"memories lost" genre: Industrial Electronic
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	This track is probably my proudest accomplishment in terms of amalgamating different sound sources. The percussion has OPL3 drums, which I made using the standard general midi driver for my Soundblaster AWE64Gold, plus a short sample from the 909 kick and 808 open hihat in ReBirth. All of the melodic sounds are from the D-50, without any external filters that I can remember. In addition, there is a sample of rain which I recorded from my house on a rainy night a ways back, on which I tweaked the eq on and applied a flanger to, given it a real neat quality. Then there is a short tb-303 loop sampled from ReBirth. But all of this stuff is all chopped up. Then I topped it off, so to speak, with spoken word samples from Wolfgang Peterson's classic film "Die Unendliche Geschichte", which I feel hauntingly express the theme: natural processes by which memories are forgotten.
	Story Behind the Song The scene from which the samples are taken is one in which the hero character of "Die Unendliche Geschichte" (english title "The Neverending Story"), named "Atreyu" is seeking information necessary to save his realm of Fantasia. He seeks and finds the oldest creature in Fantasia, a colossal ancient turtle named Morla - "Ist du Morla?", only to discover that she knows what's going on in Fantasia, because she has seen it happen before, but really doesn't care. "Your time is short. Ours is long," Atreyu is chided. In constructing the track, the D-50 parts, the OPL3 part, and the rain sample had been sitting on my hard drive for a long time without being assembled into a coherent musical framework. I had just set up my computer after it being out of commission for a while, and I didn't feel like hooking up the keyboards, so I just started fooling around with what I already had in the computer. I sequenced the whole D-50/OPL3 parts up and then I sampled a little ReBirth to beef up the drums, and fooling around led me to the (hopefully) haunting tb-303 sound that kicks it off. Then the desire to flesh it out a little bit immediately brought my mind to the sample of the rain in my backyard that I had recorded a while back. Then--bam! "Ist du Morla?"--I knew it was the perfect way to complete the feeling. Also included is our real-life hero, Bastien, reminding himself that there is no reason why the characters in the book would have *heard* his scream. The scream is also included.

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