oh my... oh my, oh my, oh my... this is ridiculously cool! it is my sincere wish that everyone in the world get to hear such intensely crafted, beautifully native sounds... every day!
I actually went after the next piece specifically because of a review you once gave me about my use of percussion. Naturally I took a divergent path along the way, but the foundation is ultimately indebted to you - I'll be sure to make a nod there before it's done. I'm really glad you enjoyed this one, Minette. It brings a smile to my face! Cheers.
just got done listening to Stephens version before popping over hear.
great work on the efxs.
and all the extras are a nice contrast to the minimal version stephens got up.
powerful.
the dub culture is oozing out the poures hear.
Love it!
Bless!
Dub culture is a powerful and under-appreciated in the larger context, for sure. Maybe this is good though - it's the dubsters who'll inspire and subvert things without anyone knowing what's going on! Thanks for the kind words arkeytexture!
Wow I really love the imagery on this on. The percussion is great! Really drives it. I don't know much about DUB, but I know what I like.... and I like this! The beat just takes your body over... it forces you to move. Great job Fam!
lol - it's one of those tracks that can't be ignored, at least not if the volume's at 50% or more! It's funny hearing this one a couple years later - and reminds me that it's totally possible to make interesting and compelling music with a DAW. And to think once upon a time I thought it was only fakery! Glad you enjoyed this one! Cheers!
Thanks much John. It's always a pleasure getting the thumbs up from artists I admire. Working with Salook and Avonaco on this was really a good experience.
So I am back for another pass at this one. I did not realize it was part of a set :) I just finished listening to the other panels and this is just marvelous how you 3 have put all of this together into one comprehensive, cohesive story.
Being the glutton that I am, it would be wonderful to have this trilogy as one long, wonderful track :) Like a giant audio mural painted by 3 different masters.....especially now that I see/hear how all of this is connected (I'm old and slow, so you will have to forgive me).
Hey Bear - thanks for that suggestion on putting them all together as a single track. Changes the whole listening experience! I've had very fortunate collaboration experiences on this site now, and am all ready looking forward to my next excursion. Cheers!
Wow! This is a great one. I still like the edginess. I really like the story behind the title for this track! You've got the knack for making a good drum track. This one definitely transports you into the African Wild with the jungle and tribal sound. This is still a Fun listen after all this time.
p.s. Thanks for listing my track in the Rave For The Golden Age Forum.
Thanks Todd. This one still has a special slot for me, and I still dig listening to it when I remember to give it a spin. I think that's the thing about inspiration and inspired pieces - somehow they retain the Spirit of that Moment. It's so cool hearing all our evolutions in this, and stepping back to hear how we're really still in the same currents but doing things differently. Great fun. Thanks!
Wow man listening to this again after such a long time, worth leaving another review....become very familiar with your style over the last year which to me... considering 'Music to have a rebellion to' has mellowed since this early material..though the chaos is still there in your present work ...it seems more controlled....here we have pure uncut furiousness which could easily be the representation of a furious hippo hell bent on bringing chaos to a village...the whole context of the piece listening now gives me those animated images.....within the madness of this track is some excellent sound work man...and it is Dub!
In the mood for listening to more from the man...and there are some classic tracks to choose from.
Yeah, jahknow called it way back when, didn't he? It's dub totally removed from the Jamaican Reggae spices, but remains unadulterated Dub nonetheless. Raw, ferocious and ultimately danceable. Same stream, different gyrations. Cheers!
Digging the updates Sean, always sounds so different hearing it on the loop, still an intense experience, feelings of movement above ones head, ghost like and supernatural the dials are moving up and down on this version the ululations and wailing's giving indications of something trying to enter this world..great mix my man and a pleasure experimenting these realms with you and Avanaco
What is that about streaming music vs. the copy on your hard drive? I've noticed that on the streaming radio station on the other site as well - there's a dynamic that's totally different. This has been a fantastic collaboration experience for me. Thanks again for bringing me in, and for introducing me to Avonaco. Feels like a cabal forming somehow...don't worry citizens, we're benevolent.
Awesome, very creative, unique. Sorry for repeating what's been said, but it was my first impression too : it totally puts you into a state of trance!! Can easily picture the fire, the scents, the shaman dancing around you, saying his ritual prayers...
Very visual stuff, wonderfully made with unusual sounds to me, thanks for this high quality sonic moment. Fav'd.
Thanks for the fave! Makes me feel like I got it right! I think all the right components were in the foundation, and I was just able to hear a version that would replicate the experience of falling into trance. Thanks for the wonderful review. Cheers!
