StaticNomad

Hello. I believe this type of music is known as 'djent'. Strange word but I think it's something to do with that low end guitar chug. What do you think?

1:01 I like how close and dry the guitar is there.

Your drums are pretty damn good. How are you doing them? I love acoustic drum software and doing big, double kick stuff.

2:45 is rather a beautiful lead part that I probably would have liked to have heard a bit earlier. Could have been twice as long too.

Not much to say about the bass except it seems to be nestled tightly in with the guitar so its hard to pick out at all. Or maybe there is no bass guitar at all.

Oh no 5:05 I hear a bass guitar slide so must be bass guitar in here.

4:50 lead part sounds a bit like a wailing voice.

Not the kind of thing I listen to but really well produced for this genre. Can't fault the production or chosen sounds. Tight, no clipping, clean playing and so on.

Congratulations.

Hi. This is a pretty cool, odd little track.

I like the snare on the beat that enters at 0:21.

0:32 great low end and high bleepy synth is great too. Good return of that main beat after that with the guitar, which gives it all a rather charming feel.

Very short but I guess it's the right length for what you want. But I'd still like to hear a longer, fully fleshed out version.

Hello. A very big and powerful sound with lots of vibe and menace. Quite dark and maybe frightening in a film scene. Huge drums that make me think of furious activity and/or fighting. They also remind of metal drummers.

Flute is your main melodic instrument. The rising note at 0:18 is cool.

It's good having the rain panned to the left.

Extra, higher drums that come in around 0:55 (a bit like bongos) are also good.

I completely agree with your words here:
"In this closed and treacherous forest you need to run insanely".

Have you ever done a soundtrack for a film? I think you could do a really good, atmospheric one.

I like that classic dub delay keyboard stab in the first second. I can then tell pretty much what the track's going to be like.

Nice, brief snatches of dub vocals.

Everything sits nicely and there's a cool little guitar fill in there too.

Bass is a bit subdued so maybe you could pump that a bit more at times.

There's a little bit of hip hop in here (probably from the bass) though dub is the most obvious feel and sound.

Pretty simple, repetitive track so I could have done with some more changes or new instruments or something.

But what you have is a cool groove. I could jam over that all day on a few different instruments.

Shit, there are too many Nitr8 remixes coming out! Do I have to comment on all of them?

I think I like each one I hear because the original is already so cool.

Can't really go wrong with that bassline.

3:30 section really catches my attention. Also, it's a couple of mins shorter than the original, which is a good thing.

Can't fault this one though sorry I didn't give much more detail, as I normally do. I think I'm all Nitr8-ed out for the time being.

Hi. I'm a sucker for so many Eastern/Asidan/Indian sounds and so is clindsay.

I agree with FreRad that we sort of have to get through the intro for it to get good and really get going. I think that intro sitar part is too programmed and thus lacking a bit of natural feel eg a bit of swing. Some reverb might help but I don' think that's the main problem.

I've used programmed sitar in loads of tracks (but not my award-winning Way Beyond Wrong track) and you do have to be careful with how you use it.

0:52 is when it really kicks in and the best part is probably the slightly left panned string-like part. And there is that trap-like orchestral sort of hit. Is that what it's called?

2:07 bass is cool. Return to main theme at 2:22 is simply and nicely done.

Well done but keep going with this one.

This is kind of weird but also very cool. Sort of industrial techno metal.

I really recommend you listen to this track by FreeRadical as they have something in common with each other.

https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/126238

Lots of great movement and killer beat and riffs. And I like the evil, low vocals.

2:29 lead guitar is awesome.

Much more detail coming later from me as I don't have time right now.

Well done on a cool, strange track.

Yeah, pretty good ambient soundtrack stuff.

0:16 bit of an industrial sound. Sort of reminds me of Terminator soundtracks by Brad Fiedel.

0:52 a bit robotic now and then it moves into a big, heavenly beautiful pad that's kind of also sad.

2:11 new instrument arrival is good but maybe the playing is a bit too programmed. Doesn't sound quite natural but it's a good sound. What is that instrument?

Overall, there's not enough happening to make it really interesting to me (as a standalone piece) but it would suit some sort of cinematic use where you don't necessarily want too much going on.

Word up, Spivkurl. Fine work here. I like people with some fuckin' character as most people seem not to have much. You're not one of them!

Bass and drums really kick it in this one and like it because it's not as weird and wonky as some of your others. A much simpler, cooler groove you can really move to.

1:15 stop is fun and would work nicely on the dancefloor. High sounds you return with are very cool. Pitch-shifted vocals?

Throughout the following section the tone and movement of the mid-range bass is just great.

2:16 get on the offbeat and get dancing a bit more, you bastards!

3:15 squelchy breakdown and distant reverbed vocals work well.

