Description : I took a walk on the wild side and did a dub track. When listening to the instrumental my wife Love and I decided her voice would sound good on this track. I took a reading from one of her zines and broke it down into verses. I'd love to hear what others think of this track!__________________I decided to try a slightly updated mix, but keep the original tempo. I added some delays in the snares. I automated in some delay on the ends of the vocal lines too. The overall mix has some reverb, and a slightly improved mastering. Let me know if you think the older mix was better. ( ;
From my album "I Already Bought Everything."
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Hey thanks so much! I made the instrumental first and then my wife and I decided that her poetry would sound really good with it. I'm glad you agree that it works! Thanks for the review and the fave!
very nice track in dub, man. original and inspirating track. think i'm gonna download the other tracks from yer album ''I Already Bought Everything''. peace out bro.
i have listened to this track 5 times in nearly 1 year time on looperman and i play the download in my home more than i remember!one of my fav tracks i have found on the loop.
"Please check the light in the refrigerator door..." ? Haha, that's pretty wild mang! Suffice to say, I'm just luvin the vox on this! And right there I'm thinkin you could harvest a pretty killer song name. At the mo, my mind's on...
-Freon Exchange
Or just FE which is the element label for Iron. Kinda odd, but what came to mind with the line above and all that stuff about "lone soldiers". Moving past that this keeps making me think of Uma Thurman's character from Pulp Fiction (dunno why). That'd be a cool costume idea if you were to make a music video for this.
On the tech-side, I don't really have anything for ya, coz this is so jammin. The only thing I could suggest is that ya do an up-tempo, Electro/Trip-hop mix of this (think along the lines of the Freestylers stylings of their newer stuff here)... Or maybe you could let someone else do it (friendly hook-up or mini-comp w/stems). Either way, I'm defo gonna save/fave this. Brilliantly done mate. Lates!
Thanks so much for your positive comments! I'm really glad you like the vocals, she did a great job! I left this as "Untitled" because that's what my wife's poem was titled and I didn't want to mess up her work. A remix of this would be cool, maybe I'll try to get some stems together later on. I really appreciate the review and fave!
Spiv, This is the very best I have heard from you. This is amazing! the wah wah synths and the spoken word from your wife....everything fits together so well. Hands down, dude....this is your best.
The very best, huh? I'm really glad you think so, because I'm pretty proud of it! I really like using my wife's voice in production, I wish she'd do more recordings! Thanks so much for the review and the fave!
Yeah, funky it is! I'm glad you found it chill and happy, that makes me happy! I think I know what you mean by future 80's. Thanks so much for the review!
Excellent track,really like that guitar and bassline have very nice flow!Of course Lady Spivkurl voice get along great with the whole track!well-arranged and made track, in any case!
Hey thank you so much for this kind review! Yeah her voice really worked great for this track, I'm glad you think so too! I appreciate the listen and the compliments!
Hey friend, I'm glad you could get into this one! I agree that my wife's vocals were a perfect match for this track. New genre, eh? Another one!? Thanks for stopping by to listen and review!
Hey friend, glad you liked this one! Yeah those lyrics are awesome, I hope to do some more work with my wife's voice in the future. Yep, the guitar is a little loud, but I thought that it makes the track a little more rockin. Thanks for stopping by!
How cool is this song? Let me count the ways.....no wait....there are too many. I love the spacey sound...and tell your wife she has a terrific voice. You took the lyrics from some magazines? "Please check the light in the refrigerator door. It's the only way I'll find my way home." It's fantastic. I love it. -Ken
I'll let my wife know you like her words. Not from magazines exactly, but from personal zines that my wife writes and publishes. She has a lot of talent for writing.
Brilliant track once again and your wifes vocals are awesome, very sweet angelic voice, so gorgeous her voice, plz do more with her vocals or at least plzplz post some here for us to use...
Hey thanks for checking out this track too! It's really good to get feedback on this one, because my wife isn't to pleased with her vocals. I'll let her know that someone else liked it too.
She seemed willing to lay down some more vocals sometime for me to use, so maybe I'll have to take her up on the offer. It would be cool to upload some as a pella, and see what others can do with it.
I really appreciate all of your glowing reviews, and the faves! I'll try and find some more of your tracks to listen to, I owe you one!
