This has a VERY distinct flavor that, personally, I love. Maybe if you melded that track with early euro-techno, added in some more recent virtual analog sensibilities and processing, and decided to cover Commander Keen, you'd come up with something fairly esoteric, unusual, and quality like this? analoq has answered that question, and for some reason I think he's the only one that could have. "Ground control to Major Tom") - in a good way, as I'm a huge fan. For some reason, be it the references to leaving a galaxy or the dramatic progressions at points, this reminds me of Bowie's Space Oddity (i.e. Slick snare fill into some heavier filtered percussion follows that, with a great analog lead that restates the melody in more badass fashion. I love some of the progressions and the piano solo circa 1'40" is my favorite bit, as analoq lets it loose with some funkdom. The guts of the mix are essentially a laid-back beat, a lil funky, with a squeaky analog monoglide lead and some psychedelic oscillator effects over a plunky bassline that does its own happy little riff. This has a very euro-pop sound to it, perhaps a bit of a Kraftwerk influence, and there's some tres 80's mangled vocoding of "Goodybe, Galaxy," preceding the lovely old-style recording piano conclusion with a nice cross-panned fade out. i was sick, i had a fever and a piercing headache, but i wasn't tired enough to sleep so i recorded that intro. First off, let's answer the obvious questions as to what's being said at the beginning, and why - I emailed analoq after hearing the mix and was informed: it's just supposed to sound weird. Actually, i never really played these early id games, but Prince did the tunes just like for Doom - pretty flexible guy.
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