a longer, more advanced snippet of the song from the 132/136 bpm poll…

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this is the newest version without a 4/4 beat… the drumming works much better with the bells… and this snippet begins within a break not at the beginning…

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My song about Illusion/Reality now has a nicer break… a lot use of the new UAD-2…

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i also used real recordings of my room to fade into the break and have another layer of “reality”

Here is a snippet of a midtempo experiment i did with guitar amps, reaktor and sampled string chords…

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A bit clutter & chaos for now but i really like the electronic reaktor loop with the saturated drums… dont know about those string chords yet…

Today i was working on a mix of rock elements (melodic solo guitar, distorted guitars and compressed acoustic drums) with “dance” elements like claps and a 909 bassdrum…

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I personally like the unusual halftempo beginning (it also ends like that) and consider it as an album track but i also think of producing a more danceable remix with a dj compatible beginning for 2009…

here is a cut of a little classic trance piece i am working on right now…

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and once again i have to add: the purpose of showing “footprints” rather than fragements of the finished product later this year is to give an insight into the process - to show how ideas, sounds, melodies, arrangements grow, evolve, are exchanged to get a final piece of music that is worth to be called a “song” rather than a “track”…

One really annoying thing in the 90s was the cutting of the beloved 6min+ clubmixes to Radio/Video-Mixes of about three minutes… But in advertising you only have seconds to evoke emotions…

So, after working on some Audio Logo layouts i thought about STRETCHING a 20 second layout for a TV comercial i did last year… And here is how it sounds for now…

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here we go…

http://www.disc-o-maat.de/rolfmaierbode/RolfMaierBode_-_Finale_One.mp3

Today some tonal percussions found the way into an echovalley and met three sad solo strings. Later a computer voice reminded them of the utter importance of bass. Give it to me !

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Headphones recommended. Not to be taken too seriously…

just for educational purposes no, it wont be the first single release of the upcoming album…

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the finger cymbal is my favourite in this selection…