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???
05-21-2007, 02:14 PM
itt post you/your band's music and review everyone else's.

i got nothing to start with though. sry.

wHATcOLOR
05-21-2007, 02:23 PM
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???
05-21-2007, 02:26 PM
fuck yeah.

Kahlo
05-21-2007, 02:39 PM
u STILL havent recorded yet?

that sucks I to the Gazelle

???
05-21-2007, 03:07 PM
i haven't really recorded for years. i am the most useless person alive. which is a shame, because i think my stuff's actually alright. all this might change later this year though, when i start doing my music tech course and learn how to record stuff properly. not to mention potentially find a damn band to play with.

Luke de Spa
05-21-2007, 03:17 PM
itt post you/your band's music and review everyone else's.

i got nothing to start with though. sry.
are you a sound engineer?

???
05-21-2007, 03:21 PM
do you have any recordings?

RopeyLopey
05-21-2007, 03:50 PM
i've posted about ************** before, the little noise/experimental netlabel deal i run featuring music from netphorias own mason (standardnoise / acres), julio (canned kitty), ryan patrick (pqow). i also put up my own stuff there under the names loggerhead and uvovu.

too bad we are under exclusive contract to noyen's sugarhood records

smashingjj
05-21-2007, 04:46 PM
COMPLETELY NEW LINK HAVEN'T POSTED THIS BEFORE ATTENTION ATTENTION

http://www.sendspace.com/file/t8cwcv

le crapface

smashingjj
05-21-2007, 05:07 PM
http://www.sendspace.com/file/tt48f9

le asshole - 80th floor

a new song! just guitar and voice! check it out! it's real whiny!

smashingjj
05-21-2007, 05:19 PM
and then, <i>boutros bubba</i>. god dammit my band is easily the best in the country and the best on this site but we're too 'hardcore keeping it real' for most of you sissy assholes to understand. on our last ultra hardcore tour (4 gigs), I recorded 3 of the gigs, of which the one we played the best was recorded distorted. which fits our sound quite much, if you ask me. talk about hardcore. this is that gig, along with a song from the other two recorded gigs, sounding more clear. including Once Upon a Time in the West cover - man with a harmonica.

smashingjj
05-21-2007, 05:19 PM
well, in a minute, when it's uploaded.

smashingjj
05-21-2007, 05:30 PM
the first track features 4 minutes of piano and sax solo as our singer / guitarist plays piano as well and we brought a saxophone player (to drive the bus). it's one of a few tracks containing bits of impro; mostly it's tight songwriting though. can you feel the excitement as the uploading is nearly done?

smashingjj
05-21-2007, 05:32 PM
not so long now...

this tension must be higher than that amongst sp fans of the zeitgeist, since we're musically a lot better than sp

smashingjj
05-21-2007, 05:32 PM
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05-21-2007, 05:37 PM
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05-21-2007, 05:37 PM
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smashingjj
05-21-2007, 05:38 PM
http://www.sendspace.com/file/b33yen

boutros bubba - live in germany '07

DeviousJ
05-21-2007, 05:56 PM
http://www.sendspace.com/file/b33yen

boutros bubba - live in germany '07

SOLD

RopeyLopey
05-21-2007, 05:57 PM
joeri, I am crying - your music is so beautiful. Full review in a minute - have to find hankies.

ChristHimself!
05-21-2007, 06:27 PM
I'll bite.

You can listen to about 16 tracks on the player on my newly updated site here; http://www.paulietheboss.com/music.htm

Some are just sketches, varying in recording and songwriting quality, and quite old now. A mix of stuff, acoustic, ambient, electronic, industrial. That tracklist is designed to flow as much as those tracks can, so if you're feeling it keep listening. Any feedback appreciated.

Joeri, I'm finally downloading your shit now my man.

Rockin' Cherub
05-21-2007, 06:30 PM
izzle are your songs all G D a C singin about women kind of songs

i dont know are thy
im kind of druink but really answe r me

shannon
05-21-2007, 06:45 PM
I'll bite.

You can listen to about 16 tracks on the player on my newly updated site here; http://www.paulietheboss.com/music.htm

Some are just sketches, varying in recording and songwriting quality, and quite old now. A mix of stuff, acoustic, ambient, electronic, industrial. That tracklist is designed to flow as much as those tracks can, so if you're feeling it keep listening. Any feedback appreciated.

Joeri, I'm finally downloading your shit now my man.

when i click on the link, the page shows up blank

i want to listen :(

ChristHimself!
05-21-2007, 06:48 PM
:/ what browser are you using? try going to www.paulietheboss.com and clicking on the music link...

it should be working though.. i'm getting it up in firefox, ie and opera

shannon
05-21-2007, 06:50 PM
i'm using safari, but it worked when i did what you said :)

ChristHimself!
05-21-2007, 06:51 PM
ok cool :) i hope you like some of it.. im gonna hit the sack for now, shattered.

RopeyLopey
05-21-2007, 07:10 PM
Dom -
I liked the part 2 track more. I was thinking what would be the optimal settings for listening to this music, and I could not come with anything. Do you alone have anything in mind, what ativity would go with this? I am not too much into this experimental music, but I'd certainly classify this more as 'good' rahter than 'bad, sucking' music.


Joeri -
drug ghosts - catchy, aggressive , it reminds me of Firestarter and some track from Fragile towards the end
hardcore- very nice, I don't like the distorted parts - if you got this with distorted guitars, I guess it would have been better
memory - great, made me wept (although around 2 minute mark it starts meandering nowhere)
xylometazoline - rhythm track almost your trademark thing
intermezzo - this should be intro music for SP2 hitting the stage, haha!
lazy journalist - what a sad, heart-breaking song, outro like something by Primus
le deestra - fantastic song, fits right well at the end of the record.

Paul -
I listened to first four songs. I like the versatility of the tracks, that you don't stick with only one thing. I would actually wouldn't mind listening to this while driving. I was pleasantly surprised by your singing on Wilt. It comes across as a honest stuff, and I wouldn't have thought you can sing like this.

isle-
hah, that is actually quite sympathetic stuff, isle. You should focus on sing-along songs for children, your music sounds quite suitable for that. I am not sure if you take it as a compliment, but I really don't mean it in a bad way.
EDIT: yeah I guess it must be that girl, but I think it is really good if this is what she's bringing to the plate. I wouldn't discourage her at all, quite to the opposite. Happy music is a good music!


Luke da Spa -
you know I still keep the demo of the song (boats) and I prefer it to this. It is more raw, real, spontaneous.
I do not agree with isle that you should be more aggressive or that your music is missing edge. I actually appreciate you're not pushing it, when you don't feel it, that you seem to be comfortable with the way it comes from you. And if you rawk out, it is hilarious (all our base belong to UNICRON!
I hope you find other guys for the band very soon, and you get to play this material live. You are very talented songwriter, and it shows.


COG-
I really felt sorry about you with the Christmas song - how much stuff you have contributed and how little was used at the end.
You seem to have good ideas, but when it is all thrown together into songs, it tastes weird. If I were you, I would try to develop more certain ideas, here the things like new leaf - it looks like you get something going, and then you don't know how to progress with it any further, so you jump to some completely different idea -I felt a bit lost.
I understand your limitations, but still - the music felt plastic to me, like polyethylene - it is machine music, I lack the human being feeling - but again, if someone is into techno or electronica, he will have a different opinion


cork_soaker-
that is wonderful music. You and LDS should form a killer duo. I liked Revolve the most, untitled reminded me of Walking on the wild side by Lou Reed. I really have nothing bad to say, and I guess you get enough compliments on your own. Do you have any music that does have more full-abnd sound or is everything like this- minimal, effective, good?


brendo
that's a buttrock, indeed. I can imagine you'd make a great soundtrack for me drinking 3-4 beers on a nice sunny day afternoon and then in the mood mildly rocking out to your music on some open-air festival. That would be a good time. You know that type of music that's OK enough and is not irritating, but the other day you can't really remember any melody, just that you have had a sort of good time.


deadaswarhol
I am confused - are you going for the TFE sound on purpose or is it only a temporary thing because you have no drummer right now?
I like your guitar playing, it makes me feel sentimental for my high school years. what happened to Sprinkles? I downloaded fucknstars, but the music going together with the video is so much better - I don't know, it reminds me of all the shit we were doing at that time - the song with video is doing a great job in bringing all these memories back - I personally think fucknstars >>>> TFE sound
I hope you get some drummer soon. But really - what happened to Sprinkles?


milstead
IDK - you sound like soft NIN, and the last song is a mix of NIN with Starla. Maybe you are too much sound engineer, the songs are too much polished for me. You seem to be quite skillful, but the music doesn't excite me. You know, let's take isle - recording is lo-fi, but I can feel human beings there; your stuff appears to me as well-sculpted statue without feelings. I would not say it sucks, I only find somewhat soulless.


johnny
how long are your shows?
the first song sounds like snorting into water
the second song - metalworks?
the third one - I don't even know.
You should hook up with David Lynch

teh!!!bolly
I am production and sound engineering cave-man, so not much input there. The song didn't insult me, though. It actually reminds me of Corganist's (?) Rocket variation.


deer canada's turn:

deer canada - comes a time
http://www.sendspace.com/file/23zuou


deer canada - jedna dva tri
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5d4qdz
(this is a collage of about 18 different recent Netphorian songs. DeviousJ and Sleeper contributed probably as much as me. I don't expect a reaction on every piece, I am more interested if you find there something interesting or just say it's all bullshit. thanks.


this thread is a reciprocity thing, right?

shannon
05-21-2007, 07:11 PM
ok cool :) i hope you like some of it.. im gonna hit the sack for now, shattered.

'warm and wonderful' & 'ours' are awesome!

???
05-21-2007, 07:14 PM
i really want to hear some original music by deviousj and lds. also monkeyfritters is blowing his own horn alot lately so i think he should contribute too.

RopeyLopey
05-21-2007, 07:16 PM
i really want to hear some original music by deviousj and lds. also monkeyfritters is blowing his own horn alot lately so i think he should contribute too.I am not sure if I am allowed to share information which track *******s DeviousJ. You can guess!

???
05-21-2007, 07:25 PM
paul i think you've got a good approach to music in that you always try to do something different, but i think some of the songs are bit hit-and-miss. always interesting, nonetheless. "this is the woobs" is hilarious. "my heart bleeds for you" is evocative of a turtle head poking out. in a good way.

Luke de Spa
05-21-2007, 07:29 PM
i really want to hear some original music by deviousj and lds. also monkeyfritters is blowing his own horn alot lately so i think he should contribute too.
i'm not blowing my own horn, i'm into sound engineering. are you a sound engineer?

shannon
05-21-2007, 07:31 PM
deer canada's turn: http://www.sendspace.com/file/foyoc2
(one original and two embellished songs, originally by David Pajo)

songs ******* contributions from the following Netphorians:
pink_ribbon_scars, Oblivious, Obscured01, DeviousJ, sleeper, barden, cork_soaker, Ropes

i enjoyed all three of these... but especially jonathan whitehead :)

???
05-21-2007, 07:33 PM
i'm not blowing my own horn, i'm into sound engineering. are you a sound engineer?

i'm into a recordings. do you have any sound engineer?

Luke de Spa
05-21-2007, 07:33 PM
nope, but i'm looking for one

???
05-21-2007, 07:34 PM
what's this life for.

smashingjj
05-21-2007, 07:41 PM
deer canada's turn: http://www.sendspace.com/file/foyoc2
(one original and two embellished songs, originally by David Pajo)

songs ******* contributions from the following Netphorians:
pink_ribbon_scars, Oblivious, Obscured01, DeviousJ, sleeper, barden, cork_soaker, Ropes

this thread is a reciprocity thing, right?
thanks for your review! boutros bubba is where it's really at though! your music fucking sucks!!!

(tomorrow i'll listen and post my thoughts, too fucking tired right now. but thanks again!)

???
05-21-2007, 08:27 PM
ah, what the heck. ok, i've got some tunes. although this stuff isn't really representative of my own music, i also write/play with my girlfriend so i guess we're a band. the song ideas are mostly hers but i seem to end up finishing most of them...i don't normally feel like there's a lot of room for my guitar in there, so no "izzle's groundbreaking riffs" present here really. i like what we do though, i think we sound a bit mellon collie-ish in a few places.

note: sound quality is pretty ropey 'cause we recorded live into an mp3 player. also, our drummer doesn't play drums.

fire away.

www.myspace.com/momerathsoxford

Luke de Spa
05-21-2007, 08:42 PM
okay, here are some songs

building boats in the basement (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_building-boats-in-the-basement.mp3)
dog days (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_dog-days.mp3)
inside out (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_inside-out.mp3)
myth physics (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_myth-physics.mp3)
peregrine (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_peregrine.mp3)
where the gods sleep (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_where-the-gods-sleep.mp3)

will listen to other stuff posted later today

shannon
05-21-2007, 08:44 PM
lds, i heard your song dog days a while back... it's probably on every mix CD i have ever made

shannon
05-21-2007, 08:46 PM
wow that sounds creepy :erm:

???
05-21-2007, 09:06 PM
lds you're pretty good. all i would say is that your songs could have a bit more of an edge to them- they're decent overall and you have a good voice but the songs seem quite...delicate? what they have in agility, they lack in power, so to speak...also, the vocal melody to dog days reminds me a lot of "the one i love" by rufus wainwright, if you know it. keep it up though.

shannon
05-21-2007, 09:25 PM
COMPLETELY NEW LINK HAVEN'T POSTED THIS BEFORE ATTENTION ATTENTION

http://www.sendspace.com/file/t8cwcv

le crapface

:love:

RopeyLopey
05-21-2007, 09:27 PM
isle

fire away.

www.myspace.com/momerathsoxford
hah, that is actually quite sympathetic stuff, isle. You should focus on sing-along songs for children, your music sounds quite suitable for that. I am not sure if you take it as a compliment, but I really don't mean it in a bad way.


okay, here are some songs

building boats in the basement (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_building-boats-in-the-basement.mp3)
you know I still keep the demo of the song and I prefer it to this. It is more raw, real.

