Spivkurl

The Cure were one of my favourite bands when i was at school so i'm familiar with the song. I think "kiss me kiss me kiss me" was my favourite album but there's so many to choose from it's hard to pick a winner. 1996 was a pretty crazy year for me. Far too many drugs and nightclubs (was a good time thinking about it) As for being well, i'm ok if not a little fed up with being signed off work (been six months now and it gets pretty boring sometimes)
But you're right. I have no idea why this made you think of the cure as it doesn't bare any resemblence that i can pick out lol.
Glad you could drop by and blast this one as i was pretty pleased with how it turned out.
Cheers.
FR

Thanks for the kind words! Tbh, I didn't really get into tetris. I loved the theme though so I decided to mix it.

I started it from scratch.

Hey Spiv :)

Yeah this is the first time I've had to try and fix timings before and I know what you mean by the clutter lol

Thanks for stopping by!

WKS

thanks mate I appreciate your kind words, I'm looking forward to hearing all the other versions. As for the guitar its only eq and compression and for the last section I doubled it up and panned it L and R a little to make space for the strings and woodwinds.

Thanks again

Hey thanks Spiv my man! Yeah drumstep is really cool and I actually like it over dubstep myself. Really appreciate the comments and the compliment on the creativity.I was kind of reluctant to post it because I didn't think most people could vibe to this. But it was something different I was experimenting with and I guess it turnred out okay. Thanks for the fav bro!

Thank you Spiv! Your review is very appreciated, take care!

Hi SK

Very many thanks for the kind words. Really great to have your view on the track and thanks for taking the time to post comments. I have to say I'm pretty pleased with the way it came out and excellent you picked up on the space in the mix. I really wanted an "empty" kind of atmosphere (if you check out the original it's very much transparent!).

Thanks again.

Richie

"I must say that this track is even better the second time"

I try to make deep stuff that you can come back to and find many, many things of interest you didn't hear/notice first time round. I honestly have trouble remembering all the sections in tracks that I made a while ago.
"the things which you listed that you do excel in are even more important to my ears than simple theory or whatever"

I agree. I'm not at all a proper musician as I'm not trained in it, can't read music and have fairly terrible pitch and can't sing. Always really struggled to work out how to play riffs by listening. I haven't tried to do that in years (since aged about 16). Just as well I couldn't care less about playing cover songs.

I sometimes wonder if many of the millions (?) of people I seem to hear knocking out dull, soulless, lifeless ripoff electronic dance music are people who are quite good technically (ie with software, computer repair, hooking up gear etc) but have very little creativity or imagination and are only really interested in making stuff that sounds just like the limited few genres they're into.

So, I'm imaginative and can just about get my software to work and tune my guitars (slowly) but feel I know a lot about groove and how to balance a track with different sounds and instruments.

"simple changes could take a song to a higher level"

I'm always fascinated with how good I can possibly make something (and spending ages trying is partly why I do such long tracks). I've done loads of sessions where I've added no new riffs or sections, just tweaked loads and loads of things (track levels, delay times etc)that are difficult to remember. But the end result has been so much better!

I shall go back and make some changes to this magical place as I'm sure I can improve a few things.

Thanks for your thoughts and I'm glad you appreciate my reviews and track replies. Clearly I put a fair bit of effort into them though I won't be doing it forever...

Greetings, Mr Kurl.

I agree about the "decorations" point. While I'm very much into the whole engine room/foundation of a track (ie bass and drums, groove etc) I love adding fun intricacies on top.

Having things flutter in and out keeps things pretty damn interesting. Your monarch analogy is odd but I think it makes sense. Maybe also like monarch butterflies. I guess they flutter in and out.

You know I almost always build tracks up in intensity as I always feel I have to take things somewhere to justify the track going on and on. Can't just have it sitting at the same level though I guess that is the best thing for chilling (but can also be like wallpaper).

Thanks for the respect - it's mutual.

I don't actually know that much about the technicalities of recording but I do know a lot of music and am good at hearing a good or not so good groove and understanding relationships between instruments and where I can slot inbetween another to get them all to lock together in interesting ways.

I'm more creative and experimental than clinically knowledgeable about how to make music. And I'm good at listening thousands of times and making many, many incremental improvements.

Anyway, thanks for your thoughts. More banging tracks coming soon.

hey spiv,
thanks for visiting my track area and leaving comment,i know about the rythem guitar and will fix this next time,by the way congratulations for your new LP,hope that sometime my music is that good to do the same,glad you like the song and thanks for have a listen and review,much appreciated,DRO

Hey thanks Spiv for the comments and suggestions! Yeah I can't seem to eliminate some of the clipping going on. Thanks for faving this my friend and peace out! B)

Thanks for the comment. I swear, modern hardstyle has to be one of, if not THE most difficult genres to produce well. It's so frequency dense with the huge leads and massive, highly distorted kicks. Going back to producing a simpler genre like Deep House has felt like a breeze after trying my hand at hardstyle. The upload to Looperman deteriorated the mix quality slightly, the kick is a little better on my raw WAV file but i'll be the first to admit it isn't perfect.

Thanks again for the listen!

Pat - i think you are right. the log drums need a little more balancing at the end. gonna touch on that this morning. I have an artist who wants to show on the site with this end part of the track so it is good luck for me that you picked up on the EQ issue. really appreciate. look for a message from me over on facebook on something else vis a vis the site. regards - Dan

Glad you liked it. Thanks for listening.

Kind regards,

Steve

Thank you Spiv! Yes, I like when my tracks are louder, but I'll consider that in a future. Thanks again for listening :)

Hey! Thanks for the listen and I am glad you like it :) Also thank you for the great loops, because I have used them quite a bit ha.
-Charlene

Hello Spiv,

Thnx for giving it a listen and happy to hear that you like it. Credit goes where credit due. Without your loops this track would not have that feeling/flow in it as it has now.
I hope you'll find time and the mood to record some vocals. If so then let me know about it (whenever that may be) because I would love to hear it.

I'm off now checking your sound library and see if I can come up with something....

Thnx again and take care.

Bloody hell! Has it really been four years since i've been on this site? Hope you're well Pat?