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hello all, i spent a bunch of last year doing some production for, and playing guitar in a backing band for a friend's project which was a totally new experience for me, and super interesting. getting back electronic stuff here, my friend and I released another longer project!
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4 hours ago, Cryptowen said:
that new one has an interesting sound palette - it juxtaposes a lot of tones I don't normally hear being used together on the same piece, to the point where my brain's usual 'good track/bad track' metrics don't feel like they apply. basically just had to listen to it as an immediate experience, which was nice - that happens less often with music, the older i get
the one at the start of the thread is quite nice! it has the same sort of tonal feel but a much more conventional structure.
oh hey, thanks, that's a really interesting take on it, i like it. i'm kind of trying to find an interesting spot in between structured percussive stuff and more conventional ambient or droning music. appreciate the comments and the time
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poooosted up another one. at this rate i'll have an album by the time i'm 50
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8 hours ago, TheBro said:
I made it to 100 subscribers before Xmas on my Youtube channel. Well chuffed!!!
congrats! happy NY and all that - love the detroit vibez on trip to uranus
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nice! i like the momentum it has. the riff that comes in around 20 seconds reminds me of post rock stuff like tortoise
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i was on the fence about these, and im buyin em now, really been looking for a nice new filter, and a different feeling eq
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On 11/11/2020 at 10:49 AM, Acedia said:
LA smart man... our temps are sinking quick so you got out just in time haha. This track is dope bro! very calm. There is a sample in there that sounds just like a skype notification noise ahaha I love it. Keep it up bro
haha, i'm probably subconsciously manifesting online meeting sounds now, great.
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On 11/9/2020 at 9:52 PM, Acedia said:
Ayy a fellow Minneapolis kid! Powderhorn is REALLY clean dude, you should be proud. I can't really say much more about it that hasn't been said, but keep making stuff and keep experimenting and improving.
thanks man, yea i was born and raised in minneapolis, but i actually juuust moved to LA.
i'm putting more stuff up now -
posting some new stuff again!
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On 10/14/2020 at 12:25 PM, e-mertz said:
This has been in my liked tracks on soundcloud for over a month and still get's played
oh wow, thanks so much, i took a bit of a break, but i'm making stuff again now
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i'm glad you posted again, cuz i loved going through all the tracks in here, really woke me up this morning haha
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On 8/10/2020 at 8:11 AM, Dpek said:
Very proper. This is just my taste but I think that more could be done with the arrangement, it kind of wanders, but still, very good sound design, it must have taken a lot of time and it shows. Nice one
thanks, yea, it's straight up a wandering melody, its funny you mention that i was just thinking along those exact same lines as im sitting in front of my gear right now. it's a weird problem, to me at least, because if i get really too constructed around a verse/chorus/verse, then i don't feel i'm very good at making it sound anything but very static and predictable. i'm listening to a bunch of tracks right now where there's something more constructed, but escapes that
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On 8/5/2020 at 5:18 PM, Stickfigger said:
Well made track man ... Really nice distortion on those noise samples and very nice trails on that reverb. The FM stuff is very nicely done too and sits well within the mix ...
Very serious track tho so would have to be in the mood but this is definitely in the upper ranks of what gets posted ... Will be keen to dig about to see what else you're making
thanks so much! i'm working through some new stuff now solo, and with a friend on a duo project called Sedenion, if you'd like to check it out we're here on bandcamp: https://sedenion.bandcamp.com/
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13 minutes ago, auxien said:
this is good, almost an older type feeling to it, nice offkilter beats
haha thanks, yea my taste def skews to older stuff in a lot of ways, i really like super raw beats like BDP, and Audio Two. i kinda sketch out shit along those lines and then layer and edit and what not from there
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thanks! i'm trying to pay a lot more attention to levels and panning. i know it's kind of a meme, but Mike Senior's 'Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio' got me straightened out on a lot of the basic stuff that I'd been ignoring
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hey guys, long time lurker first time poster, check out a track?
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really dig the 'swells' and beat programming on reins
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powderhorn
in Your Latest Creations
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I appreciate the thoughtful feedback! i may try adding more melodies to tracks like this, but in many cases, i do think less is more in songwriting.
this is something i think about a lot actually. in doing a lot of close listening to tracks i like to learn from, i've been repeatedly surprised at how structurally simple a lot of them are in terms of sections, specifically. put on autechre's pir for example, jump the playhead around. i find this is true for most music that i'm interested in that doesn't follow a verse/chorus/bridge/verse type structure.
this really is the classic struggle though. simple doesn't have to be boring, and complex isn't always interesting. i think as musicians often times we put constraints on ourselves that the listeners really don't give a shit about that much.