COG
05-21-2007, 09:51 PM
http://www.myspace.com/justanothercog

my opinion is coming up

cork_soaker
05-21-2007, 09:52 PM
here's a link to three songs of mine.
quiet, acoustic/piano stuff
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ka26l2

shannon
05-21-2007, 10:03 PM
oh my god, i remember crying one night when i was listening to spitfire ships... when i got my new computer, it wouldnt transfer to my itunes from my ipod and i totally forgot to ask you to send it to me again!

shannon
05-21-2007, 10:10 PM
i love you nathaniel

RopeyLopey
05-21-2007, 10:16 PM
http://www.myspace.com/justanothercog

here's a link to three songs of mine.
quiet, acoustic/piano stuff
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ka26l2

hi guys, I actually think it was a good idea by isle, that whoever posts, he also offers their opinion about the already posted stuff in the thread. I guess we all are interested in the opinion/criticism of others. I mean it is not necessary to do it right now, but if you got around it sometime later on, it would be cool.

COG
05-21-2007, 10:23 PM
sorry, didn't read that part :(

I will do it post haste

cork_soaker
05-21-2007, 10:24 PM
hi guys, I actually think it was a good idea by isle, that whoever posts, he also offers their opinion about the already posted stuff in the thread. I guess we all are interested in the opinion/criticism of others. I mean it is not necessary to do it right now, but if you got around it sometime later on, it would be cool.

oh, alright. i missed that.... i'll gladly offer my opinions; i need to do some more listening, though.

brendo_91
05-21-2007, 10:47 PM
I will come back to this thread, but I'm kinda busy at the moment.

http://www.myspace.com/stolenidentityband

COG
05-21-2007, 10:58 PM
Alright, first off. I listened to ChristHimselfs while I waited for the first 2 to download.

I stopped at "Brian, why do you curse my heart"

I really like your music. I think I like the instrumental stuff better than the ones with words, however, I really like your voice, it just seems like the instrumental ones are better thought out musically.

I really like your use of synth, and the spacey guitar tone is pretty cool. That's all I can think of right now, but I will defiantly be going back and listening to the rest of it. This is the kinda stuff I could go to sleep too (and that's a good thing).

EDIT: I lied, listened to two more songs, liked them very much.

FURTHER EDITING:

Listened to the Loggerhead stuff, and I found it to be quite chill, and while I don't listen to ambient stuff like that too often, I thought it was good. (I didn't really listen all the way through, but I will later, I get the feeling it's something that maybe needs to be experienced from start to finish to get the total effect.)

also listened to le joustra - goes to da maxx!, quite a lot of variety, and I enjoyed all the songs.

I'm not just saying I like everything, you guys just all write cool music.

also, listening to deer canada right now, very cool. I don't know about the spoken word thing, but the music is pretty cool.

COG
05-22-2007, 12:16 AM
okay, here are some songs

building boats in the basement (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_building-boats-in-the-basement.mp3)
dog days (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_dog-days.mp3)
inside out (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_inside-out.mp3)
myth physics (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_myth-physics.mp3)
peregrine (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_peregrine.mp3)
where the gods sleep (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_where-the-gods-sleep.mp3)

will listen to other stuff posted later today

I like your music Luke (if that IS your real name). I've always liked your music. . .

EDIT: Since other people are uploading albums, I will upload some tomorrow.

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 12:59 AM
here is a thing i did under the name loggerhead earlier in the year using manipulated samples of my voice recorded to two separate cassette tapes, then manipulated further with analog effects as it was re-recorded. two tracks, about 30mins each. very meditative.

loggerhead - help me be good (http://www.**************.com/releases/dws008/helpmebegood.rar)
this is pretty interesting. psych thriller soundtrack. i don't think i'm in the right frame of mind to sit through the whole thing right now, though (@ 12 minutes of part 1)

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 01:31 AM
COMPLETELY NEW LINK HAVEN'T POSTED THIS BEFORE ATTENTION ATTENTION

http://www.sendspace.com/file/t8cwcv

le crapface
dude ARE YOU A SOUND ENGINEER?

i like this a lot. some of the tracks feel a little repetitive, but there's loads of great ideas in here. favourite stuff: that dissonant bell (?) motif in "drug ghosts"; all of "memory of a happy childhood"; latter half of "lazy journalist" (esp. the fuzz bass + guitar squalls)

i couldn't get the individual song to download; sendspace free service exceeded or something

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 01:59 AM
You can listen to about 16 tracks on the player on my newly updated site here; http://www.paulietheboss.com/music.htm

Some are just sketches, varying in recording and songwriting quality, and quite old now. A mix of stuff, acoustic, ambient, electronic, industrial. That tracklist is designed to flow as much as those tracks can, so if you're feeling it keep listening. Any feedback appreciated.
"wilt" is a solid song. "ebb and flow" sounds really pumpkiny (but tune your guitar or get the intonation seen to or something!) have you fleshed this out into a song? wtf i was not prepared for "woobs". "dream sequins" doesn't load for me. really like the lead in "brian"; that one sounds like it wants vocals and a fuller arrangement to me. other stuff's not really my bag so i can't say much useful about those, sorry. i tried making electronic stuff a few times and it was universally shit

i think you could use a sound engineer. and maybe a band. yeah, get a band too (have you heard of "grunge tuning"?)

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 02:22 AM
deer canada's turn: http://www.sendspace.com/file/foyoc2
(one original and two embellished songs, originally by David Pajo)

songs ******* contributions from the following Netphorians:
pink_ribbon_scars, Oblivious, Obscured01, DeviousJ, sleeper, barden, cork_soaker, Ropes
jonathan whitehead: this is good stuff. love the dynamics. not so crazy about the ebow tone but otherwise, top notch
milk in my snot: this one feels looser / less focused. i'm not that big on spoken-word vocals in songs, but that's just personal preference. i like the outro
pacific coast: wtf/earbagger. music's nice, establishes a mood well, but wtf man, are you a sound earbaggeer

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 02:22 AM
OKAY WHO'S NEXT

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 02:41 AM
www.myspace.com/momerathsoxford
not bad, although the recording's obviously limited. the first three songs all seem a little overlong to me, but nonetheless you've got some clever/fun/quirky arrangements in there. i like "king queen jack" the best of the four you have up. it wants bass. (ideally you would find a bassist who is also a sound engineer)

not hearing mellon collie outside a few isolated guitar runs. what's your writing process like?

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 02:42 AM
okay, here are some songs

building boats in the basement (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_building-boats-in-the-basement.mp3)
dog days (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_dog-days.mp3)
inside out (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_inside-out.mp3)
myth physics (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_myth-physics.mp3)
peregrine (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_peregrine.mp3)
where the gods sleep (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_where-the-gods-sleep.mp3)

will listen to other stuff posted later today
pop rock shit, fuck off

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 03:04 AM
http://www.myspace.com/justanothercog
sorry dude but these don't do much for me. there's either not enough going on ("coming back home", "my twilight" and "the end of our lives") or too much ("a new leaf")! what kind of effect were you going for with these?

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 03:11 AM
here's a link to three songs of mine.
quiet, acoustic/piano stuff
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ka26l2
i think i've heard these three before. i like 'em

Ol' Couch Ass
05-22-2007, 03:17 AM
As everyone else has said... very impressive LDS.

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 03:18 AM
I will come back to this thread, but I'm kinda busy at the moment.

http://www.myspace.com/stolenidentityband
i think there might be a sound engineer in this band. this is total buttrock though. what's with the hetfield impressions

???
05-22-2007, 03:30 AM
not bad, although the recording's obviously limited. the first three songs all seem a little overlong to me, but nonetheless you've got some clever/fun/quirky arrangements in there. i like "king queen jack" the best of the four you have up. it wants bass. (ideally you would find a bassist who is also a sound engineer)

not hearing mellon collie outside a few isolated guitar runs. what's your writing process like?

heh, thanks. i agree that the first two are bit overlong, but we hardly notice it when we play them. i suppose we could chop something out if we reworked them. generally, for 99% of our songs, my girlfriend comes up with the basic riff/melody/lyrics and i flesh it out by introducing lots of new chord progressions and "other bits" and fiddling with the overall structure.

???
05-22-2007, 03:34 AM
hah, that is actually quite sympathetic stuff, isle. You should focus on sing-along songs for children, your music sounds quite suitable for that. I am not sure if you take it as a compliment, but I really don't mean it in a bad way.



no, that's fine- i agree completely. i never imagined i'd be involved with music like this but it has alot to do with my girlfriend who comes up with the songs...she's got a very childlike personality and it really shows in the music. i could never write songs like this by myself.

???
05-22-2007, 03:59 AM
deer canada's turn: http://www.sendspace.com/file/foyoc2
(one original and two embellished songs, originally by David Pajo)

songs ******* contributions from the following Netphorians:
pink_ribbon_scars, Oblivious, Obscured01, DeviousJ, sleeper, barden, cork_soaker, Ropes




some interesting stuff going on here, can you tell me more specifically what the writing/playing arrangement was? like did someone come up with the basic idea for the song and ask everyone else to contribute separately or something?

the first track is actually my least favourite, i think it sounds messy and just wanders without much direction...the other songs are far more cohesive i think. especially Pacific Coast, which is easily the catchiest and most driven of these songs...all these songs remind me alot of Slint actually. milk in my snot is an interesting track, i like the violin at the end, it seems out of place. i like the drumming on this track too, its relaxed but punchy. who's the girl talking over the song?

aurel
05-22-2007, 04:16 AM
Yay great thread. Gonna start downloading like fuck in a minute. Here's my
home recorded album.


http://imgplace.com/directory/dir2840/1179324322_2588.jpg (http://www.imgplace.com/getcode.php?img=directory/dir2840/1179324322_2588.jpg)

Maximum Homosapien presents:
After hours in the Idios Kosmos
by Andrew Galvin

1 Intention
2 Tom waits for no man
3 Meditation on departure
4 Yaphet Kotto smile
5 + | -
6 Sigil
7 Bakers Dozen
8 Django goes to college
9 Undone
10 The language of whores and threes

[email protected]

I realized about a month ago I have about 40 plus solo songs recorded that Im quite proud of and if further whittled down to 11 might hold some merit for others.

Whats it sound like?

Dunno. Classic Jazz songwriting could be the biggest influence but that doesnt tell the whole story. Best I can do is say its got some guitar songs, some piano songs, some interesting production, a tribute to Gorecki, some clarimanet, a class jazz drum solo by my mate omar and some chilling examples of after hours in my Idios Kosmos.

Do you enjoy..

Tom waits, Django Reinhardt, Chet Baker, Nick Drake?

Download the entire album for free from here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ds5tw4

For best results listen alone, hammered and maudlin.

???
05-22-2007, 04:26 AM
http://www.myspace.com/justanothercog



cog, you've got some decent initial ideas on each track here (mainly for sounds and textures) but overall i was really unimpressed but the standard of the composition...the melodies themselves don't go anywhere and lack much imagination. A New Leaf, for example, has an interesting baroque electronica flavour, but the little piano line is totally uninspiring. the production of the tracks leaves something to be desired too, i didn't feel like they had any real atmosphere or feeling. sketchy and uncomfortable.

brendo_91
05-22-2007, 05:26 AM
i think there might be a sound engineer in this band. this is total buttrock though. what's with the hetfield impressions

we also have a rocket scientist, a lawyer and a journalist.

and a drummer.

where are the hetfield impressions?

???
05-22-2007, 05:39 AM
After hours in the Idios Kosmos
by Andrew Galvin



well. what can we say here. first, may i ask what you were trying to achieve with this album? most of it is entirely solo, and i get the sense it would work better if rearranged for a full band. since most of it is solo, and recorded in a very minimal fashion, it bored me very quickly. thats not to say i didn't like the ideas present, though- you've got some decent guitar chops and your voice is lovely, if a little unfocused. this is sort of a concept album to you, isn't it? i can identify with this because a large portion of my own solo material is conceived in a similar way. so even though the ideas aren't fully realised yet, i can see the potential here, that you want to create a record with a very specific feel and set of themes. i think the album suffers from the minimal production and the lack of variation within each song. even though they're individually quite different from one another, they all feel very humdrum and are also emotionally very blunt- this has alot to do with your vocal delivery and the lack of implied emotional nuances in the music itself. indeed, the only remotely emotional thing this has going is the reverb on your vocals, which are strong and rather haunting. another point here is the lack of any hooks or strong melodies- your vocals might have a good tone and depth, but they're totally forgettable.

the closing track "evolution is evolving" reminds me of pumpkins' Spaced because of the talking over the white noise and feedback.

overall, not a bad attempt at devising a diverse yet cohesive set of songs, but this could use a lot of reworking.

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 05:51 AM
where are the hetfield impressions?
vocals in "excretion" and especially "fading away"

deadaswarhol
05-22-2007, 06:12 AM
http://www.myspace.com/xheathergrey

no singer yet. i'll listen to everyone's stuff tonight

brendo_91
05-22-2007, 06:19 AM
vocals in "excretion" and especially "fading away"

we do fading totally differently now, and excretion is old too.

drum song and move aside are the two most recent recordings... drum song is a couple months old, move aside was done last year.

Luke de Spa
05-22-2007, 06:22 AM
i can't believe you called a song "excretion"

???
05-22-2007, 06:33 AM
excretional \(_o)/ identity

???
05-22-2007, 06:38 AM
http://www.myspace.com/xheathergrey

no singer yet. i'll listen to everyone's stuff tonight

hmm, this is alright...nice sweet overdriven tone. there isn't a great deal going on in any of these tunes, but i can tell you've got your own sound formulating...down has the most potential of these, could work out being a neat sort of dancy utopian pop song...love is ok too, gets a bit bjorky towards the end. if you have any ideas for vocal melodies you should record them over the top just so we can hear. or if you really can't sing just play the melody on your guitar or something.

monkeyfritters
05-22-2007, 07:38 AM
\(_o)/

???
05-22-2007, 08:38 AM
hey fritz. are you taking part in this or what.

aurel
05-22-2007, 09:06 AM
well. what can we say here. first, may i ask what you were trying to achieve with this album? most of it is entirely solo, and i get the sense it would work better if rearranged for a full band. since most of it is solo, and recorded in a very minimal fashion, it bored me very quickly. thats not to say i didn't like the ideas present, though- you've got some decent guitar chops and your voice is lovely, if a little unfocused. this is sort of a concept album to you, isn't it? i can identify with this because a large portion of my own solo material is conceived in a similar way. so even though the ideas aren't fully realised yet, i can see the potential here, that you want to create a record with a very specific feel and set of themes. i think the album suffers from the minimal production and the lack of variation within each song. even though they're individually quite different from one another, they all feel very humdrum and are also emotionally very blunt- this has alot to do with your vocal delivery and the lack of implied emotional nuances in the music itself. indeed, the only remotely emotional thing this has going is the reverb on your vocals, which are strong and rather haunting. another point here is the lack of any hooks or strong melodies- your vocals might have a good tone and depth, but they're totally forgettable.

the closing track "evolution is evolving" reminds me of pumpkins' Spaced because of the talking over the white noise and feedback.

overall, not a bad attempt at devising a diverse yet cohesive set of songs, but this could use a lot of reworking.

