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Song of the Month Club - February 2016

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  • @Marcel Thank you for your kind words. Yes, you have my number. I keep procrastinating about going back to this song as I am so sick of listening to it. Much nicer to move on to the next one. But I have all the critiques in hand and will go back someday.

  • @theconnactic said:
    Well, think I'm going to be the first!

    This one is a fusion between funk and jazz with a heavy Brazilian accent. "Nervoso" means nervous, restive, on the edge. Enjoy the listening and have a most pleasant week!

    Dimitri.

    Nice, very well played. Love the different time signature changes.

  • @Igneous1 said:
    Yet another all Gadget effort, perhaps even more retro than usual :)

    Nice. Had me stomping my foot throughout. Good mix.

  • @rickwaugh said:
    Well, dang, I thought I'd get in here first. This might be the last for a while for me, my production process is somewhat slow. :smiley:

    This one is acoustic guitar, bass, piano, drums, and GeoShred. I'm pretty happy with this. Wanted to try something in Locrian mode. Came out a bit Spanish, a bit Japanese, hence the title. Started on guitar, composition completed in notion, exported as midi to Auria Pro. Recorded guitars, bass, GeoShred and percussion live. Left piano as midi.

    Also an excellent example of GeoShred being used for something melodic, with some feeling. It's just a killer app for me.

    Interesting song, well played. I might have to look into GeoShred after all huh? :)

  • @orchardman said:
    So here is my one for this month, another joint effort between me and my wife. Big emphasis on the vocals this time and I have tried to take into account some of the feedback we got for last month's song. All the Guitars are Bias FX, Rock Drummer and one of the Arturia synths for the pads. Arranged, mixed and mastered in Logic with the vocals all done on the mac. I still haven't found a really great vocal app.

    Nice song and nice with vocal harmonies and vocal layers. Good tune with nice arrangement. If I could wish for something it’d be a bit more treble in the mix, especially for the vocals, but that is a minor (personal) opinion.

  • @JeffChasteen said:
    Apps: Fiddlewax Yellow, Emo Chorus, Synthmaster, DrumJam, ToneStack Recorder
    Externals: condenser mic, slide guitar > Analogman Beano Boost > iRig Pro

    Thanks for listening

    Intriguing intro as I am thinking it could in all kinds of directions. I could never have predicted this song though, hehe. Odd but entertaining.

  • @Reid said:

    I wrote this song years ago, but never recorded it. I thought it would be a good idea to use something familiar as my first attempt at taking a song to a finish on an iPad. It is composed of: live 12-string (mostly harmonics), Lyra (bass, piano), Thumbjam (Cello), Miroslav Orchestra/SampleTank (flute). Effects include Pro-Q 2, Pro-C 2, and Altispace, all mixed in Auria Pro.

    As songwriting has always been something I’ve only done for fun, I’ve been very lackadaisical about the production of my music. I was mainly interested in making a copy of a song before I forgot it, and perhaps sharing it with a few friends. But reading all of you on this forum has encouraged me to try to up my game.
    My ears are shot from standing in front of too many Marshall stacks when I was as teenager, so I do wonder if it is even possible for me to do a mix. (With this worry, I began by arranging the song with voices in contrasting tonal ranges.) I look forward to your comments as I very much need the help.

    Really nice. I normally take notes on my second listen, but I can’t find anything else to say but “beautiful” and “well done!” and I simply got too caught up in listening instead of taking notes. I really liked this.

  • @richardyot said:
    My entry for the month, created in record time for me, just over a week from first inception to finished recording. 8 days ago I wrote a list of titles down, picked one that seemed evocative and came up with a vocal melody and rough lyrics for it. I wrote the music and chord progression and final lyrics that evening. I then added additional parts after I recorded the guitars and vocals at the weekend.

    I always used to write music first, but recently I've started doing words and melody first, and although it does make it quite tricky to fit the music around the melody, it does seem to produce much stronger vocal melodies when I do it this way around.

    I wanted to try and create a sense of progression with the melody, so there are two key changes in the song, one half way through the first chorus, going from C into G, then the song stays in G until the third chorus which modulates back into C but is sung an octave higher than the first. I was worried that the key changes might be a bit jarring, but they seem to work fairly seamlessly (it helps that the chorus sections use chords that are common to both keys). I had to record the first verse and chorus first thing in the morning to be able to sing that low :)

    Lyrics are here:

    http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/lyrics/distant-thunder.txt

    Right, now I’m back in my american road movies, only this time with thunderous skies up ahead. Nice song. The reverb on the vocals were sort of “much” at times, but otherwise well done I think.

