From Chip Chop 17; ""SO HERE IS GOUAFHG AT THE KEYS - HI THERE! I JUST FINISHED WATCHING A 5 AND A HALF PERIOD LONG ICE HOCKEY GAME WHERE MY TEAM LOST :-( BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME! SO WHAT ABOUT THIS TUNE THEN? I BEGAN GROWING THE IDEA SOME TIME AGO. WHEN THINKING OF WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT I HAD A FLASHBACK OF THE AWESOME INTRO OF THE BAYWATCH MOVIE! THEN I CHECKED IT OUT AND DANG THAT SONG WAS WHAT MY HEAD STARTED BREWING ABOUT. A BEAT CAME UP AND I FIDDLED A BIT WITH SOME POCKET OPERATOR BEATMACHINES FOR A FEW WEEKS UNTIL I HAD A BIT LESS OF WORK HOLDING ME BACK. SO CAME THAT DAY WHEN I STARTED TRACKING IT DOWN ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE DEADLINE. I HAD THE OUTLINE OF THE BEAT AND INTRO. BUT WHO WANTS TO LISTEN TO A SONG WITH A SLOW START ON A MUSIC DISK!? NOT ME? SO IT HAD TO START KIND OF RIGHT AWAY. ALONG CAME SOME MELODIES AND SOME KIND OF BRIDGE PART. HOWEVER, WHEN I LISTENED IT FELT LIKE THE SONG ACTUALLY BEGAN WHEN THE THING I HAD THOUGHT OF AS A BRIDGE. SO OFF WE GO! I REWROTE THE BEAT TO GET THE ENERGY KIND OF KICKING WITH THAT ONE. IT ALSO NEEDED SOME MELODY, WHICH KIND OF INTUITIVELY GOT TO ME... AT ONCE! THEN I LOOKED BACK AT THE FIRST PART. WHAT TO DO WITH IT. THE MELODIES WAS LIKE A BIT MESS. THERE WERE HINTS OF SOME KIND OF MOTIF, BUT MOSTLY.... A MESS! THE DEADLINE APPROACHED QUITE FAST SO I DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO LET IT DWELL AND BREW, HENCE I DID THE TOTALLY WRONG THING AND BEGAN PUSHING MY 10 CHANNEL MUSIC INTO THE 4 REAL CHANNELS WHILE IT ALL FELT LIKE I WAS GOING LOST. HOWEVER, AFTERWARDS, I THINK I GOT A SENCE OF WHAT THE CORE IN ALL THAT MESS WAS AND TRIED TO EXTRACT IT AND REFINE THE PART. AFTER A WHILE I FELT THAT THE TRY KIND OF SUCCEEDED AND MOVED ON TO MAKE SOME BREAKS BETWEEN THE PARTS. SONG DONE! SO, DEADLINE IN A COUPLE OF HOURS AND THE SONG RUNS IN AT 70K! REMOVE SOME JUNK SAMPLES AND WE ARE AT 56K. NEED TO GET DOWN TO... 30? GET THE SAMPLES OF THE BEAT IN LOWER QUALITY? SURE! I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO SEARCH FOR BETTER SAMPLES WITH SMALLER FOOTPRINT AND REWRITE THE BEAT USING THEM, BUT NO TIME FOR THAT! I GET IT TO AROUND 45K AND TRY WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE AFTER A P61 CONVERSION. 25K! THE PATTERN DATA ALONE WAS AROUND 20K, SO I HAVE LOW HOPES OF GETTING IT LOWER THAN THAT. I GIVE UP AND GIVE IT AWAY HOPING IT FITS THE COLLECTION. AND IF YOU READ THIS, I GUESS IT DID!"