A Soundset in Five Boroughs for U-He Zebra

Home , 3AM (Pull Up), Bronx Community Board 10, Rise (instrumental)

A SOUNDSET IN FIVE BOROUGHS FOR U-HE ZEBRA INSTALLATION NEW YORK CITY CONTENTS A SOUNDSET IN FIVE BOROUGHS FOR U-HE ZEBRA Unpack .zip file and drag to this location: BROOKLYN: Page 3 A collection of 150 synthesizer sounds by MAC: Alexander Hacke. MANHATTAN: Page 6 MacHD/Library/Audio/Presets/u-he/Zebra2 The set is an audible hommage to New York City, QUEENS: Page 9 WIN: with 30 patches for each of the five boroughs, ..\Vstplugins\Zebra2.data\Presets\Zebra2\ Brooklyn, Manhatten, Queens, Staten Island and STATAN ISLAND: Page 12 The Bronx. THE BRONX: Page 14 Some sounds are playable, some sounds are REQUIREMENTS mere effects and some sounds play a whole score all by themselves. You need Urs Heckmann’s Zebra v2.5 or newer to listen to the sounds. Each sound tells a story, so don’t forget to open the info panel! Zebra is a “wireless modular synthesizer” plug- in for Mac and PC. Alexander Hacke NEW YORK CITY You also need a host program for VST on PC, VST/AU/RTAS on Mac.

LINKS ALEXANDER HACKE: http://www.hacke.org ZEBRA: http://www.zebrasynth.com URS HECKMANN: http://www.u-he.com

P.02 BROOKLYN ASTROLAND CUP CAKES! FORT HAMILTON BRASS A Coney Island fun-fare theme with the old Always sweet and lovely little calorie-bombs Brooklyn’s own historic army base. fashioned flavor of cotton candy and Nathan’s with all kinds of toppings and in dozens famous hot-dogs to it. of flovors. We love them even though we A mellow patch for fanfares and salutes. shouldn’t. Goes with any attraction for young and old. GLAMOUR & GLOOM This monophonic sequenced backing is best BELOW THE BELLY OF THE BEAST enjoyed with coffee on a sun-drenched Sunday Slow moving romantic and mysterious organ-like afternoon. sound. Something is lurking down there. It’s busy digesting but ready to devour more. DESOLATE AVENUE Nocturnal and very seductive in nature. Bass register. Mean and evil. The time is 3am, you are riding south on, say HARD BOILED Flatbush, it has just stopped raining and BILLYBURG BOUNCE actually there is no reason to feel so gloomy. This hommage to the Film Noir detective story is a wild chase through the city’s alley-ways. That’s how the hipsters do when they wiggle A polyphonic, multi-timbral, squarepulsatin their butts. layer of sound with a melacholic touch. Suspense, black and white footage. The sequence sounds best in lower registers Full blown monophonic Electro backing. DUMBO COMMUTERS Best at midrange and not too fast either. ISSUE PROJECT Dumbo is the perfectly gentrified area opposite BIOHAZARD of the financial district. The new inhabitants of The Issue Project Room is New York’s premier this formerly industrial and super-dangerous location for experimental arts and performance. Heavily tattooed body-builders with eyebrow neighbourhood are suit-wearing brookers and Currently located at 3rd street and 3rd avenue piercings you don’t wanna tell to shut the fuck secretaries. This is the sound of them moving in the Old American Can Factory. up. about. An atonal patch for adventurous sonic Drop D power-chords. Clean and ultra-modern sequence. Busy and experimentation. stylish. Highly recommended use of XYcontrols. CRUSTY-A-GO-GO EL REGRESO LA SANTA RIA Old school Punk Rockers on the sidewalk doin’ the Cretin Hop. “The Return” to a Puerto Rican/Dominican Loosely translated from the Spanish as “The neighbourhood in South-Williamsburg. Way Of The Saints” this Afro-Cuban religion is Complete pogoing backing. Just add crashes very much at home in New York City. Syncopated Latin-metallic feel. Very sharp and groovy. Muy Caliente. “That Ole White Magic” is used to do good and good only. P.03 BROOKLYN.CTD LOCOMOTION MOTOR FETISH RIVERVIEW CONDO A tough electronic back-beat with a retro touch Noise-fueled sound engine with exessive use of High-end Brooklyn housing. The view is to accompliment the R’n’B feel of the sixties. the old overdrive. spectacular and the price astronomically expensive. Knucklehead party groove. Pedal to the metal attitude. Therefore beware of the CPU load this patch MERRY GO ROUND HORSEY Whenever the smell of burning rubber is requires for rather marginal effects. required in your audio you should refer to this For your safety and the safety of others please one. Check the filter-shifting action on the XY- A “pad” sound. Safe, cozy, luxurious, square and listen to the following safety instructions: gearsticks. pretty boring.

