Cool key changes. Ima sucker for natural sounds playing off real music. You gotta give it up for dog 2 and the seagull in this, because it perfectly selects the listeners experience. Lotta restraint too. Trippy in all the right ways. I really appreciate this in spite of the lack of narrative, and as a music person, I feel so jaded with pop culture? But lets be real, lets leave the narrative to the birds? Reminds me of that limelight before you lose consciousness... wake up.
Let this one be. Move on to what inspires you. I had tracks I beat into the dirt for years and I regret it. Speak your peace and keep playing what you want.
Hey, thanks for your listen and thoughtful comments. I think that's some good advice there at the end. Narrative is an interesting word, kind of implies some non random sequence of events else our brains wouldn't recognize it as such. But I'm not sure yet the whole shebang isn't some big joke being made up as it goes along.
I remember when I first met you, and you wrote this song made that made me imagine it was about this kid that was selling counterfeit baseball cards lol
This kinda feels like the 10 years after song. But except this time he is in the club vetted out in 80s gear sniffing out the scene. He is back to his old antics.
I do hope covid hasn't fucked you up as much, as it did me. You were a good friend, and I miss you dude.
Have you ever experimented with tape machines? I am imagining the anticipation of the event and its overwhelming. Like all that I feel is missing is the moment BEFORE the samples fold and twist in musical shades and infinite hues, there is a click one the downbeat of 1 and that's it.
What an experience! Very inspiring!
Curious? Do you ever hear melodies not already within the track? Is there anything missing that you feel like you could trace? Or is this one done? I get it tho, the first take is always the best take. Thank you for sharing!
Oof sick legato! I really enjoyed this! Cheers! (Btw, sorry if I came off rude in your review and my response.. i couldnt think of anything clever to say at the time)
I really like the juxtaposition of the carimba and tibetan chanting. Its inspiring stuff and I am thankful you shared this!
I really really liked this. I hope you go more in this direction.
I like that you managed to really straddle both restrained but still managed to be complex. Something I always look for in music is some duality in the mix.
Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for this sincere review, your words are most welcome here. I have other similar projects, but they are still standing. I'm glad you liked it, this song started with the idea of the melody, then I put the rest of the elements. the melody has been for me the center of everything. The important thing is to provide good feelings as a result. thanks again. cheers.
My girl would not like this song lulz. I like it a lot. I like the low end, although I wanted the low end to carry it musically. It kinda just felt like the kicks had all the power and there was bass, but not enough. Like mix out the drums and bass and get a harder pounding sound while evening out the high ends. It's weird. When I hear this stylized spit, I think of it like the solo instrument. Just polish up the low end (drums are great)... it would just be fuller in general.
you should totally release this as your b-sides/first ep... actually everything on your tracks that I have listened to I have really enjoyed. You have a lot of potential dude. Use it!
*when I laid that crazy comment about "I know you are battle weary... come out here beside me... " I meant it like lyrics or something... make it awesomer tho. You rock!
I have been trying to get that crunchy bass sound recently!! haha... that's awesome. The stereo spectrum feels very narrow on my headphones and I checked my outputs and it's definitely the track... It's not bad, but I wanted more bass, I will e-mail you!
I love the bass and guitar!! That is an awesome break!
Do you make your own effects pedals dude? I mean speaking as someone that doesn't really play any instruments that is the one downside to making music...lol that sounds obvious, but you know what I mean? Sometimes the sounds I hear scare me from using them when it comes to arranging because I don't have the connection with them in the same way I would if I had created them.
Anyway, thank you for listening and downloading. I'm still trying to get back into making music again.
love the gravity swell and congrats with a new EP!
alternate some of the swells that are at the right?... like i felt like you could add a really cool rhythm there. (2:00 mark?) more panning here would be cool i guess?
Super cool track tho... it has this sub bass kick thing happening, and the glitch is too cool.
do you know I knew you'd get the bits I disliked straight away... thanks for the feedback seriously thinking about stripping it right back....taking out some of that bass guitar...not sure really..thanks again ABE
I can't wait till I get mah new headphones. What I am working with right now is not doing this justice.
Umn.. this is freaking awesome. I wish I could write music like this...
I definitely don't disagree with Mythology, as I wouldn't have noticed that if he hadn't mentioned it. Some more beater occasionally underneath that sultry bass. And I love me finger snaps lol.
I love the strings.. And orchestration a lot. Take this comment with a grain of salt, but on maybe a single violin/viola track, to manually draw in the wave so it gets kinda a nice tremello underneath the string movement? Just a thought.. but not a complaint..
This thing just get's epic at 3:00... Hellsyes.
