StaticNomad

Yo.

This is some pretty mental stuff. There's a clearly a massive stylistic jump from your gentle, sedate intro to the rapid craziness. But that intro flute needs to be longer eg twice or 4 times as long. That way, you'll have established that mood and then it'll be more shocking when you make the big leap into the new style. 1 sec of that flute isn't really long enough to establish the mood.

Then comes, tight, mental but well produced and controlled rapid pumping with fat bass. Reminds me a bit of punk, in some ways.

0:26 I like that weird lead and it has a tune you can kind of sing along to.

0:45 chord change rise is useful.

I think you could make more use of crash cymbals in this. They'd make things more exciting and more metal. There are hardly any! Otherwise, the drums are good.

1:38 you get the flute return just right. Same idea that doesn't work for the intro but does work here.

1:40 great, dynamic, vocal-like synth sound as everything crashes back in.

Sort that intro out (plus cymbals) and you'll have a cool, banging track.

Word up, my Missouri Methodist meth manufacturing multicellular monster.

Your last greeting was cool but you missed a small trick. If you'd ended on "globules" rather than "goblets" then you would have had "gl...gl...gl...gl". Not to worry as "goblet" is still a cool word.

I looked up salad shooters and now know what they are.

Thanks for telling me about Black Midi as that's some cool stuff. I listened to Pi, The Song With 3.1415 Million Notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7ipUQoik8

and think it's a good composition. For years, I've had mad ideas for complex stuff I could do with synths (audio too) if I had shitloads more processing power. Basically, loads of heavy, complex layering of shitloads of instruments, all morphing together and dropping in and out in complex ways. So, I'd do something called "hocketing" (sounds like an abbeviation of "hot pocketing") where I'd get one melody to be played by multiple instruments but with each instrument perhaps only playing one note in the sequence.

Maybe I'll be able to do a little more of this heavily complex stuff the next time I upgrade to a new PC. It's been 4 years since the last one so probably about time soon.

I wonder if the Slupergroupery will ever resume. All dependent on one guy, it seems.

You should get sliding again! I've hardly done any this year. Cello has dominated the last few months, but with good results.

2 nights ago, I went to see this utterly badass pair of cellists live in concert. Here they are rocking the shit out of a song you won't know. They're total virtuosos and rock as hard as the heaviest bands out there. I'm a million miles off their technical level. Press play and you will enjoy it.

2CELLOS - Voodoo People [Live at Exit Festival]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Un3lK8ijw

Nomad, your deer in the headlights

Hi.

This is good stuff but I don't really hear it as hip hop. It's got a strong groove but lots of reverb and a bit more of a far out, ambient vibe than most hip hop.

There's some subtle, quite cool bass going on that might be bass guitar.

Nice lead synth melody.

1:40 removal of lead melody to let the pads out works well, even if it is just removal of elements.

This is fine as an instrumental and doesn't really need vocals.

3:24 return to main theme doesn't really seem necessary unless there's a vocal on this as it's just a return to what we've heard before.

Congrats on this fun, deep grooving vibe.

Hi.

This is good stuff and I can hear a powerful, well produced sound as soon as that drum fill kicks in.

Guitar and bass are real tight and well matched to each other and the drums are busy, with good fills and dynamics. A rather nice, chillout ambient synth sound begins with the guitar and bass and adds some extra depth and quite an 80s feel.

0:21 I'm less keen on that new synth sound though many people will either like it or won't mind it.

This feels a lot like a 70s far out funk workout but with a more modern powerful twist and fat rock drummer.

As the track progresses, I think I'm hearing too many of the exact same drum fills. They're all good but I can tell they've just been copied and pasted. Yes, I do that a lot too but also spend ages varying them just a bit to provide variety and give them more of a human feel.

Another slight problem with them is that they stay on the same closed hat throughout. Moving to ride or open hat would provide more variety and take the track up and down much better. So: good drums but they could benefit from more variety.

Synths get a bit more 'soloey' and far out as things progress.

I se you want vocals so if you get them I know this will progress and change perhaps quite a bit.

Nice panned synth fadeout ending.

Overall: creative well produced work that deserves a good vocal. But, even without, it can still be a great instrumental and overall enjoyable piece.

Congrats.

Hi.

This is good stuff and good for the summer. I'd describe it as commercial pop d'n'b so a bit too commercial for me but that's OK. It works well for that genre.

0:45 beat gets nice and fat and I like the ride cymbal work.

1:11-1:30 that's a big build and then it launches into something that's a bit darker and cooler than pop music though the vocals are still definitely pop music.

