Neomorpheus

Thanks alot mate ! It means alot that you found this one pleasing and I'm sure Ed will be grateful for your compliments !:)

With much appreciation_____Orlando

Yo.

Shitloads of cello here, and in yet another style for me, which is surely a bit of a progression.

"the techno groove and especially how you chugged to the beat with the bow there"

Yes - that bowed chugging is called spiccato and I think it's really funky playing along with the solid drum loop and synth arp bass. Cello does not obviously go with techno so I had to spend a while trying out loads of things. This was, at many different points, really quite difficult to make and I'm not done yet as I agree that it's probably a bit too long. I will go back and try to remove some sections from the last 2 mins though it may not be a simple task.

Thanks for letting me know about The Green Children as that band looks quite interesting. 2 Cellos I know very well and they are up there as some of my favourite musicians on the planet. Their skill and accuracy is exceptional and I swear they rock as hard as the very hardest rocking of bands anywhere in the world. Their cover of Voodoo People is totally badass though they don't actually play it as a techno cello track - it mostly sounds like a straight ahead rock song. Live it's just two cellos plus a drummer so no techno elements.

I went to see them in concert a few months ago in Greenwich, in London. They were playing in a very picturesque location - the Old Royal Naval College. They both studied music there and their cello teacher was in the audience. The building has some serious history and has been used in loads of films, some of which I bet you've seen (Patriot Games, Bond films, Tomb Raider etc). Have a look at their full list here:

https://www.ornc.org/past-features

Good to hear you enjoyed my techno cello explorations. More cello tracks coming soon...

Thanks Neomorpheus!
Classic intro indeed. I can not play piano actually so I was just messing around sketching idea's until i've found out that this small and very simply tone ladder actually had the perfect effect and tonality.Pretty sure it might not be original, but it works :)

I hope to finish the piece within a few days!
- Wobbin

Thanks for that. I would love to hear this track on a club sound system and see the reaction of the people as they hear and dance to it. That would be awesome. Lizard lounge has a great reputation, i even know of it up here in Canada.Thanks for the props and help.
Steve

YAAAYY!!Doom blues \m/ I love how haunting the delta slide blues can be, so full of soul and emotion. Thanks Neo B-D I'm going to make some more halloween tunes, wouldn't be right without a zombie and witch one! Both almost complete.

Hey Neo thanks man!..yeah the bass is played on my acoustic electric fretless 5 which I built, black nylon tapewound strings give it a not quite but close upright sound, thanks for the support mate very much appreciated!..cheers Dave :)

Thanks!
Your gonna have to put me on to what that is

Thank you for your generous comment. My mixing skills are so rusty I am having to learn all over again. Hoping this one is better than the first one you heard. I re-uploaded the track so have another listen please.

I actually kind of had a Guns and Roses idea when I did this. I just wanted something slowed down and not too cluttered to do some lead guitars over. Was diggin the Synths so made them a little more prominent.

Thanks for the listen and feedback.

tv

Hey man, thanks for listening again, much appreciated. With a little help from my friends.... :D

Hey Neo, thanks for your comments, I read them carefully a few times and tried to adjust what you and the others mentioned. I never done such a track before, I usually move around rock, blues and a bit of rock-hop - so it was a first for me. Yes, vocals, that's a challenge, absolutely. So anyway, I tried some stuff, if you feel like it give it another listen, let me know what you think. Thanks again for your input, priceless!!

Wow thanks for the vote of confidence, the track fed me the emotion, I got lucky to put this together!

TD

Thanks for your awesome words! I totally encourage you to come back into the Electronic world. Its missed you, my friend. Haha. This track came out really nice though, and I love the support!

~GO

Greetings, Neocellobro.

"You certainly wield a wicked Cello" is a cool phrase.

You know I've been concentrating on the cello for the last 4 months or so and trying to get it to do as much as I can in each track it appears in. I'm not really big on practice on any instrument so this is my way of finding a reason to play and try out new techniques and stuff as I learn this somewhat difficult instrument.

So, so much cello in this, including a few slightly different playing techniques. As regards time signature and tempo, yes I keep the drums moving through different styles. If I hadn't done that, I'm sure the track would feel long and samey and boring and as if it hadn't really gone anywhere.

"movie score to like a Quentin Tarantino version of Lawrence of Arabia."

