StaticNomad
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StaticNomad has posted 1053 comments on other peoples tracks.
on Requiem for a Surf Movie by Planetjazzbass
This is some good surf shit. Cool, very far out, mystical intro. No surfing yet. Not unlesss it's slow motion surfing on another planet.
Ah, here come the waves. And the gulls. Did you surf out far to get those sounds?
Then funky bass and guitar and a steady funk drum groove. Is that guitar clipping at all? I can hear a little bit of perhaps unwanted crunch though nothing terrible.
3:14 break for the waves to return and then a groove and vibe I much prefer. Nice and spacious and jazzy. I prefer the drums and laidback vibe. And more far out feel.
1:42-3:14 is decent but I'd probably prefer the track if that section were entirely removed.
Second half has some tasty little jazzy guitar runs. Very gentle and carefully considered stuff.
Overall: congratulations.
P.S. I have never got into surfing. Never done it at all. I prefer kayaking and should be going out on the river tomorrow. As if you need to know!
on As The Tide Rolls by Powder Jay and BobsHouseParty by BobsHouseParty
0:19 good drum groove.
This is well produced but could do with a better delivered vocal.
on Psst Have Ya Heard by kingmadi
Such a cool groove, great vocals, cool samples. The main riff is so funky and tight. Nice additional percussion.
This has a really cool old skool, positive feel that really appeals to me. Sounds like it could be a big commercial hit. Excellent stuff. No criticisms.
2:20 rapid vocals are awesome!
A favourite 10 times over for me...
Haha, nah but I appreciate your kindness, much love!
on Ghost Light Sun by thelastmonte
This is good stuff.
I'm busy right now so will return later for more detailed thoughts.
This has some class so well done.
on The Midieval Song by MWRatridge
I don't normally like your voice but it sounds great here. A nice lilting groove to the music but you did say that it's an old medieaval standard so that makes sense.
Congrats!
on 16 again by dumarecht
This does indeed have a very 80s sound. Particularly the vocals and that synth that enters on 0:02.
Guitar parts are nice and grooving and have a good tone. Bass meshes perfectly such that I can't really hear the bass. Maybe it's playing exactly the same as the guitar.
Drums are OK, maybe a bit limited. They actually work quite well and aren't a problem. Just could be better and perhaps a bit more varied.
This has some character and is something very different from what you normally hear around here, hence my comment.
Overall, it's a pretty tight production and mix.
Congrats!
on CancersCurse DRAFT by VicaMOOR
However - where is the grunge? I can't hear any at all! What do you mean when say 'grunge'?
on Empty Vessels by Evisma
Classic Bass Bro bass intro.
0:15 little reverse swell fill that is a useful in place of, say, a drum fill. Then good toms and I can hear a nice, wide stereo spectrum, with interesting variety happening in both ears.
0:46 change has a jaunty little riff that is a bit too jaunty and Irish for me but that's OK.
Then the 1:00 Egyptian lead is very cool. You may not know that I was born in Cairo but now you do. Good that the jauntiness has been suppressed here. Might not fit with the exotic lead, which is a cool and unexpected flavour.
1:46 music box is also unexpected. Pleasant but not amazing. Then some massive guitar shit rips a hole in something, especially at 2:07. Progressive, climbing, probably somewhat chromatic rise. It's loud, with a flat waveform, but sounds just fine.
A useful break and then into other heavy riffage. Fairly rapid changes, as always.
3:24 another bit of lead g to take things further out and make them more epic. Gotta go on for a while with this kind of vibe.
Music box outro is fine. Woud have been odd if the instrument hadn't already made an appearance but, as it did, it works.
Lots going on here and some of it could be seen as an odd juxtaposition. But it also gives the track unique character so that's good. Could you maybe have tried to work a heavy version of the Egyptian riff into the final heavy section?
Empty Nomad, waiting like a stalking butler who upon the finger rests. Why can't he not be sober?
"You may not know that I was born in Cairo but now you do."
