YERZMYEY - "Strange Light Under My Bed" (C) 2011-2012. Pulished by Ubiktune http://ubiktune.com Tracklist: 01. Yerzmyey - Noise reduction (Atari Falcon 030) 02. Yerzmyey - Unknown radiation spectrum (ZX Spectrum 128K) 03. Yerzmyey - Enormous magnitude (ATARI 520ST) 04. Yerzmyey - Strange light under my bed (AMIGA 500) 05. Yerzmyey - Starlies (ZX Spectrum 48K) Total Time: 42:19 min. Berlin School is a kind of trance/ambient/experimental electronic music invented in Germany and played by such artists as Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze and others. With Strange Light Under My Bed, Yerzmyey — a veteran electronic music composer — has revisited the genre, using the retro-computers. I remember my surprise when I found out that those musicians, playing mostly in 70s, were often using rather simple electronic instruments (especially in comparison to modern monster-machines) and 80% of their incredible cosmic sound was... recording studio effects. The most obvious next thought was: if that's the case, then maybe I could re-create those conditions but with... retro-computers? :) That's how this album was created. Here you find trance/ambient music composed on several retro platforms, recorded track by track, with a lot of studio-effects added, to create — along with those classic sound-chips — some mysterious cosmic atmosphere. The only instruments (and sequencers) were the retro-computers. All the material has been recorded from real ancient hardware track by track and put through sound-effects. Like, if Jean Michel Jarre or Tangerine Dream would be making music on ZX Spectrum, Atari or Amiga — the final outcome would be still the same as it is now. Instruments/sequencers: - ZX Spectrum 128K - ZX Spectrum 48K - Amiga 500 - Atari 520 ST - Atari Falcon 030. Retro-software used: - for Spectrum 128K: SoundTracker 1.1 - for Spectrum 48K - Orfeus/SpecialFX - for Amiga 500: OctaMED 4.0 - for Atari 520 ST: Music-Mon V2.5e - for Atari Falcon 030: ACE Tracker 0.997 Sound-chips used in individual machines: - ZX Spectrum 128K: General Instrument AY-3-8912 - ZX Spectrum 48K: Zilog Z80A + Ferranti ULA 6C001E (beeper) - Amiga 500: Paula 8364 - Atari 520 ST: Yamaha YM2149F - Atari Falcon 030: Motorola DSP 56001. Recording studio sound-effects and modern software used: - Zoom RFX 2000 - Zoom Studio 1201 - Behringer Xenyx 1002 FX - Behringer FEX 800 - Cool Edit Pro 2.1 - Sony Sound Forge 8.0. In general - recording-studio effect used: - track-by-track recording - filters - phasers - choruses - flangers - delays - noise-gates - echoes - reverbs - equalizers - compressors - limiters. Enjoy then. Yerzmyey 2012 P.S. If anybody is interested in original fragments of the tracks, without any FX added, I should have some of them, just for curiosity. Drop me a note: yerzmyey@interia.pl.