doudei
My nescience is encyclopedic
interlaken, Switzerland
Joined : 16th Jan 2012 - 13 years ago
Last Online : 18th Mar 2025 - 7 months ago
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on melodic synth draft by doudei
So, Dance for the Morning is the full version, right? I guess I should have recognised it though it sounds quite different now. I still think a short, instrumental version of this would be cool. Lots of people have already enjoyed this short piece so I think two versions would work out really well. Not exactly like Orbital's wonderful The Box, but a little bit like that.
I'll comment again on Dance for the Morning, which may be just a little too long (maybe not) so worth thinking about a short version, which could be cool on an album before hearing the full length masterpiece.
on Dance for the Morning by doudei
Keep up the amazing work, songs like this one, wins people grammy awards!
can't say how much time i spent on this in total. i'd say a few dozen hours spread over a handful of weekends with not enough sleep :)
on Dance for the Morning by doudei
Great job Doubei can't wait to hear more from you.
on Dance for the Morning by doudei
Would so want to listen to this on decent speakers - there is so much going on in the soundscape and the mastering is excellent.
A very enjoyable piece, work of art, really.
yes my friend Ray did a great job with the mastering, i am impressed. i literally sent him a 4.2GB zip with 45 wav stems and he mastered them without turning a hair and in an incredible speed an accuracy. i will forward all the love to him for sure!
on Dance for the Morning by doudei
Gotta get well past 10 mins for that!
In all seriousness, this is great. I liked it right from the start, as I was sure I would.
Cool vocals.
1:21 second high vocal that gets repeated is also fun and powerful - reminds me of something like happy hardcore (something I haven't really heard in years).
When the guitar comes in, you're really mixing up the genres but in a very natural sort of way.
2:28 good break from the drums - comes just at the right time.
This is damn classy stuff. Some Orbitalesque arpeggiated synths now. Very gentle and melodic. Great bass movement. Everything sits nicely.
One of the classiest things I've heard on here for a while. Sounds like it could go on forever.
You're really reminding me of myself here though it's got quite a different vibe and some sounds I don't use.
Gentle reintroduction of beat around halfway.
This is stuff very much inspired by dance music but so much more musical than most of it.
Not a great deal changes towards the end but I think shall do some point-by-point commentary for the second half as this deserves it.
Great work that a lot of people will really enjoy!
i am flattered you called those orbitalesque synth arps, because i admire orbital since the first time i head "In Sides".
especially "the girl with the sun in her head" was like an epiphany. also the 28 minute version of "the box" has moment i will always want to relive.
before that i didn't like electronic music much, except maybe emerson on a moog or yamaha heh
but then art of noise blew me away, still does really. after that nothing ever cam quite as close =)
cheers man, appreciated!
ps: just found the long version of the box, its awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihGI5jCH2o
right now i am at 17:00 and it's even better than i remembered. didn't know about this edit until some years ago. hell yeah, brilliant really. needs to be checked out more often...
on Dance for the Morning by doudei
Steve
glad you enjoyed it, cheers :)
on Dance for the Morning by doudei
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i am shocked (in a good way) by your commendatory comment.
it made my day, or rather night - thanks a lot man.
i see you have also a taste for many interesting music styles and i appreciate that a lot.
nice basses you got there, bass was also my first instrument although sadly i have to say i don't play it much anymore.
just been listening to some of your tunes and enjoyed them.
and really great voice that you got there.
please let me know when you have some new tracks or maybe even wanna do something together someday.
cheers and thanks again
on Dance for the Morning by doudei
INCREDIBLE!!!
2 more:
STANDING OVATION!!!
Danke
thank you very much for the kind words man, good to see you enjoyed it!!
on Patricia Edwards - Feeling Good by doudei
it's a real good track!! great effects on the voice, beat is very clean!
will try to find you on Soundcloud
on melodic synth draft by doudei
Anyway, I'll be very interested to hear your new version of this highly promising piece. I can't say I could really spot your Reason synths in there (which is probably a good thing, means they're not really generic) though maybe they're the sorts of sounds I tend not to use or have missed in the presets.
New age/prog rock could be good. Slam a bit of hip hop in there too as there's very little prog rock with any hip hop in, as far I'm aware. I guess I try to do a bit of that, though.
