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Last week I was invited to play at the FILE festival launch party - three days before the actual show! I was already looking forward for the festival, specially for the FILE:Hipersônica part, devoted to experimental electronic music. Being invited to play (in fact, invited by Nervoso to play our rock/electronic jam) was just the icing on the cake.

This year Hipersônica brought some high-profile guys from across the pond (Scanner, Daedalus…) and some old friends (Esquadrão Atari) to play in Rio. The shows were excellent (aside from some über post-modernist vanguard crap, but it’s a matter of taste), but this post is not about music per se; it’s about the effects of cachaça.

While I was playing at the party, Renata made friends with several of the people displaying their projects in the festival, including a certain guy called Noah Vawter - a.k.a. Shifty. If you read Digg, you probably came across his Ambient Addition gadget, which reprocesses ambient sound into music. We hung out all weekend and ended in my homestudio playing with an out of tune SH-101, drum triggers and Ableton Live. This is what came out about one hour later:

With Noah
(FZero and Shifty | MP3 6.3Mb/VBR)

So, what does cachaça have to do with this? Why, without it we would be minding the SH-101 drifting out of tune and the music would never be done in one hour. Enjoy!

Wed 28 | Mar/2007 | Tags: Blog, English

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