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Part of these collections: Happy Hour, Remix, Remixed by Four Stones.

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Four Stones: groove soaked ambient chill

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Victor Stone (aka fourstones) is a DIY remixer, musician and producer in Berkeley, California. He has been remixing and collaborating online with musicians from all around the world since 1998. In the past year his remixes have appeared on albums by Lisa DeBenedictis, c. layne, Brad Sucks, Falik and others. He has produced collaborative remix albums "Ridin The Faders (Magnatune Remixed)" 1 and 2.

Victor is the project lead for Creative Common's remix site ccMixter.org. He is currently an active member of the ccMixter community, regularly contributing remixes and code to the site.

"La Vie Chill" credits:

Samples:
Lizzi "Love and You and I" (Magnatune)
Burnshee and Thornside "Art of Not Blending In" (Magnatune)
Norine Braun "Now and Zen" (Magnatune)
Suzanne Teng "Miles Beyond" (Magnatune)
Tilopa "Kyotaku Live" (Magnatune)
Asteria "Le Souvenir de Vous me Tue" (Magnatune)
Brad Sucks "I Don't Know What I'm Doing" (Magnatune)
Daniel Berkman "Calabashmoon" (Magnatune)
Puie "Oboe One Kenobi" (ccMixter)
Marco Raaphorst "Def Squelch" (ccMixter)
Antony Raijekov "Be Brave (Dub TripHop Remix)" (ccMixter)
David Stutz "Male Vocal Drones" (ccMixter)
fourstones/Weird Polymer "fourstones plays Weird Polymer" (DiSFish)

"Tall People..." remix by teru.

Additional keyboards, guitar, bass and programming by fourstones.

"Chronic Dreams" is the first album by producer Victor Stone. Mixing tracks from earlier recording sessions, samples from the Magnatune catalogue and newly recorded material by Victor and several other Magnatune recording artists, he has created an album of music that has been called 'groove soaked ambient chill.'

Combining his training in classical and jazz with a passion for North American and British popular music Victor creates a mood reminiscent of modern producers such as DJ Food and DJ Krush. As with those producers, his approach is 'source agnostic' culling sounds wherever they may come from, recording new material as needed to fit the ambience of the project.

Four Stones' previous album on Magnatune was the Magnatune Remixed project.

"Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace."

What follows is a track by track listing of the songs on "Chronic Dreams" and notes about the various sources.

  1. Brilliant Day (Chronic Mix)
    Words and music: Lisa DeBenedictis
    Vocals: Lisa DeBenedictis
    The original version is on Lisa DeBenedictis' Magnatune album "Fruitless." The vocal tracks used here were re-recorded for "Chronic" in March 2004 using the mobile fourstones studio.
  2. Just My Luck (Chronic Mix)
    Words and music: c. layne
    Vocals: c. layne
    These vocals tracks are from sessions for an upcoming Magnatune release by c. layne.
  3. Not Even Alone
    Music: fourstones.net
    The Fender Rhodes and organ parts were sampled from the original recording session for "Lefty's Alone" by Drop Trio from their Magnatune album "Big Dipper."
  4. Ocean In Her Head (Red House Mix)
    Words and music: Lisa DeBenedictis
    Vocals: Lisa DeBenedictis
    The vocals were recorded especially for "Chronic Dreams" in March 2004. The song is previously unreleased and Lisa's version will available on her next album.
  5. Dead Money
    Music: fourstones.net
  6. Be Brave (Dip Blotter Mix)
    Words and music: Norine Braun
    Vocals: Norine Braun
    Keyboards: Ian Varley
    The original version of "Be Brave" is on Norine Brauns's Magnatune album "Now and Zen". The vocals were sampled from the original recording sessions for that album. The Fender Rhodes was recorded by Drop Trio's Ian Varley specifically for this version.
  7. Calling Ella Baker
    Music: fourstones.net
    The guitar was sampled from "I'm Troubled" by Jag from his Magnatune album "Juke Joint Boogie".
  8. Ocean In Her Head (Spliff Mix)
    Words and music: Lisa DeBenedictis
    Vocals: Lisa DeBenedictis
    These vocals are from the same session as the Red House mix.
  9. Art vs. Process
    Music: fourstones.net
    Beat slicing: Joe Chellman
    Samples: "Eastern Sky" by touchingGrace, "Sacred " by Beat Under Control, "Violin Concerto in G Minor Op 80 Andante" by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor performed by Johannesburg Philharmonic all on Magnatune.
  10. Brilliant Day (Eine Kleine Mix)
    Words and music: Lisa DeBenedictis
    Vocals: Lisa DeBenedictis
    The original version is on Lisa DeBenedictis' Magnatune release "Fruitless." These vocal tracks were re-recorded for "Chronic" in March 2004 using the mobile fourstones studio.
  11. How Soon I Forget (Minsk Mix)
    Words and music: c. layne
    Vocals: c. layne
    c. laynes' vocals tracks are from sessions for an upcoming Magnatune release. Choir sampled from "O thou the only begotten son..." and "Came into the church" by the Kyiv Chamber Choir's Magnatune release "Masterpieces of the Ukrainian Choral Baroque."