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Hey Joel, she can really sing! I think the choice of sounds is great, but I can't decide if the glock is supporting the vocal, or competing with it. I dunno, not 100% sure, but I might try putting some (or more) reverb on it to make it feel farther away, not so "in your face". I also think it might be cool to have the glock drop out at some point, to add focus where it might be needed, and to break things up, maintain interest. Overall though, very nice track!
I could hear an electric violin (like everybody has one, right?!), or any sort of vocal line that works with an electronic background.
Man I would love to have an electric violin. How hard would it be to learn to play one, I wonder? Probably the ergonomics would kill me though. I get all stiff and painful just blowing a transverse flute for five minutes.
Hey I liked it. made it all the way through.
If mathematics is a bastard, surely physics is the devil! (IMHO, of course. )
Great tune, I think this is my favorite of what I've heard from you in the 4 or 5 months I've been kicking around "The Club". Very easy to listen to, mix is great, and I like the lyrics, so not much I can think of to improve.
I will say that I like what you did with the chorus that starts at 1:47. For that one, it's only percussion and bass backing the vocals, which, having less "stuff" in the mix, serves well to add emphasis to vocal phrase. I usually opt to add more to the chorus/hook in my tunes to make them bigger, but this approach worked very well. I shall try to remember this! Very nice work on this one.
Here's this month entry from me. I've never done any rapping before, and didn't intend to when I started this... it just sorta happened!
iPlayers:
iRelief
VERSE 1
Betty barber cuts my hair
The price is fair, but my wallet still bare
Healthcare, taxes, blood from a stones
Can't afford the payments on my brand new X phone
Ghosted by Gabi, guess I’ll never know
What’s it take to be her man, this beard has got to go
Hookup culture, better stay limber
Your mom and your sister and their Father on Tinder
Walking zombies look down at their phones
Connected, disconnected, driving reckless, all alone
Crooked teeth corporal, pretend you’re straight
Twisted cross, burning mosque, end this hate!
Facebook timeline, ain’t no fine line
Every woman got a story about a Weinstein
Notification: Information stampede
Bring back Rocky and Apollo Creed!
CHORUS
I just need some...
I just need some...
I just need some relief
Pull the plug let the screens go dark
Throw a ball for the dog, steal a kiss in the park
Tomorrow I’ll care and we’ll make a new start
But today I need to find relief
VERSE 2
Donny John, gonna work another con
Which side are you on? Hands off that blonde
Flush twice, it's a long way to D.C.
Keep Screaming louder, deaf ears don’t hear me
Your right to carry, is making me wary
A rock show shouldn’t be this scary
No help from our commander-in-tweets
Leaves me staring down the barrel of disbelief
Itty bitty little dicky
Clogging up my city in his F150
While an F-35 zip zip through the sky
There’s our military spending, another flood victim dies
Mother Nature got her hands around our neck
But we won't wake up, and we won't fight back
Bottom of the 9th, and I've thrown a hundred pitches
Everybody swinging at me now, ain't nobody missing
Great stuff!........ The track reminds me of the style of "Peter Gabriel "in the days of old(Yes, I am an old Git........ )
Also, it's nice to actually get some listening time to listen to other fellow S.O.T.M music.
Nice one mate!....... Keep up the great work.
This sounds good to me, mix is good and the sounds all fit, and are interesting. I have a hard time critiquing the instrumental electronic stuff here. The electronic stuff I gravitate to is like the new stuff from Gary Numan and KMFDM, which have lyrics. The instrumental stuff needs to have more variation to hold my interest, but it could be it's not the genre for me.
This track has a cool vibe, but I think it has too much low end for my taste, and it's hard for me to distinguish what's going on down there. I like your vocals a lot, but they need to come up in the mix, IMO.
The low end thing I'm talking about kinda reminded me of what the Melvins have going on sometimes, so I went and listened to some of their stuff for comparison. I can still tell what's going on in the low end with their stuff, even though it's so heavy down there. This leaves me to think there must be a way to clean that up, if that's the sound you're going for.
If that's not the sound your going for, I'd suggest loading a reference track into your DAW for comparison. I did that with the track I posted today. I took it to the car, and it was way too bass heavy on that system. I loaded a couple other rock tracks into Auria and put a LPF on the master buss so I was just hearing stuff below 200Hz and toggled between my track and the reference tracks to compare. Turns out I had to cut about 3 or 4 db off the bass subgroup in my track, and then it sounded much more balanced on other systems. hope this helps.
Great execution as always! That's a catchy melody line, and the breakdown is nice as well. I too could picture this as a TV theme of some sort - well done. I hope the keys make it back in the mix next month!
