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A little diddle.

"Prtcl33" by Distisec

As per usual, I shall give my belated feedback the moment I get to a place where GOD DAMN ****ING PUTFILE PLAYS FOR ME. =P
 
delightfully splendid, theotherguy! you've recorded everything yourself? splendidly delightful as well.
 
Nice otherguy, reminded me of Ween for some reason :D

Here's a track that I and a few others on my course created under the name 'We Sucellus' (don't ask) for a studio assignment at uni, it's an acoustic/ambient cover of The Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet. I'm not too fond of the MIDI drum track we used, but we didn't get a chance to record using an acoustic kit.

http://media.putfile.com/Its-Not-Over-Yet-The-Klaxons
 
Pulse said:
Nice otherguy, reminded me of Ween for some reason :D

Here's a track that I and a few others on my course created under the name 'We Sucellus' (don't ask) for a studio assignment at uni, it's an acoustic/ambient cover of The Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet. I'm not too fond of the MIDI drum track we used, but we didn't get a chance to record using an acoustic kit.

http://media.putfile.com/Its-Not-Over-Yet-The-Klaxons
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That's awesome. What were you playing on it? Or were you mixing it?
 
Played bass, verse glockenspiel and did some mixing on the vocals/bass/ebow sections.
 
Has a nice thing going after 50 seconds. I like the lead that starts at 0:39.
After a couple minutes though I was waiting for a really awesome intense DnB line to kick in...but it dint :(
Sooo yea, try adding one :D
 
^ Fails at replacing asterisks with F-werd.

That was pretty cool though, Geo.
 
A more serious attempt. I finally have a proper midi keyboard now. Axiom 25.

Trunctaed Vines

By no means a finished track, barely even a WIP. More a sketch of a musical idea.
 
That's pretty cool Geo, the pads in the beginning are the best element. The strings are a little out of key in spots, it seems. Percussion could use some variation/definition as the rest of the track builds up. It's a very catchy little idm loop though.

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Another track from me. A few hours in Reason. Style similar to 'Tribute to Raziaar'. A little on the short side, I didn't feel like repeating stuff. (In before Qonf yelling)

http://media.putfile.com/Pernicious
 
Vegeta897 said:
The strings are a little out of key in spots, it seems.
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sounds fine to me. i liked it, Geo. filter down the beat a tad, evolve the phrases, etc, i'd suggest throwing in an instrument that pronounces the rythm, like some alternating fifths of reverbed triangle-oscillating polysynth with a short decay on filter envelope, but whatever. it's a cool idea.

Another track from me. A few hours in Reason. Style similar to 'Tribute to Raziaar'. A little on the short side, I didn't feel like repeating stuff. (In before Qonf yelling)

http://media.putfile.com/Pernicious
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likey very much.. polish the mixdown and EQ abit, it's muddy near the end
i liked the way you ended it.. seems very arcade-game soundtrack-ish

more from my duo project. electro meets idm meets smooth jazz
http://media.putfile.com/Kompakt-Duo----nocturnal-emission
 
^ So awesome. Love the Analord-style bass, and the last quarter of the song...oh man.

Fukken saved.
 
Geogaddi said:
A more serious attempt. I finally have a proper midi keyboard now. Axiom 25.

Trunctaed Vines

By no means a finished track, barely even a WIP. More a sketch of a musical idea.
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I really like that. Continue on with that, I'd like to see where it goes.

Vegeta897 said:
Another track from me. A few hours in Reason. Style similar to 'Tribute to Raziaar'. A little on the short side, I didn't feel like repeating stuff. (In before Qonf yelling)

http://media.putfile.com/Pernicious
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too shortwtf
 
I was working on a new track tonight. Instead of trying to sing my lyrics (because I'm learning to sing), I sort of growled them. They are dark apocalyptic lyrics of doom. I really like what I'm saying, I'm not sure what the story is about, it's just doom and gloom on the planet bscly.

I'm pretty inspired by this thread. I've got about 350 songs I made, but nearly all are instrumental. They are mostly some kind of killer drum rhythms with stabs. I really want to add guitars to some and lyrics to most.

I saw some guitars at the pawn shop and have been thinking about getting one. I know this is pretty newbish, but can I just plug the guitar into my sound card using a headphone mini-jack adapter? Then just hit record and play something? I really just like simple, extremely distorted guitars. Can I use my PC to change the way the guitar sounds? So I don't have to buy distortion pedals?


I listened to the "Only One" by 'theotherguy'

it reminds me of The Cars.

It's really good. Catchy.

some suggestions that you may appreciate:

215 start this singing a little later, like one more section of just instruments. This will make the song a little longer, but you could take out one of the 'am i the only one' repeating sections, in fact I recommend it.