Best of luck.
i apologize for the late reply, last thing i want is to give the impression i didn't care and ignored your message.
been not a too well start so far into the new year for me - but getting there!
first i wanted to say thanks for sharing your opinions about depression and the music with me.
you are right when you say it still could be massive problems, depression is not something to be taken lightly but often it is.
i had some strongly depressed phases in my early 20s ago, that was nasty shit. i overcame that for the biggest part thanks to music making and some of my friends & family.
these days i get only slightly depressed when i can't make music for several days in a row :)
also i finally turned this idea above into a whole tune. if all goes well it should be uploaded tonight in case you are interested in having a listen.
cheers man
on melodic synth draft by doudei
Really majestic movements in those synths and surely the best thing I've heard from you.
I sometimes find it quite daunting when I come up with a particularly cool riff or collection of parts as sometimes doing great initial ideas justice does not come easily. Sometimes it's very easy but I've heard loads of songs with cool parts in them that just weren't that great and should have been better (I guess we all have).
Anyway, I actually think this works well without drums or extra bass or guitar etc.
So, I suggest making a purely drumless version lasting, say, 3 mins.
At the same time, make a grooving beat-heavy version. If it were me, I'd spend ages playing around with loads and loads of different acoustic drumming grooves and kits as well as drum loops.
I'd probably decide quite a few different ones worked and then would spend ages working out how to transition between those different grooves. But that's me so maybe you'd prefer to choose a good, fairly simple hip hop groove (for instance) and just stick with that and not move to double time swinging jazz or d'n'b or whatever.
Good luck with it and let us know how you get on. Definitely consider the two versions as I think you're nearly there with this (drumless) version.
Oh, and maybe make the intro a bit simpler - perhaps go with the coolest, most distinctive and memorable part so it's a memorable intro.
i can usually tell easily it's been a while when the depression reached the point where it makes me wanna stay in bed all day and listen to comfortably numb and being sorry for myself for having to deal with so many champagne problems.
just kidding (a little...), i have a new version in the works and it has 3 parts, one of them has quite intricate percussions for my standards. it seems to be going in a new age/progressive rock fusion.
on melodic synth draft by doudei
also let me show you my appreciation for the fact about you having the decency to ask permission by saying: thank you!
on fata morgana - extended version by doudei
on Still No Title by doudei
'' Abandon ''for track name.
on Still No Title by doudei
hehe yeah i like the birrbiababbra and it's all i can do with my lyric skills :D:D
i am smiling a lot right now and it's so cool that i have been in your mind recently. and man if you ever start to create cartoons look no further for all your audio needs!!!
thanks my friend!
on Still No Title by doudei
No need for headphones for also enjoy .... the good well-paced musical moment ....
Yes! music that could play on the beaches of Rio .... It brings a bit of sunshine here on the old continent.
Thank you for sharing this nice moment ....
Dan
on fata morgana - extended version by doudei
on Whatcha Wanna Do Now feat Patricia Edwards by doudei
i can make use of properly recorded guitar sounds in almost all tracks and all kinds of form at some point.
so i really appreciate what you said and lets do this!!! :)
on melodic synth draft by doudei
i already took a few sampled guitars that came with studio one but its of course very inflexible and usually a big ache in the heinie as soon as you need to change something.
they fit not too bad already. i could send you a current export tomorrow then you can hear where i was thinking to go with this and let me know if you are interested in giving it a try and recording something.
on Still No Title by doudei
on Still No Title by doudei
cheers man!
on Still No Title by doudei
1:14 extra beat helps push things forward. Still lacking some bass and a definite bass drum.
2:12-2:14 nice little glitch fill.
Then more definite beat moves things along nicely again. Maybe it's a bit samey but it's a cool and fun vibe. Summer party stuff, for sure.
Even though it's kind of the same thing for 4-odd minutes, you work the parts well.
Where is that vocal from? You could probably improve this if you got a more definite and 'proper', lyric-based vocal for when the groove really kicks in on 2:14. I just think there's more that could be done with what is an enjoyable track.
the voice is my own, i recorded those vocals this afternoon.
not happy with them either, although it's already a big improvement over the initial version - and without them it now feels like something is missing.
thanks a lot for your input, i appreciate that!
on Still No Title by doudei
on Still No Title by doudei
also i just uploaded a new version that improved on some small things.
on melodic synth draft by doudei
extended version is in the works and coming along nicely.
a belated thanks for having a listen!