Reminiscence by moonbooter

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In October 2020 I finished the work on my last album "Beyond the Neonlights". After that, I didn't turn on any of my synthesizers for 5 months. Yes, I needed time off from music production for the first time in my life. The Corona blues and the cancelled concerts and jobs did the rest. During this time I thought a lot about life. I also listened intensively to my own music of the last decades. This experience was new and valuable. But making my own music was, as I said, taboo. In between, I was plagued by real worries that I had irretrievably lost something in myself. That happens to many. Fortunately it came differently. At the beginning of April, I turned on my synths for the first time in almost half a year with the aim of working on new musical ideas. One idea followed the next. After a few days I came up with the idea of using a kind of essence of my musical work so far as a concept for the next album. It is very important to me that my new album "Reminiscence" is not a remix album. Every song is new and from scratch. I have used my own sounds and ideas from my own musical past with care. Fans and loyal listeners of my music will surely notice and like this. The ideas bubbled out of me and within a few weeks 90 minutes of new music were ready, which I cut down to 75 minutes and without any restrictions in quality or sound. "Reminiscence" contains romantic, epic, sentimental, kitschy, crazy, euphoric and sad moods and thus reflects my musical work of the last years very well.

The technical work on "Reminiscence" was characterized by sheer pragmatism. Much was recorded live and with a lot of moving modulations directly. If a sound from a plugin fit then that was just as good as a self-programmed sound from the analog synth. Too many cooks spoil the broth. According to this motto, I initially left sounds as they were. The idea of a song as well as arrangement and variety were in the foreground. The songs should get more space and also time. In the final mix, I then exchanged many sounds and deliberately concentrated on a few, but really good synthesizers and effects. New ideas were also added to the final mix. I deleted almost half of the tracks rigorously. Only in this way could the songs breathe without losing complexity. During mastering I also allowed a few dB more level than usual. This did not harm the sound either.

Almost all songs flow into each other and do not stand alone. I experimented with many different track orders and found the final tension to be a perfect mix.

The artwork can be interpreted in different ways: My idea was to show differently tuned people going left, that is "going back" to where they have been before. On this way they are accompanied by my music, symbolized by the waveform circle above. After the artwork was finished and a few days had passed, I discovered a second intention: in this one, the people with bowed heads also go back, only this time to an undesirable normality. Above them towers a "threat" to which they feel powerlessly subjected. It's strange how the subconscious can sometimes influence an outcome. However, both interpretations reflect the time in which the music was created.

Musically, I don't see it as a standstill. On the contrary. I tried to allow new elements again. All in all, "Reminiscence" has become a bit more classical. And also more dynamic, which has always been a bit difficult for me in terms of production.

While I'm writing these lines I'm listening to the final album again. It has become exactly the way I am and want to be. And that's damn good. Have fun with my album "Reminiscence".

Addendum from September 28th 2022: The album as well as the information text etc. were already finished in April 2021 and should be released in autumn 2021. Unfortunately, nothing came of it, because we were badly affected by the flood disaster in the summer of 2021. Therefore, I have listened to the album intensively several times in the last weeks and finally decided to leave it as it was.

Yours

moonbooter

moonbooter is a German musician for electronic music. Since he
started “moonbooter” in 2004 he released 17 concept albums until today, did a
lot of concerts and founded his own label “MellowJet-Records” in 2007. His sound is well known for strong melodies, a good portion of beats and a wide
and rich sound.

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