That's an interesting idea and I know what you mean and it could work really well. I recently rewatched Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds and I thought a lot more of it than I did on first viewing (I now really like it). I bring the film up because it had some cool, odd musical choices in it that gave things a really interesting feel. There's even a David Bowie song in it!

"harem girl sequence as 1:22 to 2:43 with some nice belly dancing nubiles"

Yes - I get that sort of feel from it as well. Sorry that section wasn't longer but I knew I had loads more sections to get to so I thought I wouldn't hang around and just get right on with the next one (which has some really powerful cello riffage).

"Love the effects on the cello, sounds like some overdrive/distortion in spots."

I was pretty sure that I hadn't used any overdrive on the cello in this but there might be in some of the darker swing jazz sections in the middle. Otherwise the effects are just delay, reverb and chorus plus some amp modelling from my guitar floor effects unit.

"you would have been a God to the hippies with this if you were around in the late 60's early 70's man"

Quite possibly. Maybe I can still be a god to them 40/50 years later (and beyond).

"You need to find a time machine!"

That may well be possible:

"The DeLorean Motor Company has announced its intention to manufacture the iconic DMC-12 sports car again..."

http://www.dezeen.com/2016/02/01/delorean-reproduce-dmc-12-car-back-to-the-future-gull-wing-doors/

Thanks for the thoughts and good to hear you're still firmly stuck in the Nomad groove.

Thanks Neo. Quite a few relaxed ones I've done now and I'm discovering .... fast and furious and you can get away with more mistakes but slow and gentle not so much so.
Lot more attention to detail needed.
Thanks for listening mate.

Thank you Neomorpheus, I greatly do appreciate it tremendously. I will be posting new tracks soon..

Thanks For That Man. I'll Send You The Link Personally When I Post The Official Song.

- Billion

Thanks for listening ! I am stoked you got a psychedelic rock vibe, cause i am really pushing for a stoner rock kinda thing :) yes i have heard "hurdy gurdy man" I like the song too !
I am trying to take a lot of inspiration from the vocalists and poets of the 60's and 70's .
thanks once again for listening and the kind words. YOU ROCK !

Yo.

Swanky Static here.

Yes, jazzy intro sounds a lot like one of my favourite bands ever - Morphine. The cello seems to work as a replacement for Mark Sandman's bass parts there. And then we're into my big hip hop piano bassline, which really dominates as one of the main basslines for the rest of the track.

Special secret: that piano bassline was originally a drum part! I just copied a drum part to the piano track, moved some notes about and it worked (must try that again). There are also various rapid piano fills that were originally drum fills (others are played by hand) at various points in the track.

"underlying moog sounding thing I'm hearing there at :45"

is some sort of synth bass, with me carefully controlling the cutoff frequency. This isn't much of a synth track but that part there does make a difference and meshes quite nicely with the piano (an instrument I don't use often).

" little piano twinkles amid the sax and guitar serenade"

Yes, I use a second piano sound which is much lighter (and with a longer release time) than the main (bassline) piano. It's good for the tinkles and is really a lovely sound. There's not much of a guitar serenade there. When the sax returns in that chilled, funky section, there's none. That distorted stuff is all cello.

"6:40 you go into what sounds like a whale mating call groove... are the higher pitched tones straight or enhanced"

I like watching whales getting it on so thought I should make some background music for them to do it to. The distorted cello in this (which dominates proceedings after a few mins) also has loads of delay and reverb on it. It's my main heavy guitar setting on my floor effects unit, but with the distortion turned down a bit here as this isn't a heavy track.

Doing shimmering bowing with all that delay on the cello is cool fun and those whale sounds are not due to any other effects. That's just some of what you can do with bowing and the weird tones that can be used. There is a specific, strange tonal delay effect used a little a bit later but most of those weird tones are really just generated by the bow.

At 6:48 I'm really pleased with the high, lead cello playing and melody there. I'm employing a technique called spiccato, which is a word I've known for years but without actually knowing what it was. Basically, it's using the bow to hit/bounce off the strings rather than pulling it across them. So, a lot like the thumb in slap bass playing.

Thanks for dropping by to check out my new merger of sounds and bowing progress.

Static Cellmad, celling it up.

Very kind words from you my friend! I have just been forcing myself to move into new experimentations, and it is so pleasing that people are still enjoying the results! I appreciate you always being there with support!