crucethus

Thanks, cru! Appreciate the kind words and yeah, that thought entered my mind when I made it haha.

Thank you, after following what you said my writers block is getting a lot better, I will now follow these words whenever I have writers block ever.

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!

Thanks again for your comment.
Allen

Thanx Cru!

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

TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU! I recently learned a new mastering trick so I'm really looking forward to revisiting this... I'll update it soon :)

Thanks

Thanks alot and I'm happy that you enjoyed it.

After much deliberation, the follow-up will be the ladies version, called "The Distraught Twat".

It'll be the kind of track you listen to for about 3 seconds, then tune out the rest when you realize there will be no substance at all for it's duration.

Glad you liked the track. Thanks for the listen and the kind words.

Take care.

Evan

Thanks Cru. That's a cool tune; has a dub/reggae feel that mine doesn't, I can see how they would mix together nicely.

Hi Cru,
Thanks for the comment: I have to admit that I don't know who Carlos Alomar is ... I just googled for it and of course I have heard his guitar: Young Americans and Station from Station are two of my all time favorites (actually everything from Bowie... really everything... I know I am a desperate case: I even liked the Thin Machine).
So, thanks again for the kind words!
Ciao, Domenico

Thank you Crucethus :) . I had no idea what genre it would fit in so I added it to na .

And finally the Cru-Deity passes comment on this jazz-metal monster. And some urine. Nice to know.

One of my favourite Evisma comments was on my track Valvedriven regarding some badass riffage: "Anus devastated through shit speed". So perhaps you got off lightly here.

The evils synth horn around 2:55 has some anal harmonics added after I smuggled proprietary software out of Guantanamo Bay and modified it. It was intended for "enhanced interrogation procedures" but didn't quite work as they hadn't hit on the jazz-metal formula. I guess they're DOD scientists, not musicians.

I thought you'd appreciate the opening single spooky synth note and then restrained swing cymbally stuff before the groove gets going properly. Good to hear first couple of mins flew by.

"dark and bitter and groovy and spooky"

Yes, all of those except for bitter. More joyously evil than bitter.

"warm metal jets" is a term I like. Not thought of that before.

4:12 down to the bass and it sounds really ominous and dark there. A Rhodes chord and we're back into face being smeared into concrete. That's a Valvedriver phrase and he should indeed like this. Gotta be dark enough (in places) for him.

5:52 just simplish return to smooth groove jazz. I had more of it so it had to return. Mostly because I wanted to get the metal in earlier on rather than all jazz for 5 mins and then into metal for a couple.

7:30 one of my Nomad breakdown tricks there. I sometimes really struggle to join sections together. Many times I've eventually made it work but sometimes I just decide to have a short pause, let the delay ring out and then go back into a fat beat. Also helps break up my beat heavy tracks a little, giving the listener a brief rest.

I hope you noticed that Rhodes is distorted in this at various points. Not sure I've heard Rhodes metal before. Piano metal, yes.

7:31 back to big emphasis on the tritone. This end section could have crushing guitar but I left it out to allow Rhodes and bass guitar to do most of the work. Chillout dark jazz-metal there, all topped off by a massive metal fill at 8:16. New snare too.

This is definitely jazz-metal, not metal-jazz but now you've encouraged me to do the latter so will have to do a metal track lurching into jazz. Kind of the opposite of this one.

You should form a gang/band - The Cru Crew. Or maybe the Too Cru Crew.

Thanks for the words, as always, and glad you enjoyed the jazetal.

Thanks! And yes I feel the same way about 50 shades of grey lol

well this comments a nice start to my day :)
possibly one of the nicest comments ive ever had haha

You mention that i 'touched a very jaded musician' and i guess that the goal, right? to get some sort of reaction out of people with any song you make and for you to be standing up and enjoying my song it truly means alot to me.

"If I were a kid again and I heard this tune, I would get into music for what I just heard. "

- Are you saying you would get into chill out if you heard this as a kid? haha
Well... its never too late :)

"That synth you use..."

- Yeah i wanted a main synth that was airy and sort of flowing if you know what i mean, and after some major tweaks i think this done the trick :D

"Then the Piano is so Sublime"

- yeah? man im glad, honestly i have looperman to thank for that. I didnt even know what chords were till i started making loops for here haha

"the percussion is placed with precision."

- yeah percussion is something i really neglect in a lot of my songs haha but not this one :)

Thanks for this comment Cru,
it means alot that you enjoyed and took the time to share your thoughts about it.

Respect,
Xyilent :D

Thanks a lot! Actually I won't be removing excellent Lech's panning because it is excellent as it is. This morning my FedEx delivered me my new headphones and after listening to lech's vocals for hours I feel in love with them. Thanks so much for the message but I can't do that! Alex

Thank you Steve. So basically I am here only to make corresponding sounds and stick to the original as much as possible lol. Everything is right with me, no worries. Thank you again for the friendly comment!
I greet you from my world, Alex
ps you can always adjust the cables to get the different panning. I never listen on headphones, it sounds abstract to me. So you ultimately buy this one, or not ? I do not believe in panning because I already transgressed it.

Thanks, cru! YOU DA MAN