Colin OOOD
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Can't promise you an old-school album, I'm afraid. Definitely can't promise you a full-on album either though!
OOOD has different members than it did back then, and the technology is totally different so of course it won't sound the same.Try not to expect anything, and you're unlikely to be disappointed
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And in the 4 days they spend travelling, recovering from jetlag, performing, then travelling home and recovering from jetlag again, they're unable to do any other 'normal' work to earn money.
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No. You're wrong (and I don't normally make categorical statements like that).
All you can say is "... and it usually turns out to be something I don't like".
PS. Some of the opinions you have put forth in your posts have made me quite pissed off. I haven't got the time to reply properly right now because I've got to pack and leave for a gig very soon. I might just leave you to fester in your own 'idealism' (I bet you don't pay for all the music you download, either, am I right?)... being creative might not be a 'job' for most people who try and express themselves with music, but making stuff that's worth listening to takes TIME - far more time in some cases than most of you imagine. I worked it out on Isra once, and for what we (and most people) get paid for a track (if we get paid at all), the equivalent hourly rate works out at literally a few cents an hour. "What about gigs?" I hear you cry... sure, they can sometimes pay ok but for 95% of people who make trance getting a decent gig AND getting paid for it is nigh-on impossible as promoter's artist budgets are normally gobbled up by the fees demanded by headliners.
I'm fed up to the back teeth of being skint; of not knowing whether I'll be able to keep my car on the road; of surviving on ramen noodles for the last week of every month. But I tell you now, if money was the motivation I could be earning £50k as a computer programmer right now... but if I did that I'd be too tired in my time off to make music. People like you make me sick; you don't have any appreciation of how much artists give of ourselves, just to give you a 10MB download.
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Looks like a pestle and mortar to me.
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The Voice of Cod album goes a step further, and gives you to-scale pictures of the audio waveform of each tune (with a scale calibrated in minutes across the top) so DJs can see how each track flows... as far as I know, Liquid Ross and I came up with the idea of putting track keys on the artwork independantly; however the waveform idea is all mine
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There is no practical difference between AMD and Intel chips. I've used both and recommend AMD, if only because they're cheaper for a given processing power.
And Macs are no way the 'best' for making music. Until the new Mac laptop came out (which uses Intel chips, by the way) even Apple themselves admitted that PC laptops were more powerful. Plus there's nothing inherent in OSX that means it's automatically better than Windows; Apple and Microsoft have been stealing UI ideas off each other for many years now.
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Hi
I use M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496
Hi quality audio extreme technik.
800000 KHz ++
Bass resonance multi layered MIDI sync.
Software core 1.7362c
enhanched mode phasing
4096 BIT
universal sound multiplier
extended high pass filter tubes
slave mixer with power compressive mechanism
You should get the XL version, with deep folly joyloading and static flange injector.
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If someone has Placebo in MP3, could they send it to me please? I haven't heard it in about 7 years and it's still running around my head.
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Yeah, I thought it was, I've just heard too many scare stories about virii etc to want to let it anywhere near any of the machines I use to make music, which is all of them.
Are there any stats available to show how many times it's been downloaded?
Garn... give an old man a smile and tell him it's really popular... -
I don't have any P2P here but just for you, OD, I've spent the last half an hour searching trackers I can find for Voice of Cod and been unsuccesful. Perhaps you'd like to be the first? Download it on DC++ and seed it to the Pirate Bay or something.
If you really can't find it on P2P (or like the music enough to want to help support us while we make more), you can buy MP3s of the album from the Organic Records Digishop - €8.99 for the whole album or €1.09 per track. Then just make an .nfo out of the promo information from the Organic website and you're away!
PS. I'm serious.
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If you're after melodic trance I'd like to recommend search for OOOD and Voice of Cod... may I? Great, thanks.
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Yes. It would be so sweet if they made a real follow-up album to the style of this album, and better! Take it further than ever before. Dark. Dark melodies. Atmosphere. Intriging and interesting intro like this one, without what I consider several great tracks but a real prococative masterpiece. Wow, the potential, if Darshan still exists as a currently producing artist/group that is.
