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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-02 12:54 [#02450747]
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track
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offline Haft from Tublin (Ireland) on 2013-03-02 14:20 [#02450755]
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I enjoyed this, giving it a fourth listen at the moment.
Your approach seems to have changed over the past few
tracks. Have you been more focused?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-02 14:47 [#02450757]
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glad you enjoyed it, but i'm not really sure what you mean.
some tracks turn out better than others (and if i'm feeling
it, i'll put in some extra hours). i rotate bits of gear in
out out regularly, but i've not experienced any internal
revolutions lately....


 

offline Haft from Tublin (Ireland) on 2013-03-02 15:26 [#02450761]
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Your tracks usually have a sort of punky flippancy to 'em
that makes them lose coherence, while this one sounds a bit
more together or something. Gave the last few recent ones a
go and they seem to be more to my taste too.
Last spam thread I saw, I was going to post "shut the fuck
up"- now I'm very happy I didn't because I don't have to
publicly retract my statement.
Keep up the good work, I've been a loyal fan of yours from
the very start and have both a macro felt valance of
Macaulay Culkin covering my window and a full body male
thrush infection in your honour


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-02 15:46 [#02450763]
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i think i get it now. 90% of what i've posted recently i'm
just recording a stereo mixdown; when i shut off the gear a
lot of the track goes away. i spend a few hours building it
up and then try to get it on disk before i run out of steam.
it's enervating acting as a human sequencer, even if it's a
lot more fun for the first half of the effort. this one i
actually left the gear on overnight, got up at 5am and
started on it again, even though i got a decent take last
night. i think that's what you're hearing -- just put a bit
more practice into getting the mix the way i wanted. i'd do
this more often, but usually i have work to worry about in
the morning....


 

offline Haft from Tublin (Ireland) on 2013-03-02 16:06 [#02450766]
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Unhealthy long-haul sessions usually lend to better writing,
mixing and levelling for me too. Though I'm trying to
improve at more frequent, shorter sessions to accommodate
having to be an awakeman and a functionalman on a normal
person's schedule.

Really digging Hermit Thrush, any way I could get a hold of
that one?


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-02 16:13 [#02450767]
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i was honestly thinking it was going to be a waste, until i
got the take i wound up sticking with (and i credit that to
taking a 30min smoke break). at a certain point, your mind
turns to jelly, and you have trouble being objective;
trouble putting feeling into it like you did the previous 14
times. but i already had a take i could live with, and i
figured i'd just try anyways. and i wound up with a better
one.

turned on downloads on hermit thrush for ya.


 

offline Haft from Tublin (Ireland) on 2013-03-02 16:34 [#02450768]
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Yeah objectivity goes out the window after stretches, but I
find there's a space in between getting rolling and burning
out that I can capture the sounds and ideas almost
synchronously as they're coming on. The live-human
sequencing thing is a lot like live performing for me; turbo
stress levels, ineffable highs when it's going well, really
draining, with a constant awareness that you're probably
going to do something perfectly that you won't get recorded
and will ruin it if you try to. Fucking hella fun. I can't
do it too often though because I'll just keep buying
hardware that I can't afford yet.

Thanks a bunch for that track. I look forward to putting a
track or two up on here to be ignored


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-02 17:06 [#02450773]
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from the raymond scott wiki page:

"During the developmental process, his players were allowed
to improvise, but once complete, the piece became relatively
fixed, with little further improvisation permitted — a
practice that alienated some jazz purists and critics."

some of it was quasi-random and i'd not quite catch it
synced the way i wanted; other times i'd simply screw up a
little more than i was ok with. i do enjoy soaking in a warm
bath of noises, though, and i enjoy programming up all the
noises even more. the last 1/3 felt a bit of a quagmire,
though, i didn't know if i'd make it out alive.

if you can't get lots of hardware, you can always use USB
controllers on VSTs.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-11 05:21 [#02451323]
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gnu trax color blast

god bless the sh101


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-12 23:35 [#02451493]
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i did this many years ago after purchasing "winnipeg is
a frozen shithole" and having a halestorm kick up whilst i
was blasting the cd on the 3rd or 5th listen.


 

offline Haft from Tublin (Ireland) on 2013-03-12 23:48 [#02451495]
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Levels are all over the fucking place, but I'm q. digging
this one so far, it's good and attitudy


 

offline Haft from Tublin (Ireland) on 2013-03-12 23:59 [#02451496]
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I'd listen to that over Venetian Snares any day.
Here's one me and a friend did last year


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2013-03-13 00:57 [#02451497]
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Beautiful cage sounds cool, especially 2nd half. Someone
else made music from some cage before (matmos?) Seems
everyone does because cages are so ubiquitous among humans.
For example soundcloud has all its users in a cage. Most
don't even recognize it, and if they do they love it due to
stockholm syndrome.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-13 02:21 [#02451500]
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billy corgan electro syndrome


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-13 06:12 [#02451504]
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i think i'm going to do another version of color blast. it's
been nagging at me, and as soon as i loaded it up i added
some cool bits.


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2013-03-13 07:53 [#02451510]
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Yah, nice mang. Track feels like breathing.


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2013-03-13 07:55 [#02451511]
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But I thought it was gonna be this:


Attached picture

 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-13 07:56 [#02451512]
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i meant it more in a cornball anime vegeta sense tho


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-27 01:04 [#02452716]
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OVER_9000


 

offline freqy on 2013-03-27 06:20 [#02452719]
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i swear i posted in here. : ?

i really liked it epicmegatrax. : )


 

offline Torture Garden from Feelin' 2Pacish on 2013-03-27 12:03 [#02452727]
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i can hear 7th and 5th fret natural harmonics


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2013-03-27 19:47 [#02452740]
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garden: not sure what you mean. maybe the sh101, once i turn
on distortion ?

freqy: you post a lot, not surprised you got confused


 


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