Berlin 1935 - EricMilligan

Thanks, PeakEQ.

Eric

Thanks, Dubjoka. I appreciate the encouragement! :)

Hi, Paul. Thanks for the encouragement! I just checked out Craigavon on Google Earth. Not too far from Belfast, where is where my family originally came from. :)

Thanks, BadNode. Took a while to figure out where I wanted to go with the track. I think I need to refine the mix a bit, though. Some of the ear candies are, I think, buried a bit too much.

Eric

Thanks, Zootman! Yes, definitely check out the movie. For me, it was like stepping into another world. Interesting to visit. Not a place I'd be comfortable staying in, though. :)

Thanks for the positive feedback on the track, TheFrenZ. I listened to it last night for the first time on my monitors. Had only used my headphones previously. It generally has a Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" sound to it and you can see from the waveform display on LM that I pushed the output level way up into a hard limiter. That's very unusual for me. I usually try to keep each instrument/sound in the mix quite distinct and always try to maintain a lot of dynamic range in the output. It sounds a lot better on my headphones than it does on my speakers. Might need to not be so lazy next time and test it on a variety of systems. I usually do that, but did not this time.

Thanks, Oli. This was unusual for me. Kind of an experiment. I typically will use midi drum patterns in my tracks, but rarely use loops. I usually play everything else using my controller keyboard. Was interesting also to limit myself to only loops and samples available stock in Logic Pro. Did have to go elsewhere for the vocal parts, but everything else was drawn from the stuff supplied with Logic.

Thanks, Kayos2. I'm glad you like different. I had a lot of false starts and going down dead-ends making the track, but I guess that's not totally unusual. Didn't quite know what I actually wanted to do with it. I still have no real idea if it actually qualifies as "techno", which is what I was aiming at. One think I got reinforced when I watched the film is that, unlike pop, dance music can have long passages with little or no introduction of new elements as dancers/listeners lock in to the groove. I guess trance is theoretically a prime example of that. In my tracks I have typically not done that because I realize that they will never actually be played in a club or for dancing anywhere. But, with this track, since I was trying on purpose to make a German style techno track, I did change the production a bit accordingly.

Hi, DanMed. Thanks for the encouragement! Yes, definitely watch the film. I can recommend it for sure.

Eric

Hi, Anthony. Thanks for the kind words. I think it is very interesting movie. I sometimes think what my life might have been like if I'd decided to try to be a professional musician instead of a lawyer. I think I would have been a complete and miserable failure. I definitely make the right decision keeping music as my escape, not my job.