Please walk. Do not run while entering and OUR ANNIVERSARY SAINT PADDY’S DAY PARADE exiting the merry-go-round. Dedicated to Danielle the girl from New York Time to proudly stagger and jig. Fiddles and Please choose a horse or a seat and remain City, who I fell in love with in 2001 and got marching feet drenched in green. seated during the duration of the ride. married to in 2006 Blur your vision with the XY-controls and on you Ride only English- or western style. Persons Eternal Love and Happy Endings. go, lads. standing beside a rider must stand towards the inside of a ride and hold on at all times. PACIFIC ISLANDER SHOOT THE FREAK! Please hold on and be prepared. The ride is The Samoan Fog Cutter, the Suffering Bastard, Another Coney Island patch. about to start. the Zombie, the Mai Thai and the Scorpio Bowl where the inspirations for this Rhum-infused Nomen est omen. 1$ a pop. On a weekend-trip with the kids to Coney Island. exotic and fortunately well padded sound. STILL DANGEROUS METROPOLITAN OVERHEAD Cocktail hour. The higher you go, the more likely you are to wake up with a hang-over, but that is That’s what they say about certain areas. Nothing like a train blasting by on an overpass. only common sense. Touch the keys ever so lightly and get paranoid! This’ll shake you up and invigorate you at the RED HOOK CARGO same time. T-BEAM HIGH RISE This sound is meant to invoke images of the Run! You might still catch it. docks, seagulls and cranes lifting containers There’s new condos going up everywhere. high in the air. The wind leaves a salty taste on Welding, side-grinding and heavy machinery in This patch works great for power-chords at your lips. full effect. lower registers. A very slow-evolving patch. Large and romantic. Industrial sound-scape. The sound of the new age. P.04 BROOKLYN.CTD THE L TRAIN The grey line. It can get loud on that horizontal artery between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Brutallity in all it’s beauty.

TRUSTAFARIANS Pseudonym for (out of town) hipsters who live of their daddy’s credit-card. Whenever you need to put some fairy-dust on.

UNDER THE BRIDGE The drone of cars passing way above on the Brooklyn Bridge. Atonal doppler-effect cluster.

WONDER WHEEL The final Coney Island patch and also probably the last of the attractions to remain after the park has been totally demolished and turned into housing for the filthy rich. Good times.

