CalifKen

CalifKen

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Phoenix, United States
Joined : 28th May 2009 - 17 years ago
Last Online : 27th May 2026 - 4 months ago
CalifKen comments on tracks

CalifKen has posted 512 comments on other peoples tracks.

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CalifKen
CalifKen 23rd Jan 2010 15:59 - 16 years ago

on Black Magic by lelandchapman
aw man. we are on the same level in the ableton house. luuuuvvvv ableton, and you are using it all the right ways man. this is soooooo far out exotic that it makes you feel travelled for having heard it. nice nice work man. sorry your rec d didn't turn out to x2, but hey they flew ya out and sh, i bet that was way fun. cheers man, make more like dis!!!! it was sweeeeet.
CalifKen
CalifKen 23rd Jan 2010 15:37 - 16 years ago

on Zigarre Rauchen - Smoking Kitty by SmokingKitty
Meow meow. purr purr. nice fade in with the kick. ew this is a trippy trip!! i feel like a film is starting up and you are standing behind the projector, YES you do make the rules!! ha! this is fun.

interesting environment here! i don't know about being an ashtray, but I would certainly smoke one with ya and put it out on someone else who might enjoy it.
SmokingKitty
SmokingKitty replied 15th Nov 2015 - 10 years ago
sounds fun
CalifKen
CalifKen 18th Jan 2010 16:36 - 16 years ago

on Her by tinphish
Cool descrip man =- ain't no rubbish at all, it's why i clicked play on this one, after all.

beautiful. wow, the situation you describe aptly works with both.

is it possible to create a track that can't describe a rainy scene? yes. it will have fire sounds.

great guitar work, slides too!! nice lovely layers man. very calm and relaxing work. good stuff.
tinphish
tinphish replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thank you dude :).. this is my main stream trip, peace n tranquility n love n if possible a couple of shots of whiskey in the process.
CalifKen
CalifKen 17th Jan 2010 10:02 - 16 years ago

on INTERGALACTIC PANIC ATTACK by Chad360
It's such an odd feeling to connect with someone's music like it feels like something you would have done / could have done.

What I see as being able to improve with it is that it is very long, a very varied. Which is exactly what I like to do. However at a couple points, it was #1 - certain parts are still good, but not as quintessentially so as other, so you need to make sure you carry that rock star axe (guitar, synth, not specific) and wave it around in those rooms, do something that paints dirty synth trails in the air like those ipod commercials.

Led Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused live on acid. That sort of thing.

Cool work bro. Cheers.
Chad360
Chad360 replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thank you Ken. I always smile before I read your comments. :)
I understand what you are saying, but in all honesty, the things I upload to the net are basically my "audio scratch pads". I have about seven songs, and hundreds of these. (come on... you dont really share your good stuff do you? this place gets "ripped off" more than mini marts)
I like to see what people comment on. What sounds they like. After repeated listenings...what I like etc. etc.
Then I take the best of the best and you will hear direct influence (ahem, copy) of my "good parts".
Believe it or not, I do not "switch it up" this much in my (what I like to call) "real tracks".
(they are in that folder you are so dying to get into ;)
I do not like to make them that long either.

Synths (as I think you can tell) are something I am just learning. Teach me some of your secrets.
:)
CalifKen
CalifKen 17th Jan 2010 09:28 - 16 years ago

on Around the world in 94bpm by Chad360
well awesomely this sounds RIGHT ON to me.

:) really like. very groovy almost eerie dramatic beginning, but now it's like raining but frkn joy is everywhere. nice work!!
CalifKen
CalifKen 17th Jan 2010 09:11 - 16 years ago

on Im just joking instrumental by Ciaro
Dude this is incredible. I love it.

Very fresh and textury and so the kind of thing i would love to hear while driving around the city on a Saturday, early in the day. Fresh, full of potential and compelling...