1:56 nice liquid bassline.

The vocals are big and strong. Not too much reverb on them. They sound like the sort of thing that might from a sample pack of vocals. Is that where they are from?

This is fun, exciting stuff and I'm enjoying it the more I listen to it. Except for the ending as you cut it off before the track had ended.

Congrats.

Yo, GO.

Sorry I never got round to reviewing your original version of this as I thought it was really quite good.

Anyway, the main thing I have to say on hearing this is how much you seem to have improved in the last couple of years. Your production in general is much fatter and more powerful and drums are much better and more varied. Nice wide stereo field on this track.

I'm sure it took me many more years to generally put together tracks with this level of production.

This track isn't really my sort of thing but it's got some good melodic content and finesse so I certainly appreciate it.

Big congrats on the continued improvement. You're still quite young so you're doing very well.

Housey greetings.

I'm not much of a house lover but this is really good.

You have a good, sparse groove to kick things off and the delays in that intro work really well. Very chilled and funky.

0:30 fatter beat and new synth riff kicks in at just the right time. Some bits of vocals in there, I think. Great mix and I can hear everything really clearly.

A breakdown now that you've got people moving so that they can sway gently in anticipation waiting for the big drop and the fatter beat to return.

There aren't really melodies I can particularly remember so far but that's not meant to be a criticism. This is about atmosphere and groove, in a dance format, so I appreciate that.

Final dancey section has some nice reverb on the synths and then you conclude on a warm but fuzzy pad sound.

Quite a short track but that's fine.

Overall: no real criticisms or suggestions.

It's just a good house track.

Hi.

This is some pretty far out, accomplished stuff. Doesn't sound like someone new to any aspect of music making.

There's an audio pop on the very first piano note so you need to fade that in. Or just export the whole track slightly earlier on the timeline.

Vocal sample that enters with the drums is cool. And then there's funky bass and a good heavy beat, with the low piano still in there, being menacing. The groove is pretty damn tight and there's a lot going on in the stereo spectrum. It's also well mixed because I feel I can hear everything and nothing seems to be interfering with anything else.

1:44 good drop of the bass to give this a change. And then 1:48 a new, powerful synth panned left. 2:08 drum break as you transition to something else. Glockenspiel sort of sound is a bit odd but works OK because it's mixed in with other sounds I prefer.

2:34 great delay on the drums as they fade away.

Then back in with the heavily layered mix of so many elements plus new (?) dirty synth bass. Very busy mix, perhaps overwhelming but also powerful. Track is a bit dark overall but nothing too freaky.

I'm rarely a fan of fadeout endings but this one was OK. I'd still probably prefer a more definitive ending and conclusion to what's come before but great work all the same.

Ave, alliterative ass analyst.

Never heard of Salisbury Steak. But I do know that Salad-Shooters are guns for predominantly pacifist vegetarians. Being shot with lettuce is the equivalent of a gentle slap on the cheek though look out for some of those sharpened carrot bullets. They can really sting.

No problem regarding the misidentification. The desert shrub and hairy kayak barnacle are actually cross-species cousins. But they can never meet because of the barnacle's reverse cymbal screams. The shrub can't risk exposure to them.

Back to the track:

I think that your end section could either be a new track or should start this one. You may have opened up with the relatively weakest section, though it does get better.

You know I often do tracks containing heavy and chilled sections. However, I do also make ones with a real focus on chilling. I feel that your more chilled/steady grooving sections are some of your best so you might think about, for a change, not always mixing up heavy and chilled.

My instrument architecture knowledge is poor. I don't know what high output pickups are. I still don't even know why the active pickups on my bass g need a 9V battery to work.

"Recording four separate, yet identical tracks is a bit of a bitch."

No doubt but why stop at 4? How about 8? 64?

It seems like I might be getting intentionally ridiculous there but I have heard a composer's piece that featured about 4,000 guitarists all playing ( I think) the same thing.

Thanks for the dietary advice.

"What the fuck is a pence or a farthing? Are those things?"

Of course they are "things". I assume you mean do they still exist. Yes, though farthings are merely collectors' items as they have not been in circulation since about 1971. Pence is the plural of penny (100 of them in a pound, we still use them, not euros) but we normally just say "p" ie 50p. Our pennies are your cents, I believe.

"I've never been one to mix feet with pussies."

Fair enough but some ladies do enjoy a good toeing.

Nomad, who sold out long before you ever heard his name

G'day, yo, sup and so on.

This is some fascinating stuff.

