Comfort Zone Bypass -[disquiet0244] by Richard Fair

The great thing about the Disquiet Junto is that you really don't know what to expect. The excitement of the email dropping, the anticipation of what task has been set and, occasionally, like this week, the joy listening to the supplied samples to work with.
I have to admit, this week my heart sank a little (and my head hurt a lot). I felt cast adrift in a sea of feedback and noise with nothing but my trusty Ableton oar to get me back to shore.
I'm a gentle soul so I wanted to tame these wild beasts sent from afar.
For "The Station and the Underclass" and "Cloud Scissors" I simply slowed them down.
For Zraerza I also added some tremolo, wahwah, a whole lot of EQ and dropped the frequency by 70% and the pitch down 20 semitones.
Playing them back together sounded fine but it needed something extra so I improvised on keyboard and then duplicated that into some female vocals.
Not my greatest piece of work, but loads of fun to do!
Source tracks:
“The Station and the Underclass,” performed by the Phonetic Orchestra, released on the Insub. netlabel based in Geneva:
http://insub.org/insub44/

“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

“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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