On my spectral analyzer in Soundforge, it looks kinda weird at the 16,150 on up?.. like it was dramatically attenuated at those frequencies and beyond. I am not complaining here either, but I just noticed it. To be completely honest this sounds wonderfully mastered.
On the mix, I was noticing some things where LEFT specific?.. but it's probably my setup...
But yea.. You have been on a roll lately man.. everything you have been posting over the last few months, and your album have just been fuckingawesome.
I was gonna ask you.. if you like Massive Attack, what you thought of Team Sleep, Puscifier, the Little People, or Telefon Tel Aviv?
And after that question, I was going to share the Telefon Tel Aviv glitch idea ... How it works, is you set up your midi and audio clips as a somewhat mixed and completed mix. After your happy with it, you go to the routing function on the mixer, and you route some sounds into a NEW audio track and basically bounce down the idea. Once the idea is bounced down, you take the "NEW" audio track, and route that sound into ANOTHER audio track, but you set "ableton" to loop, and make a very small selection. So as you are recording the bouncedown to the new track, you can manually move the "selection" all over the place and create radically new glitch masterpieces/breakdowns? Ima have to make a video sometime, but I would love to see you mess with an idea like that... (it gets that instant Squarepusher/AFX glitch sound)
I love that beater on the kick.. I wish it was actually hitting me in the head.
I hope you don't mind if I reinterperate some of my thoughts just listening on my bustadass headphones?
On the kick and timpani, I kinda wanted perhaps a little more clarification on velocity?.. Because it sounded like the sample was played at the same aggressive pace entire track, where as I felt you could have done some AWESOME and kinda built to the epic synth crescendo.
Bravo on the Synth btw.. I love your taste everything bass/synth.
Breakdown/Bridge was chilling.. Gave me chills. I danced in my chair from 3:15 on.
Sick. Faved.
Just give them timpanis some more reverb or velocity dynamically?
I am just happy to hear the plectrum/organ style making a come back.
Rhodes is where it's at.. It's like a better guitar.. just try throwing an amp sim on top and then upping the aggression on the chorus!
Totally sick.. Love the atmosphere. Get teh fudge out of Ohio/nowhere's Illinois already broseph.. that land must be more of a wasteland than the rural I exist in.. because you pretty much OWN respect.
Progressive Independent hip hop. lulz
My big problem is that I think Religion is a joke.. So I have qualms with what Vizun (albeit one of the best rappers I have ever heard) but I read into shizzz way to much. I especially like how Vizun takes the responsibility into his own hands (concerning lyrics) but I dislike how he kinda trivializes the religion and personal responsibility we have to ourselves.. you know? In a way I agree, but ultimately I liken to the idea the WEAK die, and the strong survive... so yea... Take that with a grain of salt.
But yea.. Production wise, I wanted some more pads.. lol.. But you rock sesbrah.. do not stop under any circumstance. and gtfo of wherever you are at to a Bigger city with more theatre, because despite the internet, theatre still empowers local music... oh and Cocaine too lulz.
Gave me chills.. I hear some ODB swagger or sumthing you know?
Like.. Really aggressive but not giving a fuch.
You ... are getting Much MUCH MUCH better. lol
Seriously.... And hells yea man.. I know some thunderstorms are coming my way.. I can feel it in my bad knee.
I love the funky breakadown there .. that's sick... sounded like drum midi subbed for piano part and I LOVE that.
ON a serious note.. I am full of sorrow, but it's something.. that I think in a way gives me strength?.. or am I kidding myself? Sometimes.. I think I become soo numb to the pain.. And just become a patriach of half-truths and sarcasm. An empty hook trying to sink a hungry bait. I think the lonely world that I live in was perhaps self imposed at the beginning but has now become the inevitable wait. Something that I can never escape.
When all we yearn for is a single soul to understand our own, the greatest pain is realizing a truth we can never show.
There is no one around me that I can feel that connected to, or share my heart with and in the absence of that emotional warmth, I only have the cold expanse of the Internet to document my human condition in jumbled thoughts and misguided plots. (kinda stole this from a poem from Dostoevsky lolz)
I have to be honest.. the simple motif (psh) .. the drums.. alone had to be a jigsaw.. I always admired that .. I always like.. Trying to accept that you were baddass, and that I shouldn't stir the pot unless it was getting cold.. and I took the LinnDrums to the extreme with some 808. I played some real violin too..
I was gonna e-mail you, but it's been a long while.. April since you where on, and my e-mails are a current mess.
Anyway.. this song, despite your general apathy has a lot of emotion.. I often wondered what 5 centimeters really meant you know... In a lot of ways.. I think I do.. But..
