StaticNomad

I bid thee word up.

I thought you might get a kick out of "Consider yourself greeted". Has an appealing simplicity and a bit of attitude. I also run out of new greetings though I do have a few stored up (I also easily forget them). It's my difficult challenge to come up with a new one every time for you. "A hail of hermaphroditic helloes" I've already used but maybe I'll repeat it in a year or so when I've really run out and seemingly been through all the at least half sensible possibilities.

Your process with the weird little squealing sound reminds me of my various processing techiques. I'll chop up, reorder, layer and add effects to any of my playing in order to make more of it. Would be good to hear more of that sort of thing from you as it's a real track highlight here.

I can see why you're amused by me not liking your first ever bent note (note the note, the riff as a whole). I imagine my first recorded bent note was in my first recording (bass and guitar). I sometimes wonder how you don't bend the strings. If I'm letting a note hang, I'll probably just give it a little wiggle, for added emphasis. I'm thinking you must have to consciously stop yourself from doing this as it couldn't be more natural to me. Or we've got a very different mental approach to playing the strings. Yours may well be more precise and regimented, mine much more ramshackle and lazy. Laissez-faire, you might say. If you get a hanging bend just right with the groove, it can be way better than any new note you might play.

I too have tone issues with this track, that's why it's still a Not Bader.

I don't completely reject fade-out endings though I rarely hear a good one on here. Has to be done skilfully, not just giving the feeling that someone's turning the volume control down over 5-10 secs.

Good to hear you use 'cop out'. We also sometimes say 'cop off' (with), which means something along the lines of kiss/have sex with (degree is vague). So, perhaps your equivalent of 'make out', which we never, ever say. Doesn't exist in UK and I probably only know about it from US TV and movies.

If I do make it to Florida for the mic pickup, I will be looking spic and span in a fine suit, bow tie and bowler hat. My paddling butler will indeed be quite unkempt. I will constantly have to spray him with various pleasant smelling things just to give my nose some peace. As I misplaced the mic when moving into the sheds in October, I haven't played or recorded any banj in ages. Same goes for my other better-sounding but harder to play resonator guitar. Would like to record them again.

P.S. Cello still going very badly. Still no bow, plucked recordings don't sound good. May have been wrong purchase though I hope not and will just have to stick at it.

Pop music-based greetings.

I've heard this a few times and also watched the video, which I thought was well done.

When I first saw the track title, I thought it was going to be a cover of the Nirvana classic. Sadly not as that's a much better song. This certainly isn't my kind of genre of song but it's all well done, as always. I'll just say some more for now about the video, which is well made.

It's got a real simplicity to it, which is all it needs. I think people into this kind of music want to see the people making it so you deliver on that front. The beach/water backdrop provides a decent contrast from the studio and the edits are fine. Camera quality is good. There's nothing particularly interesting happening or any sort of narrative but that doesn't matter. That takes a lot more work, time, planning and probably expense.

I'd say the video is pretty much good enough for commercial release. But, in the world of Youtube, it already has been released so it's not like you need it to be on MTV (yes, I know they don't really do many music videos anymore) for anyone to see it.

Finally, well done on doing this whole song and video so quickly.

Good luck to you and your brother.

Consider yourself greeted.

Nice to see a couple of other people have felt sufficiently moved to pass comment on your wang. The Prick Of Despair is a fun title and a suitable B-side for this track (if such things still existed).

Anyway: you have nicened this track up bro though it still doesn't make your badass folder.

Can't really notice the lead line being much different. Probably just thicker, as you say.

1:35 that is a fucking killer, weird little squealing sound. Brought in with a dramatic fill and then continued lots later. Cool effect. Getting a bit creaturey (?) there. Sort of thing I might do. But I haven't and you have.

2:24 not so keen on that lead line. But it's only short so not to worry (but brought back later). Maybe just too forced a melody or something. Not bad, just something slightly off about it.

I can't find that much else to say about the second half. It's decent, just doesn't really grab me. Lots of sounds I've heard from you before and just the one cool, new one.

3:50 sparser ending sounds good but fadeout is still a bit of a cop out. Hope you have that term in Yankland. Nothing to do with cops.

Later, wang hater...

P.S.

