Crazy ##### man....I thought this was going to swing into some sort of Johnny Wiesmuller Tarzan weirdness..but the jungle is in South Cong USA!..and apparently you have to tell your Granny everything there! lol..I dig that sleaszy beat....very 70's "Faust" ..(an iconoclastic German performance band that I used to get heavily into when tripping on mushrooms!)...Dola I want to see Dr Phil psycho shrinking you on Opra...man I would pay good money to see you freak that dude out!....Great weirdness!..cheers Dave
Definitely a smörgåsbord of vocal talent here!...commenting on a seasoned and professional performer like yourself is very easy,superb presence and pitch..I doubt if there's a single flaw in your musical resume'...looking forward to hearing a whole track.....I think the saying.."you've got it!" is quite appropriate...cheers :)
Nice swing Zman!..if you took out the claps it would be totally blue note territory and those spacey strings add a real 50/60's Hollywood element....It's an out of time groove and I'm not talking about time signatures..it's as if you distiled elements from the boomtime of Jazz(no BeBop though) and put them all into a contemporary reefer haze! hehe..very spacey and cool..cheers Dave
Funnky!..damn man you could sue me for rippin off your song title...I had no idea you'd posted this up before mine! lol....great bottom end driving this super funky groove..really diggin this!..got my head nodding and my feet tappin...tres cool mate....cheers Dave :)
LOL! Not Here!! I just named the song that from the short vocal LOL. Thnaks for listening and glad you enjoyed. Feeling the looping groove. Moe to come Take Care Fila
Cool man!..I won't be dancing (that's probably the main reason why I learn't an instrument so I wouldn't have to embarass myself!lol) mind you if I'd have heard this back in my drinking days....definoitely! nyuk nyuk nyuk!...great live feel,nothing beats a cool organ backing...smooth!..cheers Dave :)
Thanks again for checking me out! Don't know how I got all the Sax parts to pay attention but they seem to have. SIT DOWN YOU KNOW YOU CANT DANCE!! Give me sometin FUNKY!! Fila
Hey Randy...man you wound up the spring on the Country clock with this one!..YeeHar!..Super playing and the spread of the melody throughout the various instruments is great!....It's fantastic that you can pull out an authentic country upbeat groove just like stepping off the curb..good music never goes out of style and in a genre that doesn't get enough exposure around here this totally shines!.....Wether your rockin or flat out flat picking or sliding or finger styling or fiddling down..(phew!)lol....you rule! cheers Dave :)
Thanks so much for the glowing review. I appreciate all your kind words. I love country music and I should do more, but I also like Rock and Blues.....so I try to do an equal amount, but it doesn't usually work.
Making an instrumental to last near 3 min. is tough. So you have to think about putting in other instruments to help out so the song doesn't get boring.
Looks like I did OK with this one. The Lead guitar is played at different points on the neck starting out in each section, to give it a different sound and pattern.
It was fun to do and I'll surely make more.
Thanks again,
Randy
I had to do a double take.....my peripheral vision caught your name....Interesting that,and I'm glad it's turned out to be more than an ephemeral vision....very cool to see you back!...Everyone's music is a small reflection of themselves in some way I guess..this is full of energy,optimism and a fair degree of electronic melancholia......fantastic!! :)
Hopefully I've matured a bit during the off season, and I don't think I'll be running away again anytime soon!
Thanks so much for the review, I shouldn't even have to say that I'm eager to get over to your profile and hear what you've been up to since I've been away.
Man!....ahh bro this is EPIC!...unlike a lot of the younger Looperdudes I know all this stuff!lol..this is GOLDEN!..(a short explanation here for younger readers)...You can't do a proper classic cover justice unless you've totally absorbed the original version,then extrapolated that experience and channeled it through your own musical perception...that's exactly what's happened here,an original rendition that pays homage but breaks new ground.....You are a legend Ron,tips me lid!..cheers Dave :)
Dave,
Thanks bro. Having all my gear in place and operational is a rare thing. I am trying my best to take advantage of the current situation and knock out as many of these songs that I Love and have wanted to take on for decades.