I will never forget you man.. If nothing else... I have all yer e-mails printed out and I always look fondly on your work... The universe and some of the bass excursions you did back in the day lol...
Cheers man, no worries if you don't like it! It's basically RAPING your idea.. ... It's the only way I could make it work for me lol
I think you should send them vox over TheZerit side, because I feel a kinda .. rush on the beat.
As far as quality, I love the sound.. very crisp.. I would sub the pop-filter for a pencil over the condenser mic imo.. I mean.. it depends.
When you got those "sssssSSSsss" or "ppphpppphhppp" basically the S's or P's you say? You know? You can block them by guarding the coil recording you by positioning your breathe before the mic.
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. Yeah that is in no way representative of a final project. Thanks much for the tip about guarding the coil!! I am tech-challenged when it comes to recording software or setting up mic's. All of the vocal tracks were sent to Zerit, so that he can work his magic.
Kicks and Subbass!!! Sine wave just mono there in the middle all evil like.. would be awesome imo....
=)
SICK.. and I like how the drums got some reverb mid status.. I was thinking .. damnthemdrums need some verb! And there it was!
Melody was choice and so was title... Strings were wonderful..
Awesome.
Plz add kick and sub sine wave bass around 160-0 hertz. 33 hertz being C1 Just humor me and throw a perfect sine up and follow the bassline around them frequencies.. it will pump this track to pro status in my opinion.
Hey what's up brother? If I remember correctly the kicks are in mono but I think your right about the sub. Big ups to Becca for the melody and bass wobs... I will do my best and try to update this one. I'm still learning freq's and stuff so I appreciate the advice. When I update this I'm gonna send it to you for your ear of approval...lol... Word, thanks for the fav too!!! We appreciate that man!!
Commented on Old Days ft Chase Manhattan freestyle by Salook
especially 2 min mark on. gawtdamn.
Commented on Old Days ft Chase Manhattan freestyle by Salook
sick. in all the right ways.
Commented on horse to water by Zootman
I LOVE REGGAE/DUB. That is all.
Commented on nothings gonna happen by Zootman
Cool key changes. Ima sucker for natural sounds playing off real music. You gotta give it up for dog 2 and the seagull in this, because it perfectly selects the listeners experience. Lotta restraint too. Trippy in all the right ways. I really appreciate this in spite of the lack of narrative, and as a music person, I feel so jaded with pop culture? But lets be real, lets leave the narrative to the birds? Reminds me of that limelight before you lose consciousness... wake up.
Let this one be. Move on to what inspires you. I had tracks I beat into the dirt for years and I regret it. Speak your peace and keep playing what you want.
Commented on Touch Me by eshar
I remember when I first met you, and you wrote this song made that made me imagine it was about this kid that was selling counterfeit baseball cards lol
This kinda feels like the 10 years after song. But except this time he is in the club vetted out in 80s gear sniffing out the scene. He is back to his old antics.
I do hope covid hasn't fucked you up as much, as it did me. You were a good friend, and I miss you dude.
Commented on Eternal by altinb
Wow this is lovely.
Have you ever experimented with tape machines? I am imagining the anticipation of the event and its overwhelming. Like all that I feel is missing is the moment BEFORE the samples fold and twist in musical shades and infinite hues, there is a click one the downbeat of 1 and that's it.
What an experience! Very inspiring!
Curious? Do you ever hear melodies not already within the track? Is there anything missing that you feel like you could trace? Or is this one done? I get it tho, the first take is always the best take.
Thank you for sharing!
Commented on Antelope by Zootman
Oof sick legato! I really enjoyed this! Cheers!
(Btw, sorry if I came off rude in your review and my response.. i couldnt think of anything clever to say at the time)
I really like the juxtaposition of the carimba and tibetan chanting. Its inspiring stuff and I am thankful you shared this!
Commented on rEvolution 3 - Forming Solid Bodies in Water by n0mad23
Is this ten years later? Hey man, Hit me up!
Commented on Indubitable by Sunbeats
Sick, you got hella character. Love aggressive sounds that are objectively pleasant.
Commented on Obsession by mrE
Good shit. Heard horns and viola swells in there in my minds eye. Hope you are well.
Commented on Letters and memories by Anubis
I really really liked this.
I hope you go more in this direction.
I like that you managed to really straddle both restrained but still managed to be complex. Something I always look for in music is some duality in the mix.
Sounds quite professional. A joy to listen to.
