crucethus

Played this one for the wife for St Patrick's day as My heritage is 50% Irish. I wanted to hear the feedback of a classically trained opera singer. She liked it found it melancholy but pleasant. I still enjoy this one.
Cru

So Dave, Welcome to music making. My advice to you is to be more assertive in your descriptive area when presenting this to the public. people feed off of the confidence and will more than likely listen. You could say. I'm new to this and I just made a fun tune that I like I was looking for your feedback from some of the experienced members to let me know what I can more with it.
As for the song, it has some nice chord changes and completely reminds me of this tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbkMpssrjU
I put on the extended version so you hear how Giorgio Moroder builds this tune in the studio from an arrangers point of view.
Keep making tunes, keep practicing and you will get better and better. This one has a lot of promise.
Cru

Very good remix. Perfectly radio friendly as well as club ready. Welcome back!
Cru

Very Very good. The building of tension is incredible. The minimalism of the arps. I would want to remix this into something bigger and bolder building on your tension idea.
Awesome work.
Cru

The bass line and awkward time signature makes this seem like a "Sinister march of the Insects". Don't get me wrong it's a brilliant idea and sounds awesome but scared the living shit out of me when I listened to it. I hate bugs!

Good work though
Cru

I agree with Midisparks, the vox sits nicely on this mix.

Nice work Guys! I enjoyed that!

Cru

Alright So I did a remix.
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/174864
Please check it out and comment.
Cru

This is nice. A Good tune to sing phrases with and practice to keep those beautiful vocal pipes in shape.
Cru

Very good, like a mix of future house and big house (without the annoying elements of that genre). I can see the floor absolutely going nuts for this one. great job. The percussion builds perfectly. And your drops are great as well. Really good job executing the arrangement of this one. Not sure about the drum fill at the end unless your just making sure were paying attention..;-)
Cru

Hey C'mon guys, someones got to sing on this beauty of a song... This is a gem waiting to be polished!!!!! oh and happy 40th ;-)
Cru

Just peeked in to have a listen. Yeah.... the future is in good hands, you are moving house and dance in to what I think the future of it will be. Bright shiny sounds that are smooth production wise with a hint of chip tune sounds to give a nice homage to the video game set of yesteryear.
I will be paying attention.
Cru

Orlando....Bravo...a masterpiece.

This song is graceful, haunting, sentimental and touching with just a slight air of detachment. A Beautiful work of art.

It reminded me of three different artists songs that you may or may not be aware of as they were never truly mainstream artists but nevertheless there are elements in those three songs that you captured in one song which struck me.
The first is from Ultravox and is an instrumental called Astradyne which starts there colossal album Vienna.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-kVZsO1GCk
The second is an African artist from senegal named Babba Maal and his song playing the guitar like instrument called a Kora and acoustic guitar. I find his music has an irish like tone similar in some of the works. Especially in his song Souka Naya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqPFQGF-sRM&index=32&list=PLF9F9ll40VBF6lJdPJhRqkbUx5Ep6XaDl
And the last song is from Phil Manzanera, the guitarist of Roxy Music in his solo work made this extrodinary synth based ambient song called Europe 70-1, which starts out a bright and hopeful and cheery but becomes ambient and sentimental. it was the first time I heard analogue synths convey emotion . As you have done in your own work my friend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAAVdtmXAMA
cheers
Steve

To me this is an interesting juxtaposition of american blues and european accordion that would make an awesome intro to a heavy thrash metal tune. If you keep going with the chord changes as heavy guitar riffs and add some blast drums this could become a very interesting song.

Lovecraft just twitched in his grave...and so did I. Very magnanimous song! Sorry have to go Cuthlulu is yelling at me to make the hor d'oeuvres for the guests or he will inflict Pimoa spiders upon my being... ghastly!!
Cru

nice chord structure in the intro.good solo start not too intricate, starts to create a melody. That is some extreme wah, but not to be undersold the drums are very stong. this needs some vocals indeed....as I am writing that, we get some spoken words.. nice, but not enough. 3:02 needs an ass kicking guitar solo. This is a perfect example of a good song that needs the screaming vocalist and the lead guitarist in action too complete it.\good work.
Cru

4 stars from me. I love the groove. But the stutter vox is excellent and gives the track it's moments of minimalism as you build with a lot of staccato sounds. I would love to hear a long drawn out remix of this one for the deep club set. Great work though!
Cru

Love that rhodes piano, then we get hit with that bass line. then the spaceman dirty blues guitar. I love the usage of this pella. So different from what I used in "House Witch" (which was a partial usage of the opening phrase. You bring out the emotion in a blues-psychedelic way with the voice in your arrangement. The sax and guitar answer session at 2:16 is momentous. I didn't want it to end so soon!
Ciao Steve

I don't know, something about this one made me go back and want to listen to old KISS like strutter and deuce. I like the straight ahead style of this one. good work.

It's not bad, reminds me of this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xat1GVnl8-k

Great tune,awesome vocals, it's mixed so well. I am a huge fan of DVD audio and have a question about when you mix to 5.1. Do you start at a sample rate of 96k or 48k and 24 bit, and dumb it down for the stereo mp3 mix. Or do you just do a surround mix in 44k 16 bit?
Steve

catchy vibe, awesome sound. I miss that sound..

Weird feeling I got just listening to the beginning. I felt as though it were a late summer evening, and I was sitting on a curb looking down from my hilltop at the street descending from the hilltop I was perched at. And then all Irish hell broke loose. like a gang of Unionists squared off against the loyalists. The sheer blast of emotion from your music Evan is amazing. I feel you have captured Na Trioblóidí with perfection, but you have meant the "Troubles" to belong to the states this election cycle. Amazing tune. Awesome!
Crutastic

So how did you make this one?

I like the vertigo feel this tune gives you in your mix style and use of detuned rhodes pianos. Your rapping consonant placement was good as well. A little breathing struggles. Also I would like a little more bass on your vox, it sounds to middle muffed in the eq. Overall a great rap tune and you should keep on shining it up.
Cru

Nice, I made it my ring-tone...for when my Uncle-daddy calls.