Grant has recently started making music again, having spent the last few years getting a house together and building himself a studio from the ground up. Literally, from the ground up. Darshan tracks will be along at some point (as will various collaborations
), but he's always been into other styles of music too 
... Proggy psychedelic breakbeat, anyone? -
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ScorbHallucinogen
Shpongle
Prometheus
Ott
Tristan
Man With No Name
Shakta
Doof
Green Nuns of the Revolution
Zodiac Youth
The Infinity Project
Genetic
UX
Cosmosis
Deviant Electronics
Laughing Buddha
Celtic Cross
Cydonia
OOOD
Voice Of Cod
Unconscious Collective
Chris Organic
Ampliflier aka Shaft aka Benski
Fromem Ory
EVP
Error Corrective
Benefactor
Tripswitch
Soliptic
Dino Psaras/Tortured Brain
Organismic
Morganism
Rantici
Subliminal System
Ovni
Tristan
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Thanks Fuse
although OOOD is NOT Voice of Cod; they just share one member - me.
No... but bring on the "looking so hard at it you see things that aren't there"!Was it intentional that the broken eggshell, together with the space between the two halves, forms the letters OOOD (maybe with the sun being the second O)?
Hmm... dunno. The tracks are different lengths according to Discog, but since I don't have those CDs I can only assume that either one is from aLIVE and one is from our Phantasm 12", especially if one has more going on - I remember adding to the track for a live version, after it was first released.
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Generally, by the time a track is half-written it's pretty obvious what it needs to be called. Sometimes a track will be finished before a name turns up, and sometimes a track will have its name changed long after the fact. It works all ways.
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Thanks Fuse
It makes me sad sometimes (in my pathetic, egotistical way) that you rarely see our name in those lists of old-school acts that come up for various reasons both here and on other forums. Wherever I go people tell us how much they like what we've done (very flattering) but when it comes to 'public displays of affection' it seems sometimes as if we'd never released anything, let alone been gigging internationally since 1994.I dunno, I'll ask them next time I see them.
Ok, gotta correct some things hereOOOD is releasing an album in few months on Organic Rec. Otherwise, Colin Bennun (1/3 of OOOD if I remember) released an album with Andrew Humphries few months ago as Voice of Cod (the best of 2005 according to me) and is making some music as Unconscious Collective with a group of other people (more ambient / downbeat project).
There used to be 3 of us in OOOD, now there are 4. Nigel isn't with us, and Ramsay Melhuish and Ryo Potier have joined. They're old old friends and phenomenal DJs; it's a crying shame they (and Steve!) don't push themselves to play out more. Unconscious Collective is exactly the same people as OOOD, but yes, this is what we call our non-dancefloor output. Expect an album soon, once Free Range is out of the way and we can decide which tracks to use. We've got a few!(By the way, on this page, one name jumps out at me in particular... sorry you didn't like it so much Ukiro...
)Tricky one this, sometimes it feels like that to me too, but then I remember that the music I make on my own is nothing like the music we make as OOOD. Since I started posting on forums and promoting my various projects on the internet I have obviously got more attention than I would otherwise have done, and this sometimes leads me to think (mistakenly) that I'm the most important person in the band. But this is untrue, on a more fundamental level than just me being the main programmer and engineer of the band. The one thing that we have always agreed on amongst ourselves (and I'm so glad this is still true with the current line-up) is that the most important thing of all is that we write the best music we can possibly make, irrespective of who originates any particular idea or tweaks the bassline just-so. I am very much a collaborative producer when it comes to electronic music, and every OOOD track is an equal split between whoever is involved in it.
Easy for me too, sometimes! (see above) Ryo and Steve have posted a couple of times on Psy-Forum.co.uk but they have much more important things going on in their lives than the internet, for example... er... their lives.
One thing I'd really like to do is take the OOOD live show out and about much more as our music works very well live, especially outdoors in the sun (as long as it's not too hot to dance!). Unfortunately, since there are four of us, it's expensive for us to play outside the UK and sadly it seems that for too many promoters, the effect on the dancefloor of four musicians jamming, improvising and playing prepared riffs over truly psychedelic trance music is not worth our plane fare. I'm hoping and praying that Free Range will do something to change this, and that we'll get the opportunity to play at a festival near you soon.
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Wow... I'm very touched and flattered - firstly that someone should see fit to start a thread about our project and secondly that enough people are actually interested enough in OOOD to make a proper conversation about it! It's not very often that people start a thread about us so I'm going to take full advantage of this one... hope I don't bore you but OOOD is obviously something very close to my heart and on forums like this, where I have a social life, I don't really want to talk too much about the music in case people think I'm pushing it in their faces. You've started it now though...
