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The Attack

from HENDRA by DOS4GW

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Late 2008/early 2009:

After spending 18 months writing, recording and releasing two albums that sort of wander around a sound, that I felt were courting the idea of what I wanted to do, I felt a bit down about the whole experience. The music in my speakers wasn't sounding like the music in my head. I took some time out from trying to write beats for other people, and instead started concentrating on making instrumentals that were complete without vocals. In reality, it was a throwaway idea after too many stubbies of Tooheys Old with a couple of friends on a Saturday night.

"The Attack" started as a simple scratchpad recording of a synthesizer drone - the same drone that you hear at the start of the track. I had set an empty Old bottle on one of the keys to keep the drone going as I layered different takes on one another on the computer. I can still see the bottle resting there in my mind. In fact, I can still feel the weight of it, resting on my mind. It's comforting.

It feels like about a hundred years ago now; a different person, in a different place, thinking different thoughts about goals and aspirations that seem totally foreign to me now - but even now, I can find solace in the lazy winding pathways of the filter sweeps that mark the intro to this track.

It was pissing down with rain at the time and I remember looking up from the screen in a haze, the echo of the drone still vibrating the speaker cones, and thinking, for the first time, "hey, this sounds like a DOS4GW track." This was a milestone; up until that time, DOS4GW was just a moniker, a handle, a label to stick on a CD because I didn't really have anything else to call what I was doing. DOS4GW had no tangible identity.

"The Attack" is the genesis of that identity. It's the sound of an empty beer bottle resting on a synthesizer, on a rainy night, in the crevasse of what could hardly be called consciousness.

So, here it is. HENDRA I: "The Attack."

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from HENDRA, track released August 5, 2011
everything: DOS4GW except thunder: raptor jesus

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