The Horror, by Benedict Roff-Marsh

The Horror

by Benedict Roff-Marsh

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1.	Impending Doom 00:31	buy track
2.	Horror Symphony 00:40	buy track
3.	Whistling The Horror 00:27	buy track
4.	Horror at the Door/Fanfare For Horror 01:16	buy track
5.	The Horror 00:37	buy track
6.	Horror Movie 00:48	buy track
7.	Hero 00:25	buy track
8.	The Struggle 01:13	buy track
9.	Finale 00:32	buy track

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This is the first musical project I ever completed. It wasn't really intended to be very good - tongue was firmly in cheek. It was a proof of concept that I could make a whole album.

Family weren't super impressed but I was proud and still am. There is a concept, themes, consistency and there was even a cover complete with titles etc. The cover you see is not the original as that was really only a list of track names on a cassette.

For the (morbidly) curious, the synth used was a Casio CZ-1000 which I had owned for about a week. I had just started to get the first inkling of an idea of how to program sounds. It was this ability to make sounds that let to the theme. Most of the sounds were like cinema organs so that, coupled with my complete lack of musical sense, made the horror theme obvious.

Each track was recorded as quickly as possible straight to cassette (in glorious mono). One pass if I was lucky - if not I went back and tried again. There was no ability to edit or multi-track. Every time I pressed Record it was do or die.

Clearly I was making it up as I went. All I had was the sense of an atmosphere. Interestingly this is a composition method I still use from time to time - go in with nothing but a picture and see what gets played.

The other things that have stayed with me are my obsession with synth brass sounds (it's the longest track) and the idea of making concept records. Seems I was a fully formed artist right there and then. I just needed a lot of practice to be able to make my points with a little more finesse.

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released May 15, 1989

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Benedict Roff-Marsh Brisbane, Australia

Trained as a Mix Engineer in the late 80's in a tape-based studio making AM Radio jingles. It taught me to deliver and focus on the right result instead of messing about for days over whether 234ms or 243ms was more socially acceptable. I noticed that everyone was a bit afraid of the electronics. Composing helped me understand how to mix better. ... more

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