FishionViktim.01

NOT MASTERED. A mastered version will be released eventually.

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Liner notes:
Though not strictly speaking conceived as a full-blown concept album from the start, each track on this record explores an aspect of sadness, from melancholy to full-blown hopeless despair.

WARNING: SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR HEADPHONES.

Due to heavy work on stereophony and volumes and the many layers of sounds often involved, it is not recommended to listen to this album casually on loudspeakers, especially since it's not mastered yet. High-end Hi-Fi systems may pull it off but it's better to play safe and dust off your headphones.

To maximize the experience, ? strongly suggests that you dim the lights, sit back in a comfy armchair or better yet lay on your bed, put your headphones on, light up a big fat joint, close your eyes and play this album loud. ? is wishing you a nice suicide.

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A little history:
? began his artistic questionings as a thrash metal guitar player, but feeling more of a composer than a player, ? soon found himself too limited soundwise and at the same time bored by the perpetual cycle of rehearsals, so ? asked himself : How can this enigmatic punctuation mark solve the problem? The answer came in the form of a computer circa mid-1997. After getting used to this new tool and experimenting for a while, ? completed this first album in 2000.

Fun fact:
In the early years, because of some hardware restrictions, ? was unable to sample records, so he found source material wherever he could, mainly from PC videogames (in these times, most game sounds were directly accessible as .wav files on the CDs. Good old days!). Therefore, most of the samples on this album are heavily processed game sounds, including a whole bunch from Quake, which remains the best First Person Shooter to date, 18 years after its release. In fact, only the last track on the album includes actual record samples.

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