Chlorophyll was a collaboration with Cat Hall, formerly of Dissonance.  I met Cat after much searching for good singing talent in Dallas.  Upon meeting, our chemistry and natural abilities were an instant hit.  Cat wrote the lyrics and vocal melodies after I pieced together a basic song framework, and then I produced the songs after the vocals were laid in.  Needless to say, Cat is the best singer I've ever worked with. Chlorophyll is currently on hiatus due to personal commitments, but we expect to finish our first record in 2008.  In the meantime, each song is for sale for $0.99 per song - contact me at producer909 at gmail dot com.

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Production Notes:
©2005-2006
April8 The song was written on April 8, 2005, so we got "real creative" with the title (in other words, we were pretty lazy).  You can hear lots of our signature sounds...tons of stacking vocals, very melodic synth lines, heavy breakbeats, and a polished sound. A fun game to play is to count the number of vocal parts Cat is singing in our songs.
Bitter A song originally written in 1998 by Cat and Paul Robb of Information Society.  Once we decided to work on the song, it was of course heavily nebulized...lots of guitars, a phat bassline sitting on top of filtered synth saw sounds off the JP8080, and a very bright supersaw lead in the chorus. Note the backwards guitar sounds, and the granular processing of the vocals.  Also, the drums are a loop from the Brutal Beats collection - fantastic for Led Zeppelin-ish drums, and really lending a great organic feel to this mean-bitch of a song.
Those Who Wait Our first collaboration, and sign of great things.  This seven-minute masterpiece was inspired by a piece called "Inches" off the soundtrack to "Any Given Sunday".  Cat wrote the lyrics and put down 12 parts of vocal melodies in about two hours (damn the woman is talented!).  I then added strings and guitars, and programmed the drumbeats.  The song is typical of our style with tons of vocals and melodies, as well as mixing genres, electronic sounds, and acoustic instruments.  One of my proudest accomplishments.
The Key This song took several versions to get right - we couldn't decide on the best feel for it.  For alternative versions, check the Unreleased and Demo section.  We finally decided on a straight genre blend of trancy supersaw sounds with slower house/electro beats.  For drama, we went for a juxtaposition of glassy vocals in the verses and warm vocals in the chorus.  Also, we used Livecut, a wonderful realtime slicer plugin, to process the vocals in the intro.  An excellent song to bob your head to, but watch out for neck spasms.
Step Off Another song originally by Cat and Paul Robb, nebulized for Chlorophyll.  I used some loops from Soundwrecks by The covert Operators, a couple of guys from Denmark who are at the top of their game.  The sample set is just genius work, and I can't thank Andreas and Bjorn enough for the hours of inspiration.  As you can hear, I chopped the crap outta the drum loop with Livecut.  I also used a guitar riff that came with Live 4's sample CD (no I'm not ashamed of using cheesy samples and loops, it's what you do with them that makes your art yours!). Live's transposition capabilities are fantastic, and the riff worked perfectly.  Add in a few nice blips and pads from the Virus C, and of course a bit of vocoder on Cat's great voice, and this ends up as a mellow downtempo song.  One of our simplest songs, yet still sophisticated enough to be signature Chlorophyll.
   
 


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