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Harmonics in The Silence (general release version)

by Andy Pickford

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Tracks 1-15 same as UPC 5056495 055174 general release version, released May 20 2022.

Given how long the original and its 4 sibling works are, I knew there'd be trouble at t'mill getting these taken on by the distributor, whose main focus is streaming. So I got out the Nerf Bat and... Okay, seriously I went back to scratch in each case; rebuilt, remixed, edited everything using my current and better reverb/fx & post-processing setup. The tracks, now given structure, sound... structured lol. No it's really nice to hear them in this form and it lifts the album into a more accessible realm.

I understand all too well that golden rule of mixing whereby leaving the thing alone for a while really does miracles for your objectivity in a final mixdown. What sounds great right now very often isn't, but if you leave it for a fair time and then do it, it's way more likely to sound great. Objectivity does wonders for a work like this one. It's like you've spent all the time needed to subconsciously ingest all the niggles and imperfections you picked up on in the original. Of course, in reality you find that the improvement is just a few tiny little tweaks away - if only you'd known at the time! In other cases you discover you didn't have much of a clue first time round, but now you've got it fixed and it's fine. Best of all you get to re-examine some nice things you did some years ago and find a clearer message in them by taking a new approach.
Overall I'm really pleased with the differences made to this work.

Now here's what I originally wrote about the long OG HiTS in 2016:

Not for wimps and pussies. You can go back to your poptronica and casiotone anthems. This is not for you.

A lot of thought was put into how exactly to present 3hr 20m of new music in the way I intended it. I wanted it to remain one continuous suite of pieces without any breaks at all, but Bandcamp's maximum file size is 600mb per 'track'. So I had to make a compromise, which was to split the suite into 3 sections. If you listen to them as they are you'll get a slight pause between sections. I don't like that but it's the best I can do for you. Some of you may be able to piece these sections back together.

Harmonics in The Silence is the product of one of those "legendary' sessions. You know what I mean, those rare times when you have an inkling to do something a little differently, it works so well you feel great so just keep going, then before you know it you find yourself with a whole pile of new stuff which sounds really rather cool, but very little idea how all that came together so well! I was really just messing around with drones and working that way up. I let the synths do much more of their own playing, using a lot of self-evolving sounds. Ultimately I just thought hey this is pretty spacey synthy stuff, it sounds fun, let's just keep right on tweaking!
And so, what we have is one 198 minute session. Fifteen individual long chilled electronica pieces divided into three files... all done in the space of 3 weeks. Yeah *that* much fun! Not much about these which is drone-like but then you know I can never just leave things simple :-)

I do hope that you can be forgiving of me and accept HiTS for what it is and not think of it as just 3 albums of long pieces with no indexes and no presentation finesse. The problem is that modern technology simply isn't geared to accept compositions of this nature which are 'outside the box'. I don't like being in any damn box anyway - music is an expression of freedom and this particular expression of freedom is possibly my greatest ever, so please go with the flow and open your mind to something I hope you'll enjoy very much! I would absolutely love to do lots more like this but I ran out of weed. Donations welcome :-D

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released May 20, 2022

Rebuilt from scratch, mixed, mastered whipped into submission by AP, Spring 2022. All individual parts uploaded are the master 24bit wav files. The 16bit whole files are 16bit flacs.

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Andy Pickford Derby, UK

I make immersive synth music, create my own art, eat, drink, shit and exist. I'm not famous but everybody knows my name... like shingles.

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