As to an unanswered question from elsewhere: no shit-shifting injuries yet but lots more shit to shift. Going OK and I'm taking it slow. As long as I've got somewhere half decent to sleep and my music gear all/mostly set up (where the hell has my microphone gone?) then I'm happy.

And I'm back. I know what you mean about pure love being devoid of cheesiness but that doesn't always translate into musical success.

I play some deep, far out stuff but I still quite often play something quite cheesy. I have no definite idea why that is. Certainly not my intent. Sometimes I go through and "de-cheesify" tracks, especially when it comes to slightly annoying synth sounds.

Anyway: more detail.

0:08 those first notes work well for me. Then other tinkly creeping notes a bit later and some little hints of percussion.

I think it's that marimba on 0:26 that says "playful, gentle doggy music".

And then you build your percussion. Very dry (ie lacking reverb) so close and sort of warm, perhaps a bit like puppies. You don't want to make it a space puppies track, right? I probably would have but then that's just the kind of music I make.

0:51 guitarey sort of synth instrument is pretty decent and you've also got some kettle drum rolls in there, which I like. Beat is solid and grooving now.

1:09 guitar is a surprise. Might seem a little out of place but it's playing good notes so no problem there. Rather: an interesting brief, little flavour.

Marimba sits in there all the time, almost as a bass line. Return of keyboard guitarey instrument theme towards the end and bit of strings and then a decaying end note which has been cut off of a bit too soon. Just need a few seconds more on that.

How's that for detail?

A hail of hermaphroditic helloes* heading your way.

Do you have disdain for your wang? Or does someone else? Or is it someone's else wang you have disdain for? Perhaps the school bully who used to slap you around the face with his as an oh-so-funny prank.

Maybe you have disdain for a Chinese dude you know called Wang. Quite a common Chinese name, meaning that there are millions of walking, talking wangs in this world.

Anyway, cool intro with some reverse elements and then a good groove at 0:10, in which your drums sound good. Cool bass tone too.

0:19 lead I find way too light and "airy". Just a bit weak, sound-wise. Guess that's guitar. Sounds a little like a synth or violin, like maybe it has a slow attack. A different lead sound would make it much better.

1:36 bongo-style drum fill is good and then more bongoey beats.

2:05 some of the key changes make me think of something like the Knightrider theme from the 80s. Bet you used to watch that show. The Hoff's second most famous role, after Baywatch. But he's a lot better known in Germany for his pop music. Explain that!

Definitely impressed with the drum programming here. Busy and inventive and some cool fills. No criticism there. Better guitar sounds would help a lot.

Overall: I'm putting this in my Evisma Not Bad, Could Be Better folder. Improvements could make it migrate into my Evisma Badass folder.

* I guess a hermaphroditic hello would be one combining male and female tones in one. So, a little like Tuvan throat singing, in which they somehow manage to layer two different tones at the same time. An incredible sound, in case you've never heard it. My favourite group who do that are called Huun Huur Tu and they're amazing singers.

Greetings, Golden O.

This is good though I appreciate that it's very much a work in progress. Adding more elements (and length) should indeed help.

This is fairly skilfully put together and definitely the basis for some proper funk.

Jazz guitar keyboard playing is good and sets the tone nicely. Then the first problem: that hat stands out as having the wrong sort of sound (too dry, needs reverb) and the wrong timbre. I know there's no "wrong" in music, I'm just saying how I feel. I have loads of good drum sounds but in some tracks they do feel wrong. Might also have groove not quite right. Play around with some different quantise settings.

Brass blasts are decent. Could be a better sampled sound but I guess it's the best you have. I hardly have any decent brass sampled instruments. They generally don't sound good played in a regular way so I have to use them in a different way ie add loads of delay or whatever.

0:55 first cool brass fill. Makes me think not of funk but some other genre. More jazz or ska or something similar.

I hope these thoughts help just a little bit.

Good luck with it as it's definitely worth continuing with.

Hi.

Damn, 10 hours a day is a lot. I'm not sure even I do that (when I have that many hours in a day spare) and I'm quite the music and music making obsessive.

Anyway, this is good but I don't love it. But I could come to love it if there were some really fine vocals added. A good song, basically. It sounds like there's lots of space left for vocals. However, if you never get them I'd say you might need to add some more elements or shorten the track to keep my interest.

