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Artist: The Simon Slator Project
Website: The Simon Slator Project
Track Name: The Mosaic Effect
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: Yes

This is a perfect track for the Sunday Chill section, I have recently discovered some Mike Oldfiled pieces lying around and had a lot of fun listening to them again. It’s easy to forget just how important and influential “Tubular Bells” was. So being thus inspired I thought I would see what was out there. Simon Slator showed up very early in the game, and he is quite a good choice. Like Oldfield he used “old tech” pushed to it’s edge to create a really good piece of music.

The Mosaic Effect is a recording made, and originally released by Simon back in August 2000. It’s a long piece broken up into 5 smaller parts, and you can hear the Tubular Bells influence as the piece wanders along.

Here is the tech stuff on how it was created…

The recording was made using a piece of software called “ModPlug” – a more advanced Module Tracker that could grab clean 16bit samples from your soundcard’s SoundFont banks – giving it an almost MIDI-file sound. It’s not the easiest piece of software to make professional-sounding music with so expect something rather amateur and very roughly mixed.

Well I enjoyed and don’t think it’s too shabby at all.

You can check out some of Simon’s other work at archive dot org

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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