Hypertension - 167.806 {music}

Swedish musician (yes musician, and Swede too aparently) nitro2k01 released a short track as part of this "30 songs in 30 days" thing he was doing. He published "Hypertension" on day one as his first musical effort. By his own admission it was unfinished, and when I listened to it initially the song seemed to keep building and building without resolving. In my head flashed a simple new arrangement of the tune. I decided to chop up his work, load it into Reason, rearrange it and put down a drum track, just to document this notion I was having.

Well, it wasn't so easy as the BPM of the track kept drifting (due to the nature of GameBoy harware) but eventually I settled with a BPM of 167.806 which fit with my arrangement. After all that I decided to lay down a wank-synth solo and added some chord progressions. Then there was lots of tweaking involved.

Nearing the end of the process I sent a copy to nitro2k01 to see what he thought of it, and like the dirty little viking that he is, he put it up on his blog without my knowledge. So there you go, that's the reason this thing is unfinished and is covered in warts (and it has nothing to do with the fact that I was getting lazy about it anyway, oh no!)

Hypertension-167.806 by Gamma Goblin

Re: artwork... found a crappy image on some BBC site about Viking settlements, I jigged it around and made it awesome! Vikings, the obvious choice for Ireland vs. Sweden. The piracy element works on so many levels. Recent win for the Pirate Party in the EU elections, The Pirate Bay, the way the tune was initially released, the fact that "Viking" is Old Norse for "Pirates"...

"Avast ye landlovers, we be the Vikings, and we be takin' our prize: a chest full of warez! Arrrr! Shiver me downloads!" etc...