Thanks alot man for giving it a real listen and taking the time to give some proper constructive criticism.

What I was trying to achieve with this is a really low key, smokey, after hours, downbeat, sorta minimalist album. Like I said in the post, for best results listen alone, hammered and maudlin. I love low key mood pieces that stand on the songwriting, lyrics and vocal performance, so that was the aim.

I appreciate the comment that some ideas could be more fully realised perhaps in the production.

Just wondering what you mean by the vocals being unfocused?

About the lack of hooks or strong melodies: To me they are there but I do consciously attempt to avoid extremely immediate hooks and dig a bit deeper for something that reveals a bit more slowly. I do accept that I could be deluding myself and that objectively to most they're simply dull.

Thanks again man, can't access your stuff cos myspace is blocked but if you whack it up somewhere else I'd love to hear it.

aurel
05-22-2007, 09:15 AM
okay, here are some songs

building boats in the basement (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_building-boats-in-the-basement.mp3)
dog days (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_dog-days.mp3)
inside out (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_inside-out.mp3)
myth physics (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_myth-physics.mp3)
peregrine (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_peregrine.mp3)
where the gods sleep (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_where-the-gods-sleep.mp3)

will listen to other stuff posted later today

Really cool, nice clear and airy recordings. Some of the cymbal sounds seemed a little off to me was the only thing.

The word that keeps coming to mind when listening is effortless. I love when songwriting and performance are this assured and fully formed that you can completely relax into the experience.

I'd have to disagree with ??? I don't think this lacks power at all, The feeling I get is that it's well considered and you're putting across everything you want to.

Oh yeah and love the unusual vocal note choices and harmonies in certain parts of the first song. Mostly on the word doubt I think.

Love this thread. Cork soaker's up next.

TheMilstead
05-22-2007, 09:19 AM
http://www.myspace.com/michaelmilstead

Not sure if I posted it before or not. I should have some new songs ready in the next month or so. Mixing issues at the moment. :)

aurel
05-22-2007, 09:32 AM
here's a link to three songs of mine.
quiet, acoustic/piano stuff
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ka26l2

Spitfire ships is the song. Fantastic mood and space. Wonderfully subdued. The sparse twinkly piano in the background is perfect. The best lyrics of the three plus it doesn't outstay it's welcome.

I like how the third song is completely linear with only very subtle embellishments. Nicely understated.

The piano on the chorus of revolve is very affecting. Wonderful idea the way it sweeps in. Plus the vocal effects/harmony on the verse sound good if a little too noticable for me. Could be just me but I dont think the single strum acoustic on each piano chord works. The sound is too percussive and for me doesn't fit with how smooth everything else sounds. I'd either leave it out or try a reverby chord with some tremelo pedal on it.

Really enjoyed listening to this. Seems quite tonally similar to what I'm at.

brendo_91
05-22-2007, 09:34 AM
i can't believe you called a song "excretion"

it WAS called "repeat till bored" when we only had one riff and we'd been playing it for 2 hours, trying different tempos and stuff, and without the proper bassline, etc.

it then became "vaginal excretion", and then censored to just "excretion".

name is due to an interpretation of this lyric:
i look to the sky to heal my pain
my face got soaked, i screamed your name

???
05-22-2007, 10:18 AM
hey brendo are you chipping in on this review deal or what.

brendo_91
05-22-2007, 10:29 AM
i will, once i finish my assignments... maybe tomorrow.

Sonic Johnny
05-22-2007, 11:41 AM
www.myspace.com/arborcest <- most recent recordings.

Still fairly early days for this one, but if you want to check out the old stuff its at www.myspace.com/may151813 . slightly different vibe but yeah...

srsly.

teh b0lly!!1
05-22-2007, 01:41 PM
not really a song; its the degrassi junior high theme song i made a cover of today.
yeah, im sure all of you are having a good laugh right now but that theme always moved me. and this has been a really shitty time lately...
anyhoo.
what i want is some critique about the recording and mixing - 'production', in general.
so, SOUND ENGINEERS ONLY ... :)

http://download.yousendit.com/27500F0B34CBA51A

teh b0lly!!1
05-22-2007, 01:43 PM
also, as my recording is about subtlties, listening with headphones will give you a more accurate picture of what's going on

ChristHimself!
05-22-2007, 05:53 PM
ok i thought i'd reply to this even though im really not even half way done.

thanks for anyone who listened to my shit, stuff like ebb and flow and brian why do you curse my heart was improvised with the 8 track running while baked out my tits. if you liked wilt maybe try seraphin out. dream sequins takes a wee while to fade in, its one of the more weirdy ambientish ones. If you guys ever get to listen to the rest, i'd like to hear any more comments, positive or negative, it's all good. You can download the whole lot here so you don't have to stream it - http://www.paulietheboss.com/dls/jeemer.rar (right click and save target as / save link as)

onto other folk, and i've done this in some bizarre order, sendspace was going slow as hell for me. If I say anything negative here please don't take it personally, I'm well aware there are a bunch of flaws in my stuff too, im just trying to be objective.

<b>corksoaker</b>

revolve - Pretty downbeat.. I could imagine it coming in at the credits at the end of some movie like rules of attraction. I'm not sure about the amount of chorus(?) on the vocals though, or the single guitar chords on the beat, they overpower the piano.

spitfire ships - im not liking the chorus on the vocals again, it robs it of intimacy for me. This is my favourite of the three though. Nice lyrics and I really like the piano.

Untitled - Nice bass sound. Nice guitar sound as well. Felt myself wishing it was a bit longer and evolved somewhere though.

<b>cog</b>

coming back home - Nice intro sounds but the drums sound bit annoyingly cheap.. a couple of the piano chords sound off but i like the idea of the melody. Needs more evolution and maybe a bit more padding out with other instruments. Liked the faint right channel organ and the fact the drum beat changed a wee bit around 2 mins. Definite potential for playing around with structure but it goes on a bit too long and becomes kinda aimless.. reminds me of some of my earlier recordings, prefer the piano sound after 3 mins

a new leaf - now the sound of this is a lot more interesting to me when it kicks in, it gets repetitive real fast though. totally loses itself and then gets more interesting again just after the 1 minute mark. Could have gotten really good at 2.20 but it got a bit too chaotic and lost itself again.

my twilight - needs a vocal, even a speech sample would suit it. I think the bass is too prominent and it makes the repetition of it more obvious. Like the strings usage though. Again I found this interesting but it had no real direction.

the end of our lives - comes off as a bit too discordant and random for me right from the start.. not really keen on this one.

<b>rizzy shizzle</b>

king queen jack - Super lofi, whatever that snare sound is, it hurts my soul. Cool break after "king queen jack!" - id be interested to hear a well produced version of this. The bit at 2.20 was cool. It was nice to finally hear the vocals properly just after that.

crazy janey - It makes me think of psychedelia meets a song from the wicker man or something. There's something folky about the feel, dunno if it's just the oompah-ness. The wee lead part is cool. Sound quality is still ass-pancakes though. Liked the wee quieter part after 3.00 with your backing vox.

waltz - I really liked this. It was like the amelie soundtrack meets the cocteau twins. Please rerecord this for me and bump up the qualitiez.

pebble hill march - again, the melody and guitar tone with the main motif reminded me of the wicker man soundtrack for some reason. It goes all amelieish again at about 1.20. Unusual. The snare in this song bugged me though.

<b>brendo</b>

Drum song - ... i liked the eastern sounding motif to start with but the distortion sound is a bit crappy.. bongos(?) were awful and distracting.. drummer seems ok.. singer really puts me off.. came off to me as a maynard wannabe in this song for some reason :/ .. sorry not feeling this

move aside - trying to be a catchy hit too hard.. reminds me of vysion in that.. i would have normally turned this off within the first 10 seconds :/ i really don't like your singer.. erm the lead bit in the chorus was probably the bit i liked best.

excretion - again, came off immediately as an attempt at radio friendly, but the most interesting to my ear.. it kept cutting out though. Singers voice didn't bug me as much in this one but it just felt like something that's been done a lot before.. backing vocals are sounding more competent than the lead singer. Liked the fuzzy bass sound.. Got a lot catchier for a bit just after the 3 minute mark..

<b>deadaswarhol</b>

love - When the poppy bass drum came in i felt a definite tfe influence, dunno if im off base with that. liked the main lead guitar part though. Could be good with vocals I think.

down - happy joy division in space. i dont know what that means. i like the wee chorusy bit, definitely needs vox.

apathy - i see where you're going with this but its a bit clumsily played. all your songs are begging for vox.

1234 - kinda tfe vibe as well.. maybe its just the combination of those 808(?) sounding drums and the swirly feel. drums are a bit high in the mix which is more noticeable when the guitar fades out.

<b>teh bolly</b>

This sounds nice to me from a production point of view.. the lead guitar is maybe a little low in the mix and the drums a little high, the kicks anyway, more noticeable about 0.40-0.50, they seem to dominate it.. I'm unfamiliar with degrassi so if you were trying to recreate it exactly i can't really comment on whether it worked or not...

I'll do the rest tomorrow

???
05-22-2007, 06:11 PM
thanks alot mate. about the drum sound though- we haven't got a real drummer, a friend of ours just sort of unenthusiastically provides beats on a bunch of toy drums we've got.

hey netphoria if you know anyone who'd want to drum in my band let me know ;)

COG
05-22-2007, 06:29 PM
Guys, sorry about the production, I'm not a sound engineer.

Also, those are all pretty much demos.

But thanks for your thoughts, really.

If anybody wanted to take some time to give me some more specifics on what they didn't like about the songs, I could use the feedback to help me work on them.

I'm still have some more stuff in this thread to listen too, and I'm gonna try to do some more of it tonight.

RopeyLopey
05-22-2007, 06:39 PM
I am posting all the reviews as I go in one post:

http://forums.netphoria.org/showpost.php?p=2673862&postcount=32

I also ex0panded some earlier reviews (Paul, Isle, LDS).

spring
05-22-2007, 06:40 PM
http://www.myspace.com/xheathergrey

i've really enjoyed listening to these

smashingjj
05-22-2007, 07:52 PM
Jan, the Sendspace link isn't working. May be a temporary sendspace problem though.

RopeyLopey
05-22-2007, 09:02 PM
Jan, the Sendspace link isn't working. May be a temporary sendspace problem though.it is working for me now. Sendspace did have some problems today, though.

mercurial
05-22-2007, 09:02 PM
I'm a sound engineer
I have recordings

but I'm only really interested in sharing them with other buttrock engineers

Mayfuck
05-22-2007, 10:49 PM
luke de spa, peregrine is super nice. probably my favorite from everything posted so far. cork soaker's spitfire ships is a close second. overall i really enjoyed joeri's le joustra stuff best, very nocturnal stuff, very much up my alley. paulie your music soundsl ike something i would have made. everyone else good job even though i didnt really listen to anything else i will just assume your stuff is better than whatever billy corgan is currently writing and thats something so congrats to you all for your talents.

RopeyLopey
05-23-2007, 12:27 AM
did listen to everyone except aurel (sometime later)

http://forums.netphoria.org/showpost.php?p=2673862&postcount=32

I hope you guys find your time to do your part, too. thanks.

cork_soaker
05-23-2007, 12:37 AM
i realize i've been slacking, but i'm on it

Mayfuck
05-23-2007, 01:01 AM
i dont have any new songs because i give up. here are some throwaway tracks that i didnt feel like upping so i did a short pastichE(o) medley type thing. oh melody,.[...i meant MEDLEY

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dfg08l

0:00-0:31 has guitar from siraj
2:33-3:10 is a recording of rockin cherub playing drums that i put music over


edit: oh here's a new song i did for 'two minute boners to listen to' comp for hpn.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1sjgxk

Mayfuck
05-23-2007, 01:10 AM
holy futureembrace@deadaswarhol.

milstead you should up orison somehwere, that is a sweet ass track.

Mayfuck
05-23-2007, 01:14 AM
how' di know sonic johnny would be noise/dark ambience

aurel
05-23-2007, 08:39 AM
To christhimself: your download link isn't working.

ChristHimself!
05-23-2007, 08:44 AM
To christhimself: your download link isn't working.

are you sure? just tried it there and it's working fine.. did you right click and save target as / save link as? are you on a mac or something?

edit: if you are you apparently click and hold or option click to get the save link as option

aurel
05-23-2007, 08:55 AM
deer canada's turn: http://www.sendspace.com/file/foyoc2
(one original and two embellished songs, originally by David Pajo)

songs ******* contributions from the following Netphorians:
pink_ribbon_scars, Oblivious, Obscured01, DeviousJ, sleeper, barden, cork_soaker, Ropes

this thread is a reciprocity thing, right?

I'm a real sucker for lo-fi hissy recordings, especially when they have as much character and interesting stuff as this. Really like the way the spoken vocal on the first song sits on top of everything else coming from a completely different space.

the second song pulls me in really well. maybe it's something that happens when your in a band and you're always recording your jams in a room on a crappy tape recorder with a built in mike that you grow to love those really saturated tape sounds, especially the drums.

Really enjoyed this. I feel like hugging everyone involved.

aurel
05-23-2007, 08:58 AM
are you sure? just tried it there and it's working fine.. did you right click and save target as / save link as? are you on a mac or something?

edit: if you are you apparently click and hold or option click to get the save link as option

I'm on windows. tried right click and save as, no dice it tries to save a html doc.
If I just click on the link I get lots of this..

