crucethus

Thanx for the wonderful comment(brilliant is so cool).Sorry it did not please you as
one might expect.This is a minimalistic recording not really intended
to break into separate movements but more into a wall of sound that the listener
has to separate.Not a genre for everyone,I know it's so mono, and as
a composition it sounds like that's the way you heard it. So in my attempt
to create a minimalism recording I succeeded.As always it's difficult to
place our stuff in the proper genre just not enough choices.Oh well ..
hope the next one is more to your liking. ..thanx.....Doc

crucethus 13th May 2017 03:50 - 8 years ago

on Hot Shoe by silverman

Nice bass intro. Reminded me of Joy Division for a second. This almost has a psychedelic drone like quality. Then that panned organ. brilliant mixing. I feel I´m tripping and I´m stone cold sober! So many good things going on. brilliant work my friend, i am truly impressed.
Steve

silverman replied 13th May 2017 - 8 years ago

Joy Division!
That's a huge compliment.
I'm from Manchester N.England originally and was a big part of the Hacienda club scene and JD were a huge part of that scene too.
Anti Nazi League were big on city festivals as was reggae and John Cooper Clarke was churning out poetry like there was no tomorrow.
Drugs by the truck load ...... Those were the days.
Sorry about that you just sent me back to the eighties!
Thanx for the encouragement Steve.

crucethus 13th May 2017 03:47 - 8 years ago

on Cloudless by Orlando51

Tasteful chill-out music. Always a treat when you both get together. I love the trappings of the piano and the guitar and that subtle organ pad sound in the b-ground. Kudos.
Steve

Orlando51 replied 20th May 2017 - 8 years ago

Thanks alot my friend...always good to hear from you and your comments are always highly appreciated !:)

Cheers____Orlando

crucethus 12th May 2017 01:33 - 8 years ago

on One Final Night with Shota by Judah76

Great Intro, wrong key, drop that intro down a half step and it will work with the rest of this convoluted and staccato´d sound. It´s interesting, but it´s not pop.
cru

crucethus 27th Apr 2017 04:49 - 8 years ago

on Japanese Funk by Lorbemzo

I think it´s Future Funk. Not quite deep house but you could certainly re-mix it into a deephouse tune.

crucethus 23rd Apr 2017 03:19 - 8 years ago

on Fearless by swindla007

This Belongs on the Sony playstation Wipeout 4 soundtrack. Brings me back an forwards like in a warp tunnel of nostalgia and talent. Well executed and done my friend. You even managed to capture a groove using D&B..awesome.
Cru

crucethus 23rd Apr 2017 01:48 - 8 years ago

on The Emperors Secret Rocket Garden by silverman

Nice musical commentary on current affairs. I hear Chinese traditional: I am loving the mixing of sounds and genres. masterful so far my friend. The panned chanting is awesome as well. I s that a North Korean nuke I hear launching. 3:30 it just get ominous sounding. Then @ 6:32 it gets interesting with that sinister beat and semi Phrygian scale. reminds me slightly of Bear Mcrearyś sound in BSG. Awesome song my friend. I enjoyed that experience. Nice sub bass end as well.
cool.
Steve

silverman replied 23rd Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

t will I have the energy?
Thanks for the encouregment Cruce.Hello Mister Steve. How nice to arrive here and find three of the most creative and talented people on these boards liking my work! I wanted ominous as you do in a potential third world war scenario but I also wanted a calm Emperor proudly defending his people and paddy fields his culture and dreams.
I need to shorten it somewhat. Thanks for the encouragement mate.

crucethus 21st Apr 2017 04:19 - 8 years ago

on The stars by smallpaul

Awesome, awesome. and awesome. I love Korg for Bass. I used a MS2000 for many years as my go to bass. I have the legacy VST set and love to use the bass. mix that with a Jupiter 8 pad and you are all set with the arrays that it provides. Your work is sublime. Thoroughly enjoyed my listen!
Cru

smallpaul replied 24th Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

Hi Cru, thanks for stopping by. I wish I had bought the Legacy set now, but I am still more than happy with the M1 and the Wavestation. I just wish I had more time for music production! Thanks again for stopping by and reviewing, will be sure to do the same in due course.

