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Pixies (2004)

by Veronique Acoustique

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This is the first piece I mixed and composed using a digital sound editor in August 2004. I recorded the guitar, vocal and other sounds on a Tascam Porta05 cassette porta studio and then remixed samples of these, using many effects, in Cool Edit Pro 2002. I was trying to recreate the sound of an Eastern European style choir with my singing. Later I decided to call the track ‘Pixies’ and sent out CD demos to various people. I also gave a freshly recorded copy of ‘Pixies’ to a panel of music business professionals looking for new stars; a friend had invited me to this event, which took place in a pub in Hoxton. The panel of A&R men were so disgusted by the low sound quality and mad experimentation on ‘Pixies’ that they refused to discuss my track, apart from saying that I certainly knew how to use electronic effects. Meanwhile, a DJ on the panel thought it had potential. I wrote about this event on my secret old hippie blog hippiecounterculture.wordpress.com some years later. This blog is currently derelict and has fallen into ruin. Its original purpose was to recount undocumented stories of underground counterculture in the UK from the 1980s, which later influenced wider popular culture. But mainly the blog is me ranting. My 2004 ‘Pixies’ track seems to have been resuscitated in 2021 via Netflix who apparently use samples of it on a program called ‘Secrets of the Universe’.

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Dah-da-da-dah....... repeat

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released January 1, 2004
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Veronique Acoustique London, UK

I am an acoustic singer-songwriter but experiment with electronic, psychedelic and electronic music.I arrange, edit, and record music. I've been doing this for ages.
I don't like strict musical categories. I want a fairer peaceful world. I get stage nerves. I play Javanese gamelan and Sundanese zither.The photo on my profile was taken in 2006. I am doing a PhD in Ethnomusicology.
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