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Alone (Escape the Clouds Version)

from Free Rarities and Remixes by Escape the Clouds

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I recently purchased an MPC 1000, a sampling drum machine that's used in a lot of hip-hop production (but really works for any kind of music).

Wanting to try my hand at sampling, I wanted to sample something that was the antithesis of electronic music. There's only one name that immediately came to mind: my friend Eli August. Eli and his band The Abandoned Buildings produce music that can be described as emotional, acoustic Americana.

So, I sampled the intro from "Alone", the first song of his latest album and started building a beat around it. However, I didn't stop at the beat. I wanted to experiment in building an entire song out of one sample, and ended up creating a spoken-word pseudo cover of "Alone".

Eli and I got a good chuckle out of the end result, and he gave me his blessing to share it with the rest of the world.

The entire track was produced, recorded, and mixed inside the MPC1000. I sequenced the drums, recorded a reggae-like U-bass, bassline, and layered three tracks of vocals. The rest of the sounds are entirely chopped pieces of the "Alone" sample.

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from Free Rarities and Remixes, released August 23, 2013

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Escape the Clouds crafts stories through both music and words, creating vivid, character-driven steampunk music. For more information about this and other work, please visit:

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