While he thinks about the 9 to 0, again for the fourth time, music follows, funny what numbers can do to us!!!!
check the link as Keith is a good chap, following more details about the why, when and what!
https://soundcloud.com/kfw/sets/greatest-hits
"Greatest Hits" (2003-)
… on
the eve of my 30th birthday, I began rendering "automatic"
"enhancements" of only the most salient points of the pop music of my
youth ; a line, bar, or fragment of a particular song (after being heard
out in "the wild" in the present ; akin to running into an old friend
on the street) was chosen based on how much my nostalgic recollection of
it differed from its contemporary reality. Each was played back at
exactly half-speed, then run through a series of time- and gain-based
processes that slowly & meticulously chewed through the audio,
revealing hidden layers of content, context, and temporal / spectral
production details … shining a flashlight into the dark corners of each
selection, revealing the ghosts lurking within.
I've worked on
these on & off over the last 10 years, largely as a form of therapy
(a way to combat insomnia ; a way to reconnect with my younger self) …
This year, as I approach 40, I've decided to make public the first 100,
dovetailed into a single just-shy-of-12-hour block. Hopefully at least
one of these will trigger a fond memory for you (especially if you grew
up in the shadows of New York City during the 1980's) … My only request
is that you listen to these either on proper speakers or good headphones
(due to the nature of the alteration-process there's a fair bit going
on in the low-end ranges ; all those crisp LinnDrumm kicks and chorused
BassLines, when sent wholesale down an octave, simply will not be
reproduced by your laptop speakers or cheap earbuds) …
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