CitizenMofo

No, "It's You"! You're fonky! You funked me up with this one. Yes you did.

Cool track. Sounds like a fun set of technical exercises you went through to get it. The result is a great sound. It would be really easy to put vocals on top of this and make a really hard-driving song. In fact, I was shouting out a melody as I was listening to it - it's there, built-in, just needs some words and a singer.

Hi danke, I love your loops, I've used a ton of them in various compositions, and so it's no surprise that this longer piece brings the same level of ear delight to the party. Really enjoyed the smooth flow. Danke

Nice piece, very mellow and sweet. My favorite part was when the strings came in, although, were it me, I'd be tempted to go for a bigger build from that point, bring in more strings, like a cello, densify and complexify a bit, and work it toward a peak, to come out of again at the end into the mellow shallows of quietness. But that's just me (and my Wagnerian impulses).

Elegant and lovely.

When you call something "Weird" I am going to click on it. And I'm glad I did. Yes, it is weird, and it is wonderful. Fun and funny and juicy, boppy and bumpy and musically witty. I need a box in the EDM stage.

Headbangin' wickedness. My favorite part though was the touch of musical wit at about 3:11.

Enjoyed this piece a lot. You have a great sense of structure, and how to vary the music to hold the ear, and where to work the breaks. Dug it.

Man, I really like this. And I think your zombified description is perfect. That heavy drum, oh yeah. That deep Germanic chanting, oh yeah. It's heavy, eerie, powerful and strangely beautiful. The only thing is I wish the lowest-volume chant was a bit louder in the mix, and wish the whole thing was louder. So actually I downloaded the mp3, uploaded it into Audacity and hard-limited and amplified the crap out of it, for my own head-banging pleasure. When I did so, I found that it's sort of like a trap beat and calls on me to sing some lines over the music in certain places. Which I just might do...

Ain't it so true - what you said? Love this one. Love the trancey repetition of the beat and the spoken vocals, and then the singing comes in right at the right time. Great work.

Like some other commenters I LOVE this song, but only half of it. The sung vocals are EXTRAORDINARY, beautiful, magical - I'm walking through fire to buy that song and that album. But the rap is ordinary (to my ears; forgive me), a cliched move, heard it many times and it brings the piece too far down from the heights of the mountain where you had carried me. I want to stay on top of the mountain for the whole piece, breathing the clouds. Your talent is a powerhouse and my respect requires that I be honest with you: I'd reconsider the rap bits. Thanks.

I needed me some blues and this hit the spot real real deep. Just one question: Where can I buy the album?

A lot of atmosphere in this piece. I like the vocal texture a lot, though wonder if it's perhaps a tad too deep in the music and under the beat, because that makes the beat the focus rather than the vocals; not sure; you've probably played with it endlessly, as I would, and landed here as the best mix so I'll shut up about that. But then there's no vocals in a good part of the track, and I couldn't really understand the words, so yeah, I'm still leaning toward a little more spotlight on the vocals so the music is a setting for them rather than the vocals just being another element in the music. So I ramble. Can't help myself, I'm still pondering the mix, but good stuff and I enjoyed it.

Wicked good. Really took off for me after the 1st minute, roared to life powering up an intricate bass groove that would be catnip for animation-style dancers. You orchestrate the intricacies superbly and that groove is high-octane diesel. Cool little swipe of an ending sound, too. You got no problem with the dance sounds, my friend, this is infectious stuff.

This rocks. Yeah the drum's a bit of a weak link, and (the right) vocals could be nice, but I don't mind that it's an instrumental one bit, so long as it's headbangingly delicious, and this is a crowd mover. Not heavy enough for the heavy metal genre? I disagree on that one, dude. Great work.

I like this piece a lot. Got my head bopping bigtime, which sucked because my neck's already quite sore from working on my own head-bopping piece yesterday (believe it or not). So now you've managed to hurt my neck further while putting a smile on my face.

Ah - yeah, been there, done that. My older laptop had a small hard drive, and music files are huge (as you know), and I make a lot of them, so periodically I'd have to go through and free up disk space by deleting a bunch of projects, and I'd have to pick and choose between the dead ends going nowhere and the ones with promise, to save for a later remix. Now and then I listen to an mp3 of an older piece of mine and think, "I'm gonna remix that mother now," and then find that, crap, it's gone. Maybe that's like you too. Anyway, rock on.

