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Compass North - this is WAAAAAY out of my normal style and Genre

I should Prioritize:
Finishing Compass North - Global Movement of Music
0%
 0%  [0]
Finishing Arcade Style, your electronica CD
25%
 25%  [1]
Continue efforts to get better at producing before any projects
25%
 25%  [1]
Getting money to own my own drum sounds and sequencers
50%
 50%  [2]
Total Votes : 4

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:07 pm reply with quote

(click image to go to song)

So a few months back I ran a contest that was based around a monologue I wrote and acted out myself.
I was writing my own submission for my own contest but it got delay and delayed and by the time I finished just a rough draft I realized it needed drums but I didn't have any proper drums for it, so...I asked the help of KVR user, Gamma-UT.
After long trials and tribulations and hours, days, weeks, and months of mastering, the long awaited track is done, and is now part of my project called "Compass North" - which is centered around music that is more jazzy and more non-electronic instruments - though some synths and pads are still used. It is not techno or any type of Electronic, which is very different for me.

http://soundcloud.com/ntommusic/sets/compass-north-global-mo vement/

As an added bonus to everyone, I have a link here where I compiled - very very quickly - all 4 submissions to the contest into a 4 minute mix.
http://soundcloud.com/flytecast/cigarette-cafe-contest-submi ssions

lastly, you can listen to the original monologue that inspired it all here:
http://www.fature.net/tracks/ntom_Cigarette.mp3

and for "lyrics"
Quote:

I saw her
She left, that is what she did.
She took it with her too. All that I could ask for was taken.
She walked up the stairs and entered the plane with it's propellers spinning.
And down the runway it went.
It was black and white as the rain fell. All I could do was smoke my cigarette and watch
as she left me behind. She left it all behind. She let it fade.

Years later she called
"Tom" she said weeping through the phone, "They took it from me"
I gave her a moment to cry. But without saying good bye, I hung up. I drifted back into the
shadows and took a puff of my cigarette. The only light that lit up this cold dark room.

I felt anger now. There was a hole inside me that could not be fullfilled. I lit a cigarette, and poured a glass of scotch. The wife looked at me scared, but she felt she was at fault for what I do to her.
I was happy when the cops came and took me away. My wife was not the one to blame for my anguish. That woman from years ago tore out what held me together, and I was no longer fit for society.

I popped a cigarette out of the package. Whos to blame for my anger but myself, I said. Then I lit the cigarette and sucked the burning ash in.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:54 pm reply with quote
Could I get some feedback please? I put a lot of work into this song!
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:52 am reply with quote
Well this'll be the last time I ask for some feedback, but please if you wouldn't mind?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:25 pm reply with quote
I enjoyed the Cigarette track. it's like a poem with music and has a nice moody feel to it. I also liked the voice octaver? that kicked in at 1:22, has a dark, almost evil feel to it.

Of course a cigarette is allways best with some scotch, so l listened to that one as well. Same nice dark mood and great percussion in this track. Nice transition at 4:30. 2 unusual tracks and i really enjoyed the listen!
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:04 pm reply with quote
bump to give feedback after I'm in the studio.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:26 pm reply with quote
insert-name-here wrote:
I enjoyed the Cigarette track. it's like a poem with music and has a nice moody feel to it. I also liked the voice octaver? that kicked in at 1:22, has a dark, almost evil feel to it.

Of course a cigarette is allways best with some scotch, so l listened to that one as well. Same nice dark mood and great percussion in this track. Nice transition at 4:30. 2 unusual tracks and i really enjoyed the listen!


Thanks for your kind feedback Smile Seriously...after the the 1 vote that says I should work on production before anything else made me worry that the song really isn't that good at all. (The other vote was mine)
Also, I haven't had a kind comment - or for that matter any kind of comment - on my writing in a long while, so it's nice to know you enjoyed the story.

The great percussion was all thanks to Gamma-UT, all I did with the percussion was some levels on them, and automated some levels as well, such as really making the first tom hit at 1:06 really feel powerful.
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