Great bass sound first of all. But then at 0:22 it seems too buzzy for the first few notes but then settles down as you move off the high notes.

0:50 cool way the vocals enter with that metallic percussive fill. And they continue and they're very good. Wonderful, emotive vocals that work well with the bass g etc.

2:02 what's the Eastern sounding instrument around here? 2:14 is that slide the same instrument?

Then a total change with that rather cool country guitar. It's great playing but I feel the guitar is just a bit too loud in the mix.

3:06 lovely strings and more tasty guitar. Wide percussive stuff in the headphones.

3:32 awesome high guitar notes, beautifully played. And more follow.

4:04 a break from the guitar at just the right time. Nice to hear what's underneath a lot better. And then the sultry vocals return. This is true fusion music. No surprise as that's what you're into.

4:40 awesome Eastern jangly instrument like a dulcimer. What's that? I need to get that sort of sound into my music, though I've been concentrating on learning the cello for the last few months.

This heavily layered cello track from last month might interest you as I've got some interesting sounds out of it that remind me a bit of acoustic double bass. My pizzicato playing is fine, it's really just the bowing that I'm learning and trying to get half decent at.

The Warm Glow Of Yesterday

https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/176476

To conclude: your track is a very imaginative, emotive and skilfully executed piece of music. I would only tweak a few things (those I've mentioned).

Congrats.

Hi.

That's a lovely guitar loop and she has quite a charming voice that's
instantly captivating, despite being imperfect on some notes.

I like the reverb on her voice too.

Very laidback beat and the pan pipe type of sound was a real surprise. What are those vocals sounds behind the pan pipe? They're very cool. So, that change after her vocal is very cool.

2nd verse you bring the pipes together with her voice, which is a good bit of variation.

2:19 big vocal pop/plosive as she opens her mouth. You should get rid of that.

The kick is fine - no need for reverb on that.

I don't like the vocal too much. It's OK but there's something about the tone of his voice I don't like.

This is quite an unusual track for Looperman or anywhere so big congrats.

Greetings from the undergrowth, world champion plant identifier.

Staticus Nomadicus* here, though I bet you weren't able to identify me.

Trrrrrrrrraaaccckk!!!!

Busy, banging early action but tiny swelling intro should be twice as long. Too tiny.

Initial riffs are decent but nothing special. Sound like they need vocals.

0:30 guitar is better and we get quite a bit of muscular doublekickery.

0:58 classic Bass Bro chimey guitar sound. Pretty melodic, as usual, and kind of like a vocal line.

Back to some more rocking shit to take us to the first breakdown.

2:00 sounds cool with clean, gently chugging g fiddle. You're good at that. Palm muting, I guess. Nice delay on it. Tiny bit like Another Brick In The Wall's main guitar.

2:09 nice little chord and bass g comes to the fore. Sticky percussion is busy and good (What's brown and sticky? A stick).

This chilled middle section is very good and I like the hats. A bit like some dance music.

3:45 great switch of that riff into heaviness. Maybe could do with an open hat to beef things up as you keep it same as before (closed).

Yes, 4:24 is a lot We Care A Lot, which is a good thing. At Looperman, We Care A Lot about The Bass Bro.

5:02 nice start of skilful fade out before we get to hear your stretchy shit.

5:32 that's very cool and apocalyptic. I'm assuming you've done as advised and taken previously heard parts from the track and had fun trimming (layering?) them in this stretchy section.

5:49 very cool little fill. Sounds like a synth.

More nice stretchy fadeout as clean g takes over plus a little reverse flourish before a very good end fade.

There you go, my review came 2 weeks early.

Nomad, carefully chooning his bee by ear.

*A rare, exotic and beautiful species of desert shrub, simultaneously stationary and itinerant. Resistant to brush hogging but quickly destroyed by repetitive reverse cymbals.

Hi.

This is good driving, powerful stuff but there's something about the beat I don't like. Very crunchy and lo-fi. Sorry, that's about the best way I can explain it.

Interesting chimey guitar intro and then there's another good, trippy guitar part that comes in with the beat. Then some useful vocal samples and fatter bass.

0:41 more aggressive as some dirtier guitar enters.

This sounds like action soundtrack music. Maybe a car chase or, simply, some sort of danceoff. It's all pretty funky and you can dance to it. It's just the drums that bother me. Other people will have no problem with them. One main drum loop is used a lot and it has an open hat on it that gets a bit too repetitive.

3:05 interesting sax (?) that sounds like guitar at first.

I think this might be a bit too fast to be trip hop but it is quite trippy, in certain places.

Hi.