You pan pipe instrument again, as in another of your tropical chill tracks. At many points I like it, at others I don't. Maybe it plays a little too often. I'm not quite sure.

This is actually really well made, with a very bright and easy listening sound. Fine mix and I'm not sure I can criticise any of it. There's a lot of good space in the whole track, which allows all the elements to breathe.

Hope you get those fine vocals.

Hi.

I remember you from many months ago.

I'm not really hearing any hip hop in this. Maybe just a little.

Instead, I hear what could be a hit pop song, if you get some good vocals. Simple strummed guitar is well recorded and it has quite an uplifting feel so perfect for an emotional ballad to be played in stadiums all round the world.

Strings help give it that uplifting feel. They get stronger, with more melodies, towards the end (from 3:21).

It's the sort of thing I've heard many, many times before but it's well done and I can't really criticise anything or suggest a different way of doing things as it's quite a standard type of song composition.

Congratulations...

A lovely piece of music that I will review in much greater detail when I find the time.

Intro is very peaceful and the whole thing is really quite uplfiting. Maybe could be used for a puppy soundtrack? Lots of other soundtracks too as this has some class and elegance to it.

It's very easy listening but not of the cheesy variety.

So, more another time. Until then - big congrats.

OK, no professional bass model used by you so now I will see your real face (and bass) when I read your track reviews and listen to your tracks.

Yes, store that bass praising sentence away if you like. I think I generally applaud your bass playing. My main criticism of it would be that you seem not to come up with that many memorable "hooks" or lines that I can remember after listening to the track. It's usually creative playing around the chord sequence without hitting on a simple, distinctive riff. Or maybe you do have some distinctive riffs but bury them in the mix (or just play them once). I'm not sure.

I like to do all sorts of playing around a chord sequence but am always looking for the best, coolest parts that I can bring out and emphasise. I do a lot of chopping up and moving around of my recorded audio parts. My guess would be that you don't. So, when I hear your bass playing for two minutes, that's probably what you played, without any edits. But I could be wrong.

I'm sure I've said to you before that I mostly make music by jamming around an 8 or 16 bar loop for a good few minutes (my record is a 17 minute take; I did an 11 minute one recently on guitar for my track Emperor Tritone), trying out a few different pre-prepared ideas and then, once I think I've played them well enough a few times, I do whatever come to mind - usually something completely unpredictable. That's how I sometimes get some of my strangest and most interesting stuff. And then I spend ages carefully taking the best bits and joining sections together. Real cheating compared with someone who really knows what they're doing and just plays it all in one go, with no edits.

I have no idea how many people work the way I do but maybe you could try out my technique and see if you come up with some unusual, unexpected things.

I still don't quite understand why people take loops of their music and give them away for free on Looperman (if they're good, why not use them yourself) but if I wanted to, I could easily make thousands and thousands of good loops.

Sorry to hear no one is even fully playing your tracks on Bandcamp. Perhaps I slightly worry that if I put stuff up for download, very few people will care about it so why bother. I know that's quite a defeatist attitude but I am a bit like that in general. I guess I just have higher ambitions for my music but these days making recorded music seems to be no big deal and nothing special or even interesting to most people. So, it's hard to get any interest from people, even if you're good. We can blame cheap music technology for all of this. But, without it, I could not do what I do.

Sorry for no other comment on your track but I thought you might be interested in a few words about other music-related things.

Wishing you well,

Mr Nomad

Hi again.

No, you certainly don't want this to feel too fast. That's why I just suggested raising the tempo by about 5 BPM. Or you could even automate it so that the whole track subtly speeds up and/or slows down. No tempo drag in the second half so I'd suggest just trying out my suggestions on the first half.

Or, keep the same tempo but do some other things with the drums to give the illusion of it being a bit faster. So, one thing that can work nicely is to make the hats faster/busier, perhaps keeping the rest of the drums just as they are.

Tempo and feel of the track are interesting things and I have tracks at the same tempo that feel like they're very different tempos. For instance, two tracks made on the same timeline sound perhaps 10-15 BPM apart but are the same tempo. One track (Random Acts Of Human Kindness) uses a lazy shuffle blues groove, making it seem much slower than the tighter hip hop type of groove used in the other track (The Shit).

Yes, I saw Danke and Epic's comments and didn't think there was anything lacking in the second half so I guess you've done a good job adding a bit more activity (only a guess because I haven't heard the earlier version).

