StaticNomad

Cool. I don't listen to goa trance but I'm pretty familiar with most far out psychedelic music and have heard lots and lots of trance over the years but find a lot of it boring.

I guess these are sort of trancey sounds but I prefer a slower tempo with a deeper, more interesting groove.

Yes, the sounds are quite clear but they're a lot less clear on lots of other tracks by me though I'm hoping to change that and do better mixes all the time. It gets harder when you use lot of guitar and effects. Good luck with your own stuff.

That's not a comment on this track so please either stick to that or don't comment at all. And certainly don't just leave straight insults as they're no use at all.

Thanks. It is pretty interesting and unusual and was fun to play and put together (though it took a hell of a long time). However, I've made some improvements since uploading this as there are a few bits that aren't quite powerful enough. I might upload an improved version to Looperman though I'll definitely soon upload it to one of the other sites that hosts my music. The track also has two sister tracks at the same tempo and featuring some of the same sounds. Both are perhaps even better, though that might be because they're each about twice as long so there's (obviously) more in them. Someone else described one of my Looperman tracks as one of the most creative things he'd heard on the site so maybe you should check that out and see if you agree. It's called Way Beyond Wrong so listen and see if you agree (but feel free to disagree or suggest improvements). Thanks again for listening.

The question didn't blow my mind but, yes, if he could rap I'd let him appear on it. But I'd probably he just instead sing the way he does. I'd love to work with the guy, especially as I don't think he's really done anything particularly good in a number of years. I'm a massive Pink Floyd and Gilmour fan and honestly (arrogantly?) believe I could take what he does and turn it into something modern and interesting. He doesn't live too far away from me and has his studio in a fancy houseboat on the River Thames in London, England. Do a Google search for a Sound on Sound magazne feature on the studio if you're interested. But I think the chances of me working with him are currently about zero as I'm a compleye musical nobody. I have other tracks like this though most of them are hosted on other sites that allow very long tracks (and that's what I tend to do rather than these shorter ones I have on Looperman).

Thanks. I just have a few instruments that I play and quite often try out each one on different sections of my music. I've even done banj-metal (see my track Way Beyond Wrong) though sometimes I'll try banjo and its really not working so don't even bother to record it.

I have quite a lot of banjo in my stuff from the past year or two but none of it is bluegrass our country. I should learn to play some more instruments and then you'd hear things like cello-jungle or sitar-metal from me as I love to mix up the genres and do what I haven't really heard before. Making what I haven't heard before is one of the most important things to me as a composer.

Thanks again.

Yes, extremely repetitive...apart from the constant changes. I'm not sure if you actually listened past the first couple of minutes (which do indeed have the same bassline running throughout).

For anyone who does, they will find that in 7-odd minutes the track moves through hip hop, jazz, drum 'n' bass, metal and even banjo metal. And that's banjo playing an Eastern sort of melody merged with metal guitar and hip hop drums. And there are other electronic elements and lead saxophone.

This is all a huge amount of variety and extremely unrepetitive. That bassline that I said goes on for a couple of minutes then continues into the d'n'b section. However, it changes to a house bass sound, which gives it such a different feel that it almost seems like an entirely new part. So I'd say that's being creative with repetition (which is sometimes necessary, especially when you want something to sit so that other parts can have a solid anchor to work off).

See also one previous reviewer's comment that this was one of the most creative things he'd heard on this site ("I think this is one of the most creative tracks musically I have ever encountered on this site"). No problem if you didn't like it but I think just dismissing it as repetitive is way off the mark and certainly no form of constructive criticism.

Well I'm genuinely surprised, based on your other comments on my tracks, that you thought this one was good. As regards freshness, I do actually have a much better and extended version, I just haven't uploaded it yet. When I do, I'm fairly sure it will be enjoyed by a few who listen to it. Hopefully, you'll prefer it too.

By the way, what sort of freshness did you have in mind?

OK. I shall check out Rain Tree Crow. Don't think I've heard it though I know some of Sylvian's solo stuff.

The bass isn't actually fretless. Instead I've got it going through my octave pedal which also has an attack control. So it's a slow attack that I guess fools your ears into thinking it's fretless.

I'm not sure there are any picked guitars as I think I played it all just with fingers.

The percussion is good but I'm not happy with it so am still working on an improved version. If only Looperman allowed you to just replace a current song with another (better) version...

Glad you noticed the awesomeness - I had an awesome time making it (most of the time). Only a few comments on this but two have said something about this not sounding like hip hop/maybe being in the wrong category on this site.

I agree that it woudn't get in any music shop genre as hip hop but there's definitely hip hop in there but I add so much extra stuff that clearly isn't hip hop that I guess I move it far awayfr m that genre description. I add all this stuff and choose an unusual mix of sounds in order to stand out from the crowd and hopefully make something different and distinctive yet still enjoyable and interesting.

Cool. Glad you're getting to know I have interesting stuff here (and on a few other sites too). Also, it's not really obvious hip hop but I have to choose a genre to put this in. When you read my track description you can always find out lots more about what you're likely to hear and the unusual mix of sounds.