Yes, not that many active commenters here and very few decent, interesting ones. But there are still a few.

These vocals are pure pop music to me so not at all what I'm into. It's a good voice and the kind that people love, I understand that.

0:32 reverbed bongo type of hits are a surprise and work quite well.

0:52 good movement of pads. Arps, perhaps. Then a fat kick as this builds with a good, melodic new lead.

Then the drums drop out pretty much where I thought they might kick into a firmer groove. Then a long build again, with those high vocals on top. Then things get a bit steadier in terms of groove and more exciting before coming back down for the end.

This is chilled out but also quite loud and powerful. Perhaps too loud (on the master) but I know that's popular in this sort of style. Makes me think of some sort of emotional, chillout dubstep.

Sorry if I didn't have much interesting stuff to say but I did try.

Congrats on some decent work though it's not my kind of style.

Hi.

This has some quite pretty melodies and gentle playful sound that's also kind of like pop music, partly because of the pitchshifted vocals, which make me think of music for young children. That last point is not necessarily a criticism.

Guitar has a decent recorded sound and plays some pleasant chords and the timing is fine.

0:48 I think you could do with a cymbal or some other hit as that's when the first main groove enters so needs more punctuation.

Piano then seems a bit too quiet.

This actually has a bit of a tropical chill feel to it.

2:24 a little solo consisting of two different synths. More tropical stuff again and then it's pleasantly over.

Congrats.

Yo.

You sure do have some low end heavily detuned riffage going on here. Is that a 7-string guitar?

I quite like the vocal style as it's unexpected (not obvious metal vocals). Perhaps might be too much reverb on the vocal but that's OK. Might be a little bit like some of the Deftones' stuff.

A well made track.

Not spectacular but solid.

Congrats.

Hi.

I remember this classic dance track very well.

You've done a good job with it as this is well made and has a clean sound.

1:28 is definitely an update on the original. I'm not sure if those sorts of futuristic bass sounds were being used back when this track came out. Maybe, I'm not sure.

A really wide, powerful sound, just like that other d'n'b track of yours I tried to comment on (you deleted it).

Flutey, futuristic ending is pretty cool.

Congrats!

Yo, S Man.

I see this as a bit of a leftfield dance track with jazzy elements.

I still really have no idea how you make your music as you never seem to explain that at all in your track descriptions. Is it mostly samples? Are you, for instance, playing the sax in via a keyboard?

Main sax riff is driving and quite funky, with the bass throbbing.

0:55 brass is pretty cool and then there's a nice jazzy load of sax playing starting 1:02.

1:03 what's that right panned funky little, insistent instrument?

Then a nice load of harmonics as the track really chills out and gets spacier.

Then crashing, groovy funk drums.

1:50 return to the previously established chill but now with a dance beat underneath.

This is quite creative stuff and busy for only a couple of mins so far

Lots more returning to previous themes as the track continues though not that much for me to say about them.

"a little long winded in places"

Yes, you could probably cut down the second half a bit and not lose much that would be noticed as missing.

Congrats.

Yo.

I said last time that I didn't have much to say about this track but I was wrong. Initially I thought it was a pretty straightforward kind of big, emotive pop/rock song without much nuance but I was pleasantly surprised the more I listened to it.

The little extra details that I pointed out last time really do make a difference so you should keep doing them and probably try to add even more as they are the sort of thing that might set your productions apart from other pop/rock productions.

I do these sorts of details all the time but I kind of have to because I rarely use any vocals and certainly never have any proper songs, as you've probably noticed. I'm also not a virtuoso instrumentalist or that much of a lead player so I have to find ways to maintain a listener's interest throughout a track. So, providing lots of interesting details and surprises is one way I do it.

If you can add even more creativity and detail to your obvious pop sensibility and ear for a decent melody, you could make some even more interesting music. Please always strive not to make bland, predictable pop music.

Any luck with extreme timestretching of either guitar or vocals?

Any luck with the cello? Do you find bowing as complicated and difficult as I do?

Over and out

Yo.

This is some pretty good stuff, with some balls. It's almost like a much lighter version of Rage Against The Machine, the best band of their type of music. Maybe they kind of even invented a genre.

Anyway, bass is fat and dirty and pretty tight. Drums are real solid and there are lots of nice guitar touches. Good wah playing that sits well behind the vocal and not interfering with it. But I can still hear the guitar just fine.

Actually, I can hear every element really well.

2:31 guitar solo comes at just about the right time as I needed a break from the vocal. There seems to be quite a bit of swirling reverb and maybe some crowd cheers in there. Oh and some police sirens. Am I right?