P.05 MANHATTAN AVENUE OF THE AMERICANAS DAKOTA BUILDING GOTHIC GROUND ZERO Up in well to do mid-town Manhattan. “Rosemary’s Baby” was shot here and little This patch illustrates the feeling one gets when later John Lennon right outside. visiting the site of 2001’s catastrophy . The lights are shining bright, limos passing, the world seems to be in dreamy slow-motion. Boris Karloff and Judy Garland lived in this The sound of unsolved issues and souls in house. Beautiful and haunting. unrest. Brassy, sedated patch with a touch of Jazz-feel to it. Cembalo meets weirdness right by the Central HARD CORE FOR LIFE Park BETH ISRAEL ANESTHESIA Electronic hommage to the New York Hard Core DANCETERIA sound of bands like Agnostic Front or Sick Of It Waking up in the emergency room of the All. hospital. New York’s premier dance-club of the early eighties. Distorted power-patch, manlier at lower keys. You don’t remember how or why you got there, but the painkillers they’ve given you are doing a “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Holiday” on KURT ON BROADWAY mighty fine job for sure. the floor with No Wave and Suicide. Kurt Weill established himself as a new and A layer of dim oblivion. Hit the keys a little Open 80s-flavored rhythm-patch. original voice in the American musical theater harder and you’ll feel a little sting through all and always considered Broadway “home.” that medication. ELLIS ISLAND This patch is inspired by rhythmical elements of BOOTS AND SADDLE The Statue Of Liberty! The Land Of The Free! his work. Sweat and pumping muscles on Christopher Go to a lower register to enjoy the epic scenery. Gaudy and up-beat rhythm-section playable in street. polyphonic mode. GRINDING AT THE RCA Hard-riding sequence LEO AT THE PLAZA The Hammond B-3 Organ was unveiled by it’s CHRYSLER ILLUMINATED inventor Laurens Hammond at the RCA building Leo Theremin lived and worked at Manhattan’s in 1939 Plaza Hotel. The magnificent NYC skyline. A hot Hammond organ sound for all occasions. Here, in it’s Grand Ballroom he also first A weightless flight around the Chrysler Building demonstrated his invention to the American on a clear and moonless night. public shortly after his arrival in 1927. Electric circulating sound-scape patched to glow A Theremin simulation. in the dark. P.06 MANHATTAN.CTD LIMELIGHT NEW YEARS EVE ON CANAL ST. PYRAMID The Limelight in New York opened in November Oh, those lights and the busy commotion of Another legendary nightclub located on avenue 1983. Located in the former “Episcopal Church China Town. Specially around the holidays this A between 6th and 7th street. of the Holy Communion” on Sixth Avenue in an is an enormous source of inspiration. area once known as the “Ladies’ Mile”, located Eighties-style arpeggio sequence, best when in Manhattan’s Chelsea district, and originally Arpeggiated sequence with a red and golden fast and furious. started as a disco music and rock music club. asian glow to it. ROCKET U.S.A. In the 1990s, it became a prominent place to NO WAVE hear techno, goth, and industrial music, and to A patch inspired by the track of the same name obtain recreational drugs. New York bands of the late 70s, such as Mars, from Suicide’s epochal self-titled debut album DNA, Teenage Jesus And The Jerks among released in 1977. Spaced out organ sound, purely recreational. others, with their total disregard of harmony and innovative use of conventional instruments Alternate keys D and E in a middle register and LOWLIFE influenced a whole new generation of you’re on. musicians, This patch is a hommage to them. Sub-sonic rumble. SAVE THE ROBOTS Complete and slightly atonal backing which How low can you go? could be a composition by Sonic Youth. When everywhere else was closed, there was a basement-club where one could go, where the MACDOUGAL FLAIRS PLISSKENS ESCAPE music was still pumpin’ and like-minded peeps a plenty. The sound of the psychedelic west-village of the Escape from New York is a 1981 science early 70s. Far out, man. fiction/action film directed and scored by John Super groovy dance backing for the ongoing Carpenter. afterhours party. Goes with anything purple, moshus-oil and long hair. The film is set in the near future in a crime- SERIAL GLASS ridden United States that has converted NEUROTIC MOVEMENTS Manhattan Island in New York City into a Although his music is often, though maximum security prison. Ex-soldier and controversially, described as minimalist, Feeling strange? A tiny but annoying headache legendary fugitive “Snake” Plissken (Kurt Phillip Glass distances himself from this label, just underneath your eyebrow and people Russell) is given 24 hours to find the President describing himself instead as acomposer of on the train give you funny looks. Something of the United States, who has been captured “music with repetitive structures.” definetly is wrong, but what is it? by inmates after Air Force One crashed on the island. This patch could also be called “Instant Glass” An arpeggiated favorite for any hypochondriac city dweller. Any time now considdering that the story plays in 1997. P.07 MANHATTAN.CTD SUBTERRANIAN VIBE WE ARE THE SQEEGEE MEN A sound as if the subway tunels started singing. The Squeegee Men where the guys at traffic- lights who would want to “clean” your Whenever you need to dig a little deeper. windscreen for a donation.