Yes, I knew that. You, and your Grandfather were born there. Your rowing butler has been giving me inside info on the Nomad for years.
Yeah, I could have used Harmonic Minor/Egyptian scale for an end solo, but I was ready to move on. This is not my best track, so was ready to go other places.
More later,... masturbator.
on Limb by Limb by igorsamanski
I dislike a lot of dubstep because it's often histrionic nonsense. But this has the real roots of dubstep in it ie actual dub, which has melody and groove and vibe. And vocals.
Fat beats and the reggae keys are classic. As are the vocals - about as authentic as they come.
1:22 mental wobbles and effects here! They work well over the reggae.
1:54 that's a crazy synth sound.
3:16 nice brief drop of the beat. A fun detail.
Well done, except for the ending , which seems to have been cut off far too abruptly.
on Deep House Loop - Looking for a vocalist by voidmastery
0:30 aha now that is cool. Awesome bassline! It all sounds so much better with that really solid bass underneath. Now it's starting to be a proper track.
Try putting the drums much lower in level, underneath the bass, in the intro section. Maybe filter them so they're quite distant and unclear and then make them drop into their fat sound at 0:30.
Good luck with getting a vocalist....
Hopefully will find a vocalist soon :)
on Overmyth II - Cathedral Of The Witch by ValveDriver
Witchy word ups, yo.
So, the vocal sample does little for me and I'd rather things began at 0:36. Dark, descending lead that's very black metal.
1:08 I like that lower riffage. And now this is all very authentic dark metal, I guess like quite a few bands in that sort of genre, not that I listen to Nile, Morbid Angel or Bloodbath. So, while sounding 100% authentic, nothing really sets it apart so far.
2:28 aha I like that lead. Nice bends and sustain. Dark trippy stuff to headbang fully to.
Again: I'd say the drums are a bit pushed back and I'm not sure I can hear the kick. But that's also quite authentic for the genre. Who the hell would know this was made all with software?
3:27 nice little break and now the new (ish) riff is better. Guitars sound great. I can't notice that much bass. This is, like various metal, all about the faux g.
This is really good stuff. The only thing holding back my genuine enjoyment of it is that I'm not sufficiently into this dark metal style. It comes across as lots of brutality but not much melody or cool groove for me. But people into the genre should really like that. I'll alert some metal friends to its existence and see what they think though they may well not reply.
Laters,
A bitch.
"So, the vocal sample does little for me..."
Yeah. It's not for everyone. But for the context of the song, it works for me. I had originally had the main body of the song finished before I had a title for it. Then as I was sitting there listening to it to figure out where to go from that point, I had the idea to put some witch vox in it. After all the work I had to do to get it listenable, I wasn't about to toss it out. There was plenty of EQ'ing. The original girl's S's were ear piercing and required a delicate mix.
" So, while sounding 100% authentic, nothing really sets it apart so far. "
I'll take it. Considering this is my first completed actual metal tune that I liked enough to expose, I'll take it. I'll worry about setting them apart after I get the full hang of just doing it.
"Again: I'd say the drums are a bit pushed back and I'm not sure I can hear the kick."
"I can't notice that much bass. "
I don't know, man. Maybe it's whatever speakers you're using to listen. I could probably boost the kicks a little, but after checking against 3 of the 5 systems I usually use, I could hear them just fine. I actually had to pull them back just a little. Maybe I went too far?
The bass is there, loud and clear. I can hear that just fine too. I'm afraid to boost that any more at all. It will start clipping and ducking. I wonder if it's because it follows so closely to the gietar riffs. I tried EQ'ing the Thunderfiddle and the Fauxtars in a way that there wasn't a gap in frequencies.
I'll see what others have to say about those issues. If it's a common thing, I'll go in and readjust some stuff. I still have a little room to play with the kicks. I may just boost them anyhow.
