CONTORTED by Jack Hertz
con·tort·ed (kn-tôrtd) adj.
1. Twisted or strained out of shape.
2. Botany Twisted, bent, or partially rolled upon itself; convolute.
These tracks were originally compiled for the Contorted record label run by Carl Merson. Unfortunately, the tape got lost in the shuffle of moving from Maryland to California and was never released to the public.
In the early 1990s, computer programming and the internet became a sexy diversion that soon took over my life. What you hear here are the last bits and pieces of what I was working between 1990 and 1993. The music spans a variety of styles, ranging from ambient to some of my first Freq Mod experiments, and more progressive type stuff. Much of it is unmixed and unfinished, mistakes and all, that I present to EMjoy for the sake of posterity and future civilizations to ponder some day.
Tracklist
| 1. | The Crawler | 5:02 |
| 2. | Diaspora | 4:40 |
| 3. | A Golden Glow | 2:54 |
| 4. | Mind Over Matter | 3:37 |
| 5. | Mu-Tron | 2:51 |
| 6. | Concrete Holiday | 4:09 |
| 7. | Harmonichaos | 3:34 |
| 8. | The Desert Floor | 4:29 |
| 9. | Back Then | 4:28 |
| 10. | Cellophane Dreams | 5:34 |
| 11. | Arbitrary Characters | 4:31 |
| 12. | The Obligatory Bass Drum | 5:51 |
Credits
The equipment on this album includes the following:
Alesis: HR16, MMT-8, Midiverb II
Akai: S612, S900
Atari: Mega ST4
Casio: DH-100 MIDI Sax
Kawai K5M
SEIL: DK600
Rhodes: Chroma
Roland: DEP-5
Sony: DTC-700 DAT
Yamaha: DX7II FDE w/ E!, TX16W, DX100, REV-7, D1500, DX11, VSS-30, CS-15
