Flute solo from “Outside”, mellotron remix
KeithHandy posted in Composing, Instruments, Old skool, Playing, Producing on November 5th, 2006
I haven’t uploaded any audio here recently, so I’ll give you a small taste of my progress on the Through Forbidden Black Doors nonexistent film version remix project. This is an instrumental solo section from a track called Outside, depicting an unhappy factory worker’s daydream of an “outside world” which none of the workers have ever been to.
It’s not that much different from the version on my 1998 CD; it’s a nearly faithful note-for-note copy. What’s most different is that instruments have been replaced. The flute part was originally played on one of those uninspiring 1980s synths, with a few rows of patch selection buttons and a tiny digital readout. It didn’t sound terrible, but I’ve replaced it with sampled mellotron flute to give it a more vintage-y feeling. The drum machine was replaced by sampled drums from a well-known 1969 album (first correct guess wins a hug!), and sampled cymbals from an obscure early 90s album. There’s a heavily reverberated speech-synthesized choir filling in the background and adding to the other-worldly dream-like quality.
