alividlife

alividlife

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alividlife 15th Mar 2011 05:31 - 15 years ago

on Part2 Me Scratching on Turntables by djquickrick
Ah your description makes it seem much more impressive now that I can correlate the idea and the action lol

Still Definitely would like some Ommmmphff on the drums
I definitely respect this tho.. that's freaking cool.
djquickrick
djquickrick replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thanks again man. lol I have actually started to try and redo some of it. I already have a few versions and this one up is actually not my favorite mix. It's hard to get the real sounds I want right now, (lack of monitors, what else!!) but will send you a better version if i finish that project. i mean when i finish haha. Thanks tho for reading the description. I know it's alot, and i should try to summarize. It definitely has a place as a unique track here as far as I have seen. That I like. :)
alividlife
alividlife 13th Mar 2011 10:57 - 15 years ago

on Sculpture of Lights (Milky Way) by siensystem
I ... think in the way the textures pull and push.. it's like newborn breath.. It sounds just like it feels.

Breathing. Full of life. And Emptiness.

Hope you are well my friend.
alividlife
alividlife 13th Mar 2011 01:19 - 15 years ago

on RockBottom by Jamscience
Awesome.
Faved.
Downloaded.
Recommended.

Trip-hop Epicness.
alividlife
alividlife 12th Mar 2011 12:09 - 15 years ago

on House of Larz by LarzCreative
Agree with the other sentiments.
Humn... Just trying to think and maybe offer something of value?

You know what I was thinking might sound cool?
Is on that sweet rhodes piany, if you were to maybe add some effects and start just messing with it's voice digitally?

Very cool. Reminds me of the backrooms at clubs when you are sick of the happy hardcore and need a cool place to chill out.

REALLY like that kick pattern that .. it's weird man.. It fits VERY well in the driving trance pattern.

You play piano correct?
Anyhow if you ever come over to the deadlands I would love to hang.
I swear I am just inches from dropping everything and moving to Seattle lol
LarzCreative
LarzCreative replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thanks Abe! I'm gonna mess around with this some more. I think I'm gonna put in some more breaks with white noise and sweeps. Make it sound more like a house track. I'll see how that goes. It'd be fun to hang out some time. ;-)

Later,
Larz
alividlife
:)

Good god, I think I like hearing stuff like this than my drivel lol.

Amazing.

I actually did a really fun collaboration with BlumeChoon with the same pella and we did this crazy dnb guitar thingy, so this is just a total cognitive trip for me!
lol

Dude, I am exceptionally impressed with your extra editions on the drums.. man... awesome!

Quick thought popped in my head .. ima e-mail you
alividlife
alividlife 12th Mar 2011 08:39 - 15 years ago

on Good Morning Melody by Hoptix
Hey wassup!
Yeah, I checked out the pen work on youtube... that was damn impressive. I have seen a couple cats do that kinda thing, ... Definitely dug that.

I dug the blues progression turned major that you used.
Definitely started grooving a bit more once ya thru the other beat on top of the other (which I always think is a good idea mixing two different rythmic variation)

Kinda curious as to what you use?
I think there's some things about whatever you are using that perhaps you should look into?

I would recommend experimenting with automation if you haven't already?

It's one of those things.. that after you "learn" automating tracks... your tracks just start to bloom. (endless possibilities and reiterations)

I definitely think you got something goin' for you.
Keep it up!

PS total guess .. do you use FL?
Hoptix
Hoptix replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thanks alot man. Glad to hear someone appreciates my pointless talent :). Yes I've actually just recently discovered automation after making this track. And yes sir I do use FL. Thank you for the input!
alividlife
alividlife 11th Mar 2011 05:00 - 15 years ago

on Jah Love (DirtyMix) Ft Lux Divon By Blume Choon by BlumeChoon
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alividlife
alividlife 11th Mar 2011 04:26 - 15 years ago

on Hangnail by SpyderX
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alividlife 11th Mar 2011 01:53 - 15 years ago

on Into The Sunset (DEMO) by StephenPotter
Love the super fast delay intro thingy.
Great melody.
Want to steal it.