As you noticed I am just recently getting back into the Looperman groove. Putting in enormous amount of time and effort pursuing, acquiring and realizing client production projects to sustain my 21 year old cat and myself here in SoCal. Scooped 3 gigs producing and engineering full length album/CD's. One for a talented guitarist/songwriter. Another for an instrumental fusion 3 piece and last but not least a Samoan Choir. Now THAT should garner some interesting Loop Samples....Nice old church with a tall ceiling and wood everywhere. It's a very lush Location recording adventure...
Anyway, thank you for listening Planet. As always I owe you a dozen reviews. I'll get caught us ASAP.
Always happy to hear from you Dave. Stay Low My Talented Friend.
RG
Holy time trip!...Jeez Ron I thought you were gone touring but you changed to your real name!..I'm going to have to go through all the great work of yours that I've missed..and it is great work,totally authentic and as Frank would say....not a speck of cereal! lol....it's real,it's happening,it's genuine,it's awesome...and it should be,you were there and are still there..fantastic playing!..throb rock at it's finest!..cheers Dave :)
Fantastic track Detlef!..all your music is so so good...part of your brain is a virtual record company founded in the sixties and still going strong!..excellent guitar...love this track!!!..cheers Dave :)
I dig this upbeat groove..it skims along..Man it's been decades since I used to get high,but then I've always had a bent perspective....Yeah I really like this one it's great!..wonder what it sounds like stoned! lol.....cheers Dave
Holy sh#t..I think my sub speaker just got a hard on!....great innovative blend of sounds happening...I reckon you probably found the transition into Dub a natural progression with your circuit bent background,combining a comparatively natural sounding piano riff is a superb foil to the main rhythmical direction and opens the door for other melodious elements to poke their heads above the primordial ooze groove...Dub music will over time break down a glass of Coke-a-Cola to it's natural ingredients!.....cheers Dave :7)
Hah! Yeah, this one has some low end! Yes dub is the natural progression from where I've been. Your review is a welcome refreshement, and I respect your opinions! Thanks much!
Hey Jamie.....Uberesque tone interspersed throughout....with your trademark technical poise always present...I'm beginning to think people from a certain generation are genetically predisposed to creating better music than what's currently on offer..is this a condition bought about by our progenitor's being exposed to early playboy magazines and pipe smoke or is it the effect of backward subliminal messages widely broadcast in the sixties?..who the #####,pseudo science sure doesn't!...but your music is still fantastic even if this is the case! lol..cheers Dave
Just checking to see the continuity within your style..haha and I'm not dissapointed!!!....this is a superb acoustic motif,airy with that bell like quality that sets this genre in a place by itself....rather an abrupt ending but I guess I was floating along with the tune! lol...love the music I'm hearing from you..tres cool!...cheers Planet
Hey man..that's a righteous sound for sure..pretty easy to tell you've been round the musical block a few times,nothing beats a cool groove from a real believer I always say...tight,punchy and dripping with authenticity,all the street cred boxes are ticked..great stuff!...cheers Planet
I like the fretboard sweaking reality going on here...I hate drawing comparison's but that's what music does sometimes..this is so a punked out vibe of 'Chariots of Fire' by Vangelis! lol...seriously it's a very cool groove man..but is it Hip Hop? or some cross gender hybrid verging on rock. lol(I've become an expert closet homie! bwahahahaha)...cheers Dave
Know what Dave? I'm going to change it to Rock genre. Guess I always go hip hip by default. Plus the drum loop I used is a hip hop, but you're right it's a hybrid. Thanks for coming through!
Hey Abe...man I've got to say it's interesting coming back to your music after awhile away.....You do a lot of raves in the forums and constantly question your direction and musical connections,that's cool but it doesn't fool me for one second..your the sort of guy that's part of the musical equation,or more specifically your musical style is more akin to a chemical reagent..it's stable but volatile when mixed....I hear a lot in this piece,the past and the present...you don't need any advice,you just need instruments a room and enough air to breathe.....most of the listening public would trade their souls for that!...cheers Dave
I mean... I push myself, and I watch a lot of these young cats... And to me... It's like.. there's a MOTIVE for everything they do... Trying to sell me their ideal, their style, or their feel.
