Archive for November, 2008
music.pegritz.com: Free Music to Soil Your Eardrums!
November 19th, 2008
Well, finally, I’ve gotten a proper music homepage up for the distribution of my solo musical works (i.e., the stuff that I release under the name “Derek C. F. Pegritz” as opposed to any of my other aliases). Conveniently enough, it’s located at the following address:
Simple, right? Even I won’t forget where it is….
At any rate, all three of my Subterranean Passage EPs are available there, as is my recent album of music inspired by the movie THX 1138. Those two projects could not possibly be different; you may even wonder how they both came from the same guy. Diversity is a good thing! Everyone should try it sometime. Also, the fact that I was suicidally depressed while writing the Subterranean Passage pieces and relatively at peace while obsessing over the THX 1138 material no doubt made a big difference in how each project was conceived and executed.
The Subterranean Passage EPs, Not much longer now, A special place prepared for you in hell, and Please notify next of kin are collections of shapeless, ice-cold ambient audio sculpture: extremely minimalist experiments in capturing, through sound, the feeling of your life ending. I’ve been told by some that they make for relaxing listening(!), but most folks find them to be great pieces to inspire horror fiction. At any rate, if you like your music amorphous, atonal, frigid, and droning, you may very well dig this stuff. I won’t blame you if you don’t, however.
THX 1138: Incidental Sound Architectures is a completely different beast—an upbeat collection of skittery IDM beats, ominous subterranean sound textures, and spacey audio effects that attempt to capture the atmosphere of the film in original audio compositions. It’s not exactly a soundtrack to the movie: more a collection of tracks inspired by concepts, images, characters, and situations from the film. If you like artists such as Download, Otto von Schirach, Front Line Assembly, and others considered to be “Intelligent Dance Music” or “industrial,” you’ll probably get a kick out of this stuff.
Also on the page are a number of “loose” tracks—assorted works that don’t quite fit together with anything else. Personally, my favorite of these “assorted tracks” is “The Radiologist’s Nightmare,” which I believe to be the creepiest damn thing I’ve ever written. Seriously. I want to see some young, aspiring horror filmmaker produce a short—preferably an otherwise silent pieces—to which “The Radiologist’s Nightmare” is the soundtrack.
And guess what? Because everything on this site is, as always, FREE to download and licensed under Creative Commons, you’re more than welcome to do so! Feel free to remix stuff, sample stuff, do whatever you like with stuff…just, please, do a brotha the favor of acknowledging where the source sounds came from. Dig?
All files are available from the Internet Archive as well as from this website. All downloads contain the tracks of the albums plus printable-quality cover artwork. Unfortunately, since I no longer have the source files for any of the Subterranean Passage EPs, those are only available as 256kbps mp3s—but you can get the THX 1138 album as either high-quality mp3s or FLACs. All other music added to the site in the future will be available as in both mp3 and FLAC formats as well.
(Personally, I cannot tell the difference between high-quality mp3 and FLAC, but there are some folks out there who apparently can. Doesn’t surprise me, really. Too many years of loud-ass concerts and club nights have done a number on my hearing—one of the reasons I rarely go out even to shows anymore. Music is more than just a hobby to me: it’s a bandage for the innumerable wounds on my spirit. If I can’t appreciate it anymore because I’ve blown out my hearing, I might as well be dead, so….)
So that’s it. Check ‘em out. Download ‘em. Give ‘em to your friends or your exes. But most of all, enjoy what you hear, even if it is incredibly discordant and depressing. As I said earlier, diversity is vital to everyone’s lives, so even if you’re not the ambient-music type of you’d rather listen to Ice Cube than Plateau, check out the stuff I’ve done anyway. It might strike a chord with you. Or just annoy your neighbors. Either way, I’ve done my job.
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