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Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:07 am

How 'bout that Gaugear, eh?

One instance of that artsy fartsy Masterpiece crudely used here by Yours Truly. My first track of 2005 was a little ditty called 'Cold Earth', so I guess I'll stick with the program..

Cold Earth II

And yes, Borogove, I even managed to edit the mp3 tags again..

Happy Blue Year, everyone..

mayan · Post by **mayan** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:31 am

man...this is beautiful...spare, austere and really quite beautiful

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:46 am

Wow, this is almost music-like.

I wasn't going to listen until tomorrow, but decided 9 more minutes of waking won't kill me. Very lovely, the subsections almost play like a Sickle greatest hits. Although your reverb is a tad flat and rumbly (round 4:30ish).

Cheers,
Steve

mayan · Post by **mayan** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:50 am

I know...what's gotten in to you? Are you in love or something?

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:03 am

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:04 am

So it really is a Sickle greatest hits, then?

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:15 am

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:09 pm

Some of this is downright tuneful... I like the last few minutes particularly when it gets all degraded.

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:25 pm

It's not me it's the synth, honest..

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:09 pm

nice. like new age gone all broody and wrong ... ;-) i especially like the alternation of classic sickle wall of sound with passages of sparseness and clarity. you know what i think would be very cool: intimations (could be very subtle and perhaps almost inaudible) of a slow complex (perhaps polymetric) beat. not using drums, rather some sort of appropriate percussive element.

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:19 pm

rachmiel wrote:not using drums, rather some sort of appropriate percussive element.

Ah, yes..That irksome old drum/percussion problem.

Maybe I should give your drumLiner a go..I absolutely hate sequencing percussion/beat stuff..

Cheers, Rick!

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:22 pm

How 'bout that Gaugear, eh?

indeed ...
enjoyed your production , on this ...

rachmiel · Post by **rachmiel** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:26 pm

> Ah, yes..That irksome old drum/percussion problem.

you know i am with you when it comes to NOT being enchanted by most drum parts. but i love odd grooves, rhythmic flow. so i'm thinking more like clicks or impulses that proceed slowly, build a kind of field of beats that will engage the listener's analytical faculty, inspire him/her to divine patterns.

here's a good example of what i'm talking about:

http://www.reaktions.com/music/double_u ... ator_b.mp3

listen to the way he engages your pattern diviner.

Sickle · Post by **Sickle** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:33 pm

rachmiel wrote:> Ah, yes..That irksome old drum/percussion problem.

you know i am with you when it comes to NOT being enchanted by most drum parts. but i love odd grooves, rhythmic flow. so i'm thinking more like clicks or impulses that proceed slowly, build a kind of field of beats that will engage the listener's analytical faculty, inspire him/her to divine patterns.

here's a good example of what i'm talking about:

http://www.reaktions.com/music/double_u ... ator_b.mp3

listen to the way he engages your pattern diviner.

That's a pretty cool track; I see what you mean completely. I really like the distortion in it as well, which is the other problem I always run up against:

Digital Distortion totally sux0rz..

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Fri Jan 06, 2006 4:52 pm

love the way it decends into real sickle territory

great to return from a day of listening to 2 rnb chicks singing the same 2 verses over and over

(well studio work doesnt always mean music i like i suppose

)

Cold Earth II(Sickle atmospheric)