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Decon Theed - Overland (Before MMM)

from 2011 X 2013 vol. 1: Have Mild Will Travel by 103 Records

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Track 13: Overland (Before MMM)
Artist: Decon Theed
Originally Composed: 2013, then tweaked in 2014

Y’know, you would have thought I’d learned from George Lucas’ example and not overtweaked something I made to the point of ludicrousness, but then I went and did just that with this track. The original version was alright as it was, but I’d gotten it into my head that I wanted to flesh out a little bit when I first started laying down the foundations for this project sometime in early 2014, and the result was... mixed. I got a bit meta by sampling clips of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith of Underworld fame across the whole thing, and while in some places it works- the intro, the piano breakdown just before the solo- in other places, like the breakdown in the middle, or the “we are over land” vocode at the end of the intro, just feel tacked on and bloated. It’s a shame, too; whilst some of the synths are a bit weak and the arrangement isn’t always spot on, touches like the squelchy acid bassline, the lovely piano chords (and the synth reinterpretations of those chords later on) still sound lovely, I think. This song is also the point where I really started pushing for a more obvious Underworld and Ken Ishii influence with the Decon Theed sound, directly leading to songs like Life Song (which is very much the spiritual successor to this song) and Mental Machine Music.

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from 2011 X 2013 vol. 1: Have Mild Will Travel, released May 16, 2015
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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