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Recomposition is a CD of music I put together under the pseudonym Digitalus Extractus in 2000. The tracks are composed entirely of samples taken from my CD collection, treated with signal processing effects and rearranged into new pieces of music.

Some of the resulting pieces work well and some are appalling. Like any finely crafted composition, each piece consists of an introduction, a buildup of tension leading to a climax, and a denouement trailling off to a nice peaceful conclusion, with elephants, harmonic chanting, thrash metal and illiterate hooligans speaking backwards in between. I like to think it's the sort of music that makes you want to turn up the lights, turn down the volume, and pace around the room in a state of agitation.

Here is a mercifully short sample track (so to speak):

Track #10: Cafe

Other tracks are available upon request.

Front cover with inner sleeve:

Back cover (thanks to Kevin Rawlinson for the nice image).

The inner sleeve text is a bit blurred in the above image. Here's what it says:

Recomposition: the art of rearranging and recombining existing music to create
new pieces.

Digitalus Extractus is Cameron Browne. Dog's Breakfast Productions is the
musical research branch of Cyberite Pty Ltd.

Made during August-December 2000. Copyright remains with the original
artists - thanks to everyone who unwittingly contributed. Back cover art by
Kevin Rawlinson.

No instruments or musicians were involved in the creation of this CD. All tracks
created from sampled WAV files treated with CoolEdit Pro and mixed using Acid Pro.

A big hello to my good friends Lisa Gerrard and Dead Can Dance, Henry Rollins,
The Pixies, Jeff Buckley, Pete Townshend, Nine Inch Nails, Sarah Brightman,
David Hykes and Timothy Hill, Mogens Pederson, Gary Numan, Split Enz, Mozart,
Ute Temper, The Clash, Jean Michel Jarre, Zap Mama, Dawn Upshaw, Edvard Grieg,
David Bridie, Richard Strauss, Steve Hackett, The Rolling Stones, Santana, Bruce
Cockburn, Phillip Glass and Ravi Shankar, Paradise Lost, Radio Birdman, Crystal
Method, Limp Bizkit, TISM, Suede, The Beastie Boys, Joy Division, Blur, Led
Zeppelin, Metallica, Monty Python, Depeche Mode, Thomas Tallis, Chris Isaak,
Smashing Pumpkins, Richard O'Brien, Dire Straits, Adam Plack, The Who, Emerson
Lake & Palmer, Amorphous Androgynous, Bailter Space, Le Mystere De Voix Bulgares,
Georg Ligeti, Robert Miles, Seamus Egan, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Velvet
Underground, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Massive Attack, Mark from Greenacre,
various elephants, lions and crickets, plus many others. Please don't sue me.

Special Dog's Breakfast promotional offer of $1,000 for every tune that you
recognise. That's right, you could make over $100,000 just by listening to
this CD! Offer not valid.

Here's an unreleased track called My Darling Phlegm In Time. Quick, grab a copy! This will be worth millions when I die.

Having said that, I should point out that this CD was made for the amusement of myself and my friends (as you can probably tell) and is in no way a commercial enterprise. Only an idiot would pay money for this stuff.

If you want to hear some really good music made with samples and sequencing software check out EarthDragon, a talented DJ and composer from Melbourne. Many of his tracks are structured around quotes from sci fi classics such as Blake's 7, Star Trek, Blade Runner and are just brilliant.

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