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AndreasE · Post by **AndreasE** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 9:37 pm

Again a very high musical level this month!

No reviews, but I want to thank especially the following folks for their outstanding tracks (according to my subjective taste - and until now I didn´t listen to the ones which are newer than 2 days old). These all would be in my top 10+

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- Starving-Time: In Memoriam Doctoris Roberti
- knockman: The moog kook book
- Marc JX8P: The Great Modular In The Sky

- Scamme: Now you can rest
- Ezy Ryder: And then there was Moog
- Sepheritoh: Shadows in our minds
- Oddbods Finger: Music For The Computer Age

- Voynich: The Release
- Petru Delu Damsa: Requiem for Bob Moog
- Glassback: Moog In Brogues
- Emdot_Ambient: Cybernaut
- sttjelle: I don't know

- nikp2000: a sailor on strange seas

Marc JX8P · Post by **Marc JX8P** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:28 am

Music... the final frontier... these are several more reviews... Their mission: to describe the tracks, to analyse their meaning and to boldly suggest I might have a suggestion for improvement!

Age of De Gross - Techbot:
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Cool rhyhthms - I love the reverse reverb. Great use of vocals and effects and I really like that filtered/gated main line. It's also cool to hear the more subtle effects in this song like that theremin-like line.

Hope is a Bird with Feathers - Glooper & Remco:
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Cool track this! Vocals feel a tad too soft but are well done. I love the bass guitar line. The guitars are magnificent too. This is a really well produced song.

Gentlemen Don't Die - Mark Aldred:
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A bit of Kitaro meets Vangelis here. This is a really nice track with some great piano playing. It's also a very cool mix of orchestral and synthetic timbres.

Belugamoogfishsundae - vurt:
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A very enjoyable soundscape... like with many tracks of this type I keep hoping a rhythm and melody will suddenly break through, but well done and very well mixed.

Albinoni - Adagio in Gm - slartibartfast:
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Very Wendy Carlos... beautiful sounds in a beautiful piece. Wonderful!

liqih · Post by **liqih** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:27 am

some, almost every, reviews,

a great show of creativity

Scoops The Telephone Call

cool assemblage, music too background maybe,
scary anyway, I like it

emdot_ambient CYBERNAUT

good sounds,
a synthetic minor blues with orchestral
psychadelic era feeling,
nice but not exciting

mystahr Dear Mr. R. Moog

I like drones, the two contrasting arpeggios
could work better rhythmically, they miss
the polyrhithmic groove

nikp2000 a_sailor_on_strange_seas

nice mix of acoustic and electric,
romantic and vintage

Wopelka Emoogation

interesting moog brain insanity

Glassback Moog In Brogues

I like when the DUB mood comes out,
intersting sound as well

AndreasE MoogMeetsEmerson

nice compositition, just the fake guitar
takes it down a little

Barnadine Flown

this song reminds me of Marianne Faithfull,
mooving

petrudamsa REQUIEM FOR BOB MOOG

metallic piano sound, the second part is better,
retro as they say, with those prog harmonies,
well performed,

oddbods finger Music For The Computer Age

this made me smile, fun stuff, we had hits
like this in Italy 20 years ago,
nice vocal part

sttjelle I don't know

same as above, just less fun but more groovy nice bass

Marc JX8P The Great Modular In The Sky

too romantic melodic for me, I like the burbling
sound in the middle

griels A Slice Of Moog

cool jazzy feeling, a bit overused the voice effect,
lead and EP work great

You™ Europa & the Pirate Twins

cool groovy mix, catchy too

Benedict Time Returns All Legends To Glory

very interesting composition, maybe too short
to explain itself, just starts late but I like it

Yuskevich In Memoriam Doctoris Roberti

again should be longer, I like how this evolves

You™ · Post by **You™** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:45 am

AndreasE wrote:...Where are the others?

Here they come. I can only get so much done at a time. If you are still wondering who's who - get the properties for any picture and check the filename. Then you will know who's review is associated. I tried to keep the same wording as the original submission, but I had a bit of automation going on between a couple applications and one of them was truncating the filenames. I'm too lazy to retype each by hand though there should be enough for you to figure it out. I was surprised at how many different naming conventions people use. I don't grade down for that so don't worry.

As with some others this month, I don't know what this has to do with Moog. It's so brazenly mixed I find it hard to repeatedly listen enough to glean much of it's charm other than those first riff (which is pure new wave gold). Then it turns into stale Eurodisco fluff with way too much compression that makes me reach for the volume as fast as I can. The title leads me to think you don't care much about it or what anyone thinks of it anyway. I see a Tiki face in the middle of your sonogram - that's pretty cool.

I don't know if it's intentional, but I recall "Trans-Europe Express" every time the main figure in this song appears. Nice interplay between the glitchy beats and the delay lines and good variety of sounds. I can't help feeling like there should be a bit more evolution in the composition. This has the makings of a great epic electronic piece. It even looks good.

