crucethus

not a fan of new country, but that being said I love classic country, blues, bluegrass and this sort of mudbone sound that just reeks of attitude and hubris. Awesome work and I can't wait to hear the developed product.
Cru

I get a Psychedelic Frisco sound meets ZZtop. Awesome gritty and clean, amazing that you could do that.
Cru

Kind of feels eighties but also late nineties at the same time. (the drums are the difference). Great use of analogue sounding synths, a pleasure to listen too.
Cru

Nice long organ intro. Deep Purplish in some ways. Good tune. Hey Joe, can you sing an octave higher. I think if you do this towards the end you would make a stronger vocal statement. Otherwise nice work my friend.
Cru

Very nice song, I like the opening arpeggios with your voice delay cris-crossed. Your vocals here sound remind me a bit of Kate Bush when she phrases her words in this lower register. Honestly I would like to work with the vocals on this one and create a different musical landscape to fit these elegant vocals, maybe a bit darker in synth styles, but that's the tinkerer in me. Though I do love the breakdown at 2:17, that is really nice musically. I think it, the housey sounding synths that I think take away from the beauty of the composition. But I have to say I am completely impressed with this one. My wife walked in while I was listening to this and thought I was playing Bjork, so the professionalism of this song shines through as well.
Great Job
Cru

I love your voice on this one. Smooth production. I could see this in a movie. The piano fade out is interesting to say the least, sort of how DJ's fade out a drum section so you can mix the next song, you have done this from a visual thought process. the fading piano allows the director to end a scene and bring in a new visual. Bravo.
Cru

I liked the Chord progressions using the arp's in the beginning. Not a huge fan of the "Big" house build up sound, but overall it's a decent melody.
cru

This is seriously nice. Easy to get lost into listening too. It's eclectic and changing. Love that you chose silence at 1:23. Percussion syncopation is nice at the end as well. well done song and good interpretation of the diverse loops.
Steve. (And I see you snuck in your piano style at the end as well)..

This is an awesome tune. I love the brightness and the detuning is excellent. The percussion is also perfectly placed. Fav'd fer sure. Keep it up. You know I look at music in colours as well. Sort of a very mild synesthesia.
Any how carry on my good man.
Cru

Like a long intro waiting for the explosion of sound. you should explore this further.
Cru

Hey , nice work, sorry about the emotional pain you might be feeling at this time, I know relationships can be hard sometimes. As a producer and artist as I listen too this, I think that we could do much more to build the emotional cascade that needs to be expressed. For instance, If I had your acca-pella I would just use the piano and maybe a pad at first and build it until later in the song then using percussion and drums towards the end in an explosion of emotion, and then end it by bringing it all back down to just a piano and your voice. In that beginning section I would also add some interesting stereo delay to show the wide scape of the emotions being presented. But that's just me hearing something sweet and wanting to take it too the Nth degree.
Cru

I'm going to take a guess. As you were walking in the city you came upon this cerulean blue police box.......

So What I like about this.
Your death metal screams are really good..professional sounding.
What I don't like.
Your rap Vox sound is a bit under polished (just a hint of whine in the vox.
You remind me a bit of this band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8b88US-6ts
I chose this song from their catalog as I think if you started to overlap rap lines as an overdub over your other rap lines you would create something more interesting. And we have to make the "beat" , song you are rapping over to be a bit less cliche. You have raw talent but the music you are making is aiming for the generic. I think IMHOP. that for you to break through the fog of other rappers you need to come up with something more distinct. But please don't take this as a negative. I would only critique like this for someone I truly think has a lot of talent and ability and drive to be beyond the mediocre.Do you have any raw pella stems of your voice. I think I would like to work with them to show your what I mean.
Steve

After listening to your mix and to the original single I really liked what you did with this one. Not a huge fan of all the auto tune the kid used in the original vox mix because it sounds like this kid can sing, but you made a nice dance remix to it, almost giving it a west african feel to the beat. Good work, nice guitar at the end.
Cru

Hola Brado, my remarks about pop should not be taken in a negative light, but just the opposite. You do POP very very well. Why is this POP. Because you use a chord progression that's very standard to pop songs. In your case you used a very Standard I VI V IV Progression F#minor, D#minor, C#, B and back again. Using the arpeggios on the Guitar that you made ,you ended up suspending the chords as arps that cycled through the chord structure. Similar songs" Dust in the Wind"(Kansas), Send me an Angel( Scorpions). "Time of your Life (Green Day). POP is a sound which the majority of passive music listeners enjoy and can relate to when they hear the familiar patterns even though they may be made in a myriad of different ways. It's why when we hear something that's completely new in music it's off putting at first because it doesn't fit our predicted expectations. This song fits that predicted mold and is done extremely well. If you developed it with your talented voice it would be a pop hit (with the right marketing and distribution team).
So to answer your question it's the structure of the song and not exactly the play-style that makes this POP.
Carry on!
Cru

After remixing it I should most likely listen to it (lol). BPM is a bit faster. Love the bass-line with it. If MAV studio is doing a David Sylvian like vocal I am all in on that, I love Japan and Rain Tree Crow.I love the essence of this song.
Peace out.
Cru

WoW, it's just been one after the other this evening that has been great. The first minute intro is outstanding . the mix is incredible. great work. Fav'd
and loved for the emotion in this one.
Cru

To be honest one of the most professional and complete mix on looperman that I have ever heard in the Trance category. Nothing but applause on this end.
Cru

Holy C# major which is overall..a nice pop tune. (that we have heard before)...many times and many, many, many times. But it never gets old using the chord changes you have used. I think if you slow the tempo down just a bit you will get the emotional twinge you would expect from this song, but a little bit better. And then you can add your lyrics (inspirational would fit nicely) and you could conquer the POP world, if that's your intention.
Cru

I love Lisa Stansfield, I feel that you took her style (80's retro 70's and mixed it like this song belonged in the seventies. Cool idea Richie, Cool Listen.
Cru

What I liked about this was the usage of synths as percussion like instruments, the reverse synth reminded me of Peter Gabriel's usage in his song "Shock The Monkey". Very Creative and good work.
Cru