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Run Time: 121 Minutes
Street Date: May 19, 2025. (11 days after last one. A new record for putting out a new double record. Last one May 8 was 16 days after the previous one.)
TRACK LIST:
1. Bipped On Bach
2. Spore Cloud in the Faceted Crystalline Void
3. Quantum Widget Serenade
4. Forgotten Modem Lullaby
5. Cosmic Jukebox Malfunction
6. Glitch Waltz in 19 TET
7. Phantom Frequency Fiasco
8. Snorting Excited Particles of Light
9. Synth Patch for a Broken Moon
10.Dreamscape Cloud Drum Stored in the Cloud
MICROTONAL SONGS:
“Glitch Waltz in 19 TET” is all in 19-TET.
“Cosmic Jukebox Malfunction” is all in Rast Pentachord 5-Limit (Rast pentachord 600:675:744:800:900)
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CREDITS
All writing, playing, engineering, production, mixing, and mastering by Michael W. Dean. Except “Bipped On Bach” is “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” by J.S. Bach, arranged by MWD. Backwards talking on “Snorting Excited Particles of Light” is MWD and Debra Dean from the audio book for A User’s Manual For The Human Experience by Michael W. Dean. (It’s a nod to the backwards talking on a Bomb song, “Because Pan Sez” on the Happy All the Time EP.)
Cover image AI prompted by MWD. Music is all human-produced. No AI was used in the making of this music.
Album makes extensive use of the free VST “Pretty Good Sampler” and its default samples. Also there’s a lot of use of 3 other VSTs I made and give away: Microtone 5000, FreakBone 9000, and Simple Microtonal Sampler.
COVER ART INSPIRATION: I was going for “young adult fiction” book cover.
Like maybe “Nancy Drew and her hippie cousins solve the mystery of the mushroom cave”, or “Stranger Things goes to college”
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That cover art is magnificent!
Thanks!
I had a bunch of drafts at it. A friend said all of them but this one looked “Hallmark.” lol.
Hey, Michael: The first cut on the albums is the best version of that Bach song I ever heard. Listening to the rest of the album as I write this, digging it. I really like the use of the gongs and other “crashing and thumping” things sprinkled throughout! Greetings from Detroit.
thanks!
A lot of the gongs and bells are stuff recorded in the kitchen, by a friend and myself.
A bunch of them are presets I added to my free VST ” PRETTY GOOD SAMPLER”
https://biptunia.com/?p=11533
With that I can play the sounds with any MIDI keyboard. Is fun!