Fantastic! I can always count on your music to take me on an exciting journey without every leaving my livingroom....Thank you for a wonderful trip. I am looking forward to the final collaboration.
Hi Pierce County Gal. We're currently waiting on Avonaco's version, and then I'm hoping to announce and link the three via the forums. I'm also hoping to post all three on Mixposure so they can easily be played back to back (and in 320kbs form for quality). Had a blast doing this one, and am glad you enjoyed the listen!
Good thing we've got such variety at our disposal. Not everything is for everyone. Yeah, I like the percussion here, too. Tempted to play some lead balalaika over the whole thing at some point, as I'm not totally satisfied with this one yet. Cheers.
lol - philosophy and music you can dance to! I actually made a series of MIDI phrases and then rearranged them in different orders and plugged them into different instruments trying to recycle everything here. A lot of fun to make, too! Thanks for the listen and review. Thanks for the fave - that's about the biggest compliment possible!
Damn!!This track is off the chain. The vibe(s) are fantastic and the mix is killer... the melody has depth and sub plots underlying similar to the movie " Inception". This is one hell of a track N0mad. THAT'S what's up.
Wow, I haven't looked at this page in a long time! I can't believe how many favorites and reviews are now gone. Guess a lot of members have deleted their accounts.
Glad you dig this one, my friend. We've got to collaborate more directly.
I loved this track N0mad. The unreality and imagery are astounding. The sounds don't mingle... they dance together in a very rhythmic but corporeal way. Very Nice!
The first of the songs that got me to admit that real music can be made with a DAW. Being a live performer, I really was bound up in the idea that if you're not banging on skins, plucking strings, or blowing across or through things, it's not really music. Now if I can only get my 14 year old to see this as well! Glad you enjoyed it - thanks for the review.
This one seems a little more upbeat in tempo than others I've heard from you. After hearing those tracks you sent the other day I am trying to picture your evolution from that to this and it all makes sense, I think, haha.
The title is so appropriate and as I'm listening to this I'm picturing in my mind little folk working furiously to this beat, it is a humorous thought to say the least. Like your other work this just has a great percussive and almost mystical feel to it. You have a unique quality that is mind boggling, I don't think I could make such a track, it's not in me but it lives vicariously in your spirit.
Yes, there's a thread of swampy psychedelia in the analog stuff that shifts into this approach as well. Figures you'd hear the "mystical" feel as well, and it was that that created the imagery of gnomes slipping through the veil into mundane reality. Once I had that, it was pretty obvious where the tune had to go next. Thanks for the listen and review, Wayne!
Merci! I spent part of my youth in Cameroon (which is why my French is fossilized now) and the music really effected me. Hopefully I captured some of the happiness of the music that influenced me in those early years. Thanks for the listen and the review.
Thanks for sharing this gem, so darn cool. Your music always grounds me in some way. A virtual feast for my ears. Man, I'm on play three right now, soaking it in like a sponge. Nice bass and rhythm, powerful to say the least.
You never seem to amaze me when I listen to your music and I can certainly appreciate all that went into making this. Ableton is quite the toy, so much fun and creativity happens when using it.
Ableton for me is really about doing it live. This one is no exception, and I always try to keep things under 10 or 12 track so that I can mix it all with my MIDI controller on the fly. What you hear is what I play - though recording samples of the instruments on hand requires a lot of assembling the elements first. I'd really love to be able to hit a club and perform this stuff live as it's recorded. Thanks for the listen and encouragement Wayne!
wow....what can I say that hasnt been said already.....nice to hear the bullroarers and all the other tribal elements make this a real visual track
excellent work
Trax
I'm not sure which I enjoy more, your music or your track descriptions. Both are marvelous and both are an educational opportunity.
This one had to be difficult to mix with so much going on, yet it is crystal clear and everything is just so well placed.
You just keep getting better and better. I believe that is because you constantly look for more - you are a real student of this thing called music. When you discover something, you are more than happy to wrap it up with a bow and share it with all of us - with your descriptions and your music.
You are a treasure my friend. Thanks for all you do, and for this magnificent song. Straight to favorites.
I suspect you like my stuff because like you I come at this from a tradition of beating on skins, plucking skins, and blowing across holes in wood. Olde Skool Jamming. I wish I'd known about this site and you when I was still in Arizona, as I think you'd be a blast to sit down and jam with! Thanks for the kind review, and shoot me an email with your address if you'd like any of my stuff for your collection! Thanks Bear!
