quoted 10 lines First one I heard of (before the Willie Nelson stuff, even), was Course of> >First one I heard of (before the Willie Nelson stuff, even), was Course of
> >Empire's _Initiation_, which is a weird CD anyway. They're almost a metal
> >band, but the secret track was an ambient thing they apparently recorded
> >in a parking garage.
>
> I was gonna mention that one. Also, besides the "hidden" track, there's
> another hidden element in the middle of the CD. During the long,
> guitar-noise segment following the title song, the singer can be heard
> singing some quiet little song - but only if you put your stereo into mono
> mode. Pretty clever, I thought.
Ah yes, I remember that... I had to run it through someone else's stereo.
Supposedly if you pointed the speakers at a certain angle in stereo, they
would also cancel each other out. I remember being so excited to
finallyhear that song and taping it... lost the tape two cars ago. *sigh*
As for Course of Empire, they soldiered on for a while and then broke up.
A shame, too, they were a local band that did intelligent metal. Great
live performances, too... but I saw them post-_Initiation_. Apparently
before then they used to hand out drums to people in the audience and
weird stuff like that.
I've actually though one of the songs on their latest album, _Telepathic
Last Words_ would be great for sampling. Can't rememer the name off the
top of my head. "Blue Moon"?
Not IDM at all. But that doesn't mean it's bad.
NP: that Steve Satori demo CD-R everyone else has been raving about. :)