Jamendo : A Day at the People Factory

A Day at the People Factory

by DOUG the Eagle

prog rock experimental electro progressive chiptune

10 tracks

49:46

1	A Day at the People Factory	3:59
2	Return to Babel	3:24
3	Chanticleer Ascendant	5:26
4	Robots of Dawn	3:39
5	Got the Death?	3:16
6	Free Flight	3:52
7	Adventures of Pidge and Greg	4:03
8	Fear of Flying	5:51
9	Anitra's Dance	3:35
10	The Quest for the Sacred Jaguar	12:41

Describe your album

Debut album, originally recorded in 2003-2004. Looking back it has a few rough edges and things I would have done differently now, but some of the songs on this are still among my favourites. In my personal opinion the highlights are 'Sacred Jaguar', 'Adventures of Pidge and Greg' and 'Return to Babel', which has some very aggressive engineering including true backwards reverb (made by turning the tape over as was done in the 70s) and some very strange tape manipulation at the end.

Thanks to Graveyard Greg and Webtroll for allowing me to use Pidge on the front cover.

A PDF version of the cover with full lyrics and liner notes can be found here:
dougtheeagle.com/adatpf/pf_cover4.pdf

Reviews

bizun_

21/01/08

A music album "A day at people factory", Released as of late 2005. The author himself refers to it, as 'reverse engineered PinkFloyd stuff' -- and indeed, the opening song, entitled just like the album, sounds almost as a prelude to "The dark side of the Moon", with bouncing echoed bass and cascades of VCS-like synth solos. As the other album, (Songs for the Wild-At-Heart), this one also is not only the tunes, but also a concept. Some of the concepts eludes me, as I didn't read some books or didn't play certain games, or (as in case of the closing composition "The Quest of Sacred Jaguar") I do not know some legends, but at least trying to understand, I searched the net to find the context -- and comparing how lazy I am, this is really something. Any flaws? I don't like the excerpt from "Per Gynt", maybe because I don't like the original tune, but it seemed to me that it doesn't match all the other content of the record (though indeed, laboriously and beautifully crafted). Final rate? Tough task: I gave seven to "Songs for Wild at Hart", and giving "..People Factory" a six would be unfair, so weak, but deserved seven.
Go, go, JPM!

Cvert Blue

Pretty darn good chiptune

23/06/07

Lyrics are pretty wacky, except to "Got the Death?" (that is one good song. I'm definitely keeping that); the voices aren't half-bad, and the techno-grooves are very lovely, some of them quite-catchy.

This is kind of fun-loving, but at the same-time regal, organized, and well-executed techno. Sounds mostly synthesized, except for the voice samples, but that doesn't stop it from being very nice. At times, though, it does sound a bit like video game background music, but that's probably instrument choice more than anything else. On a piano backed up with percussion, these melodies would probably do fantastically.

Not to say they don't work here. Although once again, the central instrument choice could be a more subdued one, then the current, sometimes-headache-inducing synth, I like these songs, and most of them are worth a few more listens at least.