Playing with the Headphase

[Guest crazymonk]

[cross-posted to the yahoo group]

 

So I've been playing a little bit with some tracks from The Campfire

Headphase and I've found some interesting sounds. Note that I don't

think of this as unearthing easter eggs or the like, but as

deconstructing a complex layer of sounds, or listening on a different

time-scale.

 

1) Slow This Bird Down

 

I sped this bird up about 2 or 3 times and found the more traditional

electronic music beats some TCH naysayers were looking for:

 

http://www.crazymonk.org/audio/slowbirdfaster.mp3

 

2) Sherbet Head

 

Did some noise removal to hear what was going on underneath to quite

fascinating results. Note that the noise removal process is probably

causing many of the surface artifacts, but you can definitely heard

the undermixed sounds better:

 

http://www.crazymonk.org/audio/sherbetheadnoise2.mp3

 

3) Sherbet Head

 

Slowed down 3 or 4 times. Makes for an excellent ambient track, with

I think more emotion than the original:

 

http://www.crazymonk.org/audio/sherbetheadslow.mp3

 

4) Ataronchronon

 

Slowed this down I think 3 times. Another good ambient piece:

 

http://www.crazymonk.org/audio/ataronchrononslow.mp3

 

Let me know what you all think

[david]

wow that slow this bird down one... no kidding..

[Guest Archrival]

really nice :) cool stuff

 

thanks :grin:

[Alzado]

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[YEK]

This post has been edited by COB: Today, 09:15 PM

 

:omg:

[Guest Archrival]

This post has been edited by COB: Today, 09:15 PM

 

wtf! :omg:

[Guest BunnyRabbit]

This post has been edited by COB: Today, 09:15 PM

 

wtf! :omg:

 

Chris T on a bike! COB lives! What kind of comment did you make LOL Az'?

[kaen]

you stupid cunts

[Joyrex]

There is no COB on WATMM anymore; give it up losers...

[david]

lol hooligans

[spptrl alt del]

the slowed sherbet head melody recalls (suggests) slow this bird down for me, the mood of it. it is pretty, but i feel the normal version works better as an ambient segue. the slowed "churning" feels a bit too slow. interseting though, thanks for putting these up

[azatoth]

There is no COB on WATMM anymore; give it up losers...

 

no,they are under a another name now..MDG or something like that...i saw it once with turqouise color...or was it swampgas...

[Guest BunnyRabbit]

There is no COB on WATMM anymore; give it up losers...

 

Who is supposed to be the "losers" here and who are the "stupid cunts"?

 

COB used to post here, how are we supposed to know if they don't anymore?

[Guest Tree]

Try reversing Macquarie Ridge, crazymonk.

[Guest crazymonk]

Try reversing Macquarie Ridge, crazymonk.

 

I already have, especially since one of the drum tracks is completely reversed. I found nothing non-obvious or particularly beautiful.

[Guest Iain C]

I remember some nutter on the Yahoo group being utterly convinced that Geogaddi was "two albums" - one reversed as well as the normal. Nutter!

[Guest crazymonk]

I remember some nutter on the Yahoo group being utterly convinced that Geogaddi was "two albums" - one reversed as well as the normal. Nutter!

 

There's some truth to that.

[Guest Iain C]

It wasn't you was it?

[Guest crazymonk]

It wasn't you was it?

 

It may've been. While the longer tracks with straightforward drum tracks don't really work, the shorter tracks do. See, e.g., Dandelion. The first time I listened to the album backwards, I found a lot of gems. I didn't exactly say that the album was designed to be listened to in both directions, but that much was to be found if one did.

[Guest Iain C]

OK, sorry for misrepresenting you and calling you a nutter then

 

Now the Broken Drum remix, that REALLY sounds interesting reversed

[Guest crazymonk]

No kidding -- it's jam-packed with acoustic melodic lines.

 

I think I like the Broken Drum and Dead Dogs Two remixes better than any tracks on The Campfire Headphase. Maaaybe '84 Pontiac Dream or Constants are Changing come close.