Brilliant cinematic composition, great mix. I am a fan of Die Antwoord's creativity and so for you to name-check Chappie intrigued me enough to listen. I am glad I did.
Cru
Hey Fletch are you eastern European? I have noticed that since 2007 this style of house has been coming out of east central Europe, esp Bulgaria . Crisp bass lines and mix, minimalist but some nice synth riffs...almost a trance-house hybrid but very cool to listen and dance too. nice work.
Cru
super cool my friend. Loved the solo's. Perfect playing of the keys. The subtle jazz chords allow you to go crazy on the keys. It's nice to show off now & then how well you play the keys to all the others who just mix loops. Very Mystical journey and a lesson in soloing using scales. I like the underwater feeling at the end. great job Alex!
Steve
Thank you a lot Steve! I truly appreciate the nice words.
I want to be able to play keys in a more organized way some day - lot of work ahead! The new synth is very easy to play but there's also still so much of new regions to explore for me regading to synths and electronic synthesis in general. The 'underwater feel' at the end was achieved by manipulating the cutoff/resonance filtering on the main synth lead.
Thank you for some great inspiration on synths!
Alex
Beautiful, Your voice has the distinct quality of a Neville brother. Lyrically this is also compelling, the drums are tasteful and add a nice accompaniment to the main piano chords. I was just thinking at 2:22 if you added a subtle gospel choir to 2:40 that this would take it over the top.
Awesome work!
Steve
THANK YOU, Steve! I'm very happy to know you enjoyed the track. Your suggestion to add a "subtle gospel choir" is interesting. I'll bounce the idea off my co-conspirator. Thanks again!
Love the intro and up-scaling arpeggios. Then it gets really cool in it's chord progression. Awesome work. the folk version of Phillip Glass. (that's a high serious music compliment), That plant in your avatar, that's a special hybrid of wheat...ehh? ;-)
Cru
The Jigg is up!! I concur with the comments below. (it does seem to come together better towards the end. I like the beat from FT, his drumming is always awesome. Percussion wise it needs some more high hats in a syncopated style.
Here is a funk tune I did for Joe's funk Contest that he never judged yet!!. https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/163779#comments
I it I de-construct funk in a minimalist way in 6/8 time signature. You can hear the high hats in the middle of the tune that I was describing. Keep at this one it's coming along nicely.
Steve
Mate thank you for reviewing this version, pleased you like the changes so far, will check out your link shortly, and try to see what you are saying about this one that would help...Don't know if I will do anymore just yet mate, have a tendency to screw up tracks lately when going back to change them, which I don't want to happen here, but will do more to it for sure, suppose helps when your head is in a good place, which mine hasn't been of late, so will definitely look again soon...Peace n much Respect friend...Mos...
Everyone has been focusing on the sounds, the mixing but there missing the best part of this. Your usage of counterpoint is awesome. in this. diverging melody lines that work so well in this one. The bridge is a classic uplifting chordal structure, but then you give us sort of an electronic bass and guitar fugue. It was over too soon for me. Great work Evan.
Steve
I have trouble with chords and open, anchoring notes, so I wind up doing layered melodies and try to find interesting things that are different, but rub each other right.
Thank you for the kind words. They are appreciated.
@ ;40 subtly is some old ATB pitch bend effected synths...nice. The Strings have a nice melody. I like the contrast with organic instruments and soft synths with the Pitch bend effects. Nicely done.
Cru
I much appreciate your comment on this one! Yes, in a sense it's quite experimental track but I experimented only with that slight reverb addition - I had to use it because I think that basically all very common ambient/surrounding daily sounds definitely appear as quite boring to the 'average listener' (but in fact they are far too underrated - they always stay moment by moment unnoticed and constantly ignored by average audience). Therefore I love them even more!
I believe that John Cage was somehow a very spititual guy, like Tarkovsky. His epic highway scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rswYl7RLRNE was a main inspiration for creating this recording.
I really like your current green avatar by the way. I had a green version of mine's as well (but sadly lost it). Everything is really turning green now (in a good sense) haha.
