is one of the album's parts I love best.
Like the monochord sections in Boydyke, it's soothing and levetating like hell and something I always wanted to play.
There's two sides to every coin and that's what Boxer says (and so do the lyrics).
Ambivalence to everything.
There is no conpiracy, just stupid humans doing stupid things.
Fuck it all and then make up your mind.


5. Black Is You (Sun Song) (9:35)

Oh yeah here it comes, the mother of all our pieces.
There's hardly any things that I love more in this world.
What a beast.
It starts out with a lonley bass line and some guitar tones, eventually building up a microcosm of darkness.
We play the same parts, over and over but slowly shifting the speed and the effects on it.
Then it explodes in a rush of grief and paine before we get into some soothing territory.
Here we have guitar and bass playing a jazzy loop Slint would have been proud of (maybe not) until some slight dissonance finds its way into the whole thing which leads to the heaviest riff we ever played and a noise part in which everything falls apart. EVERYTHING.
But it's not over yet and the whole tune tries to build up for another attack which suddenly gets stopped like waking up from a nightmare.
Lyrics: This is a tough one; Basti once had a nightmare about himself and his girl (which not existed what so ever) robbing a bank and then fleeing on a woodland road, eventually roadkilling a black man who was grinning all the time, even after the collision.
Then things changed and they were parents. In the middle of the road he stopped the car and told his family "Pack our lunch for it's goig to be a long way! Because we're heading for the end of the world!"
Basti used to write down everything in English and on the recording/performance it is me to tell the whole story in a very Kim Gordon way for I have the more androgynous voice and the more appropriate German accent (which actually works on this).
There's something about this song that touches me really deep that I can't describe.
See for yourself.


6. Botox (2:30)

A slo-mo lounge jazz piece we wrote when we were new to each others.
Nothing special, just a simple and calm tune after the steam roller Black Is You was.
It's also the usual end of our set; the make the audience leave not feeling to deranged at all.

You will eventually also find our hidden track, a stupid hard rock tune dedicated to Buddy Holly and the snare-drum of Slipknot.

Thanks for reading.

Album coming on April 5th.

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