Then back for another chorus and Like This vocal repeat.

Good grooving stuff. Sounds very much like a live band.

Yus yus yus!

I said I'd get round to reviewing some more of your tracks but I'd kind of forgotten about you a bit cos of you not being on Looperman for a while.

Anyway, this is, of course, totally badass.

You hear that intro and you just know the guitar is going to get a hell of a lot fatter and the bass kick in hard.

0:13 nice filter sweep sort of fade in and then we're into this main, stomping badass riffage. Drums are a bit different and don't sound like a regular drummer so give it a slightly different vibe.

0:35 drum change to the bell is good.

I guess this could all go on for a while longer if there were a vocalist.

Big congrats!

I have a new heavy track though it's not really your kind of heavy. However, there's no guitar (or any bass instruments) with all that being covered by some dirty cello riffage. Stuck through my regular heavy guitar setting, it sounds so so much like guitar. I've only been playing the instrument 2 months. Lots of other things happening in the track so give it a go:

Nuance Is Futile

https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/176620

Hi again.

You can monetize if your tracks if you like and maybe no one will notice the samples. But you might start to get some problems and then maybe you'd be forced to remove the illegal samples. I'm not quite sure how it works.

Personally, I don't think you're competing at all with Sungrazer and the music is quite different so I think you're doing something creative with their guitar parts. They might even be pleased to hear what you've done.

I forgot to answer your collaboration message. For now I will say no as I'm quite reluctant to work with people I don't know online. However, I have started doing something with two guys I've known for a few years through this site (but it's going slowly). I'll remember your offer and see how I feel in the future though I would much prefer to collaborate in person rather than online.

I have a new heavy cello track here:

Nuance Is Futile

https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/176620

Take care.

Hi again.

"would love to hear your reply regarding the copyright."

I think it's pretty simple - taking music directly from other people's songs is clear copyright infringement. However, as always, they have to find out that you've done it. So, as a guy just making music and not selling it, the copyright holder of the Sungrazer material may never hear one of your tracks or even find out that you've used that material without first asking permission.

But, if one of your tracks does start to make money, the Sungrazer people could come after you, asking for some money or for you to stop selling the track.

I'm no expert but there are quite a few ways this could go. But, if you remain a completely unknown artist just putting some tracks online for a relatively small audience, my guess is that no one will ever care that you sampled Sungrazer. Maybe don't worry about it for now. The choice is yours...

I agree that it's cool and creative that you sample stoner rock-related bands for use in hip hop. That is unusual.

Great to hear you liked my track and congrats again on your track.

Yo, Bradobro.

I don't have that much to say about this one as I already commented on the instrumental version. The main thing to say is that it's really good. Production is very clear and powerful. In fact, I just listened to my latest uploaded track before playing this and this sounds so much louder and clearer. But I barely do any mastering so that might explain that.

1:30 nice little bit of vocal delay. Definitely makes a difference at that point.

1:51 that's a really good high note.

2:32 vocal harmony especially on the word 'a' is really good, warm and melodic.

This is damn professional stuff that could easily be a chart hit. It's not my kind of music but that's kind of irrelevant, isn't it?

3:05 cool blend of guitar and vocals. Kind of clever.

3:13 good pullback drop of the guitar.

I do actually quite like this - it's just a bit too much like commercial pop music for me so not what I listen to.

Big congrats on your potential chart hit and better-than-the-Nomad production skills.

Nomad In Disguise

Hi again.

I'm a big fan of Sungrazer and their two albums. A pity they only made two.

Anyway, your track:

Little vocal sample "Let go, baby" is actually pretty cool. And then we have a fat, fat bassline and chilled beat. Guitar fits really well though perhaps you shouldn't sample music from other artists' songs. You do it well but there are, of course, copyright issues. Perhaps try to stick to either using legal samples or making more of your own sounds.

0:41 I really like that new instrument's notes and vibe.

This is very cool, fat, grooving head nodding psychedelic hip hop. Guitar works perfectly. There should be more of a crossover between psychedelic stoner rock and hip hop. Here's one by me that has a connection to some of those genres:

Right Place Wrong Century

https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/146210

2:08 a bit of a change, with some high vocal samples working nicely. They're very trippy.

2:45 I think I hear some low tabla/udo drums. Nice.

3:13 a little bit of saxophone is a pleasant surprise. Nice to hear that instrument come out on its own at the end. The only problem is that the ending is too abrupt. It cuts off too harshly so just let it drift away, maybe with some big delay/reverb on it.

Good work again...