crucethus 21st Apr 2017 04:15 - 8 years ago

on Revelry by HappyIdiots

The Future of Music is experimenting with genres melding together. Keep at it my friend. I love the piano sound. Nice overall frequency balance in your mix. Almost too good!
Cru

crucethus 21st Apr 2017 04:06 - 8 years ago

on Brainspotting by BLEEP

You captured that era, and that film with beauty and grace. signature acid filters, but a very tech-house beat and sound that just solidifies the genre. great work. nice mix, good separation of bass and high notes. gets to the point and drills it home. Nice break @ 2:43. good work Bleep
Cru

BLEEP replied 22nd Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

Hey Cru!

Glad you enjoyed this piece :)

Bleep

crucethus 19th Apr 2017 06:41 - 8 years ago

on island beats by ShurelyTemper

I quite liked this one. great melodic touch, deep percussion sounds. it meanders along nicely. great work.
Cru

ShurelyTemper replied 20th Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

Thanks mate, I think I should advance its melody more. Thanks for the comment.

crucethus 19th Apr 2017 06:39 - 8 years ago

on area 7 LX jay by LXjay

I found it quite relaxing to listen too and could be mixed in a myriad of ways.
Cru

LXjay replied 19th Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

all the best ways you can do it

crucethus 16th Apr 2017 18:34 - 8 years ago

on Opposites Subtract by StaticNomad

Greetings. Stuttering Numnuts
Great Title, Nice intro, I like the kick and high hat only intro. This might be the most compression I have heard you use on a finished tune so far. Musically it´s a nice expression of various phrases and cello rifts. 1.34 is cool with that bass line and a simple piano. the breakbeats are also nice. I think you could layer a nice guitar screaming over the top of the phrases from about 2:30 to 3:27. 4.04 a simple mood change. Piano is perfect in this. Simple but effective. have you evr thought about using a phaser effect on the cello? not that it is needed or wanted here but just a random thought! 5:53 is a nice chorus sound. Nice Build at 6:35. 7:00 you almost get a fiddle effect for the sound. 8:09 nice break again. Piano again leads the way. So the ending on the piano is the right idea. and you end with it an E minor chord on the piano, but play one more note a piano playing c major chord and it will be a perfect ending because it will remind the listener of the tasteful piano structure you developed earlier in the tune. I liked it it has the structure ideas of some of your earlier songs but we get a cello instead of a guitar. It was the subtle musical choices in the piece that swung me over to the favourable side. you get a pack of pasties for your efforts!!
Crexit

StaticNomad replied 18th Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

Word up, Crumbnuts*.

It's true that my nuts are quite numb, mostly from the stutter effects I have been applying to them.

It's an interesting title and I find myself quite subtracted to you (because we are opposites).

I'm not that keen on the layered cello intro before the kick and hat enter. Hard to explain why though it was the very first thing I came up with for the track and everything grew out of it.

For the last few months I have been applying a limiter to nearly every track as a master effect. I'm quite concerned about my blocky waveforms but I prefer the louder, more powerful sounds. You must tell me if I've overdone the limiting.

"1.34 is cool with that bass line"

Yes, very busy and intricate bass. I've got a series of intros before the proper track really starts around 1:30 with the piano and bass. And then lots of dnb breaks are introduced.

"could layer a nice guitar screaming"

Indeed though I'm barely playing guitar anymore and have become pretty average at it. Cello has totally taken over. I really hope the guitar magic will return. It's a shame to waste the ability as I still think of it as my main instrument.

"Piano is perfect"

I think it's decent and a bit of a surprise in dnb, as is the cello. Though you fully expect there to be some cello in drum 'n' cell.

I haven't really tried phaser on cello. Not an effect I use often. Can sound a bit fake and over the top.

"5:53 is a nice chorus sound"

That's partly a choir pad.

"Nice Build at 6:35"

It's getting heavier now. And then a fiddle? Like a violin? Maybe. It's distorted cello.

"8:09 nice break again"

Nice to come down again. 8:07-8:09 is a cool delayed snippet of cello. Sounds like it has wah on it.

I will try your piano ending idea.

A pack of pasties? Are they sweets? Or are they like Cornish paasties?

