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Exercise Music - Remastered

by Dan Lis

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Loading - Remastered 01:39
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The Crucible - Remastered 15:12
3.
She - Remastered 12:52
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Marco Polo - Remastered 15:12
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Game On - Remastered 15:30
6.
Shut Down - Remastered 04:28

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This is a remaster dedicated to avoiding clipping and over-saturation on the original release, and also to bringing out more details in the mixes. This is really subtle on some tracks and really obvious on other tracks. I hope you enjoy this re-master! This is a great way to listen the first time to this album, or to re-hear it if you are familiar with the original.

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This album stems from a desire to listen to music while exercising. The result is a highly rhythmic, complex, trance-inducing wash of dark, open, and energetic colors and shapes that throw you into and out of grooves while keeping your ears interested.

Tracks range from obsessive polyrhythms, to dark metal/dance fusion, to minimalist solo piano, and pieces focusing entirely on tone color. This is reminiscent of tape music, minimalism, vernacular music, and cognitive dissonance. Its cerebral qualities are balanced by a heavy emphasis on groove, feel, repetition, energy, and spunk.

This album is a pluralist's take on the music that surrounds us--from radios fading in and out, to progressive rock, to incessant pulses of electronic dance music. Overall, this pushes the goal of inducing a trance, a meditative state, and an intense focus on detail--of of which are characteristics of a mind during exercising.

In short: listen to this while exercising, but listen to it with interest at other times when you need rhythm, reflection, and groove.

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released May 5, 2019

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Dan Lis Hartford, Connecticut

Composer Dan Lis fuses rock and contemporary concert music to create dynamic, rhythmically-driven works for the full range of performers and electroacoustic media. A committed educator, his blog Composer’s Toolbox focuses on technical, technological, and aesthetic issues relevant to today’s emerging composers, and also discusses mental health. ... more

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