" It comes across as lots of brutality but not much melody"
That may just be from my years of listening to more brutal death metal than melodic. It wasn't until about 5 years ago that I really started leaning that way. Before it was just straight up Cannibal Corpse, Skinless, Dying Fetus, etc. Bands that just sound like butchery. I'm still trying to get the hang of melodic. Not just in my metal, but all my tracks. It's a good challenge.
Let me know what your metal friends think. Knowing metal heads, I'd venture to guess they won't like it, simply because it's not "pure". Even if they like it, they won't like it. No metal can be brutal if it was made on a computer, ya know?
Laters
V bitch
on Fearless by swindla007
This is some dark, eerie, moody, aggressive dnb.
Strange, spooky intro and I do like those haunting female vocals and the repeated, delayed hit (0:21).
0:43 it gets crunchier and you know a massive beat has to arrive sooner or later. 1:46 and here it is! You can certainly go crazy dancing to this.
And then it's all really fast, powerful dnb - the sort I would appreciate more out live than sitting at home at my computer.
Congrats on a good, dark banging track.
on Stockholm Sweden by aelmen
This is good stuff and I would like to give you an accurate comment but it seems that there are some problems with the playback. I can hear everything fine but the moving orange part of the waveform is not in time with the actual music. So I can't give any accurate time references.
This is fun, catchy and melodic, uplifting dance music with a bit of an 80s/90s feel. There's a really nice lead after about a minute that plays a line a lot like a vocal. Very cool synth sound when the drums drop out a while later.
I'm sorry I can't give you more detail but it's hard to do without accurate time references. I enjoyed the track and it's the first new one I've heard from you in ages.
Congratulations.
I've had some trouble finding the time for music quite some time now and it feels like forever since my last contribution to the scene.
You are right about the lead and it is actually quite easy to put words into the notes and the pattern really is quite simple. So I'll see if some of my friends have the guts to make it happen. My son can think of adding acoustic guitar in parts of the track. So there might be a second release of this track.
Always a pleasure having you as a listener.
/Anders
on he is funny by ElenaSatine
It would be a excellent in a cartoon. Or a silly scene in a film.
It's humorous, funky dance music. It reminds me just a little of one of the coolest, most progressive and funky, sample-based pieces of music ever made:
Yello - Oh Yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJkdRaa04g
:)
very nice to read your comment .
oh yes haha I loved the link you had sent .
thank you much much for the review and this cool link .
really means alot to read your words in my box .
Elena
on Sazzy Jax by mudhoen
"You think the rhodes on the end is too much huh?"
Yes. By keeping it, you're kind of saying to the listener: "Here is this familiar part, I want to leave you with it as the final memory of the track because I think it's such an important part".
But you could instead do something more ambitious and interesting at the end. Perhaps an abrupt stop or something unusual. I think that would make it a classier track whereas the ending now is too predictable and kind of lazy. If you could chop up some sax notes and add lots of delay so that they ring out for a while, that could be cool.
Yes, you can definitely add a little extra sugar to this and make it an excellent track rather than just a very good one.
Good luck.
Greets!
on Sazzy Jax by mudhoen
But I don't understand why you haven't explained where the bass is from. That's some very funky playing. Who's playing that? A sample? Maybe the bass should be a bit louder throughout. Definitely make it louder at certain points.
Cool, laidback beat and I really like that 0:37 delayed vocal snippet - well worth repeating.
And the sax is of course excellent. Nice big reverb and you can move to it. Some good samples. You seem to have had enough playing to add some different bits here and there eg 2:12 and 2:52. And 3:00 is great.
Maybe the best way to end the track would be with the sax ringing out at 3:50. No need to return to that Rhodes part as we have already heard it so many times.
Big congrats on this very rich and fine track that is great for chilling to or dancing.
The track's ending is my only real criticism.
on Calm and Tired by lAVel
Strange intro and then the drums and that cool bass kick in. Scratchy stuff going on and there's a fat kick, which is very effective.
1:35 a little bit more melody emerges from those pads though there's not a great deal in the track.