It's definitely one of my experimental pieces - an attempt to marry Punjabi Sufi music with Dub. The `pella comes from a singing tradition that Europeans and Americans into ethnic stuff might recognize through the work of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. I suspect it's one of those musical forms you have to develop a taste for. Cheers.
Man very nice piece, extremely entertaining listen, did you do vocals for the piece, being an Aussie, doesnt sound like a Aboriginal voice, but very close though,(Maybe in a track like this has change there sound a litle??) loving all the sounds you have put together to make this piece, have to say you are extremely creative when you do your works, they never dissappoint ever, massive piece, instant fav my friend...oh great collab by the way...Massive Fav...Peace n Respect...Estefano...
Estefano - right you are. Not Australian Aborigines, but I'm playing with the word and concept (surprise, surprise). Seems the word comes from Latin - "ab origine" or "original people" in this case. The title actually has to do with a discussion I had recently with a friend and the question at hand was "how long do people have to live somewhere before they become indigenous?" That, and an ongoing theme I've been discussion with Salook regarding Urban Aborigines (think dumpster diving). Glad you enjoyed the listen! Cheers.
I had forgotten how utterly creative your works were and are! People have already said it, but this is very trance inducing... in fact I'm finding it hard to type this review... ha ha! You use such creative sounds, you introduce me to sounds I've never heard! The vocals on this one are really something special! Great work my friend!
Thank you my man! Still swimming in the same streams, and had to laugh when I realized the first tracks I posted here I put up as Trance. None of the people making Trance music quite understood that it was really more of a disclaimer than a claim to the genre. I think the vocals came from Avonaco for this one, and they certainly attracted me to doing the collab.
Throw the Sine "THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP" on every kick you got trance
But what seperates this track is the "trance"dental properties of human perception. We are absolutely one.
I find it odd, when someone wants to fight me because I flipped him off for him calling me a pussyfaggot. It's like ... well who are you referencing?
I could pull the whole Freudian concept of mother/father relationship, But lets take it further.
To quote "Waking Life", a very difficult poem/movie on life...
I've been thinking also about something you said.
- What's that?
Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come from over time. Everybody always say that they've been the reincarnation...of Cleopatra or Alexander the Great. I always want to tell them they were probably some dumbfeuck like everybody else. I mean, it's impossible. Think about it? The world population has doubled in the past 10 years, right?
- So if you really believe in that ego thing of one eternal soul,
- Mm-hmm.
then you only have a 1 in 4 chance of your soul being over 150 years old. And for it to be over 120 years old, then it's only one out of six.
-So what are you saying then? Reincarnation doesn't exist... or that we're all young souls like where half of us are first-round humans?
No, no. What I'm trying to say is that somehow I believe...reincarnation is just a-- a poetic expression of what collective memory really is. There was this article by this biochemist that I read not long ago, and he was talking about how when a member of a species is born, it has a billion years of memory to draw on. And this is where we inherit our instincts.
-I like that. It's like there's, um, this whole telepathic thing going on that we’re all a part of, whether we’re conscious of it or not. That would explain why there's all these, you know? seemingly spontaneous, worldwide, innovative leaps in science, in the arts.
You know, like??? the same results poppin' up everywhere independent of each other. Some guy on a computer, he figures something out, and then almost simultaneously, a bunch of other people all over the world figured out the same thing.
- Mm-hmm.
They did this study. They isolated a group of people over time, and they monitored their abilities at crossword puzzles... in relation to the general population. And then they secretly gave them a day-old crossword, one that had already been answered by thousands of other people.
Their scores went up dramatically, like 20-50 percent....
So it's like once the answers are out there, you know?, people can pick up on 'em.
It's like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.
on Jungulation by n0mad23
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
we would be a better species for it! :)
m
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on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
great work on the efxs.
and all the extras are a nice contrast to the minimal version stephens got up.
powerful.
the dub culture is oozing out the poures hear.
Love it!
Bless!
on When Hippos sing with Frogs by n0mad23
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
I am impressed
Faved
John
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
Being the glutton that I am, it would be wonderful to have this trilogy as one long, wonderful track :) Like a giant audio mural painted by 3 different masters.....especially now that I see/hear how all of this is connected (I'm old and slow, so you will have to forgive me).
This one is even better the second time around!
Well done gents.
Bear
on When Hippos sing with Frogs by n0mad23
p.s. Thanks for listing my track in the Rave For The Golden Age Forum.
Keep on dub'n it up.
on When Hippos sing with Frogs by n0mad23
In the mood for listening to more from the man...and there are some classic tracks to choose from.
cheers.
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
Cheers.
