BaoBou
Bethnal Green London, United Kingdom
Joined : 25th Mar 2018 - 7 years ago
Last Online : 17th Dec 2025 - 2 days ago
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on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
what a beautiful composition. I think it sounds particularly "lively", which is certainly due to your mix. If I may say so, your voice somehow reminds me of Edwyn Collins from Orange Juice (unfortunately long deceased). In general, everything fits together perfectly and overall it is a well-rounded work. I enjoyed it very much.
Cheers,
Micky
on EP4 - The Jungle of my Love by BaoBou
All the best,
Dennel
I love Men At Work, so that's a super comparison! thank you so much!
on EP4 - The Jungle of my Love by BaoBou
Great efx sounds. Guitar works is awesome. Good mixing! I don't know if I would call this jungle though maybe disco Rock it is on its own type of sound good work man
In general I think categories are stupid. Anything that falls in one particular category is usually not that interesting; and you can never make categories either granular or generic enough to make it work.
In the end you make CincoCent music and I make BaoBou music. I can tell people a category but I usually say it's as if Eric Clapton joined Steely Dan (on a bad day) and them people know ;)
Thanks for listening and commenting!!
on EP4 - The Jungle of my Love by BaoBou
on EP4 - The Jungle of my Love by BaoBou
on EP4 - The Jungle of my Love by BaoBou
Cheers, M
on EP4 - The Jungle of my Love by BaoBou
Thanks for listening, as always!
on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
Yes, the singing was shy... I was recording it late at night and didn't want to wake everyone up. The original idea was to re-record the vocals, but in the end I liked most of them. You say shy, I say intimate ;)
Here's the final version:
https://youtu.be/Nnlty4oilBc
Final for now anyway, if this makes it to the next album it'll get a complete do-over ;)
on 1 - When you cant see the sun - KingMT remix by BaoBou
De muziek van Mark is natuurlijk ook heel goed en samen hebben jullie nu een geweldige track.
Mischien moeten jullie maar eens samen gaan optreden.
on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
now i just put some music anything really, open my daw blank and get creative from nothing. good job as always playing and singing
I made the opposite journey from yours - I used to simply open a blank Ableton and grab a guitar, but more and more I try to create a structure, start with sort of a goal in mind. It doesn't always work but often I feel it helps to challenge me.
I guess it always helps to do the opposite of whatever you do naturally ;)
Thanks for listening and commenting Paul!
on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
I also wrote it before I went to sleep and the vocals were recorded very low volume with loads of background noise because of this :)
on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
It's great we can use this technology to record our ideas, change them at a keystroke and capture our musical thoughts at any given moment. It's a great tool for the creative music maker.
As far as songwriting, I can come up with more than 10 song ideas in as many minutes with changes and lyrics. Im not bragging but literally, song ideas just pop up in my head once I put that guitar in my hands and I get to work. Freaky in a way but kinda cool how the creative part of the brain works.
Always a good listen!
Wayne
Yes creativity is a weird thing. I'm not sure I can create 10 ideas in 10 min, but I've now found a reasonable flow that allows me to go a bit more in depth on tracks but doesn't block me trying to get it "perfect" (that's as good as I can make it, which is extremely far from perfection).
BTW the track that frustrated me last week is the track I uploaded today... so all's well that ends well ;)
on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
Lovely track you posted today and I'll also give your YouTube channel a visit but that's for tomorrow... gotta sleep now... finally!
on 4-3 - The last thing on my mind by BaoBou
Thanks for listening and commenting my friend!
on 1 - When you cant see the sun - KingMT remix by BaoBou
Mark
on EP2 - Clouds are gathering outside by BaoBou
I once wrote a song called Black Clouds Complaining. It was about storm clouds being described as having human traits and comparing the thunder and such like people complaining. I made the musical arrangement on the drums not normal meaning I had 2 chorus's in a row, the change 2 or 3 times n a row... as an exercise to make a sensible song out of the weird drum arrangement. Song came out good, my production and mixing were shite at the time.
"Look outside, it's raining, the black clouds, complaining"
Cheers!
on EP2 - Clouds are gathering outside by BaoBou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEdX0veLihM
I agree with Manuela, the synths get pushed back too far.
I would love to hear how this one evolves. I just ordered a cheap Stratocaster knockoff from Japan to get my guitar chops back in line. Will go from there.
Steven
Thanks for the tip Steven!! I'll follow up... maybe this weekend if I can get my 2 other tracks and several side projects up and running :D
on EP2 - Clouds are gathering outside by BaoBou
Je probeerde iets uit en kijk hoe geweldig het is geworden.
Ik beluister het niet op de manier als Manuela met haar ervaring maar in mijn oren klinkt het geweldig.
Ik vind trouwens de outro ook helemaal geweldig.
Je stem klinkt goed en duidelijk.
De tekst moet ik nog even vertalen maar voor dit geheel een groot compliment.
De tekst is een soort "stream of consciousness" idee. Het is niet een duidelijk verhaal maar flarden die je een beeld geven dat je zelf mag invullen.
Zoals de song zelf zegt, de wolken verzamelen zich buiten de rand van het schilderij. Je kan het alleen zien en alleen het verhaal begrijpen en de film volgen als je een paar stappen terug doet en ziet wat je niet ziet.
Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel :)
on EP2 - Clouds are gathering outside by BaoBou
on EP2 - Clouds are gathering outside by BaoBou
Big reverb on the vox. All the instruments sound fine, well placed, well mixed. I like songs that reference clouds in their lyrics, so many ways to express feelings, emotions, actions with cloud descriptions.
We have so limited genre options as real music makers here, there's not enough genres crossed with rock. But dance?!?! lol just kidding!
Wayne
I'm also sure that everyone who knows James Blake will now go "what? no, this is nothing like him" and that's fair enough, but if you don't know him, give him a listen.
I like that you liked the clouds. They sort of were an afterthought to the lyrics and then they somehow became the theme, which... sometimes that's how it goes, you know :)
Hahaha ok ok it's not dance. So what is it?
on EP2 - Clouds are gathering outside by BaoBou
That main sound with guitar in beginning what instrument was that? Hey I like this you know something's good when your head is nodding! Very 80s which is my favorite era of all music!
Good work man everything sounds great you sound good
Yeah ok maybe not dance, but it's actually a 123 BPM track, so... ;)
There's loads of layered synths in the beginning before the guitar, is that what you meant? Thanks for listening!!
on 3 - Birds are singing - September update by BaoBou
BTW I have better tracks, I promise, so keep listening ;)