Gemini Critical-Mass - Omega Collection
by Shem Booth-Spain
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Omega Collection is the definitive high quality "Directors Cut" of the epic futuristic concept album Gemini Critical-Mass. With hidden easter eggs, cryptics & more!!!Purchasable with gift card£14.98 GBP or more
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Introduction Love
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The Hacker
03:07
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Sol
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Cybernetic Times
07:34
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Future Jam
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Multiverse
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Somethings
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Taken
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Lies in Disguise
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Desert Wasteland
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Primal Resonance
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Polemic
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Sally Free & Easy
04:24
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Coming Back
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The Key of E
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The City
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That Night
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Cyberspace
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Dance Glass
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Annunaki
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Raw Data
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about
Gemini Critical Mass is a concept album written & recorded by Shem Booth-Spain in 2005, 25x tracks of highly sonic music, each tack working on central themes from cyberpunk culture & futurism. The album was produced using a combination of sonic foundry, logic audio, cakewalk, fruity loops, and Winsound for synthesis, will be used. Ive be highly processing the sounds and samples to create the sound palate for the over all album. These sounds have been transformed, manipulated, sliced, mutated, grinded down and extrapolated to describe sonically the soundscapes. I been trying to work past the conventions of 4x4 rhythms, progressively and intrusively breaking into breakbeat textures, but still not overloading the listener. The Electronic rhythms will be working up and down from 80bpm to 230bpm so as to stretch the temporal duration periodically in the album. Ive been focusing on rhythmic ambience and production techniques in subtle templating sounds creating the soundscapes, with emphasis on navigation of genre from progressive rock, folk, blues and pure rock n roll to electronic music, house, trance, industrial to physiologically affect the audience.
The African diasporic drumming rhythm textures of Mediterranea, black America and the eastern culture have been engineered together through polyrhythm production splicing. looking at other concept album’s and multimedia CD’s and the methods used by other concept album makers such as the Beatles “White album”, War of the Worlds, white noise, Peter Gabriel, Eno as well as film soundtracks independence day, predator . I wrote all the songs for the album, I start with just a simple acoustic guitar, transpose the key and change the tempo or exchange the sounds to create different genres. These songs subject matter run along as a narrative story, but also stand strong when heard by themselves as individual tracks. The tracks have also been produced as to bleed into one another to create a conceptual space and depth. This is a musical experiment of sonic expansion, a narrative journey of acoustic cyberspace, designed to psychoacoustically affect the listener to participate in imagination and experience. This collection of sonic compositions are wrapped around the cyberpunk genre but Conceptualized as a sonic mythology of an acoustic landscape of experience, rhythmically moving the listener through meticulously produced sound to kinaesthetically manipulate the listener’s proprioception.
The narrative throughout the album borrows, challenges, and explores key concepts derived from cyberpunk culture. William Gibson's Neuromancer describing cyberspace, Bowie's song Saviour machine, Japanese manga movies such as AKIRA, ANIME and Blade Runner, Total Recall, Terminator, AI, Isaac azimuths I Robot, Matrix. These all inform the music within, as a mythological cybernetic future.
Influences
Robert Johnson-cross road blues, Beatles-white album, Oasis-don’t believe the truth, Electric light orchestra-don’t bring me down. Doors-greatest hits, War of the worlds-Jeff Lynne, Hawkwind-album called electric tepee Pink Floyd- division bell, Genesis- genesis (home by the sea), Chemical brothers, Brian Eno, Prodigy-start the dance and fire starter, John cage, Delia Derbyshire-DR Who stuff plus bbc workshop, Psi trance/house/acid-house, Soundscaping-microsound, Neil young-hey hey my my, Death Metal-earth tone 9/cradle of filth, Keith jarret–nice piano stuff, Blade runner theme tune, Frontline assembly-trk called synthetic forms & gun, Muse-ALBUM-origin of symmetry-bliss, sunburn, Jeff Buckley- hallelujah, Radio head-“creep” and “the bends”. The cure-more than this, Sex pistols.