Is this the track you completed completely in GarageBand? Is that electric piano-ish instrument from GB or did you bring NeoSoul Keys in via AU? Two songs in a row I've heard from you with some really nice EP gravitas in the arrangement.
As for this tune: I listened before reading your synopsis and lyrics as I cling quaintly to the old mystique of approaching music as if it was beamed to me via the ether to my tiny little A.M. radio that I clutched to my ear as a youth. Instead of "mathematics" I heard "Appomattox", which actually worked for me quite well until I read your synopsis and the lyric sheet. "Mathematics" of course also works quite well both intellectually and emotionally--I feel these matters of accounting as much as I think about them.
The song is well composed and the arrangement choices are deft. I particularly liked the breakdown at the 3:00 mark; my ears needed that little break to re-engage for the ending. There's a little squiggle of noise right at the end that also caught my ear. Well done, sir.
I don't listen to a lot of music in this genre so I'll likely show some gaps in my analysis. But, I listened to the whole thing and enjoyed the way the arrangement ebbed and flowed. The biggest thing to strike me is just the massive thumping percussion tones that drive the tune. I haven't been out dancing in a club in decades but that beat made me wistful for those days--this would be a good one to work up a sweat in a dark club on a humid summer night.
That is one well-worn neck on your strat! This is a good tune that is well played on all instruments, but to me it really turned interesting when the guitar arrived at 1:10. Loved the tone and the melody. I also liked the ending--good left turn to close it out.
Well, this sort of thing used to be my cup of tea all the time. Couldn't get enough of the well-constructed indie rock! But then, it felt like my cup started spilling over with the same old trite stuff that had been done too many times so I stopped putting the kettle on for this bag of tricks. Alas, these days when I hear something that is good like this, I listen and I smile and it restores my faith that good indie rock can still be made. Love the phrasing and the tone of the vocal in this one--I think it's spot on. Has a loose vibe that has the same tossed off approach as Pavement and maybe the Strokes. The backing vocals that support the latter half of the guitar solo also recall some of the great slack indie poppers from the last 20-30 years but offers a fresh take on the mix/arrangement. Thanks for filling the tea cup with a good 'un.
Thanks man, once a DJ, always a DJ I guess
@theconnactic, there was a lot i liked about your submission. The bass tone and performance were top-notch. I really like doubling the guitar melody with a lead synth. The acoustic break at 1:15 was really nice, and fit into the rest of the song despite the stark difference in styles. And your technical proficiency is obvious. Critiques: I'd maybe look for a less "brassy" lead synth to double the guitar melody. Love the idea, but not sure the sound you chose was the best fit. And though the drum track was a great rhythmic backdrop for the rest of the instruments, there seemed to be a "grunge-ness" to the sound where I might have preferred a drum track that was a little brighter and cleaner. Strictly a matter of personal preference on both critiques. Nice job!
@trackedout, love the voice, bass, drum fills, and most of the guitar work (every now and then it seemed to get a little out of time). Seriously, your voice is perfect for this style of music. The drum part was really good (especially the fills), but I'd maybe try to beef them up a bit more. Tonally, they seemed to have the thinnest sound of all the instruments. As for the ending, I probably would have done a fade out, or something a little less abrupt. And just as many others prefer the sudden endings, so there you go. Enjoyed the listen!
@Shaken&;Stirred, damn, you're just brilliantly creative. "Story about a Weinstein", "Commander-in-tweets", "barrel of disbelief" were standout lyrics for me. The use of Siri (sometimes rhythmically) in a song called iRelief is awesome. You have a great sense of how to use the stereo field, with the electric rhythm guitar in the left channel, and then filling in the right with rhythm instruments and organ. Love that! It was fun, it was catchy, and I wish I could think of something I think you could/should have done differently... but I can't. Sorry.
Thanks for the feedback Mister Luke. KILLS me I didn't use/choose 'Appomattox'.
Should have also def. added to my descrip. that this IS/WAS all GB. I actually dreamt the song. Or better put I wrote the first two lines in my notebook (when I was in hotel room in Florida with no money worth stealing) and then the rest of the song (and the woman concerned) happened along that night in a dream. Thereafter GB etc. Which is just incredibly easypeasy at this point.
@JohnnyGoodyear This is my fave tune from you thus far. Like a grimy cocktail bar pop song. Your raspy crooning really suits the laid back track.
The lyrics paint the picture beautifully. Love the emphasised Whack.
My only criticism would be the drums. Fine for the beginning, but then they just seems to stay on one level. Not a great problem though, as the other instrumentation carries the song along well enough.
