Additional Goodies
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	Main Menu Song(The Focus Stone)
	B-Sides (Rejected Songs)
	Artwork and Materials for "The 4 Winds"
	Original Promo music

	Original Disk Comments
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	      The
	....4
	     Winds....
	       . a music disk
	     by. El Blanco
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	         o matter where one may be there are four directions, North, South,
	East and West, and from these directions come four winds. These winds
	can be thought to represent the Earth.

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	          e North Wind carries with it the mind of the earth. The earth dreams
	of herself and her place in the heavens. Her thoughts carry neither malice nor
	love, only progression of time.

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	           e South Wind brings forth the word of the Earth. And the words of
	the Earth are both good and evil, peaceful and warlike, representative of
	contradiction and compromise. For without evil there can be no good. For
	without chaos there can be no order.

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	          e East Wind brings word of the past to the Earth. A past of
	tradition and harmony. And if one were to listen and follow the East wind
	for long enough and far enough one would find The West Wind.

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	          e West Wind brings word of the future to the Earth. It is this wind that
	reveals the possible future. It shows new ideas and new failures, new hope and
	shattered dreams yet to come.

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	           s project was officially started in December of 1996. It is the
	representation of more than a years worth of work. In December I was
	approached by a friend who belonged in a local band. He had heard some of my
	old music and liked it and wanted to get together over a couple of weekends
	and try some ideas out. He was so impressed by what I was able to coax out of
	my computer using tracked software that he immediatly decided he wanted to
	produce a CD with my music on it. So plans were drawn up and the music for
	the album was begun under the title "Seasons".
		Over the next five months I worked on several tracks and received some
	very positive feedback from some of the locals in neighboring cities. Over
	these months I found my resources and knowledge of tracking being stretched
	to the limit, but I also found myself opening up under this new freedom.
	I wasn't limited by channels or sample size, no one would care if I used a
	drumloop or had a 20megabyte song. I wasn't being reviewed by other	scene
	members, I had gone "outside" of the scene and the freedoms presented
	were great. I no longer was writing music for some 16 year old with a 90Mhz
	Pentium and a Gravis UltraSound. The limits of Jeffrey Lim's great tracker
	Impulse Tracker and his Stereo WAV writer were mine to try and reach.
		About 8 months into the project I realized the CD would never work. I
	was making songs too fast, I was too hyped about not limiting what I could
	do, the CD would have easily become a 4 CD set. I needed to change direction.
	So I discussed the situation with my "producer" and we both decided that
	the songs I was producing at that time were heads above the ones I was
	doing 8 months ago (when this whole thing started). I told him I wanted
	to refine my technique and improve my sample collection to include more high
	quality samples and that I could do much better than what he had heard.
	He agreed and we mutually decided to hold off on the CD until a later time,
	but that he	would like to put one or two songs on a demotape that he was
	putting together from a small number of local bands and was going to circulate
	it around to several labels that he had had some success with. After that
	meeting I quickly changed directions toward a music disk. I came up with
	the concept of "4 winds" and was off. I finished off the songs I had and
	started a whole host of new ones.
		By this time the initial explosion of writing had settled down somewhat
	and I was able to pace myself and regularly create songs. And because of
	techniques and ideas I had gained in the past 8 months the new songs
	were (in my opinion) the best I had ever done. Wanting to see the
	differences in writing styles from a year ago till now I set about remixing
	some of my old songs (ones that when I had done them were my "best").
	So I have included in this disk several remixes of both released and
	non-released music as well as several origional 4 winds tunes and most of the
	"seasons" songs.