crucethus

Merci!

No worries mate, thats what this site is for, experimentation and learning.

Thanks so much, sorry for the late reply!

OUT DEMON OUT!

Thank You. I appreciate that!

Thanks, Mate, starting to recover, my sense of taste and smell came back yesterday. Still feel awful though. 2weeks and the cough continues so I have that to look forwards to.

Thank you, my friend.

Thanks, Mate. The sound is key for me, and these little excerpts lead to something bigger later.

Thanks , Mate. The brain is all we really have sometimes.

Blessed are thou whom receive the Bass! ;-)

Thanks, Mate. Slowly recovering. Music history is important. you can't know where you are going until you understand where you have been.

Hey mate. So I have Covid right now. Sometimes when I write a song I want the music to tell a story. This story is about the brain fog that accompanies Omnicron. The first part of the piece is lush with sound, bass reverb, and syncopated percussion, then the Rhodes are atonal musically. It is meant to be annoying and off-putting just like I felt at the beginning of this virus. The middle is sort of the moment where you start to feel a bit better and the focus comes back, albeit very simply. hence the minimal funky feel of the base and the building guitar. Sort of a one-step at a time process. As we build to the end of the work, the guitars become more intricate and the synth pads bring some overall balance which is meant to represent getting back to normal. My goal with this piece was not to make a cool funk-dance piece that is easy enough to do (sic the second half). My goal was to tell a musical story. But you did pick out what you did not like and what you liked, so what I was going for fits your response. The double-time hat is a good idea and you are right it can break up the monotony of a long stretch. keep on sharing your thoughts mate!

So this guy Rhys Chatham influences me. He is a serious music
composer This, tune was a Post Minimalist tune that used 100 guitars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUKF_K3vNeE
It uses modern rock instruments as its basis.
I like that idea, so I used a few fewer bass guitars than a 100, but quite a few in the end. I wanted it to be a fully enveloping tune in the beginning and then sort itself out by the middle by minimalizing, then building back subtle arrangements to explain the basslines. Double bass drums to break up the simple yet pounding snare. From Fog to Clarity to Function would describe the song in my ears.

Early funk is the grandfather of hip hop mate, check out some James Brown and some parliament. Later funk gets electronic, Cameo, Prince, Zap. Ohio Players. I wouldn't say this tune chants trance per say,but is more a mess of electronic sounds. That electro-funk sound melded with German electronic (Kraftwerk) spawned Detroit techno and the early rappers like Afrika Bambaataa. Only When the Ensonic Sampler was born did artists realize they could sample the early funk, and Hip-Hop was born. Thats why you hear all of those elements in this tune.

Hey Wayne, yeah it's now been 8 days of the Omnincron Covid for me now. Like a Bad cold, I can't shake. The good news is that I am double vaxxed with a booster so I should not end up in a hospital. Just kinda in a no-mans-land right now with a slight cough, slight stuffy nose, slight fatigue, and no sense of smell. I wanted to capture the feeling of fogginess in the song and come out of it with clarity at the end. I asked Flea, but he was too busy telling me to Fook off, so now, I had to settle on loops. At 100BPM it's the perfect walking Cadence. I wish I had more Food choices for delivery round my parts. Thanks for stopping on by.

It did take 2 goes at it mate. the first was a new setup on my Linux system trying to test what I could do. then I went back and revisited it and made it what you hear now. The Outro is designed for a DJ to mix into something else. There is a small Afro-Caribbean influence in this one as well.

Thank mate, it does take its time unfolding in your ears, but that's the point of this type of house music. it has taken me a long time to get there.

Good Morning, or late evening in my North American parts ehh? 5:04 is the ethereal part over the driving beat., I feel I have finally achieved what it means to make minimal house music with this tune. I thought you might like this one for your morning run. Bisous! Cru!

Thanks, Mark. backup is key in what we do. I have a massive beast of a windows 10 computer on order coming next week, so I intend to cross back over to the dark side (from Linux) to make it a bit easier on myself in the recording sense. I never expected this time to be something, but as Rita so eloquently expressed, I need to embrace the unexpected. Because sometimes the unexpected brings fruition to creativity. That being said I wish to finish this house-music album over the next year. One of my fav albums of all time is penthouse and pavement from Heaven 17. You can hear their side one which is all analog synths to their side 2 which utilizes the Lynn drum machine and funk bass lines. I always loved that contrast in styles based on technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV5dbcOmw6I&;list=PLjIuADMrDKIZMPxJuZSpd1W4NZtxzQ7qd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV502Rw0Fqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbhptD6H_Rc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tWN1Iz6oMo

Thank You

Thank you mate!