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The chorus from say 1:01 is an absolute banger and radio ready. Fantastic job you did there.
The intro (and the transition after the chorus) may need a bit more work - it throws me off a bit at least. Eg in the intro the beat wasn't entirely clear to me until I heard it the 3rd time; and around 0:40 there's something that doesn't flow perfectly in the vocal.
But all those are little niggles. This is a really strong track; I'm just mentioning these as I think you can lift it from an 8 to a 9.5.
Good luck man!

I thought many times about livestreaming a jam, but I'm not sure where to start and not sure it would be interesting etc etc. In the end I did a live stream on YouTube the other day of a small gig I did and that was super fun. I'll do that a couple more times and then maybe I'll consider that again. Always try to do the things that are the most scary, that way we grow the most, right? :)

More variation is always more better. But for the purpose you describe, maybe reconsider the bits from roughly 1:00-1:16 and the scream after that. Both I think as a player would be off-putting. The string stabs I wouldn't do for more than 1 bar, and the scream maybe you could do shorter and more in the background (it might be much more effective at say -20 dB).
Mostly you've done an amazing job though and as a game maker I would love to use this. It's also amazing what you've done with free resources.
Great job!

I like this quite a bit. The vocals are your own?

Very nice dreamy track. Great sounds, love the guitar-y sounds (they might be midi but they totally work)

Dude, never worry about how many people comment or like or whatever. That's a rabbit hole you don't want to go down in. You don't make tracks to be liked, right? You create because it's in your head and it needs to come out.

Like you I have tracks I'm proud of that nobody seems to like or listen to. Well, so what? We keep creating and move on to the next one. It's still one our babies and we still love it.

Regarding this track: great job using your own vocal (and not freaking out and overdosing on autotune, thank you for that). The beat is perfect for this, with the haunting female voice.
Great job. Not my thing generally but definitely had fun listening (twice)!

I love this. Great simple beat and a strong rap (Grafezzy is always great) good job!

That's lovely! If that's your first song ever I think that's a great start! Love your voice, we definitely need more of that!

Loads of interesting little things going on in the background to keep me interested. See if you can add a vocal yourself :)

Yeah man, that's how it works. I recognise your struggle with DAWs - they absolutely boggled me when I started making music 5 years ago and I'm still struggling with Ableton and discovering new tricks and concepts regularly.

Same for making music - I had a bit more background than you but the main thing is to make a tiny step every day and 5 or 10 years from now you'll look back at the journey you made :)

Oh, and from experience I can tell you now... Get a teacher :)
Especially the past 1.5 years I've made much bigger strides due to amazing teachers, first for drumming, then singing, then production... And that really made a huge difference.

Viel Glück! Und viel Spass :)

These modular synths are really quite amazing. It's a really interesting outcome - fun experiment!

I'm not a fan of autotune but now that you've gone completely through the sound barrier and turned it into full Robovoice, it actually sort of works :D
I love the little sounds in the background and it's a happy little tune. Good job!

My advice is always the same, see if you can make a track with it yourself! It's cool you made a melody; see if you can find chords that go well with it. It may not be easy but it will help you to grow as a creator, and create stronger melodies. Good luck!

I like it, but because of the repeated melody it feels like a long intro that doesn't get resolved. Maybe you can consider to leave out that loop for some parts of the song or have an alternative?

Hey man, very funky! Can you share the secret of the horns, where you got the samples? I need them for one of my tracks :D ("take off your coat")

I do feel there's something slightly weird in the melody you have them play; one note that seems a bit late and sticks out. Otherwise it's very smooth and funky!

Mixing wise: all instruments have a good volume; the balance left/right is generally good but the guitar really sticks out panned to the elft like the rest of the band didn't want him to sit with the rest (maybe he's smelly).

You can probably increase the master volume for Looperman; some streaming sites do this automagically but Looperman doesn't. In general some mastering wouldn't hurt; put a compressor on the master (and on the individual tracks of you haven't) plus saturator/limiter etc (EQ the individual tracks if you hadn't already done that). There's also plugins and even sites online that do it for you.

Good luck, as said it's very funky, and that's how I like it!

Very nice! It's almost 8 years old so now I'm curious if you have any new tracks? :)

Sure why not! DM me to send your stems and let me see what I can do you for :)

Haha the EP is already I think 15 songs ago and I'm planning to bring out an album in summer :)
It's doing well actually - by my standards. It has some streams on the various platforms and I even sold 4 physical CDs :D
Now let's see if the album can sell 5 ;)
Thanks man!!

That's really good - that angry vocal at around 0:39 leading into the DnB is a great combo.
Consider shortening the intro a bit though, because you almost lost me before I got there. Eg maybe start at 0:30?

Ohhh that's lovely my friend, at that guitar arpeggio at the start I said "Ooooh" out loud. Super smooth and a real joy to listen to!

Lovely! Super funky! Love that bass, and the (needs more) cowbell. Great to wake up to this!

As always it's off the charts good. Rock solid, or maybe I should say jazz solid (despite the great guitar).

However.

I have a producer friend/teacher who helps me with songs and structures and he almost always tells me to simplify stuff. In your tracks I hear that too; you have so much musicality and so many amazing ideas - any 15 seconds of your track are more interesting than entire tracks (or the entire life work) of some of us.

Eg the first 5 seconds are this awesome drum rhythm plus bass, then at 0:04 you have the sax, then horns, then a Rhodes, then after 2 min you introduce this amazing guitar which you got straight out of the steely Dan studios (who is that amazing guitarist???)

So what I would set you as a challenge is:
- decide what the top 3 ideas are in your track (to me: the drums, the guitar and the horns)
- build a 2-3 minute track out of that to make sure the core is exactly how you want it
- then add some of the other elements.
- then see if it needs to be longer
Oh btw the drop/break at 4:45 needs to be part of the essentials

I should add that I already immensely admire anything you do - it's easily a 11 on a scale of 1-10. I just think that if you make that next step from jams to songs, you can be a major recording artist (if you aren't already). It's just that good.

I can't fully hear it, but it seems to me the bassline might be in a different key than the female vocal?
I like how you combined the vocals though, and the idea of having only a bass and drums and no other instruments is also really cool!

Amazing track. I agree with Eric on the autotune, which is one of my pet peeves, but you know what, this track is so rock solid I don't even mind. Great job!

BTW that is an awesome avatar, I only noticed when you replied. I might actually steal that idea for an album cover, that's how much I like it :D

Regarding "tracks to get played outside Looperman" - hey, I made that journey from "crap track on Looperman" to "decent track on looperman" to "some tracks on youtube" to "some listeners on youtube" to "some people to telling me to bring out an EP"... to doing a small concert of my own songs this weekend.

I mean... I honestly didn't think that was possible even a year ago and now I'm setting new milestones and new goals and while I still think it's all crap and I don't expect anybody to listen... some people do. So NEVER THINK THAT! Even if you're just being realistic, it can also be nice to be ever so slightly ambitious.

So, long story short, yes, people might play it. You might play it. You might DJ somewhere. Now imagine people standing around on the dance floor and you are starting your latest track and you want to blow their tiny minds - and your intro should tell them PREPARE TO BE BLOWN, EARTHLINGS. Wait, that's not what I meant ;)

So yeah, intros need to be interesting. Good luck :)