"definitely the right place to be, even if the century's wrong." Good. I never thought about it like that and you're the first person to make that sort of point about the title (which is also unusual and totally open to interpretation). I'm not exactly sure which bass sound you're talking about liking - probably the main one. That's made up of a mix of bass and guitar going through an octave pedal with a slowed attack. Very powerful. I see that bass part on 6:00 as being quite round, actually. I didn't want it to be aggressive as that's where the track just opens up and sits quite nicely in a bit of a dub reggae style. I also don't know what "Barbaro" is.

Last night I made quite a few small improvements to the track, mostly making things less cluttered and more powerful.

I would upload the improved version over the top of this one but I can't see how to do that. I don't understand why I can't do this but have to start again as if it was a whole new piece when it's just an improved version.

Yes, it is unusual - that's what I aim for with almost every track I do. I love so many styles and find it quite easy to mix them up. But getting it all to really work together is much harder. I have no idea if I actually tried to play something Middle Eastern on the guitar here - it's just what came out. I use banjo quite a lot these days as a lead instrument but never played in a country/bluegrass style. Delayed banjo works really well if played in a Middle Eastern style and doesn't really sound like banjo any more.

I had some real problems making this. Started in about 2001 and then I left it for many years and then extended and improved it this year. It's still not as good as I think it should be so not sure if I'll maybe go back and try yet again to improve it. Most of my stuff has loads of guitar in it but this is one of my less common pure electro compositions.

Yes, the groove is excellent. It's based around the very first drum loop that plays in Reason 1.0, which I've used in quite a few tracks. Then the djembes really help push that groove along. This is all made in Reason (not that that really matters).

Well, yes - it's a million miles away from most things stuck in the hip hop section here. Most of which I find very generic and dull. There's no obvious genre for this one so I guess 'crossover' is sort of what it is. However, that tells you so little about it so I never put anything in that category. I thought I'd put this in hip hop and then people would get a big surprise. There's certainly not much hip hop with lead banjo and also not much with Eastern slide blues guitar. Thanks for deciding to click.

OK. I don't make music to make music to post on Looperman. I make music for other reasons and have tracks on a few different sites. So I will post an external link if I think it's relevant. People can follow it or not, as they choose. As I said, most of the stuff I make is far too long to fit on Looperman.

Yes, it was clear before that you thought the song was very good. Good luck to you too...

I didn't synthesize it. It's just a didg patch in a bit of Propellerheads Reason software. No skill on my part there. However, I have actually synthesized a didg in another track that's on this site. Listen of course to the whole thing as it's one of my best (and I made it about 13 years ago when I was 20) but check out the part between about 1:53 and 2:45. That is pretty much a synthesized didg. I was using a hardware vocoder. My two sound sources were my voice into the mic and a synth clarinet patch. So there are clarinet notes that I'm modulating with my voice. If you think about it, clarinet plus a human voice is not far off what a didg is. I had no intention to synthesize a didg (I'm not that clever), it just came about from messing around with sounds and patches. Actually, I think I need to set it up again as it's pretty cool.

Glad you liked it so much. I'm a bit addicted to it too and its weird how the time does fly by. Probably because there's so much going on but there's still quite a bit of space in there for things to breathe. I have to be very disciplined to not put too many elements into my work and am getting better all the time at reducing track length. This one is like a pop single for me as I regularly do 12 min+ and even go up to about 19 mins. Yes, the sax is cool. I partly applied the FX because I didn't have enough varied playing from someone who couldn't be bothered to come back to add anymore. So, I had to use FX to make the notes I did have move about more. I still think the intro sax sections are a little long and repetitive, though I do vary the drums to keep it interesting (making it quite jazzy). The very end 20 or so seconds may actually be my favourite section (along with the first hip hop metal section on 3:36). It's just pure hip hop and I spent ages trying to work out how I could do small things with a few elements to work those rather simple bass and drums. You may be interested to know that the second bass part (lead bass, comes in on 13 seconds and at various other points) is my bass playing chopped up as a REX file and laid out across the keyboard keys. Then I replay the notes from the keys in a way that I wouldn't have done on the bass guitar itself. I should really do this more often, haven't done it in ages. It's such a fun technique (though takes a while to cut up that REX file).

OK. Glad you liked it. Not sure what you mean about the house bass being "left behind". It's just the same bassline as before in the d'n'b section but using a classic house bass patch. Maybe you mean it's not quite loud enough so perhaps I need to turn it up. Yes, basic sax but made more interesting with carefully applied effects. I wanted more sax in there but sax player isn't interested in doing any more so I had to make do with what I had.

As regards not mentioning other sites I have tracks on, why can't I do that? I mention them occasionally when relevant because I can't have all my stuff on Looperman because the limit is 10MB per track and many of my tracks are at least 15 minutes long and I don't want to compress them below 128K MP3. What is the problem with me linking to music elsewhere? If you're going to tell someone not to do something, it's best to say why.