THE VILLAGE VOICE Upon his election, mayor Rudy Giuliani famously embarked on a crusade against The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper in squeegee men as part of his quality-of-life New York City featuring investigative articles, campaign, claiming that their near-ubiquitous analysis of current affairs and culture, arts presence created an environment of disorder reviews and events listings. that encouraged more serious crime to flourish. This is a choir patch Squeegee men disappeared from city streets during Giuliani’s mayoralty and have yet to THELEMIC RITUAL reappear in significant numbers. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the YELLOW CAB Law. This patch is inspired by Bernhard Herrmann’s For the New Aeon. score for the 1976 movie “Taxi Driver” by Martin Scorsese. UNION SQ TRIBAL Hold any chord and wait for the crescendo- There is always some beautiful music to be pulse heard in the subway station at Union Square. setting in. Significant is the way the sound is reflected by the walls of these great underground halls. Waiting for a train.

UPTOWN MOODY A mellow voice from the better situated parts of the city. A visit at the museum.

P.08 QUEENS 74TH ST. MANTRA CORONA INDUSTRIAL F TO GO 74th street refers to the multi-cultural Corona was a late 19th century development in The sound of that grey line. neighbourhood Jackson Heights at Flushing the old Town of Newtown. Queens. Reliable organ-like patch that’ll get you The name allegedly derives from the crown anywhere in no time at all. Aside fron the large population of Middle- and used as an emblem by the Crown Building South-American peoples there is a strong Company, which developed the area; them FRONTAL LOBOTOMY Indian community here. Italian immigrants who moved into the new housing stock referred to the neighborhood by “I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a Prayer, meditation and Yoga positions. the Italian or Spanish word for “crown” (which frontal lobotomy” is “corona”). ASTORIA Totally whacked out Techno-patch for the hard Complete backing with a dark and menacing partying all-night extravaganza. This is dedicated to the predominatly Greek flavor. area in Queens. HIT THE BONG DEMOLITION CINEMATIC A complex arpeggiated patch for many This’ll knock you right off your feet. purposes. As the title suggests a wide-screen view over the Exclusively for the initiated. BOTANICA city’s landscape with it’s many developments. HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Named for those mysterious stores stocking Powerful chords at lower registers. spells, potions and artifacts of ritual, this patch An oscillating winter theme. spreads a mystical, candle-lit atmosphere. EDUCATING BOB After a hard day of christmas shopping Botanica is also a great band from New York Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog City. Synthesizer earned a bachelor’s degree in IT DWELLS IN THE SEWER physics from Queens College, New York in 1957 Doing good and good only. A very frightening electronic beast untaimed A multi-timbral patch for any weird sound and dangerous. CON EDISON experiments. Keep the key pressed after the initial shock has This high-voltage patch is named after New York EVERYTHING BAGEL faded. City’s main power-supplier with a power-plant situated right here in Queens. People from all over the city come up here for their share of Astorias favorite Bagels. Massive scary surge of sound for your In moderation. Expect to be full, very full. industrial-music pleasure. P.09 QUEENS.CTD MAS HORCHATAS POWER SLUDGE SINGLE STRING DOOM A Horchata is a delicious Mexican drink made Another long-haired distorted rock-sound to go Metalheads! from rice-milk with cinnamon flavor. with or instead of electric guitars. Go to a lower register, press a key and feel the (You can use it as a mixer for Rum too, yummy!) Run this through an actual guitar-stack and glory of doom. you’ll catch my drift. Served to calm your tummy with a VERY spicy SLAUGHTERHOUSE MACHINERY Mexican dish. RADIO VSYO The extremely loud machine-shop where MISS FLUSHING MEADOWS Named after a Russian radio-station out of Long unutterable things are happening. Island City this patch is making use of drastic Dedicated to the beautyful chiquitita you spot FM Press a chord and talk confidentially. on Roosevelt Avenue one summer afternoon. frequency shifts to create an almost cold-war like atmosphere. SOCIOPATH Happy arpeggiated patch for girly Pop tunes. Thrillers, documentaries about the Soviet Union Brainwaves of the average New Yorker. ORGANIC FOODSTUFF and black and white underground Super 8 films. These people are not always dangerous, but “You are what you eat” they say and the ROOSEVELT CABRON sometimes. Mostly they are just confused and advantages of healthy nourishment can not be quite neurotic. over-estimated. Highly strung hustling action in Jackson Heights. Verytense and pretty aggro. SPEAKEASY This patch is truly alive with goodliness and will rapidly spoil with a few tweaks on those Percussive pattern with melodic possibilities. Where to go when booze is banned and times XY-controls as certainly there are neither are tough? preservatives nor artificial flavorings added. ROUND AND AROUND THE GLOBITRON Jazz POP TARTS The monumental stainless steel globe, standing 140 feet high, was presented to the 1964 THE BQE Teenie Boppers and 80s Synth Pop are the World’s Fair by United States Steel. inspiration for this annoying patch. On the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway when Today, it is Queens’ most recognizable symbol traffic is not slow. OMG this really is one silly lead! as the centerpiece for the park and it’s surrounding area is the park’s most popular Enjoy the ride! meeting place. A majestic, proudly pacing patch with sample & holdovertones. P.10 QUEENS.CTD TRUE BLUE TATTOO Vinny Signorelli’s tatto shop on Fresh Pond Rd. Press a key in the higher register and feel that swallow being inked on your neck.