I'll take your points one by one. As DP would say, "let me take you through the comments and questions"...
I have a project with Chris Organic ("Benefactor"), which has released a couple of tracks on Organic - one on the Tsunami benefit 3xCD and one on Invasion From Hyperspace. I also had a project with Tim Healey (Quirk and Electric Tease) called "Dallas Kiss" which released on Automatic and other labels. I've also written a couple of tracks with my good friend and ex-Psynews member Mike Indidginus, and have started (but not yet finished) tracks with Pop Stream, Tron, Fromem Ory and probably five or six others that slip my mind right now!...what about the side projects? Unconsciouss Collective, Rotatum (Phaze Din what a track!). Do you have more?
Well, the album is called Free Range so that should give you some ideaAnd what about the new album. What style is gonna be?
It's all main-room dancefloor stuff, and although every track is properly psychedelic in the way that much 'psytrance' isn't any more, we're not limiting ourselves to the narrow psytrance pigeon-holes. The tempos of the tracks range from 130 bpm to 144, and although I'm obviously totally biassed I think there's a lot of music on the album that will totally surprise people whilst still really doing the business on the dancefloor. I can't wait to hear what people think of Oh My (Good Golly Me) or Eye Of The Beholder (a collaboration between me and Ott)!Amongst the four of us, and for native English speaking people it's OOOD as in FOOOD (or, indeed ooooohed
). I've heard it pronounced as O-O-O-D, or "owed", or "triple-OD" (which is kind of apt cos there used to be three of us in the band ). Uh-Oh...OD!!!?!?!? is a new one to me!When I came up with the name it was an acronym for "Out Of Our Depth" and to me this is still what it means, but we are all (and Steve is in particular) fond of coming up with alternative meanings; Only On One Dinosaur is one particular favourite of mine.
Phobium - glad you like Silence! It was our first release as a band, and sometime soon when the album is out of the way we're going to remix it.
Firstly, they're not just 'my' tracks - 95% of OOOD tracks are made in collaboration with the rest of the band - Silence is one exception. I'm just the only band-member who uses the net to promote the music in this way. Secondly, the two tracks you mention are part of a three-track 'cycle' (for want of a better word). We started by writing The Unwinding Mind, a chillout D&B track you can hear on Breathing Space. We took elements of that track and wrote Mind The Unwinding, which goes from chillout D&B to 4-to-the-floor. Then we took elements of both those tracks and wrote Find Your Mind (also on Breathing Space), 10 minutes of pure minimal psytrance with a lift at the end that sends shivers down my spine even today.There is some clever wordplay in his track names (that is, if this CD has
his track listed properly:
The Unwinding Mind (Trance)
Mind The Unwinding (I don't know what style but if it is ambient-ish then that's a flash of brilliance)
Damion - you smell. But I agree with you on all points, except for your comparison of our first two albums. IMO the writing on aLIVE is better than Breathing Space, but Breathing Space works better on a dancefloor production-wise.Kundalini is to this day my favourite psy track ever. Stuff like Shamanix and Enlightened Evolution got me interested, but Kundalini was the one that kept me interested right up till now. Nothing has ever moved in that way since, and it probably never will.
Utter belter - played it out last month and it still goes down a cracker.
A Live is better than breathing space IMO, and for my money the Kundalini on Fill Your Head With Phantasm 3 (the studio one) Is better than the live cut.
Colin, I know you're reading this thread btw
And of course I'm reading this - this is the one time when my daily Google search for "OOOD" has come up trumps!
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Absolutely fucking awesome in their day.
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*raises hand*
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Sending a mastering engineer a pre-compressed mix greatly limits the options available in the mastering process. It says "I know you won't want to EQ, or add reverb, or stereo-enhance, or do anything to the track before the compression (which, by the way, I got EXACTLY right with my CPU-enhanced plugin)..."
When I get sent a track for mastering that has been through any kind of compression whatsoever, the first thing I do is ask the producer to send me an uncompressed mix. I'll also ask them if they wanted to acheive a particular effect with the compression they added (eg, 'pumping'), and work with the raw mix to get the very best from the track that I can, in line with the original wishes of the producer.
Sending me a compressed mix to master is like sitting me in a F1 race-car and telling me I can only use the first three gears.
Voice Of Cod - We Are Free
in 2005
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I have a computer. Is that ok?