Larsec - Arabian Zoids (Themed Solo)

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9:29

16/02/2003

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OK… Looooooong story behind this one

It started when I fell in love with a beat. I wanted to do an ethnic thing with it; The beat, some ambient pads, a male Arabian singer and a guitar gently playing Arabic stuff in the background. An original piece by me…

But then I thought that I hadn't exactly created the beat myself, well I had sorta since it's layered from four diffrent beats that I fit together, but they were still loops, and I have thing about that; When I create something that's supposed to be orinal work I can't use drumloops, but that's just me

So I decided to look for a SID to use it for instead. Since I started remixing SIDs I have wanted to remix something by DRAX since he is the only famous SID composer I have met in real life (that I know of). I found a SID called araber (Arabian in English) and it seemed to fit perfectly so I did the first part of it, and I liked what I had done (3.25 - 3.52).

Then I ran into a wall. I simply couldn't make the rest of the SID 'fit'. I tried various things but I just couldn't get it to work the way I wanted it to. I had made an intro (the first 40 seconds of this track) and a friend told me that it reminded him of Zoids and I had thought that myself. It wasn't intentionel but that was the way it came out. I decided to do Zoids instead but keeping the Araber part (hence the title). I added a female vocalist (since I couldn't find a male one). I wanted the mix to sound minimal when the mix started. I wanted it to sound kinda clumsey and then have the sudden stab/crash/explosion to sort of say, Enough of this!, then lead it to the female vocalist.

When I was doing the lead guitar that comes in at 5.25 I had no idea what was supposed to come after that. I put in the strings and brought the guitar back in and almost completly stopped the track. Then I accidently played a few notes while running the cursor over the piano roll in Reason and the idea for the solo just jumped right into my head (6.31 - 7.39). I had been listening to a lot of Steve Vai the past month or so, that may have influenced that solo somewhat

I had decided that I wanted a solo to end it all. I did some diffrent stuff but nothing of what I did seemed to be what I wanted. I'm not exactly sure how but at some point the first bars of the solo came into my head and they seemed to fit. I could remember that it was a SID but not which one it was… I thought Galway and went through his SIDs and found out it was from Rambo. I then decided to take various themes and put them in the solo (again, hence the title )
They are:

• 8.20 - 8.27: Galway_Martin/Rambo_First_Blood_Part_II/Subtune 10
  
• 8.27 - 8.30: Galway_Martin/Parallax/Subtune 1
  
• 8.30 - 8.34: Just me wailing away…
  
• 8.34 - 8.37: Me doing Last Ninja inspired wailing
  
• 8.37 - 8.41: Daglish_Ben/Last_Ninja/Subtune 6
  
• 8.41 - 8.44: Follin_Brothers/Ghouls_n_Ghosts/Subtune 2
  
• 8.44 - 8.47: Brooke_Jason/Out_run/Subtune 1
  
• 8.47 - 9.01: Me wailing it out
  

The thing I am most proud of in this track is the forst solo from 6.31 to 7.39. For the fist time in a very long time I was able to throw away everything I had learned and just create something that sounded the way I wanted it to without worrying about if I was following the rules of harmony etc. I put in the the pad AFTER i did adjusted it to fit the lead guitar. That was a great experiance being able to do that again

The other thing about the solo is the teardown and build up… By the time you get to the solo I have torn everything down that I had build up, almost stopping the track completly. When the solo begins the track is just creeping along gently. Then when it changes from major to minor at 7.05 the drums come back in and the guitar becomes more 'alive' and the pace is somewhat pick up a bit more. When the pads do an unexpected shift to C-major at 7.29 the suspence starts to build. The C-major to D-Major must lead back to the G inwhich Zoids is played. What I really like is all that suspence and tenision hanging on that single guitar note from 7.36 - 7.39. It's even trembling a bit under the pressure… and Zoids comes back with a BANG! I love it!

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