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ChristHimself!
05-23-2007, 09:00 AM
Yeah just do that, save it as an html doc and then rename it to jeemer.rar when it's done, it's just cause internet explorer is fucking shite.

Luke de Spa
05-23-2007, 09:03 AM
displays source on-click in firefox too (& i'm on a mac). might be your server settings

aurel
05-23-2007, 09:04 AM
Ah ok, doing that now. Thanks.

This part rocks!

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ChristHimself!
05-23-2007, 09:13 AM
yeah im pretty experimental when it comes to my usage of 3[[Xo

lds any ideas how I can get around that or is it a hosting issue?

Luke de Spa
05-23-2007, 09:15 AM
dunno, do you have anything like a plesk control panel you can log into on your domain? i dunno, you might be able to define filetypes and default actions for them or something. i don't really know much about this stuff though; i've had a domain for a year and a half and i still haven't made a web site for it :/

aurel
05-23-2007, 09:18 AM
Worked out when I renamed the file like you said then right clicked on the file and selected open with Win Ace. Listening soon.

Pure buttrock

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aurel
05-23-2007, 11:08 AM
Here's 5 songs from my band as well for people to check out

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4bvb59

aurel
05-23-2007, 11:46 AM
ok i thought i'd reply to this even though im really not even half way done.

thanks for anyone who listened to my shit, stuff like ebb and flow and brian why do you curse my heart was improvised with the 8 track running while baked out my tits. if you liked wilt maybe try seraphin out. dream sequins takes a wee while to fade in, its one of the more weirdy ambientish ones. If you guys ever get to listen to the rest, i'd like to hear any more comments, positive or negative, it's all good. You can download the whole lot here so you don't have to stream it - http://www.paulietheboss.com/dls/jeemer.rar (right click and save target as / save link as)


Hey just finished a first listen. Untitled and Seraphin are the only acoustic tracks I'm feeling. Cool rhythmic/timing stuff going on and really showcases your voice. Hearing a good bit of Mr. Draper in there. The other acoustic stuff seemed a little aimless and wasn't helped by some tuning issues and general guitar sound which for want of a better word sounded "flappy".

The darker ambient stuff is class. Will go into more detail after another listen,

GlasgowKiss
05-23-2007, 01:56 PM
Yeah untitled and seraphin were recorded before he got into hard drugs.

RopeyLopey
05-23-2007, 06:27 PM
thank you for the input guys. I/we changed the songs according to your suggestions - I think you're correct, no matter how much I'd like to be sound earbagger.
I covered everyone except aurel -please see the posts above.

spguitar
05-23-2007, 07:02 PM
I'm working on listening to everyone's songs here. So far i'm liking everything i've heard.
I'm loving the moodiness of Luke De Spa's stuff. Gonna get a few more of those songs. The recording quality is very nice.

Here are my new instrumental demos for my new project.
http://www.myspace.com/burntheliesband
There are a couple more basic ones here:
http://www.myspace.com/bjrussellmusic (deleting this account tonight.)

smashingjj
05-23-2007, 07:44 PM
Dammit, it takes me a lot of time to listen to all this and then also to try and write down what i think of it.

<b>Aurel</b>, I listened to your album twice and I liked it mainly. There's a lot of potential here. Somewhat along the lines of what Izzle said I believe, the problem is the execution. These songs could use some extra instrumentation here and there and though your singing isn't bad technically, I don't think you have a really pretty voice, or one fit to sing those songs. I was going to say, get a band, but from your post above it seems you have a band. Main thing is that you do write good songs and that's more than a lot of other people can say.

<i>I have a band too, assholes. It's called Boutros Bubba and I wonder why everyone's ignoring that download link I posted on the first page. It's easily the best thing you've ever heard. Go download already!</i>

spguitar
05-23-2007, 07:52 PM
<i>I have a band too, assholes. It's called Boutros Bubba and I wonder why everyone's ignoring that download link I posted on the first page. It's easily the best thing you've ever heard. Go download already!</i>

I'm getting it but it's taking a while to download.

TheMilstead
05-23-2007, 08:06 PM
IDK - you sound like soft NIN, and the last song is a mix of NIN with Starla. Maybe you are too much sound engineer, the songs are too much polished for me. You seem to be quite skillful, but the music doesn't excite me. You know, let's take isle - recording is lo-fi, but I can feel human beings there; your stuff appears to me as well-sculpted statue without feelings. I would not say it sucks, I only find somewhat soulless.
I have to say...I think your opinion is pretty spot on. I've been recording everything by myself, so I think that in my striving to get every instrument as natural-sounding as possible, I'm getting good mixes with practice, but everything still sounds quite programmed (namely drums). If I could get my drummer to take time to record over some tracks, I think it'd sound a bit more "realistic".

Hmm...I hope I get the chance to listen to everyone else's tonight...I'm looking forward to hearing some diversity! :p

Mayfuck
05-23-2007, 08:11 PM
Dammit, it takes me time to listen to all this and then also to try and write down what i think of it.

<b>Aurel</b>, I listened to your album twice and I liked it mainly. There's a lot of potential here. Somewhat along the lines of what Izzle said I believe, the problem is the execution. These songs could use some extra instrumentation here and there and though your singing isn't bad technically, I don't think you have a really pretty voice, or one fit to sing those songs. I was going to say, get a band, but from your post above it seems you have a band. Main thing is that you do write good songs and that's more than a lot of other people can say.

<i>I have a band too, assholes. It's called Boutros Bubba and I wonder why everyone's ignoring that download link I posted on the first page. It's easily the best thing you've ever heard. Go download already!</i>

i didn't ignore it. i listened to most of your boutros bubba songs and it didn't stick out as much to me as your solo stuff. it reminded me of boris at some parts and like some other bands whose names id ont remember.

its kind of hard to appreciate the tracks being posted here becuase i know they come from netphorians so there's that novelty to it where i can't take it as serously as i would any artist that i download of soulseek or buy at a record store. but like i said, suprisingly, smashingjj, luke, milstead, and cork soaker provided some tracks that are going to have repeatability and will probably go on some mix CDs.

smashingjj
05-23-2007, 08:16 PM
thanks man :)

SpecialDeath
05-23-2007, 11:32 PM
www.myspace.com/specialdeathmusic

See/Say what you think-

Seth

TheMilstead
05-23-2007, 11:43 PM
www.myspace.com/specialdeathmusic

See/Say what you think-

Seth
"Golden Something" is really great. The chord progressions were chosen perfectly, I think. If one little part would have been changed, it wouldn't have sounded as good...it just worked all to well for the song. Definitely my favorite. I could see myself listening to this over and over.

"Creaking Speaking" should be longer! I was really enjoying it until I brought the window back up again and saw that it was almost over! My second favorite.

"Prime Grade" is good. Not sure what else to say about it...I like it...The middle aleatoric-sounding section especially nice.

"Bear Trap" is my least favorite. Not that it's bad, but it just didn't seem as up to par with the others. I guess because everything else was so dreamy and this one is quite straightforward.

For your genre, everything seems engineered/mixed pretty nicely. Good stuff...I'd love to hear more!

french_rap_sucks
05-24-2007, 12:14 AM
check out my page. got some new pics.

???
05-24-2007, 07:48 AM
joeri i wanna hear your stuff but i don't know how to play .rar files, little help? (i mean, rar files? wtf)

also why are you skipping my band huh. not pitchfork enough?

aurel
05-24-2007, 07:51 AM
How did you access my archive? Download something like winace to extract the files http://www.winace.com/

ChristHimself!
05-24-2007, 07:53 AM
joeri i wanna hear your stuff but i don't know how to play .rar files

you don't play rar files dude, you need to extract the honeylike goodness from the centre;

http://www.download.com/3000-2250-10007677.html

I've done aurel and lds but im waiting until i've finished everyone to post my longer reviews

who is <b>special death</b>? im not listening to someone's music if they're just signing up to promote their own stuff and not contributing. As soon as I saw the <b>loggerhead</b> track lengths I was put off, had a quick run through and it didn't really do anything for me.

???
05-24-2007, 07:56 AM
del

???
05-24-2007, 08:03 AM
you don't play rar files dude, you need to extract the honeylike goodness from the centre;

http://www.download.com/3000-2250-10007677.html



thanks man, i've dl'd but i've now gotta dl jj's bloody file again

ChristHimself!
05-24-2007, 08:10 AM
I wouldn't bother if i was you - sounds to me like the random recordings of some bizarre eric stoltz lookalike with MPS

brendo_91
05-24-2007, 08:16 AM
i will get to this tomorrow, my ears have finally cleared up a touch and i have nothing incredibly urgent.

???
05-24-2007, 08:18 AM
I wouldn't bother if i was you - sounds to me like the random recordings of some bizarre eric stoltz lookalike with MPS

in protest, i'll just sit here screaming for more mallow

MALLOOOOOW!!!!111

C33
05-24-2007, 08:37 AM
joeri i wanna hear your stuff but i don't know how to play .rar files, little help? (i mean, rar files? wtf)

also why are you skipping my band huh. not pitchfork enough?
i laugh at you

smashingjj
05-24-2007, 08:38 AM
RIP Mallow, 1996 - 2005

i put a biography and two songs online here:

www.last.fm/music/mallow

ChristHimself!
05-24-2007, 08:39 AM
Craig fuck you, post songs here. And I reserve the right to give any critiques on them cause you already know how I feel about them <3

aurel
05-24-2007, 09:00 AM
Dammit, it takes me a lot of time to listen to all this and then also to try and write down what i think of it.

<b>Aurel</b>, I listened to your album twice and I liked it mainly. There's a lot of potential here. Somewhat along the lines of what Izzle said I believe, the problem is the execution. These songs could use some extra instrumentation here and there and though your singing isn't bad technically, I don't think you have a really pretty voice, or one fit to sing those songs. I was going to say, get a band, but from your post above it seems you have a band. Main thing is that you do write good songs and that's more than a lot of other people can say.

<i>I have a band too, assholes. It's called Boutros Bubba and I wonder why everyone's ignoring that download link I posted on the first page. It's easily the best thing you've ever heard. Go download already!</i>

Thanks for giving this some time.

Fair criticism on the production, there definitely are a lot of things that could be added to bring the songs out more.

About my voice I do appreciate that my voice isn't the best and that some of the songs may require more than I have to offer in this department but I have really enjoyed pushing myself in this regard and trying to sing in something approaching a style of my own. My aim has always been to infuse my vocal with alot of vulnerability, passion and emotion while avoiding the most obvious tricks, it's great to hear objectively whether this comes across or not.

This has already been a really interesting experience. Objective criticism is scary but class.

Downloading the Boutros bubba now.

ChristHimself!
05-24-2007, 09:15 AM
Fuck it, I'm stuck editing football audio of all things (my nightmare) so I can't listen to any mp3s right now.

<b>aurel</b>

Intention - Nice kinda grainy, distant string sounds.. thought it could have done with a bit more of a build up.

Tom Waits for no man - I liked this. I kinda wanted a different singer adding the harmony when at the chorus, not because I don't like your voice, just thought that a switch up the textures a bit would suit this. It was weird (but very complimentary) that you mentioned Draper when referring to my stuff, no one's ever said that before, but even if you hadn't said that, i'd have noticed that there were a couple of bits in the vocal melody in this song that reminded me of him <3 I like your voice.

Meditation on departure - I didn't get the transition at 1.25 .. I thought the first part could have been a little melancholy instrumental on it's own. Or maybe it would have even functioned better as an outro. I felt that the song from then on was a bit reminiscent of a toned down middle of the road chris cornell song :/

Yaphet Kotto smile - I wish this had more lush production. And you know what else? A double bass. And maybe drums when the lead kicks in. Good though.

+ I - Nice piano sound, I liked when the staccato strings came in. Like the vocal layering around 3.30. What are you using for your piano? is it a real piano? the chords through the song sound really nice but when the second piano organy track gets a bit twiddly around 4.25 that one doesn't sound so great. Liked the idea of the outro but it was a bit sloppy. Liked the first half of this a lot more than the second half.

Sigil - I don't know what to say about this one :/ It's quite a nice wee song but the singing style especially reminded me of craig's music, so I kept wanting to be more craigy, his songs are more kinda straight forwardly honest and with some tongue in cheek lyrics, and tend to have a more obvious evolution towards the end, so I couldn't help myself from wanting that. Maybe I'd like it more if it was full band and more layered.

Bakers Dozen - After the awesome clarinet I felt it got a bit droney and began to feel samey in comparison to other tracks.. liked the change around 1.45. Clarinet came back in and I liked it again.. Wasn't sure about the solo bit afterwards, and then it got a bit samey again. Liked from 4.25 out though. Very classic feel to the ending.

Django goes to college - Felt a bit like background music to me, nothing really stood out :/ when it got more intense and kinda freeform the high hat work made me want it to become a jcc song, but the drumming was too simple and the lead guitar was too basic sounding :/ it started sounding like it was getting more interesting about 5.18 and the drumming got well better for a bit, but then it just went back to how it was before.. don't think this was fluid or elegant enough to be as jazzy as it wanted to be.

Undone - I liked the chorus, the feel of the rest was a bit too similar to other songs on the album.

The language of whores and threes - I liked this one, felt that it could be quite powerful if I saw it performed live, although I don't like the title lyric. I wanted strings to come in from 3.50 to the end.

Evolution is evolving - hahaha, were you ripped out your tits when you did the randomly wailing track? Like your accent. I had to stop this half way through though.

Overall, I'd say i really like about half of it, and even the tracks I felt were very similar would grow on me, but I couldn't see me listening to the album as a whole again..I get what you mean about alone drunk and maudling, but I felt as though some of the acoustic tracks ended up feeling a bit overly samey, and i get put off from listening to albums in one sitting if there is a running similar feel.

<b>lds</b>

I hate how nicely polished your music is, the clarity just shines in your recordings. Damn you to hell.

Inside Out - I'm not too keen on the verses but I really like the chorus, especially with the faint backing vocals. I wished the outro was maybe a wee bit longer and your faint humming was multi layered and had harmonies.

