Crustacean (disquiet0244) by plusch

Source material:
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The first 20 seconds of “The Station and the Underclass,” performed by the Phonetic Orchestra, released on the Insub. netlabel based in Geneva:
http://insub.org/insub44/

The first 20 seconds of “Cloud Scissors” composed by Lo Wei; performed by Cristián Alvear, Santiago Astaburuaga, Gudinni Cortina, and Rolando Hernández, released on the Impulsive Habitat netlabel based in Portugal:
http://impulsivehabitat.com/releases/ihabp001.htm

The first 20 seconds of “Zraerza,” performed by Geeksha Beka and Berio Molina, released on the Alg-a netlabel based in Galicia:
https://archive.org/details/alg-set05-zraerza/
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After creating source items from the first 20 seconds of the originals, I loaded them into the Reaktor ensemble Grainstates SP and tweaked settings to arrive at three bed tracks, which were bolstered with Kombinat Dva and SDRR. Then I chopped and looped bits from two of the source items for a brief intro. Next, I loaded the source items into Glitchmachines’ Cataract to create a rhythmic part, and treated the result with ValhallaRoom and Trash 2. Finally, I chopped another bit from one of the source items, gave it plenty of ValhallaRoom reverb, and placed it at the end of the piece. To help glue everything together, the master track received some compression from ReaXcomp, some excitement from Trash 2, and a touch of ValhallaRoom. Final normalization and compression was done in Audacity.

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More on this 244th weekly Disquiet Junto project — “Combine tracks from three different European netlabels (Portugal, Spain, Switzerland) into one sonic union” — at:
http://disquiet.com/0244/

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Image associated with this project is by Thomas, used via Flickr and a Creative Commons license:
flic.kr/p/92xKFZ