This is an instrumental I've been working on for a while. It took an odd turn at the end when I decided to incorporate some samples and drum loops I helped my brother create 16 years ago for an abandoned project called "Ian's Industrial Breakfast".
It took a lot of fiddling to get the loops to sync with the song as laid to tape, and it's still a little more sloppy than it would be if I'd done the project in a DAW. But that would have been very boring.
A debt is owed to Pink Floyd, since both this and IIB are inspired to some degree by Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast.
The song proved a bit of a nuisance to mix, and in the end had about three tape splices joining sections together where something needed redoing.
I rather like how the string machine came out on this track.
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from The Heresiarch's Breakfast,
released March 5, 2017
"Ian's Industrial Breakfast" courtesy of Dr. I Morris
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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)
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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With its debut album, this young band from Vienna follows the footsteps of honorable Austrian prog masters like "Matter Of Taste". The music on this concept album is not of the kind I'd call particularly innovative - it travels pretty much on well known roads paved by many others long ago. However, these youngsters do it in a highly pleasant way, skillfully avoiding the pitfalls of pseudo-progressive phrase rehashing most of the time - certainly more successfully so than several of their experienced grand paragons of prog. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)