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[scottyboy]

I like it

[RockAustin]

Originally Posted by scottyboy

I like it

Cheers bro! Back to melody again

[KittyCat]

All the tracks are pretty good but my favourites are 'Going Out - Can't Be Assed' and 'Junk Philosophy'

[RockAustin]

Originally Posted by KittyCat

All the tracks are pretty good but my favourites are 'Going Out - Can't Be Assed' and 'Junk Philosophy'

Cheers! Glad someone likes Junk Philosophy, laughed a lot whilst making that one. My mate Jonny's rant, while I was just getting levels for the mic sorted, about a bin is so stupidly funny it had to stay and be the basis of the song. All of the tracks could be better produced but I generally only put one or two good nights work into any of them before I get bored and start something new which means ideas don't really develop to their full extent. One day when I'm less busy/social I'll get down with them or just produce better ones.

[RockAustin]

Got home from band practice last night about 11 and challenged myself to write something in an hour before I went to bed... ended up taking two and a half hours including burning CD which is a record for me. Anyway, if you have a listen expect the usual degree of care you may have grown accustomed to

Let me know what you think, it's just a train of thought really. The concept was just to put down as many melodies using sounds I wouldn't normally touch - vocal effect synth sounds and synth brass - that could be combined together and build up over a period of time over a kind of nasty formant sound with lots of distortion.

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It's called "a cloud of contented despair".

[scottyboy]

I quite like that one as well: it's very atmospheric, arty and depressing

[RockAustin]

I think it's a little like a western, might add in a clint eastwood sample

maybe Italian porn

[ghost]

"Going Out - Can't Be Assed" - it's background music for a 90s computer adventure game! I'm not saying it's not good, I think there is a lot of work going on in the background and it's mixed really well.
"Attention Deficit" is really quite good. It reminds me of a few things, but it is a strong track.

Enjoyed listening to these. So are all the instruments recorded live or are you multitracking computer generated sounds using Reason or something like that? I'm impressed with the drum tracks quite a bit! Something I really struggle with...

[RockAustin]

Originally Posted by ghost

"Going Out - Can't Be Assed" - it's background music for a 90s computer adventure game! I'm not saying it's not good, I think there is a lot of work going on in the background and it's mixed really well.
"Attention Deficit" is really quite good. It reminds me of a few things, but it is a strong track.

Enjoyed listening to these. So are all the instruments recorded live or are you multitracking computer generated sounds using Reason or something like that? I'm impressed with the drum tracks quite a bit! Something I really struggle with...

Thanks! Yeah, much of it is kind of computer gamey to some degree.

Generally I start with a basic drum track on Fruity Loops then copy each of the individual drum sample rhythms onto separate tracks so that I can take them in and out as I feel the music needs to be emphasised. I rewire fruity into cubase and make a start on the music.

As for the music, I don't have much time to spend on this stuff due to numerous band commitments and work so get it all recorded as quickly as I can. I have a Virus TI, piano, a basic Moog and some other hardware that I use for all of it and jam over the initial beat that I made. Usually end up with a bunch of 4 bar loops, bass, pads, arps, that I'm happy with (it's not always like this) and then construct a rough structure using these. I don't use midi so it's very important that a lot of time is spent trying to find and make sounds that, in my opinion, fit well together.

Once I have this framework I start developing the drum track a bit more as by this point you have an idea of where you might like to take the song. I then go back to the music and see where else it might like to go. This usually involves some type of melody or a few melodies.

I don't have to do a great deal of "production" on the tracks because the quality of the virus is so high. Now I'm recording everything at 24 bit 48000hz which makes a massive difference to the overall quality. The trick that I'm trying to learn is how to make things sit nicely together in a mix and a lot of that is down to what synth patches you choose to use.

I'm going to be working on a new idea over the next year to focus the way I'm writing and give myself an incentive to spend a bit longer developing and making better quality tracks. I'm looking for an animator for this as it's going to be kind of a peter and the wolf style story with electronic music... hope I have the patience to follow it through!!

[RockAustin]

New track up called Been a Beautiful Life. A bit of a depressing number. I recorded it on sunday night and didn't bother fixing any of the bad playing/singing, has a nice feel to it I think so didn't want to spoil it by replaying stuff or chopping it up. It's just a jam really. Hope you like it.

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