Premonator With Spivkurl Promenade Mix

hi man

Thank you for listening and commenting! It is much appreciated.

I made everything on Roland Juno Di and Microbrute so 'shot samples' as well as 'computer glitchy synth' is only myself playing/manipulating. The only other samples I used were Spiv's drums and percussions and of course the vocal and guitar stems.

I understand your point after listening briefly to deadmaus' song - Microbrute is sounding very similar to this and definitely 'in your face'.
I know how to produce nice warm saws and sine wave soft leads but mainly it is a very harsh sounding synth if you start manipulating it randomly. The other way around it is to use some effects as you suggested - it will definitely change/soften the color of the original signal. I haven't explored it's full possibilities yet. Few months ago I posted a track with more traditional melodic stuff recorded using that synth. It is very cool and versatile thing even as a 'midi controller' with it's fine micro keys.

From 1:42 the mix sounds balanced to me regardless of that high pitched Microbrute layering but it is of course a personal prefference as my ears became immune to the actual harshness of the synth during the process of making this track. I do not have really good monitors but when turning the gain on each stage on my listening system up to the extreme I can still stand it even on headphones. It is very enjoyable listening experience.

Thank you again for nice comment! Glad you liked the track.

Thank you! I am sorry for slow replying. I truly appreciate your nice words.

I will play your tracks later today when I will have some more time. Till then.

Best, Alex

Hello Ookami

Thans for a nice review.

The song is in 3/4 at 130bpm. Chord progression is FMaj-EbMaj-Dmin-EbMaj. The actual feeling of the music is
a kind of a very slow 9/8 or moderately fast 9/4 meter because the actual rhythm grouping is 3 x 3/4. It is quite unusual approach at least when compared with what is happening in modern dance music. However, the vocals are mainly 4/4 as well as guitars - at least this is how I perceive it mostly.
It all loops fine together because 12 bars of 3/4 are equal to 9 bars of 4/4 in length.
I also slightly manipulated manually the time inside the daw so some sections come a little later than they should strictly mertonomically.

I am glad you liked the song. Thanks for nice comments once again!
Alex

Hi

Thanks for listening and positive words!

Yes, it is quite unusual piece. I am glad that you liked it!
Those 'organic' sounds are on one of the Roland basslines. I used a bass sound that has some other
delayed additional sounds but as I worked quite fast
I decided to keep them anyway. Basically I operated only
with Roland presets, not on it's patch level inside the sound editor. Also some of Microbrute sounds are
quite organic - probably because of the analog nature of the synth and some characteristics of it's filter.
There are 30 tracks here so there is a lot of layering and there is a lot happening in the 'mix'. With vocals, for example, there are at least 5 tracks with different settings for effects which is my way for
creating a sense of depth to the audio I am working with.

Few months ago I started recording real instruments (church organs mainly) using microphones and
I always preffered a 'raw' acoustic sound to the artificially generated. The same regarding instruments.
Of course in this version of Premonator the mix of different stylistical influences is indeed quite weird because I was trying to stick with given audio materials as close as possible and using Spiv's drum samples I mainly 'jammed' on my synths. There is a church 'positive' organ even and of course acoustic piano, string pads, some brass growl lead-ins, few different basslined and several fills.
The 'outro synth' on the left channel is just some real time LFO synth manipulation. Recording this particular way
(I mean: 'live') is fun but I had to make also many adjustments afterwards because the actual idea was to have a kind of a 'proper song' that should also be expressive somehow in a traditional way. The meter is 3/4 but the rhythm grouping is quite unusual
(I tried to explain this in my reply to Ookami somehow).

Thanks for reminding me of Air and for the link to this particular song, I really like chilled sounds like this.

Honestly I didn't really expect such positive looperman feedback considering quite experimental content inside this song so it's really a nice surprise and now I can appreciate the effort that we put into creating this unusual collab project better.

Many thanks for a nice review and also for detailed reply to my comment.

Hello SJ
Thank you for listening and your nice words!
It is much appreciated.

Our musical styles and visions are definitely very different so the result was unpredictable. I was trying to make a kind of a 'proper' song out of the given material - this is one of the final versions from many sketches I came up with when working on 'Premonator' project.
I think the 'original' one will be eventually posted as well sometime.

I am really happy you liked it! Thanks again for taking a listen. All the best to you,
Alex

Thank you so much Bear for the compliments!

