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Below The Radar 08

Track 1

The Automatics Groups

"Auto 3"

previously unreleased

The Automatics Group write:

"A Sample Library is a collection of recorded musical sounds organised into a coherent digital file format of sound recordings for the intended use of music composers, arrangers, performers and producers to use as imitative, effect, or synthetic sound sources for live or recorded musical works. The VCS 3 (or VCS3; an initialism for Voltage Controlled Studio with 3 oscillators) is a portable analogue synthesiser with a flexible semi-modular voice architecture, manufactured by Electronic Music Studios (London) Limited (EMS) in 1969."

Track listing:

1. "Disco House Sessions" (47s) (kicks, hats, perc, snares and guitars)

"Use of these sounds in multimedia projects is limited to use within original musical compositions." (Terms and Conditions.rtf)

2. "Cancel" (2m38s) – A & B. Out of phase envelope cycles. Temporary power off in B at 2m13s.

3. "Auto Nudge" (1m10s) – A. High frequency oscillator interrupts filtered noise. Manual parameter changes at (36s).

4. / 5. "Hold" (50s) / "Hold Hi" (45s) – A. Manual fade out.

6. / 7. "Hold Lo"(45s)/"Collect" (1m10s) - B. Chaotic intermodulating oscillators for Roc.

8. "Feature Exchange" (1m23s) - A & B. High amplification of low-voltage signals.

9. "Start" (24s) - A & B. Out of phase envelope cycles. A & B recorded at the Music Research Centre, York. Produced by Theo Burt and Peter Worth. Thanks: Pete Harris, Colin Zeazel, Oli Larkin.

The Automatics Group