Overseer and Rob Dougan come to mind as two brilliant producers who have managed to make a single album (Overseer's Wreckage and Rob Dougan's Furious Angels) and then been able to afford early retirement as a result of the commercial licensing of their tracks. They were featured in the Matrix series of films as well (Overseer - Supermoves and Rob Dougan's Chateau). However, the tracks that have proved most popular by them are certainly not the only dimension of their work, as I'd like to show you.
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Overseer - Heligoland.
This is as a matter of fact my favorite song of all time, as many people know. There's quite a story as to why. Besides being a wonderful song, the man doing the voiceover was a friend of my Dad's when he worked for the BBC. He gained a reputation for a small mistake made on the script when he was reading the news over the radio, and instead of 'car-bomb' he said 'cat-bomb.' Years later we find him doing this song, which takes a dreary weather report and distorts into a report of dreary emotion and sensation, in subtle degrees that gradually compound and take over. The tune itself is a distant sampling of the theme for the BBC weather report, called Sailing By. The amount of thoughtful deliberation in this song make it a masterpiece of an idea, not just an amazing track.
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Rob Dougan - Instrumental
There isn't any story to this song really as much as it just sounds perfect, sad and uplifting at the same time.
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