UPDATE: I found recording errors on number 13 Die Ablehnung. While they are fixed the file goes offline.

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Finally, the entire Also sprach die Schlange compilation is available.

Complete track list

1. Prologue - The Glory Of Sadness
2. Our Land
3. Chicoloapan
4. The Plague
5. Vorspeise
6. The Falling
7. The Enemy Marches On
8. The End Of Times
9. Fighting Purple Vegetables
10. Die Schwarze Schlange
11. Vorspeise II
12. Das Schloß
13. Die Ablehnung
14. I'm Always With You
15. Vorspeise III
16. Der Wasserfall
17. Der Rituelle Tanz Der Purpurfarbenen Pflanzen
18. The Behaviorist
19. Kreativität?
20. Finale - FDSG

55. The Creator


As I already wrote, the songs included in this compilation were made in a period that spans over several years; to be more accurate, the first tracks were made aprox. in 2002, and the last ones in 2005. Some of these songs were posted here before; nevertheless, this collection contains new versions of them, versions that were intended to be completely harmonious with the rest of the tracks.

The first track, Prologue, depicts a masoquist view where being depressed is glorious and even desirable. Heavy industrial elements are to be found...

Our Land, Chicoloapan, The Falling, The Enemy Marches On, The End Of Times, Fighting Purple Vegetables, Das Schloss and Die Schwarze Schlange are the oldest ones, and were my first creations using the Fruity Loops software. Even though I was quite unexperienced in using the software, I put dozens of working hours in making each track. Some of them took their name after a really stupid tale I was creating in mid-2005, a tale that is obviously unfinished and will remain that way. These songs were not originally intended to accompany the failed tale, but this failure was an opportunity to give the songs a name, for they stayed without one for several years.

You can find in Also sprach... 3 Vorspeise: they are sort of intermissions, but as the german name suggests, the Vorspeise are entreés, meant to stimulate your appetite for music.

Chicoloapan is an ode to the place where I used to live in. A place not too far from Mexico City, but far enough to be it an odyssey to travel every day from Chicoloapan to Mexico City and back. Going to school and back home took me 4 hours every day, for a whole year.

The End of Times is an apocalyptic vision of the end of the world seen through the eyes of Die Schwarze Schlange. It was technically horrible finishing it.

I'm Always With You is a song on which I worked intermittently. The file was stored in a PC at my lab, so I had no more than 30 minutes for each composing session.

Der Wasserfall is a song full of... water. You can hear the sound of running water both at the beginning and at the end of the track. It took its name precisely after these cute water effects.

The Behaviorist was made at the time I was working on a behaviorism essay. I had my ankle sprained, so I was forced to stay at home and work on the essay all day long; when I got tired of writing, I started composing. Particularly I love the initial beating. It's like a promise, but there's no way to now if it's gonna be ever fulfilled.

Der Rituelle Tanz Der Purpurfarbenen Tanzen keeps the idea of the tale mentioned above. Since it was made with Apple's GarageBand, I didn't really composed anything; I just put the loops together. So is the case of Kreativität?: the question mark points to the fact that mixing pre-made loops is not really a way for displaying creativity.

Finale: FDSG was always meant to close Also sprach... The capital letters stand for... well, I'm not really allowed to say. Suffice it to say that this track was intended to close the collection with a strong and sad statement about the failure of human relationships. Is a way to denounce the brutal effects of depression on the psyche.

The Creator were born more like an experiment rather than a projected song. The words in it are not to be taken seriously. But if you find that they suit you, well, you surely have issues... I had a lot of fun making it. As Die Schwarze Schlange, this one was intended to inspire fear, but for me this is closer to a parody; is tetric in nature, and is kind of a "hidden track" (it was placed exactly after 34, 5 seconds lasting, empty tracks).


You can find the complete Also Sprach Die Schlange compilation in the link below. Of course, the empty tracks were removed.

Also sprach die Schlange