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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The French entry was difficult as I really had to delve into the overall waveform to find something I liked. In the end, I managed to create a very simple, but sweet electronic lullaby. Its rhythm seems to fit in with the pattern of the rain outside that is falling upon the rooftops. It’s a shame I can’t include that too. I have no decent mic. :(

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Next for re-working is the Icelandic entry, which I thought was one of the better songs from this year. Once again, I feel I have to push it as far away from its origins as I can. This piece has a strange, almost mechanical/electrical feel to it. Everything you can hear is the gathering of some really high-end harmonics that fizz and crackled when run through some Live effects.

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Back to the Eurovision series we go then. This time it’s Denmark that gets the treatment. Forgive the rather obvious Beat Repeat effect from Ableton Live, but I like how it worked on this one. Anything is going to sound better than a Danish crooner with a Ronan Keatingesque tone to his voice? At least I hope so!

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Here is the tenth zip file containing the latest ten tracks posted. I guess this is a bit of a milestone!

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.

091 to 100 – 96kbps – zip file (22Mb)

091 to 100 – 320kbps – zip file (92Mb)

The Estonian entry to Eurovision wasn’t too bad to be honest, but I had to make this sound totally different. So, imagine that it’s a dark winters night in a quiet suburb of Tallinn. You walk the empty streets to your destination to the aural backdrop of this very simple dark and moody piece. It conjours up an eerie sense of isolation.

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A few twitter friends and my net label, Public Spaces Lab, suggested that I ought to continue making ambient, experimental noises with the Eurovision 2009 finalists, so I am revisiting the idea.

The next piece is Portugal. A repetitive drone that slowly evolves, but not so much that there is any major shift in its mood and tone. One to slip the headphones on to. Made with Reaktor 5.

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Here is the ninth 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.

081 to 090 – 96kbps – zip file (34Mb)

081 to 090 – 320kbps – zip file (118Mb)

This piece is for those of you who love an industrial noisy drone. It was made by running the original Turkish Eurovision track through a Reaktor graincloud ensemble and then given some crunching compression and limiting in Live.

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Oh… I’ve just realised, the compilation should have gone up first. Oops. It’ll be up later today.

I know that the usual post should have been the compilation of tracks 81-90, but it’s late here and I need to sleep. I have been playing around with the German Eurovision entry and wanted to put this little re-invention up before I have some much needed shuteye.

Made with Ableton Live and Reaktor.

I’ll put up the latest compilation tomorrow.

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