Yes, 3:28 change is too abrupt.
Good, mysterious soundtrack music.
Good work!
on Lank Frampard FT Apollo Klipse - Deity by imakebeatsLF
Cool intro. Well chosen film clips and nice, trippy sounds. Good sound design, basically.
Lots of scratches and then we're into a fat beat. Definitely like Cypress Hill but that's a good thing. Classic, funky hip hop, with darker edge. Good, odd little melodies and a heavy bassline.
Great stuff!
on Overmyth I - Inception Of The Truth by ValveDriver
"If you had a dick, and two dick shaped testicles, I could call you Triple-Dick McGee."
You could indeed. But I was thinking more interesting would be someone with a testicle-shaped dick and two testicles, each of which is dick-shaped. People are born with all manner of abnormalities so maybe this will one day happen.
"I could have been drunk when typing it"
You're not getting drunk at work, are you? Sounds like a bad idea when there are heavy valves that need driving. Drunk driving!
" there was nothing that stood out as anything that would be a good basis for the next sluper track."
At least one of you two has got to get on this otherwise Tool will have put out five more albums before we've made even one.
"The B.C. Rih Midi Hammer?"
Yeah, that would work, as would the BC Battleaxe. The BC could also be a little pun ie Before Christ as it would look like an ancient battleaxe. So, with flint for a blade rather than metal.
"I have come to accept that I can NOT do cartoon/animation style."
I think with a cartoon, you need to keep it simpler and let the minimalism shine through. That's definitely a style that appeals to people. Same goes for music. I think you know what I do is not at all on the minimal side of things but I do sometimes have sections that are somewhat minimal. I've done some recent cello-dominated tracks that are mostly cello layers and drums and have a slightly simpler sound.
I think it's a lot easier to make interesting minimal music if you have vocals. Without them, I always feel I need to do more with the instrumentation to keep things interesting. Minimal dance and minimal ambient get away with their minimalism because you can either just entirely relax to it or just dance to it and not care that there isn't more going on.
"My brain just gets too deep and intricate for anything minimal."
Same here but sometimes you just have to have confidence in your few elements being really good and not needing anything more added to them.
"Mr. E, I haven't seen him around much"
He's still alive, making music and scaping the land. We're friends on Facebook and chat reasonably often. I let him know on there about this track so he'll no doubt be along soon enough to tell you how much he enjoys it, despite being firmly against guitar VSTs.
Later, intricate illustrator.
*Is that my best name for you so far? Sounds a bit like Wolverine.
There have been plenty of times that I wished I could be drunk at work. Just to deal with some of the other people there. But, yeah. drinking on that job could end up with several dead people by the end of the shift.
"I think it's a lot easier to make interesting minimal music if you have vocals. Without them, I always feel I need to do more with the instrumentation to keep things interesting."
Yes. This exactly. I can listen to minimal music and be completely into it. But, if I were to make something along the same lines, I get bored as hell listening to it. Maybe I'll try another one after the Overmyth set.
Later Overcomplicator
on Mammoth by Anubis
You have a big, powerful beat here. The only problem is that it seems to be a really strange time signature. I'm not sure if it's out of time.
But it's a cool electronic blowing sort of didgeridoo sound. Hypnotic tribal electro!
Very busy music and now at 0:58 a weird sort of electro vocal sound, then your flutes. And there is also some brass in the background.
There's no clear melody to this very atmospheric piece of music but it would be great soundtrack music.
This makes me think more of the jungle than mammoths. And I don't think mammoths lived in the jungle. It doesn't really matter.
Good work!
"
I used a fl studio feature to split the tempo in half, the song goes through 140 bpm, but it holds half, it's complex to explain.
The melodies are muffled by the heavy instruments, the intention was to try to do something more "Dark", equalization is still my weak, I have no knowledge to equalize.
I'm going to rebuild this song and I'll post it today, the sounds will be clearer, a new version of it.