Myth physics - The guitar in the right channel seemed to be struggling to keep up the pace at first and and i thought the high hat hits were a bit too high end, or maybe just too high in the mix. I like it as a song though. I remembered it immediately when the chorus kicked in, really like that, especially like the descending lead part. I loved from 2.55 out, when the guitars got heavier it was kinda reminiscent of early radiohead.

Peregrine - oh i've heard this one before as well, I'm just crap with track names. Like the verses, love when those awesome backing vocals come in. I was glad when the drums kicked in, and what is that? A mellotron? Strings? Organ? It's faint but present. I like subtle touches like that. I'm not very good with subtle. Outro is super pretty, wish it had been slightly longer with a slower fade out.

Where the gods sleep - Shit dawg I think I've heard all this before and I'd just forgotten. I really like your choruses, you really know how to handle them. This one reminds me of a band as well but I can't put my finger on who.. Like the bridge after the drums drop out. Again, very nicely produced. Like the way the bass climbs before the end.

Building boats in the basement - Had a sorta dreary feel to it, but I liked it when the drums dropped out and the strings came in. When the drums came back I wanted it to REALLY build before cutting out, felt like it kinda fizzled out.

Dog Days - Pretty solo with a really nice guitar sound. Not sure about the song as a whole though.

SpecialDeath
05-24-2007, 09:16 AM
"
For your genre, everything seems engineered/mixed pretty nicely. Good stuff...I'd love to hear more!

Thanks for the encouragement. We have 2 whole albums worth of this stuff at this point... It's just a question of figuring out what to do with it...

In a way, making the music is the easy part. Getting it out there is what's really tough. I'd love to hear some advice from people who are knowledgeable about that sort of thing as well....

SpecialDeath
05-24-2007, 09:24 AM
who is <b>special death</b>? im not listening to someone's music if they're just signing up to promote their own stuff and not contributing. As soon as I saw the <b>loggerhead</b> track lengths I was put off, had a quick run through and it didn't really do anything for me.

Actually, i've been reading/posting at this board on and off under a couple different names for years, since after Adore i think.. I used other names whose passwords have long been forgotten.

-S.O

ChristHimself!
05-24-2007, 09:29 AM
It wasn't so much the number of posts so much as the dropping in, listing your music, saying thanks and not commenting on other people's shit, kinda defeats the purpose of the thread, like when people sign up and drop in to request invites to torrent sites.

edit: i didn't mean to come off snidey like this, i just hate it when people register on boards to whore their music and then disappear

smashingjj
05-24-2007, 07:48 PM
As if you're ever going to come back if you stop posting and don't come back! except you have 17 thousand posts!

I like discussions with you as the subject, Paul. Let's continue doing that. Nice discussion, btw, smashingjj. Yeah thanks smashingjj. Back on topic then. I hope you don't mind me being very honest (blunt?) about this.

I listened to the jeemer stuff now also for a second time. Do you like Jeff Buckley? That was kind of the first thing I thought when listening to about half of your songs. Not that it's a bad thing at all. I really like your singing and would have never thought it sounded like this after hearing you talk, which sounds really different. Also you play the guitar really well, about 100 times better than I do. Those are two things that caught my attention most of the time. Songwise I liked most of it too, except some of the more electronic things (when it gets too NIN). The boy with the cobwebs is my favourite.

Nice to hear all your songs, I heard some in the past but I don't recall it being so varied as the songs in the rar file that i downloaded. I guess you could make a good album if you really took your time for it. If you would seriously consider this, which would be awesome by the way, I'd be your biggest fan and I'd move to the UK to visit all your shows, don't even think about planning gigs in the netherlands when i do that, that would suck, I'd say that you should take care about your own style for some songs, (aka that it won't become too much of a jeff buckley thing). Some songs could obviously use some production / better recording. What are your plans with this? ps are you gay? if so i hate all your music.

MrPantyFAce
05-24-2007, 11:15 PM
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dd6fa2

i need to get a chord to hook my 8 track to my computer so i can put some new stuff up.... this is old, the drum machine on it is retched.

RopeyLopey
05-24-2007, 11:21 PM
maybe people could comment on already posted stuff before expecting to hear an opinion on theirs.

spguitar
05-24-2007, 11:22 PM
Building boats in the basement - Had a sorta dreary feel to it, but I liked it when the drums dropped out and the strings came in. When the drums came back I wanted it to REALLY build before cutting out, felt like it kinda fizzled out.


This song currently has a place in my mp3 library for sure. It sounds like what a band like Coldplay or Deathcab For Cutie are trying to be yet failing at. Great stuff here.
You really need to push that one to radio stations/tv shows here:
www.taxi.com
www.broadjam.com

More reviews coming asap. Probably by Sunday when i get time to really sit down and listen.

MrPantyFAce
05-24-2007, 11:27 PM
maybe people could comment on already posted stuff before expecting to hear an opinion on theirs.

i concure. im too lazy to listen to anybodys stuff now though. dom's tiny explosive cd has some great stuff on it. war of the rose at times seems to have a bit of a pumpkins feel to it.

teh b0lly!!1
05-25-2007, 05:34 AM
lucky day spa, Building Boats in the Basement is an exceptional track.
stands above all the others you posted - and they're not bad too.
really beautiful melodies.
it kind of bugs me how you ended it though - when the drums drop and you go into the last section of the song, some production touches to build it up would have done wonders to the song i think.. it feels naked when it just screams to end on a big emotional note and instead it just continues acoustically and with the exact same vibe as the first verse...

aurel
05-25-2007, 08:16 AM
Fuck it, I'm stuck editing football audio of all things (my nightmare) so I can't listen to any mp3s right now.

<b>aurel</b>

Intention - Nice kinda grainy, distant string sounds.. thought it could have done with a bit more of a build up.

Tom Waits for no man - I liked this. I kinda wanted a different singer adding the harmony when at the chorus, not because I don't like your voice, just thought that a switch up the textures a bit would suit this. It was weird (but very complimentary) that you mentioned Draper when referring to my stuff, no one's ever said that before, but even if you hadn't said that, i'd have noticed that there were a couple of bits in the vocal melody in this song that reminded me of him <3 I like your voice.

Meditation on departure - I didn't get the transition at 1.25 .. I thought the first part could have been a little melancholy instrumental on it's own. Or maybe it would have even functioned better as an outro. I felt that the song from then on was a bit reminiscent of a toned down middle of the road chris cornell song :/

Yaphet Kotto smile - I wish this had more lush production. And you know what else? A double bass. And maybe drums when the lead kicks in. Good though.

+ I - Nice piano sound, I liked when the staccato strings came in. Like the vocal layering around 3.30. What are you using for your piano? is it a real piano? the chords through the song sound really nice but when the second piano organy track gets a bit twiddly around 4.25 that one doesn't sound so great. Liked the idea of the outro but it was a bit sloppy. Liked the first half of this a lot more than the second half.

Sigil - I don't know what to say about this one :/ It's quite a nice wee song but the singing style especially reminded me of craig's music, so I kept wanting to be more craigy, his songs are more kinda straight forwardly honest and with some tongue in cheek lyrics, and tend to have a more obvious evolution towards the end, so I couldn't help myself from wanting that. Maybe I'd like it more if it was full band and more layered.

Bakers Dozen - After the awesome clarinet I felt it got a bit droney and began to feel samey in comparison to other tracks.. liked the change around 1.45. Clarinet came back in and I liked it again.. Wasn't sure about the solo bit afterwards, and then it got a bit samey again. Liked from 4.25 out though. Very classic feel to the ending.

Django goes to college - Felt a bit like background music to me, nothing really stood out :/ when it got more intense and kinda freeform the high hat work made me want it to become a jcc song, but the drumming was too simple and the lead guitar was too basic sounding :/ it started sounding like it was getting more interesting about 5.18 and the drumming got well better for a bit, but then it just went back to how it was before.. don't think this was fluid or elegant enough to be as jazzy as it wanted to be.

Undone - I liked the chorus, the feel of the rest was a bit too similar to other songs on the album.

The language of whores and threes - I liked this one, felt that it could be quite powerful if I saw it performed live, although I don't like the title lyric. I wanted strings to come in from 3.50 to the end.

Evolution is evolving - hahaha, were you ripped out your tits when you did the randomly wailing track? Like your accent. I had to stop this half way through though.

Overall, I'd say i really like about half of it, and even the tracks I felt were very similar would grow on me, but I couldn't see me listening to the album as a whole again..I get what you mean about alone drunk and maudling, but I felt as though some of the acoustic tracks ended up feeling a bit overly samey, and i get put off from listening to albums in one sitting if there is a running similar feel.



Thanks alot for the feedback, very appreciated. The piano is a key board with lots of reverb that is recorded through a miked amp. This works out alot better than recording direct line in for me.

Evolution is evolving is the result of drinking a bottle of Jim Beam. I didn't even remember doing it but my friend set a mike infront of me and I just made up all the talking shit and then recorded the wailing over it straight after. Next time I was up drinking with him he handed it to me on cd.

ChristHimself!
05-25-2007, 09:36 AM
I listened to the jeemer stuff now also for a second time. Do you like Jeff Buckley? Songwise I liked most of it too, except some of the more electronic things (when it gets too NIN). The boy with the cobwebs is my favourite.

Some songs could obviously use some production / better recording. What are your plans with this? ps are you gay? if so i hate all your music.

Cheers for listening man. Yeah I used to listen to a hell of a lot of Jeff. Also, when I first got into tracking (stuff like tribute song and shimbees [bonus track]) I was really into NIN, so that really shows there.

I was surprised no one mentioned boy with the cobwebs cause that seems more like the weirdy music people from here would like. That's my mate Mic singing on that, he was geekglasgow here years ago. I'm playing the weirdy recordy hissy violins, which I fucking adore the sound of. Also for people commenting on the lead guitar on Brian, why do you curse my heart? that's netphoria's very own Radiofred.

Yeah a lot of them are really old shitty recordings that have had their sound quality cut as much as 3 or 4 times over the years (reduced it to put on the site then lost the originals due to HD crashes) ... No I'm not gay, what gave you that impression? P.S. I want ur body

<b>ropeylopey</b>

Firstly umm I'm unfamiliar of what one was the cover. Anyway...

Jonathan whitehead - Like it. If it was produced a bit 'bigger' sounding it would be a good example of what i call travelling music... music that's great to zone out and listen to when you're sitting on a bus or train, or staring out at sea, or sitting at home with candles on. Wished it had been heavier at the end.

Milk in my snot - Again, the production really hurt this one. It was drowned out mostly by the speech. Was that Liz? The music was really faint - I loved the outro though! The violin was really nice, as was the sine wavey synth. Drums were cheap but well handled.

Pacific Coast - hahahahaha .. It took me a minute to realise what was being said :D I liked the music in this though, pretty much as jonathan whitehead - travelling music. The slight offset of every second snare hit reminded me of the gwai.

<b>smashingjj</b>

Splooshboock - Jerky, eccentric sounding, yet funky. Started feeling it was getting a bit repetitive around the 2 minute mark. 2:30 changed that though. It all got a bit crazy, but then went back to the original loop. I wished that after the crazy sound that tunes up that it would all change completely before the end. Weird last few seconds!

Drug Ghosts - I was worried this was getting pretty repetitive as well just before the one minute mark. Then it all started to go a bit nuts. I wasn't sure if I was really like it, improved when the bass came in at 01:22.

Hardcore - Right from the start of this it was my favourite so far. Atmospheric. Who is speaking on this? They have a perfect voice. Oh and singing. The chorus(?) is awesome. This reminds me of portishead/massive attack. oh it's all just gone nuts at around 3:15.. The chorus kicking back in after that is a relief almost after teh craziness. Favourite so far, easily.

Memory of a Happy Childhood - This is really nice. See what I wrote about travelling music up above. I was wary that it was going to start going KSSH KSSH KSSH KSSH GZGGZGZGTTTTT WEEEEEEEEOWOWWWWWW though. Could maybe have used drums maybe from around 2.45) The weirdness towards the end was good as well but I kinda wished it had started with the weirdness instead of ending with it.. Cool.

Xylometazoline - I like this better than this first couple of tracks. Like the wee guitar part. Started to get weirder and weirder though and then it kinda lost me until the end.

Intermezzo - Pretty cool this one, would be a good track to come on stage to, or open up with. Liked the sorta echoy strings on it.

Lazy Journalist - I liked how it went from the guitar playing it with that lofi sound to the bass playing it with the drummer and synth. Even though there were people speaking some weird language before that bit (watch ur back they might be gays) 4:15 things changed a bit, and for the better cause that bass riff was beginning to feel a bit repetitive. Yeah liking this. At about 7.45 when the distorted bass came in I wished it was HEAVY AS FUCK along with the drums. Very cool though all in all, if a bit long.

le deerstra - Wasn't too sure about this cause it had all the fucked up mental bits. I know some people love all that, it just gets a wee bit incoherent for me.

The Drooling Xylophone Retard, is a Psychic - half expected tom barman to start singing something in the background before the guitar came in. Aw this is groovy. Dunno about the weird low noises from 1:52. The guitar that comes in is cool though. From about 3:25 it started losing me though.