Thanks for the details...

*On account of all the food you get through listening to my epic tracks. Don't forget to clean the crumbs off before bed.

crucethus 16th Apr 2017 04:27 - 8 years ago

on Through the Clearing by topvega

I like this new mix now. very psychedelic sounding. good re-work
Steve

topvega replied 16th Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

Thanks, Steve. I tend to lean towards the psychedelic stoner rock sound. Appreciate the kind comment and the re-listen.

tv

crucethus 7th Apr 2017 03:58 - 8 years ago

on It Is So Far Away - feat Ed Cunningham by VickyDan

Sublime Awesome usage of Ed'd G-tr work. Nice key change @ 3:00 I could feel Ed's style and your style Dan colliding in an awesome way. Those subtle Piano panned keys I could hear were nice. Great Work.
Steve

crucethus 1st Apr 2017 04:56 - 8 years ago

on Chicane - Offshore - Uplifting RMX by novaspace

Allo Karl and Frisio. I just want to take a moment and congratulate you on making consummate Trance music that I sort of used to listen too back in the early 2000´s. It is perfectly on point and mixed and mastered as it should be to the level of (What I consider the gold standard) Paul Van Dyk level. That being said, these days Trance has been relegated to the cheese section of the (yawn yawn) EDM shite pile (not fairly). When a genre becomes beholden on bringing in semi-good-looking women to misogynisticly pander and sing their wares. the Genre is pretty much over and done just like disco reared it´s ugly commercial side and sleazed back down into the gay underbelly in which came from and re-invented itself into a creative myriad of splendid sounds (house being one example) So Trance had it´s time....how are you going to creatively engineer it to be special again? What will you do to make people want to listen to it with earnest fervour. Because making a cool trance tune we heard in 2000 and putting a bunch of models giving us blue steel looks at the camera ain´t gonna revive this dead horse? You have the $, you have the connections.. make something that this generation wants to capture, because like many of us here, we are lost in the past and are a few years behind the future to make a difference these days (and thats OK with Us as most of us are not Pros. And that´s ok for us punters. But you seem driven and want to break into the professional bubble you have been gnawing at for a while. As good as this is... this ain´t gonna do it! And I say this with no disrespect as I acknowledge superior musicianship from your clan, but where I think you want to be. This won do it! With love (tough)
Steve (Cru)

novaspace replied 5th Aug 2018 - 7 years ago

everyone can have his opinion but dude really have you ever checked our backgrounds and our songs? then you should have know that we are active in all different kind of genres of music and not only trance. btw we did already had our share in the music industry as producers wich has results with releases on welknown labels like Armada, Universal latina Music, DMN Records and more.. Again thanks for your opinion but do your homework first before commenting with a harsh opinion like that. btw havent seen your name in the commercial industry :)

crucethus 1st Apr 2017 04:27 - 8 years ago

on Subtle by sqrtofneg1

That´s some nice piano work!
cru

sqrtofneg1 replied 1st Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

Thanks!

crucethus 29th Mar 2017 03:37 - 8 years ago

on Overmyth I - Inception Of The Truth by ValveDriver

Loving that intro.....Nice Spaghetti western guitars. Fender if I am not mistaken? and that is before I read the comments. I feel the angst of the nineties Seattle sound and I hear the dynamics of a progressive sabbath sound. But I also feel the soul of our Neanderthal ancestors battling the cold and Grey glaciers for a morsel of food. The Blast beat drums give it a 2000+ feel as well. I don't know by 3:55 I felt Equally angry at Farmers and Bankers which is sort of a queasy place to be in. I think you just invented the genre Anti-industrial. Jesus H Christopher this song is just dripping with dread and cold and calculating evolution. This is the kind of music that will send those young earth creationists to stop and point and yell, "SEE that's what there all like..see! and then it just ends in a nihilistic cloud of vacuousness!
Creepy, entangling and an evocative piece of work Aaron. oh and damn good!

Steve

ValveDriver replied 2nd Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

Steve, how ya doing?

The spaghetti western thing was totally unintentional, but once it was pointed out, I liked it, and ran with it.

