crucethus

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

lol!!wow-for real?well-only you can stop you!!
thanks for the feed back

Hey, thanks for listening and commenting! I have heard that hacker/miss kittin song before, and I always liked it. Haven't heard it in a while though, so thank you for linking to it! Have always had a sour taste in my mouth when listening to throbbing gristle, but maybe I should give them another chance. I saw some thread on synthdiy list about Vince Clarke releasing a MIDI to CV module recently, and it seems to have been released just after I bought a competing product. Funny. The drums in this are definitely analog style, though they are Zoom and samples, though I can't say what the samples were created on. Glad you liked them either way! One of the recent comments on this song told me things were out of tune here, and while I don't technically care, I did spend most of yesterday in a psychedelic VCO calibration trance. We'll see how that turns out, ha ha. She didn't mention what parts were out of tune, so maybe it could be the bent Korg as well. Appreciate you leaving your words!

So you posted twice the same comment, but I still have to come with two different replies ;-)

"I'm loving the slaps on the bass at then end of this"

I am not that great at slapping, so thanks for your kind words! this is really encouraging me.

Ciao, Domenico

"I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"

Thanks for the nice comment.
It would be great to have the possibility to jam with you: from time to time I go in our rehearsal room with the drummer and we spend a good time just jamming together.
I know that this is not more likely to happen than having Joe Strummer singing on one of your song (as you pointed out already: zero, null, zilch!) ... but if you ever happen to be around with a B3 in your pocket, just let me know! :-)
Take care.
Domenico

Thank you Steve for such a friendly review! Basically this piece started as a short sketch/idea that was sent to me by ferryterry few days ago, quite simple Aminor - D7 chord progression. Initially wanted to make a classic simple arrangement adding only acoustic piano but I ended up with very 'fused' sound. It's really good to hear that it is fully listenable because I was not sure about it at first - there's many elements in there at some point and they are different stylistically. I really liked that funky guitars from Megapaul, he's definitely one of the best guitar players on this site. Motown bassline is from Tumbleweed and other funky bassline from djole94hns. The piano in the background and main solo piano is played by me. Overall a true mishmash of very different sounds - really happy you enjoyed it! Thank you again for the nice words. Alex

Hey Cru,

So glad you like it and took time to hit me up with your kind words. It's really appreciated.

Cheers,
Scott

Thanks for the encouraging words Steve, you are very kind.
I have also noticed that Carole's recordings are a bit "hot" (in some points I can hear some saturation) but I have to admit that it never disturbed me: I such a big fan of her voice.
I will try to see if I can improve the sound somehow.
Thanks again for the comment!
Ciao, Domenico

Thanks for the feedback!