StaticNomad
LONDON, United Kingdom
Joined : 22nd Apr 2011 - 14 years ago
Last Online : 1st Jun 2024 - 1 year ago
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StaticNomad has posted 1056 comments on other peoples tracks.
on Ghost in my Guitar by Neomorpheus
Do you have a hollow body guitar that you filled with Jim Hendrix's ashes? Sure sounds like it on this track featuring some very tasty playing with a beautiful feel and touch.
It's a bit too chilled out, sensual and relaxing to be a proper Halloween track but I'll let you off. That Thriller one you did a few years ago was much more appropriate for Halloween.
2:10 those runs are my favourite playing in the track. Plus the awesome 2:28 bend.
Jimi sounds like a little child right at the end. I thought his ghost voice would be a lot lower and more humorous.
Big congrats!
That'd be a bit morbid but having his ghost in my guitar would be cool!! I'd just settle for one of his guitars. But hey you made a good point in your thoughts on the ending. So I re-recorded my voice and went in the opposite direction with the pitch. Thanks for the comments bro, you are only one of few that has ever got me to edit my tracks.
on Moss Mother Part 1 - Sun by ValveDriver
I couldn't understand why there wasn't a comment by me on this from last year. Then I remembered that I probably did a big review on Facebook. Still well worth listening again to this massive mossterpiece.
First 1:30 is a bit noisy but that's OK. And then the badassery makes itself known and takes over from the somewhat Celtic previous stuff. Slightly reminiscent of Led Zep's folkier stuff, which then gets totally smashed out of the way.
2:38-2:44 I could have done with a fat kick but it's a stylistic choice to do without.
2:58 swing your hairy heads, metallers! And then get widdling on your air guitars.
Nice organ (ic), Floydy break after that. Back to the forest from the huge mountain.
4:48 that's the fat kick I was referring to before (when it wasn't there).
6:24 fukcin' badass skullcrushery!
7:05 haha to that widdly guit fiddlin!
7:20 saving the best riffs to the end. Nice stops and space.
Wicked guitars throughout. Maybe as I don't really play anymore I should just Shreddage it up. Nah, real playing's always better. Unless you can do this.
Mountainous congrats again. Badass bear music!
on In Memory of the Holocaust by ClickbaitCabaret
This has a really cool, metallic, industrial sound. Nice thud from those lower drums too. Good synth lead. Warm but also cold, legato notes.
2:06 good breakdown and break from the main beat.
This is kind of eerie and unsettling and could be very useful soundtrack music.
Congratulations.
on ODE etto trink 2017 by ettotrink
0:57 dropped beat Danke mentioned is great fun.And daring. I need to do more stuff like that!
More detailed thoughts another time, I'm in a rush...
on The Last of His Kind by OMaille
A nice, delayed intro but then the arrival of the drums doesn't give the track the lift I was expecting. Even if you love this drum sound, there are no surprises in the second half of the track (because it's exactly the same as before). That break in the middle would be the perfect time to introduce some different drums when the beat returns at 1:24.
Good work, anyway - just letting you know my preferences.
on Sator by ettotrink
I've also added this track to my long forgotten thread about favourite tracks on Looperman. I hope you'll have a look and choose some of your own favourites. It's also a really cool thread to go through - some great stuff on there (of course).
https://www.looperman.com/forum/thread/182742/what-are-your-favourite-tracks-on-looperman
on CATS EYES Instrumental by laurentwirz
Great low piano note at 0:48. Nice, plaintive sax. I guess that's from Slapjohnson.
My only criticisms are that perhaps the drums are too repetitive and could do with a bit more variety. That and at 4:17 there's a lot of noise. Is that on the Hammond organ?
on Sator by ettotrink
Cool groove and a bit of a throwback to old, groovy jazz.
0:50 we are catapulted forward to a much more modern and darker sound. And then it's back to the fun of the joyous, old time stuff. Great mix of styles.
Just my kind of unusual, creative track.
2:11 finish is predictably weird and fun!
Big congratulations.
Etto Trink
on Hate Crave by weirf
It all makes sense when the vocals enter. I like the lazy, stoner vibe and melancholy in the vocal. And the insistent groove.
Keep working on this and post a much longer update...
on We are the one by neuromancer56
Cool bass sounds and dreamy keys, plus lovely reverbed touches here and there eg 2:07.
My only suggestion is more drum variation though it's still a cool track without it. You could try adding some other loops, perhaps some with more reverb on them as these are rather dry.
Congrats!
on Green Gossamer by TheNyctopian
I’ve not heard one of your tracks before (as I’ve hardly used the site this year) but will try to check out some others as this has some class and depth to it. It’s never boring or too repetitive and is a good type of chillout dance music.
Congratulations.
on Overmyth III - Conquering The Bathelyst by ValveDriver
This is some proper, badass shit and remarkable use of Shreddage. Guitarists - who needs them?
Pretty decent trippy little intro and then at 0:17 the drummer's bell ride opens a dark switch and apocalyptic noise rushes in. Then some solid bass and drums.
0:52 awesome wailin' g! It's noises like that that make me want to start playing guitar again.
