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I agree but I also think we have a tendency to “improve” things we hear and the SOTMC is set up to promote giving advice. I was just drawing attention to a way of thinking that I’m definitely guilty of.
Edit: and the temptation is to suggest comparison with something like this:
Thanks for your thoughtful comments. Gave me stuff to think (more) about. I do need to find a place where I can be happy enough with the sound, but am also bleeding more on the page. I am often fairly convinced that many of the better bits of vocals get left on the edit room floor. Will try to howl more and be less conservative with my cutting this month and will at least blame you partially if the children are scared the horses all cry etc.
Erm. Get down. Jimmy B meets Steely D somehow and that's got to be a good thing.
Really like how the end sounds like it's MEANT to fade rather than the thing's run out of speed (which I'm far more familiar with).
Keep on with the chugging, galileo peek a boo etc.
@Jocphone, thanks for the honesty. I have not got any such feedback yet on the piece. I’m not a synth or electronica guy, only what I heard in prog rock and other such genres through the year, so not sure what is a good synth sound to you. If you have some examples you can point me at, with a bit of explanation, that would be great. I pick and make sounds that work in multiple harmonies; I need things that go together, but are different enough to pick out the parts, and I’m aiming at something homogeneous. The drums, I’m still struggling with. The drums and percussions I’m used to listening to are much more complex than what shows up on most electronic music, but when I try to do too much, it sounds like crap. Rapid drums just don’t seem to work very well in midi in what I’ve listened to. Again, if you have any examples to point me at, I’d love to listen. I have not found a lot of purely electronic music that is like what I’m hearing in my head. It tends to be harmonically very simple, and rely on the color of the sound to catch interest.
Love it. Great mix, and the sounds are right on. Enough craziness over top of a solid foundation to make it all move very nicely. Vocals are absolutely fab.
Yet again, sounding pretty good for throwaway. Very ethereal. I do love the vocal. I was going to say a bit too heavy on the reverb, but in the end, it suits the song and the rest of the mix.
Lol. I’m not sure what this was about, but it was quite a ride. Great mix. Insanity in a box. That was BP howling along there, correct?
Ha ha yes, I’m not sure I did @bluepunk any favours. I asked him to send me several versions of the melody to layer over the piano bit, and he sang it very well, but when I heard his screaming expletives over an additional track. Well it just had to be done!
Something like this......
I haven't even watched it yet but just that picture appearing full-on in my dash was enough to get my jeebies all heebied. And the knife....
Perfectly safe unless you have links to ‘settings buttons.’ There was a confessions booth thread opened by someone on here a year or two back, (yeah, there was) and I’m a very naughty boy because still, I haven’t connected midis to mydyes. Buttons scare me. I prise them out like teeth with the big knife. Some are deep with roots.
“Innocent Time” - You did great with conveying that feeling of nostalgia.
@DefRobot nice tune, with really strong 90s vibe to it, nice chorused piano in the intro and great muscular guitars in the chorus.
The vocal is sung falsetto, not something you hear that often, it gives it a pretty raw edge, reminds me of Dean Wareham who sang falsetto on the early Galaxie 500 records. The melodies are good, especially the vocal melody in the middle eight, which I think is the best bit of the song.
The ebb and flow of the song is good, keeps things interesting, and I like the way you've kept the guitar breaks simple and melodic (I really dislike guitar noodling, simple melodic phrases are much more effective IMO). Good job.
@trackedout I really like how you get that loose laid back feel in your songs. Guitars are really cool sounding as usual and the extra keyboard sounds fill it all out well.
The whole vibe and sound is a bit like The Velvet Underground to me and I can well imagine Lou Reed having sung it.
Effortlessly cool.
@gmslayton Nice that you can cuddle the wifey whilst doodling away. If I tried that, my other half would get annoyed as feck.
Very nice laid back ambient piece and I like the little squawks and squelches throughout. Good job.
@Jocphone Nice intro. Messed up electronic doodling, then Blue glitching in like a deranged android.
Then turns into a headmash tune that wouldn’t be out of place on a Pink Floyd album in one of their more way-out moments.
Then Blue smashes his head through the door like ‘Here’s Johnny!’ But in a more maniacal way.
Thoroughly unsettling stuff in a very good way.
@richardyot Bit of an 80’s goth vibe at the start here and I dig that plucked string sound. Then the vocoder voice comes in and it sounds a lot like Super Furry Animals. It fits perfectly.
Cool laid back drums.