@Tarekith I wasn’t mad about the panned glitchy sounds that the tune began with, but then the groove kicked in and all was cool. Put me in mind of Yello overall. Good feel overall, but felt like it needed another section in there to break it all up.
@theconnactic Way more lo-fi than past entries, especially the drums. Can understand what you may have been aiming for, but the clarity doesn’t work for me. Guitar parts great as ever. The picked breakdown at 1.10 is absolutely lovely.
Great tune again.
@trackedout This tune starts off like The Velvet Underground to my ears. That and as someone else mentioned, Pavement.
Quite restrained overall compared to some of your recent entries. Nice mix and great end!
@Shaken&;Stirred The overall feel gave me an impression of Big Audio Dynamite fronted by Eminem. Mixed with your own unmistakable sounds.
Great drums as usual. You have a great ear for what works drum-wise and you carry it all the way through to the mix and master.
Loved the break and the 60’s keyboard line that comes in. You got a talent for them too. Man, I’m envious!
Samples all work well, Cool end too. If I’m gonna critic anything, the riff guitar could’ve sounded fatter.
Rapping really good. I would’ve had a dry mouth after two lines. Rythmic and on the beat. Annunciation great.
Great stuff.
Dude, if you know how many takes I took to record the the rap portions of that vocal. I didn't do it straight through. I tried, but that didn't last long. I just did one small stanza at a time, 8 times in a row to increase the chances that I'd say them the same each time (they're all doubled). It makes me wonder what Eminem's process is when he does that crazy fast stuff. I might be able to perform it live now that I'm more familiar with the lyrics, I would like to, but when they were fresh.. no way!
Yeah, the guitar tone is probable the thing I'm least happy with. Through my cans it sounds ok to me, but it doesn't seem to translate to other systems as well.
but yeah, thank you much for the kind words, and same to you @Joel75 for the equally as kind sentiments last night. Makes me happy. cheers!
@Shaken&;Stirred I simultaneously smiled, winced, and was saddened by this tune. The tone is bouncy and slightly whimsical but I found the subject matter to be kinda sad. I find it depressing that we've been sorta anesthetized by idevices...
The cameo by Siri carries the Zeitgeist here and I think the bookended approach works well. I do think there is an opportunity for a deeper and more sustained duet with Siri but that would probably be a far more complex project. I also really dug the Turnado tweaked beat; fresh to my ears.
Thanks man! yeah... I think it's kind of sad myself, and think that many don't realize the impact that smartphones and social media has had on so many aspects of our lives. There's only so much of guys standing next to me at the urinals looking at their phones, that I can take!
My original idea was to try to see if I could get Siri to sing, using time stretching and pitch shifting, but initial attempts didn't provide the rewards I had hoped. Truth be told, the start and end bits are by Amazon's Alexa, not Siri, but they sound the same to me. It was easier to get Alexa to say what I wanted, using my wife's Fire HD, preface anything with "Simon Says" and Alexa will repeat it. No, I haven't tried profanity.... yet.
any copyright lawyers in the crowd know if using this type of thing would be copyright infringement?
This song initially began as a sketch on my Novation Circuit over the summer. Nothing like sitting outside and jamming out some ideas on a nice little battery-powered device like that. Especially since now that it’s cold out, I can take those sketches and use not only the sounds, but also vibe I had at the time in something a bit more fleshed out.
All the drums, percussion, bassline, and a couple of the synths were from the Circuit, recorded into Ableton Live for arranging and mixing. On top of those sounds, I overdubbed more instrument parts from the DSI OB-6, Moog Animoog, and Live’s new Wavetable synth. The mixdown was done with only Live 10’s included devices, and mastering was nothing more than DMG Audio’s Limitless plug-in on the master channel to top off a few stray peaks.
Really happy with the vibe of this song, a sort of shifting uncertainty that reflects that change from summer to fall. As always, hope you enjoy!
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Sorry to @richardyot for cluttering the thread with a slightly OT item again, but I did promise I would post when this was done. Last time, promise, and no feedback expected. Anyway, I made a proper video for Coup Kaiser Coup, one of my SOTM songs from 2 or 3 months back. Animation, effects and whatnot, plus some new solo guitar from my friend Carlos. This is my way of getting it off my plate so I can stop messing with it.
https://youtu.be/AkiOGydYcqM
@DefRobot thank you .. i appreciate it... this tune was a test run at first cause i got some of my old equipment I sold about 5 years ago. it is an Eastwood airliner 3p deluxe.. and an old js,cksom bass
I enjoyed this very much. It reminded me of Timothy Maas style of tracks from long ago(For example Timo Maas "Help Me" feat Kelis)