I am only interested in giving away what was so given to me? ... You know?... I get a lot of value out of that. Money couldn't buy that feeling.
Hey Vicen...cool catchy tune,it's very up and flows along nicely....thanks for the translation notes as well! always good to know what's being sung when you don't speak the language,I'm a huge supporter of people singing in their native tongues and hate it when artists feel obligated to sing in English..Your voice is great and has a strong midrange presence,when you mix heavy bass behind it you have to be careful not to wash it out occassionally..have the bass up in the pauses and maybe back it off a little in the chorus lines....great song,when is the video coming out! lol..cheers Dave :)
Thanks for everything. I am glad to confirm my conviction that sing in the language that I think and feel. Thanks for your honest review, Michael and I know that breaks break the ears, but we took it as an allegory of the lyrics of the song: We want to hear us and listen hurt (especially the end), but you're right Sounds very hard.
The video of the song is done ... turn on your TV, put the news and put our song in the background y. .. That's all folks. Lol.
I deeply appreciate your review.
Cheers.
Damn...the Scot in me wants to bear arms 15 seconds into the track!lol...Man your dabbling heavily into rhythm necromancy,your going to invoke some entity one day...this really works,the undercurrent of those metallic kettle drums or whatever they are is mesmeric...gives me the visual impression of some druid festival (or #####!)..I see your using an APC40 now,that must be cool and really improve the work flow environment,I've often thought about getting one but I went the Novation Nocturn route combined with my midi controller keyboard functions,yet the desire still lingers! hahaha....Bloody marvelous track,you are the conduit for world music undoubtedly (plus great input from Salook and Nuada)....tres cool! cheers Dave :)
It is a genetic thing, isn't it? I've been playing weekly with my daughter's elementary school Drum Club and have really been thinking a lot about sections and the need of the heartbeat throughout and had to use it here. The APC40 has its own limitations, but for doing "live" the live recording, it's wicked! What I really love about it, is it allows those improvisational moments to happen in real time, something I think can be lacking in traditional arranged production, you know? I grouped tracks in this specifically geared towards how I was playing volume sliders and effects knobs, and it makes the approach more like playing some sort of hardware sampler than just playing with a DAW. I do use it frequently in conjunction with my Axiom-25, if just to use it as another MIDI controller. I think you'd dig having this rig. Cheers.
Hey Sean...as soon as I hit play I knew I'd be engulfed..and I don't mean by something like Steve Macqueen's close encounter with the Blob! lol...man this is organic music,it just spreads out and flows inexorably onward....throbmatic,a heartbeat groove..ah yes Dub!...it's interesting how past historical quotes are seamlessly inserted into the present,is it all just dogma or are we on a revolving political treadmill doomed to perpetually repeat the past..who knows,but there's one thing I do know...if FDR was listening to music like this or rather if he was a devotee of it....his character would have been different (but probably not his politics! hehe)...unreal groove,you can get hypnotised by this stuff,be careful!...cheers Dave :)
FDR most certainly made some real political mistakes in his career. The Japanese Internment camps was a bad call. Personally I think his cutting a deal with Prescott Bush and the Wall Street boys was even worse of a mistake, but such is life and political people. It's so weird hearing these ideals 70 years later, isn't it? I did a protest musical series a decade ago, and must say it's a lot more pleasant playing with FDR samples than it was with Dubya - lol. Thanks so much for providing a main part of the percussion for this one - you're a fantastic site resource Dave.
