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The Human Genome

by Violent Acts of Randomness

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Buni 01:43
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Ionosphere 01:27
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Exosphere 01:49
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Beautiful Shades of Grey 03:29
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悲しみ 05:03
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悲しみ!
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Esther 04:04
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Requiem for a Lost Memory 02:25
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Memory of a Lost Requiem 01:43
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(lostmemories) 02:47
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Meteor 03:20
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Aurora Borealis 04:34
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about

The is the first installment of a three part saga of albums, all released on the same day.
This is an unplugged album. I learned to play guitar on electric guitars and usually only played metal oriented stuff. Some time ago my girlfriend lent me her acoustic guitar and I started using it and right away loved playing acoustic guitar. One day I went past a market which sets up every saturday close to where I live and saw an acoustic guitar for sale. It looked a bit beat up but I figured it would be nice to have to be able to practice more and have my own acoustic guitar. I bought it for 200 pesos (around 10USD), fixed it up a bit and put some good strings on it. That is where the real romance began. I love the sound of that guitar, and having my own allowed me to practice daily and really get used to it. Somewhere between the years of 2012-2017 I created the songs that make up "The Human Genome". I didn't have a plan to create the album originally, I just made the songs in my spare time, and I felt that they were therapeutic for me. I felt this because I was making music just to make music, just for myself, and had no plans of recording the songs or using them in any of my projects. It felt very pure in a way. Eventually I had a quite large collection of songs and I started thinking about recording them and releasing them as an album. At first I thought about releasing them in my regular name, as a separate project but one day I thought "Violent Acts of Randomness is my project so I can release whatever I want. I shouldn't be bound by any genre." And so I decided to release the album as part of VAOR, and right away I saw it's place in a triple release, a saga of albums, each with it's own concept and each representing a part of myself. "The Human Genome" represents music in it's 'purest' form. I realized that in VAOR I had been relying a lot on effects and lots of progamming, so this album is the opposite. I tried to keep it minimalistic, only used recorded sounds, and kept editing to a minimum. I want the music to speak for itself and focus on good composition and execution instead of lots of effects and elements. This album was very difficult to record. Because the acoustic guitar has such a soft sound and my home studio is, well, a home studio, I had to record the songs in the middle of the night when there was no noise outside. I wanted to keep editing to a minimum so I also made sure that I achieved the closest I possibly could to perfection performing the songs. It was a frustrating, some times disappointing experience but it was a great opportunity to learn and grow more as a musician. It was also a challenge for me producction-wise. I'm used to mixing full bands with lots of elements and usually 'in your face' style modern production. This was the opposite and having so few elements in the music meant that I had to make sure that those elements sounded full and as perfect as possible.

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released February 2, 2018

All composition by defekkto
All instruments performed by defekkto
Vocals in "悲しみ" by defekkto
Voices on "Esther" by Alba Dawn
Wolf sample in "Aurora Borealis" from www.youtube.com/watch?v=L28CnhmeAD4
Thunder sample in "悲しみ" by Mike Koenig
Recorded, mixed and mastered by defekkto

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Violent Acts of Randomness Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Violent Acts of Randomness is born in February of 2011 when defekkto decides to expand to different genres and explore new sounds.

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