Hello,
Here's how that piece of music, Insomniac Academy' came about.
I decided that I was going to make a tune using members of this forum so I asked on here if anyone fancied getting involved and received 3 replies, one from JBoy, another from Mer and another from Sky. I emailed them each a paragraph of text that I wrote there and then, as I was emailing them, apart from the middle one that Mer read, I stole that from a poetry blog that I've never been able to find since to credit or thank.
All three of them recorded what I'd sent and mailed me an mp3 of it pretty quickly. While I was waiting I prepared a looped backing track to jam over based around a sample I nicked from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the song 'Cheer up Charlie' - it starts at about 4 seconds and ends at about 9 seconds in this clip -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCyLNfnHst8
Then I spent a little time blending the voice recordings over the looped beat and added a couple of tracks of live synths over the top to keep the loop from getting too monotonous. The whole thing was done in about 3 hours, maybe a little longer.
That guy Nodrog featured in another tune of mine where I did an impression of him supposedly breaking down while visiting my recording studio, it was called The Ballad of Gordon Ross.
I don't have copies of either track but I did hear them not too long ago and they made me smile, this community was really fun during my time here and I'm glad to see it's still going.
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