1:49 chunky chords are riffin' the place up and everytyhing is sitting nicely.
2:33 some mean, bassy doom. Plus a bit more wailing, psychedelic guitar a little later, which is probably a bit low in the mix. Damn, this is so much like a live band. All the more so because you're not doing what I do and layering different drum kits (plus loops). So it sounds like one drummer at one kit.
Real nice, wide sound on this. Surely one of your best produced tracks. 1 hour of composing, 388 hours of fiddling about with settings.
5:22 I like that machine gun variation. These are powerful, proper doom riffage sections.
Perhaps this is a bit long. It's not the running time that's the issue but the similarity of sounds. Would totally make sense live and be just about the right length.
So, no real criticisms from me. Except I guess you could have used some different guitar tones/added FX in the second half, just to keep things progressing. A minor criticism - more of an idea, really.
Big congrats on this proper doom track.
Overmyth is over? Surely not. I was looking forward to part 124. Oh well, all good things have to come to an end.
Take care...
"awesome wailin' g! It's noises like that that make me want to start playing guitar again."
Do it!
"...which is probably a bit low in the mix."
I agree. Someday, I'll go back and fix that.
" it sounds like one drummer at one kit."
I figure that's how they do it live, so in order to get the most realistic sound I can, I'd better follow suit.
"Real nice, wide sound on this. Surely one of your best produced tracks. 1 hour of composing, 388 hours of fiddling about with settings"
Thanks, man! That's pretty close ro how it was, too.
Yeah, there wasn't a whole lot of variation in sounds. But by the time I got to about hour 350, I was kind of done with trying to be creative. I just wanted to finish it. However, I'm taking the suggestion with me to the next track. Which I've started. So, about 375 hours over the course of a year and a half from now, I'll post it.
Until then, take care, man.
on A Ghost Lives by Your Fireside by toastedavalanche
Anyway, this is quite warm and comforting. Very much "log fire" music ie good to play when you're at home with a nice fire burning. The additional sound effects help add that crinkling, crackly vibe.
Heartfelt, simple stuff. Not the greatest song but warm, sensual and effective. Nice reverse at the end!
on No Control - Feat Steelyvibe by DrvanLansberg
This is some good shit.
Cool bass intro. What a solid sound.
Nice, delayed keys at 0:16, plus that groovy shaker. I don't actually likemthe processing on the vocal. Not terrible but I think it would sound better without.
0:47 what a funky little lead. Nice chillout, progressive dance music now. Very well produced.
1:51 I love that high, delayed lead. Kind of a liquid synth sound.
And then some guitar in your breakdown. Nice space in the track when the vocals return. A good contrast with the busy previous sections. Good pause before 3:03 vocal return.
There's a lot going on here so I may well return for more thoughts.
Congrats on some good music well made.
Good to see you here again dude :). And thanks of course for listening and your feedback. Much appreciated, as always.
Since I finally found a way to have the Looperman site perform well for me, I will defintely visit, listen en comment a lot more than I have recently done. Hope to bump into you again soon.
Cheers, Doc
on In The Dreams Of The Damned by ValveDriver
A fading in distant, buzzy synth and then that trippy glassy lead is perhaps a little too loud and/or shrill. Kind of toy-like sound.
Trappy/dubsteppy drums enter and I know some fat bass is coming.
1:31 gets dubsteppier plus probably some Shreddage squealing there. Or maybe not. This is fairly unsettling, eerie stuff.
2:37 another break. I'd actually consider removing 1:31-2:27 and just going from 1:31 to the fatter, bassier section on 2:52. That's when things really come alive.
Another, windy, swiriling break and the drums return doing a bit more dubstep, wobbling madness.
4:00-4:03 that's actually a bit jazzy. I'd loop that section up and try to build something even jazzier out of it. The contrast with the dubstep could work really nicely.
5:40 by the time it's got here, the track seems to have had too many drumless breaks and it's a bit too predictable and plotted out that you're going to return with fatness. Just get rid of 5:40-5:56.
This is some good, solid, eerie shit but it didn't hit any particular high points for me. The structure was a bit too predictable and I wanted to hear some new and more varied sounds being introduced. All the same, it is quite nicely eerie and dark sci fi and the heaviest dubstep bits would well on a fucked up late night dancefloor.
Static DamnMad, dreaming of driven valves.
Ever.
on JazZedd by Neomorpheus
Kind of sexy music, especially with that sax.
Some of the guitar reminds me a little of Jeff Beck and he's just about the most expressive, controlled guitarist on the planet who can really make the instrument sing. Overall: not bad playing!
on I think you need to shave your pussy hair by spindeez
Good stuff...
on icecream by silverman
Really gets funky on 0:20. That's a fun, bouncy lead.
Beats are cool and oppositely panned.
0:59 new, delicate lead works its way in.
1:21 things get busier as it goes back. Right panned synth is cool. Lots of busy sounds going on but the mix is clear and skilfully done.
2:01 cool new instrument. I wonder what it is.
2:21 sounds like a cross between a guitar and synth solo.