You can definitely do lots more good chillout music.

You don't want to leave it at only one classy chillout track...

Hi. Not sure I've reviewed one of your tracks before.

This is good though my first feeling is that it's a bit slow. The beat seems to drag a bit. As it's all synth stuff, I'm guessing you could just up the BPM, say by about 5 BPM or so. Try it out.

Actually 2:04 it doesn't seem to drag as much though it does in the first half. Just a minor criticism.
Otherwise, it's a good collection of synth sounds with an uplifting, positive vibe but not cheesy.

Around 2:18 or so the high wailing lead is excellent. Pulling the emotions this way and that, things building nice. Bit of a soaring guitar lead feel in there.

Piano sound has a warm tone.

Good, clean mix and that second half rolls along really well, not getting boring. And then it comes to a nice conclusion, with some odd, reverbed squawking sound added as well (also in the first half, now I listen again).

Basically, it's good chillout music (elegant, as Crucethus said) but not the boring type that doesn't go anywhere or that is too polite and gentle.

A touch of class here so big congrats to you...

Hey, man. I read your reply and I listened again.

It's really hard to know but I seem to be enjoying the track more now. I can't tell if removing those sound FX has helped that at all or perhaps you also tidied up a few other things and made things run a bit more smoothly.

The track now seems cleaner and less cluttered than before. I indeed had no problem with the sound FX but sometimes cleaner, sparser is better. That's something I struggle with a lot as I like to use a lot of sounds and keep things very busy most of the time. But I'm also good at peeling back the layers to create different moods for different sections so that's how I tend to do it rather than removing an element entirely from a track.

So, I guess I'm saying you could add the sound FX here and there rather than ditch it/them entirely.

Anyway, I don't have a lot more to add as I think I said most of it before. It's really a cool little track.

Aah, spring is here, the sun is emerging (good enough for getting the kayak out now), women are indeed wearing a bit less and you're thinking of sun and petals and stuff as you travel about the Ozarks scaping the land. And you have turned those thoughts into MP3 format. How nice.

First surprise is some early reggae-like little gentle staccato guit strums that appear at various later points.

Then a slightly different drum groove for you ( a good one) and then more familiar crash and low end bass thump at 0:23. Little dancing guitars on top. You play guitar in a slightly odd very lead gentle clean melodic way, which is quite a surprise. Didn't think you'd play it like that so much when you said you'd got your PRS so could get it in tracks regularly. And still no string bends. You may have the blues but you don't play them.

0:48 familiar type of bass riff but it's good so nice criticism there. Would like to have it in my music. Not to worry, I have many other types of basslines. I'd happily do your bass playing if I had your setup and could physically manage it but I don't and probably can't so too bad.

Toms there also good, providing contrast for when main hat-led beat kicks back in. You're varying the drums nicely in this. Much improvement from being the slave to loops I think you used to be. You've also got some effective delay on the snare in your very chilled next section 1:40. Delay is easily my favourite ever effect. Probably then distortion. Retriggering or tape stop/slowdown are also pretty badass.

I wasn't going to after the first listen but I think I'm going to go ahead and award you the coveted Nice Track Bro trophy. Cherish it dearly and polish it regularly. It is quite large and heavy but perhaps you could wear it triumphantly around your neck as jewellery as you go about your business in town. People are sure to show you more respect and awe.

Must go due to tiredness but I will return for more detail. Hope your trophy arrives via FedEx by then.

I bid you adieu.

Hi. I'm a big fan of the original track and I've commented in detail on that already so won't do it again here.

It's cool to hear an Evisma tracks with vocals. Shows what his music could turn into if he had some vocalists (or just one).

Vocals work pretty well, even though they're not really my sort of style. You've definitely made a proper song out of it. Damn hard to say what sort of genre this is now. Certainly something creative and unusual.

The rising chorus type of section is pretty melodic and far out and really fits the music well. Good also that you got the title in the lyrics halfway through.

Yes, it's a bit squashed so a better version could certainly be made.

Overall: congrats on doing a good job on someone else's track and showing the potential any piece of instrumental music has to be turned into something different with the addition of vocals.

Greetings. I had a look at your Bandcamp page and now I have seen what you look like! And you bass guitar. Unless perhaps it's not you and you instead hired a professional "bass guitar model" for publicity shots.

