Das Epos der Maschine, by Die with Dignity

Das Epos der Maschine

by Die with Dignity

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1.	Die Maschine 02:47	info	buy track
2.	Die Koje 02:52	info	buy track
3.	Radar 02:44	info	buy track
4.	Die Wüste Trai 04:42	info	buy track
5.	Gelandet bei den fedrigen Wesen 03:21	info	buy track
6.	Der alte Wald 03:49	info	buy track
7.	Im Hangar 04:22	info	buy track
8.	Das Domino-Experiment 04:46	info	buy track
9.	Die Erde 03:08	info	buy track
10.	Das Ende 03:16	info	buy track

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Although each of the tracks of the "Epos der Maschine" soundtrack can be downloaded separately, we recommend to get the whole album for the following reasons:

-- This is a soundtrack and therefore incomplete unless you get all tracks ;-)

-- The album download includes several bonus files:

*** Album artwork (booklet+inlay in PDF format)

*** 2 extra tracks, both recorded during those "Epos" sessions.

*** Studio photos from that period of time (1998--2000).

MUSIC INFO:

In 1998, Die with Dignity were asked to contribute the soundtrack to some interactive, multi-media literature, named in German language "Das Epos der Maschine" (in English, surprise surprise: "The Epos of the Machine").

This multi-media issue can still, at the time of this (re-)release, be visited at kunst.im.internett.de/epos-der-maschine/ (but be aware that it is all in German).

Due to general limitations in band-width at that time and sound capabilities of the underlying JAVA programming language, the soundtrack was required to be quite minimalistic (so that small excerpts could be looped), and only a very limited sound quality could be embedded.

Therefore we tried to use everything that sounded interesting even at 8 Bit with a sample rate of 16 kHz: Not only guitars and synthesizers were used, but also some very strange devices, more or less constructed or modified by ourselves. Some of the things used for these sessions, e.g. the ATARI ST 1040 computer, don't exist anymore, and in this sense the music presented here has become unique, unrepeatable.

All music was mastered directly to DAT ("Digital Audio Tape", does anyone remember? ;-) and is now directly (and digitally) transferred to this release. Therefore all forms of noise being audible can be said to be an intentional part of the music.

So, this is music for those who are always curious for new, unexplored soundscapes.
Charts listeners are encouraged to look for something else.

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released August 8, 1998

Brenner, Broszat, Guderia, Repgen play many weird instruments and devices.

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