Glad you liked the realness. The sax is pretty much the first instrument appearance by another musician on one of my tracks in the 13 or so years I've been making recorded music (I wish there were more). It's just a guy I know doing an evening session into a Shure SM57 mic so very basic. The banjo is played by me and just recorded into that same mic, then just a bit of delay added to it. Various FX at certain points to make the sax do more (eg a retrigger effect to make it sound like he's playing more notes than he is as well as the obvious delay at certain key points). Guitar is pretty sparse for me on this track as I usually play a hell of a lot more and have different intertwining guitar layers. Good fun merging all the various genres and moods but I think I've made them fit and there's nothing too weird or drastic. I cannot think of any banj-metal I've ever heard, can you? When I got the banjo a couple of years ago I decided I must do banj-metal, just because it's a funny word. I also decided I must do drum 'n' banj, for the same silly reason,and I've also done that (track not yet online). My best quality stuff is not on this site but, of what there is, I'd recommend next going for Knee Deep In The Cosmic Overwhelm or Circular Motion. Happy listening and let me know you make of them as feedback really helps me improve and feel a bit better about what I do.

Thanks, man (or woman) - you totally get it. I just love so many styles and find it so easy to move from one to another (just change the groove, add distortion, whatever) that I can't help doing it. I spend so long trying out all manner of stuff and 'genres', if you like, that the track could go in with just the same notes that I then end up having to use them all (and then vary the notes). What takes ages is making it flow and not being too long (most of mine are above 12 mins, quite a few 17, one even 19). Yes, could definitely have lyrics and pretty much be a straight hip hop track. But as I have no vocalists, I just had to take it everywhere else I could think of with my instruments. Here's a related heavy track. No hip hop but there is jazz and a lot of heavy, rocking slide guitar playing and metal drumming. It's not as eclectic between genres but still goes in a lot of different directions. You can leave comments on the track itself. Debt Black Hole http://www2.mixposure.com/Static_Nomad/song_focus_24417.php

Glad you like this motherlover as I had fun making it. It does indeed morph into various shapes. Would have liked more sax but the sax player is apparently not at all interested so don't think I can get him back. Had to use careful editing and FX to stretch the playing I had as far as I could. Would have been good in the main metal section, perhaps to go with the banjo.

Merci. Le francais est mon deuxieme langue (je suis anglais) mais il y a beacoup de mots et phrases que je ne reconnais pas. J'ai utilise Google Translate pour m'aider un peu mais je ne suis pas sur de ce que tu dis ici: "une mélodie et un son extra". Peux-tu traduire ca en anglais? Ce morceau etait assez difficile pour moi parce que la guitarre en mon premier instrument. Mais dans ce morceau, je n'ai joue pas un instrument: touts les tons (notes?) etait programme. Et il etait assez complexe. Merci pour ecouter...

Thanks. If you think there's even a little brilliance please have a listen to some others. Pre-Birth Blues for a related blues vibe for some classic, psychedelic, powerful electronic pumping chillout. Also go to the following pages for my much longer, more recent stuff that's too long for Looperman:

http://www2.mixposure.com/Static_Nomad/music.php

http://www2.mixposure.com/Endless_Rotary/music.php

Leave comments if you have the time to spare as I'm always fascinated to know what music lovers and musicians think of each track and the various elements that they conist of.

Thanks, man. Sorry for taking a while to reply. I agree with everything you wrote and it's similar to all the comments below. It's good that other people feel the same way I do about this track - that's not any particular praise for me, just praise for the result.

If you would like to do some better, more detailed drum programming, just say and I can give you some, good simple advice. It's not that hard and it's something I've gradually built up, partly because when I'm working with inspirational sounds and riifs, I don't mind spending ages and ages with them and very carefully adding and removing sections. In fact, completing a track is a bit sad for, which is why I spend ages on each one and they tend to end up being very long. Keep listening as I'm sure I have more blues you'd like (not that any of it is at all typical of the various blues genres).

Thanks for listening, I know what you mean as regards the warm ear feeling. How did you come across this track - just by randomly browsing the blues section?

There's no real mastering on this or pretty much any of my tracks - something I really should get round to learning. I don't even EQ or compress the separate channels, just process the sounds a bit and, obviously, automate their volumes.

I see from your page that you like hip hop so would suggest that you check out my recent 'psychedelic grungehop' epic called The Bigger The Fatter The Better. It's got some good response from people but I'd be interested to hear what people particularly into hip hop make of it.

Here it is: http://www2.mixposure.com/Static_Nomad/song_focus_24434.php

Thanks. I love this one, as does pretty much everyone who hears it, in my experience. There's a real depth to it and I will be happy to listen to it when I'm 100 as there's that much depth and emotion and enough going on in the ambient bed that makes it all so compelling.

I know of no other track quite like it and I have listened to quite a bit of alternative blues and some of the artists who combine blues with interesting technology eg Little Axe, Tangle Eye, Jeff Beck and others.