I'm not that keen on the first bit of wah playing. Not sure why - maybe just too much wah in there. I use it quite often as well though sometimes I don't like the sound of it in my tracks but the playing was good (and I couldn't remember how to replay it) so I kept it anyway.

Vocals are clearly the star here. She does have a good tone to her voice. Maybe too much reverb on the vocals though it's not really a big problem.

Your usual good bass sound and playing. And no doubt Rhodes too.

I definitely don't hear this as being blues. More sort of easy listening pop-funk-rock.

You're good at composing around vocals nd you usually make the vocal the main thing and just play complementary parts underneath. As well as having a few guitar breaks, as you do here.

As I've said many times on this site, I generally dislike fadeout enddings but this one is pretty good. Probably because it's quite a long fade so seems to make sense.

Good luck with your album. Have you had many downloads/feedback yet? I guess not many people know that it exists...

Hi.

I started up a forum thread about favourite ever tracks on Looperman and ShortBusMusic chose this very track as one of his favourites. I thought you might like to know.

https://www.looperman.com/forum/thread/182742/what-are-your-favourite-tracks-on-looperman

You should check the thread out and also contribute (if you're still active here).

Anyway, this is a bit bright and light for me but is very well done. Sounds very acoustic and natural. Like someone playing happily by a river in the woods on a sunny day. Closeness of the vocals make it very intimate. I can't fault the smooth vocals and the guitar playing is precise and well recorded.

No real criticisms from me so congratulations on this happy little song. It would be very suitable for soundtracks in a lot of TV and film productions.

Regreetings.

Don't be surprised that I like some of your tracks. There's a load of weird noise stuff you also do that I barely consider music - only in the most avant garde sense. That's the kind of thing I'll probably never be into. But I don't bother telling you that in comment form on those tracks. Don't really know what the point would be.

But I'm a sucker for a cool groove and this and Nitr8 etc are great examples. This is perhaps better than Nitr8 and I also enjoyed that 3 loop track you recently did featuring a touch of slide guitar. Basically, I like the ones I comment on (no surprises there).

I have also meant to ask for a while if you have a Nitr8 remix favourite (and are prepared to publicly say) . I think the best, by far, is the spaghetti western version by theHumps.

I have actually read that stupid Blatant Melody thread, in which 40A so successfully demonstrates how obnoxious and mostly unashamedly arrogant he is. What a sad narcissist (and regular forum troll). I totally agree with you that those two loops are very different. So, the rest of the thread is basically a waste of time. I listened to each of them many times and could only hear a slight similarity (but far more differences). There are thousands and thousands of riffs and loops that sound way more similar. And 40A's "within 8 hours" dumb point is irrelevant, even though there are events in the world that human beings refer to as "coincidences". And there are regularly ones far more amazing and baffling than two people uploading similar loops to the same website within a few hours of each other.

So, no, I certainly don't think you rip off Hot Chip. I don't really try to play like anyone else at all but I'm sure I must have riffs that have been played exactly that way before, perhaps even at the same tempo, on the same instrument etc. I sometimes worry about how the hell I'm going to come up with interesting new melodies and riffs in old age.

I think you're saying that you got really angry on Facebook and then went and recorded the Lovin It vocals. Fair enough.

Probably less commercial value to this if you're giving it away for free but I think you get my point.

If you release the stems for people, you'll get at least 15 remixes.

Why not do a Nitr8-Lovin It remixes double album?

Hi. I've commented a reasonable amount on your acoustic tracks but not heard so much of the rocking stuff.

This sounds very good, even though I'm not particularly into it. The vocals are excellent. I don't love them but they're perfect for this style. Right up there with a lot of very commercial, big-selling music.

I can go into more detail if you like regarding the other instruments but just wanted to say for now that the vocals really stand out. This kind of music is all about making them stand out and be catchy so you have a definite success there.

Oh, and EQing the vocals probably hasn't removed any unique quality. They sound good but also quite generic, which is partly what makes them good (in commercial terms).

Oh and I like the delivery of the line "If I'm honest with myself" - probably the delivery of "honest" in particular.

Ah - one criticism. Vocal delivery of the "you" in "without you" and "day" in "another day" I do not like.

Hi there.

