Slice

There are at least three artists with the name SLICE 1) Slice are a versatile 3 piece from Leeds who specialise in Rock, Hip-Hop and Funk. They formed in late 2006 when three friends: James Lawson (Bass/Vox) Charlie Wilkinson (Guitar/Vox) and Adrian Wong (Drums) decided it would be a good idea to start gigging their own material. Since then they've recorded one demo, with other recordings on the near horizon, and are beginning to be noticed in the local music scene with gigs in Sheffield and Leeds coming up in the near future. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

There are at least three artists with the name SLICE 1) Slice are a versatile 3 piece from Leeds who specialise in Rock, Hip-Hop and Funk. They formed in late 2006 when three friends: James Lawson (Bass/Vox) Charlie Wilkinson (Guitar/Vox) and Adrian Wong (Drums) decided it would be a good idea to start gigging their own material. Since then they've recorded one demo, with other recordings on the near horizon, and are beginning to be noticed in the local music scene with gigs in Sheffield and Leeds coming up in the near future. 2) SLICE a Hardcore band from northwest Ohio 3) Slice (Ola Lindfeldt) - Goa Trance The project name ‘Slice’ originates from Ola’s particular approach of composition. He learned how to chop up or ‘slice’ samples from other tracks into smaller segments in order to create his own sounds and effects. Many of his earliest samples were sampled from cassettes that he had either copied from friends or recorded from the radio. To create ‘filter sweeps’ he used 10 different short samples to simulate the effect, or longer samples where the sample offset was modulated up and down with tracker command 900. Ola quickly joined several Amiga Demos Scene groups such as Illogik, React, Royal, The Syndicate, and Powerline. For the latter he composed the music for one of their scene demos, ‘Stillborn’, in 1995 and, a year later, the musicdisk ‘Slice For Good’, a 5 track EP that fits on an 880 kb floppy disk. ‘Goa Patterns’ gathers ten tracks produced between 1995 and 1998. ‘Evaluate Your Lives’ and ‘303 Years Ahead’ can easily be considered classics as they were widely heard in the tracker scene. The title of the album refers to the fact that Ola produced almost all his music in tracker software such as ProTracker and FastTracker, where tracks are created by chaining patterns (loops of 2 or 4 bars) together. It must also be noted that at the time Ola was not really trying to follow any genre rules; on the contrary, he explored several styles including techno, house, breakbeat, hardcore, and jungle. But, at the end of the day, he was much inspired by the patterns of Goa Trance in the 90’s. Some tracks also contain sounds sampled from a Roland XP10 digital synth and a couple of other synths and hardware samplers. Ola never performed his tracks live although some of them were played with his authorization at parties by DJ’s in the late 90’s and ‘Cyclonic Blips’ was featured on Swedish radio at a program called ‘P3 Demo’. For the purpose of this album, Ola spent considerable time to rework and extend some of his favorite tracks in an effort to improve them and offer an immersive audio experience. They are all released here in full audio quality for the first time. The only exception is ‘Jeskola For President’, enhanced with the aid of modern technology, as it did not survive in true wave format. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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