QDM (quirky dance music) track for listening and amusement... final "product"...

[tomtom1]

hi all. I recently put a track online and received a lot of gratifying feedback. I was extremely dissatisfied with the track (yes, I know that someone who doesn't have to earn any money with it might be a little exaggerated ...) regardless, I changed the whole thing and ended up here. now i'm at least halfway satisfied musically - the mixing will probably never turn out to be any "good" (professional) - the time and the know-how are simply missing. hey and i have to practice properly on the instrument for my real job ...

oh if I shouldn't have opened a new topic for that, let me know ... for the next time.
have a nice day btw...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywj8xMsi0Lg

[vurt]

will listen later, on phone at min, so can't hear any bass

there's a monkey missing!
do no evil!
he often gets missed out, because he's a dirty little masturbating monkey
true!

[ChameleonMusic]

will listen later, on phone at Mon, so can't hear any bass

there's a monkey missing!
do no evil!
he often gets missed out, because he's a dirty little masturbating monkey
true!

Stop it...my sides hurt sooooo much from laughing....God, my ribs!!!

Needed a laugh though after my recent interaction on here...did NOT go well!

[vurt]

im not even joking

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[ChameleonMusic]

Hi Thomas,
Mix is great to my ears...for a classical organist, maaaan do you pick up music tech seriously fast!

Punchy, tight yet warm.

Plenty of upfront sounds to grab the listener, but supported by more distant pads / FX etc.

Good stereo spread - nicely balanced

Ditto the frequency spectrum as well

Good use of delay on that main melody...just enough to add some movement and energy in those melodic pauses as such

Musically I think it works very well - great 'rise and fall' with a more intense and insistent little edge to the section just before the percussion outro.

Catchy, quirky melody-driven electronica

[ChameleonMusic]

im not even joking

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Oh nooooooooooooooooooooo...I think a rib's just snapped dude!

[tomtom1]

im not even joking

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that could also ... he has a stomachache ... appendix !!! he ... aem rubs his stomach wall ... to get rid of the pain ... but that satisfied grin ...

stop! the spinal cord is shrinking !!! at least i pray for him....

[tomtom1]

Hi Thomas,
Mix is great to my ears...for a classical organist, maaaan do you pick up music tech seriously fast!

Punchy, tight yet warm.

Plenty of upfront sounds to grab the listener, but supported by more distant pads / FX etc.

Good stereo spread - nicely balanced

Ditto the frequency spectrum as well

Good use of delay on that main melody...just enough to add some movement and energy in those melodic pauses as such

Musically I think it works very well - great 'rise and fall' with a more intense and insistent little edge to the section just before the percussion outro.

Catchy, quirky melody-driven electronica

hi mark. Thank you for the compliment. But you already know that I owe at least 60% of that to you. The tips you posted were really useful. Before that I didn't even know that it makes sense to use the pan-pots. I think overall my ears are somehow at least a bit trained... classical way. But i find it way easier to balance a real choir or small orchestra (i think when doing some bach cantatas) than to balance 3 synths... I really don't know why. Maybe the frequencies? Someday I would be tempted to play the organ and using some beats ... but I don't know if i can risk that. let's say the environment is conservative.

[ChameleonMusic]

Someday I would be tempted to play the organ and using some beats ... but I don't know if i can risk that. let's say the environment is conservative.

I 100% understand that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCnVJNxKR9s

[tomtom1]

Someday I would be tempted to play the organ and using some beats ... but I don't know if i can risk that. let's say the environment is conservative.

I 100% understand that!

I didn't mean something like that. if then with the appropriate "pop" harmony and electronic beats. these classic crossover pieces alienate me more than I like them. I am always somehow "embarrassed" when i listen to them - something deep in my "soul" is fighting then ... don't know how to explain it better in english. I was then shaped and trained too classically - I also play the very classic "academic" concert pieces in my concerts. does the video appeal to you 100%? I could imagine arvo pärt with electronic beats. or something like that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aJpuUpHCEI

[ChameleonMusic]

Someday I would be tempted to play the organ and using some beats ... but I don't know if i can risk that. let's say the environment is conservative.

I 100% understand that!

I didn't mean something like that. if then with the appropriate "pop" harmony and electronic beats. these classic crossover pieces alienate me more than I like them. I am always somehow "embarrassed" when i listen to them - something deep in my "soul" is fighting then ... don't know how to explain it better in english. I was then shaped and trained too classically - I also play the very classic "academic" concert pieces in my concerts. does the video appeal to you 100%? I could imagine arvo pärt with electronic beats. or something like that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aJpuUpHCEI

The video I posted...yeah, not keen on that sort of thing as well...only meant as a joke, really...just don't know why people bother as the drums add nothing for me at all!

Franz Danksagmüller - had never heard of him at all and I thought the piece was very interesting...circular by name, circular by form in so many ways! Going to have a listen to more of his music!

Yeah, certain Part compositions could work as a hybrid arrangement of some sort...certainly the ones from his later tintinnabulation 'minimalist' style!

[vurt]

lovely stuff, while being different, has me in mind of some autechre, ex tal? maybe
its the off beatness of it, quirky indeed.
nice mix too, and love the fat wooly bass

[tomtom1]

Someday I would be tempted to play the organ and using some beats ... but I don't know if i can risk that. let's say the environment is conservative.

I 100% understand that!

I didn't mean something like that. if then with the appropriate "pop" harmony and electronic beats. these classic crossover pieces alienate me more than I like them. I am always somehow "embarrassed" when i listen to them - something deep in my "soul" is fighting then ... don't know how to explain it better in english. I was then shaped and trained too classically - I also play the very classic "academic" concert pieces in my concerts. does the video appeal to you 100%? I could imagine arvo pärt with electronic beats. or something like that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aJpuUpHCEI

The video I posted...yeah, not keen on that sort of thing as well...only meant as a joke, really...just don't know why people bother as the drums add nothing for me at all!

Franz Danksagmüller - had never heard of him at all and I thought the piece was very interesting...circular by name, circular by form in so many ways! Going to have a listen to more of his music!

Yeah, certain Part compositions could work as a hybrid arrangement of some sort...certainly the ones from his later tintinnabulation 'minimalist' style!

Franz Danksagmüller wrote some interesting pieces for organ. but not that many. I think he is a professor in lübeck, only had one contact with him via email - I asked him about his pieces, but never really got around to practicing and performing them.

[tomtom1]

lovely stuff, while being different, has me in mind of some autechre, ex tal? maybe
its the off beatness of it, quirky indeed.
nice mix too, and love the fat wooly bass

glad you like it. but what is a "wooly" bass ?? ...

[vurt]

lovely stuff, while being different, has me in mind of some autechre, ex tal? maybe
its the off beatness of it, quirky indeed.
nice mix too, and love the fat wooly bass

glad you like it. but what is a "wooly" bass ?? ...

the bass sound, it's like a snuggly warm blanket