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offline _awt_ from Malmö (Sweden) on 2004-05-15 16:44 [#01189999]
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helloa, i added a new track on my zebox recently.. i have a
load of tracks waiting to be put on an album and i decided
not to spam any of them untill it where all finished.

but now i got a track that im really insecure about.. im not
sure if this track is really good enough or if its simply
crap.

so im hunting comments and critics here.. i really cant make
up my mind about it so ill appreciate all the help i can
get

track is called Dust Day

Good evening!


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 17:51 [#01190032]
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well... it's a pretty normal track. It seems like the
inspiration behind its creation was more imitative than
original. Like aphex created music from his imagination for
himself. But music is memetic, meaning that, since it plays
aloud, it replicates its information into people's minds.
And since people will be thinking about it when they hear
it, there's a chance that some of those people will want to
make music for themselves. They'll tend to make things
similar to what they've heard perhaps. This track has
touches of squarepusher + other electronic artists. The
changes don't flow perfectly from one another, like the
changes aren't very meaningful or logical, or even very
emotional in some way, they're just changes. The changed
parts in come2 daddy for example flow perfectly imo.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-15 17:55 [#01190036]
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For me it was entertaining for one listen. But in summary
the track was too standard for me to want to hear again.


 

offline _awt_ from Malmö (Sweden) on 2004-05-15 18:06 [#01190054]
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i get your point even if im tired as hell having problems
reading =)

maybe ill cut this track out of my "album" collection.. im
not sure becouse i like the melody.. but when you say this i
think i can honestly say that the drums sound way to flat
even thou they are quite variated.

maybe ill take the melody and use it for an completely
different track.. even thou that feels wrong and boring
aswell.

thanks for listening


 

offline _awt_ from Malmö (Sweden) on 2004-05-16 04:50 [#01190467]
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bumpy wumpy


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-16 05:01 [#01190475]
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Nothing wrong with this track in my opinion mate. Good
middle of an album track I think :)


 

offline _awt_ from Malmö (Sweden) on 2004-05-16 05:21 [#01190479]
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thanks.. i im going to have it on my album then it would be
a number 12 out of 20 so it's a middle track youere right
about that.

thanks for listening good day !


 

offline _awt_ from Malmö (Sweden) on 2004-05-16 05:22 [#01190481]
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"if im going to have it on my album" that's the right
sentence there


 

offline Jazembo from The Earth ball on 2004-05-16 07:03 [#01190565]
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Sounds like a great track to me, plenty of variation and it
has a good beat to it. Of course it is hard to say whether
you should add it to your album since I have no idea what
the album theme is or what the other tracks sound like. But
then again, based on what you have previously released on
the net I wouldn't worry too much if I were you :) Let us
know when its finished,!


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-17 01:49 [#01191442]
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bump


 

offline _awt_ from Malmö (Sweden) on 2004-05-17 05:48 [#01191708]
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thanks Jazembo youre allways a positive guy =)

i finished another track for the album today.. think it will
be the ending track of the album.. im not gonna release it
on the net untill the whole album is finished, and hopefully
i will find a nice net label to release it on.. it feels
positive right now.

and thanks for bumping giginger =D

good day!


 

offline Sanguine from San Francisco (United States) on 2004-05-18 18:49 [#01194744]
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Interesting with the drum fades... Very in out, I like the
ambience, very well put together. I like the chord
progressions.

Cool vocal cutups, like them in the background, good
progressions overall

Don't know how I feel about the drums, every once in a while
I hear something that's really neat. Some of the
Squarepusher tricks you got down well, some cool pitch
trills and what not. They do sound flat in parts, but if you
throw on some compression on just certain sections you could
easily bring out what you want.

Listening to it again... yes... needs a lot of compression
to bring the drums to the levels you want, need to nitpick
those snare sounds and change accents and stuff to pick the
beat up and down and wherever. Can do that in mastering,
don't worry about it too much now. I'd keep the track in the
album

Talented stuff man, very nice... love the drop at the end
into the reverby keyboard noise, very appropriate, changes
the mood quite nicely


 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2004-05-18 19:06 [#01194752]
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my first thought was happy-hardcore, but it did improve. I
really do understand and agree with what w M w said.

I'm sure if you hadn't heard of squarepusher of aphex twin
this track would not exist.

"Good middle of an album track" hehe, this made me
chuckle. In my head that translates as "FILLER". no offence
intended!

Not the most original track - i think you know that - but
well executed!

Put this on your album if you want to, but dont try to cram
as much on their as possible - few great tracks, are better
than lots of average ones :)

[not posted on here in AGES!]


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-05-19 00:17 [#01194922]
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Jack? Holy G's!!!

AWT i will listen when i wake up


 


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