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2nd Sep 2014 16:35 - 10 years ago
Description : Here is something -unusual- for between. A kind of a shanty.
In a new, minimal, dark, trancelike, wave style. Letz call it electro shanty!
This is an 80 years old song about a crew on a ship.
First there water went bad, then they got no wind, then they hit a riff.
And one after the other died on hunger and bad water ....
I changed the music abit for a more dramatic feeling :)
I used two loops from looperman for this track.
looperman-l-0510699-0066795-jcb-stereo-panning-toms.wav and
looperman-l-0711069-0075941-kristijann-hip-hop-drumloop.wav (used to create the drumsound)
And just one synthsound from IL Autogun.
The rest is just voices.
Hope you like it. This isnt perfect at all
but this is realy more a kind of a fun project.

Comments (6)

If you have time take a listen and give joecramer some feedback.

Spivkurl
Spivkurl 11th Oct 2014 18:17 - 9 years ago
Very impressive effort you've made here! To me, this has a very minimal techno vibe to it. With just some subtle changes throughout, it would sound more finished and enticing, but I love it as is. The stereo toms are quite impressive, and I can hear why they were inspiring to you. I also like renewing quite old songs as something new and different, so I see where you are coming from. Very hypnotic and enjoyable electronic song, and your voice is quite good! Keep at it! Fave!
joecramer
joecramer replied 11th Oct 2014 - 9 years ago
Hi Spivkurl.

This is (just) a real raw file. Often i like this raw things more then the finished work. Thats one of the reason why i need so long to do things new :)

This toms are very cool and in my ears they cryed for some vocals. So i done it.

Nice to hear that you enjoyed the listen and give the track a fav.

stay tuned
joe
TCAS
TCAS 27th Sep 2014 21:20 - 10 years ago
Did you join Kraftwerk?
This is a very cool track!

TCAS
joecramer
joecramer replied 28th Sep 2014 - 10 years ago
Hi TCAS

Thanks for your comment.
Nice that you enjoy the listen.

And Kraftwerk, oh yeah, i think i heard almost all they done and i realy love some of there stuff very very much.
But i realy had no Kraftwerk feeling on this track befor you asked. Thats intressting.

stay tuned
joe
vigwig
vigwig 24th Sep 2014 05:33 - 10 years ago
You seem to run in the same crowd that I find myself in. I was attracted to your German accent and found this to be a nice little track. I can't understand German but it is distinctive. I would like you to sing a song of my lyrics in English with your accent. We'll need some music and I suggest some dance beat that pulsates. The words I have so far are "Rock and Roll Reiner" I will develop it more if you are interested.
joecramer
joecramer replied 24th Sep 2014 - 10 years ago
Nice to hear that you like the sound of my voice.

Your offer sounds interesting.
Never done something like that befor.
Mostly i do my own music with my own lyrics
or my lyrics to others music

So i would enjoy to do something new.
Develop it and stay in touch.

I will wait for your work
joe
AZZYKO
AZZYKO 13th Sep 2014 14:52 - 10 years ago
Unusal style for this genre but sounds pretty good!
joecramer
joecramer replied 14th Sep 2014 - 10 years ago
Hello Azzyko.

Nice to hear that you think it sounds good.

Like i sayed befor, its a kind of a prototyp. If peoples like it, i will think about a "real" production .....

Thanks for your words and the time you invested.

stay tuned
joe
ShortBusMusic
ShortBusMusic 3rd Sep 2014 15:45 - 10 years ago
Hey Joe, really creative work here. I haven't heard the original shanty, but I know you have put a really cool modern tilt to it and it works really well. Like I said, it isn't easy to take a song that is over 80 years old and make it work in today's market.

Outstanding effort. It is a little bit long, but what the heck, it is a shanty. They are supposed to be long :)

Bear
joecramer
joecramer replied 3rd Sep 2014 - 10 years ago
Hello ShortBusMusic

Thanks for your kind words.
I am happy that you think it works.

Maybe i realy should do a -Madagaskar- track,
with the knowing that i do a -Madagaskar- track.

....the only thing is, my daughter hates the lyrics
- to depresive - :) so i have to do it in the night

stay tuned
joe
StaticNomad
StaticNomad 2nd Sep 2014 19:00 - 10 years ago
Hi. I guess there aren't many tracks in the 'German electro sea shanty' genre. Maybe this is the only one!

I like the vibe and the vocals work well. The main percussive synth movement is good but I really feel the track is just too repetitive.

There are lots of fills or even proper changes you could add to make things more interesting.

Sorry I don't have much else to say but that's because I can't find many different sections to talk about.

Because it's so repetitive, it seems very long.

Let me know if you hear it differently.
joecramer
joecramer replied 2nd Sep 2014 - 10 years ago
Hello Static Nomad

I dont know if it is the first one of a genre :) who knows

The point is - i didnd start to do this track.

I just listen to some loops and by that i found this stereo toms. I liked the sound and the hypnotic feeling and so i just taked a mic and maked some noise to it. It ends on this madagaskar song and i loved the beat and this sad lyrics.
So i just sang the lyrics a few times and later i tryed to make some sounds around. AND a bad thing happend. I didnt hit the notes cause i didnt had any while singing. So only on the main text the notes fits and on the refrain it sounded very bad. So i just take it as it was.

The song is 7 parts long and normaly between all come a refrain. mostly 2 times. i redused that but you are right, it is realy long .......

I realy felt in love to this song and i believe i will do a "real" track with it. And then there will be more sounds and things around. Cause this dieing crew thing and the ocean and the sad feelings .... there can be so much sound

Ok, thanks for your time u spend

stay tuned
joe

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