Spivkurl

Excellent sounds. Great songs. I would like to hear the vocals up a little more in the mix (I had difficulty understanding them). I think it is an excellent song.

Another excellent production. I like the mix, and how you blended in all the instruments to accompany the singer. Nice work.

Very emotional passionate work here. love the story. definitely a fav. Thank you both for a wonderful collaboration. Simply the best here!!! -EazyBeatz- :)

superb production that really highlights what can happen when great hearts and minds collide - bravos

Pat, I knew Mark was on to something when I heard his rough sketch, but now hearing all of the additions, and then having them mixed and mastered by one of the best...well, it truly did turn out to be amazing song. Has a great Pink Floyd vibe to it with the addition of the vox and lead guitar. Your production skills are off the charts good. Thanks to both of you for putting in some extra effort on this one. It really is a special song now. Well done gents!!

Bear

Patrick,
Your mastering of this song shows why you won Bear's contest….superb!!! The pleasure was all mine in joining y'all on this gem.
The lyrics sort of just fell into place … I wanted the listener to think I was singing about a lost lover the first couple of verses and then the surprise hits.
Bear, well Bear is Bear and he never puts out crap…hats off.
Mark.

What a pleasant surprise...really well done!:)

Compliments_____Orlando

thanks for your comprehensive reply. I am very impressed by the engineering work you did here and on the competition track.
I said this only because of the perspective of my personal temporary preferences regarding to music as a listener I have... thanks for explaining the details - it is much appreciated! Alex

interesting... but not really the way I like. Guitars and vocals really follow the overall feeling of this track which is a good thing... I enjoyed it!
I am not a fan of this song but from 3:15 it sounds very fine. I imagine myself jamming to this hahaha.
how about make it mono by the way? Or at least remove the reverbs?
very nice work,
Alex

Wow, this sounds really good. I love the guitar!
:)

Everything is sounding excellent on my system. Great work.

I would call this Aceed-Step. As it has elements of old school dub-step and even older school aceed (acid-house) with a sprinkling of Electro. Super Creative and spivtastic (A new word to secribe great electronic music)
Steve

Love that part at 1:04!! This song is definitely one of your most underrated songs, Spiv.

Well done.

Sorry for the late comments Spiv but I do want to congratulate you on a stellar mix and a victory, you and Orlando deserved it! What can I say that hasn't already been said, it's excellent.

Way to go!

Wayne

many thanks for your reply! Yes, of course it would be better to simply pick up guitar and correct that part. I am not too much into the autotuning and pitch correcting as well - it may ruin the natural sound and the 'original' message for the most part.
But overall it could be 'listenable' and even consonant in here without correcting notes - it's quite subiective from person to person. It blends in the huge reverb anyway so it is just a detail.
Thanks again for your thoughts - it's always appreciated!
Alex

Pat - I am inspired by your work. Somebody mentioned "endless space in the sound field" that you are able to achieve. I have noticed this before - especially your control of the bass frequencies. This is for sure an area of mixing where the great stand out from the good. Congratulations on your recognition with this piece. Very much deserved. I look forward to working more with you. All the best. Dan

Hi Spiv!
I can hear a hard work in the track! Nicely done! Amazing piece of art! Respect!

hi again.
I love this track.
Your entire album (containing also this song) was probably the one of the most inspiring things I came across when joining this site! Your approach is very uniqe and interesting when it comes to construct powerful basslines (0:49 and 2:48!).
There's some a little bit of instrumental improvisation at 1:18, 1:48 and from 2:03 - I like that! this piano melody you're playing from 1:18 sets this glitchy track more in the traditional tonalities. There's so much going on underneath all 'electronic weird sounds' - I mean the cheap lead and subtle piano lines! I can feel a connection with this work. I'd label it unique once again and very creative.

I love the 'reprise' part (when all the elements go crazy - 3:17) and very classic ending. Are you playing a classical piano music as well?

This is great because I am able to see things different now and more 'in details' than when I am just listening to the album.
Very nice work! Alex

yeah! I mean the D major over a D minor from from 2:01. Can you see a difference?
Basically Im writing this only to bump up my track at the top of a list. Hope you dont mind. It's all about that! Alex

nice work/great track! don't see the difference between D and d? It's all floating, isn't it?
This track is great because it is as it is!

Congratulations, Alex

Congratulations! Amazing song! hearing this i realize how much i have to learn XD

Greetings yet again, Spiv. I guess I’m mostly back to offer congratulations on winning the competition. I have now seen you in your different T-shirts (that’s really what it’s all about, isn’t it?) on your blog, though I’d say you were a little more prominent in the shots than the T-shirts.

One thing I’ve been impressed with is how the good mixes really brought out how good a piece of music the original actually is, providing it’s mixed well. I didn’t really think much of the original, though I completely understand that was the point as the errors were intentionally left in. So, overall, quite a skilfully constructed piece and competition.

Seems to have really caught on, with so many people giving it a go. I really couldn’t be bothered to check any more out after about 7 or 8. They started to all sound way too similar.

I’m still mildly tempted to do a perversely different mix of this sometime and I must also do that with your Nitr8 classic (eg banj metal). But I’m always so busy knocking out my own little pop tunes. *

Anyway, congrats again and maybe the most impressive thing you’d done with this mix is get stuff to be so loud and powerful. Interesting as it’s basically an emotive chillout groove piece so not some piece of aggressive dubsteppery or grindcore or whatever.

*Here’s my latest funky 303 one https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/160997

hi, this song is probably the one of my favourites ever from the all what I've ever-heard when joining this site - I was listening to your entire album many times but this one is a great number! It reminds me of 'Can’t get you out of my head'. That's why I can feel some connection with this music!
It's a club smash-hit with a killer bass-line!

You know the bass in a song is good when you can feel it, in addition to hearing it. I love the feeling when the vibrations in your body, haha. And by having the volume up when I hit play I was also able to remove some of the paint on the walls, haha.

Your music is always so innovative, but the secret to what you accomplish is your attention to detail. Once again, you display not only your musical abilities, but your tremendous skills as an audio engineer. Well done Pat. Really well done. I hope all is well.

Bear

Hi there,

I like this track. I love experimenting with your samples and have tried to use them in the past for some of my tracks, but they are not as good as what you are producing.

When will this particular track become available to download?

Great job on this project. Well done

Zee.