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Gradual
Isolation
Was as already mentioned, founded in 1990 and the musical activities became
too far diverted from the original Gradual Isolation concept to justify
the continuance of this name somewhere in 1996.
Although
in this period a massive amount of songs and improvisation session were
created and recorded to cassette, there has been only one gig and that was
in 1991. see pictures of this gig
For
the lost souls who knew Gradual Isolation in those days (hello friends,
fans, ...) a non-commercial compilation of the best Gradual Isolation
works is available on 2 CD, just E-mail
me for futher details.
Needless to say that the sound quality even after digital enhancing and
noise suppression is not so great, because all original recordings were
made on Cr02 compact cassettes at normal speed, but if the nostalgia is
eating your heart out and you're listening to the old Gradual Isolation
songs, you won't even hear the NOISE and dropouts.
Especially in the first years we were very inspired by electro groups
like: Psyche, Cabaret Voltaire, The Cassandra complex, The Klinik, Skinny
Puppy, Clock DVA... our own music was a mix of these influences and definitely
had a predominant dark atmosphere.
To give you an idea of the music we made those days, I've included some
MP3 files to download, excerpts out of songs recorded through the years.
I encoded these excerpts at 56Kbps to keep the file size low, and sound
quality acceptable.
The Yellow Moon.MP3
Recorded 1990, 65 second excerpt, 470 kB
Billboard Poster.MP3
Recorded somewhere between 1991 and 1993, 52 second excerpt, 436 kB
Agony By Men.MP3
Recorded somewhere between 1991 and 1993, 53 second excerpt, 369 kB
07XF.MP3 Recorded somewhere
between 1993 and 1996, 52 second excerpt, 362 kB
Trapped Under
Ice.MP3 Recorded 1996, 71 second excerpt, 492 kB
Unnamed.MP3 Recorded
after 1996 (post Gradual Isolation) 44 second excerpt, 316 kB
Gradual
Isolation was:
Fil: mostly drum programming / synths
Luc: mostly voice / lyrics / synths
Gear
used in the GI days:
DX21 (Yamaha FM synth)
YS200 (Yamaha FM synth)
TR505 (Roland sample-based drummachine)
TR626 (Roland sample-based drummachine)
MSQ100 (Roland hardware sequencer)
R8 (Roland sample-based drummachine)
TB303 (Roland programmable analog synth bassline)
Mono/Poly (Korg analog synth)
W30 (Roland sampler / workstation)
JD800 (Roland sample-based but analog-feel synth)
VX600 (Akai analog matrix-synth)
DEP3 (Roland digital effects processor)
Home-built digital delay up to 506 millisec's
CBM64 with home-built 8 bit sampling capability <very grungy>
3-head Sony tapedeck (Used as a tape-echo)
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