I really like this. Capture's innocence in a spectacular way. Hope and the future. I would love to add some percussive elements when the massive chorus hits. Maybe a guitar melodic line. I love this song though. Awesome work
Cru
Hey cru ... I'm really happy that you like it ... you are right . It must be more progressive and massive ... Guitar is good idea . Yeah good ... I'll check it ... thanks and hanshake
Ska, My ass...This is Digital Hardcore. The Genre Atari Teenage Riot created in the nineties and still perform today.
Great job on this BTW. ATR is awesome and >I think you would like their approach on the world if you are unfamiliar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3TkC3ovbw
Ciao for now.
Cru
Ha ha, yep the genre has changed to hardcore. As I mentioned to someone else, the way I figure it, if I were to replace the synths with brass and play the guitar myself, it would probably make believable ska... maybe I am wrong though. What is the difference between "digital hardcore" and simple "hardcore?" I have listened to ATR a good amount over the years, and I do enjoy their stuff quite a bit. Thank you for giving this a listen, and leaving you comment!
Percussion, percussion, percussion. That is the delight to me in this track. Oh and the fretless bass. Yes the vox may be gibberish to my syntaxic brain, but the melodies are divine. Very nice guitar with a classic Aussie (historically) reverb on the slightly distorted guitar twangs. Syncopated percussion and the overdriven guitars give me a mid seventies progressive era vibe. Tastefully mixed. Excellent ending on the vox. Overall a pleasant journey and a great job PJB. U get 2 turntables and a microphone for those efforts. ;-)
Cru
Hey Cru thanks for the cool review mate....I mostly always spend the majority of my music constructing time on the drum track and sometimes it can deflect the original inspiration into an endless search for a certain triangle ding! lol, it's sort of frustrating but gratifying in the end I suppose, but that's why they invented drummers (and percussionists) I guess!....I already have one turntable (no scratching) and a microphone can I please swap it for an electronic expert to fix my two Tandberg reel to reels which need some work and are gathering dust in a cupboard....then I can splice vocals and run them backwards and leave subliminal messages in my tracks!...cheers mate Dave :)
Love this sound structure. I was just thinking how it would sound paired with blast beat drums from the heavy metal scene. Or some kind of massive syncopated percussion. But then i am always thinking about percussive elements .
Good work
Cru
Honestly, it ultimately did not have the bombastic effect I was hoping for and I would love to hear where you might take it. Thanks for supportive comment.
I wish I could put my finger on the exact sound part I am about to describe. But there is something about Australian guitar music that is just so distinct to that continent. Whether it be yourself, Dave, Or Icehouse, or INXS, or Pseudo Echo, or Crowded house or Midnight Oil, Or the Sherbs, or the Little River band, or many others . When you introduce the guitar in your works. You create a soundscape that is reflective of the vastness of Australia. There is a tinge of melancholy, with a dash of vastness of the desert and bushlands, a moment of beauty of the land and area you live on now. And a feeling of nature. I cannot explain why I feel that way when I hear Australian guitar, but being a science based logical guy, I'm sure there is an underlying reason for my assuagement of the Antipodal guitars!
carry on!
Cru
Hey Cru, thanks man! I can't speak for all those guys you mentioned but we're all pretty much from the same generation and I guess it relates to something that influenced the musical thinking of the time here. Australian musicians really suffered from an inferiority complex pre 70's, not so much from ability but rather exposure to what was happening in America and England, all the cutting edge stuff (I'm speaking broadly here) I mean all the blues anyone played in the 60's was 12 bar and apart from widely dispersed jazz aficionados the place was a musical wasteland...Hendrix happened (I'm only mentioning guitar bands) but nobody could emulate him obviously but then Pink Floyd came along! people could really sink their musical aspirations into that, I wore out their records and so did most of my friends playing them over and over...David Gilmore saved us! haha...your way too kind in your review, my guitar playing is always a work in progress, being a bass player I never use a pick so I steer clear of heavy metal it would cripple me! lol...thanks mate!
Cheers Dave :)
Oh, yeah the mix is in the pocket now. Me likey matey. Powerful mix of music and vocals with the subject matter in hand. In the vocal fadeout. I might add a bit of stereo delay on the vocals to make it just that more intruiging and mysterious. Otherwise AOK on this end mate.
Cru da Man!
First of all congrats on still being alive Vig, that's an achievement in itself. My momma was (is) a Danone fan. But the verbal alliteration is spectacular in this song. And the loop mixx is as eclectic and wild as I would imagine coming from you. I would ask does "your" momma eat yoplait, but the truth is she and her p***y is so old..........it's haunted by now.
;-0 Thanks for the awesome tune friend!
Hey Kyle, vox improved quite a bit on this one. Your moving forward as well on the production side as well. Keep that up and you'll be doing this for a living!
Cru
This reminds me of some of the sounds I used to make on my old Commodore Vic 20. 3 synth lines (one bass), and a white noise generator for the drums, all using peek and poke on basic language trying to make the timing work with the memory lag. Those were the days.
