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- ELWOOD`S BLUES
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- As you may already have noticed, FOP4 was not created by The Raven, but
- by me - ELWOOD - the new lad! You can probably tell by the name that my
- main influence is blues, which should come out in the music.
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- As usual, all of the music was created in the BEST tracker - OCTAMED,
- on a good old 1 meg A500...
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- THE MUSIC
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- 1) Lorraine
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- This song was written for my girlfriend, Lorraine (hence the name).
- It has a mixture of styles, including some blues. It`s probably more
- polished than most of the other songs, but it`s pretty memorable.
- It`s one of the first of this kind that I ever wrote (ie. a mix of
- styles using the same samples)
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- 2) Electric Blues
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- This is one of my best. Although it starts reasonably slowly, it builds
- up with piano, then organ, then drums, then the actual song, which starts
- with the guitar. There is certainly a lot of feeling in this one, as I
- wrote it just after I lost someone close to me. I tried to write the
- beginning of the song as if I was actually playing it in a `gig` (I`m
- in a band at school) to make it sound as realistic as possible.
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- 3) JazzRaveII
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- Well this is value for money! This song alone is over 10 minutes long!
- It takes its time to get started, but then the guitar solos and organ
- solos come in. The `rave` part is the drumbeat. Yeah, I know it`s not
- very ravey - but I hate rave, ok! The song may be a bit overlong but..
- um... I don`t really care! If you`re looking (or listening) for a strong
- melody, you won`t find it here!
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- 4) The Promise
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- Once again, the title of the song has very little to do with the music.
- And once again, I`ve put several styles into it - I believe that in a
- music disk, the most should be made of the samples in the songs, if you
- see what I mean. After all, its the samples that take up all the room, not
- the blocks... Notice the mixture of samples and synthsounds.
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- 5) The Chip Song
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- Well, it uses chip sounds. It`s a song. And it has `the` in the title.
- It`s also inflenced by my idols from the C64 (Rob Hubbard and Martin
- Galway). Again, it takes its time getting started, but it`s worth
- sticking with, to hear the blues stuff nearer to the end. I tried to make
- this a powerful chipsong, which is actually very hard to do! I think it
- has worked, though, due to the fact that instead of bombarding the
- listener with all of the heavy stuff first, it builds up slowly, and then
- explodes into a blues type part at first, then back to the original
- melody, then a solo part.
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- 6) Jazz Part 1
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- This is a very small song, and only uses about 3 samples. This is actually
- quite old and... erm... I`m afraid I can think of nothing else to say
- about it. Just listen to it, alright?!
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- 7) Say
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- Again, I`ve tried to inject a lot of different styles of music into one
- module, so this is another very long module (you really are getting value
- for money here - there`s 8 hours of music on this disk. Maybe.) As with
- ALL of my music, my main object is to make people listen to the music more
- than just once. One listening NEVER does a piece of music justice.
- Therefore, the main tunes, and especially the choruses, should be memorable,
- and recognisable. If possible, I also always try to `suggest` a chorus is
- coming up (if there is a chorus) by slowing the tempo, or changing a
- chord. That way, even if it`s only subconciously, the listener should
- think `aaah, a chorus, I can hum along to this.` Alternatively, they may
- think `this is crap. I could be watching Neighbours instead of listening
- to this`.
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- 8) Play Those Blues
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- This is a VERY old song and it`s got some pianos in it.
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- CLEVER COMMANDS
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- It has been said that I place the use of clever commands above the importance
- of the melody. Well I don`t. So there.
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- CONTACT
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- Contact me (Elwood) at this address, to tell me what you think of the
- music (or, if you`re a software company, to offer me a job)
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- STEVEN GANE
- THE OLD POST OFFICE
- MICHAELSTON-Y-FEDW
- CARDIFF CF3 9XT
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- Or contact FOPs leader - the big cheese, head honcho, top man (sorry,
- these scenes from Airplane keep going through my mind.... `A bu?...`
- `No, not a bu, a bomb.`) at this address:
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- CHRIS WRIGHT
- 281 BOLTON ROAD
- RADCLIFEE
- MANCHESTER
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- Well, that`s about it for Elwood`s Blues this time..
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- Greetz and thanks to all the software houses who have politely turned
- my nusic down, to my entire family, to Voodoo Design (deceased), and to
- the entire Outer Mongolian basketball team.
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- REMEMBER
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- Remember - if Zsa Zsa Gabor married Jean-Michel Jarre, she`d
- be called Zsa Zsa Jarre.
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- The End (C) 1993 FOP Productions