Saturday, July 26, 2008

Another tracker in the spotlight

Wow, here's SymbolOne, who Danger did a remix of, and he's getting lots of attention on MySpace.

SymbolOne - Love Juice

How do I know he's a tracker? It's a hypothesis. But listen to the synths--they give it away. The lead synth that comes in near the beginning, first of all, I recognize as sounding very similar indeed to a particular lead synth sample. Second of all, the portamento effects on the lead synth and the arpeggiating chord synths are very common in tracker music.
Also, there tend to be a lot of very fast arpeggios in these tracks, like occurs about half way through.
And a lot of the synths also SOUND sampled, which is how tracking music works. For instance, the bell thing in the middle quiet part of the song--it sounds sampled.

And that's why I love it!

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