3:44 nice main theme return and you're doing a bit more in making those pitch shifted vocals (?) funky. Tightly sequenced and now very dancey.

You probably could have lost 30-60 secs on this (God, look who's talking) and it would still be fine. But going on for a while is just fine when it's this sort of fun party.

I can't really fault this one and I think the vocals work well too so 'tis a favourite for me.

Well it's good to see you've got some intelligent and helpful feedback on this. I don't see enough of that on this site, more's the pity. It should be one of the key aspects of this place. My record is six separate comments on one guy's track as he uploaded different versions, making improvements each time.

Anyway, I'm hardly a pop music fan (though of course love undeniably great stuff such The Beatles and Michael Jackson) but this sounds good to me.

I've read a little on the vocal problems you had but they seem to have all been fixed so well done with sticking at it.

Fairly chilled out but uptempo beat with a neat little bassline. Nothing to interfere with the vocals, which are the main focus. Kicking straight off with the vocals works just fine.

Quite a 'pop' sounding drum kit.

0:30 extra percussion makes think of sleigh/jingle bells. Maybe it's a tambourine.

Piano supports the vocal well and the pad provides some chillout vibe.

Ah, 1:49 I found a tiny little vocal pop 'error' (during 'them') though I imagine most people wouldn't notice it (I only have my ears so can't be sure).

And another one on 1:10 but that's probably a (lack of) pop shield problem on the vocal recording. Very minor point!

I guess the track's quite samey in terms of instrumentation but that's fine for this sort of music as it's all really about supporting that vocal so I think you've done a good job.

I've listened to this about 4 times now and I agree with a previous comment that it sounds like radio quality.

Word. I make tracks this long and much longer but I certainly don't knock them up in a couple of hours so well done there. Yes, I'm not using loop packs (at all) but you still must be working damn fast.

Intro is pretty cool and it could turn into any sort of funky dance music from there.

Nice fadein of drums with strings joining in too.

1:30 additional ambience is cool and very laid back and far out.

2:00 big delay and bass breakdown.

3:15 new bassline and this section is fairly sparse but is a good head nodder for chilling out.

Top level delayed parts reverberate nicely around the space you've created.

I think I'll give this some further thoughts and suggestions later as it is longish and can no doubt be tightened up and improved.

Good stuff - especially for people into dance music who like chilling.

Hi again. I've tried to explain as clearly as I can that, at the time references I gave, there are very clear "wrong" sounds that would be normally be described in English as "clicks" or "pops". I think everyone who works with cutting up audio parts has to deal with these unwanted sounds. These can be removed very easily in probably all modern DAWs. As I said - I do it all the time. Not removing these noises means I can hear every time that you have joined one piece of audio to another so the listening experience is not as smooth as it should be.

I'm not sure I can explain any more simply what these small sounds are so maybe you're having trouble understanding my English. As I said before, search for something like 'crossfade audio' in the Help section or manual of the software you are using. I'm not sure what your first language is but if you can translate 'crossfade audio' into your language and then read what that means, I think you'll understand what the problem is. And how simple it is to fix.

"i'll underestand if you download it and correct it"

Sorry - I don't really want to but I don't mind writing out some things to help you (or anyone else). And this 'crossfading audio' technique is easy to learn about and easy to do.

Good luck...

Oh, and I still think is a good track and I still like the riffs.

Ha. I had no idea there was a 'dirty' genre on here.

Ridiculous that there's that but no trip hop or psychedelic and/or psychedelic rock, which would suit me nicely.

Anyway, you asked me to listen so I am.

This is kind of dubstep, which I generally dislike. Well, original dubstep I like but most stuff described as dubstep these days seems to have lost most, if not all, of the dub.

Anyway, this is fairly funky with a decent beat and not just wub wubs and growls. Intro sounds incomplete, as if the track has just been turned up after having already been playing for a while.

But it's pretty quickly quite catchy, with that lead melodic lead so I think people could groove to this on the dancefloor.

"Go! Go!" vocal makes think of Kriss Kross' Jump. I'm guessing that's a vocal sample you've got off a CD as it's quite a classic one.

I said the beat is good and that's because you're leaving sufficient space with the different elements so there isn't too much a clash between any of them. That's why it's pretty funky. Bass plays a good, supporting low end role.

I've listened to this about 5 times now (hey, it's so short) and would say it's not really my sort of thing but I do appreciate it and some people will find it great fun, especially as party music.

I think you need to sort out the intro and extend it a bit and you have a decent track.

Hope those words were of some use..

Hi. More great work from you. I meant to review this a few days ago but forgot to.

0:34 big, low drum hits are great and 0:48 shakers really push this tribal ambient groove along nicely.

You don't really need much melody here. It's very primeval, ancient music. Very well produced and there's nothing I can really criticise. Definitely a lot like Dead Can Dance.

