“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” — Aretha Franklin

Key 20

EtherReal

From Headspace

1996

This song was the last of the techno/rave stuff I had in me from the 8-bit realm. I didn’t do another jungle or drum’n’bass track for a while after this.

This started out as a track called Durge, which was a slowish spooky electro piece, with some 909 drums in, then I got bored with it and put it away for a while. A little later, a fellow tracker said, quite plainly, ‘make me a jungle track!’ so I did. I took this one out again and transformed it into a jungle tune, which ended up being called Durge4D.

Both tracks were the same basic four chord progression and bassline, just with different intensity levels, so at one one point I put them together, slow then fast, and that became the St. Louis Procession Version (for some reason). Then when it came time to put Headspace together, I took the slow part off the beginning again and called the track Durge4N (the ‘N’ was for a girl I was seeing at the time).

Finally, in 2006, I remastered the track with the slow and fast parts back together again as they were in the St. Louis Procession Mix.

Despite all of these versions, not a single one of them has ‘dirge’ spelled correctly.

lock 2000
Durge

EtherReal

The original spooky down-tempo version. Forever lost.

lock 2001
Durge 4D

EtherReal

The original remix in the jungle style. Lost forever.

lock 2002
Durge (St. Louis Procession Version)

EtherReal

The full version combining the first two versions together into a single track.

lock 2003
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Durge 4N

EtherReal

The album version from Headspace, which incorporated most of the elements of the slow and fast versions.

lock 2004
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Durge (2006 Full Length Remastered)

EtherReal

Re-produced version from 2006, based on the St. Louis Procession.

lock 2005
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Durge (Minimal)

EtherReal

Alternate/dub version based on the 2005 remaster.

Credits

written, produced and arranged by EtherReal.