K.
Here's my thoughts.

Take whatever the lowest note is on the melody line -- the first one?
and then count down seven notes to start on the 5th of the key.

I feel ... that i need a really good wuuuuuuummmmmmmmmbbbbbbbbbhphphphphph sounding bass... and nice sidechain kick snare pattern.

Being that this is right around 150bpm... I wanted instant DnB.. but I like that stuff..
But also.. I really felt a huge rock drum, but very much still trance?
That might be interesting.
I will make a loop and post it in a few.

Anyway, I don't know anything about music and I am an idiot actually lol.

Definitely let me know how this progresses!

I feel like I failed you, but I tried following the basic rhythm.. which for some reason I had a really difficult time following.. But you really need to think..

Like what does this mean?
What does "Into the sunset" mean?

If it's just, "Oh, well I came up with a cool progression, and it felt like 'into the sunset'"
That's not enough I would hope for you?
Altho... now writing that... I realize I am never satisfied with anything I do lol.

I want you to tell me a story?
Can you think of anything from a .. creative side that... would musically show me what it really means to you "Into the sunset"?

Anyhow.. I came up with this
it's at 150 BPM, and I tried to match it with a quick breakdown into the next part I heard in my head...
https://www.looperman.com/loops/detail/44289
StephenPotter
StephenPotter replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
The title was a spur of the moment one, no thought into it whatsoever, so of course the title probably doesn't fit too well, but I have got plans to do lyrics for this one, so presuming I make some, I'll re-name the track with a more appropriate title.
I will be making a deeper bass for the drop, maybe turn this track into a slow DNB track (I tried it at 160 and 175, both sounded a little wierd).
The drumloop sounds pretty nice, sounds more like what I was going for.
I tried lowering the first note from a G to a C, but it sounds a little disharmonic and out of place, so I'm gonna end up keeping that the same.
Glad that you took the time to write such an in-depth review though, so thanks!

Ste :D
alividlife
alividlife 11th Mar 2011 01:31 - 15 years ago

on Dancing with the Carnival Rebellion feat Nuada by n0mad23
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alividlife 9th Mar 2011 01:58 - 15 years ago

on Part2 Me Scratching on Turntables by djquickrick
Yeah this is awesome!

lol, I love the vocals...
I definitely wanted that breakbeat to really punish my ears, but that's just a personal preference.

Definitely agree with Simmerdown.
This is cool!
djquickrick
djquickrick replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thanks Avidlife. That means a lot coming from you. I know what you mean about the drums. I'll still work on it to see if I can do any better and I'll update it if I have any luck. I appreciate your taking the time to listen and review!
Rick
alividlife
alividlife 8th Mar 2011 08:58 - 15 years ago

on Long Way Home by LarzCreative
Amazing.
this is why I post loops man... I would have never ever done that!

when you start a band, can I be your drummer?!?

I do want to point, that ...how the drums work, I would be happy to send you like.. more interpretations?

I mean, as you have this.. man.. .you are like Eshar..
Awesome.

But like on them drums, I usually intend the 1st half of the drum to be looped?
So you have have the loop rolling and then on the end of a 4 by 4 beat (16 beats) you have the roll for the change?

I love it.

This is awesome.

Keep it up man. I am moving to seattle .. someday lol
LarzCreative
LarzCreative replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thanks! You're an awesome drummer Abe! I like using your beats because they're so creative. I actually did try looping the first half but decided to loop the whole beat instead. Thought it sounded better that way. ;-)

Later,
Larz
alividlife
alividlife 8th Mar 2011 05:59 - 15 years ago

on Nothing Can Be Done by Cybertooth
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alividlife
alividlife 8th Mar 2011 05:44 - 15 years ago

on Unity of the Soul by CosmicMerkaba
I like you man.

I was searching thru posts of posts and whatnots.. and I stumbled upon some of yours, AND, I wanted you to know that your words don't fall on deaf ears.

Profound work.

I like it alot.. all of it.

I would like to collab with you, but under the circumstance I get to be the dischord in your melody.