Commented on White Boy Swagg by JSnellBeats
My girl would not like this song lulz. I like it a lot. I like the low end, although I wanted the low end to carry it musically. It kinda just felt like the kicks had all the power and there was bass, but not enough. Like mix out the drums and bass and get a harder pounding sound while evening out the high ends. It's weird. When I hear this stylized spit, I think of it like the solo instrument. Just polish up the low end (drums are great)... it would just be fuller in general.
Keep it up mayne.
Commented on Fever by DeathByNumbers
You should try and add some ambiance or ambience to this to kinda show off the "fever" bit more!
I definitely enjoyed this. I would have used more crashes and open-hihats, but that can make for a very messy mix.
Thanks for sharing the track!
Commented on Dream Featuring Snowflake by tza1800
Great track man.. I mean that was awesome. I like a bit more aggression or .. raunchiness in my music, but I can't but help love this!
Hah, that minecraft video would be epic!
Do you have anything more aggressive that you have written that you would recommend?
Commented on Taker by minette
you should totally release this as your b-sides/first ep... actually everything on your tracks that I have listened to I have really enjoyed. You have a lot of potential dude. Use it!
*when I laid that crazy comment about "I know you are battle weary... come out here beside me... " I meant it like lyrics or something... make it awesomer tho. You rock!
Commented on Day 2 Day by eshar
I have been trying to get that crunchy bass sound recently!! haha... that's awesome.
The stereo spectrum feels very narrow on my headphones and I checked my outputs and it's definitely the track... It's not bad, but I wanted more bass, I will e-mail you!
I love the bass and guitar!! That is an awesome break!
Commented on Taker by minette
Too shy. More kick and chorus on effect sends?
Other than that.
Wow....
I know you are battle weary... come out here beside me...
this is too cool.
Thank you for making it!
=D
Commented on How far away shall I go by Phyruis
love the gravity swell and congrats with a new EP!
alternate some of the swells that are at the right?... like i felt like you could add a really cool rhythm there. (2:00 mark?) more panning here would be cool i guess?
Super cool track tho... it has this sub bass kick thing happening, and the glitch is too cool.
Commented on Experienced Screens by Phyruis
I can't wait till I get mah new headphones. What I am working with right now is not doing this justice.
Umn.. this is freaking awesome.
I wish I could write music like this...
I definitely don't disagree with Mythology, as I wouldn't have noticed that if he hadn't mentioned it.
Some more beater occasionally underneath that sultry bass.
And I love me finger snaps lol.
I love the strings.. And orchestration a lot.
Take this comment with a grain of salt, but on maybe a single violin/viola track, to manually draw in the wave so it gets kinda a nice tremello underneath the string movement?
Just a thought.. but not a complaint..
This thing just get's epic at 3:00... Hellsyes.
On my spectral analyzer in Soundforge, it looks kinda weird at the 16,150 on up?.. like it was dramatically attenuated at those frequencies and beyond. I am not complaining here either, but I just noticed it.
To be completely honest this sounds wonderfully mastered.
On the mix, I was noticing some things where LEFT specific?.. but it's probably my setup...
But yea.. You have been on a roll lately man.. everything you have been posting over the last few months, and your album have just been fuckingawesome.
I was gonna ask you.. if you like Massive Attack, what you thought of Team Sleep, Puscifier, the Little People, or Telefon Tel Aviv?
And after that question, I was going to share the Telefon Tel Aviv glitch idea ... How it works, is you set up your midi and audio clips as a somewhat mixed and completed mix.
After your happy with it, you go to the routing function on the mixer, and you route some sounds into a NEW audio track and basically bounce down the idea.
Once the idea is bounced down, you take the "NEW" audio track, and route that sound into ANOTHER audio track, but you set "ableton" to loop, and make a very small selection.
So as you are recording the bouncedown to the new track, you can manually move the "selection" all over the place and create radically new glitch masterpieces/breakdowns?
Ima have to make a video sometime, but I would love to see you mess with an idea like that... (it gets that instant Squarepusher/AFX glitch sound)
Anyway.
Faved.
Downloaded.
Awesome.
Commented on Black Gestapo-OdotZed grime comp entry by Phyruis
Smooooth moves broseph...
I love that beater on the kick.. I wish it was actually hitting me in the head.
I hope you don't mind if I reinterperate some of my thoughts just listening on my bustadass headphones?
On the kick and timpani, I kinda wanted perhaps a little more clarification on velocity?.. Because it sounded like the sample was played at the same aggressive pace entire track, where as I felt you could have done some AWESOME and kinda built to the epic synth crescendo.
Bravo on the Synth btw.. I love your taste everything bass/synth.
