Fist Bumps Of Fury - StaticNomad

Yo.

A friendly fist bump to thee.

Sorry - I realised shortly after leaving my comment on your Overmyth track that you'd already listened and commented on this one. My apologies - I simply assumed you must have missed it due to it being uploaded while you were away from the site. Listening to yours made me think of it.

"I think a lot of times we, on the loop, listen to a track once then never again."

That is quite standard, I'm sure. Some people make a lot of tracks favourites but I bet they rarely return to listen to them. I don't very often.

I'm not entirely happy with this one but I did a hell of a lot of trimming and sound processing work to get it into this sort of shape so perhaps I can't really make it much better. All the same, I'll still probably give it a go.

Take care,

Furious Nomad

Brutal, toasted greetings.

I don't think I'd heard The Beautiful People before so went and checked it out and I think I can see a connection to the groove at 3:26.

"I've never heard anything quite like this"

Excellent. That's my aim with every track I make. First, to make something I haven't heard before. And then I hope some other people might feel the same.

"bluesy, ballsy and unashamed"

I like to think so.

"so much crazy fun that I can't really critique this."

Sure - I know what you mean. It's supposed to be such an overwhelming riot of sound that you're listening and perhaps not even thinking about technical details or whatever, just letting the badassery course through your veins. Hopefully you can't sit still while listening to this.

Let me know if you have any other thoughts once you've calmed down as I'm always interested to hear them.

Thanks.

Hello for the first time in a long time.

Good to hear you liked this.

"a great powerful mix"

That's good to know. I think it has to be if you want to make a really aggressive, dynamic track that smacks you hard in the face (in a good way, of course).

"there is a straight melodic drum pattern"

I'm not sure what that means. Melody from the drums?

"There must be a harmonic underpinning everywhere in music anyway and I believe in it"

I really don't know as I don't know enough about sound and music to comment with any accuracy.

Thanks again.

Brutal greetings, Mr Mahloo.

I make lots of psychedelic music so I didn't really think of this one as being especially psychedelic. Utterly badass is what I'm going for though, as it's me, I guess I can't help making it a bit psychedelic and weird.

I'm quite curious where these timing errors are so any details on them would be great.

It wouldn't be surprising if there are some as most of the instrumentation is made up of leftover, recycled, cut up bits of guitar and bass from other tracks. I spent a lot of time tidying everything up and tightening the drums wherever possible (without losing the insane vibe) but I'm prepared to do more if it would help.

" riffs are tasty with that bluesy influence"

Yes, I sometimes can't help getting a bit bluesy with my hard rock/metal playing and some of the recycled parts come from a blues track though I guess that adds an extra flavour not present in lots of metal (so does the swing groove).

The slide solo is fun. I've done so much slide playing in so many genres, including heavy tracks.

There's some nice slide in the following heavy track, which is probably my best ever heavy track. Not as mental as this one but still pretty badass:

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

Thanks again and good to hear it got you banging your head about.

Sorry for the slow reply.

Yes, we've talked about EZ Drummer before. I actually have Toontrack's Superior Drummer but it also plays all the EZ stuff. Only about 3 drumkits used here and two are EZ ones.

Does the guitar here cover "most styles"? I thought it was mostly on the heavy side though I guess there is some funkier and bluesier stuff plus some a bit psychedelic and Eastern so I suppose that is a few.

Heavy indeed.

Thanks again, see you around.

Hot damn, Sloebro.

Did listening to this track explode all your valves? Maybe you shook them loose with all the headbanging at the end.

"Primus fell into a Vat of Van Halen and used Edgar Winters' towel to dry off"

An interesting comparison though I feel this one may be heavier than all three of those guys though I don't actually listen to any of them. Primus certainly is weirder and Edgar W much bluesier. There are actually some bits of blues guitar in here as this was begun with some leftover guitar parts from a blues track.

"You have a signature sound that you take with you on every track."

Damn, I hope so. Even so, I still have to make the track good. Distinctive but not very enjoyable isn't good enough.

Yes, awesome heavy ending, giving the track the conclusion it was crying out for. Yes, this is the heaviest thing you've ever heard from me. Let's hope I can sometime go even heavier.

This year has been all about the cello for me as I've made loads of music with it, taking in loads of genres. Here are some highlights for you to inspect:

Cellometallo:

Nuance is Futile http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/176620

Grooving psychedelic cellout:

The Warm Glow Of Yesterday http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/176476

Cello hip hop, jazz, rock etc:

Everything Where It Should Be http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/177063

Psychedelic, Eastern, dark dance/jazz/fusion:

Navigating The Neversphere http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/177970

Psychedelic techno cello:

Dangerous Spaces http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/180406

Psychedelic Eastern shuffle blues (no cello):

The Mythical Gates http://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/177482

I've made other tracks since you've been on here but those should do for now.

Take care.