Cru
Love the stems you create, the sound quality is superb. And you love synth solo's which is a bonus. I created one with the MiniKorg for this as well in the remix.
Cru
Trippy, early U-Vox!(John Fox) style of singing. and all around catchy. Good stuff.
I wanted to share a new music discovery with you. This Duo from Norwich UK is very interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ3tmmkr3sg
I thought you might like to hear/see them.
Steve
Heh, here you are with another ultravox comparison, which is great because you seem to like their style! I've never been able to completely hear the connection, but who knows maybe hearing it when you mention it has influenced me more than I realize? Listening to the song you linked to at the moment. While I really enjoy the vocal recordings, I am not very fond of the music. I think there is a big difference between "simple" and "minimal," and besides the vocals it sounded very simple. I appreciate you bringing new music to my attention, at least I will know who they are if it comes up later on. Ha ha! Thank you for listening and commenting!
"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. "
Static beat me too it, first thought in my head was a better softer Rage. Very likable song, great work.
Excellent work, fav'd and thanks for the download. Great job on the sidechaining synths.
I've been listening to this lately and I think this is the new benchmark for electronic music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ3tmmkr3sg
But I loved what you did here.
Cru
That is some old school funk indeed. Great use of loops. I agree with silverman as on this site I tend to post songs mostly of loops, but I do also play instruments as well and like the freedom to be able to both. But there is an art to arranging music, and looping like this leads to an arrangers ear. This is great stuff.
Cru
Like an old timey carbureted engine starting, is the intro. there is a weird sound at the end of each measure that sounds like Japanese words that someone is saying in stereo. Or I am just losing it finally!. Cool tune so far. I think you are advancing this sound well beyond apocalyptica ever did. Strings at 3.25 are exquisite. and then you hang them out to dry in the neversphere. hmmm sounds like a familiar plan. Then we get funky until 4:44. Then the clodding drums come back. I christen this genre Cellosludge. That Bubble an Squeak synth was cool until the ending pad says..enough!.
Dirty old engine intro with a morphing filter applied to it is a kind of chugging, chilled way to start things off. I really still think all this dirty cello riffage sounds just like guitar and I'm certain no one would be able to guess they're hearing a cello if I hadn't disclosed that. There are some other, undistorted cello parts in this but it overall really doesn't sound like cello music.
"a weird sound at the end of each measure that sounds like Japanese words that someone is saying in stereo"
That is a surprising comment and I will have to go back and listen hard for that. It would be fun if that was somehow in there. More likely is that you have indeed lost it. But did you ever really have it?
"you are advancing this sound well beyond apocalyptica ever did"
The difference between me and them is that they can really play the cello and I can't. Not yet. Well, I'm good at plucking (pizzicato) but the bowing is so hard and I can't really play consistently fluent riffs. I hit the wrong string(s), hit crap tones, get lots of shitty, whingey, scrapey sounds and so on. I have to do loads of editing of my playing to end up with something decent. Adding the heavy distortion really helps mask my fuckups. No distortion and they are very exposed.
I once saw Apocalyptica at a music festival in Czech Republic. Worst festival I have ever been to! Quite a story as to why it was so awful. I'll leave that for another time.
Did you like the addition of delayed Rhodes in the second heavy movement? I think that's an unusual instrument for a heavy track. Later on, going into the third heavy movement, the Rhodes gets funky and distorted.
"Strings at 3.25 are exquisite. and then you hang them out to dry in the neversphere. hmmm sounds like a familiar plan. "
The "neversphere" is a nice term I may find some use for. Is this being too familiar a criticism? Sure, I've done stuff like that before but sometimes you just do whatever you have to to bridge sections together. The stringy pad chill helps break things up and I'm really quite pleased with the arrangement of this and the variety between the sections and the length. Seems just about right, without me trying to do too much.
" I christen this genre Cellosludge."
I think cellometallo is a more amusing term. Reminds me of Nutella. But you're welcome to cellosludge though I think it might have to be dirty, heavier and less of a dance track to really be sludge. I'd say I make stoner, grunge and some metal but not really sludge.
"That Bubble an Squeak synth was cool"
Yes, those synth arp melodies have really stuck in my head.
Nice upload will be cellout dance music. Not as good as this track, even though they were until recently joined together in a confusing, overly long mess of a track. More track splitting success for me.
I felt like you were taking us to church with some interesting organ chords. and then the choral vox just reinforced that. Almost as this song is a prelude to something bigger coming later on.
Cru.
Thanks! And oooh, listening to it again, I see what you mean! Actually puts a pretty interesting spin on things lol. And trust me, there's a lot more to come. I'm only getting better with Logic pro x (Which I got about a week ago), so I hope to make more interesting tracks with much more of that atmospheric sound. Thanks for the comment by the way, It means a lot to see that someone I admire on this website is taking a listen to my music! Much love man!