I wouldn’t call this throwaway at all! Some great bits within this tune. If anything, it could just do with a right angle key or melody change somewhere before settling back into it’s mellow vibe. An experiment that’s definitely worth persevering with.
@studs1966 A very nice feelgood track, strong 70's vibe to this one, I guess that's why you call it disco. The guitar samples are cool, love the way the drive the track. Nice dynamics, lots of nice detail and textures - the sparkly percussion for example is lovely. Nice way to brighten up a sunday
@lukesleepwalker The start really put me in mind of something that Prince might do and maybe Beck these days.
Funky as hell. A really fun sounding track with some fantastically original sounds and samples going on throughout.
What was used for the weird, futuristic sounding, guitar noodling sound? Really liked that.
Critique wise, I would personally shorten the ‘something/someplace to call your own’ bit or maybe thrown in a different line every 3rd line or so within that part. Great stuff overall.
Thank you. There can be no higher praise than the mention of Prince (and Beck is no slouch either). I decided to go funky on this one after reading this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves (hence the vocal refrain at the end, as well). Echoing @JohnnyGoodyear's observation about getting down, "and yet it moves" sounds like something James Brown would have exhorted his band with...
The guitar noodles are a combination of a Tonestack filtery thing and MIDI Guitar 2 driving Baervaag synth. I like the way the guitar synth adds a strange texture to the guitar tone.
Cheers @richardyot. Much appreciated.
Wow, I really REALLY like this. The noisy bits are great, not over done. I hope your next tour brings you through South Carolina so I can come see how some of these sounds are made!
Great groove, vocals are spot on. I have no ideas for anything I might change, my favorite thing I've heard on here in a while. thanks for this!
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"Camel and the Needle's Hole" came on after Galileo, this is very well done too, voices work very well together. what's the story behind this one, if you don't mind....?
@trackedout very cool blend of the mellow and chaotic, and nice vocal tone as well. Feels very rambling and disjointed, but in a good way.
@gmslayton A lovely chilled instrumental, I like the glacial synth sounds. It's a nice piece, especially considering a lot of it was generatively created (Fugue Machine and Future Drummer), there is enough movement in there to keep it interesting. Cool track.
@Jocphone and @Bluepunk it sounds like you sampled the inside of bluey's head, and the terrifying id within. Maybe City had just lost?
The whispering on the panned left and right channels is creepy, and the vocalising is downright disturbing. Oh and you forgot to write a melody
That's definitely the most chaos and mayhem we've had here for a while, we need these kind of sounds to shake us out of our comfort zones. On the second listen it became more funny than sinister, and I was able to tune in to Bluepunk's vibe a bit better once I'd got over the initial shocked reaction of my first listen.
@lukesleepwalker excellent vocal, and a really nice uplifting track with some cool instrumental sections that show quite a lot of imagination in the way they are arranged and voiced. It's quite a quirky collection of sounds and breaks and I enjoyed listening to them. The background vocals are great as well, you've used your voice really well in this track.
Thank you for the kind words. No tours anytime soon, so I'll give you a little peek into the madness making: I've discovered that iWavestation is perfect sample fodder in BM3--I record lots of little blips and bleeps from iWavestation and then pound out a groove percussion track on the pads. The bass part is layered Ripplemaker (the clean, deep sound) and Zeeon. Love both of these synths for bass. The guitarish stuff, as noted above, is a mix of Tonestack and MIDI Guitar 2 pushing the Baervaag synth.
The Camel and the Needle's Hole is a tune I wrote a while back; had the good fortune to record it with a group of talented friends a couple of years ago. I dig the arrangement--seems like it could waft over NPR at any moment, right? I also think I hit a pretty deep inspirational mine with the lyrics on that one. So, it stays up on SoundCloud because I enjoy hearing it when it comes on after other stuff I'm tinkering with.
Thanks again for the kind words.
Can't you hear the melody? Maybe I need to run it through a Vox AC30 stack a couple more times..
To be fair we didn't write the melody, The Associates did
@Jocphone and @Bluepunk Harrowing might be too strong, but unsettling might be too weak. So, somewhere in between the two is where this month's installment left me. I like a good jolt, however, and this does venture into territory I listened to back in my heyday years so it left me both harrowed/unsettled and feeling vaguely nostalgic. Triangulating between your Christmas tune and this one, not sure what next month will bring but I'm guessing it'll be interesting.
@gmslayton nice to see you posting a track in here and there were some cool sounds/textures for sure. Would love to hear what you might do by expanding on what you have here as a foundation.