Overall with the first couple of tracks I just wish they evolved more.. I know how easy it is sometimes to get a loop you like, and get stuck into looping it and adding and taking away a few bits as it goes on. Hell I have an officially released Four Tet album where that's all he does through the whole album, but with yours I just kept wishing there would be a bit more evolution, cause it really would have made the difference to me between interesting songs and good songs. Loads of interesting ideas though, and it was well produced, and I liked most of the sounds and drums you used. You're also really good at getting the fucked up choppy random shit coming in, that's something I can't say I've experimented with myself. I like all your ideas in and away from the computer based stuff a lot though, would be cool to jam with you some time.

deadaswarhol
05-25-2007, 11:03 AM
deadaswarhol
I am confused - are you going for the TFE sound on purpose or is it only a temporary thing because you have no drummer right now?
I like your guitar playing, it makes me feel sentimental for my high school years. what happened to Sprinkles? I downloaded fucknstars, but the music going together with the video is so much better - I don't know, it reminds me of all the shit we were doing at that time - the song with video is doing a great job in bringing all these memories back - I personally think fucknstars >>>> TFE sound
I hope you get some drummer soon. But really - what happened to Sprinkles?




ha we had this sound before TFE came out. sprinkles broke up in like 2004 or something. we kinda have a drummer how, haven't really recorded anything with him yet, as he doesn't know our songs too well.

we're probably still gonna have electronic drums for some stuff(better than the drums we have on those mp3s) but mostly regular drums. thanks for listening everyone who did.


ps i totally forgot about this thread and will listen to everyone's stuff tonight.

deadaswarhol
05-25-2007, 07:30 PM
GOD DAMMIT i had reviews of all the stuff people posted and lost it.

favorites are Mayfuck, specialdeath, COG, MrPantyFace. some stuff by christhimself(boywithcobwebs). most of the other stuff i can't remember.

i think brendo's was kinda blah modern radio rock imo, and ??? had some cool stuff. luke de spa's stuff sounded pretty good for what it is, just not my stye of music really. cork_soaker, i liked "untitled" the best.

thanks again to everyone who listened to my stuff. we're working on finishing up lyrics and stuff and getting drums done. all the TFE comparisons are funny, cause we've sounded like this for a while. most of those songs were on myspace half a year before TFE even came out haha.

Rockin' Cherub
05-26-2007, 07:56 AM
canned kitty is really good

???
05-27-2007, 03:00 PM
bump. more music, more reviewing people!

waltermcphilp
05-27-2007, 03:24 PM
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A22E465B62A9E6F4

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=12AD5CD173141CA1

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=627938C578D19BD2

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=B0BFDEB15612B9C4

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=AEEC3E3429FFA0AE

heres a few!

RopeyLopey
05-27-2007, 03:38 PM
Beside aurel, I am not gonna review anyone else till they say what they think of the stuff that got posted before them.

Rockin' Cherub
05-27-2007, 03:53 PM
this is the best recording done by man

hxxp://download.yousendit.com/AFAF958D358ABD4A

monkeyfritters
05-27-2007, 04:02 PM
my old band

www.myspace.com/portableshark

pulling the plug was recorded at a construction site. we were told to shut it down. portable shark was a very loud band.

ChristHimself!
05-27-2007, 04:08 PM
Beside aurel, I am not gonna review anyone else till they say what they think of the stuff that got posted before them.

Yeah erm this.. especially since i tried to go into a shitload of detail

here's something i was messing around with yesterday and today, trying to get back into Reason;

http://www.paulietheboss.com/dls/theletterp.mp3

monkeyfritters
05-27-2007, 04:14 PM
where are you getting the string sounds from?

monkeyfritters
05-27-2007, 04:14 PM
also, have you messed around with audiomulch at all?

monkeyfritters
05-27-2007, 04:15 PM
oh wait you have me on ignore, nm. lol.

ChristHimself!
05-27-2007, 04:16 PM
i viewed your posts bwahahah

everything there is in reason 2.5 and ive never heard of audiomulch

smashingjj
05-27-2007, 04:17 PM
i will post some more thoughts later but it costs me a lot of time so hang on a bit

ChristHimself!
05-27-2007, 04:19 PM
im watching you, joeri

also in that last track the "i love you" and "mmm hmm hmm i dunno what to say" are badens ex

Mayfuck
05-27-2007, 04:20 PM
RopeyLopey i dont like your ebow sound yet you seem to use it on every one of your songs. i think its the recording. it makes it seem flimsy. i like ebows like in sigur ros where they're real reverby, thick and cascading. otherwise your songs are alright if you like mogwai and exlopsions in the sky. i just think that genre is a bit too easy to make these days bt i like how you get other netphorians involved despite your refuesal to ever collaborate with me

monkeyfritters
05-27-2007, 04:23 PM
i viewed your posts bwahahah

everything there is in reason 2.5 and ive never heard of audiomulch

i think you'd dig audiomulch, especially if you ever plan on playing your music live. you can get you beat going and then use a laptop to fuck with the sounds and stuff, instead of having to actually patch cables around (and have tons of analog equipment). it's windows only however. also, the korg kaos pad is cool for that too, dunno if you have any desire to perform live though. cool stuff. you've got reason sounding pretty fluid. i generally stay away from it because i can't get it to stop sounding choppy. 2.5 must have a better sample library than the demo version i have.

ChristHimself!
05-27-2007, 04:25 PM
cheers man.. reason 3 is even better but i daren't run it on my lappy cause you get these combinator things and my pc even struggles with them

i'll have to check that audiomulch thing out, i was wanting to have a look at stuff i could use to affect my shit in real time

i really need to take a week off some time and write music properly.. it's half way through the year, i have no holidays booked and im still owed over a month's worth of holiday time

monkeyfritters
05-27-2007, 04:25 PM
RopeyLopey i dont like your ebow sound yet you seem to use it on every one of your songs. i think its the recording. it makes it seem flimsy. i like ebows like in sigur ros where they're real reverby, thick and cascading. otherwise your songs are alright if you like mogwai and exlopsions in the sky. i just think that genre is a bit too easy to make these days bt i like how you get other netphorians involved despite your refuesal to ever collaborate with me

i dont know what pickup you are using but ive found that the ebow sucks on any pickup other than the neck. it gets a fatter sound.

monkeyfritters
05-27-2007, 04:29 PM
cheers man.. reason 3 is even better but i daren't run it on my lappy cause you get these combinator things and my pc even struggles with them

i'll have to check that audiomulch thing out, i was wanting to have a look at stuff i could use to affect my shit in real time

i really need to take a week off some time and write music properly.. it's half way through the year, i have no holidays booked and im still owed over a month's worth of holiday time

if you use windows then audiomulch is the way to go. if you are on a mac, then you can get some sharware programs for max/msp (the language audiomulch uses, way better than midi) however these are way more difficult. my friend uses reason in real time but it can sound really canned. the kaos pad is awesome because it's hands on and can generate tones as well. i'm pretty sure j greenwood ran his guitar through a max/msp setup on the httf/lp7 tour, pretty impressive.

RopeyLopey
05-27-2007, 04:30 PM
RopeyLopey i dont like your ebow sound yet you seem to use it on every one of your songs. i think its the recording. it makes it seem flimsy. i like ebows like in sigur ros where they're real reverby, thick and cascading. otherwise your songs are alright if you like mogwai and exlopsions in the sky. i just think that genre is a bit too easy to make these days bt i like how you get other netphorians involved despite your refuesal to ever collaborate with me
no, it's not the recording, it is my laziness. The tone is way better if I play around a bit with Line6 settings, but usually I don't bother with that and get it all down there as it is, so I don't forget the e-bow stuff. I know I could get better, if I paid more attention. And yes, the songs are easy, but I know my limits - I don't practice everyday, so I have to play/pick up songs I CAN play. That's also the reason I use e-bow so much - technically it's very easy and fills the space in the songs quite well.

I downloaded your files way back, I make a post today. thanks. I made about 4 songs with you, you have just never heard them.

ChristHimself!
05-27-2007, 04:40 PM
im pc/win all the way

julio you know i heard all your shit way back and commented on it then i believe, fucking intense stuff .. just out of interest how do you (or you joeri) get all your shit choppy as fuck?

RopeyLopey
05-27-2007, 09:20 PM
Julio - the cannedmelody is a mixed bag for me. I don't know how advanced are these sketches - there are great things and motifs that would make for an awesome sequel for canned, and there are other sequences that don't do anything to me. I will only mention the 'good' ones - the ones I don't mention I consider an utter chaos shit

1:16-1:20 - this short bit is nice. It sounds like another of your 'guitar' moments.
1:59-2:22 - awesome motif, I enjoy this very much!
3:11-3:32 - this sounds so nice. This would be a great music for some children TV story.
3:40-4:15 - great vintage Julio material, this sounds as the most promising one to me from the whole bunch

smashingjj
05-28-2007, 08:33 PM
<b>smashingjj</b>

Splooshboock - Jerky, eccentric sounding, yet funky. Started feeling it was getting a bit repetitive around the 2 minute mark. 2:30 changed that though. It all got a bit crazy, but then went back to the original loop. I wished that after the crazy sound that tunes up that it would all change completely before the end. Weird last few seconds!

Drug Ghosts - I was worried this was getting pretty repetitive as well just before the one minute mark. Then it all started to go a bit nuts. I wasn't sure if I was really like it, improved when the bass came in at 01:22.

Hardcore - Right from the start of this it was my favourite so far. Atmospheric. Who is speaking on this? They have a perfect voice. Oh and singing. The chorus(?) is awesome. This reminds me of portishead/massive attack. oh it's all just gone nuts at around 3:15.. The chorus kicking back in after that is a relief almost after teh craziness. Favourite so far, easily.

Memory of a Happy Childhood - This is really nice. See what I wrote about travelling music up above. I was wary that it was going to start going KSSH KSSH KSSH KSSH GZGGZGZGTTTTT WEEEEEEEEOWOWWWWWW though. Could maybe have used drums maybe from around 2.45) The weirdness towards the end was good as well but I kinda wished it had started with the weirdness instead of ending with it.. Cool.

Xylometazoline - I like this better than this first couple of tracks. Like the wee guitar part. Started to get weirder and weirder though and then it kinda lost me until the end.

Intermezzo - Pretty cool this one, would be a good track to come on stage to, or open up with. Liked the sorta echoy strings on it.

Lazy Journalist - I liked how it went from the guitar playing it with that lofi sound to the bass playing it with the drummer and synth. Even though there were people speaking some weird language before that bit (watch ur back they might be gays) 4:15 things changed a bit, and for the better cause that bass riff was beginning to feel a bit repetitive. Yeah liking this. At about 7.45 when the distorted bass came in I wished it was HEAVY AS FUCK along with the drums. Very cool though all in all, if a bit long.

le deerstra - Wasn't too sure about this cause it had all the fucked up mental bits. I know some people love all that, it just gets a wee bit incoherent for me.

The Drooling Xylophone Retard, is a Psychic - half expected tom barman to start singing something in the background before the guitar came in. Aw this is groovy. Dunno about the weird low noises from 1:52. The guitar that comes in is cool though. From about 3:25 it started losing me though.

Overall with the first couple of tracks I just wish they evolved more.. I know how easy it is sometimes to get a loop you like, and get stuck into looping it and adding and taking away a few bits as it goes on. Hell I have an officially released Four Tet album where that's all he does through the whole album, but with yours I just kept wishing there would be a bit more evolution, cause it really would have made the difference to me between interesting songs and good songs. Loads of interesting ideas though, and it was well produced, and I liked most of the sounds and drums you used. You're also really good at getting the fucked up choppy random shit coming in, that's something I can't say I've experimented with myself. I like all your ideas in and away from the computer based stuff a lot though, would be cool to jam with you some time.Thanks man, this was fucking elaborate, moreso than i deserved. I'm not sure if I agree with the parts about too little evolution (especially if Four Tet does the same - which cd is that?) but more people told me this and I take your advice to heart as I'm making a new song.

Heh the vocals in Hardcore were done by a friend, i'll show her your post because i think she wasn't really satisfied with that song.

You know one of my main problems is that i could never do this live. Not the electronic stuff but also not the more rocking stuff - i can hardly play the guitar, I use cooledit to make it sound like i played the whole song at once (80th floor is an example of that - i put a link on the first page). It would be great to do something together though, if there's ever a song part, a riff or whatever you don't use, maybe send it to me so i will take all the credit for it? sounds like a good deal??

smashingjj
05-28-2007, 09:18 PM
finally got around to listening to deer canada: really enjoying this. this is Jan on guitar and who's in the band apart from that?

I like the lo-fi aspect of it. At first I thought that it's something you gotta lose if you're going to record more stuff but it took me a song or two to realise that it's actually adding to the charm. in a song like Jonathan Whitehead, when it gets to the heavy part - that's awesome. reminded me of the heavy neutral milk hotel fuzz sound.

I would label this as post rock like people said before, which is kind of a dead / unevolving genre to me, but for post rock this is pretty original, mostly because of the lo fi sound. i also love the weird kind of breaks like at the end of milk in my snot - listen to akron/family a lot?

it could use somewhat more of a melody here and there or something that would make it really stick if you're going to record something seriously, but for what they are, i enjoyed these songs a lot.

brendo_91
05-28-2007, 09:55 PM
My ear infection has cleared up. I will get to this TONIGHT.

RopeyLopey
05-28-2007, 11:17 PM
joeri
deer canada - these three songs are me, sleeper plays drums and has few intro violin stabs, DeviousJ does have some guitar in, Oblivious has few percussion tracks in and obscured01 is responsible for the outro violin. Send some bass lines in or I can hook you up with some song next time and you're in, too. ;)

akron/family - what is this? I am a musical caveman. And post rock - I guess so, but do I care - I am just happy I/we can play something like that, and that's all that counts for me. I think deer canada is here for a pure pleasure/amusement of people who participate - and not trying to break through (which is technically impossible) or trying to deliver some music-breaking ideas.

thank you very much joeri - in return I will review the Bubba stuff, too.

smashingjj
05-29-2007, 06:33 AM
Cool. Yes it will be technically impossible to not break through, I agree.

Dude check out Akron/Family's self-titled album, milk in my snot reminded me of it. Great album btw.

I would like to participate with some bass lines, just send me a song if you have one, i'll think of something. Would be cool.

ChristHimself!
05-29-2007, 06:41 AM
dont take that repetition part too seriously, it was just an observation

im never EVER sending you any riff or anything EVER

in case you listen to it on a loop while pleasuring yourself

apple
05-30-2007, 07:36 PM
hi i just want to ask everyone who listened to the songs on the myspace that ??? posted. we know the songs aren't recorded very well and we dont' really have a drummer, but i want to know what it is you do/dont' like about the songs, do you hear anything in them. we cant seem to get a straight opinion off anyone. is it really bad for a first demo? there are so many boring samey bands out there and even though they might have some things we dont (like drummers and profesional recordings) we are really trying to do something different and we never get any response, whats the problem.

RopeyLopey
05-30-2007, 07:40 PM
I said I hear sing-alongs for little children in them and that you should stick with this genre, that it does have its magic.

