FreeRadical

Thank you FR! S**t! Sry for the download option, now you can download it! My mind is dead lately.. :)

Thanks for you comments.

I know what you mean about the vocal distortion.

The original pella actually came with loads of reverb applied to it, so I was stuck with that level.

Although I do use a lot reverb myself anyway.

This is the first track I've produced using a pella from Looperman.

Cheers FR, the original is an all time classic, check it on Youtube. And thanks for the comment.

Thank you, FreeRadical! Yes, everything but her vocals are done by me. It was fun and just kinda came together haha.

Im using abelton live and mostly just sylenth1 with another sampler for the pluck you here during the drop. Thanks for the kind words!

Rico L.

Nightsoil

Dark greetings from deep inside the Valveland borders.

I hope this FreeRadical was Radically Brutalised/Brutally Radicalised by this beast of a track. In a musical terror training camp somewhere in the Afghan mountains.

Glad you thought it had everything. It had more as there was a funky guitar section in the choir chillout middle that I removed. It was cool when I listened back to it on its own as a loop but it didn't fit the flow of the track so it had to go.

For all the mass of stuff I cram in my tracks, I do actually leave quite a few things out. The flow is way more important than adding more and more just because I can. Hey, I'd never finish anything if I didn't draw the line somewhere!

I do like to do some heavier, darker stuff when I can get it to sit right though chill groove is more my natural musical home. No surprise I got some of that in too. I think I probably do in every track. Not matter how heavy shit gets, there's always room for some chill. Sometimes just so you can build back up to more face melting stuff.
I'm not sure which bit you mean by "harmonic bass" as there's a lot of bass work in this.

Maybe the slap bass note at 1:39? Or the bass screech at 0:09 or the undistorted version at 1:25.?

"you've really hit the ball out of the park with this one!!"

Thanks. I like to think I valvedrove it right out of the volcano.

"flows effortlessly from part to part."

Only through loads of hard work (lots of effort and head scratching) and it works better in some tracks than others.

"don't know how you come up with all these ideas"

I do and I don't. Guess I gotta run out sometime, right? But I've also got to hold some stuff back for music making when I'm an old man. Better take up some new instruments before then. Maybe newly invented ones.

Thanks again.

Take care.

yea. my site is changing hosts and it is down right now. sorry about that. funny you should say that about Flash Gordon. Someone at work mentioned Dr. Who. thanks for the review. appreciate it.

fr...

im looking for people to support ssome vocals on this piece..
and im glad u liked it

Zeno

I can hear what you're saying with that Jimmy van and deadmau5 style. Most of my progressive house tracks usually combines artist styles, such as the ones you're pointing out, and turns it into it's own style. So good ear on that one!

Thanks for taking the time to review and comment, happy you enjoyed this one!

Thanks for a new motto!

I get that a lot indeed, beach music, late night.

Thank you so much for your compliments, keeps me going. And I just love it that you had the courage to cross the chill out line :-). I hope you will ejoy the track for a while.

Doc.

Thanks. I've been listening to Kraftwerk's "Trans Europ Express" lately and I was wondering how the contemporary high speed train version would sound. The sounds (and parts of the basic rhythm) also contain bits that sound like Jean Michel Jarre, so it's a mix of the french and the german "trains" - TGV and ICE. The modulator of the vocoded voice is generated by a text-2-speech software.

Hi FR,

Thank you, thank goodness for your dodgy headphones!! glad it the spot though, I had wanted to do a cinematic style track for a while so thought I would have a go, its good to be creating again after a long spell of not producing much.
thanks again and take care,
Mark

Hey friend, thank you for the response to this track! Makes me happy that you like what you hear! Once I get my parts from Thailand or wherever, I'll be going ahead on permanently affixing and tuning the pickups, as they are just temporary for now. Thinking I'll be able to get a cleaner more well defined sound that way. Glad that you like the sound so far though. Really there is only one loop other than the ones given to me by M8TN, but I agree that the loops were mangled enough to not sound like loops. Appreciate the feedback!

Old School, yeah. Maybe. But this is me. Now. I loved the 90's. I just hope that the people of today accept the style of that time.

well, since I like '80s synthpop, yay!
thx for the listen and comment.

Thanks!

Hell yea man, thats awesome to hear! I really appreciate the good word.

THANK YOU FOR THE FEEDBACK, I WILL TAKE IT ON BOARD, MORE TO COME & NICE TO BE COMPARED TO THE CHEMICAL BROTHER'S CHEER'S OPENMINDS.

Thank you for listening close and having some thoughts for potential improvements. I was thinking the drums may be too loud in places and pull them back.