Breakdown/Bridge was chilling.. Gave me chills. I danced in my chair from 3:15 on.
Sick.
Faved.
Just give them timpanis some more reverb or velocity dynamically?
Commented on Chosen Few Ft Vizun RMX by CONEYISLANDRECORDS
I am just happy to hear the plectrum/organ style making a come back.
Rhodes is where it's at.. It's like a better guitar.. just try throwing an amp sim on top and then upping the aggression on the chorus!
Totally sick.. Love the atmosphere. Get teh fudge out of Ohio/nowhere's Illinois already broseph.. that land must be more of a wasteland than the rural I exist in.. because you pretty much OWN respect.
Progressive Independent hip hop. lulz
My big problem is that I think Religion is a joke.. So I have qualms with what Vizun (albeit one of the best rappers I have ever heard) but I read into shizzz way to much.
I especially like how Vizun takes the responsibility into his own hands (concerning lyrics) but I dislike how he kinda trivializes the religion and personal responsibility we have to ourselves.. you know?
In a way I agree, but ultimately I liken to the idea the WEAK die, and the strong survive... so yea... Take that with a grain of salt.
But yea.. Production wise, I wanted some more pads.. lol.. But you rock sesbrah.. do not stop under any circumstance. and gtfo of wherever you are at to a Bigger city with more theatre, because despite the internet, theatre still empowers local music... oh and Cocaine too lulz.
Commented on Rhapsodies (Sorrows) by BrokenScythe
Gave me chills.. I hear some ODB swagger or sumthing you know?
Like.. Really aggressive but not giving a fuch.
You ... are getting Much MUCH MUCH better. lol
Seriously.... And hells yea man.. I know some thunderstorms are coming my way.. I can feel it in my bad knee.
I love the funky breakadown there .. that's sick... sounded like drum midi subbed for piano part and I LOVE that.
ON a serious note.. I am full of sorrow, but it's something.. that I think in a way gives me strength?.. or am I kidding myself?
Sometimes.. I think I become soo numb to the pain.. And just become a patriach of half-truths and sarcasm.
An empty hook trying to sink a hungry bait.
I think the lonely world that I live in was perhaps self imposed at the beginning but has now become the inevitable wait.
Something that I can never escape.
When all we yearn for is a single soul to understand our own, the greatest pain is realizing a truth we can never show.
There is no one around me that I can feel that connected to, or share my heart with and in the absence of that emotional warmth, I only have the cold expanse of the Internet to document my human condition in jumbled thoughts and misguided plots.
(kinda stole this from a poem from Dostoevsky lolz)
Anyway. DO NOT STOP.
Commented on 5 Centimeters by siensystem
I remixed some more and blew up my headphones..
Ultimately it was worth it.
I have to be honest.. the simple motif (psh) .. the drums.. alone had to be a jigsaw.. I always admired that .. I always like.. Trying to accept that you were baddass, and that I shouldn't stir the pot unless it was getting cold.. and I took the LinnDrums to the extreme with some 808.
I played some real violin too..
I was gonna e-mail you, but it's been a long while.. April since you where on, and my e-mails are a current mess.
Anyway.. this song, despite your general apathy has a lot of emotion.. I often wondered what 5 centimeters really meant you know... In a lot of ways.. I think I do..
But..
I will never forget you man.. If nothing else... I have all yer e-mails printed out and I always look fondly on your work... The universe and some of the bass excursions you did back in the day lol...
Cheers man, no worries if you don't like it!
It's basically RAPING your idea.. ... It's the only way I could make it work for me lol
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/113301
Commented on Nu Man by Mykael
Sick sire. Faved and such other things.
I think you should send them vox over TheZerit side, because I feel a kinda .. rush on the beat.
As far as quality, I love the sound.. very crisp.. I would sub the pop-filter for a pencil over the condenser mic imo.. I mean.. it depends.
When you got those "sssssSSSsss" or "ppphpppphhppp"
basically the S's or P's you say?
You know?
You can block them by guarding the coil recording you by positioning your breathe before the mic.
Cool track man!
Commented on Good Intentions By DJ Becca and Blume Choon by BlumeChoon
Kicks and Subbass!!! Sine wave just mono there in the middle all evil like.. would be awesome imo....
=)
SICK.. and I like how the drums got some reverb mid status.. I was thinking .. damnthemdrums need some verb! And there it was!
Melody was choice and so was title... Strings were wonderful..
Awesome.
Plz add kick and sub sine wave bass around 160-0 hertz.
33 hertz being C1 Just humor me and throw a perfect sine up and follow the bassline around them frequencies.. it will pump this track to pro status in my opinion.