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Yo.

Yeah, I guess a bit less psychedelic - perhaps just a different type of psych vibe rather than my more usual beautiful, funky psych stuff. Darker and weirder this time though I never like to go too weird. Gotta keep it melodic and groovy.

I was really planning to disagree with you about the blues thing but I've listened more since your comment and thought hard about it and now partly agree. There is some cool blues playing from guitar (comes naturally to me) but I still hear the Rhodes as being much more jazzy. I have no idea how to play jazz or any other style as I'm a self-taught feel player who doesn't read music or really know any music theory. Give me a good swing groove and I can play in a jazzy way, otherwise I won't/can't.

I like the "jewelry" term. I guess my use of effects and stuff is a bit like jewelry. Hopefully effective and not just pretty adornments with no susbstance underneath.

" I just like it when people break the rules"

That's pretty much my aim with every track. I'm only really interested in creating something new that I can't hear anywhere else. Even if it's not brilliant, I can still be proud of its ambition and intent to do something different.

2:55 is where the big, evil synth horn sound comes in. I think that's what inspired the metal in this as that is a big, badass sound and just screamed "metal" to me. Well, that and the emphasis on the tritone (flattened fifth) in many parts of the track. See - I do know a tiny bit of music theory ie a few note names (oh, and major and minor scales, that's it).

No cello at 2:55. See my reply to Evisma about that so that I don't have to type it again. The new instrument is not gong too well, which is a shame (most expensive instrument I've ever bought but it does look nice) but hopefully it'll come alive when I get a bow. Only subtle cello in this track and it sounds more like double bass (as it's plucked).

" theremin sounding instrument" is a string part plus filtering and delays. Pretty evil and just playing the main horn theme. Haunting stuff. Also returns in the penultimate track section though Evisma didn't like it.

" definite ending, which we don't hear all the time from you."

Hey, you know that my tracks have definite endings. I still haven't done a fadeout. They don't have endings at all on Looperman when they're over 11 mins. But I almost always put a link up to the full thing elsewhere.

Yes, I think the mix on this pretty good. A rather beautiful-looking waveform (and you can clearly see where the metal is). I'm not quite sure why it looks like that but there seems to be some real balance in sounds or something. People who know more about the technicalities of audio might be able to explain it to me.

Take care and glad you like the jazetal.

Hi Wayne,
Good to read your words.
I also believe that the track sequence in a record is very important: I usually listen to music in "albums"
And for me the songs are "chained" together to form the whole picture.
So this was my humble attempt to realize something along these lines.
Take care,
Domenico

Hey Wayne,

Thanks allot for checking it out. I appreciate your comment about my tracks never seeming crowded. I do realize I put allot of stuff in my tracks and sometime think I may be overdoing it, so it's good to hear I'm not.

Cheers,
Scott

Hey Wayne, thank you for stopping by! I hadn't thought of it, but you are right about the comparison with that Cure song. I guess my feeling was more along the lines of Joy Division/New Order sort of stuff, but early Cure is definitely only a stone's throw away from that style. I agree this needs vocals, and I have a little bit of lyrics written for it. Have a whole list of things to get done, and recording vocals is not on there sadly... so we'll see if it gets done. I'd like to maybe redo the patches on this one, as people have complained about tuning/detuning issues. I did a recalibration of my main VCO, and I should be able to adjust the korg melody as well. This would probably make the vocals easier. The only unfortunate thing is the bass part was done on the modular, and while I can control it with the same MIDI info, I will need to set up the patch again from memory... ha ha... so probably this will change shape. I appreciate the comment my friend!

Thanks a lot Wayne!
You are always (too) kind with my work.
Ciao, Domenico

Thanks Wayne: the problem with my "vocals" is that I don't trust my voice that much...so it is very hard for me to have it "clear in the mix" :-)
I am working on reducing the lows: I usually work with earphones and there the "natural low cut" is hiding the problem.
Thanks again for the input!
Ciao, Domenico

Thank you Wayne for nice words! I played the keys on plugins (MrRay22 is my favourite), lots of effects. Ferryterry's guitar part is quite short in here - it was something from our older project but I noticed some fragments may fit here.
I have a new track ready to go (again a collab with ferryterry) - I will upload it today later. It is a chilled jam track over a minor blues with some nice soloing he just recorded.

Thanks again! Alex

Hello Wayne, Thanks for this comment I have the new version who I changed a bit the kick pattern and adding the Ochestra kit for the "melody" parts at end this is now better and way less repetitive has beat

Again thanks for this feedback and I do used a Timpani in this track it is in the past "middle" part with the Ochestra kit

-ant4505

"marimba and the synth shared similar freqs or are close so I might suggest eq or something to separate those two sounds a bit"

It doesn't help that I've got a distorted guitar line in there that is also pretty close. I'll be going in soon to fix stuff.

Thanks again! Always good to hear your thoughts.

Hey Wayne, I appreciate the feedback! I don't know if I can lay claim to playing the music on this synth, more like creating the sounds, but I know what you mean (and not all my instruments are like that). I'm not sure if I even have any albums with stuff like this on it, but I wouldn't mind finding some! I wanted it to be a fun song, so that makes me happy. Thank you very much for taking a listen!

Wow, seems to be playing for everyone else. Hope you will give it another try. Would love to get your comment.

Cheers,
Scott

Hey Wayne, long time no speak man. Everything is great over at the Loop, but we could do with some of your stuff to play.

Yeah he is still about but he said one of his arms isn't working too well so he can't really play at the moment. Hopefully he'll make a full recovery.
As for the track, I like the idea but i didn't mix it down very well (it's a bit to trebble saturated) I'd love to do it again some time.
Cheers for dropping by and commenting.
FR

Glad you enjoyed all of it, not everyone can hear it all, let alone understand it...
That means what you say matters, out here in this world of Music that's a
good thing...Anything positive bring a feel of pleasure with it...That's a good
thing to...

Peace...TG.

Thanks for the kind words.

Gotta do something different every now and then. I did not sit down and intend to do a track like this. I got the first bassline down and then everything else just happened. Seemed like it was supposed to go as it did. But like I said, sounds like something that gets played at a school dance.

The ax will be wailed upon soon! Next one will be heavy.

Thanks Wayne.

Evan

Thanks for that TH

:-)

Thank you!

Actually i'll be a teenager this year (so scared hahaha) on December 30th....

not looking forward to it :)

Thanks for the props .....much appreciated...haven't composed anything new in a few years but trying to get back...been away too long...thanks for stopping by...

Hello Wayne,

Thx. a lot and my best wishes for 2015 !

Ian

Hi Wayne, thanks for listening and really pleased that it was a good Christmas morning listen for you, and you liked it, that means a lot to me. Hope you are having a good Christmas.
Take care,
Mark