Luke de Spa
05-30-2007, 10:34 PM
My ear infection has cleared up. I will get to this TONIGHT.
FAIL!

paranoid
05-31-2007, 12:40 AM
http://www.myspace.com/agowilt

or

http://www.myspace.com/adamstoybox

the agowilt has the most recent tunes.

RopeyLopey
05-31-2007, 12:44 AM
http://www.myspace.com/agowilt

or

http://www.myspace.com/adamstoybox

the agowilt has the most recent tunes.hey dude, have you bothered reading this thread - or you're just interested in your shit?

paranoid
05-31-2007, 12:47 AM
im new to this thread.. ill be reviewing other peoples music momentarily.

paranoid
05-31-2007, 01:13 AM
Ropey Lopey: : (I'm listening to this as I type)

Jonathan Whitehead - the sound quality is bad but im not gonna dock points for that, the hiss adds a bit of atmosphere. I like how it starts out, the build ups and resets are fantastic (dynamics are impressive). Everything is horribly out of tune, and i'm not sure if that's the kind of sound you wanted but i find it annoying. Very cool how the song changes into this dark mess of noise, very cool how the groove sets here, wasn't expecting that. Didn't like how it ended.. sounded like you had a good idea going then decided to just stop the tune.. so i think you could have opened the last idea of this tune up a bit more and you'd have a fantastic piece of music.

Milk In My Snot - likin the intro.. very cool. Very cool guitar riffage, and nice tone as well. Thr drumming here is pissing me off. Oh my, poetry! I usually hate this kind of writing but I'm actually enjoying this, maybe the quality of this girls voice is why.. she sounds innocent and cute. Drums again, guitars need to be louder. Electro drum beat comes in.. again the mix needs work, some melodic ideas could stand out more.. and bam it just ended. It felt like, again, this was another idea you could have expanded on, or saved it for something else.. doesn;t really work well as an abrupt ending.

pacific coast- so far i'm liking this the most out of the three selections here.. very cool delay on guitar (sounds like seagulls). Again, the drumming is annoying. i don't know why.. he's kind of over playing and not really feeling it. I like it when he drops out briefly. Could use some more instruments or melodic ideas when the main riff comes back in (after the drum break).. after this section it goes somewhere.. which is great, change it up a bit (these type of mood pieces can get boring if they don't go into new ideas). Again, guitars sound out of tune which does have an effect on how i'm listening to it.. but the idea is there and a lot of these little melodies are pretty. This is a good one.. come up with a cool ending and you've a nice tune (abrupt again).

paranoid
05-31-2007, 01:19 AM
Canned Kitty - Mothwire : (listening as i type)

Never listened to Canned Kitty before, have always meant to but never got to it. I'm ashamed.

But, I'm loving it. very much. What are using to play/record/write this material??

Very nice atmosphere, very nice chord changes.. but it just ended. fuck. Hopefully this was just an idea that you haven't finished?? This could be an incredible tune with some other movments and dynmic changes, etc. I'm hearing a very bassy, slow moving drum part coming in with some dramatic key change.

Where else can i find some canned kitty, if you don't mind me asking?

paranoid
05-31-2007, 01:33 AM
christ himself ive listened to your music before but your website is not working right now for whatever reason, id like to lsiten agai to give a review (i remember there were some ambient pieces in there).

Im off to be. i'll continue my listening in the morning.

RopeyLopey
05-31-2007, 02:02 AM
im new to this thread.. ill be reviewing other peoples music momentarily.
props you started looking at the previous stuff right away

I listened to Agowilt.
The Curtain... the second intro motif after the single guitar stuff reminds me of Unwound. The horns are nice and somewhat take away the weight from the song, it makes it more airy. Or that song sounds kinda sad from the beginning, but the horns bit brighten it up. They fit in nicely. Well done. I find the keys and effects in the background a bit cheesy. You are primarily a guitar band, right? The drummer is doing a good job in the final part of the song. Maybe the whole thing is a bit more combed for me, though. I am curious how you play this live. Do you? What do you think of Unwound?

Drumb - I liked this one more. Again, the start sounds like Unwound - the guitar, the riff, you must use very close settings and setup. Then it shifts to those wide chord stuff with lead guitars cruising on top of it. I like this a lot - what is being shaped on top of the rhythm guitar by the lead. These fast parts are fantastic- the moments like around 2:18. Do you have any recording of you playing this live? I don't know, maybe the drums are too quiet, but maybe it's just me as I am doing it the other way round - drums up front, louder or at least as loud as guitars!

thanks - and yeah, the guitars were out of tune, but don't worry, I do have a tuner pedal in the setup now;)!

paranoid
05-31-2007, 02:24 AM
oops

RopeyLopey
05-31-2007, 02:28 AM
haha, you can't trust drummers - Sleeper is doing the same shit, he wants to be low.

hey, if you find the live recording, definitely I'd like to hear it! Also, i just realized you are lefty, too - high-five!

paranoid
05-31-2007, 02:31 AM
haha, you can't trust drummers - Sleeper is doing the same shit, he wants to be low.

hey, if you find the live recording, definitely I'd like to hear it! Also, i just realized you are lefty, too - high-five!

Really you are lefty too??!!! that's Awesome!! Doesn;t it suck being a lefty?? I always go to these guitar shops.. see all of these beautiful guitars I want to try out.. but can't because they are righty! the lefties that are in stock.. crap guitars!

What's cool about it though is that no one asks to try out my guitars, 'cause they are righties.. haha. so i guess it all evens out.

RopeyLopey
05-31-2007, 02:40 AM
Really you are lefty too??!!! that's Awesome!! Doesn;t it suck being a lefty?? I always go to these guitar shops.. see all of these beautiful guitars I want to try out.. but can't because they are righty! the lefties that are in stock.. crap guitars!

What's cool about it though is that no one asks to try out my guitars, 'cause they are righties.. haha. so i guess it all evens out.

haha, yes - guitar shops - you know over here sometimes they have an amp but they have no guitar for me to try it with...what guitars you have and how you got them?

I have one Strat from Mexico, not good, but I like it very much, and at that time I felt so ahppy that I could actually try this one in store, that they had it!

Then I have another Strat - Reissue 89, made in Japan, with big headstock:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/pisekdusan/kyt2.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/pisekdusan/kyt1.jpg
This one is great, I was so lucky I got it. I saw it and immediately ran for money before it disappears! So what do you have and how did you get them?

ChristHimself!
05-31-2007, 03:10 AM
we are really trying to do something different and we never get any response, whats the problem.

Mine was on page 3

<b>rizzy shizzle</b>

king queen jack - Super lofi, whatever that snare sound is, it hurts my soul. Cool break after "king queen jack!" - id be interested to hear a well produced version of this. The bit at 2.20 was cool. It was nice to finally hear the vocals properly just after that.

crazy janey - It makes me think of psychedelia meets a song from the wicker man or something. There's something folky about the feel, dunno if it's just the oompah-ness. The wee lead part is cool. Sound quality is still ass-pancakes though. Liked the wee quieter part after 3.00 with your backing vox.

waltz - I really liked this. It was like the amelie soundtrack meets the cocteau twins. Please rerecord this for me and bump up the qualitiez.

pebble hill march - again, the melody and guitar tone with the main motif reminded me of the wicker man soundtrack for some reason. It goes all amelieish again at about 1.20. Unusual. The snare in this song bugged me though.

monkeyfritters
05-31-2007, 09:54 AM
Then I have another Strat - Reissue 89, made in Japan, with big headstock:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/pisekdusan/kyt2.jpg
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/pisekdusan/kyt1.jpg
This one is great, I was so lucky I got it. I saw it and immediately ran for money before it disappears! So what do you have and how did you get them?

i saw the same japanese lefty strat on c-list for 100 and bought it and sold it to a music store for 400. it was a lovely guitar but Im a righty and Ive already got japanese tele and jaguar.

paranoid
05-31-2007, 11:55 AM
Ropey Lopey ---->

I have 3 currently..

1. A lefty Jackson Stealth that I got in 1997 as a christmas present.. it's a nice guitar but I never use the damn thing.. the locking tuners drive me insane and are impossible to use, so i'm looking to sell or trade it, just haven't found a guitar I want yet.

2. Ibanez 1978 PF-900 Les Paul knock off- It's a right strung lefty. I found this at a random garage sale for $60!!! couldn't believe it! I had to buy it.. so i modded it for lefty.. kinda hard to play because of the body set up (volume knobs where my arm is strumming).. but it's a sweet sounding guitar.

3. Lefty gibson SG that I found at a pawn shop in Peabody Mass.. very random find, only paid about $400 for it. I use this guitar at all times, it's htem ost reliable and most playable.

I want to get a semi hallow guitar of some sort too..

RopeyLopey
05-31-2007, 06:14 PM
Hey penis, I listened to the Bubba stuff. Well, I tried - and failed. I don't like it at all - I'd call it a sonic masturbation. I can see it can be fun for you playing it - but as an audience, it tells me absolutely nothing. I somewhat liked Man with a Harmonica, but besides that....ugh. Seriously.
You should get them play your stuff, instead.

smashingjj
05-31-2007, 07:01 PM
Ok, well that's too bad. The sound quality doesn't really help as well, but we're really just playing rock songs that aren't that weird - there are a few jam parts, but mostly it's just (heavy) rock songs built on riffs and soft / loud parts. We'll put our single on myspace when it's mastered, I'll post a link then. It has already been produced pretty well if you ask me, unlike what i posted.

I like the rough sound though, hoped there would be some people with me. :(

paranoid
05-31-2007, 10:07 PM
http://www.paulietheboss.com/dls/theletterp.mp3

I need to be educated about reason.. is it a midi synth program or are all of these musical samples pre recorded?

anyway this sounds pretty cool, nice melody ideas, i like how the bass ostinato idea keeps going throughout the tune. I found myself contantly adjusting the volume on my comp due to parts being to loud and then too low.. but that's a technical issue that has nothing to do with the piece itself.

Sounds good overall, but im curious as to if these ideas were written by you or if the ideas were pre written and you did the arrangement..

paranoid
05-31-2007, 10:20 PM
Luke De Spa- Where the gods sleep:

I like this tune.. very catchy, nice recording quality, the sound reminds me of mid nineties modern rock radio type songs (I don;t know if you'd take that as a compliment or an insult, but I like that kind of music).

You definately have some Pumpkins influence shining around this music as well. The vocals are cool.. your voice needs a little more work but it has potential.. i like the backing harmonies.

Overall a good rock tune, it's catchy, dark and pretty all at once. Definately could be marketable.

wHATcOLOR
06-01-2007, 01:57 AM
www.**************.com

shameless, yes :erm:


am i missing something? i see the tracks listed, but no links, and i see it says ordering information will be available later.. but you, mister, led me to believe that www.**************.com would enable me to hear canned kitty, so if this is the truth, please tell me how becasue i am unable to figure it out on my own!!!!!!!!!!!!

Luke de Spa
06-01-2007, 01:58 AM
AVAILABLE IN: MP3 (http://www.**************.com/releases/dws003/canned.rar)

wHATcOLOR
06-01-2007, 01:59 AM
thanks!

ChristHimself!
06-01-2007, 03:43 AM
I need to be educated about reason.. is it a midi synth program or are all of these musical samples pre recorded?

Sounds good overall, but im curious as to if these ideas were written by you or if the ideas were pre written and you did the arrangement..

I think all of the orchestral/percussion stuff is sampled notes/hits with different lengths/attacks to choose from basically, and there are synths in there as well. None of the music/melodies in the track were pre written, I wrote/arranged/tracked everything from scratch.

smashingjj
06-01-2007, 10:15 AM
i am trying to listen to everyones contributions to this thread but its so old that many links have stopped working
mine haven't

smashingjj
06-01-2007, 10:15 AM
:)

and thank you for listening i mean

ChristHimself!
06-01-2007, 10:23 AM
mine haven't

neither have mine

i hate you joeri

RopeyLopey
06-01-2007, 01:30 PM
i am trying to listen to everyones contributions to this thread but its so old that many links have stopped working i have like second sendspace link in the thread and it is still working.

smashingjj
06-01-2007, 02:16 PM
********** is fucking lazy

Luke de Spa
06-01-2007, 02:25 PM
THAT'S RICH

RopeyLopey
06-01-2007, 02:42 PM
********** is fucking lazyhey joeri I was listening to your solo non-bubba stuff again yesterday, and I really love it. childhood and hardcore are great. the female singer is exquisite. I still love you!

smashingjj
06-01-2007, 03:00 PM
You're god damn right you do!

smashingjj
06-01-2007, 03:03 PM
that female singer is Maria btw, other netphorians have already fallen in love with her.

www.miamia.nl

RopeyLopey
06-01-2007, 03:11 PM
that female singer is Maria btw, other netphorians have already fallen in love with her.

www.miamia.nlthat's impressive.

apple
06-01-2007, 03:27 PM
miamia sounds like a tampon.

smashingjj
06-01-2007, 09:01 PM
i use her like one

BollywanaCrackR
06-01-2007, 10:32 PM
check out my stuff at www.myspace.com/davidhsolo

hope you like it, i made it especially for you

BollywanaCrackR
06-02-2007, 12:11 AM
just updated my songs check it

Luke de Spa
06-02-2007, 03:21 AM
here's something i recorded today
the herald sea (http://www.sleepydemons.co.nz/sleepy-demons_the-herald-sea.mp3)

think i'll get through a bit more of this thread tonight. but i'm not going to listen to your music if you haven't commented on anyone else's

Luke de Spa
06-02-2007, 04:06 AM
wow sendspace is really fucking slow

celluloid_love
06-02-2007, 04:11 AM
that took me like 30 seconds to download actually, if that

celluloid_love
06-02-2007, 04:12 AM
are you looking for comments and stuff or did you just want people to hear it

Luke de Spa
06-02-2007, 04:13 AM
i'm getting aurel's album off sendspace and it's taken forty minutes to download 25MB

Luke de Spa
06-02-2007, 04:15 AM
are you looking for comments and stuff or did you just want people to hear it
i'd definitely appreciate any comments about the song. it's quite a bit heavier than my usual fare. the recording is pretty crappy; i don't really care about that though. it's just for my band to learn from

RopeyLopey
06-02-2007, 03:38 PM
i'd definitely appreciate any comments about the song. it's quite a bit heavier than my usual fare. the recording is pretty crappy; i don't really care about that though. it's just for my band to learn fromthe main riff bravely rivals the heaviest riffs of UNICRON.
It is nice. How many guitars you have in the band? Maybe I'd try to ******* some guitar already during the first verse, not just the lonely bass line, and in the second verse there would be actually two guitars playing?