Key Concepts of the album Gemini Critical Mass
Artificial intelligence, UFO-Phenomena (Alien abduction) Tele-Synesthesia, Secret societies, Cyberspace, Virtual bodies
Global Digital culture, The urban metropolis aesthetic, Esoteric knowledge, Cyberpunk dystopia
Written & Recorded by Shem Booth-Spain 2005 England UK
The African diasporic drumming rhythm textures of Mediterranea, black America and the eastern culture have been engineered together through polyrhythm production splicing. looking at other concept album’s and multimedia CD’s and the methods used by other concept album makers such as the Beatles “White album”, War of the Worlds, white noise, Peter Gabriel, Eno as well as film soundtracks independence day, predator . I wrote all the songs for the album, I start with just a simple acoustic guitar, transpose the key and change the tempo or exchange the sounds to create different genres. These songs subject matter run along as a narrative story, but also stand strong when heard by themselves as individual tracks. The tracks have also been produced as to bleed into one another to create a conceptual space and depth. This is a musical experiment of sonic expansion, a narrative journey of acoustic cyberspace, designed to psychoacoustically affect the listener to participate in imagination and experience. This collection of sonic compositions are wrapped around the cyberpunk genre but Conceptualized as a sonic mythology of an acoustic landscape of experience, rhythmically moving the listener through meticulously produced sound to kinaesthetically manipulate the listener’s proprioception.
The narrative throughout the album borrows, challenges, and explores key concepts derived from cyberpunk culture. William Gibson's Neuromancer describing cyberspace, Bowie's song Saviour machine, Japanese manga movies such as AKIRA, ANIME and Blade Runner, Total Recall, Terminator, AI, Isaac azimuths I Robot, Matrix. These all inform the music within, as a mythological cybernetic future.
Influences
Robert Johnson-cross road blues, Beatles-white album, Oasis-don’t believe the truth, Electric light orchestra-don’t bring me down. Doors-greatest hits, War of the worlds-Jeff Lynne, Hawkwind-album called electric tepee Pink Floyd- division bell, Genesis- genesis (home by the sea), Chemical brothers, Brian Eno, Prodigy-start the dance and fire starter, John cage, Delia Derbyshire-DR Who stuff plus bbc workshop, Psi trance/house/acid-house, Soundscaping-microsound, Neil young-hey hey my my, Death Metal-earth tone 9/cradle of filth, Keith jarret–nice piano stuff, Blade runner theme tune, Frontline assembly-trk called synthetic forms & gun, Muse-ALBUM-origin of symmetry-bliss, sunburn, Jeff Buckley- hallelujah, Radio head-“creep” and “the bends”. The cure-more than this, Sex pistols.
Key Concepts of the album Gemini Critical Mass
Artificial intelligence, UFO-Phenomena (Alien abduction) Tele-Synesthesia, Secret societies, Cyberspace, Virtual bodies
Global Digital culture, The urban metropolis aesthetic, Esoteric knowledge, Cyberpunk dystopia
Written & Recorded by Shem Booth-Spain 2005 England UK
credits
released May 6, 2005
Key Concepts of the album Gemini Critical Mass
Artificial intelligence, UFO-Phenomena (Alien abduction) Tele-Synesthesia, Secret societies, Cyberspace, Virtual bodies
Global Digital culture, The urban metropolis aesthetic, Esoteric knowledge, Cyberpunk dystopia
Written & Recorded by Shem Booth-Spain 2005 England UK
Key Concepts of the album Gemini Critical Mass
Artificial intelligence, UFO-Phenomena (Alien abduction) Tele-Synesthesia, Secret societies, Cyberspace, Virtual bodies
Global Digital culture, The urban metropolis aesthetic, Esoteric knowledge, Cyberpunk dystopia
Written & Recorded by Shem Booth-Spain 2005 England UK
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