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Master Controller Featuring - A Self Portrait in 64 Colours

from Absolutely Stuffed: The Best of The 12 Tracks of Christmas by 103 Records

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Ok, I fully admit this one's a little bit of a cheat; this track was actually produced in 2014, as a potential intro track for a project that got Decon's commentary:shitcanned about a week after it was made. It's inclusion on 12 Tracks

2012 is the result of needing to swap out the original 8th track, as it was a remix of a song by someone who turned out to be Not Very Nice At All™, to put it mildly. The fact that this means the Mk. IV Alias character, Granpappy, is on the cover but doesn't have a piece on the album is something that has driven me up the wall for ages.
Anyway! The thing I remember the most about this piece was the absolute agony I went through over the timing of the unused Tidal Tempest loop sample and the breakbeat- specifically, getting them to line up without one feeling faster then the other. To my ear, the start of the Tidal Tempest sample still sounds too fast- dunno whether that's because of how I cut it or timed it, I'm not sure. Overall though, I like what I did here; it's not single material, but it was always meant to have a “beat tape” quality to it's production that I think comes across. The “64 Colours” the title was intended to refer to the total number of colours the Mega Drive could display at any one time, but doing a memory refresher for this I discovered that number was actually 61.
… I'm making no promises not to rename this in the future. I've renamed things before, I'll rename them again darnit!

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from Absolutely Stuffed: The Best of The 12 Tracks of Christmas, released December 31, 2021
composed by Decon Theed

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103 Records is an independent label based in Cambridgeshire. Spearheaded by Decon Theed, 103 Does not believe in narrow genre focus, forced monetary participation, or exclusion of the individual; our goal is provide music of any genre, produced by musicians from all walks of life, and to have it be as readily available to everybody as is possible. ... more

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