Loved this.
CalifKen
CalifKen 16th Jan 2010 15:02 - 16 years ago

on Un-Banned by profplum
fk yeh I'll bounce to this. bounce bounce bounce. i am bouncing right now, thinking of you. heh I was putting together an album cover the other day, and believe it or not you end up on the back of the liner with the coolest review i've ever gotten by your obviously gorgeous avatar. and i'm gettin wrecked to yours right now, and i'll tell ya - keep on it for sure - cuz this is better than i was at your point. and i know exactly where you are. keep. it. up. you are closer than you know.

don't worry - i would never ever ever use your image without your permission, this was for the prelim idea thing in my head. if it came down to using that, i will hit you up for sure.

you are too beautiful and that was too cool a comment to not have it go wherever that song goes.
profplum
profplum replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
thanks for your review Califken ive been in a forced exile for a month (Deserved)i was naughty and you can use anything i put on looperman for what ever you want.
CalifKen
CalifKen 16th Jan 2010 07:20 - 16 years ago

on This one's for me by RickMal
that was my cryptic and perspectively-convoluted way of saying i would love for you to do your thing on something I make for you, or for you to throw me something to work with. :D
RickMal
RickMal replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
ah thats what i thought but then i thought u were on about some1 called flavor.....like i said boggled,anyways..my email on my homepage so yeh send me somthin,or just send me a message and il send u an acapella or 2,,,peees
CalifKen
CalifKen 15th Jan 2010 05:42 - 16 years ago

on This one's for me by RickMal
i love this. you are very laid back aren't ya. ew i like you. damn. this feeling right now is like wanting to have a new toy. cuz like of course you know from me to you on this site that flavor ... yep, he wants to collab with you. what? you really gonna collab with him MAL? but your music is already frkn amazing. Yeh but what we just thought it'd be nice if what will be is.
RickMal
RickMal replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
erm thanx calif but what???collab with who?u?what r u talkin about haha, head boggled
CalifKen
CalifKen 15th Jan 2010 04:43 - 16 years ago

on What happened to our love by Ciaro
i feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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this so much. i love it more each time i hear it. you are quite the voice my friend.

if i could really sing, then i would sound just like this.

but then it'd go all trippy and weird like ... my ... music .... does! :)

welcome to the loop!!! :) go review some tracks now sir. get to spreadin that light all over this town!
CalifKen
CalifKen 15th Jan 2010 03:21 - 16 years ago

on 20 to life by Th3D3vil
ew!! i love the strings. eerie and moving!!! maybe put a little compression on the bass to kind of keep it ever so slightly in check. excellent music!
CalifKen
CalifKen 15th Jan 2010 02:25 - 16 years ago

on Pause n Go by SlickazzG
all the things music can do this just did to me. so i think what it needs is to be played ..... really ... really .... really loud.
SlickazzG
SlickazzG replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thankz hommie very appreciated ;), Cheerz mane..
CalifKen
CalifKen 13th Jan 2010 09:43 - 16 years ago

on A Hero Rises by SoundsOfEscape
Eeeeeeewwwwww!!!!!!! Loving that shuffling ... .oh my god!!! that was sweet!!!!!!! you really are a master of the material world of sound. you've got your fingers in every grain of sound, and are just throwing it all around with the greatest of creative art and expression like a sandstorm of emotion that compells attention and once it gets it it just makes it feel good to be there. this is an amazing bordering epic piece, it feels a little too chill to be as dramatic as epic might imply. This is the breezing blizzard after the war as losses and feelings are realized. amazing work.

wow wow wow. love when the bass comes back in. amazinzzzzzzzing. ahhhhh.... i love your rhythyms. ggrrrreat.
SoundsOfEscape
SoundsOfEscape replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
So.....I'm guessing you liked it? Haha

Thanks for the great review. Much appreciated :D
CalifKen
CalifKen 13th Jan 2010 09:38 - 16 years ago

on STRAIT UP! by brandonjames
K this is nearly too existential - as in like I am too much where you just put me right now!! I am in an alley or a canal in the city. There are good things, but there is also some kind of brooding mischief, and a heart monitor that won't let me relax. Yes possess me!!! Wait you already did.

Dude this is really neat. I haven't heard anything quite like it before. I love the rhythym of the textures, it's like they are just anticipatable enough so that I can reach out and touch it and feel them all.

