Inspired by a Fox-Die picture I commissioned - the one in the icon - this song is about the manufacture of the robot panther guards in my Project Future webcomic.

The original picture is here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11696697/

Composed in Cakewalk SONAR 1.3 and performed using Rosegarden

Instruments used:

Korg Triton: Drums, industrial sounds

Minimoog: Sweeps, arpeggiation, additional factory sounds, sync solo at end

Hammond XM-1 at end

Roland MVS-1: Poly lead, bass synthesizer

Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic

Voice processing done using an Electroharmonix Small Clone and a Zoom RFX-2000 to provide vocoding.

Recording was done on an MSR-24 1" 24-track machine. with the vocals and bass first recorded on an 8-track TSR-8 and bounced.

Mixing was done to a Studer A807.

Things which could be improved include the line 'Robots of my own design' which seems to have gone flat and may need to be rerecorded.

I cranked the bass up too high at the end.

In addition, the master tape seems to have been bent out of shape and may also have been slit incorrectly, leading it drift vertically on occasion and causing slight dropouts. If I cannot straighten or replace the flange I may have to rerecord most of it on new tape, dumping some of the more difficult-to-reproduce parts back onto the TSR-8 which I used to record the bass and vocals on.

The future balanced on a knife

We take sheet steel and give it life

Atomic heart and quantum mind

A robot of the feline kind

In the panther factory

Unit 3A comes online

The robot army will be mine

Robots of my own design

Why have one life instead of nine?