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Title: Apollo Lee – Rigel
Date: November 13, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 6:24 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
This is a patch I haven’t used before. I added a number of effects to make it sound mysterious, including a toned-down ring modulator.
I used minor rhythm changes in [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Quetta
Date: November 10, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:30 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
This is a patch I haven’t used before. I like the swirly phaser. This is a pretty sound.
The harmony is in D major with descending chords (DM7, C#m7b5, [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Pliancy
Date: October 22, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 6:30 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
This is an instrument I haven’t used before. It’s different.
The harmony (Em7, DM7, Cm7b5, B7) is simple, but effective.
What I Don’t Like About It
There is a whole bunch of [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Owyhee
Date: October 15, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:06 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony is minor Rhythm Changes in Bb minor. It’s consonant enough to leave big open chords, but dissonance enough to give us some delicious tension.
The lows are vast [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Nunavut
Date: October 08, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:30 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony is diatonic to some degree, consisting of descending seventh chords in F minor (Fm7, Eb7, DbM7, C7). The combinations of the sixteen tones used is enough to [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Monona
Date: September 29, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:54 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony is interesting, but easy to play around with. It’s descending minor seventh chords starting on A minor (Am7, Gm7, Fm7, Em7). Lots of interesting tonal possibilities [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Luminesque
Date: September 24, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:36 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony is quite different, chords built on D, F, G, and A in D Melodic Minor (Dm/M7, F+7, Gm7, A7). It feels really open due to the large [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Kestrel
Date: September 18, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:18 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony is really strange — a foundation of a c°7 (C diminished 7) chord, with major seventh chords on each. Thus: CM7, EbM7, GbM7, AM7 (BbbM7, technically). [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Jasper
Date: August 13, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 9:18 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The instrument takes some acclimatization, but I like it after a few listens.
Transitions are, for the most part, smooth and not distracting.
The harmony (Am7, Gm7, Fm7, Em7) is strange, but [...]
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Title: Apollo Lee – Ionosphere
Date: July 29, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:18 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony (Em7, Dm7, Cm7, Bm7) is unusual and lends to some interesting note combinations and dissonances.
The instrument has a pad and an organ in it with interesting harmonics that [...]
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