This is good stuff. I think the money (cash register?) sample is cool and gives the whole thing an interesting feel. And some of the bits of delay on it help as well.

Lots of melody and good chill here. Also quite a bit of space, at times, to allow the instruments and sounds to breathe. And then you return with tight beats - EazyBeatz.

The dog sample is also good.

0:48 good pitch bent strings.

Good piano tone. Simple notes that are on the minor side of things but not depressing. Kind of sad beautiful.

It's not my favourite ever piece of music (not sure what is) but I don't really have any criticisms or suggestions, otherwise I would offer them. It's a good mix and I feel I can hear all the sounds quite clearly.

Good work.

Yo again. One thing that's happening to this mister is that he has just bought an electric cello. Not an instrument I've ever played before but I have wanted to expand my playing for a while and have always wanted a fretless instrument. Not got a bow yet so just plucking for now though fear I'm playing it too much like a bass or guitar. When I put it through my regular heavy distortion setting, it sounds exactly the same to me as my guitar, which is kind of a bit disappointing. Was hoping it would be different.

Anyway, I guess I'll get better at it and getting good at bowing should help differentiate it from guitar/bass playing.

I was wrong about Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. It's on the fantastic One Of These Days that Gilmour plays awesome pedal steel. STCFTHOTS is not in that concert but I did also watch it in their Pompeii gig. I could never forget the title but had forgotten the piece of music.

I hope you're familiar with the rather interesting hypnotic bass and drums stoner duo Om as STCFTHOTS is pretty much the blueprint for their style. Check that band out if you don't know them. I hope you also gave another recommendation of mine from ages a listen - Genghis Tron. Easily my favourite most extreme band of all time. I don't listen to much extreme screaming music but these guys make a true artform of it. Just listen to their Board Up The House album and be blown away.

Yes, I've now found the version of this track featuring Tumbleweed. No idea why I couldn't find it before. Not looking hard enough, I guess. Must remember to comment.

I've heard you say before that you're somewhat influenced by the seasons and chill more during the winter. I'm pretty sure that no weather or anything else going on in the world or my life has any bearing whatsoever on my music making. That's because I do such far out stuff that I think I get transported to somewhere completely removed from my life and surroundings so I just shut everything out and trip out into other worlds inside my imagination. And then try to create them in nice track bro form.

Yes, get yourself a guit fiddle. Well, if that's what you're comfortable with. Go with a triangle or accordion if they speak more to your soul and feel better to play. After all, a triangle is pretty damn metal, right? Solid piece of metal there.

Finally, I have a new track, featuring shitloads of vocals (not mine) and variety plus some definite badassery, especially in the second half (eg the d'n'b). It's 17.5 mins long so strap in, stuck up on food, drugs, alcohol and maybe a pillow for the long haul psychedelic extravaganza. Made 4 years ago but recently updated and improved. Something quite different for me.

Old Man Tribal

https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/164627

Keep pushing the pistons...

Hello again.

Ah yes - Laibach. That's one of the groups I was thinking of but I couldn't remember their name.

Good to hear the apocalypse won't be happening in 2015. Let's put it off until at least 2016. I've actually done a huge amount of music work in the last two years. I've made a whole long album in just the last two months.

"i tryed to sound so much german that i could"

Yes, you did perfectly! Could not be more German.

Waiting two minutes for the vocal works fine because your ambient vibe and simple groove is easy to listen to and, while you're listening, it sounds like it's probably going to be an instrumental anyway so I'm not waiting for and expecting a vocal (as with a rock 'n' roll song).

I think what I wrote before was not clear. I wasn't saying that I would play this track for other people. What I meant was that I would not mind if I went round someone's house and they played this track, perhaps while we were talking or something. There's a lot of music that I choose not to listen to but son't mind hearing eg at someone's house or at a club or in a shop etc.

Best of luck with any more mixing and mastering. The track doesn't sound like it needs much more work.

Hi Joe.

From an English perspective (mine) this is so very, very German. That may sound extremely obvious as you're singing in German but I'm also talking about the music. Very minimalist and perhaps like some of the German bands from the 70s/80s who I don't listen to eg Amon Duul, Tangerine Dream. I'm not quite sure as I don't listen to those sorts of groups.

