TYCHO CONSPIRACY PART.1 (5'34)

Tycho is a famous impact crater, located to the southern mountains of the Moon, named after danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. Some scientists think it could have been created quite "recently", by the same asteroïd rain that caused the extinction of the dinosaures... around 107 millions years ago. It's probably not a good place to set a lunar base, but for the sake of the story, let's assume mankind would have finally settled permanently, just here on the Moon.

The sequences and solo parts on this track were all played with the KORG Mono/Poly, which is a software plug-in version of the first real synthesizer I owned in the early 80's ! It was a fun piece of equipment, with 4 oscillators, which could be shared for a 4-voices polyphonic mode, or linked in Unison for a big monophonic sound !
It delivered the caracteristic KORG versatile sounds, and I liked it a lot. It also included a built-in arpeggiator which could run the 4 oscillators at a time, or cycle through each voice per note, which was a fun way to start some multiple sequences experiments ! Unfortunately, the polyphony was too short to deliver convincing chords... This Mono/Poly plug-in version does bass synths, lead parts and sequences on other tracks on this album, like the solo part in "Enter The Solar Winds".