crucethus

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

Thanx!!!

salut cru merci d avoir apprecier ce morceau domr

Hey Steve in reply to your great review,I have just updated the mix and done as you suggested and lowered the guitar solo a tad,I was wondering why my right ear was sore! lol (bit of screech factor there)haha....thank you very much for taking the time to listen and constructively help in the production!..I still have a near mint condition copy of 801!! Phil Manzanera is one of my favs!...Hell mate if a HipHop remix produced some of the folding,you would see my high horse pulled over to the curb at the first baseball cap shop that quickly it'd make your eyes water! lol....again thanks for your input mate!...cheers Dave :)

Thanks. It is a good pack of loops. Normally there's only a few loops in a pack that I actually like but this one I like pretty much all of them so it was a good score.
Cheers for dropping in and commenting cru.
FR

Thank you crucethus for your time and comments. I love composing music with a story behind it keeps the listener thinking while they dance lol thank you for stopping by Cru. Really means a lot to me ! -EazyBeatz :)