Really cool!!!
brandonjames
brandonjames replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
C.K.,
LMFAO! your review is the sickest Ive had in a while thank you so much for you energy on this. it inspires me to the fullest.
MAD RESPECT!
B.
CalifKen
CalifKen 12th Jan 2010 11:30 - 16 years ago

on It Feels Right (Music Track) by Dannii
ew shiiiiiiiTTT. that is cool. i swear I tried to make this exact track tonight and couldn't get to it. glad to see my man D was on it. Seriously the strings sweeeet. then the beat. sweet. loved, fav, dl. cheers
Dannii
Dannii replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thank you CalifKen! This track was the first ever I did... I am glad you like it!
CalifKen
CalifKen 12th Jan 2010 11:24 - 16 years ago

on Gaytovens A D D Symphony Number 9 by Chad360
Brother man - seriously. We have the same blood. I like this and again am very impressed and connected with your tunes. Here is how I have come to handle the whole objectivity creative fatigue fresh ears thing. I work on something, saving several incremental versions. And as soon as I feel the slightest twinge of it not being really totally cool and exciting anymore, I move on to something else. Because right AT THAT MOMENT, when I come back to it later, it is often AWESOME and had I not dropped and saved it and put it down right then, I would have mucked it up in my headplace of inobjectivity. I hope that makes sense. for this one suggestion - You just need to put more D#&$ in the groove. Really cool stuff C. We exude the same grooves, you just need to let yours out a bit more - more variation - makes this a solid classic of the future bro. Cheers - kc
Chad360
Chad360 replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
You know I take everything you say to heart, but I must say one thing, much of the reporepotitiionionnononnnnn in my songs is intentional. Much of hip hop was founded in beat patterns just replayed and replayed. I try and emulate that as much as possible. Everything else though, it is amazing how two can have so much in common.
CalifKen
CalifKen 31st Dec 2009 22:44 - 16 years ago

on Erupt by StephanieKay
Fantastic music!! Love it. Very fresh and clean, though yeh, there seems to be a little saturation on the higher frequencies. You rock Stephanie!! IN fact I was just uploading a mix I did of your Tonight vocals. Check it out! cheers, happy new year
CalifKen
CalifKen 30th Dec 2009 07:32 - 16 years ago

on Ive got 115bpm on it by Chad360
dude your hip hop is KILLER. i love your flavor of it, a lot. The only thing that kinda erks me, but maybe it wouldn't attain it's unique characteristic without it the kinda crunchy width of the claps - sounds that are kinda clicky and repeated or delayed without the echoes being softened or blurred or varied in some way tend to sound a bit dry and gnarly to my ears.

But again KILLER track. Congratulations. you won a free imgonnaplayanothertrackofyours nano.
CalifKen
CalifKen 13th Dec 2009 13:51 - 16 years ago

on the looperman ballad by johnnygadget
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

IS.................................

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
SOOOOOOOOOO
SOOOOOO
SOOOO
SO
SO
SO
SO
COOL.

Exactly what I was talking about, but didn't even know it. I've often thought about doing a track like this. Sooooooo cool. Wow.

There should be more tracks like this. In fact, I'm going to update the post, refer people to your track again with a specific urgency and call to make tracks like this!!

Cuz like it just captures a moment in time the way we should really on this site more often than we do.

Big ups, cheers - Ken
CalifKen
CalifKen 13th Dec 2009 11:36 - 16 years ago

on Someone please save me ft Alividlife by Steevo
incredible musical work. standing ovation for your string and key composition. love it. alividlife's acapella? nearly too painful to listen to. not sonically but mentally. great work man.
Steevo
Steevo replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Thanks Ken. Yes the pain just dripped from Alividlifes pella, I was really drawn to it.

Review appreciated.
CalifKen
CalifKen 13th Dec 2009 11:31 - 16 years ago

on Harlem Hopscotch by Chad360
wow. this does get really cool. i was going to suggest you look into setting the quanitization in fl to none, so you could make the beat more groovy, but then it got really frkn groovy. cool work man. this is much cooler than those kids and their buckets. this is like those kids grown into 20 somethings on their way to the club on e for the first time. kinda like saturday night fever, but like friday dusk coldsweat. there's soul in here man. keep it up. cheers.
Chad360
Chad360 replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
This is probably the best review I have ever gotten. Thank you Ken. It means more to me than you know. I am glad you also feel the soul I intend.
CalifKen
CalifKen 13th Dec 2009 11:22 - 16 years ago

on spanked by Dvibe
awesome. smiling since the spank me spank me .... that is hilarious and crazy. i love that you took part in AJs game. Her game is just so cool, so AJ. Oh yes and also - Since I uploaded 4 tracks, I didn't want to be guy that pushes four peoples track's off the tracks page 1 without reviewing them after, so here I am.