Here is something I'm convinced you will like as I believe you will hear the ancient tribal vibe in it.

It's the wonderful Indiana Jones theme tune slowed down by 800%.

Raiders March 800% Slower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS71jGlJMQA

If you think you might like to try taking audio and slowing it down by as much as 1600%, here is some free software you can use to do that. It's not a plugin you can use in your DAW (so I don't use it as much as I should) but it works well.

http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

Hi. You didn't tell me which software you're using but it should be quite easy to crossfade two bits of audio in any audio sequencer, also called a DAW. I just use Cubase and only have to select the two pieces of audio on the timeline and then press one button. And then the problem is removed.

If you have an audio waveform and then cut it off immediately, you will get an annoying 'pop' or 'click'. In your track, that is what is happening and it means that I can hear where you have put one riff next to another. The crossfade will just make the transition between the two pieces of audio smoother. So, it will very quickly fade out the volume of the first one and then fade in the volume of the second.

As I said before, I have to do this all the time as my compositional style means I'm always cutting up little pieces of audio and moving them around the timeline.

Search for something like 'crossfade audio' in the Help section or manual of the software you are using.

You track will sound much better if I can no longer hear the edit between the different riffs.

Otherwise, I do like the track so hope you can work out this crossfading technique as it is very useful.

Word up. I'll take that reverse cymbal dedication. I don't hate the one used here, actually. It's the one/s Crucethus always uses that really wind me up.

Need to get some more reverse stuff in my own music eg reverse guitar. Must get round to that. But no reverse cymbals!

Yes, first 20 seconds do sound friggin good. The rest sounds almost exactly like Bjork.

Drums right from the start sound great. Busy and groovy but not too much going on. Sounds like there's some extra percussion in there.

This track has a really quite big, full sound so you're layering stuff up nicely. Doesn't sound like mostly just bass.

1:08 caught my attention. More low end than before.

1:16 some bouncing bits of guitar?

1:23 change also stands out.

I guess the pad is at 1:40 but it's very low in the mix. Some people might not even notice it.

1:56 lead makes me think of one-finger-on-the-keyboard arpeggiated synth rave leads. Not sure I like it but it's a different sound for you.

Overall, I though it was actually a decent length. Very busy and always changing but also returning to some prior themes. The main thing is not to get boring and I don't think it ever came close.

I'm unsure quite how a whole album of your tracks would sound as the similarity in sounds might get a bit samey. Maybe someone who regularly downloads and listens back to your tracks can tell us.

P.S. I'm recommending these guys again to you cos I believe you'll be impressed with the bass-as-guitar trickery. Maybe they'll let you in the band on lead bass.

Royal Blood - Little Monster - Later... with Jools Holland - BBC Two

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHBJpCjq50E

Fine work for only 3 hours.

First complaint: can you remove the sound of him opening his mouth at 0:08? And anywhere else the same thing happens.

Not sure I'd call this d'n'b but I can see why you've put it there. I actually really like the drums. Those main hits are a type of drum sound I don't seem to have but would like to use.

Piano chords hold it all nicely together but the drums are kind of the star.

Are the male vocals at all detuned? I like the sound of them but they have a slightly unnatural quality that makes them distinctive. I can only think they've been detuned a bit.

This has a good, lazy, dreamy vibe to it and I can also hear your sort of style in it (hard as that is to exactly describe).

Might give more detail later but that will do for now.

Hi. I really like some of this track. The riffs, the drum beats, the kick drum and more.

It's a shame that you, like quite a few other people on the site, don't say in the track description what you're doing here. So then I have to ask before I can make a judgment. Are you playing any guitar here? Are you programming the drums? Are you using drum loops? Are you playing the bass?

One thing which you should be able to do really easily to improve things is learn to crossfade between your different sections of audio so that you remove the awkward click and pop sound that shows where you have put two pieces of audio next to each other.

Here are some times when I can hear those clicks and pops:

0:03, 0:06, 0:09, 0:28 and many more in the second half without the drums.

Ask if you're not sure what crossfading two pieces of audio means. I have to do this all the time in my music (like hundreds of times just in one track).

Yo, dude. This is pretty cool.

Percussive fill eg on 0:09 is a good and distinctive sound.

This is sounding much more like funk than 'electronic'.

0:52 I like the lead but not so much the glassy-sounding sort of pad behind it.

OK, now it is much more electronic and the guitar has dropped out.

1:44 cool sort of 303 synth and then there's a lead squealing fizzing one on top.

2:06 return of that lead from before. Makes me think of soundtrack theme music there as it's a definite motif.

Real shame you've lost the project file as I know you could do more with this one as there are some cool themes that could be expanded upon.

You could turn it into d'n'b, for instance.

