Here is my brand new M8 Tracker album, "The Color of Television", inspired by my favorite science fiction novel, Neuromancer by William Gibson. Check it out on Bandcamp here ~ disposableplanet.bandcamp.com...
This album is dedicated to my parents, Ralph & Sandra. RIP and infinite love.
Tracklisting & Timestamps ~
Introduction : 00:00
1.) Case : 00:20
2.) Molly Millions : 07:22
3.) Miss Linda Lee : 13:18
4.) Julius Deane : 16:32
5.) Armitage : 21:38
6.) The Finn : 25:56
7.) Dixie Flatline : 30:03
8.) Peter Riviera : 33:34
9.) Maelcum : 41:10
10.) Lady 3Jane : 45:40
11.) Hideo : 50:25
12.) WINTERMUTE : 54:18
13.) NEUROMANCER : 59:25
14.) EMERGENCE (Ratz Mix) : 01:04:11
Special Thanks & Outro : 01:09:54
ABOUT THE ALBUM:
This album, The Color of Television, is a passion project I’ve been
meaning to make for years. It is a love letter to my favorite book
and what I consider to be the greatest science-fiction novel of all
time…
William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
The Color of Television was created in a creative frenzy over a
period of 10 days. It is structured across 14 tracks, each
representing a sharpened tip on a pair of 7-pointed shuriken or
Japanese throwing stars (a gift which represents destiny for the
main character of the novel). Each of these 14 nodes or points
contains a song and a story for a different main character featured
in the book (yep, even Ratz is in there somewhere as a DJ).
Neuromancer is the first novel to put the literary genre of
Cyberpunk on the map, but this album is not created in the style of
modern cyberpunk music or synthwave. Simply put, those current
musical genres are after my time. Instead I’ve deliberately drawn
from my own personal meaning of the retro-future written about in
Neuromancer, as well as the nascent computer culture of the time
and its collision with the counterculture surrounding it and myself
when I first read the novel in 1996 at the age of fifteen.
As a result, this album is a voyage across all the things that
Neuromancer means to me and how it affected my coming of age and
acted as a rite of passage into the shifting and colliding worlds
of computers, music, and culture.
The album draws from mid to late 1990s influences of the time of my
reading and the world of the 2000s that I would, in a few years, be
stepping into. It borrows from genres like drumnbass, jungle, and
breakbeat, with of course, a healthy fix of demoscene vibes and
chiptune elements and a decent hit of punk, metal, ambient, and
post-punk flavor. I think you’ll find there is plenty of retrofuturistic
feeling to geek out to in this release along with a
slight touch of the contemporary.
I hope you enjoy this album as much as I enjoyed making it. I also
hope that, for a time, it helps you escape this prison of flesh you
are forever trapped in, as Case might say.
Thank you for listening and for all the support!
~ Disposable Planet
ABOUT THE MUSIC:
All tracks made with M8 firmware v3.2.7.
Created and mixed entirely on a Dirtywave M8 Tracker.
All track mixes are baked-in M8 renders. They may be a
little raw but no mastering process was undertaken.
What you hear is exactly how it sounds on the hardware.
It’s how Case would roll.
All project bundles are included with the free album
download licensed under CC. You are encouraged to
dissect, deconstruct, and even distribute the bundles.
It’s how Dixie would roll.
You are also encouraged to purchase and read a copy of
William Gibson’s Neuromancer over a cup of hot coffee
before heading out and taking care of biz.
It’s how Molly would roll.
SPECIAL THANKS:
Todd & Eugenie Alexander, DEFENSE MECHANISM, Zevan
Rosser, ineffable, Miragey, Laamaa, Avrilcadabra,
Vicky Yeung, John Moros, everyone in the Dirtywave
M8 Discord, WeeklyBeats, PSG Cabal, & Planetary
Chiptune Refuge™ discords as well, Timothy Lamb
a.k.a. Trash80 (creator of the Dirtywave M8
Tracker and the font this video was done in),
and friends.
And of course a huge thanks to the author, William
Gibson, for inspiring our generation. May your
Honda 9mm flechette pistol always aim true.
All character names and quotes from Neuromancer by William Gibson.
No Artificial Intelligences were used or harmed in the making of this album video.
This album is entirely unofficial.
All music: Disposable Planet 2024
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