cats on earth - phobos

this track is a few years old. it came out late last year on the 'broken pieces' compilation from gravity halo. i don't remember much about how i made this track, so not much info there, but i do remember that it has a story behind it. the song is about workers on a mining station located on one of mars' moons, phobos. a cargo ship attempts to dock at the station and causes a rupture in the outer wall, setting off alarms throughout the station and sending all the workers into a panic. they try to fix the damage, but it only gets worse and before long the walls are ripped open and the entire crew is vented into orbit around the planet. gruesome, but hey...that's the story.

cats on earth - frequencies

cats on earth - frequencies by cats on earth

this is pretty much the only cats on earth track i've done in the last year or so. for this one i used mainly the jx-3p and jx-8p. the first half of the track is almost all 3p, the resonant blippy arpeggiating sound, the bass, the eerie pads, the video game melody, the funky synth riff that comes in later...all the 3p. obviously the bending lead isn't the 3p, since that synth doesn't have a portamento effect...i think that may have been the microkorg. the whole end section is 8p pads doing a lovely vangelis-esque chord sequence with melody provided by the yamaha pss-460 doused in effects and some microkorg arpeggio washes in the background with a little white noise filtering from the 3p. the drums are a bunch of different drum machines all chopped up with a touch of the amen break for good measure.

adobe advert.

back in 2005 i did the music for adobe's photoshop CS2 promotional video, created by volume design inc.
the music is an edited down a modified version of an old cats on earth track called "the technique".
you can watch it here, if you're at all interested.