Chrysalid: Musicians for Katrina Relief CD is a project organized by coalition of international musicians using their art to raise funds in support of the victims of hurricane Katrina.
Norwich, United Kingdom
Griels (real name Ellis Breen) caught the music bug in the 90s heyday of rave and has yet to recover. Collecting a variety of tastes since then, starting with breakbeat hardcore, acid jazz and jungle, via prog house, old school trance and trip hop, on through speed garage to modern day glitch and an appreciation of 70s fusion, he eschews the fickle trends of fashion and instead ploughs his own musical furrow. Amongst his musical heroes can be counted Herbie Hancock, Mandrill, Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith, Massive Attack, Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, Bob James, David Arnold, 4 Hero, Squarepusher, The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, The KLF and much of the Staxx and Motown roster. There is no grand scheme to his work, simply producing music he likes to hear, mostly on an intuitive level, although occasionally he tries to twist familiar formulas into something a little off the beaten track.
He first seriously got into music production in 2000 after graduating from the University of East Anglia and became deeply involved with the Rocket Network online collaboration system and the KVR-VST (as they were then called) audio software forums where he is now a moderator, and beta tests and demos for a number of software and sample manufacturers. He hopes to get more involved in the music industry in some way, perhaps soundtrack work.
This song is an affectionate and light-hearted tribute to Bob Moog, a pioneer of electronic synthesis. It features a sample of his lifelong friend, and the originator of the sequencer, Raymond Scott, at the start. It was a little inspired by the drifty moog-flavoured ambience of Boards of Canada, and is a sort of ambient/jazz funk flavoured tune with a crunchy rhythmic backbone. It features Larry Seyer Upright Bass, FXPansion GURU and BFD XFL, Mr Tramp, Tassman 4, Izotope Vinyl and a ton of Ohm Force and Digital Fish Phones effects, topped off with 8 instances of the excellent GForce Minimonsta Moog emulation.