Assembled by hand, one copy at a time, in the White Pillar Workshop. Two white 5" recordable discs, printed and duplicated via an Imation D20, held securely inside a clear cast-polypropylene sleeve with side-stitching, flap and a cloth membrane separating the discs, with two hand-cut cardstock inserts bearing custom text sticker labels on the front and back cover.
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THE TRAVELER'S OFFWORLD RETREAT is a longform synthesizer pastorale designed and generated using only the ByteBeat digital audio workstation in the video game No Man's Sky, published by Hello Games on the PlayStation 4. Using these systems in a generative way, it is possible to leave this arrangement unspooling twenty-four hours a day in yet another virtual space - a "paradise" planet in the Euclid galaxy that I've spent hundreds of hours cataloguing, cultivating and making into a serene home-away-from-homeworld. It was created with the express purpose of being an Enosian windchime to enjoy while I relaxed on my sofa for some space-farming.
No Man's Sky is, somewhat famously, a procedurally generated video game, containing more planets than any one person (or collective people) would ever hope to explore in their lifetimes. It is a love letter to visual artists like Chris Foss and, for an immense list of reasons, one of my favorite video games of all-time. Sonically, this recording was inspired by things like Synergy's Computer Experiments Volume One and Jochem Paap's two beautiful FM synthesizer albums on FAX, and perfectly aligned with the ethos and synthesis-curious approach of many modern Milieu recordings.
For any other listeners who are themselves Travellers of the Atlas (or even a SalesGek, no judgments), I've included an image with this release's download that contains my planet's address. Hop in your ship, find your nearest monolith and come say hello. I have a prosperous living glass farm that served me well before I joined the game of freighter trade routing, and would welcome the company. Plenty of GekNip in the stash, no storms at all, and hardly a Sentinel in sight.
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released March 14, 2020
W/P by Brian Grainger. Recorded at White Pillar Workshop using the ByteBeat digital audio workstation in No Man's Sky, recorded to cassette via a Vesta Fire MR-10B multitrack tape machine, with subsequent processing via a Digitech WH4 and an Alesis Quadraverb. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Text and design by ABM&D. Photography by Rudolf Kremers. This is Milieu Music number MML145. Special thanks to Hello Games for making such a beautiful game, and for making their ByteBeat software available to begin with, and also to Rudolf Kremers for gracious and continued use of his analog photography. Rudolf Kremers appears courtesy of Omni Systems UK. (C) + (P) Milieu Music 2020. All nights preserved. www.milieu-music.com / www.analogbotany.com / www.rudolfkremers.com
Special thanks to all of the members of the Milieu Music Fan Club at Patreon (www.patreon.com/analogbotany). With their continued support, more music like this release can happen! At the present moment, the members of the Fan Club are: Burt T / Brian S / Jake P / Chris S / Damian H / Levi G / Peter H-B / Rik J / Jose S / Randall J / Michael R / Joel B / JC Bastos / David P / Helge J / Peter C / Alan A / Alex G / Seth B / David T / Devin H / Mathieu L / Andy B / Francois H / Benoit P / Juan D / Gavin C / Tarek E / Friedrich W / Jonathan W / Andrew O'K / Peter T / Daniel F / Gordon C / Alex K / Gavin M / Balz B / Miles B / Tony S / Sean W / Alex B / Justin W / David HS / K. F. / Steven A
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Tigress effortlessly gliding between the stoned, dusty grooves with that instantly identifiable "just behind the beat" bass line - one of my all time favourites amongst many from Brian's myriad milieu of mazey marvels. da5idh