Farout!..straight from the source (your brain!)....Jazz jamming time in Germany.....Synthesizers are great but it's always very cool to get back to natural type sounds and just go with the flow....doesn't get much more of a live sound than this..love those drum sounds and the space..ahh space is the place...excellento man!..from an aussie musicano! lol..cheers Dave :)
Hey Bill...great to see the main man back in the driver's seat....super track mate! I love the blend of tradional music spiced up with contemporary style and pizzaz..where you have the bass sitting in the mix is perfect!..excellent growl and presence and the strings lay this superb undercurrent which just releases the listner's ears to a full sonic experience...fantastico!....so as not to deprive us in the future of your skills please wear crampons at all times during winter! lol...cheers mate Dave ;)
Coming to your ears like some funky apparition from one of the most creative artists on Looperman....Mr Bongartz no less! One of your best funky tunes man,I love the way this slips and slides over the fretboard..excellent production right across the board..I have to stop listening closely before it influences me too much! LOL...fantastic life's journey of your musical influence which distils into pure ambrosia....superb work! cheers Dave :)
Hey mate...if the horns were any crisper you'd have to put them in a plastic bag and market them!(SaxoCrisps/salt&vinegar flavour lol)...man I love this groove,the chord structure is so thick..the way you stack the stabs is unreal and you swing it with that baritone on the bars...every time I hear that beast it just hits your mid section.......There's one thing that surprises me,how did you ever get out of America?..if the pundits in Detroit,Chicago or wherever the hell the heart of Funk resides over there had of heard this,they would have chained you to a recording studio's door or made you George Clinton's right hand man!......Fuuuuuuunky stuff Men!..cheers Dave
Hi Dave, Horn crisps! I'm liking that idea... Maybe next year we could sell those to the people watching us at the Fringe lol...
I'm glad you're feeling the funkyness... The baritone is a great honk to add to a track, that rich bottom end always helps to beef up the sectionals. I think the bass needs to be up in the mix and a few have said which confirms it. I think a little more mix tweaks here and there are on the cards, but nothing heavy. George Clinton is one of the most groovy dudes on the planet, working for him would be an awesome dream come true..
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Thanks so much for the glowing review. I appreciate all your kind words. I love country music and I should do more, but I also like Rock and Blues.....so I try to do an equal amount, but it doesn't usually work.
Making an instrumental to last near 3 min. is tough. So you have to think about putting in other instruments to help out so the song doesn't get boring.
Looks like I did OK with this one. The Lead guitar is played at different points on the neck starting out in each section, to give it a different sound and pattern.
It was fun to do and I'll surely make more.
Thanks again,
Randy
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Hopefully I've matured a bit during the off season, and I don't think I'll be running away again anytime soon!
Thanks so much for the review, I shouldn't even have to say that I'm eager to get over to your profile and hear what you've been up to since I've been away.
Thanks so much PJB!
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Thanks bro. Having all my gear in place and operational is a rare thing. I am trying my best to take advantage of the current situation and knock out as many of these songs that I Love and have wanted to take on for decades.
As you noticed I am just recently getting back into the Looperman groove. Putting in enormous amount of time and effort pursuing, acquiring and realizing client production projects to sustain my 21 year old cat and myself here in SoCal. Scooped 3 gigs producing and engineering full length album/CD's. One for a talented guitarist/songwriter. Another for an instrumental fusion 3 piece and last but not least a Samoan Choir. Now THAT should garner some interesting Loop Samples....Nice old church with a tall ceiling and wood everywhere. It's a very lush Location recording adventure...
Anyway, thank you for listening Planet. As always I owe you a dozen reviews. I'll get caught us ASAP.
Always happy to hear from you Dave. Stay Low My Talented Friend.
RG
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I mean... I push myself, and I watch a lot of these young cats... And to me... It's like.. there's a MOTIVE for everything they do... Trying to sell me their ideal, their style, or their feel.
I am only interested in giving away what was so given to me? ... You know?... I get a lot of value out of that. Money couldn't buy that feeling.
I just feel.
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The video of the song is done ... turn on your TV, put the news and put our song in the background y. .. That's all folks. Lol.
I deeply appreciate your review.
Cheers.
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I'm glad you're feeling the funkyness... The baritone is a great honk to add to a track, that rich bottom end always helps to beef up the sectionals. I think the bass needs to be up in the mix and a few have said which confirms it. I think a little more mix tweaks here and there are on the cards, but nothing heavy. George Clinton is one of the most groovy dudes on the planet, working for him would be an awesome dream come true..
Cheers, Slap...