  • @RedSkyLullaby said:
    Took a break from working on next album to clean my ears out with this remix of iOS musician Mike Vasas. Sampled and chopped up in Samplr and Auria pro

    Hehe, great remix. Me like.

  • @achromus said:
    Another Gadget track. Gadget came up with the name and I can't bring myself to change it ;)

    Nice interesting intro which goes into a nice weave of sounds. When the beat started it caught me totally off guard, but very well timed and just what was needed! Very nice sounds all over. Well done.

  • @crouchie said:

    Evening all, good to be back. Have been working hard to get a tune done, v sorry I haven't commented this month but is next on my list.
    This is my latest. Done in Auria Pro. I used, deep breath, Fieldscaper, Vocalstack, Sunrizer, Cream, Beathawk, all the sodding Fabfilter plugins I could get my hands on, and finally Egoist which I'm falling in love with all over again. Oh, and a bit of Sector which I could never get my head round but have finally started to (in a v basic way). I'm happiest that I actually started to get a handle on some very basic EQing which has always been a foreign language to me. It's a bit busy in places for what is meant to be a minimalist tune but I hope u like it.

    Good beat, nicely produced. Nothing much to add, I bobbed my head for all of it.

  • @touchconspiracy said:
    Another golden oldie..actually..it was my first full track in gadget and released on my first album as touch conspiracy on mobius spin records ( google and download for free)

    Good sounds. This too is quite far from what I normally listen to, but it sounds well produced as far as I can tell. A bit long for my taste, but that is highly personal.

  • @badrico said:
    howdy folks,
    Really digging this forum for a while, so many great tips and sounds !

    here's "eyes open"
    done with some of my faves triq traq, patterning, auria, and a smidge of GB.

    cheers, baddy

    Right, this one was "odd" (to me), had to do a few re-takes on it. I sort of like it but it is so far from what I do I can’t say anything more about it really. :)

  • @JohnnyGoodyear said:
    An older man, certainly not a young man, and not so much at the end of his tether, but more having long since given up on the rope.

    He has made many poor or questionable choices, ones he justified to himself as he moved along, agreeing that he would have to pay for them later. Now it’s that time.

    He’s in the pit, not looking for absolution or forgiveness, just some last tenderness. The person he’s singing to isn’t there, but in his delusion, as ever, he believes that maybe, just maybe, she might be persuaded to appear.

    Wow, minimalistic month I think! The vocals actually had me jumping in my chair at first, as they were so “close", but I also started smiling (always a good thing). Excellent minimalism, with the piano, bass and heavily panned vocals. As mentioned, minimalistic, but not at the expense of song writing quality or effort, but instead a deliberate minimalism which hits the sweet spot. Great song, well executed.

  • @aaronpc said:
    This is actually an older song that I've been reworking with fresh ears and apps, so I'm not sure how well it fits the thread, but what the hell.

    Firstly: disturbing image. Took me ages staring at it before I realised it wasn’t a retarded melted dog. Nicely minimalistic overall song though, that holds more details than it first appeared on the first listen, with several nice touches, from the harmonized vocals and the bass and the beats too. Well done.

  • @gburks said:
    My track for the month... My first one since making the leap from Cubasis to Auria Pro.

    Electric ukulele running through ToneStack, a few tracks of vocals with some juicy Auria Pro chorus and comp, and everything else in Gadget.

    Great build-up. Actually just what the playlist (on Soundcloud) needed (listening in reverse order), with beats and more up in-your-face (no offence to any of the previous ones, just a good complement in the playlist for dynamics). Raw bass! I’m not a huge fan of sidechain compression, but it works quite alright here, though it isn’t a genre I would normally associate with sidechain pump, and I’m not sure I think it is needed per se, but hey, as I say, it works alright.
    The vocals are so good I stopped thinking about it as my brain just went “that is good, listen to the other things”. Good song!

  • @Marcel said:
    Made this last friday. The singing is a bit....unclear regarding lyrics. I was searching for a melody, and found one, but hadn't wrote a lyric yet. I probably leave it this way. I kind of like it as it is now.