Damn that's some creative stuff you got going on there. Are you gonna do the whole rainbow of colours? Blue Drug, red zone, yellow fever, Green giant, orange ape, Indigo gyrl ,& Violet prince.
Thanks Steve! Hey, watch it, you're one of the reasons I made this track. Now, you're giving me more ideas, ha ha! Keep that up and I'll have a whole album of songs named after colors, drugs and numbers lol!
Your Kisses are curses? Sex is a hex? interesting lyrics indeed. What are you dating a wiccan? This is almost Minneapolis R & B in some ways, which would pay homage to Prince, the Time, Alexander O'Neil and Ready for the World. I liked it, very good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbL2lMn34Oo
WOW Thanks for leaving this comment, I live a few hours away, and was at first ave for the party after he passed. GReat talent he was (and the time, and A.O. for sure) cheers to hoping the Minneapolis sound will live forever. thanks for listening.
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on Easy For Me by Spivkurl
Great job on this BTW. ATR is awesome and >I think you would like their approach on the world if you are unfamiliar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3TkC3ovbw
Ciao for now.
Cru
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Good work
Cru
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carry on!
Cru
Cheers Dave :)
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Cru da Man!
Thank you for stopping by and checking this one, pleased you liked it...peace mosaic...
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Cru
Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated.
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;-0 Thanks for the awesome tune friend!
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cool
Steve
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Cru
Thanks for the share!
Cheers!
on Saturday Night by GoldenOokami
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/176860
Love the stems you create, the sound quality is superb. And you love synth solo's which is a bonus. I created one with the MiniKorg for this as well in the remix.
Cru
~GO
on Saturday Night by GoldenOokami
Cru
on Four Leaf Lover by Spivkurl
I wanted to share a new music discovery with you. This Duo from Norwich UK is very interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ3tmmkr3sg
I thought you might like to hear/see them.
Steve
on Like this - ft Grotesk the subhuman by TeeGee1965
Static beat me too it, first thought in my head was a better softer Rage. Very likable song, great work.
Thanks for listening, appreciate it :)
on No Sound No Words Just Thoughts by 7venth12
I've been listening to this lately and I think this is the new benchmark for electronic music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ3tmmkr3sg
But I loved what you did here.
Cru
on Yeah Thats Funky Now by Dirtzilla
Cru
I am glad you enjoyed my track and please if you have any suggestions I would greatly appreciate them.
Again thanks for your ear
Dirtzilla
on Nuance Is Futile by StaticNomad
Good work.
lovely song, perfect length.
Crumonade
Dirty old engine intro with a morphing filter applied to it is a kind of chugging, chilled way to start things off. I really still think all this dirty cello riffage sounds just like guitar and I'm certain no one would be able to guess they're hearing a cello if I hadn't disclosed that. There are some other, undistorted cello parts in this but it overall really doesn't sound like cello music.
"a weird sound at the end of each measure that sounds like Japanese words that someone is saying in stereo"
That is a surprising comment and I will have to go back and listen hard for that. It would be fun if that was somehow in there. More likely is that you have indeed lost it. But did you ever really have it?
"you are advancing this sound well beyond apocalyptica ever did"
The difference between me and them is that they can really play the cello and I can't. Not yet. Well, I'm good at plucking (pizzicato) but the bowing is so hard and I can't really play consistently fluent riffs. I hit the wrong string(s), hit crap tones, get lots of shitty, whingey, scrapey sounds and so on. I have to do loads of editing of my playing to end up with something decent. Adding the heavy distortion really helps mask my fuckups. No distortion and they are very exposed.
I once saw Apocalyptica at a music festival in Czech Republic. Worst festival I have ever been to! Quite a story as to why it was so awful. I'll leave that for another time.
Did you like the addition of delayed Rhodes in the second heavy movement? I think that's an unusual instrument for a heavy track. Later on, going into the third heavy movement, the Rhodes gets funky and distorted.
"Strings at 3.25 are exquisite. and then you hang them out to dry in the neversphere. hmmm sounds like a familiar plan. "
The "neversphere" is a nice term I may find some use for. Is this being too familiar a criticism? Sure, I've done stuff like that before but sometimes you just do whatever you have to to bridge sections together. The stringy pad chill helps break things up and I'm really quite pleased with the arrangement of this and the variety between the sections and the length. Seems just about right, without me trying to do too much.
" I christen this genre Cellosludge."
I think cellometallo is a more amusing term. Reminds me of Nutella. But you're welcome to cellosludge though I think it might have to be dirty, heavier and less of a dance track to really be sludge. I'd say I make stoner, grunge and some metal but not really sludge.
"That Bubble an Squeak synth was cool"
Yes, those synth arp melodies have really stuck in my head.
Nice upload will be cellout dance music. Not as good as this track, even though they were until recently joined together in a confusing, overly long mess of a track. More track splitting success for me.
Later, Mr Cru
The Bow Mad Bromad, celling shit up.
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