Wow man, this is superb! Instant smile from ear to ear. I like your overall mastering on this one. There is a crispness and pulse to this that really makes it come alive! A juicy beat that makes you groove.
Hey S - I like a bit of dub and enjoyed the track. Not sure about the vocal but have'nt listened to the non vocal. Maybe mash the vocal up a bit. Anyway, good job.
Hey, glad you could enjoy the track! I never uploaded this one without vocals. I don't think I'll be changing this one anymore, kind of like it how it is. Thanks for the review!
Thank you very much for the kind comments! Definitely has a lounge vibe to it. I keep trying to tell my wife that her words work really well with this beat, but she doesn't like to hear her voice recorded. Hopefully she lets me put it on the album! Thanks for stopping by to listen to my tracks!
The difference is subtle, but I think it's better with the extra treatments. I think the volume on the bass could come up a little, it's a little buried in the mix and its such a great hook of a bass line. This track just gets better with listening - sure sign of a great track.
I'm glad that you like the changes that I've made. Thanks for the suggestion about the bass, maybe I need to balance things out a bit. Thanks for your help!
Nice electro/reggae feel on this one!
The vocals are good, but a little monotone, could use a little more accentuation, but her voice is nice, and i understand how it can be working with somone who is not a musician, when you have a vision its not always easy to get another two uderstand it! the monotone thing does work, but a little more emmotion would go a long ways!
Pretty good all around though, definatly a very reggae bassline!
Thanks for stopping in! I think it may be monotone just because it was a reading from a written work, not intended for a song at all. She is/has been a musician at times too, and has offered to record some things specifically for use in songs. Thanks for the helpful review!
This is quite good Spiv. It's got a nice compelling beat and melody. It's the kind of thing I might hear in a Beat club of the late 60's. You know, the ethereal poetry reading in a SF bookstore with the very cool beat music playing in the background. Original. Nice stretch.
I know what you mean about the beat club, my wifes words really add to that vibe. She makes some great prose and poetry. Thank you very much for listening and commenting!
This was super fun! Moring 4:2- sesh went down super smoov wit dis on the lickle stereo. I liked Nomad's review for you, but to push even a step further I'd don't clean it up, make it even rawer! I know that's a hard sound to conquer, but this track could go 1 step beyond with this:
slow it down 10 bpm
sample and resample a couple of the parts (organs, plucked guit) and send em thru a bit stauratin filter to phatten and distort the sounds, then maybe add a room style reverb to em or even a mid range delay set to some long drawn out groove, 5/4 :)
I might have to take this mix in two different directions, and see what I come up with. I'm concerned how the vocals would work out to drop to 100 BPM. I know I could stretch them, but that leaves so many artifacts. Who knows maybe it would sync up better at a slower tempo.
Still sounds like Spivkurl even under the dub umbrella. Cool.
Good stuff happening here, and the bass is an instant hook. I love how the bent circuitry responds to it. Such a great groove develops that holds it all together.
I wonder if dubbifying it further might push it closer to the edge. It's a personal aesthetic, and this is lovely as is. I can't help but wonder though what would happen if perhaps her vocals delayed out at the end of each stanza, for instance. Or if there was more reverb and delay on the snare. One of the things I really love about old dub was how much bleedthrough there was with the amps and tracks. I think it gave it this complete or inseparable quality.
Still, this is fantastic, and I hope you play around with this style some more!
3 Nov addition: Yeah man! The further dubifications are fantastic. The echo on the vox is exactly as I imagined! Nice extension of verb, too. Sweet, very sweet.
Thanks for listening man! I'm sorry to say there's no circuit bent stuff going on in this track, But it does have good groove I'd agree.
I might have to do some experimenting with making this track a bit less raw, with some effects or something. There's so much that could be done, but I don't want to ruin a good thing.
Thank you very much friend! Got to have a good groove when it's dub. I'm really glad you like the vocals, she'll be so happy to hear it. I left this untitled, since the original reading from her zine was untitled as well, but maybe I'll work with her to find a title. Thank you much for the fave!
Super track. I love the clarity of the mix great crisp drums and bass line. I love the way your wife recites and is answered by the synth line - downloading & faving.
Thank you very much for your comments! I was unsure about the mix, but it seems to be getting a good response, so that makes me happy. It was really cool hearing my wife's words fit right into this track. Thank you very much for the fave!
