at speed

in 2006, four intrepid musicians came together in dublin to form At Speed, initially to participate in the trinity college battle of the bands. in the summer of that year, i moved to japan, so i missed the chance(s) to see them play live [like this].

fortunately, they got themselves into a studio in june of 2007 and recorded 12 songs - and then made the results available to download for free on this site [you can download all 12 songs in one .zip file via this link]. so, i did get to hear their splendid sounds.

it's been more than two years since then. the band have - due to geographical issues - remained silent. but those recordings still stand.

i wanted to pay tribute to them. and - also - i wanted to [finally] scratch the surface of Ableton Live, which i purchased about three months ago and have done very very little with. so i took some samples from the songs and went about putting them together.

my aim was to do something in the vein of the field - repetitive, but hypnotic. obviously, it's not nearly as good as anything the field has done - but, i do think it's worth sharing - if only to hopefully spur people on to checking out the original songs.

and... here it is!

this was kind of an experiment for me, so feedback appreciated - feel free to leave a comment below!

i hesitated to label this a cover or remix - so i went with mashup!

jellyfish image courtesy of ethorson via a creative commons attribution-share alike license.