crucethus

wow two versions !
thank you again Steve .

Thanks for listening!

Hi Steve,

A really big thanks for giving this a listen again and for your comprehensive and much appreciated comments. I take your point about the length of the track and generally I have tried to keep my tracks between 3-4 minutes (the really early ones were shorter) but I agree this one should be longer. something for me to think about for future tracks. thanks again Steve for your valued opinion.

Very best wishes,

Mark/Larry!

Thank you Steve!!
Really nice to read this, I don't think you missed much having not heard the first version - I only added some piano (after the encouraging words from Ed) and repitched some of the guitar/bass and flute sounds. Oh, and added some percussion in the very poor first drum line in the beginning (thanks to Behnam! ;)). And took away some of Kyle's vocal. Hey...that maybe was a bunch of things in the end anyway.

That track from Talk Talk - now I'm stuck! I 've been listening to it over and over and over again since yesterday, don't Think I ever heard that one before. What a tune!
My music is nothing like that but I'm hearing some minor similarity with those songs from Brian Ferry though.

Say hello and thanks for the listen to your wife too and have a good day!
/SJ =)

Aw thanx Steve. Great idea about the bass line, how'd you fancy doing it for me? Bout time we did a collab!

K;)

Thanks my friend, I will take in account when I release my new album!

thank you Steve .
i can't wait to hear what you've done.
sorry for delay .
i'm going to listen track.
yes , Bear is one of greatest musicians here.
and one of my fav composers beside you , Behnam
and Tumbleweed .
nice to see your underestanding and prof attitude and respect for him .
i really appreciate you .
*Cindy*

Thanks Steve! That video was really funny and mentioned some very interesting points! Pop music has changed and i think it will continue to change over the next couple of decades.

Hopefully it turns into something that will be inspirational and we as musicians can be proud of. If it continues down it's current spiral, music will eventually become a has been thing.

Thanx Steve, just me and an old tin can lol!!

thank you very much for comment.
i respect your idea.

Hi Steve, thanks for your feedback...I found the simpler the intrument range the easier to mix thats for sure!
Cheers
Steve

Lol i have no idea what your talking about i dont know much about singing if you could explain i would try it !

Hey Crucethus,

Thanks for checking us out and leaving your comment.

Cheers,
Franco & Scott

wow what a great compliment. I am actually from the Jersey area 20 minutes from NYC, so I grew up listening to tribal house.

No I haven't ;p but it indeed looks funky, noticed when I uploaded it. Guess it is because it seems to be panned a bit to the right. Glad you liked ;) Thanks for leaving a comment crucethus

i really apppreciate your attempt , but as i told you it was by far different with what i meant to be composed for my song.
anyway thank you very much again .

Thanks for the feedback. I love Martha Wash's voice, so much soul.

Yo. See my reply to MrWolf regarding bassline, which is the heartbeat of it all. The track only keeps extending cos I found other ways to work that resonator guitar bassline. Must try detuning and recycling more of my guitar playing like that.

Maybe a little like a Dixie jazz funeral though not as funereal - a bit more chilled and beautiful.

Eerie synth same as in Think Big Feel Small (last upload), Knee Deep In The Cosmic Overwhelm and others.

3:52 snare is switch to hip hop kit. That section is partly lifted from Way Beyond Wrong - possibly first track of mine you reviewed. This and that used to be the same track so share lots of instruments.

4:56 is my little dub organ. Also can be heard at 1:19.

5:15 second rock section. Had to bring that guitar playing and accented hat drum groove back as they break up the jazz nicely.

5:50 guitar starting to get jazzier and bluesier.

Yes, quite subtle piano here. Some is played, other little snippets are copied from the main synth that plays a sort of Rhodes role.

Yeah, don't think this sounds like it was made on a computer - sounds very acoustic and kind of like a live band.

7:38 though you might like the rapid dulcimer in this. Reminiscent of a particular, automatic hammering instrument (marxophone) used on a Portishead track (Orbital one too).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7gutsi1uT4

That dulcimer continues during the heavy section plus some big effects to create a strange, psychedelic bed.

Yes, 7:50 I guess it moves to major scale with the bass guitar. And we get a bit of violin to carry things over down over the drop back to that essential sitting jazz groove on 8:00.

I knew you'd pick out those short acid synth blasts. Instrument was just sitting on timeline but I like to put that sort of incongruity in a jazz track.

In the last couple of minutes it sort of is morphing into another song and I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I cut the end cool jam short just so I could fit whole thing on Looperman. I should probably extend it. Am tempted to make last 3 mins their own track. But I like the build from jazz to heavyish so don't want to remove that from the jazz track

Tough call to be made there.

Thanks for the thoughts, as always. See you for the next upload...

Thank you very much! All feedback is appreciated :)