Welcome to "Elements" - a trip into synthesizer
oriented and film-score inspired music. 

Music by MeloManiac
Graphics by Tactica

"Elements is divided into two parts - PART ONE consists
of synthesizer-tunes, PART TWO of film/orchestral ones.


As you've probably noticed, "Elements" is a bit memory
hungry, due to the big module sizes and the hi-res
graphics that I think Tactica has done an excellent job with. 
They fit the two parts incredibly well and kind of
sets the tone even before you start the music.

I had wanted to do a musicdisk for quite a while, so I
started working on tunes specifically for it in the
beginning of 1996. Then some things got in the way
and the project stood still for a while, until I picked
it up again in august.
From august until november I've been working almost
solely on the music for this production, after doing
the "Twisted Cinema" module for the South Sealand 3
compo fuelled my interest for doing more filmmusic
inspired music on Amiga.

I'm very interested in filmmusic and I am especially
a big admirer of John Williams, composer on most
of Spielbergs films and many other films, including
'Star Wars', 'Home Alone' and 'Nixon'.

So as you can hear this is not a funk musicdisk, 
nor a techno or jungle musicdisk.
It is a musicdisk inspired by computer- and synthesizer
music, and by the great film composers.

After "Elements", I think I'm going to do more music
inspired by the styles of Vangelis, Jarre and also
Hans Zimmer; a more sci-fi like ambience.
You might notice inspiration from Vangelis and Jarre
in particular if you listen to my contribution to
the multichannel competition at The Party 6.

PART ONE

This part contains more or less 'classic' computer-type
music, in a generally more low-key style than most synthpop.

Some of the tunes are pure pop, some I've tried to
create more atmosphere in. In this part of the production
you'll find a couple of tunes older than 1996.


PART TWO

As far as I know, 'grand orchestral' tunes haven't
been done very much on Amiga before, so I hope you'll pay
attention to the four tunes in this part.

Making that type of music with only four channels can be
pretty hard, and you have to make some compromises
to avoid getting into extreme module-sizes, and still 
keep the sound intact.


For the technically interested I can say that most of
the samples in the tunes are from my Roland XP-50,
and nearly all samples in part two are from the
Orchestral Expansion card which fits a wide range
of Roland synths.

Thats all from me - now read what Tactica
has to say!


First of all I want to thank MeloManiac for giving me
fairly free hands when making the graphics for this
music disk. It may seem different from my usual
style but one develops over time, hopefully for the better.

I am pretty satisfied with the final result.
The very stylish graphics seem to suit the music well.
Each section has different graphics done specially to
grasp the atmosphere of the music
- and I sure hope I succeded in doing that.

I will probably tune down my scene activities
as we enter '97. I've been in an inactive period due to
school and summer and now I just can't find any motivation.

I've also been most active in the first half of '96.
If you for some reason want to contact me, I recommend that
you try to email me.

E-mail: martin at diku.dk

Thank you for reading.