This is a concept I've wanted to look at for a while, now, a musical interpretation of intelligent robots being mass-produced. The industrial press noises were produced by using the base samples from the Triton's industrial loop and creating something closer to what I had in my head. It was then overdubbed with several layers of stuff from the Minimoog.
I was rather pleased with the vocoder effect at the end, though the thing wasn't behaving terribly well at the time. It took a lot of takes and in the end it still distorted rather more than I'd have liked.
lyrics
PANTHER FACTORY
The future balanced on a knife
We take sheet steel and give it life
Atomic heart and quantum mind
A robot of the feline kind
In the panther factory
Unit 3A comes online
The robot army will be mine
Robots of my own design
Why have one life instead nine?
The future balanced on a knife
We take sheet steel and give it life
Atomic heart and quantum mind
A robot of the feline kind
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"There is lambswool under my naked feet..." - those words always come to my mind while listening to the first bars of "Wide Of The Mark". There's undoubtedly quite some "Genesis" heritage to be found in the music on this album. However, the band that is most closely related to "The ID" is certainly "IQ", which is among the favorite bands and artists named by both Peter Albrektsen (gtr, kbd) and Tim Pepper (v, kbd). So the similarity of the names "ID" vs. "IQ" is obviously not purely coincidental. Being a long-time admirer of the creative output of "IQ", this album inevitably reaches my heart. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
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Some say it's prog... but actually, it's something much better - although I still can't tell for sure what it really is. Anyway, this eclectic-crossover-what-the-heck-whatever thing has extremely funky guitars, and bursts with all kinds of surprises. I'd say it's genuinely progressive, with the term "progressive" positively not meant as it's typically understood nowadays. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
The hard-hitting, genre-agnostic songs on the latest from Dan Webb were inspired by conversations he had with a wide range of musicians. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 18, 2023
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Alas, the third and last album of this exceptional Argentine symphonic rock band... frankly, not a masterpiece like the preceding works, due to the fact that it's sort of a "The Rest Of" album. It contains early unreleased material, as well as recordings that probably were intended for another regular album, canceled due to the death of Jorge Antún. Some tracks reflect the band's typical symphonic style, others already exhibit a trend towards a more mainstream sound, quite obviously inspired by the albums released by "Genesis" in the early 80's, which already started creeping in on "2". Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)