Dance of Tears, by Martin Swampthing

Dance of Tears

by Martin Swampthing

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1.	Bells 03:26	info	buy track
2.	Chattering 02:42	info	buy track
3.	Didge 03:15	info	buy track
4.	4. Smouldering Pier (with Plecko) (Homeless Gulls mix) 03:46	info	buy track
5.	5. Undead Army Redux (Undead Snail mix) 12:35	info	buy track
6.	6. Walk (Getting Angry with the lame limb non-mix) 06:37	info	buy track
7.	7. Creatures of the Deep (Seductive mix) 08:39	info	buy track
8.	Rest-less 08:03	info	buy track
9.	9. Creatures of the Deep (Dance Mix) 07:42	info	buy track
10.	Dance of Tears 00:57	info	buy track
11.	Tick tick 05:06	info	buy track

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A collection of original compositions from the period of 2002 - 2004 while I was living in Brixton Hill, South London. Self released at the time on DVD-R and MP3 with no actual effort at distribution but I thought to salvage and make it available for posterity or whatever as it comes up to 20 years old.

At the time I was working as a PC Technician for Carillon Audio Systems, part of Turnkey / Media Tools Group, and one of the perks was access to what was then the cutting (and crashing) edge of computer music software and some experience to learn from. Most tracks composed with a combination of Cubase, NI products (esp Reactor), Reason, various plug ins, Sonic Charge, some Fruity Loops, etc, running on MS Windows.

All pretty messy and amateur and suffering from my ongoing attention span deficit but it's what kept me going in the days pre social media, and also while I was recovering from a knee injury.

Re "Swampthing": I've never really got on with the whole "name" thing. I don't particularly identify with my birth name. It's annoying and I have trouble pronouncing it in a way others can understand. But anything else sounds silly and pretentious. At the time I briefly used "Swampthing" as a nod to my partly rural upbringing and in homage to the Grid song of the same name. There is also a (more recent) NZ rock act called "Swamp Thing" which is in no way affiliated so please don't get confused with them.

I'm ironically far more Swamp adjacent now than I was at the time so perhaps it was appropriate

Martin 2023

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released September 8, 2004

Martin Swampthing: Computer, Composition, Drum Programming, Loop Programming, Sound Design, Synths, Engineering (ha!), Mastering (lol hahaha), Photography

Plecko: Bass, joint Composition, joint Engineering etc on track 4

Kent: additional keyboards on 6.

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