Durge

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.

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