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History 1: passing the future (selected dance tracks 1997​-​2003)

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Futureflax 02:48
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Solitude 13:51
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Joy 11:46
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More 03:56

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Many, many years ago, between 1995 and 2003, I used to make dance music.

I started off with an old 486 PC running a 16 channel, DOS-based music application called Fasttracker 2 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastTracker_2) and a couple of stiffy disks worth of samples, eventually upgrading to Renoise - a much fancier tracker - and a couple of hardware synthesizers (regrettably long-since sold).

I had no real idea what I was doing and built tracks purely intuitively, based primarily on what I thought would sound good on a dance floor. I played 'live' many times (which mostly involved clicking a mouse to randomly mute channels) and sometimes people danced, which was great fun.

The stuff I made sounds highly primitive to me nowadays and the naive enthusiasm of massive snare rush buildups and grinding 303 basslines is a bit cringe-worthy, but I was proud of some of these tracks at the time and I've decided to release them now, almost two decades later, mostly on a whim but also because it's fun to view the present from the vantage point of the past occasionally.

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released September 28, 2017

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Asqus South Africa

Aragorn23 / Asqus is an experimental musician based in South Africa. His current work focuses on algorithmic and gestural composition as well as modular synthesis.

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