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
Very visual stuff, wonderfully made with unusual sounds to me, thanks for this high quality sonic moment. Fav'd.
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
on The Joy in Little Things by n0mad23
on reCycling - Incandescent Shivaism by n0mad23
live seen through a looperman! :)
on Dancing in the Dreamtime by n0mad23
Glad you dig this one, my friend. We've got to collaborate more directly.
on Factory Gnome Midnight Party by n0mad23
on Factory Gnome Midnight Party by n0mad23
The title is so appropriate and as I'm listening to this I'm picturing in my mind little folk working furiously to this beat, it is a humorous thought to say the least. Like your other work this just has a great percussive and almost mystical feel to it. You have a unique quality that is mind boggling, I don't think I could make such a track, it's not in me but it lives vicariously in your spirit.
Excellent my friend, always a pleasure!
Wayne
on The Examined Life - Jumping into the Waters mix by n0mad23
on The Examined Life by n0mad23
You never seem to amaze me when I listen to your music and I can certainly appreciate all that went into making this. Ableton is quite the toy, so much fun and creativity happens when using it.
Great track Sean, always a pleaure!
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
wow....what can I say that hasnt been said already.....nice to hear the bullroarers and all the other tribal elements make this a real visual track
excellent work
Trax
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
I'm not sure which I enjoy more, your music or your track descriptions. Both are marvelous and both are an educational opportunity.
This one had to be difficult to mix with so much going on, yet it is crystal clear and everything is just so well placed.
You just keep getting better and better. I believe that is because you constantly look for more - you are a real student of this thing called music. When you discover something, you are more than happy to wrap it up with a bow and share it with all of us - with your descriptions and your music.
You are a treasure my friend. Thanks for all you do, and for this magnificent song. Straight to favorites.
Bravo.
Bear
on Hybridity - a Subversive Dance by n0mad23
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
Man very nice piece, extremely entertaining listen, did you do vocals for the piece, being an Aussie, doesnt sound like a Aboriginal voice, but very close though,(Maybe in a track like this has change there sound a litle??) loving all the sounds you have put together to make this piece, have to say you are extremely creative when you do your works, they never dissappoint ever, massive piece, instant fav my friend...oh great collab by the way...Massive Fav...Peace n Respect...Estefano...
on The Joy in Little Things by n0mad23
Thanks for this.
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
K.. my thoughts...
Throw the Sine "THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP" on every kick you got trance
But what seperates this track is the "trance"dental properties of human perception. We are absolutely one.
I find it odd, when someone wants to fight me because I flipped him off for him calling me a pussyfaggot. It's like ... well who are you referencing?
I could pull the whole Freudian concept of mother/father relationship, But lets take it further.
To quote "Waking Life", a very difficult poem/movie on life...
I've been thinking also about something you said.
- What's that?
Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come from over time. Everybody always say that they've been the reincarnation...of Cleopatra or Alexander the Great. I always want to tell them they were probably some dumbfeuck like everybody else. I mean, it's impossible. Think about it? The world population has doubled in the past 10 years, right?
- So if you really believe in that ego thing of one eternal soul,
- Mm-hmm.
then you only have a 1 in 4 chance of your soul being over 150 years old. And for it to be over 120 years old, then it's only one out of six.
-So what are you saying then? Reincarnation doesn't exist... or that we're all young souls like where half of us are first-round humans?
No, no. What I'm trying to say is that somehow I believe...reincarnation is just a-- a poetic expression of what collective memory really is. There was this article by this biochemist that I read not long ago, and he was talking about how when a member of a species is born, it has a billion years of memory to draw on. And this is where we inherit our instincts.
-I like that. It's like there's, um, this whole telepathic thing going on that we’re all a part of, whether we’re conscious of it or not. That would explain why there's all these, you know? seemingly spontaneous, worldwide, innovative leaps in science, in the arts.
You know, like??? the same results poppin' up everywhere independent of each other. Some guy on a computer, he figures something out, and then almost simultaneously, a bunch of other people all over the world figured out the same thing.
- Mm-hmm.
They did this study. They isolated a group of people over time, and they monitored their abilities at crossword puzzles... in relation to the general population. And then they secretly gave them a day-old crossword, one that had already been answered by thousands of other people.
Their scores went up dramatically, like 20-50 percent....
So it's like once the answers are out there, you know?, people can pick up on 'em.
It's like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.
http://samvak.tripod.com/alivid.html
I'll send you a email soon as some of your thoughts here are things that I've been thinking about lately, too.
Singularity underlies multiplicity. You probably already grok this.