You could even just take this mixdown version and then add other elements onto the end in order to continue it.

Good work that will be enjoyed by many.

Multiple favourites coming your way....

Well this is something different and surprising from you.

I wasn't expecting such a rock sound.

0:13-0:18 you have some strange, little glitch scratchy thing going on. It continues after that as well.

It's a good vocal but maybe needs to be louder in the mix. Maybe a little like A Perfect Circle but not as deep and spiritual.

Drum programming is solid.

2:01 I like the drop of the guitars. Now we get to hear the vocal a lot better. And the squelchy, glitch drum loops.

2:27 final note before the scratchy bit taking us back into the beat is a bit strange.

I wish people such as yourself would give a lot more detail in their track descriptions. Then I don't have to ask questions like are you playing the guitar and bass here?

I think you are but have no way of knowing until you reply.

Aha, I just saw mention of 'guitar samples' in one of your replies so I guess you aren't playing any guitar here. I like the guitar parts and you've made them define the whole song, especially opening and closing with them.

Overall, it's a good bit of alternative rock.

So short there's not much to say about it, really. Except it's a classic blues tone and playing.

Actually, those chords are maybe a bit more surf music. A bit like Link Wray, who had a couple of tracks on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack eg this classic

Link Wray & His Wraymen - Rumble (Pulp Fiction)

Anna Calvi also does the same sort of thing eg

Anna Calvi - Love Won't Be Leaving album version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWtID2eEeh8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRkLDq1R5l8

Rather than give this away as a loop, why not turn it into a proper song or a full instrumental?

This is an odd track. Rally not sure how that piano would go down on a dancefloor.

he banging bits are obviously just that. Maybe that quiet piano would confuse dancers. What do you think? I agree that it could probably be a bit louder. I do like it, though.

More of your favourite type of cymbals. The kind you don't get on a drum kit.

1:37 I like that transition (though not the reverse cymbal) and the heavenly stuff and the machine gun stuff)

Beat return on 2:07 is cool and with that spoken word in there.

2:12-2:15 build is a bit like the Chem Bros.

2:15 and the dancers can get dancing again.

3:30 I like the new synth part. Reminds me of some old Daft Punk track I think. Not sure which one. Maybe Around The World?

Last 50 secs definitely something to confuse the dancers in the club. Native American drums and chanting? And choirs...

Greetings. For someone who doesn't play an instrument (or can't anymore, not quite sure) you've got a lot of musicality. Bit like that Valvedriver chap on here.

This is rather charming chillout. Tinkly piano is nice and I like those rapid sweeps. Must be played rather than programmed, no?

Water is effective. Eerie but beautiful drone is good.

Bass is the big old anchor and there's a kick to give a little groove as well.

Female vocals are like an occasional fill or emotional addition. Makes it deeper when she comes in. So do the strings.

Track doesn't particularly go anywhere after the halfway point but I guess it doesn't really need to. It just sits, as you might expect with ambient stuff.

I like your title and it makes me think of We Come One by Faithless (nowhere near their best track).

I liked your delayed vocal ending...until you cut it off too soon!

This will be very popular on this site (and elsewhere).

Yeah, this is pretty crazy. I'm not sure if there is a bhangra-hard techno genre (probably) but this would fit right in.

0:51 killer bass riff definitely gets my attention. The ones before that are decent but don't stand out that much for me.

1:43 another massive aggressive riff.

1:53 vocal reminds me just a little of some of the vocals on The Prodigy's classic Hyperspeed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwiMfPq_eco

I thought 2:55 was probably long enough for this bit of high energy madness. But why not come back for one last sweaty writhing body stomping workout?

You can probably guess it's not exactly my kind of thing but I appreciate and do like some elements. Probably a bit too crazy and fizzy (high frequencies) for me but good crossover dancefloor stuff.

Well, it's definitely d'n'b within about 2 seconds.

Gotta say, regarding this "those very nice sweeping pads, don't hear many tracks of this genre with them in"

that there's loads of d'n'b with these sort of pads in. Don't you think so?

Anyway, 0:24 it starts to make real sense as a track as those pads enter. And there's the little vocal-like delayed fill thing that's pretty cool.

0:55 rolling rhythmic synth thing I like. Then bass with some good and effective stops in it.

1:19 constant kick gives this a lift and then the drop of the big beat and that lead at 1:30.

So, all built quite skilfully up to this point. And we're in a banging, busy d'n'b track. Now to add a little weirdness to the main melody.

2:23 synth fill sounds wrong. Need more reverb/delay on that sound.

3:01 aggressive bass is cool. Slightly industrial but not too much.

Fadeout ending is a bit of copout - like you're giving up on the track. Make it seem unfinished.

Overall, I like it but don't love it so well done again.