VAPORIZER The second pot-smoking reference in this borough. Only this time it doesn’t involve any smoke. Interesting concept. You should try it some time.

VETERANS DAY WW II, Korea, Vietnam and now Afganistan and Irak. A melancholic patch.

WE’RE A HAPPY FAMILY In 1974 from Forest Hills in Queens came the sound that changed the world. This is trying to imitate Dee Dee Ramones’ downstroke only bass-chopping style

P.11 STATEN ISLAND A STEAM-SHIP ASHORE CREW CUT GREENBELT OUTING A vessel of enormous proportions too close to Also known as the “buzzcut”. More than a Frolicking through one of the many parks of avoid. fashion statement. that almost rural part of the city. Quite a good Massive blasts of heat. The men in the forces. Brothers in arms. chance of stepping into toxic waste though.

AMBROSE CHANNEL RANGE ELECTRIC AIR SPACE Happy fiddles under a see-through ozone layer. Idyllic is something else. Love is in the air above that cute little island in ICHABOD CRANE New York’s southwest. Biting and acidic. Brought to you from your A mythological figure in history. The headless friends at the industrial plant. A flexible yet simple patch of applied wierdness. horseman. Scary!

ANALOG HIGH TIDE FAREWELL TO A SCOTTSMAN A B-Movie patch for tales of terror. Everything that rises must converge. Bagpipe kind of patch KILL VAN KULL Old school square wave modulation patch. Funerals mostly. A tough place. Out at sea.

BEHAVIORAL MEDICAL RESEARCH FERRY TO ST. GEORGE Shanties.

Greetings from your local psycho- A pleasant ride from Manhattans financial LENAPE CHANT pharmaceutical developers. district. Song of the indigionous peoples of New York. Anxiety and compulsive obsessive disorder. A romantic maritime patch of the cinematic kind. Rituals and pow wow’s. Do not drive or operate heavy machinery while this patch is active. GOOD OLE DAYS COMMUNITY CHORALE Back in the days when the scratchy sound of the Victorola or the valve-radio where the favorite Stay away from that wide left-hand path of sources of entertainment. booze, song and lose women. Lo-fi extravaganza. Honest to god-fearing organ-patch.

P.12 STATEN ISLAND.CTD METEOR III PILGRIM SPIRIT THE LANDFILL The Townsend-Downey Company built a yacht, Soothing and melancholic patch. Aside from the great Chinese wall and the The Meteor III for Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. Belgian motorway apparently this is one of the It was launched at Shooters Island in February Lullabies few man-made landmarks clearly visible from 1902 and was accompanied by many hundreds space. of spectators. RURAL POULTRY Get rid of all that stuff! Thomas Alva Edison sent a camera man over A “Howdy!” from the chicken farm. and made one of the first news movies in US TRANS-ATLANTIC FEEDBACK history of the event. It is available online from Eggs any style the Smithsonian. A feedback-machine. Truly weird. SEA URCHIN For your atonal and experimental pleasure. Alice Roosevelt christened the boat and her father Teddy was there as well. The fat lips of the prickly sea-dweller TUBE A TUNNEL MORODER SWORD STYLE A strictly imaginary creature. Plans to build a subway tunnel to Manhattan where quickly abandoned. Combining a flavor associated with the 70s SHAOLIN Master Gorgio Moroder and the sound of That exactly is the question. martial arts flick weaponry as heard in samples Paying hommage to the one and only Wu Tang for Staten Island’s own Wu Tang Clan. Clan of Staten Island. VERRAZANO-NARROWS A movie yet to be conceived. Hip Hop Hard Core Crossing the bridge. Depends on the car but best at night. NAUTICAL CHART SUBURBAN RELAPSE WEST SHORE TUNE Straight from the octopussy’s garden under the I never want to leave but if I have to, I will sea. always come back. Tune from that very industrial coast of the island. The Yellow Submarine. Very very slow evolving patch. Enviromental sound design and zoning.

