Excellent! I enjoyed the listen to this one. Really cool too. Diggin the instrument types you used here. They are badass together. Underworld stars playing one of their hit tunes "Out of this world" ha. I could imagine that.
Thank you for sharing with us! Keep making them for real! Peace.
Very cool song you've done here! It seems that we may be delving into similar styles in recent times. I love hearing the organ in there!
I would barely think of this as lo-fi, at least as a whole. I love the frequency range and saturation, possibly a lower mastering threshold would bring out the details more.
Definitely seemed to stop short, and could be expanded much more fully. I like it so far though, it sounds awesome!
Thanks a lot. I wasn’t sure if it’s a good track or not, because it’s not the kind of music I usually make, but it’s really nice to know that people like it. And you’ve noticed the abrupt ending, too! I don’t know, it just sounds right to me. After all, the work of genius is always simple, isn’t it? :)
Okay, it is just the intro... I simply had to click play on this, if only to find out of it was a Luc Van Acker cover song or not... I'm guessing not, but we'll see if vocals arrive.
All that aside, I am loving the sound design in this track! Was this actually recorded to tape? I'm hearing tape and vinyl artifacts, so it's a bit of enigma to me, ha ha. AND now they are both gone, so I'm guessing, no not tape.
None of that is taking away from my enjoyment of this piece, it is deep and wide. The spot percussive delay effects here are a great touch! And now something which I can't tell whether it is guitar or not.
Bass response over here is pumping in a good way, and all of the higher ranges are present in a pleasing way! Cool dynamic range and stereo field!
This is very much my kind of tune, and by checking out your profile I had a feeling it would be! I'm not a rapper, but maybe sometime we can collaborate. I'm deep into the busiest and most unpleasant time of the year personally, and have too many obligations to commit to another. I will try to keep watch on your page. Do you have a webpage?
Hey, man! Thanks for your comments, I’m glad you liked my tracks.
I don’t do much of remix stuff, actually. There are only two remixes on my profile right now. I love one of them, totally hate the other, work on the third one, but consider scraping it . . .
Don’t mean to disappoint you, but it’s not tape. :) It’s a plugin emulation. I don’t use hardware, mostly because I don’t have any. I’m a computer guy, so I do everything “in the box”. I don’t use live recordings either, though right now I consider using cuts from one of Chopin’s nocturnes a fried played for me on a piano, really old and really out of tune, and putting it on top of an electronic beat. If I do, that would be the first live recording in my music ever. So that part you mentioned is actually a guitar plugin with a lot of effects. :)
I’m not a big fan of rap or hip-hop either, but I do like to hear rap vocals in an unusual environment, mostly because they differ so much from conventional singing in the songs people listen to on the radio, for example. Besides, they seem to fit my music, and I can put them on top of almost any of my beats not worrying about chords and stuff like that. Long story short, it would be really awesome to collaborate with you, no matter if you’re a rapper or not. :) So please let me know when you have time. I only have profiles on SoundClound (https://soundcloud.com/coolpictures), Tumblr (http://maxwalkoff.tumblr.com), and Promo DJ (http://promodj.com/walkoff), but it’s mostly the same stuff there.
What a number is this...super cool...has some post romantic attitude with that groovy bass line...a bit too short but at least there is a choice to reply again...:-)
This is really a sweet track! Definitely my sort of trip hop, with an industrial and cinematic side note to it. Has a good drive to it, and some very interesting instruments chosen. Since the other commenter brought up the drums... I must wonder how they were taken from the film for use. Was the film ripped to audio somehow, and if so was it ripped from DVD to WAV? If it was ripped from online or a poor quality copy, or ripped to mp3, then this may be part of what the other commenter was hearing. Sometimes we do the best we can do, of course, but DVD directly to WAV is definitely a great way of getting the full power of a film soundtrack. I know well the hazards of trying to filter background sounds and the like from video rips, but I think overall you have done well, especially for this style of track. It's a very creative and enjoyable effort, and I applaud you for it! Keep doing your thing! Fave!
Hey, man! I’m a big fan of trip-hop genre, and I often try to reproduce that dark, dirty sound in my music, with varying success though. For this track, I recorded the audio directly from my sound card with Audacity. That’s the way I usually record the sounds I like, but I’m not really sure if it does any harm to the audio, since my sound card is not a high-end one. The initial audio was 48 kHz/24 bits, 5,000 or something kbps; I guess, that’s quite a decent quality. By background noise I mean the natural environmental sounds in the movie. In this particular case, there was this mechanical squeak you can hear in the background; my compressor would catch it and make it louder whatever the settings are. Besides, the drums had way too much low end, that constant low-frequency humming. It sounded cool in the movie, but was inappropriate for the track, so I filtered it out. I actually tried to reinforce the drums with some kick and snare samples, but in the end everything sounded just too clean. So I decided to live with it, mixed the other elements in, and waited for some feedback from my listeners. Anyway, I’m glad you liked the track, and I really appreciate your comment. New tracks are coming soon, so don’t miss. :)
Very unusual piece you have created here! Gives me some feelings that I associate with cold-wave or industrial, which is cool! I've been experimenting with those sort of styles a lot as well. I like what you did with both vocal components! Sounds pretty cool so far!
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Thank you for sharing with us! Keep making them for real! Peace.
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I would barely think of this as lo-fi, at least as a whole. I love the frequency range and saturation, possibly a lower mastering threshold would bring out the details more.
Definitely seemed to stop short, and could be expanded much more fully. I like it so far though, it sounds awesome!
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All that aside, I am loving the sound design in this track! Was this actually recorded to tape? I'm hearing tape and vinyl artifacts, so it's a bit of enigma to me, ha ha. AND now they are both gone, so I'm guessing, no not tape.
None of that is taking away from my enjoyment of this piece, it is deep and wide. The spot percussive delay effects here are a great touch! And now something which I can't tell whether it is guitar or not.
Bass response over here is pumping in a good way, and all of the higher ranges are present in a pleasing way! Cool dynamic range and stereo field!
This is very much my kind of tune, and by checking out your profile I had a feeling it would be! I'm not a rapper, but maybe sometime we can collaborate. I'm deep into the busiest and most unpleasant time of the year personally, and have too many obligations to commit to another. I will try to keep watch on your page. Do you have a webpage?
Definitely a big fave!
I don’t do much of remix stuff, actually. There are only two remixes on my profile right now. I love one of them, totally hate the other, work on the third one, but consider scraping it . . .
Don’t mean to disappoint you, but it’s not tape. :) It’s a plugin emulation. I don’t use hardware, mostly because I don’t have any. I’m a computer guy, so I do everything “in the box”. I don’t use live recordings either, though right now I consider using cuts from one of Chopin’s nocturnes a fried played for me on a piano, really old and really out of tune, and putting it on top of an electronic beat. If I do, that would be the first live recording in my music ever. So that part you mentioned is actually a guitar plugin with a lot of effects. :)
I’m not a big fan of rap or hip-hop either, but I do like to hear rap vocals in an unusual environment, mostly because they differ so much from conventional singing in the songs people listen to on the radio, for example. Besides, they seem to fit my music, and I can put them on top of almost any of my beats not worrying about chords and stuff like that. Long story short, it would be really awesome to collaborate with you, no matter if you’re a rapper or not. :) So please let me know when you have time. I only have profiles on SoundClound (https://soundcloud.com/coolpictures), Tumblr (http://maxwalkoff.tumblr.com), and Promo DJ (http://promodj.com/walkoff), but it’s mostly the same stuff there.
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nice track
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handshake, Danke
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