I don't really have any fun facts though :( There's a little beep in Sail Away that was just the power-on sound and then degauss from a $27500 broadcast CRT set I have for no good reason.
Most of my tracks start with me writing the chorus, and then the intro, and then the verses. I find it easier to write the highest energy part first, since it gives you direction IMO
The project's intent is to make a crossover within diverse stylistic elements. Throughout an encompassing dedication to the exploration of sound and all its possibilities.
oh whoops, i was suppose to put up my profile & what general influences i got, not just for one particular track. If i were to sayy general influences? Uhh, I'm not too entirely sure since my music is all over the place stylistically. I guess whatever falls under:
>Patrician Shit >Plebian Shit >Normie Shit
Sorry, can't specify. Maybe:
>NIN / Kanye / Zappa >Internet-related stuff / misc. >Soundtracks from all types of media >etc.
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Ah, figured Van Morrison was more up your alley. Your stuff is way too smooth for us to notice.
Adrian White
>Goblin (mainly their work with Dario Argento, the Suspiria OST in particular) >Akira Yamaoka >David Lynch's score for Eraserhead >Art from Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, and Marcel Duchamp
If I were to give fun trivia, it'd be that despite me bigging this up heroin-core music, the only drugs I've used is alcohol. That's it. Not even weed has entered my system (yet). I'd like to try LSD/DMT one day tho.
Gavin Long
Here's the trivia, I've never owned a cat, I owned a bitch but she died in may, who knows, maybe one day I'll write a song about her.
marvellous, glad I could deliver haha, it was his 2nd copy of his work "Ancient Of Days" hence the title. Copy D of it is free on display at the British museum, influencing the line "The Roman shell treated me well for a glimpse of Copy D" ("The Roman shell" being a nod to The Fall song "Leave The Capitol" where they called London that)
>Oneohthrix Point Never >Tim Hecker >Vangelis, Blade Runner Soundtrack
The main theme is written in 6/8/, 7/8 and 5/8 but you can rewrite it all in 6/8 and it will fit but lose its musical meaning.
Great mix, great sound design, followed. I get your sense of humour, it's a little to long, but I like it. top level mix, nice mood, madlib, boards of canada feeling, you play the guitar?
Aaron Thomas
hear a touch of xiu xiu here too. bass is too overbearing but great melodies and beautiful piano. when the guitars kicks in you really feel it. vocals in the end are really cool but turn down the non harmonica mic vocal just a bit along with the harmonica mic one in 10:15, also this would be a nice place for harmonies. superb ending my man!
don't know about the pixies influence but redefined "banger" for me. will play at next party.
heavy as always. best cover art yet.
Asher Jackson
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Chase Edwards
>Gorillaz' Plastic Beach >PC Music (SOPHIE, A.G. Cook, Easyfun) >Mecano (Spanish synthpop band from the 80's)
fun fact: this EP was basically done in 2017 but i managed to postpone it for almost 2 years because i wanted to mix it properly, which i didn't because i grew attached to the tracks as they were. currently working on a debut album with vocals
I was trying to make something along the lines of deadmau5's ID 2015 or something like pryda, but I ended up changing it so much it just turned into its own thing.
I don't know what to think of this. This is so far from mainstream to really understand what you're trying to do. Seems like some shit that would play in an arthouse horror film where nobody talks or something.
You make very good listenable music. Very well put together musically, very clean. Some of it can feel jerky at points, like the line is forced/non-syncopated very hard, sharp, staccato sort of, rather than smooth, that gives it a weird clunky sort of feeling. The smooth parts are good though.
Your vocals don't work for electronic music, your voice sounds very unappealling. You sound like an ugly/weird/nerd type of guy. You need sexy female vocals, or otherwise fuck your voice hard with that gay electric shit everyone does so you don't sound like a raw nerd.
Your voice works better for the guitar style shit. Sounds like a typical hipster type of person with the guitar. The echo/lo-fi sound really don't have much appeal, but you're working with what you got. I would work on your tone for signing, practice singing to songs with clear/strong vocals, because your voice is really throaty/nasaly right now and that's not too hip or sexy. Get that sexy passionate deseprate hipster drawl that they love on that mainstream music somewhat similar to yours, where they're all passionate, shout-crying about shit, not just weak/nasaly and apathetic sounding.
Your shit is pretty good. The issue i have is the percussion is very sharp. The songs as a whole sound really thin. You want to thicken them up. Get some background broth, some depth, some wetness in there. The sharp/grainy feeling does make that video game style, but if you want that mass appeal make it thick and wet, this is key. Keep it glitchy, but just some thicker fatter background synths, make the percussion smoother, just raw thin static crunch on the percussion makes it more disagreeable than agreeable.
