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HERE. The Aerial Architect behind the fab combo AERONAUT, Jef De Corte, offered up "Dreams Are Buried Here" music files for me to mess with and see what came about. Musically, we wanted to see how Jef's music worked with beats. His original piece was at 70 bpm, which was just a little slow for a kind of hip hop groove I was toying with, so I upped the revs to 90 bpm, and it just felt right. He offered me his music as midi files, but I wanted those unmistakably beautiful Aeronaut sounds (not just the notes he played/the way he played them), so I decided to work with his pre-recorded sound files at the new speed. I had already done some voice work for one of Jef's DREAMS series, and was fascinated by his lyrical theme: The unrealized hopes & dreams of those whose lives are cut short, way before their time. Jef's initial idea was the tragic loss of children, but I was strangely driven to the stories of young men or women who give their service to their country in a time of war. In a nutshell, I wanted to make it a 1st World War "Saving Private Ryan" scenario, but the vernacular is hardly of the 1920's. Oh, well. So, vocal melodies established themselves first with the line: Falling down/Getting up and falling down ... The rest just fell into place. Hope you like it. RTQ