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| 1101010 (one one oh, one oh, one oh) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| <TITLE> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| And We'll Be Back Next Year with Let's Hunt and Kill Michael Bolton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| <ABSTRACT> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| To write, record and produce an album in a month. This was inspired by the National Novel Writing Month Project. [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| <STRUCTURE> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| To be considered an album there should be over 28 minutes of material or at least eight tracks. All material should have been written within the month. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| </STRUCTURE> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| <EQUIPMENT> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Everything on the album was played and recorded by me using the following:
AXL analogue delay pedal Boss LS-2 line selector pedal Bush FM/AM/LW sports radio Cables and leads Carlsboro Pro-Series B1-200 bass amp Digitech X-Series digital delay pedal E-Bow EKO 12-string acoustic Fostex VF160 digital multitracker Marshall practice amp Musicman bass Pearl cymbals Pro Co Turbo Rat pedal Rickenbacker 360 copy (by Tokai) Seymour Duncan humbucker pickup Shure SM58 mic Telecaster copy, with humbuckers (by some dude in Japan 30 years ago) Yamaha AN200 analogue synthesizer Yamaha DTXpress drums Zoom 504-II (for tuning) |
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| </EQUIPMENT> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <ANALYSIS> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I bent my rules a little by using two ideas I'd had kicking around for a long while but never really used.
However, all of these were new recordings and in fact everything on the album ended up being recorded live,
even the stuff I could reasonable have cut and pasted or programmed. This was down to laziness more than
anything else.
Most tracks were recorded quickly and the first take was often the one uses. Occaisionally I would write something that was hard for me to play and forced many retakes just to get a half-decent version, and you'll hear this in the many bum notes, mistakes and slighty timing issues on all tracks. I did try to fix as many of these as possible but part of the time limit was to get over a desire for perfection. You can get all the tracks from the above links. If I was to name a 'single' it would be '03 - This Room Spins' maybe followed by '06 - Convenient How Convenient'. However, the album contains quite a few different styles and there's stuff on there that's quite unlike those tracks. The album was arranged and produced (barely!) to be listened to as one continuous piece, so if your MP3 player puts tiny pauses between each MP3 as it plays them your enjoyment might be improved by burning them all to a CD with no gaps between tracks. |
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| </ANALYSIS> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <DIAGRAMS> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CD Label Image
Front Cover Inside Cover |
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| <REFERENCES> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| [1] TheoGB.com: Homesite of the author, Theo Graham-Brown
[2] NaNoWriMo.org: National Novel Writing Month website |
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| </REFERNCES> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <DATES> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 26th December 2004 to 25th January 2005 inclusive. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| </DATES> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <DISCLAIMER> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| All tracks are copyright Theo Graham-Brown (c) 2005 They may be distributed freely and no money should be charged. |
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