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Help Us Choose a Theme for After The Paracast!

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What's Your Favorite Theme for After The Paracast

  • One

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Two

    Votes: 1 6.3%

  • Three

    Votes: 10 62.5%

  • Four

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Five

    Votes: 4 25.0%

  • None of the Above!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .

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Beginning the weekend of November 30, we are happy to debut a new addition to The Paracast+, an exclusive podcast called After The Paracast. Call it color commentary, call it a show of second thoughts or new ideas. But we'll present them on an irregular basis — with no promise it'll happen every week but we'll try.

Once again, After The Paracast will not be posted on iTunes or any other podcast repository. It'll be available strictly for those of you who subscribe to The Paracsat+.

But we do want you all involved in helping us pick a theme for the show.

Here are five candidates created by Christopher O'Brien.

You can hear each by clicking (or tapping) the Play button. It should work on a Mac, PC, or most any recent mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet.

Please vote for your favorite.

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Three:
Four:
Five:
For the first episode, I select audio clip number three, but the final setup, with Bob Announcer's voiceover, depends on the final vote.
 
Personally, for a non-bumper piece, I like track 3. In fact I'd like to hear that made into a full length work! However I voted on 5 because it sounds most appropriate for the use in which it's intended. By appropriate I don't mean just from my subjective opinion, but also because the volume and arrangement will provide immediate queues to the listeners when used consistently. I would also insert a 2 bar intro that is more definitive. The way it starts now sounds like it's cut into rather than played from the beginning. Or maybe even better, try extending it and then fading it in during the wrap-up with the guest. All sound very professional. Nice work on all Chris :).
 
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#2 for me. It had a good beat and I could dance to it.

I kid. I liked the tribal meets Gregorian Chants vibe I got from it. Kind of like Philip Glass's music from Koyaanisqatsi. I really didn't like #1 tbh, I thought it sounded too much like Flock of Seagulls. Not that there was anything wrong with FoS, but it wasn't very "after paracasty". it came in and faded out in a neat way though. All the other four are worthy candidates.

Even if you don't use my choice, if you put out a whole album like that Chris, I'd snap it up.
 
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It's a shame you couldn't use all of them depending on your (or the show's) mood. They all have a different feel which I suppose was the point. I thought #2 was just so evocative. I'm warming to #5, it reminds me of an early afternoon npr talk show before all things considered comes on, and I guess that's sort of your intent as i believe you mentioned that the subjects wouldn't necessarily be paranormal in nature but could be the major talking points of the day. If you had one more person you could turn it into a left, right and center type of show.
 
Interesting idea. Of course, there's also branding the product, which would call for one identifiable theme. But I'll see what happens.
 
Wade Ridsdale said:
... if you put out a whole album like that Chris, I'd snap it up.
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Most are available in their full-length form. I've recorded several albums of my own material since the late 1980s.

#1 is a combo piece. The ambient part is from a piece on the album "Portraits of the Big Beyond" that is a piece played at half speed, backward. The pop part is a snippet from a piece titled: They Know Who We Are (1990) also from the album "Portraits From The Big Beyond" —inspired by Depeche Mode and other 80s Brit synth bands. I played to a slap back echo—no sequencers used except for the drum machine pattern that I added live fills and pick-ups. #2 is a snippet from a song titled: Dreamtime from the album "Dancing on Mountains." Again, no sequencers. I imagined what aboriginal music would sound like in then 22nd Century. There are a number of Enochian chants buried in the mix. #3 is the beginning minute from a piece (w/ Black Raven) titled: Desert Moon from the new album "Native Knight" that will be out later this month. I came up w/ the repeating melody line that the guys jammed to, and I then added Neil Armstrong's live description of landing the Eagle on the moon. #4 is the start of an Arabic funk groove recorded in 2002 titled: Osama bin Hidin that I remixed with a possessed parrot and various EVP/ghost voices recorded by avant-electronica artist and EVP expert Michael Esposito. Michael also added the industrial sweeps. The remix was done in 2007. #5 was the intro section for a documentary soundtrack I recorded in 2008.
 
#2 is excellent - wish it was more dynamic. Three has some nice shifts and good vibes - a little too much voice thoughout the mix. Would like more moments of just music.
 
After listening to all of them I'm gonna go with 3. It has that ending feeling vibe music that is done so well with the guitar. It just sounds right. Plus, I like the CapCom vocals in the background, nice touch Chris.
 
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