(of course, i'm featuring tracks in real time relative to when they were first written a little less than 19 years ago. so, i'll be continuing to cycle through these very early cassette demos for about the next year or so.)
well, sort of. this is the 1998 version, which i'm subbing in for the 1996 version for a variety of reasons. i'm just not going to upload the '96 version. that also means that this will cycle back in about two years from now.
i'll also be redoing this (and a few others) in instrumental form for the vst project in the upcoming weeks.
boogeyman did well, but is a bit short of what i was hoping for. it seemed a mild stretch for it to break 1000 hits over the month from the start, but it seemed like the curve was moving up so i thought "maybe". the curve did continue moving, but it distributed itself more evenly than i was expecting. as is, it should hit 900 shortly. it will still probably be the first to 1000, but that will likely take another month or so. it'll certainly break 1000 when it gets cycled back again over the 66 days that existed between the two cassette demos.
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this is one of the creepy tracks where i'm exploring mental illness from the perspective of an isolated 15 year-old; the person in the song is dealing with satanic voices that are keying on traumatic childhood taunting and suggesting violent outbursts as a means of self-defense. this has induced a serious level of agoraphobia.
this is the second recording of the track (you can get to the first by clicking through the link). the initial 1996 recording was a big step up for me in terms of using the recording equipment. in hindsight, this 1998 version has a big upgrade in sound and a big downgrade in vocals. well, i guess the vocals work on a different level, but, comparing them back-to-back, what i'd like to have are the demo vocals with the rerecording's music...
this is the first serious example of any kind of keyboard sequencing that's more than just background sound. there's seriously a crude string section in this track. i hadn't really done that before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuYLWbu04vk&list=PL3JSjmqp0cbslW9qCBKT_nEcwUt1DY0aN
