Album of the Week #43: Sleep State F 10th Anniversary

Project name: Mune Mud
Album name: Sleep State F 10th Anniversary Collection
Release date: 2007
Release format: CD
Studio name: Metal XOR Studio

Tracks:
1. Waxed
2. Ginkgo Biloba
3. Reflection
4. Occam's Razor
5. Locker Life
6. Contact
7. Before (Again)
8. Sleeping with the Fishes
9. Last Five Miles
10. Dofuzia
11. Molybdenum
12. Clouds Set Free (Silent Cumulus Mix)
13. Overfed
14. The Phantom Funeral
15. Dolphins and a Seahorse
16. Biobot
17. Just Denied
18. Etesian Wind (Denny's Mix)
19. Prospecting Saturn
20. Atlantis
21. Back Up, Please?
22. Crystal
23. One Second
24. Sepia

This was the fifth and final album in the Mune Mud 10th Anniversary Collection. It was a digital re-release of the 1997 Sleep State F album.

The first nineteen tracks are the same as the original 1997 album, just digitally remixed. Tracks 20-24 are previously unreleased bonus tracks. They were unused tracks from the Sleep State F recording sessions.

Tracks 20-22 were not used on the original because they were not finished. The versions included here are the unfinished versions, preserved exactly where Jason left off with them. And tracks 23 and 24 come from a short four-song session that Jason recorded while house-sitting some one's house in August of 1997. The other two songs of the four recorded at the house were "Overfed" and "Contact", both of which appeared on the original Sleep State F album. "One Second" also appeared as the b-side to the "Reflection" single in November of 1997.

Unfortunately, as with the previous two albums in this collection (Pryme Material 10th and Equation of Time 10th), this album was never totally finished. The tracks were compiled but the CD's were never burned. And in this case, none of the labels or covers were even designed or printed. It does retain the 2007 release date though. The Studio is working to hopefully complete the album soon.


Next week's Album of the Week: Parabolic Dish Festival 10th Anniversary Edition by Isthmus from 2008.

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Equipment File #15: U-220 sound module

Roland U-220

In June of 1993, the Studio changed forever. It purchased a large amount of new equipment and was rebuilt from the ground up. This was phase 2 of Circle IX Studio.

The biggest change was the implementation of MIDI. A sequencer could now be programmed to play the music parts all at once and recorded to one of the tracks on the 4-track recorder, leaving three tracks open for guitars, vocals, or sounds.

Arguably, the second biggest change resulting in the purchase was this Roland U-220 sound module. Now the Studio wasn't limited to the sounds of portable keyboards. With this sound module it had access to hundreds of new sounds, most derived from actual instruments. It also had dozens of strange sounds and sound effects. It contained new drum kits for the Studio to use. And the unit, being controlled from a sequencer, could play up to six instrument parts at once.

As has always been the case when new sounds are available to the Studio, inspiration came forth! Many new songs and sounds were used in the 1993 recording sessions, leading to the Mune Mud album Pryme Material and eventually the whole NueroMud project.

The U-220 has not been used in quite some time since the Studio now uses computers for its sounds. But the U-220 is still in the Studio waiting to eventually be used once again.

Single #6: Clouds Set Free

Song name: "Clouds Set Free"
Album name: Pryme Material
Release date: November 2, 1993

Tracks
1. Clouds Set Free (album version)
2. Up A Lonely Road (original demo)
3. Clouds Set Free (instrumental)

Song History
This was the second single from the 1993 Mune Mud album Pryme Material.

This was a slower song, recorded just a month before its sister song, "I Still Know You" (which also appears on Pryme Material). It is obviously some sort of love song, but is the protagonist happy or sad? Are they in a relationship or is it after the relationship was over? It is hard to tell, but it is still a pretty song to listen to.

Track Breakdown
The first track is the version that appeared on the album.

The second track was the original demo version of "Up A Lonely Road" recorded by Jason and Darrin on April 28, 1990. Two new versions of the song were recorded in 1993, the remake version that appears on Pryme Material and the 'Splitz Mix' version that appeared as a bonus track on the 2003 release of Pryme Material 10th Anniversary Collection.

The third track is the instrumental version of the album track.

Album of the Week #42: Equation of Time 10th Anniversary

Project name: Mune Mud
Album name: Equation of Time 10th Anniversary Collection
Release date: 2006
Release format: CD
Studio name: Metal XOR Studio

Tracks:
1. Fake Houdini
2. In the Memory of Man
3. Follow the Steps
4. En Crypt
5. Krietner
6. Summer Song
7. Essence of Pearl
8. Bumpy and Jumpy
9. I'm With You (Outcome)
10. Ever Regret
11. One Night (v2.0)
12. Under Venus
13. Before
14. Nightspell
15. On Good Terms
16. One Lunar Minute
17. Deviate
18. One Night (v1.0)
19. Winter Song
20. Little Germany
21. The End Den
22. Etesian Wind (Metal-X Mix)

This was the fourth album in the 10th Anniversary Collection. It was a digital re-release of the 1996 Equation of Time album.

The first seventeen tracks are the same as the original 1996 album, just digitally remixed. Tracks 18-22 are the previously unreleased bonus tracks. They were unused tracks from the Equation of Time recording sessions.

Track 18 was the original version of the song. The version that appeared on the album, "One Night (v2.0)", was the re-recorded version. The next three tracks were finished songs, they just didn't seem to fit on the album. And the last track was yet another version of the famous "Etesian Wind" song that first appeared on the 1991 album Olympus. This was a faster, almost disco version of the song that had lots of vocal effects.

Unfortunately, as with the previous album in this collection (Pryme Material 10th), this album was never totally finished. The tracks were compiled but the CD's were never burned. And in this case, none of the labels or covers were even designed or printed. It does retain the 2006 release date though. The Studio is working to hopefully complete the album soon.


Next week's Album of the Week: Sleep State F 10th Anniversary Collection by Mune Mud from 2007.

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