{"id":777,"date":"2021-12-12T12:11:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T17:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=777"},"modified":"2021-12-12T12:11:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T17:11:29","slug":"troubling-times-ahead-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Troubling Times Ahead Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Troubling Times Ahead by Super Human Intelligence Towards Exile\" width=\"500\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F1353428134&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This here is an overview of the Troubling Times Ahead album. Finally, after nearly 10 years, Super Human Intelligence Towards Exile (fka Shite) had spit out some new music. I said in <a href=\"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=338\">January 2021<\/a> I was going to try and make an &#8220;album&#8221; and I accomplished that. I&#8217;m not an island on this one, I did receive help and took a few samples from EJay. I&#8217;m not totally original on this. Without further ado, here is the overview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/that-wish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">That Wish<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; This is the first song I got going when this project began. This track was all samples from Techno EJay 3 and none of my own. So, this is me DJ&#8217;ing this and sling samples onto EJay&#8217;s 32 track interphase. I was going to title the song &#8216;October Faction&#8217; from the one season Netflix show of the same name. But opted for &#8216;That Wish.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/many-bad-decisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Many Bad Decisions<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Mostly EJay here. I made this track while having Writer&#8217;s block, or a creative block to make more sense. One of the songs I wanted to title with the words &#8216;bad decision.&#8217; I thought about calling this song &#8220;The Bad Decision Blues,&#8221; but it&#8217;s a Techno\/Electronica song. It&#8217;ll be awfully fucking idiotic if I were to title a Techno song with the word Blues in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/generation-qanon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Generation QAnon<\/a><\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 Generation QAnon got pulled off of YouTube. Perhaps Marjorie Taylor Greene heard this herself and contacted YouTube? I&#8217;m not a big fanof this silly QAnon conspiracry theory. The keyboards, bassline and other various sounds were done by me. The beats are from EJay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/times-beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Times Beach<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; One of three of my Sci-Fi\/Horror music tracks. Has that 80s vibe to it. Of the three tracks of this type, I like this one the best. Named after an abandoned town in Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/premonition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Premonition<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; A mix of Industrial and Techno. Despite being dependent on a few EJay samples, I did five different takes on this song. The first two were too loud. I saw it pass the threshold when playing the track on my Wave Editor. This is one of the two songs I made the mistake of uploading with the craptastic result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/highway-150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Highway 150<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; One of my personal favorites. I had to pay tribute to M-150 or Michigan Highway 150. It goes through a couple of my favorite cities, Rochester &amp; Rochester Hills. A couple of the loops &amp; one of the samples were from EJay, the rest I did myself. I&#8217;m very proud of the bassline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/centraila\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centraila<\/a><\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 Number two of the Sci-Fi\/Horror theme songs. IU was experimenting with the &#8216;Take Your Time&#8217; voice on the Prophet V Synthesizer. The first upload&#8217;s volume was a little too low. I didn&#8217;t figure this out until a couple of months later when I took a listen myself via SoundCloud. I had to upload a new one with the volume just right (I hope!). Named after a near-ghost town in PA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/troublingtimesahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Troubling Times Ahead<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Made this a few days after the 2021 Capitol Riot. I had thoughts of adding sound clips of the extreme fanatical folks from that riot but later decided not too. The title was influenced by one of my own <a href=\"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=306\">blog posts<\/a>, and it became the title of this album. 90 percent EJay and with one sample made by me. Troubling Times Ahead is influenced by the Sun&#8217;s Temple music in the RPG Evolution Worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/saturnalia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saturnalia<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Highly influenced by the song &#8220;Love You Down&#8221; by Ready For The World. I used the &#8216;Hammnd&#8217; voice through most of the song. Proud to say this song had 90% of the samples made by me. Saturnalia has been doing somewhat well in SoundCloud as of this blog posting. As I carry on to the future, I want to make more tracks more dependent on me, opposed to more dependent on EJay samples or others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/purely-mediocre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Purely Mediocre<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Minus one sample, this one is (almost) all me. This song was an attempt to make a Deep House track similar to Avoure&#8217;s <em>Aura<\/em>. I heard this song a few weeks before spitting out Purely Mediocre and became a little too obsessed with this song. I listened to it quite a few times while creating this track. Needless to say, Purely Mediocre doesn&#8217;t quite sound like Aura, and perhaps it shouldn&#8217;t. To poke fun at the attempt, I gave the song this title. On a personal note, I don&#8217;t like this one but a couple of co-workers do. I guess I did something right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/a-time-of-bliss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Time Of Bliss<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Wow, the third song on this &#8220;album&#8221; with the word time in it. Quite obsessed with that word, am I? I have a separate blog post about this song, <a href=\"https:\/\/rthomas.xyz\/?p=738\">take a look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/superhumanintel\/pripyat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pripyat<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; The final and last of three in the Sci-Fi\/Horror themed tracks. named after the great abandoned city that played victim to Chernobyl. I do highly recommend you to check out the new HBO Miniseries. This song included some experimental sounds and even the Geiger-Counter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This here is an overview of the Troubling Times Ahead album. Finally, after nearly 10 years, Super Human Intelligence Towards Exile (fka Shite) had spit out some new music. I said in January 2021 I was going to try and make an &#8220;album&#8221; and I accomplished that. 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