Adrian Ramirez
I didn't listen to your shit if you had lots of view/comments. If you have fans you're mainstream enough at that point to know what you're doing. At that point it's just making a hit.
This is my shit, this song is my top gun. If you take music seriously, good luck. I tend to just do it for jokes.
OPTIONAL: I gave up on making music.
Example: Influences >Viper The Rapper >Poor electric music production skills >Old style beats, not that new in-depth shit, but like 90s shit
Idk how this song got 1k hits. 0 likes, but they're always fake likes, getting liked with 0 listens. Most of my shit got like 20-40 hits.
I realized I probably couldn't write a rap this hard again so I gave up. Most of the rest of my music isn't like this. I was fucking around with mumble rap for a while. Was originally going to be steel drum + drum and bass hence the name.
Honestly surprised that you fellas shit was pretty decent.
Fun fact: I wrote most of my music when i was 12-15 years old (and it shows, pls no bully, i didn't know what i was doing, music was just an anger outlet). Also, most of my music is not on soundcloud and my very early stuff is not on the internet anymore because i'm too embarassed about it.
I bought the same guitar and put the same pickups in it as the dude from Unknown Mortal Orchestra because I wanted that tone so bad.
Leo Smith
Holy shit all of them show!!! Also, I fucking love your guitar playing. It kind of reminds me of Panic at the Disco’s first album. Is that an influence?
new track up today, tease of upcoming album comment if you'd like feedback
>Terry Riley >Varg Vikernes
Hunter Flores
I love Bjork. I hear it in there. I didn’t list her as an influence of mine even though she’s one of my favorite musicians because I don’t think her music influences mine.
I listen to sideways elevator music all the time. I forgot to list ween as one of mine.
I don’t hear pixies or velvet underground and I
Matthew Clark
The reason you don't hear any Pixies influence is because I haven't added the vocals. When I do, you'll hear Frank Black-like vocals (from me) channelled thru the chaos like Bone Machine or Tame. Also, the VU influence is mainly due to the subject matter that's yet to discussed. Glad you listened to my mess of a track. Was there someone else you had in mind while listening?
thanks! I think you're right, I can feel a lot of similar musical intent if that makes sense. Can resonate with your style a lot. Love Shade, just what autoplayed, but I'm going to be listening to more. Also nice final verse. Definitely snagging this album.
I actually only know one song by them, not listened to them too much, but they have a neat sound, and I like that one song.
thank you! Love your music, extremely noisy and so smoothly so.
thanks! I adore xiu xiu. I'll take that into mind, I mixed on a pretty solid set of monitors, but I'm noticing some artifacts that I didn't hear in mixing, maybe I just did it too long and my ears wore out.
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Adrian Brooks
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Owen Morris
Isn't sungazer Adam Neely's band? I always forget that nowadays you kids don't mean Steve Lacy the saxophonist Definitely work more on this, you have some ideas but lack knowledge and skills. I love UMO. Bouncing. I like this unsettling sound design. Work on your mixing skills. yes, plenty. Rita, Otomo Yoshihide, Keiji Haino, watch the doc. "We don't care about music anyway". I love the smell of HNW in the morning.
Thank you so much. Shade is the auto play for a reason, I ended up liking it way more than I thought I would. I've had the riff for a bit, but it was one of the very last to get recorded because I wasn't sure it could carry a song. It could!
I'm listening to your cover record now. You know what's up.
Nathan Sanchez
any specific advise on what you mean about the mixing? it's intentionally lofi and the percussion is supposed to be "stark" while other stuff is murky. sounds right on my speakers but it would be cool if someone would tell me what works and what doesn't thnx for listening.
enjoying this, would love to do a HNW collab.
me
>fun fact is my current project is a dungeon synth tie-in with the scifi/fantasy novel i'm writing.
Read about compression, EQ regarding specific instruments and frequencies and FX use. To find the annoying frequencies use bandpass filter to find it. Usually around 1 - 1,5Khz, but not always.
Nicholas Sanders
lmao dont worry I dont want to copy your terrible fucking music at all
Luke Flores
soundcloud.com/bonbos bonbos.bandcamp.com/track/test-upload >A.R. Kane - i >Nick Nicely - Psychotropia >volcano! - Beautiful Seizure Dropout Journey [TAKE 2] is the first song recorded using my new hifi setup, all previous songs were recorded in lofi on a phone. Drums on Cutremur sound fantastic, beginning sounds very much like it belongs on Vespertine.