Carole, thank you so much for providing a translation of the lyrics, and for all your replies to my comments yesterday. I guess there are different people using janis71, so sorry about my confusion there. There's Carole, I guess, and there's Janis, and then there's the people you work with, like Stef, etc. It's great that you have a community of artists to work with there. I used to have a band and do a lot of studio work but now it's all solo mash-up work with me locked in my little room like a mad scientist hermit. However your music happens, whoever's involved in the various pieces, count me in as a fan of y'all. And I'll be back when I have more time to listen to more of your tasty tracks...

You had me from the first second on this one, with that slappy percussion and stumbling piano. Love the vocal repetition as backing. As with many of your pieces, there's that dark edge, that sense of sadness, that shadow of emotion. I like the slow stately march of the piece. It's a heavy head-bopper - deep, hard, shoulder-cringing bops. Nice use of organ - I like how you tend to go for the unusual sounds. Great stuff.

I don't speak French but you're emotions come through quite clearly nonetheless with the passion of your expression. I especially love the ending, with the layers of harmony and the striking piano(?) notes at the very end - a new sound out of nowhere - love that.

a) I wish I spoke French. b) You've got a dark edge in some of your pieces - this is the third I've listened to now and the second where that shadow fell early on. Oh man! I'm at the breakdown now, the bridge I guess, where the piano and bass do a little dance - LOVE THAT STUFF! And then your airy arias - beautiful. OK, here's that shadow again - I wish I knew what you were saying! Now I'm at the second break - mixed in with that orchestral chorus - oh, that's the end. c) Fantastic piece - I'd say this is getting right up there with "No Ace". d) I really really wish I could download your songs. I'm flying to Europe in a couple weeks and this is what I'd be listening to if I could. So you should reconsider your policy and let the music-starved hordes have their nourishment. e) You rock. I mean, seriously.

Hi there, from your reply to someone's comment, this is an early piece of yours. I dug it, but not quite to the level of "No Ace", which is freakin awesome and clearly several miles down the road past your early productions. It's great to see that progression. Now I have no choice but to listen to all of your pieces - you've been busy! - and chart that progression and follow your evolution like a true fan. Because you are one talented lady, writing-wise, singing-wise, and music sensibility-wise. And so I embark on my journey of musical discovery, following in your wake, with happy anticipation...

OK, I'm like 30 seconds in and hooked. Love it when that hard edge creeps in with the eerie guitar and the shadow enters your voice, sort of an am-radio tuning. Giving you a play-by-play here as I listen... The mix is deep, you can try to push your ear all the way into the core but you can't, it just keeps going. How do you do that? Teach me! Somehow the mix is more in the middle of my head than other mixes. How do you do that? Tell me now! The bass is friggin' awesome - what a foundation! And how many layers of sound did you build on top of that foundation? I can't count 'em! I'm at the guitar and drum break near the end now - perfect! OK, here comes the fade...yeah, you know how to fade, too, not a half-assed sort-of fade (like I just heard on another track) or a confusing no-ending ending, you properly fade that joint. This is music at a high level and right in the wheelhouse of my oddball sensibility. The only problem with it - and it's a huge one - is that you don't permit downloads. Meanie.

Nice track, sweet sounds. I don't care for how it ends though - just kind of stops, and the wave sounds don't really cover that up. Dig the piece but to my random ear think it needs more of a resolution.

Age doesn't matter, only talent does (or skill, really, which is talent honed by practice). Look at Mozart starting his career at 5. And you, my friend, have both talent and skill. Your skill in production will continue to grow naturally as you do more stuff, but it's already at a high level. But your talent exceeds many of the much older members of this community, probably mine included. It's a sophisticated understanding of structure that you have (and that you have in common with Mozart). You know how to take a theme and develop it with an interplay of repetition and variation (that's really all music is, repetition and variation). Your bass theme is hook-y and attention-grabbing and gives the piece a great and solid structure, as you return to it 3 times after passages of melodic variation. Some cool synth work 2/3rds in. I never got bored listening to this - twice! - whereas with a lot of other tracks I do get bored because there's too little variation, build, structure. I'll look forward to hearing more from you.