Thank you again and all the best greetings to you,
Truth be told, this is extremely innovative. such a mix of percussion that has not been heard before in such a way. I love what you are doing. You sir are progressing music further with works like this and I salute you for it. I imagine this with vocals and I think you have a new genre.
Cru
First of all in the "This Sound Bad On Tv" you know he used few of the sounds from my track so " I don't like the synths (orchestral melody)" I let you imagine my feelings
Second of all, thanks for this feedback For some reason I do not find the word to continue so i will stop this reply right now.
hi cru - that's true about genre. changed it. stretched this one out a bit since you last heard it. so you know this myth apparently! very cool. thanks for stopping by. need you right now at the site. peace.
I can see this expanding to either a Hip Hop or R & B song. Whats missing is a killer bass line and nice percusssion. Keep at this one I like the mood your evoking.
Cru
This was good, I like the atmosphere you created and the solemness of the piano. Reminded me a little bit of some of the Interlude work from the Judas Priest Album Nostradamus.
Cru
So to me you have made an amazing intro and a nice outtro. Now you need to beef up the middle. To evade writers block here is a little trick. Listen too what you have and write down a description of what you see in your mind, or feel when you listen too this song. Par Example I feel I am sitting on a harbour looking out on the ocean and watching the boats coming in when I hear this one. Then suddenly I remember a real cool time I had with friends. So make the middle about that. Write "cool time with friends" or whatever instinct this makes you feel and you-ll be able to overcome the block. Usually a block is your trying to hard to force something out. you gotta let go sometimes and take on a different direction. The Best example of a song block is this famous musical songwriting duo and one of there famous tracks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfOeXT_257w&html5=1
Cru
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Hey Cru!
Thanks for the comment,I had some great artists contributing to this track.
This is one of those tracks that you get so wrapped up in playing and mixing that you truly don't appreciate and enjoy until way after the song is finished,it was such a pleasure to play on this one.
It was so easy to add guitar to but I remember hours of mixing,even all night and still questioning myself.I mixed and played through cheap headphones and when I heard it through a big system for the first time I thought it was all wrong but it was finished so I let it be but now the more my ear changes with slightly better phones my perception is a little better and comments like yours confirms it and I appreciate your review so much.
Hey,did I mention that all guitar parts were played guitar through a cheap Zoom FX pedal and all parts were mixed through a Tascam 8 track..lol,even the sax was sent dry and I added only the built in reverb in the recorder..I only used my old windowsxp computer to convert the wave to mp3 with Audacity...primitive but it worked.Like I said before,it helps a lot when all the collaborators do their part,they knew they could only depend on me for guitar and ears lol!
Beautiful Organ sounds and re-verb on it for the intro. Then the MG bass comes in with a nice line. Then some sort of electronic harmonica sound and then your luscious pads. This sounds like it was made with a Korg MS2000 in some parts? Retro late eighties early nineties feel. Awesome work my friend.
Steve
Nice opening. Cool Pipelike pads. Over compressed drums take away from the glory of those pads and vocals. fix the bass and drums and you have an amazing song. The ideas are grande. The bass cuts into those sounds take away from the enjoyment of this. There Are points I feel I am in a vacuum.
Cru
Cool Work.
Very familiar style in the sense that this is a retro sound from the eighties using modern soft synths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ2GiR6Bo&html5=1
is a great example of this.
Thanks for the trip!
on I am alive I want to live 0inspired by chappie0 by SoundbenchCreative
Cru
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Cru
on Prelude II by promenade2239
Steve
I want to be able to play keys in a more organized way some day - lot of work ahead! The new synth is very easy to play but there's also still so much of new regions to explore for me regading to synths and electronic synthesis in general. The 'underwater feel' at the end was achieved by manipulating the cutoff/resonance filtering on the main synth lead.
Thank you for some great inspiration on synths!
Alex
on OVER YOU by Mykael
Awesome work!