Faved.
Highly recommended.
Good trance. How it should be.

eek except those off kicks.. on an artistic level I can understand why you would do this, as two people never see exactly "I to eye."
but still, I would have taken something "on-time" to facilitate the continuation of the "trance" but do it in a more degrading way..
As I felt you were trying to show "discordance" thru rhythm?
I would have liked just jolting rhythmic passages at that moment instead of just the off-time, and maybe perhaps used glitch/bit-rate drop/ and or distortion.
As we are all experiencing one rhythm... I think.
Entrancing.
CosmicMerkaba
CosmicMerkaba replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed the track! Thank you for the constructive criticism as well. It's not that I agree or disagree with you both ideas would definitely work but this is only the 3rd track I've ever made and my first trance track at that. I'm still learning how to use the program and very new to the electronic world of making music so I'm not sure how to use all of the plug ins/fx and tweaks yet. With a little more experience I'm sure I will improve. I would accept any pointers you have for me.

Keep in touch!

Nate
alividlife
alividlife 8th Mar 2011 03:58 - 15 years ago

on Searching by BrokenScythe
I go thru it too man.

I mean.. hah on the music side of things, I mean, if anything it's real as f8ck. Very real. There's no cellophane on this man.

Yeah.. Dude.. I have almost quit music ... so many times.

(btw if this is about a girl, I feel bad for you son, cause I got 99 problems and they all aboutabitch lol)

Stagnant flow of hip hop...
Man you know... that's the one line.. is there anyway you could reinterpret that?
That's the one metaphor that you need to sync to make this really solid.
What's a metaphor for hip-hop?

Hmn.. soliloquy? lol
I love that word.. I remember the first time I heard it, I was like hells yes.

feels a lot like how it feels to listen to this man.
hells yes
Good stuff.
I love the imperfections. Gives it character.

I of course could go thru my drivel about pads, and space in the mix, but I won't.. But man I really dug this.
I feel what you mean.
alividlife
alividlife 24th Feb 2011 03:36 - 15 years ago

on Untitled Sad Hiphop Beat by yeshintae
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alividlife 4th Feb 2011 05:02 - 15 years ago

on The Darkness by ShiftyFellow
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alividlife 4th Feb 2011 04:53 - 15 years ago

on The Slope by ShiftyFellow
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alividlife 1st Feb 2011 08:01 - 15 years ago

on Midnight Snack by LarzCreative
piany was brilliant.

damn man... midnight at the moment ....

Cut and paste any in Garage Band yet??

damn....
That is unreal cool.

I love this.
Faved.
LarzCreative
LarzCreative replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Glad you could listen to it! Wouldn't have been possible without you. =)
alividlife
alividlife 19th Jan 2011 03:21 - 15 years ago

on Digital Aboriginalism - Osmosis and the Veil by n0mad23
Yeah.

K.. my thoughts...

Throw the Sine "THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP" on every kick you got trance

But what seperates this track is the "trance"dental properties of human perception. We are absolutely one.

I find it odd, when someone wants to fight me because I flipped him off for him calling me a pussyfaggot. It's like ... well who are you referencing?
I could pull the whole Freudian concept of mother/father relationship, But lets take it further.

To quote "Waking Life", a very difficult poem/movie on life...

I've been thinking also about something you said.

- What's that?

Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come from over time. Everybody always say that they've been the reincarnation...of Cleopatra or Alexander the Great. I always want to tell them they were probably some dumbfeuck like everybody else. I mean, it's impossible. Think about it? The world population has doubled in the past 10 years, right?
- So if you really believe in that ego thing of one eternal soul,
- Mm-hmm.
then you only have a 1 in 4 chance of your soul being over 150 years old. And for it to be over 120 years old, then it's only one out of six.

-So what are you saying then? Reincarnation doesn't exist... or that we're all young souls like where half of us are first-round humans?

No, no. What I'm trying to say is that somehow I believe...reincarnation is just a-- a poetic expression of what collective memory really is. There was this article by this biochemist that I read not long ago, and he was talking about how when a member of a species is born, it has a billion years of memory to draw on. And this is where we inherit our instincts.

