I would be interested in listening to a version of this with out the male vocals. And maybe with a synth or guitar lead over this sound. The chord progressions are nice. The choices of synths are excellent. reminds me a bit of a throwa away song from Roxy Music called Always Unknowing. the vocals are not needed for this tune at all.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w2SHKuEwJs&html5=1
BTW I make these comments as a fellow colleague. You have done an amazing job at refining your looping abilities and I am impressed at how much you have improved since I first heard your early work. Don't ever stop!!
Steve
I like the contrast of piano to stuttering sound at 1:45, that’s a real nice play on sounds. Good tune overall. Very Midi instrument oriented. You have used Midi to it's extreme indeed.
Steve
Just for the record, I didn't use Midi to record this, I would have gone mad then with the amount of editing I constantly would have to do with this slow pc not keeping up hahaha
Percussion and vox reminds me of Bear McCreary and Richard Gibbs work on B. Galactica with there usage of percussion and leitmotif for each character or situation.
I'm not sure if your familiar with early eighties rock like (Pat Benatar, Quarterflash and Spider) This song reminds me a bit of all 3 groups. Good work. I like the disjointed rhythm with the guitars interplaying with the vocals.
Steve
Thank you for the review and comment, yes an old fart so know then well lol...glad you enjoyed piece...Just sent you mail via contact...Peace n Respect man...Mosaic...
Amazing sound you have going on here. I love the craziness and all the changes, keeps the listener intrigued the whole time. Great stereo separation and production. I just picture some underground party in Bangalore where this is being played.
keep on
certainly a great effort for a first attempt. I like the square wave synths (plucks) and the unusual way you build this tune. I think I would like to hear a more intricate percussion and bass line on this as the song moves along. Not a critique but just what I hear as I listen to this. Great songs give great ideas to musicians. Keep on it!
The last review was a more free form listen to the music review then the usual technical by the minute review. I do like the piece and wish to hear the expansion. When I do listen to your work, there sometimes is so much going on technically and musically it is hard to capture my thoughts all in one review.
Steve.
Ah, cool. I get it. I wondered if you'd maybe blacked out for a couple of days. Perhaps lost your memory and been found almost naked in the grocery store. If you've seen Breaking Bad (well known TV show), that's the main character's way of getting out of being missing for a weekend cooking meth out in the desert. It's his excuse to his wife and it works. Who would want to believe anyone would make such a thing up?
I'd like to come back to great pieces of music I know well and hear them again seemingly for the first time. Maybe in old age, with severe memory loss. Something unusual to hope for, no?
I'm a bit biased but if I were reviewing my tracks I'd find it a bit bewildering and I might sometimes need 5-10 entries of 3,000 characters if I really wanted to describe all the little bits. Though I guess there's only so much you can say about liking another riff or drum fill and maybe it's boring and even more unnecessary to even attempt to describe all of it.
Thanks again as I always look forward to your reviews. Though not the Latin spam. I wish Maffin would review more of my tracks as he did one of the best I've read on this site on my Low Key Love track. Genuinely interesting reading, as you probably remember.
Hey great simple words to describe this track! I wanted to express the state of the current "real me" and this is what happened. It's just something I thought people should hear. I'd love to have you do a remix, and have contacted you regarding this. Thanks for listening and everything, it means a lot to me!
Beautiful and sublime textured piece, would be my entry in the hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy to describe this work of art. Nice work my friend. To create emotions out of your Synths is an amazing feat!
Thx alot mate for this comment !:) Yeah, synths can be a great tool for crerating emotions when you choose carefully, otherwise violin or piano are very handy for the same purpose.
But I'm a synth man lately, so we will se what comes next..:)^^
Nice work Dave, some old and modern sounds in this one with a deep breakdown with nice emotions to boot. The build up almost has an 8bit feel to it as well. nice work
Steve
Percussion Intro is awesome. (Ironic singing where is my soul using auto-tune). Your vocal delivery with different echolations reminds me of another artist I know from Austin Texas..New Neon. Well Mixed and produced. I liked this one!
Thanks much cruce! Was a fun joint effort this time. Yep, the autotune was ironic for sure, and I look at it as an end to an era, or atleast a transition because of this. Haven't run into New Neon that I remember, thanks for the comparison though. I appreciate you listening and commenting!
Intro is great, nice clap percussion panned far right. Bass is wobbly and chorused and has a light funky attitude. It has a wide spacial feeling to it. The arabic-guitar treatments are subtle but effective. At the 2 min mark we get some square waved chorus bass sounds. nice. 3:22 is a nice change segue. drums get more intense. I agree about the guitar at 4:00 maybe being a bit too much there. 4:30 gets really nice and mystical. then in the next guitar solo the bass has a fret-less feel to it. I would love you to mix out that guitar you recorded then and re do it with the resonator sound you have created now. that would be explosive in this song. nice work.
Steve
Yes, I love the intro and main bass. Same patch (originally from this track) that I've used in a few others eg your one favourite of mine Into The Out There (the main sound) and also hip hop epic The Fatness.
No percussion in intro (apart from rhythmic breathy thing) so I assume you mean ("nice clap percussion panned far right") the drum hits that come in on 0:40. No clap in there and no far right panning I can hear. But there is a big metallic clanging hit, which maybe you hear as a clap.
Bass is wider in some sections because I take two different synth basses and apply opposite panning to them. I guess one is based on a square wave.
