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http://www.myspace.com/sergeleroy http://www.myspace.com/sergeleroymusic In a recent interview, Serge Leroy, founder of Lightwave in 1985 with Christian Wittman and of the 2 labels BADLAND RECORD (1988) and ARTGALLERY (1994), explained the main idea and conception that lie behind the genesis of "Basse Continue": (Beginning of quote) " "Basse Continue" ("Continuo" in English) came from an idea I had to make a full CD with only one huge sequence. More than 300 tracks were needed to achieve that goal through the sequencing part of a Cubase Audio software. The title refers to a classical music term often used in baroque music for describing "a bass part for a keyboard instrument with or without a bass string instrument written as a succession of bass notes with figures that indicate the required chords used as an accompaniment". For me, generally speaking, it was more or less the continuous pulse I could feel in classical baroque music tracks bearing that appellation that made me choose this term as the most accurate to describe the process enabling constantly the creation of a proper rhythm without the help of any drum machine! " (End of quote) Even if the track is slow to build up and is composed of progressive strata continuously accumulating for the duration of it, the programming required a certain virtuosity that constitutes an antidote certainly for all those who are fed up with drum machines and beats per minute, and as such It has to be listened to carefull
