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This mp3 is from the album In search of the fantastic, by Greg Segal.
The audio feed here could most accurately be lumped into the ambient/drone category, being as it is full of lingering atmospheric sweeps and swooshes, but it's not of the 'hold one key for 20 minutes' school of ambient (Which I'm pretty happy about). The fuzzy drones and sweeps succeed in creating a pretty strong environ of head swirling spaciness (which is a good thing). Most of the sounds here are guitar based, with some edits and keys thrown into the mix. It all sounds analog to me, but the edits and slight backwards effects could of very possibly been birthed via a computer. This track doesn't exactly do a marathon run throughout the world during its 5 minute life span, but it definitely walks around enough to keep my ears interested. Good stuff.
