The three songs I am playing this time around are all instrumental. Some songs are simple, and some are a little more complicated, but in each example, I am going for a texture, more than a strict song-like melody.

Whaa -- One of my first electronica composition with the N-Track software. I think I may have done the initial work in N-track, but I think I finished up in Reason 4 because I recognize the "introduce" electronica beat from that suit of sounds and Dr. Rex's sampler.

Chiba -- I discovered a drummer, Manu Katche, and also how to use the re-groove mixer in Reason, so I set out to get a similar sound to the drums in Robby Robertson’s “Somewhere Down that Crazy River.”  I was re-reading William Gibson’s Count Zero, so it seemed, after the addition of the oft-used chemma chi voices, like I had landed in a strange metropolis that stretches to the horizon in every direction.

Piano Waltz, Var. 1 -- This later became the song "ever, Forever," one of my initial offerings in the creative commons with colab of ccmixter.org. I'll post the song in a later episode.

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