windows by Sprit

The 2nd of the 3 unreleased albums. This one was a pretty huge milestone for me, it was made almost right after Celebration House 91, and was my first true foray into in-depth synthesis. This album was produced almost entirely with 1 synthesizer (FM8), all the leads, pads, fx, drums, percussion, everything was made by me in fm8 with the exception of a couple samples (like the amen break in 030, although the break was actually frequency modulating the bass-line itself within fm8 and was not playing aloud directly). Though still heavily inspired by Aphex Twin, squarepusher, and more, I feel like the stylistic ideas I developed for this album were truly unique and my own. I’ve grown immensely as a musician and producer since making this album, but it’s still the project I am most proud of, and will likely be for a long time.

I never followed through on the vision for this album fully, so I wanna explain what I was intending to express with it here. This album was meant to tell the story of being addicted to the internet out of desperation for social fulfillment, and as a result ending up in uncanny and harsh places that don’t meet the need at all, as much as you may try to make it work. I wanted to portray this story with the theming of a very, very early internet feeling, as I feel like this is a story many of us have gone through, and is likely as old as the internet itself. I was intending to add a lot of off-putting narration, and more tracks similar to authentic life to build more on the personal aspects of the story I wanted to express in the album, but I ended up moving on from the project before I started really fleshing it out.

I hope you find the album cool and appreciate all the little details and work I put into it. It’s pretty amateurish in a lot of aspects, but I’m proud of the interesting timbres I ended up making with FM8 in this album despite not really knowing what I was doing at the time haha.

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