I know exactly what Glassback means about this: it's so discordantly wacky that it's amusing as hell and pants at the same time. It's like the Star Wars cantina band on mushrooms. I admit I have issues with the use of prefab MIDI files, but it's the detuned lead that waxes my melon. I need some headcleaner now.

You can really see the filter sweeps in the sonogram above. I enjoy this quite a bit even though it felt like the intro to an old song - maybe "Who's Behind the Door" by Zebra. Bet no one knows that song! Or maybe it's the space jam from a Hawkwind concert while the guitarists retune. Whump whump whump whump whump whump! I feel wasted (the good kind of wasted) and so my speakers.

You may get away with the 48 kHz sample rate, but I'm disappointed you used a prefab MIDI file - even though I guess you didn't have to admit it. Oh well. It does sound a lot like old Walter/Wendy - though the metallic bass reminds me of a particular Synergy piece: "Phobos and Deimos go to Mars" or was it his cover of "Slaughter on 10th Ave?" Well at least Larry Fast wouldn't be caught with someone else's MIDI file. You shouldn't either.

There's something disparately at odds here - great Rock'n'Roll chops and heartfelt performance hindered by cheesy production and a bit of genre pandering. I know I put some weird instrument combinations together and try some kooky combinations but this sounds a little too serious to be hilarious and too quirky to be stright. great energy and effort, now temper it with restraint.

That's what my song looks like. Compare yours.

Another new favorite from you Gordon. I love the interesting rhythmic sequence that propels this along and the warm inviting palette of sounds you coax from the synths. I don't know whether you programmed them yourself or found especially unique patches but I appreciate the unique and impressionistic quality of this piece. Very good mix too.

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:53 am

You™ wrote: Here they come. I can only get so much done at a time.

Mine didn't even show up in your program I take it.

You™ · Post by **You™** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:04 pm

kovacs wrote:
You™ wrote: Here they come. I can only get so much done at a time.
Mine didn't even show up in your program I take it.

I got you covered. Your number hasn't been called, so get back in line. You're over there behind Wopelka. You better hurry before Griels steals your spot.

Katanaman · Post by **Katanaman** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:53 pm

You™ wrote:
Another new favorite from you Gordon. I love the interesting rhythmic...

You may have revealed more than you meant there...

You™ · Post by **You™** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:04 pm

Katanaman wrote:
You™ wrote:
Another new favorite from you Gordon. I love the interesting rhythmic...
You may have revealed more than you meant there...

They're not supposed to be secrets! I want you all to know what reviews were for whom - eventually. Or did I miss something?

AndreasE · Post by **AndreasE** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:53 am

You™, just found my sonogram on your website (sorry for publishing it before you did it

).
Nice pic, but the music is sh.., I´d say (something like done by an ape).

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:01 am

AndreasE wrote:You™, just found my sonogram on your website (sorry for publishing it before you did it ).
Nice pic, but the music is sh.., I´d say (something like done by an ape).

Yeah, looks like you're right about that!

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:19 am

kovacs wrote:
AndreasE wrote:You™, just found my sonogram on your website (sorry for publishing it before you did it ).
Nice pic, but the music is sh.., I´d say (something like done by an ape).

Yeah, looks like you're right about that!

Moohn-kay!

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:23 am

You™ wrote:
You can really see the filter sweeps in the sonogram above. I enjoy this quite a bit even though it felt like the intro to an old song - maybe "Who's Behind the Door" by Zebra. Bet no one knows that song! Or maybe it's the space jam from a Hawkwind concert while the guitarists retune. Whump whump whump whump whump whump! I feel wasted (the good kind of wasted) and so my speakers.

I saw immediately that this was mine.
Cool.
Thanks for the kind words, and yes, I have never heard of that Zebra song. Hawkwind, however, is a reference I don't mind, even if I only get the spaced out jam...

The guitar *is* in tune already, though. It's the player that needs service.

Marc JX8P · Post by **Marc JX8P** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 12:53 pm

AndreasE wrote:- Marc JX8P: The Great Modular In The Sky

Thanks! Glad you like the track I made.

You™ · Post by **You™** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 1:03 pm

AndreasE wrote:You™, just found my sonogram on your website (sorry for publishing it before you did it ).
Nice pic, but the music is sh.., I´d say (something like done by an ape).

I think it looks like a little village in the rain forest. There are seven huts (or bee hives), the eighth is under construction.

AndreasE · Post by **AndreasE** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 2:17 pm

You™ wrote:
AndreasE wrote:You™, just found my sonogram on your website (sorry for publishing it before you did it ).
Nice pic, but the music is sh.., I´d say (something like done by an ape).

I think it looks like a little village in the rain forest. There are seven huts (or bee hives), the eighth is under construction.

... or like four girls lying side by side. Your pics are close to pornography ...

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