MentufacturerRSS

The title, of course, is from Michael Jackson's Billie Jean. I don't know why but when I was listening to this (Goldenpond generated) riff, the phrase kept popping up in my head. Even though the two tracks have nothing to do with each other musically. (And, frankly, I'm more of a Prince man.)

Still, the phrase and this track crystallized into a "thing". So here it is.

The distorted bass is from Aleks Dolgy (https://www.fiverr.com/dolgyyy/be-your-session-rock-and-metal-bass-player#) I asked for something fairly metal. And he did a great job. But I then smothered it in distortion, and some echo and GrossBeat, so unfortunately you can't hear quite how great a job he did. This works for what I wanted though.

I did this track "live" on my YouTube as an example of a set I prepared for an EMOM, using Goldenpond. That performance had a few mistakes and dud moments. It was also longer than I'd have likely played live.

So I've edited this down to remove the mistakes and make it a snappier 11 minutes or so.

Find out more about Goldenpond here : https://gilbertlisterresearch.com/GoldenPond.html

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Another sepia beat from the pond (http://gilbertlisterresearch.com/GoldenPond.html)

To hear more like this : https://dionysian-industrial.bandcamp.com/album/mentufacturer-chases-the-green-fairy

Listen to my latest mini-album : https://mentufacturer.bandcamp.com/album/grey-gardens

Playing obsessively with Golden Pond (https://gilbertlisterresearch.com/GoldenPond.html) at the moment. I just want to hear beautiful chord progressions.

To hear more like this : https://dionysian-industrial.bandcamp.com/album/mentufacturer-chases-the-green-fairy

And check out the last Mentufacturer EP : https://mentufacturer.bandcamp.com/album/grey-gardens

Golden Pond (https://gilbertlisterresearch.com/GoldenPond.html) + some harsh droney strings from a mellotron plugin.

To hear more like this : https://dionysian-industrial.bandcamp.com/album/mentufacturer-chases-the-green-fairy

And check out the last Mentufacturer EP : https://mentufacturer.bandcamp.com/album/grey-gardens

A deep and mellow trombone sample drone. That's surprisingly funky.

Check out the latest Mentufacturer EP : https://mentufacturer.bandcamp.com/album/grey-gardens

An old chord sequence in a new LMMS jam

Amazing sound that came out of randomizing the parameters on the Dream64 plugin http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=Dream_64&id=1757 ... then fed through a bunch of fx : distortion, flange, phase, squeeze etc. and finally Grossbeat (to half or third-speed it) and reverb.

The harmonic drone that comes in later is due to the Samsara Shruti http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=Shruti&id=2491 and the melodic figure at the end is from the GreenOak Crystal http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?plugin=Crystal&id=262 again using some randomly cross-breed sound.

Haecceitas because this really is unique one-off sound.

Feel free to download, sample, remix or reuse this any way you like. Tell me if you do, I'd love to hear it.

My refix of Las Plantas Sagradas Y La Rosa Negra, contributed to Ingr_d's Collaborative Fusion Orchestra

See the full playlist of music based on this vocal at

https://soundcloud.com/ingr_d/sets/las-plantas-sagradas-y-la-rosa