Midnight Sun - StaticNomad

Thanks very much.

It's great to be an inspiration to other musicians. So many have inspired me over the years that it feels appropriate that I can do the same thing for a few other people.

There's a lot to get into when you listen to pretty much any one of my tracks and that's because you're just hearing someone who loves music but gets bored easily so I'm always trying to find a new sound and combinations of instruments that perhaps no one has heard before.

I'm not really a proper composer but a looping jammer who does a huge amount of editing of his playing to try to make something that is interesting and exciting. If it's interesting and exciting to me, I like to think it also will be for other people who are into the styles of music I make.

I don't know if I am the best composer here but I am almost certainly the best composer who uses the name Static Nomad.

Thanks again.

Thanks very much.

I do like heavy music but I don't like it to be too aggressive or brutal. I always have to add lots of melody and groove whenever I make it. I find this one quite chilled out and melodic though it does have a pretty badass middle section.

Thanks for listening.

Hi.

"I like that slow-Metal-spaced-out-vibe"

Yes - I also like that sort of vibe and was planning for it to be chilled out throughout. However, I do also like to rock pretty damn hard so, when I tried out some heavy crashing drum patterns and got a change riff (1:17) I could not resist taking it all pretty heavy as a middle section.

"aloof ambient"

is an interesting, quite eloquent phrase I agree with.

"drums are kick #####"

Thanks. They really have to be if you want to do a decent hard rock/metal track. Then again, I think they need to be at least good if you're doing any groove-based music. And my music is almost always deeply groove-based so I always need quality drums, in differing styles.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Hi.

Yes, a decent heavy guitar sound. I'm not really sure about the feedback you mention. Maybe you mean the reverb on the guitar.

Thanks. I also like it.

OK, Cruminator, you crunch that grenouille and its little jambes.

I like the idea of a Crobocop.

Instead of a #####, he bashes criminals with a Crobar.

Hi. I like your avatar.

Yo, TinyP.

How do things be?

"I need rappers for my psychedelic chillout stoner/doom!"

You should totally start a forum thread requesting rappers for that exact genre. I believe I could make it work really well, even though I've never heard all those genres combined.

"Why dont we have more psychedelic chillout stoner/doom?"

There tends not to be that much chilling going on in the world of stoner and doom. If so, it's more on the dark, malevolent side of things. But my chill here is more like beautiful ambient music. No darkness at all.

"epic work here my friend"

That is generally what I go for. The difference this time is that it's a real short epic.

"I would definitely invest in EZ drummer if i had the the cash! Always sounds amazing!"

I love it and could not make the music I make without either it or similar drum software. I actually have Superior Drummer but mostly load EZ kits into it. You can hear that they have some excellent metal ones. Only two used here but I have more.

I've even got a really cool hip hop EZ kit, which I've used in loads of tracks. I don't mean hip hop drum loops - I mean a proper kit, with loads of classic hip hop drums kind of spanning the history of hip hop.

Thanks again.

Regreetings, Crumagnon Man.

It took me quite a while to work out what I think you might be suggesting.

So, instead of me making the track longer by adding in lots of extended craziness, you want me to not return to the chill stuff on 2:36 but instead extend the heavy middle madness.

But I like the return to the chill!

"keep making it chaotic and mayhem and massive walls of sound and energy as far as you can go"

I could fairly easily do that but I've done it loads of times before eg in

The Bigger The Fatter The Better
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/155188

The obvious thing to do here would be to also take the drums double time in the heavy middle and then see if I can manage some fast kind of widdling leads. Shredding, as some might say.

2:17 I do quite a nice, simple bluesy mostly two note short solo but I could probably manage more of that.

Overall, I quite like the track this length and structure and enjoy the ambient chill mixed with the balls out heaviness. Thanks anyway for the suggestion. I will bear it in mind, as I do with all (sensible) suggestions.

"I believe there is a certain restraint button you have deep in you that prevents you from doing that"

Yes and no. Of course you should always exercise restraint in music making otherwise things will get too extreme and ridiculous and lack finesse and skill. I have to use the restraint control to not make things too ridiculously long, heavy, layered, bizarre and so on.

"Crueactious period!"

No idea what that means.

Tastefully restrained, Concise Nomad.

Yo.

"This one is quite a surprise, particularly length wise"

Are you aware that I've put out three tracks under 4 mins in the last month? It's the new Concise Nomad. No, not really. The full length one is very much alive and making more tracks.

