Short: "Pentagonic" mega-hyper 5/4 oddtrance goa Author: Bobby Clark Uploader: bobclark freenet scri fsu edu Type: mods/med Replaces: The current bc-penta.lha, in mods/med Requires: A player that can handle Octamed MMD1 files. Architecture: generic And now, a song to get the ol' adrenalin pumping: Name of this composition: "Pentagonic" Style: Oddtrance goa, in 5/4 Influences: A real toughie. Probably, in general, a lot of the modern electronic stuff is heavily influential, as are a lot of the modules which I collect regularly off the aminet myself. A working definition of oddtechno: Techno music, of any style, which does not fit into the standard 4/4 meter. Not only does this keep it from being predictable, but a lot of intricate patterns are possible, too. In this case, we have oddtechno in the goa style, in 5/4. Surprisingly, though, the rhythm flows quite smoothly. And, as is a requirement of goatrance ... it is mega-fast! (I really think Goa is becoming my favorite style ... we will see ...) The 5-beat drum loop used in sample slot #1 was created using a nice little program called ps3mrec, available on the aminet in mus/misc I think. It will take any S3M, MTM, XM, FT, or MOD and render an IFF or WAV sample. This is my first attempt at using the program, and I think the results are very listenable. NOTE: This release is a bugfixed version. Due to a tuning idiosyncracy, one of my drumloop samples acted very strangely on a PC Octamedplayer. I have now corrected this error. Credits go to: Teknique, Colitis, and others, for playtesting and support. Saraba, for hugs, and for the Deep Forest Sample. K-P Koljonen and Jarno Paananen, for writing the PS3M player and recorder programs. I have found these VERY useful. Comments, as always, to bobclark@freenet.scri.fsu.edu I almost have material for an album ... soon, soon ... :)