Track one, "Linear," features Rob Wallace on keyboards, Chris Krabacher plays electric bass on most of the tracks as does David Havens on drums. Chris Krabacher is a seasoned rock, jazz, pop, and country player. David is a R&B, country, rockin’ drummer known mostly in San Diego.
Rob is best known for the Canyon Records CD that he performed with partner Robert Tree Cody called "White Buffalo" a Canyon Records release in 1996. His music is well known in the early days of video games. From 1989 to 1996 Rob produced music, mostly MIDI, for 137 games.
Rob says, “Probably my best known titles were "Monster Bash," for Apogee Software, developed by Frank Maddin, Mario's Missing Deluxe, Mavis Beacon Typing Teacher, and the All the National Anthems of the World published by The Software Toolworks."
Track two on this virtual CD is, "Blinky." The music is a frenetic fast paced blend of experimental music and hip-hop. The instrumentation is kooky in since the mix is a Hammond B3, Sitar, Clarinet, Flute and rapid fire percussion.
"Neon City" is taken from an improvisation written for Rob’s motion picture film portfolio site, robwallace.net. Rob has done 2 theatrical films.
The title, “Buck-and-Wing” is a street swing dance recently popularized by an old bald guy in a TV commercial a few years ago. You can practice the buck-and-wing with this Digital Commanders original in the privacy of your own home.
Each track was composed and produced by Rob Wallace. His range of originals span TV and radio commercials, film music, jazz; Latin, ambient, new age, and three country pop tunes.
“Rest” was intended as a song you could play after sexy time, or in the privacy of your own automobile.
“Heroin Boy” is a film cue that represents what it might feel to inject heroin into your arm.
“Eastern Iroquois” was prepared for the third CD to have been done by Rob and Tree Cody so Rob added a cedar wood flute imitation patch from the Korg with a acoustic guitar for the release of this project.
“Pacific Rim” is a tribute to famous Japanese film music composer Toru Takemitsu a.
“In and Out” is a song that precedes “Rest”
“BB-NM-JA-JS” are the initials of the three important people.
“Cloud Man” is a experimental and new age piece with a hint of ambient sound.
“KatKat” has an interesting texture of kalimbas, marimbas, xylophones, and alto Sax which blend at the end producing a soundscape not unlike Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut” song. There are 273,000 references on Google about Harry Nilsson. His best song is “Without You” as is Leon Russell’s best song is “Masquerade” according to Rob. Other major influences on Rob’s creativity were Henry Mancini, Antonio Carlos Jobim along with Peter Nero, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock and Claude Debussy.
“Prelude to the Dance” can be hyperlinked to “Rest.” You see, the original title of this project was, “SEXY.”
“Gecko Dance” is a fun piece Rob knocked out on a Sunday afternoon. Chris and David bring the song to life and inspired more tracks from Rob. This is a consistent method of production for this CD.
“Al’s Money Dance” is inspired by Rob’s friend Al. The Gospel sound of the song Rob’s mediocre attempt to learn a genre he loves but cannot master. Why is that?
The last selection, “Raga Pantanal” is derived from the amazing region in Brazil and Raga which are the melodic expressions from the Indian, Hindi, Malayan, and many other Indian subcultures that often refer to the time of day, seasons, and Indian classical music. Chris Krabacher thought “Raga” should be in the title based on how the music fit his understanding of that genre and the use of the five-tone melody motif.
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