Story Behind The Song

Musically this song came from several places. I had just finished playing the video game "Ico" whose soundtrack absolutely captivated me. It used these muffled, shrill choir sounds for emphasis in the few battles that took place in the game. So I took some choir samples in an old version of Reason and modified them to achieve a similar effect. I improvised the intro and recorded it down. This song was written in either 2006 or 2007 so my memory is a bit foggy in places. I remember intending to place something of an electronic rock beat with accompaniment similar to And One, Funker Vogt, and Feindflug but quite a bit darker. And One always has a great feel for rhythm in their songs and often use these non-constant basslines in sections of their songs that add a nice energy to things. Funker Vogt usually has an entertaining if not overused lead synth. And Feindflug always creates these great marching epic rhytms and melodies. Personally, I think if you go listen to these bands and then Scrap you'll find little to no similarites, but I did find inspiration there.

Song Description

I tend to stick with simple titles to songs that give aid to the visualization a song while still leaving the imagination open. The word "scrap" when I was in high school was slang for fight, and this song very much denotes a course of rather dramatic events leading up to a fight. The word "scrap" also brings to mind scrap pieces of metal, which some of the opening sounds in the song mimic. And the word "scrap" is also associated with junk or scrap heap, which complements the song's dirty, junk like feel. Also I enjoyed the contradiction between the implication of the word "scrap" and some of the sounds in the song, such as the muffled choir sound at the beginning. Choirs tend to be associated with monks and churches and such, which really creates a nice dynamic for the title "Scrap".