I am still learning how to record real instruments (church organs) which is a part of my work as a restorer of historical monuments here in Poland. Also there is some amount of piano music I really want to capture, mostly classical.
Producing and recording using daw is different as it is for me more about the artificial manipulation (I mean creating musical 'illusions') than playing everything 'live' honestly. I am not that much active as a performer/keyboardist currently but there are another ways in which I can still somehow continue music-making. I will definitely return to playing at some point and maybe will upload more live recorded music on looperman then as well.

We put much energy to make "Premonator' project happen and I am glad that Spiv allowed me to publish this particular version of the song. Thank you for your support and your nice words on this unconventional composition. I much appreciate that.

Best to you, Alex

hello Frozen. thanks for listening and your nice review! All those strange insect and as others say 'organic'
sounds are basically made using Microbrute synthesizer. There is some manual LFO manipulation and
sequencer running at a fast rate. 'Robot' is autotune effect on vocals (I used 'KeroVee' plugin).
I am glad you liked the track. Till next time, A.

hello Joe
Thank you for listening and your continous support! .

I am sorry for the late reply.

Yes, it is a kind of musical experiment and actually I am far away from the sound-image of the original. I 'autotuned' Spivkurl's vocals - all the rest (except drums and percussions) are my synths. I still need more time to use them fully and creatively - so far the possibilities to shape the sound are impressive even by playing with presets.
It is really nice you mentioned Air because I really like their 'Moon Safari' album; as for the Kraftwerk I must say I know only some single songs - 'The Model' and others but it is of course very classic band. I am happy that you pointed some connections eventhough I've tried to create everything almost entirely from scratch and didn't really chase for any particular style at least consciously haha

I am really glad you liked the song. Thanks once again for your nice words!
Best to you, Alex

hello. Thank you for your nice words! I am really happy you liked the song. Alex

Hello Chris!
Thank you so much for listening and nice words!

Sorry for a delay in replying.
This track is a result of the work with Spivkurl on developing 3 quite simple ideas, it was a really inspiring process for me.
My version of this particular song is very different from that basic, initial idea created few months ago. I changed the melody and Spivkurl's voice was artificially tuned.
I entirely re-arranged the structure using only vocal, guitar and drums.
This is under 'electronic' label mostly because of the electro inspiration I had from Spivkurl but of course there are many other stylistical influences including classical music even (I used church organ sound).

It makes me really happy that you liked my unusual recording! I much appreciate your nice comment.

Best to you, Alex

Thank you so much Steve!

There were many versions - now I want to make an retrograde update and post one of those less organic. No problem with remixing at all.

I will post more electronic tracks for sure somwhere in the near future.

Thank you for good words! I am really happy you liked what I did.
Alex

hello Orlando

thank you for all kind words and adding this one to your favourites. It is much appreciated!

Alex

hello ReonN

thank you for listening and your comment! Synths were Roland and Microbrute. It is nice that you experienced this composition of sounds being narrative.

Thanks again!
Alex

hello Ed

Thank you for listening and kind comment!

Actually all the synths on the track are mine - Spiv helped me alot to record them properly.
Those unusual sounds are programmed sequences from Arturia Microbrute played at a high rate.
I think the 'Premonator' will still evolve and the other version will be posted sometime.

Regarding to the radio... basically I've tried what I can on the level of composition and arrangement but still there is so much I can do to adjust my recordings to the modern standards. They are usually much quiter. This might become important when playing tracks as a list/set or as an album. So far my focus is on the single tracks in different styles as it somehow fits Looperman nature very well so the lack of mastering is not the problem.
Our styles are indeed quite different but recently I've started experimenting with real synthesizers. Also I want to get more of them in the near future so I will definitely be continuing the 'process'.

I am glad that you enjoyed our efforts. Thanks again!
Alex

Hello Domenico!

Good to see you again.

Thank you so much for your kind comment, I truly appreciate your support.

I must say that I totally transformed the original 'Premonator' to something entirely new but I didn't expect it will turn into something like that as I worked with given material experimenting a lot, I mean: there is an autotune hard processing on vocals and my arrangement is very different from Spivkurl's version (it will be published at some point if the future as well!). I am still learning how to record real synthesizers (I've used Roland JunoDi and Arturia Microbrute exclusively for creating all instrumental parts of this song). I didn't actually use any of 'epiano' sounds but a combination of acoustic piano and string pad. For now I am still by presets but I think I should find more time to create my own patches soon. I will be definitely expanding my synth sound in the future.

I am happy you liked the song. Thank you again.

Best, Alex