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here is a collection of demos from the album i am working on. 7 tracks, 30ish minutes, around 35mb. i thought i'd spam to give you something to listen to. let me know if you love/hate the direction im going with this. click the link, click anywhere on the image and it should give you the option of saving the zip. ENJOY. . |
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Too many zips to download and not enough music to listen to instantly with quicktime. But here is a bump. |
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thanks. ill put the tracks up to stream and repost here. |
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Perusing them now! |
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click on a track name to hear it. right click to save if you should be so inclined. if the tracks seem to start and end abruptly its because theyre supposed to segue into one another. ENJOY! |
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1. Seed Floats - nice introduction, and quite surprising when the bounciness kicks in, although maybe the percussion needs to be integrated more smoothly. Nice little touches in it though! Very nice toodles at the end! 2. Glass Nebula - Nicely produced, but somewhat lacking in character compared to Seed Floats: I liked the wailing towards the end, though :) 3. Rise of the Fish Men - Contains nice soft glitches & production; I think it needs a more bouncy and tuneful melody draped over it. Nice music-boxy ending, I'm a sucker for that type of stuff. 4. Prehistory Trip - Nice 'ethnic' drums - I'm also a sucker for those! I like the atmosphere of this one - ethereal but not spacey. A very nice piece! 5. Single Celled Organism Splits - Very good beginning (please talk me through how you did this). A very nice companion piece to the previous track - relaxed, it reminds of Donovan's "From A Flower To A Garden". 6. Floating Train - Reminds me a little of Kraftwerk. Again some very good production techniques. It really does float along most pleasantly. 7. Industrial Skyline - Sounds like a foghorn ushering us into the final track. Not such a fan of this one - not so much to hold the interest. Overall, some very neat production & a great middle section. |
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bloody hell! thanks for your time! the middle section is the closest to being finished at the moment (single celled... is done) with 2 and 7 being very sparse (it seems thats quite obvious from what youve said though), what part do you want me to talk you through? the way prehistory goes into single celled or the creation of the noises in single celled itself? (also the recording of the waves on this track is binaural. wicked in headphones) |
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Yeah I listened through headphones and got the good effect :) I was referring to the creation of the noises in Single Celled - the way they were twiddled - I'm very lazy at knob twiddling, in fact, I hardly ever do it all, which is criminal in the line of music making! :D So, I'm always on the lookout for the hints and stuff, and I really dug your production. |
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do you use fruityloops? |
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I do indeed! |
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wicked. sorry if i sound condescending im crap at explaining with text (and im supposed to be doing a teaching qualification in music production... great!). single celled is all made with one synth, MJ's HarmonicPingOnly. this, like many instruments, has a load of knobs you can twiddle. with some VST's etc fruity will allow you to just right click them and choose 'create automation clip', if not you have to go to the browser where all your directories and crap are (usually on the left) and go in to current project > generators > your chosen instrument/effect. in this folder theres a list of all the parameters that can be automated, there you can right click on any of those and open an automation clip. anyway open an automation clip (with single celled i chose various modifiers that changed the sound such as the length of the blip or which octave it was in) and click in the bottom section of the playlist window to place it in the track. here you can zoom in and add points to the line, stretch it etc to modify the property over the given time and you can put each clip in a row like any other part of the playlist. with single celled i gave my various automation clips different lengths. one 5 bars, one 7 etc. so that they were out of phase and the sound of the tone is never exactly the same. i then played my melody. once i was happy i exported it as a wav, loaded it up in audacity, cut bits out, added reverb to them then reversed them or just moved them back slightly with some flange on them to make them echo (like when the single celled organism actually splits at 1:59 signifying the beginning of life within the seas. god i put too much thought into these things) all those kind of things. ive done a load like this and was gonna do an album but it seems a bit boring. sorry if this explanation makes no sense. |
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seed floats: This is excellent. Definately the best thing I've heard from you so far (havn't listened to the others at this link yet though), and maybe in the top 30% of favorite tracks I've heard on xlt. 02: Great too; I like how they don't feel stuck in in a repetitive structure. Very nice melody and everything goes together. This is awesome; it just dreamily shifts to something else. 03: same quality as the others. They're entertaining to listen to maybe because they have the right amount of change and the quality is good. nice 'sunburst' ish sounds in this one. One thing this and the last could use is a final endroduction or whatever they're called (like crunch 1 tracks often do fantastically) instead of just cutting off. 04: Great/playful/fun like the others. 05: Excellent; that'd be cool if it gradually mutated from ambientish into a more structural song. Still interesting and non repetitive though. 06:I tend to like more digital things instead of large ambient chunks. The drums made it better imo. might be good for end credit rolling music. 07: the main noise is like bwwwwwwwweeeeeeeaaaaaah and its too obvious the same noise is used at higher pitches (since the same noise goes at a faster rate/higher pitch), so maybe a wider pallette of varying bwwwweeeeeaaaah's used each time might make it better. |
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just listened to 5 again on headphones this time. Did you actually do a dummy head recording for the 'binaural'? It seems to stay in the back and to the sides, never to the front; maybe intentional. |
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cheers w M w, thanks for the feedback! i didnt record it binaurally no, i stole it (shhhh) for another project a while back and ended up using it for this. |
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A LITTLE BUMP. |
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good reminder this, i noticed the archive was still sitting on my desktop. Will put this in my playlist later on and tell ya what i think. |
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Bumps. |
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1: The drums need some work, they sound a bit like they're outside of the rest of the song. Also, is it just here, or is there not any bass in the track? It sounds empty. Other than that quite good.. I love the dub-ish part in the middle! 2: It reminds me of one of the tracks off campfire headphase... 3: Even though it kind of reminds me of that one røyksopp song, this one is quite good! You should camouflage the pitching of the sample a bit better, though.. add some ambience around it to drown it a bit. 4: It drifted by more than the others. 5: Moreso 6: The synths remind me a bit too much of synthstrings, but otherwise good. 8: Hahah, have you ever heard the dogg? Southafrican hip-hop? It reminds me of that in a way... good shit! |
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d/lding now will feed back later..monday i staying behind later at work as it is taking long to d/l... |
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cheers for the feedback Mastah! I havent heard the dogg no. What do you recommend to start with? |
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interesting stuff...not easily quantifiable...i like the fact that the melodies are not...well traditionally melodious..and the progression in always unpredictable...but in general they seem to be a bit sparse... could be bit fuller sounding but that's just IMHO |
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I made spam that sucks so guess I'll post it here: |
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yummy synthy stuff but left me high and dry just as i started getting hard :( |
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