Great opening. Very clean and fresh. Wonderful guitar - damn juicy and textury lovin that for sure. This is cool cool sh there man!!!! Wow - totally in glee at these sounds. This actually works man! I think maybe just a bit of Fx on like the tail end of her sentences. But maybe not, the track is so clean and pristine. Excellent work on this one, it's official - this is my fav track of the week. Fav ... can I download? Good man!! Thanks, great job and cheers!
Thank you very much for the review, and only minutes after upload! I wish I could say I played the guitar, but it is a loop which I got from a CD, sounds cool though. I have thought about adding a little dub delay to the vocals, but I'm still not sure about it. I'll give it some thought. Thank you very much for the rave and fave! You know you can always DL my tracks!
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"Please check the light in the refrigerator door..." ? Haha, that's pretty wild mang! Suffice to say, I'm just luvin the vox on this! And right there I'm thinkin you could harvest a pretty killer song name. At the mo, my mind's on...
-Freon Exchange
Or just FE which is the element label for Iron. Kinda odd, but what came to mind with the line above and all that stuff about "lone soldiers". Moving past that this keeps making me think of Uma Thurman's character from Pulp Fiction (dunno why). That'd be a cool costume idea if you were to make a music video for this.
On the tech-side, I don't really have anything for ya, coz this is so jammin. The only thing I could suggest is that ya do an up-tempo, Electro/Trip-hop mix of this (think along the lines of the Freestylers stylings of their newer stuff here)... Or maybe you could let someone else do it (friendly hook-up or mini-comp w/stems). Either way, I'm defo gonna save/fave this. Brilliantly done mate. Lates!
VEry VEry Nice tune, Friend!
/pmk
great work!!
9R
P.S. and Thanx fe Con-structive, Heartical reviews, you give me!!
Keep-it-Up!
good work again my friend
I'll let my wife know you like her words. Not from magazines exactly, but from personal zines that my wife writes and publishes. She has a lot of talent for writing.
Thanks for stopping by to listen and review!
Brilliant track once again and your wifes vocals are awesome, very sweet angelic voice, so gorgeous her voice, plz do more with her vocals or at least plzplz post some here for us to use...
Estefano
She seemed willing to lay down some more vocals sometime for me to use, so maybe I'll have to take her up on the offer. It would be cool to upload some as a pella, and see what others can do with it.
I really appreciate all of your glowing reviews, and the faves! I'll try and find some more of your tracks to listen to, I owe you one!
big up my friends
Wayne, the Humps
The vocals are good, but a little monotone, could use a little more accentuation, but her voice is nice, and i understand how it can be working with somone who is not a musician, when you have a vision its not always easy to get another two uderstand it! the monotone thing does work, but a little more emmotion would go a long ways!
Pretty good all around though, definatly a very reggae bassline!
slow it down 10 bpm
sample and resample a couple of the parts (organs, plucked guit) and send em thru a bit stauratin filter to phatten and distort the sounds, then maybe add a room style reverb to em or even a mid range delay set to some long drawn out groove, 5/4 :)
In other words Jah loved this track!
I might have to take this mix in two different directions, and see what I come up with. I'm concerned how the vocals would work out to drop to 100 BPM. I know I could stretch them, but that leaves so many artifacts. Who knows maybe it would sync up better at a slower tempo.
Thanks for your review and great suggestions!
Thanks for posting
French Kid
Good stuff happening here, and the bass is an instant hook. I love how the bent circuitry responds to it. Such a great groove develops that holds it all together.
I wonder if dubbifying it further might push it closer to the edge. It's a personal aesthetic, and this is lovely as is. I can't help but wonder though what would happen if perhaps her vocals delayed out at the end of each stanza, for instance. Or if there was more reverb and delay on the snare. One of the things I really love about old dub was how much bleedthrough there was with the amps and tracks. I think it gave it this complete or inseparable quality.
Still, this is fantastic, and I hope you play around with this style some more!
3 Nov addition: Yeah man! The further dubifications are fantastic. The echo on the vox is exactly as I imagined! Nice extension of verb, too. Sweet, very sweet.
I might have to do some experimenting with making this track a bit less raw, with some effects or something. There's so much that could be done, but I don't want to ruin a good thing.
I'm glad you liked it, and thanks for the review!