The rather clever and v.friendly @pure_tone has taken my latest Eurovision ambient reworking and has made it sound better than I could ever have imagined. What’s more, he did it without the source file, so this is just a rough master believe it or not!

His rather special talent gives him the ability to make my little piece so much bigger and brighter. Luckily for me, the sound I make can often benefit from the strange mp3 compression audio artifacts he shared his concern about.

He easily deserves a follow on Twitter (@pure_tone) if you care about purist audio. I say, follow him anyhow, even if you just love music in general.

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This is the next in the Eurovision series and it’s getting tough to find tiny snippets that stand out uniquely enough to be manipulated. I hope this little piece tickles the ear drums?

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Short on time today as after a lovely weekend away, I’ve quite a bit of urgent work to get done.

However, I have managed to go back to the Eurovision series during my lunch break and this little piece is the result of an hour of randomness with the Israeli entry.

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The Greek entry is the next to get the ambient treatment. A small looped piece of the opening is used with a couple of delays and reverbs to make this sweet little thing.

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Greece.mp3
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Here is the eleventh zip file containing the latest ten tracks posted. There are two zip files, one for lower bitrate MP3s and the other for the rather better 320kbps files.

All of the tracks here are free for you to download.

Thank you for your continued support.

101 to 110 – 96kbps – zip file (28Mb)

101 to 110 – 320kbps – zip file (97Mb)

Not much time to play with sound this weekend, but before Niall was up today I did a little bit of sonic noodling with the Spanish eurovision entry. This song was bottom of the pile. I hope this version, although a little shorter, is a little better?

Ambient Compilation 11 will be up tomorrow. Have a great weekend everyone.

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Work and other technical hitches seem to have hogged my last 24 hours. After very little sleep, I decided to play around with the Lithuanian Eurovision entry and this rather short odd drone evolved. I thought of extending it, but I think I need to shift the mood away from the tone of my most recent pieces to a lighter place, if you know what I mean?

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After a wonderful weekend, I am alone again for a few days and this always makes me become quite reflective and in search of some quieter place, mentally. For a couple of weeks I have struggled to find a sample from the UK Eurovision entry that worked well.

Early this morning, I found a small snippet that when treated to a reverbed graincloud effect, seemed to perfectly match my mood.

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Not having much time today to be creative I spent my lunch looking for a single sweet sound from the Croatian entry and this was the result. Pure and simple.

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Made this in my lunch-hour. It’s a rising wall of sound. One small but rich sample from the Azerbaijan Eurovision entry has been layered over and over with tons of reverb, maybe a little too much? ;) I then played it over a few octaves to create this almost stellar-like sound. All done within Ableton Live.

I know this is the second piece today, but it’s too difficult for me not to share it straight away. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it?

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