It's a cool, simple groove. Not really that dark - just melancholy. All the synth work sounds good and I like how you wait 2 mins to bring in the vocal. It's really very chilled out.

I wouldn't choose to llisten to this at home but would be happy for someone else to put it on. Also good soundtrack music. And it's well produced so congratulations again.

Finally, is it really the acpocalypse in 2015? If so, I better finish some of my many albums as that will probably be quite difficult in a post-apocalyptic world (maybe no electricity).

Take care.

Yo again, Outdoors Chap.

I have no idea what 'dubstairs' is. No doubt just your little dubstep joke, which I like. Probably more than I like most dubstep, though I'm talking more about the type of harsh, growling dubstep people obsess over. You know the kind - no actual dub in there. Original dubstep, which is just a wobbling progression of dub, is actually pretty cool.

But this sort of unmusical, effects-obsessed, histrionic stuff that's always brickwall mastered I find pretty damn horrible.

You can hear some dubstep-style bass wobbling (LFO automation) in my track A Little Bit Of Infinity but it's a very musical piece rather than just someone wobbling away because they have no other, more musical elements to add.

https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/164118

Anyway, yes I can see the track was built around the bass. That's quite common and how I also often work. No, "cute" synth seems pretty good. But go ahead and modify it or switch it out for another if you think you can do better. If you think you can do better, you probably can.

Yes, sub time is good. I'd like to get more sub stuff into my music but it can be tricky. I think it might work best if you leave things sparser on top of the sub. So, maybe have sub and then higher frequency stuff so not much midrange. Just a theory - I'm not a technical sound guy whatsoever.

I'd prefer to hear you do something with fat grooves that isn't just a club track (I know you can). I tend to find that more musical and interesting. Club tracks have to be very good for me not to be bored. I wasn't bored with this one (I prefer Klokwerk) but I'd probably rather the elements were used as a fat groove 80-110 BPM thing. Just my preference.

Take care.

Supervillainous regreetings.

Used to smoke weed but gave up. Did nothing for creativity, though there were some good laughs. No need for drugs for imagination as that comes easily. Crazy, sometimes amusing ideas are one of my few talents. I like to think I get some of that imagination into my music (not one of my natural talents).

I came up with this logically, thinking about Jeff's hands and if the problem were more extreme. I was trying to think of an amusing response to you telling me about it and then decided it could be a superpower, if harnessed. Could be used for good but more likely bad. Good guys don't go around corroding stuff with oily skin. None that I know.

I'm not knocking Jeff as I don't know him and am unlikely to. In terms of character back story, I'm a failed musician too ie entirely outside the music industry.

Don't like The Rustition. Rusting stuff isn't badass and it'll take a while to obliterate Nashville waiting for it to rust. Maybe you can do better though Corroder or Corrosive are perhaps decent enough.

Came up with Sliderman a few years ago.He suits a music-related plot. Interesting how much energy I sometimes put into the slide. Sometimes the whole arm but often seemingly more of the body when getting really intense.

I have another superhero called Frisbee Boy (I'm a big fan of the frisbee). He chucks a variety of frisbees, with incredible accuracy. They're also his shield (like Captain America) and vehicle though I'm not sure how you would throw one and then get on it! And you can't throw it if you're sitting on it. Need some special effects movie physics there.

What would your superhero be? Bass Boy? Or Bass Bastard if he's a supervillain. If Sliderman and Bass Boy team up with a drum-related superhero, they could have a kickass superhero band. Think of the killer riffage the bad guys would have to contend with! Supervillains getting cymbals smashed over their heards and being double kick drummed to death. Their vehicle would be drum-propelled, with the drummer smashing away at impossible speeds. Maybe he would have 6 retractable arms. Retractable so he doesn't look like a freak all the time.

The reverse cymbal Kryptonite thing isn't quite accurate. I do sometimes like a reverse cymbal and have used them most sparingly over the years. You often use them in your tracks, but tastefully, as opposed to someone like Crucethus, who has ruined tracks (for me) with ridiculous overuse. Some are better than others but it's still a bit of a gimmick. When it gets repeated and repeated (especially the exact same way) it loses the element of surprise it perhaps first had.

Maybe Ewan MacGregor will play you in the film though he's generally in pretty poor films. This one will be awesome so maybe his first good one since Trainspotting or Shallow Grave.

Now I must slide away...