@ 38 sec - 50 sec it sounds perfect. not only professional, but very enjoyable.

pretty nice lyrics, but don't be afraid to change a couple of lines if you think of something better. You can say something different that gets the same point across


at 3:10 ish you should try a new overdub of completely new, unique section of singing. for example, "I thought I was the only one." and make it drawn out and loud. Really use your lungs.

Percussion is like perfect, you could make the cymbal a little louder

turn up the guitar, particularly the unique guitar sections where there is no singing
aren't real toms? have you experimented with a different tom sound, a more real tom sound? The rest of the track sounds pretty modern but the tom sounds a little old school.

nice ending

overall, it's very complete.


I also listened to Amnesia.

It's quite professional. Again, the drums sound good, but where the snare goes SS S, I recommend you double it up occasionally: SS S,SS S
(S=Snare)



Wish I could sing.

I growl or rap.

I have tried singing a little, but I can't hit certain high notes - not that they are too high, I just can't get my voice box to do what I want it too.



Vegeta, City at War is pretty good. I'm not sure I like the snare though, and somewhere in the middle when you are talking about gunfire - I'm not sure that is necessary. What genre is that? Industrial? I've got this industrial reggae song I made. It's actually one of my very favorites. I will share it one day. You have a good voice. Sounds like you can make something of it if you keep practicing.

Ova/Geogaddi - that is pretty tight. It has potential. The drums sound so unique that I love them at first, but I think if it was up to me I would use some nasty drum patterns.

... I have got to share a song that it reminds me of. A song I did that I tentatively called 'Haunted Computer'.
 
VirusType2 said:
Vegeta, City at War is pretty good. I'm not sure I like the snare though, and somewhere in the middle when you are talking about gunfire - I'm not sure that is necessary. What genre is that? Industrial? I've got this industrial reggae song I made. It's actually one of my very favorites. I will share it one day. You have a good voice. Sounds like you can make something of it if you keep practicing.
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LOL.

Did you not read my post at all?

The genre I'd say would be... breakbeat, or breakcore.
 
Hear my song. Do it.

Haunted Computer [version 0.1]

First time I shared anything I've done. :cheers:

It was something I made in a few hours, and haven't worked on it in a while, but I think it could be something. It's got some new sounds in there that I was playing with, and never placed throughout the entire track, but I like it fine how it is for now. I plan to add something huge, a song direction changing kind of sound, especially during a couple of dead spots. If I could sing like Vegeta, I'd add vocals. I'll have to see what I can do. My voice is likeable, I just can't control it well yet. I'm pretty good at lyrics, but I don't have any for this song. Actually it's probably better as an instrumental.

Well, let me know what you think. I've got hundreds more songs I could share.


Vegeta897 said:
LOL.

Did you not read my post at all?

The genre I'd say would be... breakbeat, or breakcore.
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Well, it was the first time I saw this thread and it has 44 pages, but I tried to get up to speed by reading 2.

I'm sorry.


I dub anything that uses that much echo on vocals, "industrial" and then add a sub genre. Like Industrial Electronic.

Anyhow, Industrial is probably not the right word. I mostly hear echo like that on Dancehall Reggae and Reggae. If you aren't familiar with Reggae, there is some in the GTA games that I really like, that have loads of echo/feedback on the vocals.

I definately wouldn't call it breakbeat though. Most of my songs are probably breakbeat. I've never heard of breakcore though so I don't know.

Plus, reading what I said, I sound like a dick, but I did say I liked it. I hope "change the snare' and work on that one vocal part didn't offend you. Anyway, thats just my opinion. The snare is the most important part of percussion, and it can change the song dramatically.
 
Virus, it's not his vocals, it's a remix, just so you know :)
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So my cousin told me that a (lesser known) band he likes is having a remix competition thing on MySpace... I was bored and felt like trying something new, so I go there (http://www.myspace.com/cobramixes) and download the files. And then I got to developing a Venetian Snares-ish breakbeat type track, with glitch vocals etc. Only thing I used which wasn't provided was a DnB bassline.

http://media.putfile.com/The-City-Is-At-War-897th-Mix

I think it's pretty damn cool. Sure as hell beats the loads of shit that noobs cook up in GarageBand :p

Edit: Made a non-distorted version:

http://media.putfile.com/The-City-Is-At-War-Clean-Mix
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Anyway, Haunted Computer is pretty cool. Sounds like an ambientish soundtrack to some sci-fi game :D
 
VirusType2 said:
I dub anything that uses that much echo on vocals, "industrial" and then add a sub genre. Like Industrial Electronic.

Anyhow, Industrial is probably not the right word. I mostly hear echo like that on Dancehall Reggae and Reggae. If you aren't familiar with Reggae, there is some in the GTA games that I really like, that have loads of echo/feedback on the vocals.

I definately wouldn't call it breakbeat though. Most of my songs are probably breakbeat. I've never heard of breakcore though so I don't know.

