crucethus

Thanks dude! :)

Hi Steve :)
thank you much much for the comment.
Elena :)

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

But thanks steve for the kind words

Hi Steve & many thnx for attention & a great appreciation for your comment my friend .bests.___B

Hey mate

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...

Thanks - especially the part about the production which is always a challenge.
-clindsay

Thank you very much crucethus!

You know me,i'm a sucker for emotional music!

Thanks for droppin in and leaving your kind comments!

life love n unity to ya!

cheers man!

***bb***

Hey man glad you liked it :)

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.

Just one more reply to you to go!

Thanks allot, my friend. Glad you like it.

Cheers,
Scott

Well this is a bit weird. Nice review but your words suggest you're hearing this for the first time. But you already reviewed it a few days ago!

Sorry for not getting back to you but I often take a bit longer to get back to the best reviews and people I theoretically know best on here as I like to give a reply that matches the quality of the review and/or give a considered and accurate response to any questions (eg to thehumps I had to look up the names and models of my guitars).

Never played a DX7 but no doubt there's some sort of heavenly pad on it. Useful sound, that.

Gotta have spacious strings to let that essential groove flow.

This track gets a lot of bluesier (with added balls) and I've just been recording some killer riffs for around the 11/12 min mark. Might have to get them in earlier in this epic exploration of deep shuffle blues. This is just the gentle intro.

I never think about the theory (cos I can't), just feel everything. You're more classically trained so perhaps can't help the theory coming out as you listen, though it's a little difficult for me to empathise with that.

In adding more riffs and chord sequences to this, I can't help but think what a load of crap that talk you hear about how you have to be poor and black to really feel the blues, understand and play it properly. I'm neither of those things or at all sad when playing it but the playing I've just been doing is the real essence of the blues, in my biased opinion (no one else has heard it yet). Some big, acoustic slide with rapid trills and wailing bends.

Yes, opposable thumbs. I have a dub/blues/chillout track called that, you may remember.

I guess you could slap your opposable thumbs together for this one.

I shall reply to your other review soon and find some other things to say. Shouldn't be hard...

Please find it in your heart to forgive my late reply.

Your album title idea is a good one though I may have a better related one. This title comes from watching some TV documentary years ago on torture. Doctor was explaining that the best way to really fuck with the mind of the torturee (?) is to perform random acts of human kindness.

I can see how that might be confusing and discombobulating. Not sure if the opposite works in real life ie being occasionally vile to someone you're generally lovely towards. Don't think that then makes them like you more but not every act has an equal opposite in this universe.

Guitar scraping quality is partly the newish strings (only change em every few years cos I'm so lazy) plus the distortion and how I play them.

I was going to damn you for all eternity for suggesting there's only "finally a sense of melody" at 1:57 but don't think you really meant prior stuff lacked melody.

I do have balls but they're not drooping or blue.

Your "slight whisper of a pad" is the synth bass, which gets a bit pad-like as the cutoff filter is turned up (at various points in the track).

I am trying to whip, whip, whip this into the fine shape it's taking and am making progress on the heavy electric voodoo riffs of glory ending. It's damn powerful though currently over 14 mins so pretty heavy going for most listeners. I really hope it's not boring!

Just in case you don't know it, here's the heaviest, deepest blues perhaps ever recorded. Also, stunning anti-war song. Check the lyrics!

Machine Gun(Jimi Hendrix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEFrvBSk5kw

The beer was a success!

Cheers,
Anders

Hi Steve :)
I'm very glad you enjoyed that artless cover. Merci beaucoup, Sir ;)

and
TO ANUBIS :
Oops, don't know what I did but my reply got posted before I finished it, sorry. Please don't take the last stanza into account, it's full of mistakes ( was lazy and found some lyrics with mistakes on the net and was checking them ).
I thank you for your kind words, especially about good and relaxing sensations. I appreciated them a lot.
Merci :)

Thank you for listening and commenting :) ....metal indeed >:)

I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for leaving a comment here, your words are very well received
have a nice day
(y)

Well you did say a while ago that you like the heavier stuff I do and I don't get much heavier than this! So, I dedicate this (currently) to you and your intrigued wife. Sounds like it took her a couple of minutes to get into it (based on your time references).

I'd love to do some electronic cybergrind type of stuff. Check this to hear the greatest band in that genre. Absolutely mental!

Genghis Tron - Board up The House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2DPKKrsJ_o

How to review this? Well you could just say that there are big, layered riffs and then more riffs and on and on right till the end.

Migrating geese is rather a cool and accurate way to describe that very first slide note.

Intro is in your face, the rest is in your ass. Plus melting one's visage at times.

1:13 synth - one of the few synth parts in this (apart from all the mega sub basses).

1:41 best drum fill of all.

2:13 Cubase morphing filter plugin sweep.

3:18-3:50 feels like a key change. Not sure if it is. I don't need to know as long as I can play along with it!

4:00 chopped up bits of eastern guitar plus dbBlue scratches.

4:45 is me hammering away on the bass guitar doing some walking jazz type of basslines. Guitar in the background as it was recorded with clipping so had to hide it a bit. I started out as a bass player and it was mostly what I did ages 13-16.

Yes, there is far too much describe in this track. That's my constant idea of making something that's well worth listening to again and again, hopefully for many years.

6:33 big phaser stuck on the guitar. An effect I rarely use but worked there.

6:44 psychedelic arp synth I thought would interest you.

7:05 we go into full-on blastbeat territory.

7:16 comedown took ages to get right and fiddled about with so many options. Probably should have ended it there but had more shit to get in (hey, the track's only 8.5 mins).

7:48 guitar to end just doesn't work as it should. Need to fix that. Recorded and mixed it n the final day whern I thought I was finishing up the whole mix (did that too) so a real afterthought. Feels too brief.

Could have gone on so much longer with this one but thought I'd keep it short and sweet for radio play and, surely, my first US No 1. Just need that video with some hot bitches in it and it's a dead cert, no?

You reviewed (and liked) the track this used to be part of called Zero Per Cent Proof. That's the psychedelic blue grungehop one with some mad delta blues in it. No blues here though there are lots of bits of slide.

You get 8 virtual biscuits for your review (and not just because you liked it):

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P.S. I didn't know what Poutines and Crueller were but, thanks to Google, I now kind of do. I thought they were going to be alcohol!

Hi Steve,

Thanks for stopping by and your kind comment...glad we could oblige!!.

Best wishes,

Mark/Larry!

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!

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..:)^^

All the best____Orlando

cheers for having a listen!

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!

Greetings.

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