crucethus

Yo.

It has been quite a while since your Crumagnificence has graced the comments section of one of my tracks. So Crudos to you for stopping by.

"the synth bass gives us something else"

Yes, exactly. I'm not totally sure it fits but it is interesting and unusual and that's exactly what I pretty much demand from myself in every track I make. How many stoner rock bands would incorporate dance/dancey synth elements in one of their tracks? I can only think of one and they're a brilliant, obscure Dutch band called Astrosoniq. Check this shit out:

Astrosoniq - Quadrant(2009)[Full Album]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlMDF4zasH4

Anyway, that synth bass arp is used quite a bit in this track, most prominently at 2:14 plus some distortion etc. 6:14-6:47 it also adds something a bit different as it backs up the lead distorted resonator playing.

Drums are indeed a bangin' most of the time though 5:10 for a while they seem more laidback and funky. I thought that might be your fave section, with the triplet, clean guitar on top.

Always nice to upset your wife with some banging riffage. But you can calm her down with one of my chillout tracks if she can't take the intensity of these riffs of glory.

"4:50 you get all apocalyptic with your of sounds."

Yes, a little apocalyptic, with that huge sound. What you're hearing there is slide guitar parts 800% slower, which often adds a vocal-like quality to the sound. A bit incongruous having deep ambient in this banging track but I like to think it gives some unusual character.

No, the ambient end doesn't feature any synth - that's all guitar, even that 7:47 female sort of voice. That's just timestretched slide. Weird end result, eh? I'm half considering extending that ambient ending by 30 or so seconds as it seems too short and I could happily listen to it for much longer. It will be Promenade's favourite section and favourite sound in the track.

In terms of instrument playing, this wasn't really "balls out emotional release" but much more of a contrived sampling and processing job. Most of the guitar parts are clean (undistorted) resonator parts played whilst making other tracks, so not really rocking out at all. I just recycled these leftover parts and totally changed their vibe by adding dirty, yet smooth distortion.

See 6:15 as that killer distorted lead is just the gentle triplet playing from the previous section plus distortion, turning it into something wildly different.

"So what is the message here"

As always - nothing at all! It's just me having fun and trying to layer things up in interesting ways that I hope no one else has done before.

See you around, Mr Cru Dawg, and thanks for the thoughts.

Hi Cru

Thank you ever so much for your kind comments. It's particularly rewarding to hear comments on the way the track was arranged and mixed. Really appreciate that very much.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Best

Richie

Thanks Cru!! :)

Stay tuned. Another track should be coming to Looperman soon ^.^

Man , I have been away for a long time . Didn't see this reply. I'll be glad when the whole election thing is done. Have a belated Happy holidays. Peace.. PDMuzak

Well not until next year , but the dog and pony show has already began.

Mr. Cru, how are you?

Very deep appreciation for the kind words. I'm glad this one came out as well as it did. I need to work on mixing with more dynamics.

I hope you are doing well up in the frostiness. Thinsulate is the shit!

Evan

I'ma little new to this so my product is a little random, no mastering or pro conduction but I got mad eyedeaS!

Thanks Crucethus..Did something different with this track and I really loved the way you say its a "Modern twist to such a traditional folk music" I really appreciate your kind comments.. Thanks my friend..

Hi Steve and thanks again for the feedback! I'm really not satisfied with this one, I accidently compressed away all the dynamics, at least in my ears. But it was a great lesson to try to fix it anyway.
And I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Maybe I'll have an other go some day and tweak it even more.
Cheers!

Thank you my friend. I'm just a humble dude who loves music. I can't do much with GarageBand or I really need to work hard on mixing my vocals.
Either way i truly appreciate your comment....
Peace

Thanks Steve for the advice!
Yes there is big issue with some of the sounds overwhelming all the others, and the bass line is totally underneath everything else and nonexisting at the moment. I'll try to fix this!

Cheers =)

Hey Steve!

Many many thanks for this friendly and generous feedback! I'm really glad you liked it! This one was originally also
intended as a kind of intermezzo thing (again), but as it often happens during the process the goal was becoming a bit more ambitious....and yes, I think I partly succeeded to pull some nice combinations out of it here and there and thanks alot for recognizing that .....

......and for the cruvations ofcourse !:)

With much appreciation________Orlando

Hey Cru

"Hauntingly Teutonic in a terrifyingly beautiful way" That sounds realy cool :) maybe i will use that later.
.... Bowie mmmmmm are you sure?

Thanks for listen and the time to write something

stay tuned
joe

From you its like platinum. thanks for this amazing feedback and feel free to use your imagination to write down a story you could win pretty everything about Mora.

btw since im a male not female you had to write " Keep it up my québécois"

Peace and Handshakes from Byleth in Apocrypha.

hey hello Cru.
thank you very much , this is so good to see you think this doesn't need to change , now I feel sure about this arrangement .
nice to meet you here again .
:) Elena

Hello Cru :)
Well, now that you tell me that, I guess that's a possible interpretation which I wasn't aware of at all, haha.
Still, the artless girl in me still likes to have a first degree look upon it. Sthg like "showing your love to me is as important as speaking it". That's how I sang it and feel about the "message". Arf... what a noodle I am sometimes! (most of the time, but sshh...).
Anyway, thx for your visit and for enlightening me, Sir.
Peace,
Carole.

Thank you so much Steve!

There were many versions - now I want to make an retrograde update and post one of those less organic. No problem with remixing at all.

I will post more electronic tracks for sure somwhere in the near future.

Thank you for good words! I am really happy you liked what I did.
Alex

Thank you Cru

Your time (and ears) are much appreciated.

Thank you! I like this one too.

Regards, traz

Thanks for the kind words Cru.
Actually I also think that we are improving our condition, despite what a lot of people cry. I find it a bit strange: elder people are stating that 40 years back everything was better ... of course it was! they were 40 years younger!

Nevertheless I find Billy's poem on the idea of a "lost paradise" very romantic.

Thanks again for the kind words.
Ciao, Domenico