Steve
Love & Light,
Mykael
on I N V U by 520
Cru
on The Funk by Mosaic
Here is a funk tune I did for Joe's funk Contest that he never judged yet!!.
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/163779#comments
I it I de-construct funk in a minimalist way in 6/8 time signature. You can hear the high hats in the middle of the tune that I was describing. Keep at this one it's coming along nicely.
Steve
Mate thank you for reviewing this version, pleased you like the changes so far, will check out your link shortly, and try to see what you are saying about this one that would help...Don't know if I will do anymore just yet mate, have a tendency to screw up tracks lately when going back to change them, which I don't want to happen here, but will do more to it for sure, suppose helps when your head is in a good place, which mine hasn't been of late, so will definitely look again soon...Peace n much Respect friend...Mos...
on Haunted Sunshine by Evisma
Steve
Thank you for the kind words. They are appreciated.
Evan
on Midnight by 15ludwicke
Cru
on One Step by beerling1970
Steve
Steve
on Observable by promenade2239
Steve
I much appreciate your comment on this one! Yes, in a sense it's quite experimental track but I experimented only with that slight reverb addition - I had to use it because I think that basically all very common ambient/surrounding daily sounds definitely appear as quite boring to the 'average listener' (but in fact they are far too underrated - they always stay moment by moment unnoticed and constantly ignored by average audience). Therefore I love them even more!
I believe that John Cage was somehow a very spititual guy, like Tarkovsky. His epic highway scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rswYl7RLRNE was a main inspiration for creating this recording.
I really like your current green avatar by the way. I had a green version of mine's as well (but sadly lost it). Everything is really turning green now (in a good sense) haha.
Thank you again and all the best greetings to you,
Aleksander
on Life Is A Test--Re Mix Rough by soundhound
out of 4 pickups is not bad at all...A keeper for sure...
Glad you enjoyed it...
Peace...TG.
on Violent Machine by D3RELICT
Cru
on Violin Bow Factory by Byleth
Cru
First of all in the "This Sound Bad On Tv" you know he used few of the sounds from my track so " I don't like the synths (orchestral melody)" I let you imagine my feelings
Second of all, thanks for this feedback For some reason I do not find the word to continue so i will stop this reply right now.
Peace
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Cru
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on Something New Instrumental by Venuslove
Cru
on More Than a Day Snippet by oliverzookamoo
Lets see you experiment a bit!
Cru
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Cru
on Surreal Reality by Mephod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfOeXT_257w&html5=1
Cru
cru
on When You Leave - SpellJammer ft Slap Johnson by AllenV
Cru
Thanks for the comment,I had some great artists contributing to this track.
This is one of those tracks that you get so wrapped up in playing and mixing that you truly don't appreciate and enjoy until way after the song is finished,it was such a pleasure to play on this one.
It was so easy to add guitar to but I remember hours of mixing,even all night and still questioning myself.I mixed and played through cheap headphones and when I heard it through a big system for the first time I thought it was all wrong but it was finished so I let it be but now the more my ear changes with slightly better phones my perception is a little better and comments like yours confirms it and I appreciate your review so much.
Hey,did I mention that all guitar parts were played guitar through a cheap Zoom FX pedal and all parts were mixed through a Tascam 8 track..lol,even the sax was sent dry and I added only the built in reverb in the recorder..I only used my old windowsxp computer to convert the wave to mp3 with Audacity...primitive but it worked.Like I said before,it helps a lot when all the collaborators do their part,they knew they could only depend on me for guitar and ears lol!
Thanks again for your comment.
Allen
on Atlantic drifts by Danke
Steve
Great words from a great composer and key player...it means a lot for me, knowing that keys are playing with me...:-)
Much respect, Danke
on -Vox Chop- old demo by Darklighter
Cru
on Tripcore - Royal Hardcore by Tripcore
cru
on Waiting for the Sun by Darkreine
loved it
Steve
on Happy Beat by Joshuamaybe
Very familiar style in the sense that this is a retro sound from the eighties using modern soft synths.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ2GiR6Bo&html5=1
is a great example of this.
Thanks for the trip!