    Nice chilled intro. I actually started expecting Lana Del Rey to start singing, hehe. Speaking of singing, the vocals are more like an instrument. I can’t really make out the lyrics, but nice melody. I would probably have preferred if the vocals were more in focus than they are, but as I say, it actually works as an instrument too.

  • @kitejan said:
    Just some ideas I was experimenting with around a somewhat depressing theme.....

    99% Nanostudio, with a little bit of that Fairlight app, and Audiobus to get things from A to B.

    Nice intro. I actually balked a bit at the time indicator before I had pressed play, but I actually found the 2-and-a-bit minute build-up to work nicely, without having me go bored. I admittedly was waiting for it to “really start”, but it still managed to keep me entertained without going bored (otherwise always a danger for me with very long songs). Nice weave of sounds. Good production. I like it.

  • @Marcel Finally caught up with "Why Do We Always." It is awesome! I really love it.

  • Hey, @hellquist: thank you for the kind words.

  • @Reid said:
    @Marcel Finally caught up with "Why Do We Always." It is awesome! I really love it.

    Hey thanks Reid!! :smile: Great you like it! :smiley:

  • @JohnnyGoodyear - Nice simple atmospheric arrangement. Good use of your voice!! Good mix! A bit of criticism: I'd prefer some sort of melodic chorus, but thats a personal preference.

    @aaronpc - Very good sounding piece! Very good spheric thing. The melotron (or whatever it is), the bass slaps, the voices, the percussions/brushy drums, it all sounds great and is very good arranged and mixed. Also from a dramatic perspective, if you/one understand(s) what I mean; the dramatic developments. This is a very good song! Weird but likeable ending; even though it is weird it fits the song perfectly in my opinion. The song is pro level to my ears. I can't hear a bad thing. My off topic opinion about the artwork: I dislike it, it is too intense and scary. Overall: creative classy piece aaronpc!!

    @kitejan - Stay calm, a very panicking line. :) Optimistic lyrics :) Could be my state of mind, but I smile during the whole song. Original piece! Could be about two or three minutes shorter though in my opinion.

  • @Marcel said:
    @JohnnyGoodyear - Nice simple atmospheric arrangement. Good use of your voice!! Good mix! A bit of criticism: I'd prefer some sort of melodic chorus, but thats a personal preference.

    Very valid criticism. I have a weakness for mood and the weakness manifests itself when I have created a feel for something and then think about changing it up for a chorus etc. Def. something I am aware of/wish to work on. Thanks for your input.

  • @hellquist said:
    Wow, minimalistic month I think! The vocals actually had me jumping in my chair at first, as they were so “close", but I also started smiling (always a good thing). Excellent minimalism, with the piano, bass and heavily panned vocals. As mentioned, minimalistic, but not at the expense of song writing quality or effort, but instead a deliberate minimalism which hits the sweet spot. Great song, well executed.

    Ah yes, minimalism: Those of us who can't play quickly play slowly and try to sound like we mean it :) Seriously though, thanks for your encouragement HQ.

  • My procrastination led me to write an ancient, supernatural, hymn in celebration of the elusive 29th day of February

    DISAPYRAMIDEVIL

  • Here are my reviews. Even with an extra day, I didn't have enough time. This is a daunting task, so I've tried to make it fun, and it's late. Hope someone get's something out of this.

    @Marcel Why Do We Always
    Like it. Just for fun, have you tried this with little to no drums, or with more of an off kilter drum timing? I'd like to hear you make it even more dreamy/weird with some sort of warbling thing taking over at some point. Sends me in the direction of a slower Blonde Redhead song.

    @gburks Sal's Dream
    I dig it. Albert Hammond Jr. all over, but I agree it's too long. All the parts are interesting but sometimes you just have to cut bait. I'd also like to see the drums further back in the mix— they're fine, but maybe not interesting enough to sit so far forward.

    @JohnnyGoodyear Come On Down
    You've kind of got your own unique thing going on, and it works, so it's hard to imagine I could offer anything useful. Add a gospel choir to the end and/or the sound of two iceburgs scraping against each other. Get ahold of Souled American's "Notes Campfire" if you can find it. They're a bit on the discordant side, different animal, but I think you'd find inspiration there.

    @hellquist Off Road
    I see movie credits for a spy drama set in the not too distant future. Instead of mentioning some band you remind me of, I guess I'm telling you to make a movie.

