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COLOUR BEADS SESSION

Sixty six minutes of non stop dubby and progressive house music,
more based on my guitar than synthesizers.
Not your dancefloor killer here (though sometimes...), but a good
alternance of house with some more atmospheric moments.
This is my laptop computer live set from 2005, which i slightly edited to
smoothen up some imperfections from when it was performed at Club Mnd
in Naha, Okinawa. A good idea of what you can do with this wonderful
software, Ableton Live. Only eight tracks of audio clips looping together and
driven with a midi controller.
Of course, my guitar is everywhere, many elements appear more than once,
and some even ended up into other tracks i made for the album above.
It says it in the title, the big fun was to play with all sorts of audio clips,
almost all home made, and to put them in rows and series, like you would
do with beads, reusing this element here for that part there, self quoting
myself, and also borrowing two samples: one from the BeeGees, "Staying
Alive', and one from Hassan Hakmoum, "The Gift Of The Gnawas".
If you download it, just make sure that you burn your CD with no gaps
between part1 and part2, and it will flow smoothly for one hour and six
minutes.