"Cold Clear Winter Day" by Nowhere Near

One Media®
presents

"Cold Clear Winter Day" by Nowhere Near

This video features the digital art and
photography of Brian 'Brine' Dunn whose
prolific output over the years includes
his work in these other One Media®
Music Videos:

"Crunch" by Trash Juice
https://youtu.be/s0bqv_ZLNis

"Tribulation Liberation" by Nowhere Near
https://youtu.be/gNR5nGC7tsY

"Intuit Into It" by Trash Juice
https://youtu.be/hbDNc5H3wFM

"Stick" by Trash Juice
https://youtu.be/lrLiAGWpGu8

"Into The Vortex" by Trash Juice
https://youtu.be/KWWtqRG2us4

"Who Stole My Pearl?" by Trash Juice
https://youtu.be/UePmOTvUiW8

"One Day" by Trash Juice
https://youtu.be/lI1HSMcDkG4

This tune was inspired by a conversation
Zig (@onemedia) had on his 'radio'
podcast, 'Spotlight On The Artist' with
D-Vine (@d-vine) and their guest at that
time, Nicky Havey (@nickyhavey), about
how the electronic music style of
Drum-and-Bass when played at half tempo
is called 'drumstep' and here also
represents a Nujazz sound Zig and
Nowhere Near thrives in. Here you have
a bunch of percussion instruments playing
to the 'boom bap' kick drum and snare
alternating Break pattern of
'1,2, AND 4' often sampled and altered
from the legendary 'Amen Break' but
here no samples were used other than
those intrinsic to the Korg T1 sound
generation.

Here you'll also get a sense of hardstep
from the intermodulated sub bass. Zig's
custom chiptune box, the SIDnth can be
heard keeping straight sixteenths in
its noise and ring-modulated loop as
eighth notes at a native 173 beats
per minute suitable for Drum-and-Bass
or here as sixteenth notes at 86.5 beats
per minute... Then there's the swing
shuffle feel throughout ...

Also an influence to this
tune was another conversation during the
same show with Jeff Leinwand
(@jeffleinwand) about thematic
development 'call-and-response' which
in this rather polyphonic head
arrangement, you'll hear a number of
examples. Finally a shout o..