“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 16

EtherReal

From Pieces Of 8 / Bite Me

1995 / 1998

This is one the songs that began as one idea, and was retooled later as something completely different. I wasn’t listening to much 808 State at the time I wrote this in 1994, but i always it sounded like something from their early days. There’s not much to the original version, but it was enough for me to revisit this track in 1998. I thought it was a decent enough vibe and I could add a little more depth to it. So I pilfered the famous Grandmaster Flash megamix track for one of my favourite loops, and then I was off. This song is basically all about the loop, the rest of just window dressing. I cut it up, sped it up, slowed it down and it sounded great to me.

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Liberate Me

EtherReal

The original version, from the Pieces of 8 era.

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Liberatis

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The second version, from 1998’s Bite Me.

Credits

written, produced and arranged by EtherReal.