Thank you my friend for the words, comments are of great encouragement and learning,
with respetc_Anubis
on Overmyth I - Inception Of The Truth by ValveDriver
I like Phallic Nomad but you missed a trick as you could have gone for Phallic Gonad. Imagine a dick-shaped testicle. Or a testicle-shaped dick. Imagine them on the same body.
This NTB is the basis of a forum post I just made about guitar VSTs.
https://www.looperman.com/forum/thread/186149/great-guitar-with-a-guitar-vst
"Leads are my least comfortable thing ti attempt."
Same here - whether on synths or guitar or cello or whatever else. I'm much more of a groove/riff guy.
If you and/or Mr E can ever get round to putting at least something up for Slupergroup collaboration, you could well be the lead guitarist in the group. Sure - on stage with your mouse and keyboard you're going to look a bit pathetic next to me totally celling it up or getting my banj on or whatever. But maybe you can use a MIDI controller in the shape of a battleaxe or scythe. That would be rather cool.
"a bluegrass/gangster rap hybrid."
I look forward to it. One of the current tracks I'm working on is a dark, spooky hip hop track that, so far, sounds like some some rather authentic hip hop. But whenever I start adding guitar and so on to my hip hop beats, the genre always seems to shift to something other than hip hop. I'll try to keep this one more firmly in the hip hop genre but may fail if I find something cool that takes into some other genre.
Thanks for the detailed reply and congrats again on some badass Shreddage.
So, going back to re-read my response, I noticed enough typing errors to lead myself to believe I could have been drunk when typing it. I guess I should probably refrain from trying to rush in a reply while in the rain on a short smoke break at work. It's not pretty.
"If you and/or Mr E can ever get round to putting at least something up for Slupergroup collaboration, "
I went back through my old starts, and honestly there was nothing that stood out as anything that would be a good basis for the next sluper track. I've got a couple ideas for one brewing that still need to come to a little more clarity before I can connect them and send them your way. But, rest assured, I haven't given up.
"But maybe you can use a MIDI controller in the shape of a battleaxe or scythe. That would be rather cool.
"
Do I hear a B.C. Rich endorsement in the near future? The B.C. Rih Midi Hammer?
I get what you mean about attempting a particular sound, or genre, and then having it shift. I do that all the time. Not only in my music, but my artwork as well. I have come to accept that I can NOT do cartoon/animation style. My brain just gets too deep and intricate for anything minimal. I will start a basic cartoon thing, then the next thing I know, It's fully shaded, textured and nothing close to what I intended. But, such is art. A living thing that dictates it's own existence. I'm just here to channel it to our existence.
I look forward to hearing what the final hip-hop and whatnot track finally ends up as.
Laters.
Ps. Speaking of Mr. E, I haven't seen him around much.
on Overmyth I - Inception Of The Truth by ValveDriver
I recognise this title. It's one of the 50,000 rejected Slupergroup names.
Cool, long, slow organy intro.
0:21 awesome wobbly, detuned guitar note. 0:42 another. 0:50 that high note really stands out.
1:04 cool distortion and big crash.
1:25 slow, plodding stonervalves for a while.
2:08 distortion returns. Drums have a reasonably thin sound but that's not necessarily a complaint. A bit of a 70s vibe there.
2:29 nice lead. No one will know this track didn't involve someone actually doing some guit fiddlin'.
A pleasant epic, anthemic sound, especially from the awesome lead guitar. Don't know how the software works or how you're adding all those realistic bends and accurate guitar player touches.
3:55 back down for some slow, plodding stoner chill. Quite psychedelic.
Next thing to really stand out is 5:20 and the low chugging.
6:14 nice lead screaming and then some nice, dirty, low riffage progression.
You can headbang to this now.
The low chugging and lead work come together nicely for the last few minutes in a pleasing and very realistic far out metal onslaught. Not really that heavy a track but that doesn't matter.
Congrats on this NTB. Have a large, solid metal trophy as a reward.