3:22 now that must be guitar. Where are you getting all these sounds from? Are some samples? All?
The way you cram so many sounds and beats together and make them all work really well reminds me a lot of the way I make my music. So of course I love this.
Very progressive and imaginative and well executed. A definite favourite...
The created by me are from a MIDI keyboard and electric guitar that I play badly.
A lot of guitar sounds you hear in my stuff are actually created from the MIDI keyboard.
The main synthesis of sounds for the keyboard come from Air Technologies.
This gives my keyboard almost limitless possibilities for sound creation.
Glad you liked this piece.
on Orgasm Donor by BLEEP
The tempo changes are very unusual and the sort of thing I would like to do though perhaps I need something like Ablteon Live to do it (I use Cubase and it doesn't seem to be good for tempo changes).
The tempo changes are actually quite trippy. Around 1:15 there's some cool slowing down soon after the track has sped up.
1:29 nice, far out lead ambient synth.
This is a really cool avant garde dance track. 2:04 that weird lead is unusual and effective.
2:51 haha it's funny how the lead fades away in that break section.
3:13 such a lazy but effective drum fill.
This is serious drug music. Weird and brilliant.
Very well done.
sorry for the late answer, i didn't see before your feedback on this track!
happy to read you enjoyed it! for the tempo, i work with Reason (a few years ago, in the nineties, whithout all the music software which are more recent, there were only reason and cubase in real "competition" with a big favor for cubase from the artists sphere owing to the multiplicity of VST plugins).
So I made a simple automation to leave 90 bpm and reach 120. I think it's also possible with cubase.
I appreciated your way of cutting by section with for each party a precise analysis! thanks a lot for this precious comment! It gives me great pleasure!
Friendly
Bleep
on Northern Flicker by Evisma
You have been rocking and I have been listening.
Your money-hungry minister doesn't do a whole lot for me but it's short so doesn't matter. Rocking quickly starts and the riffs are instantly fairly compelling. Only problem is the drums. They're pounding away in a fairly nondescript manner until 0:48, when things get clearer and a bit more spacious. Maybe too much crash up till then. Hard to fault it but something is a bit off. Sorry I can't help more.
0:28 organ is a useful addition.
1:26 a bit of an abrupt change but what it goes into is nice. Twinkling celeste.
1:37 that's much more spacious. Nice toms. Things are clearer with less/no poundage going on. Lead starting 1:37 makes me think a bit of A Perfect Circle, as does that whole middle section. Best part of the track.
1:57 rumbling bass is warm and groovy. Lead g is decent.
2:30 your quirky little froh appears and then gets stomped on and blasted to the back of the rom but thrashing, soaring lead work. Maybe the end section and first section drums are lacking low end. Kick is hard to pick out. Maybe it's all too much cymbalage and that's creating a bit of a wall of punding drum noise.
Nice end section soloing. Except 3:29 ending is too abrupt.
3:22 to end perhaps remove that palm muted backing guitar. Let the delayed solo ring out. Try it and see.
This is good, progressive shit but simply needs a couple of better transitions and more work on two drum sections.
Static Flickermad, more than just a little curious how you're planning to go about making your amends to the dead.
Maybe the minister wasn't meant for you and doesn't want to do anything for you. Without a donation, you aren't of too much use to him.
Drums are always an issue for me. Im trying to get an old drummer friend of mine to get his E-kit working in the free key I gave him of StudioOne. Have him trigger some midi for me, though I should just use the pads on my midi controller.
I'll get in there and make some changes.
Evan, mistaking nods for an approval.
on blade runner trib by mindhiest
Really epic and sophisticated. A great tribute to Vangelis.
0:44 lovely new synth enters. Great pitch bends. Then cool, lush strings.
2:43 choir (synth?) sounds lovely.
Lots more changes and variety and progression so I will have to return to offer more detailed thoughts on the rest.
A good, epic length to suit the grand scope of this music. This certainly isn't pop music!
Big congratulations and respect for being able to make something like this. It's a favourite for me and also will be for Crucethus and probably many others on here.
on Drowning In a Bar of Blue Light by silverman
Damn, that first bass sound is awesome and kind of unexpected. Very modern and merges nicely with that cool groove.
I'll say much more about this later but you have a massive thumbs up from me for now!
This might be your best track.
on Empty Vessels by Evisma
I managed to upload my latest track but can't listen to anyone else's so that's why I'm leaving this comment here.
Here's my latest and you might like the title but perhaps not much more. Grooving cellout, no badassery. Give it a go:
Translucid
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/188307
on In the still of the night by andreve1
I'll give some more detail another time as I'm in a rush but I clicked on this and was instantly impressed so had to say something.
Thanx for the comment and compliment. I appreciate it.
on Shake It Like My Ol Lady by neuromancer56
Yeah, it's pretty funky stuff. I like the brass around 0:30 as it adds a funky new flavour.
1:24 is that sax? Cool sound and movement.
You have a pretty small waveform. I think you could really boost the power of the track with some mastering - compression, EQ and so on. Just to make it fatter and louder.
Well done, even if it is just all samples.