-I like that. It's like there's, um, this whole telepathic thing going on that we’re all a part of, whether we’re conscious of it or not. That would explain why there's all these, you know? seemingly spontaneous, worldwide, innovative leaps in science, in the arts.
You know, like??? the same results poppin' up everywhere independent of each other. Some guy on a computer, he figures something out, and then almost simultaneously, a bunch of other people all over the world figured out the same thing.

- Mm-hmm.

They did this study. They isolated a group of people over time, and they monitored their abilities at crossword puzzles... in relation to the general population. And then they secretly gave them a day-old crossword, one that had already been answered by thousands of other people.

Their scores went up dramatically, like 20-50 percent....
So it's like once the answers are out there, you know?, people can pick up on 'em.

It's like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.

http://samvak.tripod.com/alivid.html
n0mad23
n0mad23 replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
lol - "Digital Aboriginalism" got you to think about this?

I'll send you a email soon as some of your thoughts here are things that I've been thinking about lately, too.

Singularity underlies multiplicity. You probably already grok this.
alividlife
alividlife 13th Jan 2011 06:08 - 15 years ago

on West It Off by DextDee
Very cool.

Very cool.

I like the western stylization and plus one for the court on the choir.
Psudeo wobble on the bass-end.

I like that. integrate it all.

I was thinking ... either that is Ghu Zeong or was it a nylon.
(I don't know what either of those are lol)

At this point in the production, (if you are satisfied, and it's not going to have vocals thrown on it?)

I would consider just RIPPING into it and automating anything you could?

Solo-ing every track, and editing it, and then checking it, and then making more automations or edits, and just keep going.

Go as far as you can.
Go deep.
Go big.
Do a musical faceplant or handstand?

Faved!!!
DextDee
DextDee replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
@ alivid, lol u lost me there at the end of the comment. as for vocals, it has already been done. by a member on this site, hammertwist. i guess he has not posted it here yet.
thnx for the fav and comment
alividlife
alividlife 13th Jan 2011 03:26 - 15 years ago

on Sunny Ray by DJSchmeeJ
ewww I likey yer little piany reverb magic!

Yes, How did you do them horns?
I think ... I was at a crossroads, because I really struggle with finding good samples and softsynths that can effectively pull off the "brass" sound.

Humn.. I may just rent them. I do that with instruments occasionally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm

I actually did some studying into the theory of it all... It's based off some of the work Oliver Sachs and Sean Bennet did on the study of neurophsycology and music.
Things getting stuck in our heads.
Not surprisingly, most of the work is funded by advertisement stuffs...
Catchy indeed!
Nice and sugary and sweet!
DJSchmeeJ
DJSchmeeJ replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thanks Fam! Everything is done in Reason 4, and the horns are from refills for the NNXT. I love to use brass and other traditonal instruments because I tend to approach it more as a musician than a producer. I'm still waiting for you to rent a harp and lay down some samples and loops!
alividlife
alividlife 11th Jan 2011 10:07 - 15 years ago

on Hand to the Sun Prod BrokenScythe by dalisbeats
AWESOME.

Faved. Downloaded....

Gonna be back, but YES.
You are living on the wrong coast lol.
dalisbeats
dalisbeats replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
haha, thanks! Nothin' wrong with the East coast. =P
alividlife
alividlife 11th Jan 2011 09:58 - 15 years ago

on The Tribes Have Spoken by LarzCreative
Very Cool.

:)

I hear lots of things on top.

But you have a really great presence in there.

I am always very aggressive in my art, so this is making me hungry.
LarzCreative
LarzCreative replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thanks man! You had done some ethnic drums a while back. I've been messing around with those. I'll let you know if I come up with something good. =)
alividlife
alividlife 11th Jan 2011 07:30 - 15 years ago

on mebbin's house of conception by montywolf
This..
Is.
Amazing.

The conception of Awesome was absolutely received.
montywolf
montywolf replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
thank you, alividlife!
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