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- This "music-disk" should contain:
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- -README.TXT (this file)
- -TALES01.S3M
- -TALES02.S3M
- -TALES03.S3M
- -TALES04.S3M
- -TALES05.S3M
- -TALES06.S3M
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- For playback of the tunes you should also have Screamtracker 3.01.
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- IMPORTANT:
- The Tale tunes were created using Screamtracker 3.01. I therefore recommend
- very strongly that you use ST3 to listen to them. Every player I've tried
- seemes NOT to play the tunes back the way they sound in ST3. So do both
- you and me a favour and use ST3, that very nice FC product.
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- A bit about using and copying this music:
- You can copy this music freely to anybody you want, to as many as you
- want, but without claiming any money for it. Yep, you read it - the
- standard no-copy-for-profit-message is an essential part of the scene.
- Learn it or go lame.
- If you want to use the music, fine, go ahead, put it in your lousy demo or
- whatever your into, but do two things:
- 1. credit me
- 2. send me the product
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- If there is any group who need a musician I can join whatever, but bear in
- mind I won't compose much before next summer, unless NATO or UN gives me a
- break and puts me in an office together with some machinery.
- You can leave a message at the internet adress given at the end.
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- tales
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- Now about the music. The six tunes released in this "music-disk" should
- be kept together. Make sure that also this textfile comes along. I'm sorry
- there's no player, no selector, no gfx or code, but it's a tough world,
- and hey, it's the music that counts.
- Every tune is composed in mono, and also made to be played in mono. I
- apologize for this, but my soundcard, SB16 Multimedia, is a bit shit,
- it won't work in stereo. Therefore the tunes are NOT MADE FOR STEREO
- PLAYBACK, they'll only sound bad when played so. So don't fiddle around
- with the stereo-option.
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- TALES01: FAEERYTALE (hypno edit) 2:11 414 kB
- This tune's a bit of a hypnotrance with a gloomy line on top. The beat and
- the background is repeating quite a lot, though the lead line creates a bit
- of variation. This tune, among many of the others, deserve to be played
- loud, with loadsa bass. The hypno feeling won't appear thru your lousy
- little monitorspeakers. Hook your card to a _real_ stereo and let FAEERYTALE
- rule your sonic world for a minute or two.
- The samples are mainly from the JV80 and JUNO106, few from Wavestation SR,
- Kurzweil K2000 or commerciale sources. The tune was originally ment to be a
- REAL tune, but I somehow ended up doing it cardvise.
- If you want, you can call FAEERYTALE the titletrack.
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- TALES02: GALOONIA (ambient edit) 3:58 354 kB
- Making the tune a bit of a weirdo is it's peculiar rythm: It rocks off in a
- fucking valse rythm! The wonderful drumsample gave me some headache in
- programming the solo instrs, but eventually the right values was discovered,
- together with a little speed-trick. I know it could've been done easier,
- but the programming part was a bit fun, so...
- The two chords used, speaking of a Cmadd2 and a Fmadd2, are absolutely
- wonderful. Together with the amby drumsample they create an edgy atmosphere
- which opens up for a few little solo lines... ;-) OK better hold it now...
- The usual synths provide the sounds.
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- TALES03: LOOM (sympho-comm mix) 3:54 511 kB
- ...is definetely the most commercial of the tunes in this package. It sort
- of remindes me of cheap dance music, like Capella or whatever they call
- themselves. A bit of Jam and Spoon inspired perhaps, with that guitarshit,
- but sorry, no awesome video. The tune is the last of my (released) ones,
- so have in mind it's finished in a hurry. I give up my machine in two
- days.
- The samples are definetely from Wavestation SR, and the JV80. The orchestral
- sounds in the intro part are sampled from various CDs, TVprogs or
- commercials. Give the tune a bit of honour by playing it on a good stereo.
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- TALES04: MINDPRINT (long version) 4:43 556 kB
- Inspired by the book series "Rings of the Master", this tune really shakes
- ass with strait songs. It's rather a soundtrack then a melody, could suit
- a demo better then a musical listening session, but enjoy that fucking
- drive in the tune. Get ready for a hunt.
- The enormous amount of samples in the tune comes from the SR and the
- Rolands. Turn-it-on is taken from the Puma commercials, and dark-like-grave
- from some baaad movie. If you ever had the 64, and played Cybernoid with the
- MON music, then love the lead line. MON rulez! (hi 0ystein Eide)
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- TALES05: NEUROPTIC (sympho mix) 2:11 431 kB
- Not much to say. No beat, no drums, no hope. Plain symphonic.
- Couldn't get the drums to work in this one. I had no time to make it bigger,
- apologies for the rotten ratio between size and time...
- Samples: JV80, Juno106, SR, K2000.
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- TALES06: SWAT 2:16 185 kB
- The least tune of the six, and the most normal one. Strait drums, strait
- background, strait lead. Strait tune. This was originally ment to be a
- very normal tune, one who could also please people without pc-experience
- when they heard it. It carries a simple melody, no refrain or whatsoever,
- like most of the Tale tunes. It moves a bit away of the tecnolike pattern
- the other tunes follow, with its strait drums and good old diskmag chords.
- Smpls: Wavestation SR, JV80
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- About Tales:
- The music of Gnosis is not like the music of the Others. The Others make
- sort of good music with very much ripped sounds. That's okay, and very
- much of the Others music is actually very good.
- The music of Gnosis is different. Gnosis program most of the sounds on the
- synths, though ripped sounds are not forbidden in His music. But it's not
- like you go "hey, that sound was used in Gorgymorr by Hypocompo!".
- He also think that timbre is as important as melody and rythm. Creating
- atmospheres with timbres is fun, and a lot of the music is shaped
- thereafter. Gnosis makes the tunes not by normal musical
- patterns, but more like stories. They have a start, and often they
- never repeat themselves. He do not know why He like this tale style, with
- a neverchanging background and a hunting beat, but He sure use it alot.
- And if You don't know what the word Gnosis means, then use a dictionary to
- widen your horizon...
- who wrote this Crap?
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- Give me word if you hate me. Or if you like my music. Or if you want to
- talk music. Or if you think the Writer of this text needs Help. Or if you
- want to exchange music, ideas, smpls, alot of shit really. The adress
- is...
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- Gisle M. M.
- Kv.stemmma 43
- N-5084 TERTNES
- NORWAY
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- Or, you could leave a message to me, Gnosis, at internet adress
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- el113@hp825.bih.no
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- (Or, if you dloaded this mdisk from SoundServer, then you could leave a
- message to user KNUT_ARNE VEDAA. He'll pass it on to me.)
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- A million thanx must be sent to Knut Arne Vedaa - supporting me with
- the waves, Sound Creator, and soon-to-come the ever-ruling MIDItracker!
- Can't wait, dude!
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