It's kind of weird, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it. At first the spank me spank me seemed awkward to hear, but i got say, i can not stop genuinely smiling when i hear it. it's like we're mostly adults .... when someone is getting spanked, it is cuz they did good. you know?

so yeh... cheers for a cool song, great voice, keep it up - and a fresh trippy tune. you should get like logic or ableton and play around with fx like the beat repeater - vocal fun, and logic's reverb space designer - reverse echoes.

as it could bring a trippiER, gritty but thick soul and EQ quality to this track that it deserves. Cheers!
Dvibe
Dvibe replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
thanks man... I made this one like for fun...i like doin this kinda stuff..layin my lyrics on loopermans track..great site..and thanks for the tips..ill look them up..id like to have better quality..i dont make tracks like many good DJ ' s here..i play live different instruments..check my traks youll see what i mean..check out Oh LA LA..
did that for fun too ..mny like it..again thanks
Peace Dvibe
CalifKen
CalifKen 6th Dec 2009 07:21 - 16 years ago

on Totems from the Diaspora by n0mad23
and like other good, questionably toxic things - last time, i almost puked and sha7 myself. and now?, i'm addicted.

i might just come by once a day and click the play .... keep chasing that freaky feeling. though it will never be as freaky.

ah man. remix it Sean. come on. come on man. i give you 5 dollars. can i borrow your vcr?
n0mad23
n0mad23 replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
I used to play with a band called Spirit House. We often opened with a piece called "Wu Wei" and started with a ney (Turkish end blown flute) and a didgeridoo. I made a didgeridoo out of giant timber bamboo from South China that was in the same key as the eucalyptus one the other player had.

We did a rave and were the 3AM break set. We were totally acoustic, weren't even amplified - sat on a Persian carpet on the cement dance floor of this underground event. You could put your fists together and have them both fit into that bamboo didg, it was that big around. The sound was equally as big.

And this was underground. I doubt any of the 300 + people there were over 25 years old. There was so much E floating about that it was impossible to fend off the contact highs. When we began to play, a line maybe 30 people wide stretched out in front of us about 3 feet away. Behind them, the mass of people crowded in so they could see us.

After 3 or 4 minutes of the ney/didgerido duet I came in with mine. The sound rolled out across the concrete and the audience all took a huge step backward. We nearly dropped our instruments.

That's what sound can do.
CalifKen
CalifKen 6th Dec 2009 07:14 - 16 years ago

on Totems from the Diaspora by n0mad23
HOLY SH. It is still just as freaky. dude it's not a how did you say it a "toxic" thing at all. it's like a HOLY SH i can't believe a sound just put 100 tentacles through my skin and tickled my vital organs from the inside, and wrapped my mind up in several parts, started juggling them, and as soon as I realized i was watching my dismantled physical self being juggled and messed with so physically and thoroughly in a matter of seconds - well last time i had to run away it was just too much. this time, i came prepared. fkn exotic creepy proof armour. dude you need to round up all the folks that would need to be a part of making this commercially presentable, cuz dude this NEEDS TO BE AT THE CLIMAX OF THE freakiest part of the freakiest fkn movie you have ever seen. like this is when the half dimensional witch doctor possessed by god threads the needle to stitch the eye of the baby that represents the absolute light or the total dark that will become of the rest of all eternity.

i think it will just ... people wont forget it let's put it that way.

sh...... got a video camera?
n0mad23
n0mad23 replied Unknown - 2028 years ago
Ah. Trying to talk about the nonverbal stuff. Cool. This is my real excitement - the digital environment is finally capable of recreating sound that can achieve the same psycho-acoustic phenomena that I thought was only possible in Real Time/Space. On the other hand, talking about it is about as elusive as ever. Your imagined cinematic scenario does get the point across.
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