Here's one of those three:

Why The Hell Not

http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/174454

"the sound is incredibly massive and profound"

I'm planning to make it a bit more massive. I do like the look of the waveform here (good peaks and troughs) but think the track could handle being a bit louder. Good to hear you find it profound as that's very important to me. You know by now that I don't make pop music.

"I would hardly compare it to anything 'heavy' uploaded here on Loopeman ever"

I'm not sure I've heard many proper stoner/doom tracks on here. I'm sure there must be some but I guess I haven't found them yet.

Thanks for the feedback.

Yo.

Everyone's saying Sabbath and I don't disagree but I really rarely listen to them. My stoner/doom references are more 90s and since then. But, yes, Sabbath did basically invent this sort of genre.

However, the big, big difference between this track and perhaps any of their stuff is the use of deep chill and ambient elements. Never heard that in one of their tracks but I'm no Sabbath expert so maybe later stuff has it.

"Felt a vocal vibe at 0:48"

I think that's just a guitar note and strings coming together though there are subtle vocal samples in this too (quite possibly also at that point).

" I do feel there should be a short switch up after the end, maybe something a little faster for 8 or 16 bars."

I hear what you're saying and, yes, it would have been so, so easy to take this double time and really pound away with more and more badass riffage.

However, I do double time/half time drum stuff so often that I'm trying to do less of it - just for variation in my body of musical work.

If you want to hear some pumping, mental riffs and switching between fast and mid tempo, try this beauty:

The Bigger The Fatter The Better
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/155188

and this one too

Valvedriven
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/163181

Thanks for your thoughts.

Big comment coming up on your latest track as I'm already a big fan of your stuff.

Word up, Mr 4Fat.

This is right up your metallic street. You'd probably prefer it darker and weirder but I generally try to add more beauty than weirdness though it can be great to combine them.

"when I can play it LOUD!"

Do that right now. You need to for this track.

"wife already screamed at me this week for playing music too loud late at night"

I suggest either headphones or you could make your wife go out with some friends till the early hours. That leaves you with Midnight Sun playing on repeat.

"Was this recorded when you decided to make a guest appearance at their farewell tour?"

A little bit before but I never ended up making that appearance. The Sabbath boys heard some of my heavy music and wanted to book the band that made it to open for them on that tour. They were a bit surprised when they found out that it's all made by one guy at home who doesn't have a band to perform the material live.

So, they offered to be my backing band and we did a few rehearsals (no Ozzy) but it was taking up too much of their time so we quit. Instead, they just warm up the crowd at their gigs by playing some of my best heavy tracks over the PA. Tracks like:

The Bigger The Fatter The Better
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/155188

Valvedriven
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/163181

Chasm
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/172322

Debt Black Hole
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/146806

Roar Stone
http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/171907

Not sure if you've heard all those tracks so give some a go. Loud!

Take care.

Ooooh, Mr Danke!

Good to hear you enjoyed my little stoner/doom bit of fun.

"Faved from the first note"

Yes, it's a simple but very effective pattern. Just 3 slow, short hits on the open D string and then up to a big, powerful C chord. And then a bit of F and G.

"from 1.17 the groovy is like a ton of bricks"

Yes, very powerful drums driven by big cymbals. So much fun!

I've done lots of heavy music but this is probably my first proper stoner/doom track. I listen to a lot of that sort of music so I'm not sure why it has taken me so long to come up with my own track in that style.

If you really do think this is "one of the best 'heavy metal' track here or the most unique one" then you should add it to my forum thread that you probably remember:

http://www.looperman.com/forum/thread/182742/what-are-your-favourite-tracks-on-looperman

People have forgotten about that thread.

Let's get it going again!

Thanks and handshake.

Yo. Mr TheK

I don't actually hear this as being dark. I find a lot of beauty in the raw, kind of spiritual power of this massive guitar sound and huge riffage.

And, if you listen to the elements aside from the guitar and drums (ie strings and pads) there's a lot of beauty and chillout ambience.

In the title of this, the 'sun reflects the bright beauty and the 'midnight' the heavy, slightly darker riffage.

But I overall hear this as a beautiful piece, with some life-affirming heavy power.

"the ending took me a bit by surprise"

I'm not sure why or exactly where you mean. Maybe it comes to an end a bit too suddenly. It's one of my neatest endings in the last year.

Great to hear you liked it.

Thanks.