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Gift Culture's full-length debut CD Temple at Dawn features lush soundscapes and solid downtempo grooves, balancing warm human emotion with the latest deep DSP technology, analogue synthesis, and computer-based non-linear editing. Michael Hale transcends the cold sterility of stereotypical computer music, infusing his songs with organic and melodic elements of trance and dub, along with tribal rhythms. Temple at Dawn is a timeless album and a true pleasure to experience.
Here's what some people say about Gift Culture and Temple At Dawn :
"The perfect morning & night slips through this
articulate alloy for the soul. Gift Culture resonates
a titillating mixture of worldly & astral sounds.
Both iterate within each other, producing
centered dreams of reality."
-Psymbolic (http://www.psymbolic.com)
"Temple At Dawn swings you up into its aural atmosphere and slips you into a daze as rhythmic loops, soothing voices and zaps of noise layer themselves into the stacks of your perception. Each track swirls around in your head like a spacey trance or a tribal dance; once in its enchanting embrace, you won't want to walk away from Temple At Dawn."
-Sally Stafford, Feedback Magazine
"Similar in scope and execution to Orbital's In Sides, Temple at Dawn spins remarkably dramatic and emotive melodies out of chunks of digital noise, turning Hale's computerized bleeps and blips into bewilderingly detailed sonic landscapes made of glass, plastic and steel."
-Steve English, Splendid Magazine
The Gift Culture project is based on sounds, imagery, and art derived from DSP technology, analogue synthesis, and computer-based non-linear editing. As Gift Culture maestro Michael Hale explains,
In this day and age, it is possible to sculpt light and sound as if they were clay. Any possible sound you can imagine can be created.
Gift Culture is the result - his attempts to share his explorations in this multi-dimensional space; to evoke sonic textures from samplers, synthesizers, and DSP algorithms that can only come from those things; a journey to discover their "voices", so to speak, using such techniques as granular synthesis, spectral resynthesis, FFT/IFFT based spectral morphing and interpolation, and whatever other exotic algorithms he can coax out of his myriad machines.
Michael has performed his own works live at numerous events, including Cross Product 4. He also performs live percussion for psy-trance wizards Initialization String.
doing well! looking forward to hearing the new tunes! Im not going to be able to make Gain Mind cause i've already commited to Gemini and can only get away from work for a few days this summer :-/
Hey how are you? I hope well. When you have some time please stop by & check out the remix of (I Don't Mind) done by Groove Syntax. I'd like to know what you think. Thank you for the friendship & support I really appreciate it. Elo-kin
Hello my friend, I was just listening to your great songs, my favorite is definitely Chrystalis, but all are really great song, I like the moods you create in your music. I hope you..re having a great weekend.
Hello good to be myspace friends , hope u are well .
I have Posted 2 live performances on my page one from my Machine Func Records Launch @ THE END / AKA last year and the other from CIRCO LOCO @ SANKEYS ... both went down a storm...
Thanks for the add dude, really enjoying the tunes. Especially liking the acid line on Saturn Returns. All the tunes have a very floaty vibe, good times!!! :o)
It is truly an honor to make your acquaintance. Thanks for visiting our paranormal MySpace page and for becoming our friend. You can check out our website too - www. ghostpi. com , if you have the time. Thanks for the request. Again, it is truly a privilege to have you as a friend.
