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The intense distortion threw me off a bit (on my cheap headphones I think the drums are distorted too?) but then the vocals came in smooth and crisp, which is very cool. All in all I like this a lot. Cool track!

Very cool you have tracks from so long ago!
I started writing bits and pieces in 2018 but I can't bear to listen to it anymore ;)

Very special and cinematic. I like that you let yourself be inspired by Dune. Good stuff!

Hallo paperkup, wie geht's? Ein Collab oder Collaboration heisst das wenn zwei leute Zusammenarbeiten an ein Song. Zum Beispiel einer macht die Beat, die andere singt, oder wie hier, du hast ein Song gemacht und Richard hat es gemixt.
Ich mag das sehr gerne wenn Looperleute einander hier finden und kreativ zusammen arbeiten! :)

Very funky and soulful. That's awesome you have songs and comments going back almost 15 years... amazing. This one was already good and then you made a lot of progress too... but you can definitely still be proud of this one!

The kick/snare pattern grabs you right away and the 80s arp works well on it. And I'm a bit fan of Junior Paes, she (?)always has these amazing acapellas! C'est tres bien tout ca!

You've got me hooked right away. I think you've outdone yourself!! This is a fantastic start to the new year - everything is crisp and clear and exciting and new and different - the vocal coming in at exactly the right time and loudness. This feels very pro and radio-ready! No idea if you had a plan to bring this out on Spotify or something but I think it would need only very minor tweaks!

Very cool sounds (especially the first half) and great mixing by Richard! Always great to see those kinds of collabs!

Collab all round, just how I like it! Well done!!

Very nice track! And congrats and good luck on the publishing!!

Great title, love the chords, strong vocal. Some good guitar sound too btw, especially the "power chords" work well and the distorted background melody.
Great job and good luck with it! What's your name ion the spotifies etc?

Very interesting sounds. I think you can guide it maybe a bit more to have a consistent track, but it's amazing what these things can do for us. Is it like a modular synth? James Blake made a whole album with that kind of thing

Yeah great job. Always good to see a Collab!

I enjoyed that very much. Always great to hear real people really singing, and it's clearly a meaningful text to you. Great job!

I enjoyed that very much, but it felt like a long intro leading to maybe a house track. Do you have further plans with it?

Great vocal and you gave it a great track! Very sweet!
Happy new year!

My favorite bit is the bit after 2:08 if I'm honest. I also like the bit before, but Iwas sort of waiting for everything to fall in line and that didn't happen. Nevertheless, all your tracks are always interesting. Happy New Year!

I love Norad, and this works really well with his acapella. Great track!

Honestly? I think if you speed this up to around 135 BPM you have an absolute fire track (I tried it quickly in Ableton and holy crap that's good).
Clearly that's not what you intended, and that also sort of works, but I feel I need something to give the track a bit more punch. Maybe a bit less compression on the master track?
In any case, great work and glad you brought it out!

That's fantastic. Really sweet and chill sounds!

That's awesome. I know from experience how hard it is to play and record and mix drums - you did a great job. Personally I got so frustrated by the whole process that I now drum on a midiset and then try to find the right samples with it... agonising stuff.

But you did great! I also love the lyrics. Great track & fav'ed!

That is a really really good track. Fav'ed!

Good slow build-up and then the pay-off after 1:39. One really weird thing, and I'm sure it's my brain, not my track; I somehow can't fully process the kick/hats in the beginning; the hats and the kick seem to have a different tempo - which I'm sure is not the case.
Cool track!

Absolutely epic. And it made me realise I really should consider to work with tools like ezdrummer or superior drummer. Those drums make a YUGE difference over my standard Ableton packs.
I assume you can use them with midi, so I can still drum on my kit, then transform it in such a tool?
Anyway. Your track survived 6 years with ease. Congrats and happy new year!

So the idea of using sidechain on a compression is that the track A you're compressing (eg an instrument) gets a bit more compression when track B you're sidechaining (eg the vocal) is louder. So you sort of punch a hole in the intrument for the vox to shine through.
The other standard example is to put a compressor on your bass and sidechain it to your kickdrum. When the kick is played, the bass gives way a little bit, and that means you don't have to dial up the kick to insane levels to still hear it.
It's a neat little trick - it's not suddenly a world of difference, but when you get used to it you can hear it, and at some point you also start hearing when it's missing.
Good luck my young goosy friend!