I forgot to say that while you were away being Mr Sloe and killing Mr Sloe I made my heaviest ever track. Press play for some nice swing metal from a few months ago:
Fist Bumps Of Fury
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/180944
Static MetalMad
Yes, this title is a reject. I really liked it, and I'm kind if glad it was rejected.
I had originally used a more melidic organy intro, but in the end, I liked the sustained droning thing. It feels a little more hypnotic and capturing to me.
1:04. Kind of a preview of what's to come. An unofficial opening of the door, if you will.
2:08 I wasn't intentionally going for thin percussion, but like you said, it has a 70's-ish thing, so I just let it ride.
2:29 I'm glad to hear the lead worked. Leads are my least comfortable thing ti attempt. Being mire of a rythym guy, they often times feel to calculated and forced to me.
The bends are used with a reconfigured midi controller and painstakingly drawn in manually within the piano roll.
3:55 I've always loved the tom heavy breakdowns that Ufomammut and Yob use. It always makes for a good break while keeping the energy moving. It seemed like a good spot to put in some psychedellic guitfiddlin.
5:20 the low chugging seemed like a good way to start rebuilding the transition from the calmer break into the more intense final section.
6:14 In the first part of the track I had the left guitar track playing an octave lower than the right. In the second half, I had the right playing the same lower octave to give a little heavier feel. The overall track really isn't that heavy, like you said. But to the masses who aren't or haven't been exposed to a lot of what we have been, it us. I mean, most people think Metalluxa is heavy. But we know better, right?
I'll wear the trophy on a big gold chain around my neck as inspiration for my next track. It's a bluegrass/gangster rap hybrid. Should be a real banger.
I'll head over and give your track a listen right now.
Cheers.
on Letters and memories by Anubis
0:01 that's a nice sound - bit like something metallic being bowed.
Good sub bass here. And now things are starting to fade in.
0:32 can I hear a violin here? Big fat, d'n'b beats now and everything sounds good.
1:05-1:25 sounds too long. Should maybe be half the length. Nice, rising drum fill before 1:25.
1:46 a break from the drums and that bowed low sound is back. Sounds excellent at 1:54. What is that sound?
2:08 operatic female vocal and then a really dirty, messy d'n'b beat.
It's the little extras such as the strings and operatic vocal that make this stand out from a lot of dirty drum n bass. Those extra sounds make it more musical and enjoyable.
Great work!
The violin is often used, sometimes as effects, sometimes as background, I usually modify them to be able to use them in multiple forms.
The bass is something more complicated to create, because it requires a lot of equalization and work to combine with other instruments. But it is fun when it works out.
The vocal is an element that always seems to beautify, I would like to use a lot more, but I think it was in the right measure.
greetings___Anubis
on MY TRIBE by CitizenMofo
Solid beat to kick things off, a big fill and then busy vocals and guitar enter. Pretty energetic, appealing stuff. A fat sound and good groove.
1:05 a little bit of a break from the intensity plus some new, dirty guitar weirdness.
Around 1:30 bass sound really solid.
1:40 her harmonised voice sounds great! Nice wah and 1:49 panned synth is really powerful and dark.
Very busy mix (something I do a lot) but everything seems pretty well ordered.
2:54 nice drop back into the funkier beat. Good mix of deep groove hip hop and weirder, dirtier, grungier guitar music
A decent ending and conclusion to a powerful piece of alternative music.
Congrats.
on Cavern by the sea by Burtsbluesboxes
You're doing really well with the chillout slide compositions. I need to get back to doing some!
Nice, simple, lazy groove in this. Good drum sound. And, of course, all the additional location-based ambient stuff. A "wild" track, in terms of location sound recording. Very effective for mood and ambience and it totally meshes with your slide playing.
You could say that the track doesn't really go anywhere in particular but perhaps it doesn't need to. Or maybe that's a limitation. So perhaps it should either be a bit shorter or feature some more obvious changes.
Congrats anyway...