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What is the story behind this? They're pretty catchy songs and I love to listen to them in the background while playing computer games, I just have them loop over and over. I would be interested in a whole album like this. I guess I'm just curious to what inspired Dev to do this EP.

viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7620&p=172375

Simple search never hurt anyone. Clearly many think it will, though.

Leechmaster wrote:http://hevydevyforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7620&p=172375

Simple search never hurt anyone. Clearly many think it will, though.

I did search and did find that thread, but that thread doesn't answer any questions really. It's just a bunch of people asking for a full length album and saying that EKO is good. My question is what made Dev do EKO in the first place. I mean it's vastly different than most of the other stuff he's done, with the exception of his ambient stuff I guess. Did he randomly just wake up one morning and say "Man I really want to make an electronica record"? - which he probably did - or what. The only real info I can find on it, was that it was made in 2002, a year before AE.

Found via a reference on the AE wiki page:

From http://www.metalstorm.ee/pub/interview. ... view_id=15

- Apart from the standard version of 'Accelerated Evolution', Inside Out Music also released an exclusive limited edition version of the album that came with the bonus disc containing demo tracks from Devin's more ambient side project EKO.

The name actually came from a really quick idea I had. I have these strips for each channel on my mixing board, and one of them is an echo channel. I always spell it as EKO. So I was just looking around the room looking for a name for this piece of music I was creating, and I saw EKO. I thought that would do. Actually, I'm doing a project right now that's an advanced version of what EKO was. EKO is just an idea of what I'll be doing. The way I look at it, if people don't like it, that's fine. There are two other albums I just put out, so shut the fuck up! [Laughs] If you don't like one, chances are you'll like another. If you don't like all three, there are fifteen million other bands out there. There are no plans to released EKO in its entirety in the future, but I'll be doing some more EKO stuff in the future. It might not be called EKO though. I'm doing this project at the moment where I use keyboards and computers, and I do it with a partner, and that's good. Remember when I told you last time that EKO was an experimentation with my new mixing desk, well this is much, much, much better!

- When listening to EKO, there are some distant vocal passages on the track 'Echo'. Devin however, isn't the culprit in this case.

I don't know what that is actually. I lifted a lot of samples off the T.V. In all honesty, I haven't listened to it in a long time. I recorded that about a year before 'Accelerated Evolution', so It's been sitting around for a long time. Since then, I've recorded about an albums worth of stuff that I could put out right now. The next record I put out will probably have a full album's worth of ambient stuff. I'll keep doing that stuff because I think it's really going to turn out cool in the future. EKO is very much a documentation of the very first time I tried doing this sort of stuff. As simple and stupid as it is, it's kind of cool to listen to. At least there aren't any vocals to fuck it up.

I would hazard a guess that the ambient album he was writing and thinking of putting out in the future turned out to be devlab/hummer.

I'm probably wrong though, maybe he actually has an albums worth of EKO style music just sat on a shelf somewhere.


What a lovely thought!

swervedriver wrote:Found via a reference on the AE wiki page:

From http://www.metalstorm.ee/pub/interview. ... view_id=15

- Apart from the standard version of 'Accelerated Evolution', Inside Out Music also released an exclusive limited edition version of the album that came with the bonus disc containing demo tracks from Devin's more ambient side project EKO.

The name actually came from a really quick idea I had. I have these strips for each channel on my mixing board, and one of them is an echo channel. I always spell it as EKO. So I was just looking around the room looking for a name for this piece of music I was creating, and I saw EKO. I thought that would do. Actually, I'm doing a project right now that's an advanced version of what EKO was. EKO is just an idea of what I'll be doing. The way I look at it, if people don't like it, that's fine. There are two other albums I just put out, so shut the fuck up! [Laughs] If you don't like one, chances are you'll like another. If you don't like all three, there are fifteen million other bands out there. There are no plans to released EKO in its entirety in the future, but I'll be doing some more EKO stuff in the future. It might not be called EKO though. I'm doing this project at the moment where I use keyboards and computers, and I do it with a partner, and that's good. Remember when I told you last time that EKO was an experimentation with my new mixing desk, well this is much, much, much better!

- When listening to EKO, there are some distant vocal passages on the track 'Echo'. Devin however, isn't the culprit in this case.

I don't know what that is actually. I lifted a lot of samples off the T.V. In all honesty, I haven't listened to it in a long time. I recorded that about a year before 'Accelerated Evolution', so It's been sitting around for a long time. Since then, I've recorded about an albums worth of stuff that I could put out right now. The next record I put out will probably have a full album's worth of ambient stuff. I'll keep doing that stuff because I think it's really going to turn out cool in the future. EKO is very much a documentation of the very first time I tried doing this sort of stuff. As simple and stupid as it is, it's kind of cool to listen to. At least there aren't any vocals to fuck it up.

Damnit, should of thought of looking at those. I searched around google a bit but only found that it was created a year before AE. Thanks.

Interesting info, that! I'm a big fan of EKO stuff.