Plus, reading what I said, I sound like a dick, but I did say I liked it. I hope "change the snare' and work on that one vocal part didn't offend you. Anyway, thats just my opinion. The snare is the most important part of percussion, and it can change the song dramatically.
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lol, what echo? You mean the stuttering? Perhaps you mean the reverb. Why would you dub anything with high reverb industrial? :p

Why wouldn't you call it breakbeat? It's a chaotic noisy track based on broken beats and vocals. Sounds like breakbeat to me. Like I said, Venetian Snares.

I used all the samples from the source files of the song, so I can't really help that the snare sounds that way. I don't think anything is wrong with it, though. Them, rather. There are two different snares in the track (two different drum loops from the source files which I rex'd)

I don't know why you keep saying industrial. Just because it has distortion? I think the problem is maybe you don't know too much about the style of music I am making here. Whatever though, thanks for listening and I appreciate the comments.
 
Vegeta897 said:
lol, what echo? You mean the stuttering? Perhaps you mean the reverb. Why would you dub anything with high reverb industrial? :p

Why wouldn't you call it breakbeat? It's a chaotic noisy track based on broken beats and vocals. Sounds like breakbeat to me. Like I said, Venetian Snares.

I used all the samples from the source files of the song, so I can't really help that the snare sounds that way. I don't think anything is wrong with it, though. Them, rather. There are two different snares in the track (two different drum loops from the source files which I rex'd)

I don't know why you keep saying industrial. Just because it has distortion? I think the problem is maybe you don't know too much about the style of music I am making here. Whatever though, thanks for listening and I appreciate the comments.
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There are just too many different definitions of the different genres for the simple reason that nobody knows what they are talking about, but enough people call it one thing, it becomes that. I would never in my life call Venetian Snares breakbeat. I've made hundreds of breakbeat songs. But I suppose it could be called that because the beat has breaks. lol. It doesn't really matter what it's called. When you make music that doesn't have a [very long] history, it has no genre either obviously.

See wikipedia:

Breakbeat (sometimes breakbeats or breaks) is a term used to describe a collection of sub-genres of electronic music, usually characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house or trance). These rhythms may be characterised by their intensive use of syncopation and polyrhythms.
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Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of experimental music, especially but not necessarily electronic music.
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Industrial was a term meant by its creators to evoke the idea of music created for a new generation of people, previous music being more "agricultural." A fatalist-but-realistic, slightly misanthropic and often intensely dehumanized or mechanical atmosphere was present in the music and the utilization of gritty, hands-on technologies and techniques, rather than any concrete compositional detail, was a common practice.

On this topic, Peter Christopherson of Industrial Records once remarked, "The original idea of Industrial Records was to reject what the growing industry was telling you at the time what music was supposed to be."
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The prolific Venetian Snares has produced breakcore blended with elements of classical music. Other artists such as Shitmat and DJ Scotch Egg take another direction towards mash-up, happy hardcore and rave to make a lighter, more humorous sound.
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Okay, I guess I know what Breakcore is now. I don't think your song sounds like Venetian Snares though.
 
Why does it matter what genre it is?
Anyways, Breakcore can pratically be anything.
I wouldn't call it breakbeat though, it's definately of some sort of breakcore. (No, they are not the same.)
 
Well, the Amen, for example, is a break, yet it's 4/4. So Wiki's definition is kind of off, except for the syncopated part. IMO breakbeat is just something that uses breaks exclusively for its drums, so most hip hop would be under that category. I haven't heard breakbeat used much as a genre name, however, and I don't think it's really meritless to describe one as such. It would be like saying 4 on the floor is a genre.
 
Which is why I don't consider breakbeat to mean a song that uses breaks. I've always thought of breakbeat to be just like what it sounds like, a beat broken up beyond recognizability. Completely rearranged, and usually chaotic and hectic, but always syncopated of course. Venetian snares does exactly that.

Industrial I've always thought to mean it's characterized by mechanical and gritty sounds. Like one of those articles you quoted said.
 
Vegeta897 said:
Which is why I don't consider breakbeat to mean a song that uses breaks.
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A lot of people in the breakbeat culture would take offense to that. Breakbeats are about songs using breaks with drums in it.
 
You're misinterpreting me. I meant that not all songs that have breaks should be called breakbeat. All breakbeat songs use breaks, though. Understand?

Like, all rock songs have guitar, but that doesn't mean that all guitar songs are rock.

Breakbeat shouldn't be defined by the single fact that it uses a break. Just like rock isn't defined as having a guitar.
 
Vegeta897 said:
You're misinterpreting me. I meant that not all songs that have breaks should be called breakbeat. All breakbeat songs use breaks, though. Understand?

Like, all rock songs have guitar, but that doesn't mean that all guitar songs are rock.

Breakbeat shouldn't be defined by the single fact that it uses a break. Just like rock isn't defined as having a guitar.
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Ohh, okay, I got you now. I thought you were saying that a breakbeat song doesn't need a break with drums.
Sorry, my bad.
 
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