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Help find a musical composition
« on: October 05, 2020, 01:10:55 am »
Ok, I'm running out of options, so may be people here can help. I'm looking for a song (more like musical composition, I guess). I had it on my hard drive from unknown source some time around early 2000s. I think it probably from late 90s.

It is an instrumental composition. I'm not sure what to call that genre. It has no real lyrics, but has some sampled recorded speech overlayed on top of the music. The music itself is electronic, I guess, similar to Jean-Michel Jarre and similar artists.

The "song" is about Titanic. The words were in a style of radio reportage of sorts, very formal and dry language . They may have even been sampled from some official tapes, but I'm not sure about that.

At the beginning the words were about starting to sail and at the end something like  "<N>  souls were lost". And in the middle there is a word "Titanic" repeated multiple times.

It is very hard to look for it, since it it impossible to get rid of the Celine Dion song. And generally there is a lot of stuff about Titanic.

Any ideas are welcome.

It is super strange how a song can exist and then just disappear never to be found again.
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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2020, 01:24:27 am »
Okay. So tell us a bit more about where you first heard it.  Were you in the States at the time? What region? Would it have been something played on the radio or in local clubs?
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2020, 01:27:42 am »
I was in Russia. It was an mp3 file. I had no internet at a time, but the there was no shortage of pirated CDs, so it came from one of those. Or from friends exchanging massive collections of mp3s.

I don't think it was a radio-type song. It is just way too ambient, radio likes more dynamic stuff. And it is also not a club thing, again, it would be too chill for that.
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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2020, 02:46:03 am »


Maybe?
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2020, 02:56:43 am »
No, the song was of a typical length (4-5 minutes). It also had a more of a beat. And it did not feel too old. I doubt it is older than 1995., probably even more recent.

And the word "Titanic" was pronounced multiple times in up beat parts of the music.

It may have been some European band, which would not be well known.
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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2020, 03:23:57 am »
No, but the style and the genre is basically that.

It was a single song, I don't think it was a part of a set. The whole story from sailing to sinking happened in one composition.
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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2020, 09:34:00 am »
Can you post a short sample? Hopefully a few seconds would be enough for someone to identify it and still count as fair use/dealing, so Dave won't be done by the copyright police. Once it has been correctly identified, then you could delete it, to minimise the risk of any trouble.
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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2020, 09:46:06 am »
... or record your rhyme and post here ...  >:D

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2020, 11:03:22 am »
Something by OMD - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark?
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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2020, 12:57:28 pm »
It sounds like something the band 'Public Service Broadcasting' would do but early 2000s would be well before they were active I think.
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2020, 01:12:32 pm »
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Sounds like something similar to "IBM 1401, A User's manual".
I don't know was the Titanic ever mentioned in his songs.
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2020, 03:59:04 pm »
Can you post a short sample?
If I had a sample, I would have found it already. That's the issue - I don't have it. It has been 20 years, things get lost, especially with poor backup capabilities at a time.
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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2020, 04:17:03 pm »
Can you post a short sample?
If I had a sample, I would have found it already. That's the issue - I don't have it. It has been 20 years, things get lost, especially with poor backup capabilities at a time.
Can't you at least hum it? Don't be embarrassed if your singing is crap.
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2020, 04:22:46 pm »
Not really, I don't remember much of it. Also, it is electronic music, I'm not sure how to even hum it.

It is one of those things that people that have heart it will recognize it immediately from the description. But it looks like it was some obscure piece of music.
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« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2020, 04:29:03 pm »
Not really, I don't remember much of it. Also, it is electronic music, I'm not sure how to even hum it.

It is one of those things that people that have heart it will recognize it immediately from the description. But it looks like it was some obscure piece of music.
How about play it on a synth?
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2020, 04:31:49 pm »
I would not be able to play twinkle twinkle little star, much less the actual song from 20 years ago.
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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2020, 04:53:04 pm »
Any of these?
This was already suggested earlier. No, none of those are what I'm looking for, although stylistically this is the closest so far.
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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2020, 04:54:45 pm »
I would not be able to play twinkle twinkle little star, much less the actual song from 20 years ago.

Can you hum a few bars  :-DD


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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #20 on: October 06, 2020, 02:34:40 am »
I've been searching long enough that this page showed up in results :-DD I'll keep at it, but please post it if you come across it first. I love music hunts like this
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2020, 03:25:37 am »
I'm looking for a song (more like musical composition, I guess).

It is an instrumental composition. I'm not sure what to call that genre. It has no real lyrics,
Any ideas are welcome.

It is super strange how a song can exist and then just disappear never to be found again.
I'm reminded of this account in the Bible book of Daniel, chapter 2.

"In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his mind was troubled and he could not sleep. 2 So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers to tell him what he had dreamed. When they came in and stood before the king, 3 he said to them, “I have had a dream that troubles me and I want to know what it means.”
4 Then the astrologers answered the king, “May the king live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will interpret it.”
5 The king replied to the astrologers, “This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble."

LOL. Tough one.
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2020, 04:42:54 am »
Maybe there's a forum for European electronic music, or whatever the genre is? There are probably groups of people more knowledgeable about music on average than engineers.
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2020, 02:05:46 pm »
I once had a similar yearning to find a piece of music I'd heard many years ago ... 1975, in fact.

I only found it this year.

By sheer chance, someone here on the EEVblog put up a YT clip ... and I clicked on it.  Three notes in and I recognised it as the long sought after piece.


If the universe applies a similar time scale to you, come back here in 2040 or 41 and someone will have posted it ... not knowing it was what you were after.
 

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Re: Help find a musical composition
« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2020, 03:54:16 pm »
This is not it, but I'm still looking... amazing how much good Titanic related music is out there that I never knew about....



The lyrics remind me of something like Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds... but related to Titanic.
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