ON THE WIRE SUNRISE SENIOR LIVING WHALE PLACENTA Twangy resonating cembalo style patch. Fun and games, mashed potatos and split peas While whales can communicate across the for dinner and a quiz-show on TV. seven seas by song, their after-birth can be as Long distance communication. large as a VW-van. Pensioners birthday parties. Gentle giants. P.13 THE BRONX 8 BALL PYLON CO-OP CITY SCOOP ELECTRIC KICKING BOOTS A bicycle-runner will deliver the stuff. Just park Co-op City, located in the Baychester section Kraftwerk’s 1977 hit ‘Trans-Europe Express’ was your car by that black pylon. of the Borough of the Bronx in northeast New a great B-Boy favourite and the cool driving York City, is the largest cooperative housing metallic Kraftwerk mixture of computerised Kraftwerk beats Superfly style. development in the world. drumbreaks and synthesisers was something a lot of the more musical kids on the scene ABSOLUTE EVIL Situated at the intersection of Interstate 95 and wished to emulate. the Hutchinson River Parkway, the community Another beast lurking in the shadows of the is part of Bronx Community Board 10. While all this was happening on the hot and night-time city. Moaning and groaning, ready to sweaty dancefloors of the Bronx, out on the attack. If it were a distinct municipality, instead of part streets another vital element of of Bronx county, it would be the 10th largest the hip hop scene was falling into place. Ideal to put emphasis an scary scenes. “city” in New York State. Pretty agressive Hip Hop backing. BETTY IS A BITCH Complete multi-purpose backing. ESTA UNA CHIQUITITA A classic D6-sound dedicated to “Nasty Gal” CORRUGATED IRON Betty Davis. “Game Is My Middle Name”, A night out in a hot and sweaty Latino house- Corrugated Iron is lightweight and easily club. The Funk. transported. It was and still is widely used especially in rural and military buildings such as Pumping backing with cat-calls and whistles. CHOP SHOP sheds and water tanks. HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW Here’s 2 associations to go with this sound and Its unique properties were used in the its title: A place where cars or motor-cycles development of countries like Australia from What can I say? get modified (hence the chopper) or a butcher the 1840s, and it is still helping developing shop (as in pork chops) countries today. Just a pretty organ-like patch. Mournful and melancholic. A grinding noisy drone with a modulation In lower registers this patch really sounds like shortly after the beginning. a sheet of metal played and made to resonate HOME SWEET HOME with a bow as used for orchestral string instruments. Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home; The song’s melody played in the underscore as Dorothy spoke of “No Place Like Home” near the end of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. P.14 THE BRONX.CTD MARCHING HEAT ONE FUNKY METH POE’S FINAL HOME It does get very hot in New York City. Having a crystal ball. The house appears on the Bronx bus map as “Poe Cottage”, which is accurate. Much more A pulsating patch with a sizzling feedback-delay. Insane while rather speedy backing. cottage than house. He died while visiting Baltimore three years after moving here. MEET THE EVERYDAY PEOPLE OPIATE LULLABY Poe’s final short story “Landor’s Cottage” was Many people steer clear of The Bronx because Are you struggling with heroin, painkillers, probably inspired by the home. of its reputation of being tough and crime- cocaine, alcohol, crystal meth or other drugs? ridden. Or are you just wary of the drug related PULSE OF EDEN references in the titles of these patches? That may be true in South Bronx, one of the Mount Eden is a neighbourhood in the South city’s poorest areas, but that doesn’t apply to The Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s Bronx. the whole of The Bronx. Division of Substance Abuse has confidential treatment programs that can provide There also used to be a hospital by that name. It has beautiful parks, a world-class botanic medication (e.g., buprenorphine (Suboxone), This’ll hopefully make you feel a little better. garden and zoo, a wonderful array of galleries methadone, etc.) and counseling. and museums, cafes and bars, upmarket RIDING SHOT-GUN CHASE neighbourhoods and friendly people. Our programs are located throughout the Bronx and are convenient to upper-Manhattan and Suspense and screeching car-tyres. Sixty percent of The Bronx is Latino, but among lower Westchester. the Spanish language, you’ll still hear that A wicked pulsating patch. distinctive Bronx accent. A calm and dreamy patch. RIOT AT RYKERS A welcoming and naive sounding patch. OUR LADY OF REFUGE Two-hundred guards swinging clubs and MOTT HAVEN M.P. M\232ller, Inc. Hagerstown, Md. \320 lobbing tear gas stormed a city jail on February Opus 4436 (1925) Electro-pneumatic action 3 19, 1988, crushing a riot by 550 inmates Mott Haven has a population of 50,000. For manuals, 35 stops, 19 ranks. who ransacked cellblocks in a three-hour decades Mott Haven has been one of the insurrection to protest conditions. poorest communities in America. Pipe organ Pounding, marching boots and general Over half the population lives below the upheaval. poverty line and receives public assistance. A wailing, oscillating patch designed for melancholic bylines