    @DavidEnglish Resonant Dreaming
    @JohnnyGoodyear Nevermind the iceburgs scraping thing. This guy did it already. Had me reaching for my headphones. Kind of reminds me of a recording from this french guy who overlaid multiple swooping recordings of an air conditioner. That was it. But I felt like I was floating off the ground by the end. More swooping and micro-polyrhythms please, so I can achieve liftoff.

    @badrico Eyes Open
    I like the bouncy rhythm. It may be due to this rhythm, but most of the instruments and treatments are "round" to me, synesthetically speaking. Too much, if it weren't for the harmonica adding a warm waffle texture. Good add there.

    @RedSkyLullaby Mike Vasas Living Room Floor
    Fun, but needs some serious panning unless there's something wrong with the file. Definitely admire the chutzpah to do falsetto. Wish I could still pull that off. Personally, I like falsetto to be dead center and pretty dry, with the music pushed slightly to the outside left and right so the singing can sit right there in the middle.

    @theconnactic Casual (Suplica?)
    Very happy little tune, which immediately puts me at a disadvantage. Very accomplished, of course. But if I strain to find fault, I'd have to say the organ in my right ear, opposite the rhythm guitar, could vary more, or perhaps change during one of the parts. It begins to take on a life of it's own and distract me at some point. Minor stuff. You know what you're doing.

    @richardyot Distant Thunder
    You know what sucks? Milli Vanilli. Thanks to them, I can't hear a song that mentions the rain without thinking of those dick necks. That said, I don't have much else to complain about here. It's a solid song that brings Woods to mind. Sucker for the the gong, fuzzy drums, sloopy guitar and droopy bass. The only thing that's missing is maybe Hope Sandoval singing the last verse.

    @achromus Oral Play
    You're on to something. I might cut out from 1:35 or so to 2:50, save some of it and plopped it in somewhere around 4:12 as a breather, then really lay in on for the last part of the song— add a big bed below. That's just me though— the old bag of tricks.

    @JeffChasteen My Life of Forgery
    I like it. Kind of like Blue Hawaii crossed with the Butthole Surfers. That's a compliment if you believe me. It's one of those songs where if I had it playing during dinner, about 45 seconds in my wife would give me this raised eyebrow look and I would have to get up and click skip on the ipod. She loves me, though.

    @orchardman Sing With Me
    Vocal recordings sound better from last month, if I recall. Sounds good overall, too. I just want it to be faster for some reason or sped up somewhere along the way, and I want her to belt out the chorus with more conviction. I'm not compelled to join the chorus just yet, if you know what I mean.

    @rickwaugh Mixed Messages
    I see where you're going with this, and I like the idea. I could have done with a slightly more prolonged and pointed uptempo section. I keep thinking it's coming when the double stroke guitar arrives, but it kind of leaves me hanging. Maybe this is perfect, considering the title. Plus, I can't play guitar. When I want to go uptempo, I just have to press some buttons. Those medieval minor phrases remind me of Greg Weeks "Awake Like Sleep", btw. More obscure band references.

    And thank you to @Marcel and @hellquist for your very kind comments. Based on the consensus, I'm going to try do a better job of mastering and just try not to screw the thing up— something I need to do with my whole back catalog, really. And I guess the image could be just a tiny bit more representative of the content, yeah. Nature's scary sometimes.

  • Good job on the reviews @hellquist and @aaronpc. Extra point to @aaronpc for making me laugh several times as I read through his. Good musical knowledge too, we share many of the same tastes (from the Butthole Surfers to Blonde Redhead). I like your reviews as much as your music, you should write a fanzine, or a blog.

  • edited March 2016

    Thank you very much, @aaronpc. I'm curious about which one you listened to. :pensive:

    This is Casual:

    This one is Súplica:

  • Sorry - I ran out of month in which to post some comments on the other tracks! I will try and find some time tonight to do some specific comments (I will just pretend that today is 30th February). But in short I was extremely impressed with all the ones I listened to - especially the ones with vocals. Without knowing this was all made on iOS devices I really wouldn't have known.

  • @aaronpc Add a gospel choir to the end and/or the sound of two iceburgs scraping against each other.

    I think this is absurdly good advice for pretty much everything that comes out of my head.

    Good effort on reviewing and welcome to March (everyone).

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