crucethus

Yes it is. As you said, time fies.
Gott Nytt år!

/Anders

Hi Steve, happy new year to you to and a massive thank you for your very constructive comments and I do agree. My first uploads came from me and the way I wanted them to sound, with this one I was too focussed on everything being right. I am going to adjust some of the sounds and add some vocals for a final mix sometime in early 2015, that said I still love this track because it is about me and the last year! really glad to see your music is still gracing looperman. my very beast wishes and take care Steve...thanks again.
Mark

Thanks allot, Crucethus. Really glad you like it and took time to let us know.

I do notice a somewhat C. Mayfield vibe, now that you mention it.

Ciao,
M.

i am really glad you had a chance to check out the track, cru. it is about as deep as I have gone so far with the percs. the "industrial" genre designation was pretty much after the fact as i still have no clue about genres, let alone control over writing in them. thanks VERY much for the positive review.

Thanks. I think I need to adjust some of the levels in the second part but other than that I was pretty pleased with how this turned out.
Thanks as always for your support.
FR

THANK YOU FOR THE FEEDBACK, MORE TO COME.

Hi Steve,thanks about this comments and those links.I always love to discover few elements of my track are already on some great professional songs like Ultravox or the band mushroom performs. That means for me im in the right road to be better than I am at this moment.

Just for fun there are the link of Stringer:
https://soundcloud.com/anthony-grenier-5/stringer

please take note im way better now XD. Hope you undersant why I do not uploaded this on looperman (could ruin my popularity if I have one).

Thank you very much for your kind opinion!:)

With appreciation_____Orlando

Thanks for the support. I was inspired to do this song after listing to one favorite artists Bob James

Yo.

Yes, intro was enjoyable and relaxing to make. It's a continuation of my only ever proper drumless track (Visible Aura) that I had to remove due to 50 track upload limit.

First organ-based granular synthesis sound was supposed to be a placeholder then I got so used to it I decided I like it a lot. The pads are the heavenly part of this.

Gentle drums at first before we get fatter and more badass. Simple but effective beat at 1:19.

"1:53 the sounds you normally make"

Yes, funky git riff 4U there. Three finger palm muted picked chords with different fills. Then my classic slide resonator stuff. It's become a real go-to sound and a major musical identity for me. I still don't know of anyone else using it across so many genres. Most major players mostly do it in country or blues. Some spine-tingling notes eg 4:09.

4:19 - no fuckin way - a Conscious Key Change! But still sliding about. Now introducing some beautiful keys. Two different synthstruments. One patch is called 'Water Piano' and can be heard in the first min of my track Into The Out There.

"really get lost in listening to this one"

I did and that's very much the idea. Heaven's a good place to get lost but at least you're never far from a honey mango.

Swing jazz section (5:16) is real dreamlike stuff, especially when slide returns at 5:38. Dream slide jazz.

"break @ 6:47 is epic and almost gospel like"

Same sound as the first notes of track. Just lower notes this time. Needed a break to join swing jazz with rest of it and I thought drumless section would be good.

"we have heard your talent so much we are starting to take fro granted"

I know what you mean and I sort of do too. I've done so much in my many tracks that sometimes I find it quite predictable how new tracks are going to go so I get a bit bored doing more and more lengthy far out stuff. Must branch out. Learning new instruments would help, as would working with vocalists. Actually working with other human being musicians is the utimate goal. Still have some unfinished female vocal work from a few years ago that you'll like.

"then the bass goes all fret-wire."

Don't know what that means. Bass in the fast trance stuff is same bassline from 3:12 until 9:02 when it kicks in to synth bass. Slide trance!

9:36 hands in the air drumless breakdown for slide trance clubbers and then the mad laser show. Everybody go mothafuckin crazy.

No idea how to end it so just went with dramatic stop and lingering strings. And short enough to fit on the site at 128K.

Thanks again for your high praise.

More neat pop singles from me coming very soon.

Thanks a lot Steve.
It was great to discover Brian Ferry! I love music from 80's (I'm 30).
The combination of PinkFloyd 'echoing' and funk-disco synth sequencing on the 'Limbo' is excellent.

Thank you again for the inspiration and your interest in my music. Alex

The name of the song actualy deceved you... you thought this was was Heavy metal :D
And i'm prety sure Mercyful Fate - Buried Alive took more skill too make than my beat

Hej!

Tack så mycket! Helt rätt! Ett språk är aldrig nog.

You are so right! I have my old acoustic guitar in the corner of my "studio". I really need to get myself an electric guitar and plug it in and start composing "real" music :)

Thanks for your comment!

/Anders

Hi Steve!
I'm still holding on to my new me and working strictly on this track to get it finished.
And I did just the thing with the vocal you suggested and turned it down a bit so it's not as much in your face as before...but is it too quiet now?

I still have to redo the vocal line from start and try to EQ out the distortion and get back all the power in her voice and all the other great stuff which are now drowning because of the poor vocal mix.

Also missing a proper bass line here but is it really needed when the guitar takes all the space?
About the more complex percussion - yes, I'll look into that also.

Just redid the intro and created an outro.

So I guess I'm almost finished with the first stages now!!!

YEY.

Thanks for listening, Steve and take care!
Cheers/ SJ =)

Thanks, Crucethus. You have a good ear for the early sounds. I appreciate your comment.

Cheers,
Scott

LOL..I am very pleased to know I've put you in the Christmas spirit! I hope it turns out to be among your brightest!

Love & Light,

Mykael

Thank you :)
I've taken a quick listen to Sixousie Sioux, and indeed the vocals seem a bit alike.

Thanks for the feedback :)

Thanks keep on listening!

Hi Steve

Thanks for the comments and the links. If you have read the other comments posted here you will have noticed I appear to have opened a can of worms with the auto tune thing!! Thanks for your support. Glad yo liked the track.

Richie

Thanks Steve. The Rhodes sound is from 'MrRay22' plugin (as always) with some effects (lots of compression and some distortion, a bit of the modulation effect as well). All the keyboards are performed by me on my tracks indeed. Not really good so far - I just started to develop some more stylistic playing recently. Still not there. It's because I do not have enough time for practising.
The other synth lead is from 'MinimogueVA' plugin - I like the sharp lines it does. It is probaby that sound you are referring to.

Really glad you liked my work - I was inspired by the bassline from some StaticNomad's song that popped up the other day and the entire composition was developed from that.

Thanks again for your time and nice words, Alex