Regarding the song name - I am starting to suspect you really want to be a sailor. Do you want to be a sound sailor?

relaxor!
06-02-2007, 08:26 PM
Hello. I used to post here a few years ago and was listening to some suff in this thread and thought I'd post my own. This is me and my buddy Nelson in the studio, and it's the first song on our newest album.
Also, I advise you to smoke them if you've got them, you know.
I will post comments on other recordings here when I have a moment.
Also, sleeper, check your PMs.

http://rapidshare.com/files/34914337/01_Red.m4a.html

Luke de Spa
06-02-2007, 11:33 PM
the main riff bravely rivals the heaviest riffs of UNICRON.
It is nice. How many guitars you have in the band? Maybe I'd try to ******* some guitar already during the first verse, not just the lonely bass line, and in the second verse there would be actually two guitars playing?
we have two guitars. on these recordings often it's just my guitar parts except for what lead parts i've worked by myself or we've jammed out at practice. so in this one there are the octave parts here and there, a second guitar part in the choruses and that brief lead break after the bridge. the rest jake can work out on his own (there's space for new parts in the verses and the bridge, and probably the choruses); that's what the recording's for. thanks for giving it a listen

Regarding the song name - I am starting to suspect you really want to be a sailor. Do you want to be a sound sailor?
a sea minstrel, to be precise

RopeyLopey
06-02-2007, 11:43 PM
RopeyLopey
although i feel retarded typing that out.

why you should feel retarded? So it sucks, so what?

apple
06-03-2007, 09:34 AM
thanks for the review ********** (for mome raths). what did you mean though by "the guitar being out of place"? is that to say that you felt the guitar on pebble hill march didn't suit the song, or that the whole song felt out of place with the other songs?

deadaswarhol
06-03-2007, 09:58 AM
Heather Grey
"1234" sounds like a clip from an Adore demo or something... in fact all of these sound like thefutureembrace fucked joy division. you can definitely hear the billy corgan. a little too dancy for me sorry



haha everyone that says they're not big on it, the reasons they give are things i'd usually take as a compliment. thanks for listening

monkeyfritters
06-03-2007, 10:19 AM
no portable shark review, dislunker? im crushed!

Luke de Spa
06-03-2007, 10:27 AM
Whats it sound like?

Dunno. Classic Jazz songwriting could be the biggest influence but that doesnt tell the whole story. Best I can do is say its got some guitar songs, some piano songs, some interesting production, a tribute to Gorecki, some clarimanet, a class jazz drum solo by my mate omar and some chilling examples of after hours in my Idios Kosmos.

For best results listen alone, hammered and maudlin.
i'm alone, but not hammered or maudlin. still, i'll do my best.

intention: pretty. kinda wish it developed more, but it's still cool. feels more like a "middle of album" track to me.

tom waits for no man: love all the dissonance in the guitar parts. some of the vocal parts sound a bit unsure of themselves, but otherwise very nice.

meditation on departure: really like part 1, wish it were longer; the "song" portion of this doesn't really gel with it though. this is going to sound worse than i intend but it's kinda open-mic-nighty, if you know what i mean.

yaphet kotto smile: enjoyed the subdued first two minutes, good atmospherics. but the strummier this got the less i was into it.

+ | -: reminds me a bit of that "mad world" cover from donnie darko. the ending coda seems a bit unfocused, especially the transition into it. did you record it separately?

sigil: wants a band backing it. maybe a little repetitive; i think that's just the lack of arrangement though.

bakers dozen: liked this one, particularly the clarinet, lead guitar and the little triplety descending lines where you pair the guitar and vocals. as a general rule i don't like lyrics about people drinking wine, nothing personal.

django goes to college: this is cool improvised? i actually grinned when the bass and the drums took off wasn't expecting that at all. on the whole, neat ideas but i think it's a bit long. all the drum stuff in the middle third was a bit much for me.

undone: excellent song. clear nick drake influence. got any more like this?

the language of whores and threes: good, but the full-voice singing and the restrained piano clash something terrible. i can't help but wonder if it would have more emotional impact if the singing was reined in quite a bit. otherwise, it carries itself over five and a half minutes and that isn't easy to do, so well done.

evolution is evolving: lol

on the whole, not sure that this works as an album i didn't feel like there was much of a flow between tracks but mainly i enjoyed the individual songs. "tom waits" and "undone" are clear standouts. (and the first 1:20 of "meditation")

Luke de Spa
06-03-2007, 11:01 AM
http://www.myspace.com/xheathergrey

no singer yet. i'll listen to everyone's stuff tonight
the production is naff but you have some good ideas. "love" and "1234" are obviously written with vocals in mind, so they struggled a bit to hold my interest without them. "down" is pretty catchy; have you tried developing it further? "apathy" could be more fleshed out too, i think. hope you can find some other musos to play with

Luke de Spa
06-03-2007, 11:02 AM
not really a song; its the degrassi junior high theme song i made a cover of today.
yeah, im sure all of you are having a good laugh right now but that theme always moved me. and this has been a really shitty time lately...
anyhoo.
what i want is some critique about the recording and mixing - 'production', in general.
so, SOUND ENGINEERS ONLY ... :)

http://download.yousendit.com/27500F0B34CBA51A
can you post a fresh link for this, please?

Luke de Spa
06-03-2007, 11:06 AM
i dont have any new songs because i give up. here are some throwaway tracks that i didnt feel like upping so i did a short pastichE(o) medley type thing. oh melody,.[...i meant MEDLEY

http://www.sendspace.com/file/dfg08l

0:00-0:31 has guitar from siraj
2:33-3:10 is a recording of rockin cherub playing drums that i put music over


edit: oh here's a new song i did for 'two minute boners to listen to' comp for hpn.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1sjgxk
first link doesn't work. the piano piece is excellent; develops really nicely. wish it were longer. do you have any more stuff like this?

Luke de Spa
06-03-2007, 11:14 AM
Here are my new instrumental demos for my new project.
http://www.myspace.com/burntheliesband
There are a couple more basic ones here:
http://www.myspace.com/bjrussellmusic (deleting this account tonight.)
untitled instrumental: from what i can tell this sounds like it's succeeding at what it's trying to be. i'm not really into this style of music though. pinch harmonics bad. suspended chords good.
nails: much more up my alley. you can sing "time after time" over the first part. uneven meter in the second part is refreshing. i hope you don't kill this one with chugging...
bug: out of left field, this one, especially given what i heard of vYYYYsion. got a bit of a TEITBITE single feel. would like to hear it developed further

Luke de Spa
06-03-2007, 11:45 AM
http://www.myspace.com/agowilt

or

http://www.myspace.com/adamstoybox

the agowilt has the most recent tunes.
agowilt
the curtain between: this is cool. the horns work really well, much better than the ROCK EXPLOSION i was kind of dreading. arrangement generally is bloody good. nice and diverse, but focused. no wasted moments. buildup towards the end is handled perfectly.
drumb: don't like the keyboards. good use of dynamics though; the stops work well. i don't think it's as strong as the first track, but still solid.

adam's toy box
one shadow under the moon: repetitive but it works. i like the gradual build over the first two minutes. it's a bit loose here and there (i think it's the bass mainly) but that's not a huge deal. guitar lead in the second half is a bit noodly for me.
lament of john cusack: emo colin meloy? lead guitar is pretty out of place here, i think. backwards ebow/keyboard/whatever at the end is my favourite part.
in search of my heart: um, yep. stopped at the scat singing
mya: not the godspeed mya, obviously. man you weren't lying about the tuning! i enjoyed the third (sucker for pizzicato) and fourth mini-movements the most (way more ambitious and moody than the others).

Luke de Spa
06-03-2007, 11:48 AM
okay, think that's it for now.

<daskhj><daskhj><daskhj><daskhj><daskhj><daskhj><daskhj><daskhj><daskhj><daskhj>do none of you understand how a thread like this works? i'm not listening to any of you guys until you actually participate


this guy is just full of shit:
i will get to this tomorrow, my ears have finally cleared up a touch and i have nothing incredibly urgent.My ear infection has cleared up. I will get to this TONIGHT.

Luke de Spa
06-03-2007, 12:09 PM
to briefly respond to everyone who listened to my songs: first, thanks for giving them a shot, and if you liked them i'm glad. if you didn't, sorry.

i won't quote anyone in particular because this will be my eighth post in a row in this thread, so here are some general responses to a some points a few people raised.

building boats ending: yep, i agree it's abrupt and not as intense as it could be. with my band we've made it about a minute longer; vocals still finish in the same place but the dynamics and tempo crank up and everyone seems to agree that it works much better.

drums/production: the drums are just loops i bought from drumsondemand.com, so usually i have to pick whatever's closest to what i hear in my head. (the only song that sounds exactly how i wanted it to is dog days.) all these songs were recorded either to entice people to form a band or, lately, for the band to learn from. i should be trying harder with getting to grips with the production stuff (as i think we'll want to record an EP later in the year and it'd be nice not to have to pay for studio time) but right now the main focus is on getting the live act ready.

thanks again for all the feedback. i really appreciate it.

smashingjj
06-03-2007, 12:25 PM
a new one. i finished this song last week

http://www.sendspace.com/file/m3oml3

paranoid
06-03-2007, 12:45 PM
agowilt

lament of john cusack: emo colin meloy? lead guitar is pretty out of place here, i think. backwards ebow/keyboard/whatever at the end is my favourite part.


Are you speaking about the lead guitar going on through the whole song or the guitar solo itself??

btw, thanks for listening to everything and giving your input (especially from a musical standpoint), really appreciated!!

Luke de Spa
06-03-2007, 01:02 PM
Are you speaking about the lead guitar going on through the whole song or the guitar solo itself??
mainly the solo, but given the type of song i thought the rest of the lead work would've benefited from less gain

smashingjj
06-03-2007, 04:11 PM
i really enjoy yr stuff. how do you create these?
cool, thanks for listening! :)

for this track, i recorded the sounds of falling plectrums and coins in cooledit, of which i made a few basis rhythm loops. i made one large track out of these and placed them in ableton, the only feature of which i understood and used was the beat repeat effect. i kept fucking with the beats with this effect for like 15 minutes, recorded those 15 minutes and went back to cooledit to select the best parts of these 15 minutes of beats. i placed the selected tracks next to each other, i made a xylophone melody for it of which only a few notes survived for the final thing. the rest of the sounds i made in cooledit.

i really want to get used to some other programs because using cooledit for this kind of stuff is really fucking exhausting. a friend told me a lot about hwo to use ableton and i'm downloading the latest version of ableton now.

RopeyLopey
06-03-2007, 04:17 PM
aurel EP
I didn't like it very much for the first listen, but I listened to it yesterday and enjoyed it a lot! There's a sound engineer in the band, right? Rosebud is great, the switching between the pop-sing-along parts and the non-vocals/distorted vocals parts are quite exciting. Easily memorable stuff - this is good.The section starting at 1:03 - that's fantastic.
Fountain Eyes - I was really disappointed by drumming on this. Why didn't he mix it up a bit. The song is so stale because of the boring drumming...
Cedar- parts remind me of The EMpty Sea by Zwan - but is more along the lines of being well executed song.
Blanche - this sounds like Primus.
Overall, I enjoy the variety. Songs well executed, tight. Nice singing, you sound really being in control of the voice. Nice screamer, too. Your earbagger submission
is on of my favourites, there's something about your diction. As I am saying, except the drumming on Fountain eyes, I liked it a lot.Rock on!

penissmile-80th floor
-Mallow-vein stuff, touching lyrics, Holland, when bass comes in, it is so good, that it would be too
bad if it were only acoustic guitar all the time. There's abit of searching, but that's OK. It made me realize how much
I was saddened by the demise of Mallow.

penissmile-Ego
are you schizophrenic? This acoustic song like 80th floor, and then this. No, I like it. Motive at 1:50 - nice.Singing eh. 3:31 awesome.parts like (4:30-5:00) sound as a sonic/noise masturbation, though


Mayfuck-Moth Wire
nice piece. What's up with the noise supression in the background? Could be longer.It is nice to see you are able to put together something like this beside your hiding and wrapping melodies in walls of noise as on some tracks on canned.


now, I reviewed more bits by Joeri, LDS, and Mayfuck. Could you possibly give a listen to those two (non-post rock)as well? Thanks.
Everyone else who hasn't reviewed anything yet - please do the two below as well - I deleted the previous stuff. I review yours as soon as you review the previous contributions and get to mine.


deer canada - comes a time
http://www.sendspace.com/file/23zuou


deer canada - jedna dva tri
http://www.sendspace.com/file/5d4qdz
(this is a collage of about 18 different recent, mostly Netphorian songs. DeviousJ and Sleeper contributed probably as much as me. I don't expect a reaction on every piece, I am more interested if you find there something interesting or just say it's all bullshit. thanks.

smashingjj
06-03-2007, 04:28 PM
see, stuff like this always sounds like its more complicated, then when its explained its like 'oh thats not so bad'. everything julio's ever made sounds like each beat was manually placed into the song by god himself but he seems to think it was incredibly easy. :mad: i wish i could create electronic music like this. i just have to stick to making pure noise.

'lazy journalist' has been on repeat as well. its so dark and moody. love it
that's great to read, thanks. there's one track on last.fm/music/le+joustra that i didn't post here yet (just bend over you'll do fine), feel free to listen to that too.

i don't think it's too hard to make music like this, you just need a lot of patience i guess, because it takes a lot of time (literally days). i don't always feel like making music because of this. i mean i do always feel like making music, but this is really restraining.

i have been making 'pure noise' too. it is appealing and i like making it, but if i'd record it, i don't think it would be half as intense to listen to it again as when you're making it. this is the same reason why i don't really listen to heavy noise / pure drone stuff at home, i do really like to hear it live. just a matter of taste i guess?