Ah yes. The angsty nineties Seattle sound. One of my favorite genres. Not only because I plunged head first into music during the nineties, but because Seattle is just a couple hours from here, and I was heavily exposed to it. So, much like I said in my reply to Evan, I'm sure the influence bled in.
Sabbath has been one of my favorites ever since I was about 5 years old. there were 4 songs from back then that I credit as the door way to my love for metal. Iron Man, Another Brick In the Wall pt.2, Tom Sawyer, and Black Dog. Whenever I heard them on the radio, I would stop what I was doing and just listen.

" I also feel the soul of our Neanderthal ancestors battling the cold and Grey glaciers for a morsel of food"

It's cool that you said this. This is the first part of three "Overmyth" tracks. It's supposed to be like the beginning of a darkness that comes over early man. Parts 2 and 3 are still in the works. I'm kind of jumping back and forth between them. Hopefully part two is finished first. You know, chronology and all.

Growing up in the plains of the midwest america, I not only knew, but am related to a lot of farmers. I don't think they would be such assholes if it weren't for the bankers. So, I can jump on board with the being angry at bankers, but farmers hold a spot in my heart, and bloodline.

"Anti-industrial" elaborate on that. I'd really like to know how you came to this.

I'm glad you liked this one. There is a select handful of people here that I always look forward to hearing feedback from while I'm making tracks. You, sir, are one of them.

Take care up there.
Aaron.

crucethus 29th Mar 2017 03:21 - 8 years ago

on he is funny by ElenaSatine

Not exactly comedy, but interesting none the less. I like it when artists take a chance and try something avant-garde. It is what pushes music forwards. Great job M'lady en rouge. (BTW are you named after the Chris de-Burgh song?)
Cru

ElenaSatine replied 3rd Apr 2017 - 8 years ago

Hi Cru :)
yes not exactly comedy , I know ..but it's funny to me .
yes I was in love with that song of chris de burgh , especially when I was 21-22years old , when I had just come to here ..but now , I'm different .
thank you much much steve for checking this out and the comment .
:)
Elena

crucethus 20th Mar 2017 22:55 - 8 years ago

on A Moment by DijamMusic

Nicely done. Captures the feeling of the title perfectly. I also like how it intricately builds in a strong ambient style.
My fav moment song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUCLW6o4Q1Q
peace
Cru

DijamMusic replied 21st Mar 2017 - 8 years ago

Hello Steve,
Thank you for your great feedback I really appreciated mate
I am glad you had fav moment mate.
Thanks again.
Jamid

crucethus 20th Mar 2017 22:50 - 8 years ago

on villain by ElenaSatine

Cool Rock sound. I could see some acoustic drum sounds in a syncopated fashion rounding out this work!. Carry on!!
Steve

ElenaSatine replied 22nd Mar 2017 - 8 years ago

thank you very much Steve .
I really appreciate your kindness and the words .
:)
Elena

crucethus 12th Mar 2017 01:21 - 8 years ago

on Beaten by swindla007

Now that's what were all hear for. To Feel Alive. And you have done that with this Ars-kicking sound! Awesome!
Cru

crucethus 4th Mar 2017 22:12 - 8 years ago

on Post War Etude by Orlando51

Love that guitar to open up with some sweet strings. Melencholy but sweet , almost bitter-sweet as a melody. like a modern day Pachelbel's Canon approach.
great job. The second half almost sound like a soldier coming home from the war. excited to be returning, sad at the destruction all around him. Nice adaigo tempo in the second half. Congrats!
Steve

Orlando51 replied 5th Mar 2017 - 8 years ago

Thanks alot Steve ! Always nice to hear some very positive things from you ! I'm glad you liked it !:)

With appreciation______Orlando

crucethus 4th Mar 2017 22:00 - 8 years ago

on Talk to Me v15 by EricMilligan

Yep even better now. Reminds me of RiK singing with Devo as his fronting band.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eglgj77T0rk
Steve

EricMilligan replied 25th Oct 2017 - 8 years ago

Will need to check that out, Steve. I really appreciate all the leads you give me. Very sorry that I didn't respond sooner. We DO need to reconnect and grab a coffee sometime soon, as you suggested. So nice to have a fellow Looperman members here in Ottawa.

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