You started at hello

pretty chuffed with this one, i like the beats and the melody is alright

theres a bit of a fuck up about 2 3rds into it, a melody starts wrongly, cbf to fix it atm :angry:

http://www.myspace.com/thetelevisor

'You started at hello'

please feedback people:)

The drums are immediatly interesting, back and forth sliding around like a rubber ball on coffee, bouncing and insisting on reversing, reverse sliding around the walls. Little kicks and clavs, love it llove it lllove it. The melody is subtle enough to work against the unique drums, and unique they are and that's what really matters to me. To me. Could ask for a little more variation throughout the song, the melody I mean, the drums they are fine, they are coffee in an empty stomach kicking your head in.

if your goal was to sound like rdj i'd say you've succeeded

edit:

Well it started rather Omgyjya-Switch7ish for sure.

Now this was freakin amazing! I loved it to death, but I have one complaint. The sound quality is very crappy! This may be accredited to the myspace compression, but I just need to know that the quality version doesn't have that closed eq sound.

For that matter, it seems every track on your profile has strange some strange eq's going on. There are definitely some amazing details present here in these genius tracks and I would love to hear it in quality sound!

overall, i find it a bit too messy if you ask me. can't really follow the melody... try to balance things a little. drums are well done, nice job there, but at times it loses... mm how to say it... "roll", y'know, when the beat kind of goes rythmically ok (i.e. as in jungle). didn't like the pad sound you chose at the beginning, sounds too sharp imo. work a bit on the dynamics too, i agree with salvatorin about that.

and yeah, it is totally electronic music lol, might sound as a cliché but it's true :)

Yes, very RDJ... Still I'm not judgin anybody so here's my comment: I LIKE IT

thanks alot for your comments people...

Im thinking of doing some slight edits on the melody i think it gets a bit too repetitive.

ANd the bad EQ is the myspace player it always takes my tracks and face fucks em to kingdom come.

I wasnt trying to sound like rdj but he probably is my biggest influence, and i probably do pinch little ideas from him :P

this was mainly influenced by Bucephalus Bouncing ball as you can tell by the drums.

thanks alot for listening really apreciated!!

I wouldn't agree that the melody is overly repetitive. Actually, I think it would be a mistake to make the melody anymore complicated...the track is based on the percussive sounds and I think the melody should stay simple.

good point, cheers ;) complex beats and complex melody is just a headfuck

fucking sick track...woah its depressing how your the same age as me..btw whats your setup like?

old dell computer and fruity loops 6, yours?

cheers for listening :)

  the televisor said:

old dell computer and fruity loops 6, yours?

 

cheers for listening :)

im calling bullshit on that one

Why.

  danknugz said:

  the televisor said:

old dell computer and fruity loops 6, yours?

 

cheers for listening :)

 

 

im calling bullshit on that one

if you mean bullshit about the dell well its not that old, its got windows xp but weve had it for about 7 years.

plus its fruity loops 6 demo i use, i make all my tracks within a few hours as i cant save anything.

what do you use danknugz?

  the televisor said:

what do you use danknugz?

back in the day when I was your age I use to experiment with production (around 95 96) I used this program called "The Drums Pro 95" I think it was midi based. These days I just use cubase but I never have enough time and/or inspiration to complete a single track unfortunately. Maybe someday

really like this track, especially the silent part with those aphexian intervals and more definite structure in beat programming,

nice job, your fruity loops skills are great!

never heard any madness like this from a reason user, is this just coincidence?

  naos said:

really like this track, especially the silent part with those aphexian intervals and more definite structure in beat programming,

 

nice job, your fruity loops skills are great!

 

never heard any madness like this from a reason user, is this just coincidence?

I guess because Reason is probably more oriented in hip-hop production? :undecided:

I know that Flying Lotus made "1983" almost if not entirely on Reason (Daedelus told me during his live show)

  danknugz said:

  the televisor said:

old dell computer and fruity loops 6, yours?

 

cheers for listening :)

 

 

im calling bullshit on that one

Why? I've been impressed with people who've made some pretty crazy shit with less resources. I come from the school of thought that it is not the tools we use which make us good, but rather how we employ them.

EDIT: By the way Televisor, really love the track and I hear ya on that one about the MySpace player. It's rubish!

yep its shite! ha

ive only ever made tracks using fruity loops, i downloaded the demo about a year ago and i just find it easy to use, plus theres loads of shit you can do with it u just gotta turn the software inside out and have a good gander!

Ive tried using other software to make music like renoise and ableton live, but i just prefer fl

thanks alot for the feedback

  Chris Martin said:

  danknugz said:

  the televisor said:

old dell computer and fruity loops 6, yours?

 

cheers for listening :)

 

 

im calling bullshit on that one

 

 

Why? I've been impressed with people who've made some pretty crazy shit with less resources. I come from the school of thought that it is not the tools we use which make us good, but rather how we employ them.

 

EDIT: By the way Televisor, really love the track and I hear ya on that one about the MySpace player. It's rubish!

no need for the condescension i understand the value of talent vs. tools

i was just under the impression that fruity loops isn't possible of making complex stuff like that, but im just ignorant cause ive never used it myself just what ive heard of it, and I guess the name "fruity loops" doesn't really sound like something you would make great music with

  danknugz said:

i was just under the impression that fruity loops isn't possible of making complex stuff like that, but im just ignorant cause ive never used it myself just what ive heard of it, and I guess the name "fruity loops" doesn't really sound like something you would make great music with

two words: orange dust. an artist you should definitely check out. makes his music entirely in fruityloops, also lives in perth, and blows the televisor out of the fucking water.

.. sorry junglist_jon, but orangedust is superior.

i just checked out the "Orange Dust" myspace page, I must admit i was drawn in by the cool looking graffiti and mystical poetry but the tracks that are up there didn't really do much for me.