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Topic: mellotronworks

Posted By: MikeDickson
Subject: mellotronworks
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 19:54

Ladies and Gentlemen, a gift to you all

mellotronworks

A series of popular classical music pieces played entirely on the Mellotron

Mars, The Bringer of War (Holst)
Adagio in G minor (Albinoni)
Adagio for Strings (Barber)
Air on The G String (Bach)
Canon in D major (Pachelbel)
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams)

A free album available for download from http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/ - http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/

Please enjoy and thank you for listening

kind regards

Mike Dickson, Edinburgh

Free Music Project:  http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson - http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson 
Or  http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/ - http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/

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Mike Dickson
Edinburgh, UK
http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/

Replies:

Posted By: DJPuffyLemon
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 20:17

not that this has anything to do with anything, but I really hate how the mellotron has become an idolized symbol of progressive rock.

you're prettty competent with your stuff though! unfortunately mechanical comes to mind when listening to it, just my critique.

Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 23:10

Thanks for the gift Mike! There's nothing like sitting in the middle of a mellotron storm.

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"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"

"Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN

Posted By: AlexUC
Date Posted: October 29 2008 at 23:19

I'm not a big mellotron fan, but this is great work, sounds very well. Thanks Mike!!

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This is not my beautiful house...

Posted By: MikeDickson
Date Posted: October 30 2008 at 02:32

Thanks for the kind comments all round.

I'm sorry DJPuffy doesn't care for the Mellotron being 'centre stage' in Prog Rock, but if it makes any difference I'm not that thrilled by 95% of what passes for that genre anyway, most of which I find quite ham-fisted. However, I do realise that a lot of fans of that type of music like the sound of the Mellotron and just thought that it may be nice to hear iot within the context of playing established 'classics' as opposed to being a background wash of block chords, etc.

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Mike Dickson
Edinburgh, UK
http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/

Posted By: DJPuffyLemon
Date Posted: November 01 2008 at 18:29

Yeah good job with being experimental in how you make music, but it doesn't really sound to me as though the instrument translates well to classical music.

Posted By: MikeDickson
Date Posted: November 01 2008 at 18:35

Well, fair enough - I think that Barber sounds pretty good this way at least, but it's all a matter of taste. You ought to have heard some of the things that I left on the floor. Fanfare for the Common Man actually made me laugh out loud when I heard it!!

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Mike Dickson
Edinburgh, UK
http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/