P.15 THE BRONX.CTD SPUYTEN DUYVIL TEAMSTERS LOCAL THE REAL DEAL An area named after Spuyten Duyvil Creek, a The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Images of a crime-scene, the yellow tape, Dutch name with various historical spellings (IBT), formerly known by the name flashing blue lights, sirenes and reflections on and meanings, the most plausible of which is International rainy asphalt. “Spinning Devil” or “Devil’s Whirlpool” Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, is one Four channel backing A swingin’ but harsh and manly groove. of the largest labor unions in the United States. TONY TREMOLO SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST The name and logo of the union reflect the origin of the union as a craft union when The fictional character Tony Tremolo is an Italo- In their 300 million years of existance even founded in 1903. American guy living in the Bronx in the early cockroaches have developed democratic sixties. structures where conflicts are balanced out for A teamster was originally a person who drove the benefit of the whole community. a team of oxen, a horse-drawn, a mule-drawn He sports a pompadour and wears a pinky ring. wagon or a muletrain. The Sort of like Ray Liotta in Good Fellas. The sound of various beasts and critters in a driver of a muletrain was also known as a multitimbral patch. muleteer. Retro sounding tremolo-patch.

TAKE THE 6 BACK A brassy patch. ULTRA SONIC STEPPING On the Lexington Avenue local. TERRA NATIA Another patch exploring the connection between Kraftwerk-style electronics and Romanticism. Ask any New Yorker about Arthur Avenue in the the Afrika Bambataa brand of early Hip Hop Bronx and you get either puzzlement or a flood programing. of loving sentiment about the real Little Italy of New York, the best place for bread, pasta, meat, Groovy arpeggiated patch with a space-age pastries,espresso machines, the only place to twist. buy Italian sausage, and more. The paradox is real: Many New Yorkers never heard of the place, while for others it’s home away from home ... although it is often a well- kept secret. A snazzy lead-patch.

P.16 THE BRONX.CTD VIOLENT PAST Michael R. Bloomberg\325s 2009 State of the City speech applauded the city\325s 30 percent drop in crime from 2001. Violent crime has decreased 17 percent in the Bronx. But the drops have shrunk in recent years, both in the Bronx and citywide. The number of murders in the Bronx was 132 in 2008, only four fewer than 2003. Last year, the number of shooting incidents rose to 405, an 8.6 percent increase from 2007. Stone cold rhythmic backing.

YANKEE STADION Edward M. “Eddie” Layton (October 10, 1925 \320 December 26, 2004) played the organ at old Yankee Stadium for 31 seasons, earning him membership in the New York Sports Hall of Fame. When he retired on September 28, 2003, his last performance was to play “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”, with fans chanting “Eddie! Eddie!”.