I don't hear it as "arabic guitar" but I guess you mean part starting 1:27. It's subtle to the point of merging with the bassline though I doubt they're playing the same thing.
My vocoded fake didg (my voice modulating a Z1 clarinet through hardware vocoder in real time) arrives on 1:52 as the track opens up a bit. 2:28 another bit of more obviously voicey vocoding.
3:22 breakdown and transition features the lead Z1 synth sound that I thought would be the highlight of this for you. Plus that cool, programmd tambura drone. Must use that again!
"drums get more intense"
Pretty much just repetition of what we've already heard though there is a big new cymbal as the beat comes back in.
Must disagree about guitar at 4:00 "being a bit too much". I hear it as a refreshing surprise and I've already said quite a bit about it in other replies, having had to defend it previously as somehow being "not needed".
I guess you want me to remove it and do some of my resonator playing that you've become quite familiar with there instead. I won't (partly because I can't yet open up the relatively ancient Cubase project) but fear not - you'll hear more resonator playing in more tracks coming soon. It's one of my signature sounds and can crop up in ay type of genre that I do (though rarely in the pure electro stuff).
4:30 is a mystical synth harp sound just using the main polyphonic synth in Reason. That's layered over the tambura, which adds to the mystical quality. Another reason to have the 4:00 guitar is that following it with the harp is pretty strange and the type of strange I like.
No, no fretless bass after that but there is a bit of bass guitar doing a little bit of sliding so maybe that is reminiscent of fretless (I've never had one but still want one).
4:52 check how the psychedelic guitar merges with the lead synth. Actually, hearing them as separate is hard to do. They seem to come together to form one instrument though I have no idea if they're both playing the same thing. Must be quite similar, I guess.
I leave you with an outstanding Ozric Tentacles track. Bass and drums in this are some of the greatest I've ever heard. Everything else is also wonderful - including the time signature, which baffles me every time.
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Steve
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Thank you for the review and comment, yes an old fart so know then well lol...glad you enjoyed piece...Just sent you mail via contact...Peace n Respect man...Mosaic...
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Thanks for droppin in and leaving your kind comments!
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Steve.
I'd like to come back to great pieces of music I know well and hear them again seemingly for the first time. Maybe in old age, with severe memory loss. Something unusual to hope for, no?
I'm a bit biased but if I were reviewing my tracks I'd find it a bit bewildering and I might sometimes need 5-10 entries of 3,000 characters if I really wanted to describe all the little bits. Though I guess there's only so much you can say about liking another riff or drum fill and maybe it's boring and even more unnecessary to even attempt to describe all of it.
Thanks again as I always look forward to your reviews. Though not the Latin spam. I wish Maffin would review more of my tracks as he did one of the best I've read on this site on my Low Key Love track. Genuinely interesting reading, as you probably remember.
Just one more reply to you to go!
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Yes, I love the intro and main bass. Same patch (originally from this track) that I've used in a few others eg your one favourite of mine Into The Out There (the main sound) and also hip hop epic The Fatness.
No percussion in intro (apart from rhythmic breathy thing) so I assume you mean ("nice clap percussion panned far right") the drum hits that come in on 0:40. No clap in there and no far right panning I can hear. But there is a big metallic clanging hit, which maybe you hear as a clap.
Bass is wider in some sections because I take two different synth basses and apply opposite panning to them. I guess one is based on a square wave.
I don't hear it as "arabic guitar" but I guess you mean part starting 1:27. It's subtle to the point of merging with the bassline though I doubt they're playing the same thing.
My vocoded fake didg (my voice modulating a Z1 clarinet through hardware vocoder in real time) arrives on 1:52 as the track opens up a bit. 2:28 another bit of more obviously voicey vocoding.
3:22 breakdown and transition features the lead Z1 synth sound that I thought would be the highlight of this for you. Plus that cool, programmd tambura drone. Must use that again!
"drums get more intense"
Pretty much just repetition of what we've already heard though there is a big new cymbal as the beat comes back in.
Must disagree about guitar at 4:00 "being a bit too much". I hear it as a refreshing surprise and I've already said quite a bit about it in other replies, having had to defend it previously as somehow being "not needed".
I guess you want me to remove it and do some of my resonator playing that you've become quite familiar with there instead. I won't (partly because I can't yet open up the relatively ancient Cubase project) but fear not - you'll hear more resonator playing in more tracks coming soon. It's one of my signature sounds and can crop up in ay type of genre that I do (though rarely in the pure electro stuff).
4:30 is a mystical synth harp sound just using the main polyphonic synth in Reason. That's layered over the tambura, which adds to the mystical quality. Another reason to have the 4:00 guitar is that following it with the harp is pretty strange and the type of strange I like.
No, no fretless bass after that but there is a bit of bass guitar doing a little bit of sliding so maybe that is reminiscent of fretless (I've never had one but still want one).
4:52 check how the psychedelic guitar merges with the lead synth. Actually, hearing them as separate is hard to do. They seem to come together to form one instrument though I have no idea if they're both playing the same thing. Must be quite similar, I guess.
I leave you with an outstanding Ozric Tentacles track. Bass and drums in this are some of the greatest I've ever heard. Everything else is also wonderful - including the time signature, which baffles me every time.
Ozric Tentacles Ghedengi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW31HupvemY