Until I take it down:
In progress MP3 of an industrial/noise track I’m working on.
In retrospect, it reminds me of Lament Configuration, or Tarmvred. That might just be me, though, and it’s Not Done Yet. Please let me know what you think if you download it, anonymously if you so desire.
That is all.
I really like it.
i only get the first 23 seconds every time i try to download it for some reason but it is an awesome 23 seconds and i really want to hear more. so far it reminds me a bit of tarmvred too, and of gridlock.
Thanks! I changed the url, so it might work if you try to download it again. I’d like to hear what you think after you’ve heard the whole track.
that worked, i got it. i think it is excellent.
Thank you very, very much. I’m a fan of your work, so your opinion carries a lot of weight. :)
I really liked it Jai.
and it made Yen want to dance :)
I like it. Especially at 4:30 am, In a way it’s helping retain what little congition I have left.
That sort of ambient synth in the background reminded me of the world map music from FF7. That’s not a bad thing though, it kind reminds me of home. :-) Video games and crunchy industrial music. It’s excellent, I’d dance to it.
much liking this… somehow its not that abraisive, although it sounds like it should be.. which determines if I put it on my playlist for work
how much is left to do?
impressive….
however, i think the industrial noise should be a bit louder than the really slow soft beat (i’m lacking vocabulary, please bare with me)
then again, it’s excellent the way it is now
meh
good work
nice job! good textures….
yeah, it is a tarmvred style loop, though the distortion doesn’t have that characteristic tarmvred rumble. and the atmosphere is somewhat lament, it’s true. maybe a cleaner pad than the lament I’ve heard, but still comparable. actually, it kind of sounds like a pitched-up version of one of my pads… strange.
it’s very loop-driven, which is a sound I’m not so into these days. but you do it well here. the loop does switch up fairly often, never really gets too redundant. sure-fire dancefloor, that goes without saying. give it more dynamic movement, more of a build into and out of the noise, and I think it could be a hit.
my only problem with the track, really, is the nature of the distortion. (this is probably just because I’ve really been off of noise these days, but I’ll say it anyway). the distortion is very high-mid to high-end heavy. some of it might be the mp3 bitrate, I guess. the noise on the beat is all whites and a little grey, and the beat itself gets kind of lost in the static, the percussion becomes indistinct. again, I’m not big into noise these days, and that indistinct quality has become a sore spot for me — but a lot of noise fans love it, so what do I know.
it’s definitely going places, jai, keep it up. (I hope that doesn’t come off patronizing).
Heh. I should make a version that uses FF6/FF7 pads in the background, I think.
Not sure yet. I’ve only spent a day working on it… I still want to play with the middle of it, it’s a bit too loop-ish there for my liking.
Agreed about the distortion. I’m trying to play with it so it’s less high-end heavy, but I’m having headphone/speaker difficulties. Need a pair of monitors, do I.
As for the indistinct-ness when there’s a lot of static, I don’t mind that so much. For the heavier parts, I’ve been more trying to shape the noise into appealing rhythmic sounds, rather than make each percussive sound distinct. With that said, though, I want to be able to make sure that that for any breakdowns in the song that the beats are able to come out of the noise smoothly.
The trick, I think, is going to be making sure that I don’t repeat myself . I really, really like noise, but I really dislike picking up an album where all the tracks sound the same. Same distortion, same percussive style, same basic structure, etc.
(Tangent: My father, when he would write music, would delete his source files/sequences/etc after recording a song, so that he could never ‘borrow’ from it for a new song.)
Thankee muchly, good sir. When is your album expected to be released, btw?
prolly fall 2004, around september i would imagine…i’ll keep everyone posted, don’t you worry. ;)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/with_gusto/74402.html
I think you’d like it.
You really should.
not sure what you mean by loop ish, but when I listened to it it ended up playing through a couple times over, and didnt get repetetive..