Tuesday, December 23, 2008

My EP is finally finished! (The Black Plaid EP)


My first EP is finally finished! I'm calling it Black Plaid, and it's pretty much the first half of the (free) album I'll be releasing sometime next year. It's a collection of mashups, experiments and a few original compositions. Download it here:

Dustin Steinacker - The Black Plaid EP

(And a link to a ZIP file if you don't have WinRAR)

UPDATED: Listen to it on Soundcloud, the other links have been down for awhile

Tracks and List of Samples

Most of the following samples are highly modified and many are unrecognizable but the full list is included in the interests of completedness:

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Originally titled "Malfeasance Toned of Argon", back when I was intending it to be a parody of techno music. It's still kind of a parody.

Samples:

Beat: The Knife - "Like a Pen"
Bass: Public Image, Ltd. - "Albatross"
Sound effect: Battles - "Atlas"
Strings: J.S.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concert 1 (Adagio)
Sound effect and vocals: Subtle - "A Tale of Apes I"

More bass and two loops from "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes
Short Segment from "Moonlight Sonata (Presto) by Beethoven
Short drum segment from "Voodoo Lady" by Ween
Explosion from "We Will Rock You" by Max Raabe Orchestra.

Tales #1: Vine Hilos

Mashup between "Mera Pyar Shalimar" and "The Rose Garden of Mystery" by Secret Chiefs 3

Sound Effects: "Broken Glass Hearse" by Secret Chiefs 3
Drone 1: "Soldier Side" by System of a Down
Drone 2: "Super Are" by Boredoms
African Guitar: "Erdi" by Ali Farka Toure

Tales #2: Abrasions

Mashup between "Facing the Plastic" by Serart and "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" by Serj Tankian

Choir (strangely enough): "Hardware Store" by Al Yankovic

Tales #3: Partisan

Mashup between "Mera Pyar Shalimar" by Secret Chiefs 3 and "Intro" by Sigur Ros

Sound Effects and Choir Aah: A heavily pitch-tweaked "Super Are" by Boredoms

Handmap

Beat and distorted drums: Radiohead - "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors"
Guitar: Dustin Steinacker
Drone: Björk - "Hidden Place"
All unattributed sound effects and tapping: Dustin Steinacker

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Guitar and descending main melody: Dustin Steinacker
Drums: Arcade Fire - "Black Mirror"
Strings: Eels - "Going To Your Funeral"
Sound effects and voices: Grizzly Bear - "Deep Sea Diver"

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Rambling hippie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQkDNwId8r4
Intro sound: Ween - "Mutilated Lips"
Guitar, electric guitar and main beat/melody: Dustin Steinacker
Short drum bursts: Gorillaz - "Last Living Souls"
Choir: Taken from a "500 Outer Space Sound Effects" disc I borrowed from the library whose title I have long forgotten.

Vocal samples:

Spiro Agnew ("The hippies and the yippies and the disruptors. . .")
Unnamed news anchor commenting on the Kent State Massacre
Albert Einstein ("I believe that Ghandi's views. . .")
A very old movie whose title I have forgotten ("You think that you are seeing the truth. . .")

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