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funkychickendance · Post by **funkychickendance** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:27 pm

thomekk wrote:
funkychickendance wrote:

It's She Moved Thru The Fair redone as, what Irish Folkie Ambient Trance? I dunno. Tranceport Convention?

/funxi
Hey funxi,
why not taking it as first draft and going on from it...like:
Sing the main (irish) melody (no synth) and acompany it with a hard-arppegiatedtrance beat?
The beat should come in not so early. First the irish theme has to established and when it is, WOOM, Bastard Irish Trance
Seriously, I could imagine that when I heard your tune.

Good thinking!

/funxi

funkychickendance · Post by **funkychickendance** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:58 pm

First Impressions, July 4 Edition:

My Brain's Inside The Computer/Dr.ApostropheX: Billed as JuJu Highlife Synthpop, and it certainly is. Right off the Luaka Bop label, and sounding like Weird Al does David Byrne. Excellent I'm no great singer but the hell with details vocals, nicely layered and mixed. Tremendously clever -- a la They Might Be Giants -- true to both its roots, and well produced.

The Ancient Banjo Under The Sun/Groovesys: Jesus, the professionals are out already

...this one starts as a fabulous spoof of the Emerson Lake & Palmer style at its most bombastically arpeggiating, then slides into a hillbilly dobro+banjo romp, for a while. By one minute into it, he's off in another direction...hard to finger (pun intended). Kinda Sting chillout C&W music. Oh yeah, newgrass/dawg music. And all within 1:40? Shee-it! Very well put together. Not all virtual instruments, I hope...? If they are, we're doomed, doomed...I might have mixed the bass a wee bit lower, but other than that...wow!

Caballo Negro/Los Frijoles aka S.Hush: More professionals...can't we have an amateur section

? Billed as Tex Mex metal...half in Spanish, half in English...the metal being mostly kazoo- & head-in-a-bucket vox processing a la death metal, and some sheet aluminum fuzz guitar. The Tex Mex is cool, though my ears kept saying The Specials or some such UK bier-und-ska musik band. Has a really brilliant production sheen with all the fake excitement studio hoopla going on.

/funxi

groovesys · Post by **groovesys** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:37 pm

funkychickendance wrote:First Impressions, July 4 Edition:

My Brain's Inside The Computer/Dr.ApostropheX: Billed as JuJu Highlife Synthpop, and it certainly is. Right off the Luaka Bop label, and sounding like Weird Al does David Byrne. Excellent I'm no great singer but the hell with details vocals, nicely layered and mixed. Tremendously clever -- a la They Might Be Giants -- true to both its roots, and well produced.

The Ancient Banjo Under The Sun/Groovesys: Jesus, the professionals are out already ...this one starts as a fabulous spoof of the Emerson Lake & Palmer style at its most bombastically arpeggiating, then slides into a hillbilly dobro+banjo romp, for a while. By one minute into it, he's off in another direction...hard to finger (pun intended). Kinda Sting chillout C&W music. Oh yeah, newgrass/dawg music. And all within 1:40? Shee-it! Very well put together. Not all virtual instruments, I hope...? If they are, we're doomed, doomed...I might have mixed the bass a wee bit lower, but other than that...wow!

Caballo Negro/Los Frijoles aka S.Hush: More professionals...can't we have an amateur section ? Billed as Tex Mex metal...half in Spanish, half in English...the metal being mostly kazoo- & head-in-a-bucket vox processing a la death metal, and some sheet aluminum fuzz guitar. The Tex Mex is cool, though my ears kept saying The Specials or some such UK bier-und-ska musik band. Has a really brilliant production sheen with all the fake excitement studio hoopla going on.

/funxi

FunkyChickenDance, you're all DOOMED!! The track was made entirely on a MacBook Pro using Logic Express and an old Oxygen 8 controller. All the instruments were virtual.

I mixed the bass high on purpose. I was going for Chris Squire's in-your-face distorted bass that was prominent on Yes's 70s records, mainly Fragile and Close to the Edge.

Thanks for the compliments. Who knew there was such a thing as Chillout C/W? This month's contest is gearing up to be a great one.

S.HUSH · Post by **S.HUSH** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:11 pm

funkychickendance wrote:
Caballo Negro/Los Frijoles aka S.Hush: More professionals...can't we have an amateur section ? Billed as Tex Mex metal...half in Spanish, half in English...the metal being mostly kazoo- & head-in-a-bucket vox processing a la death metal, and some sheet aluminum fuzz guitar. The Tex Mex is cool, though my ears kept saying The Specials or some such UK bier-und-ska musik band. Has a really brilliant production sheen with all the fake excitement studio hoopla going on.

/funxi

OOoooh...i love "Ghosttown". Classic Specials!!!

Thank you meester pollo loco (that's crazy chicken in spanish but you knew that already)

S.HUSH · Post by **S.HUSH** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:17 pm

groovesys wrote:The track was made entirely on a MacBook Pro using Logic Express and an old Oxygen 8 controller.

Oh yeah? Well i used nothing but a worn out Ibanez and a laptop!! No joke! I played the whole song with QWERTY keys...BWAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Of course it was a pain in the ass but...

Like your song BTW

Beardedone · Post by **Beardedone** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:27 pm

I am still stuck trying to find a combination that I can work with. Pretty low in the creativity department this month. The good news is that my first serve and topspin backhand have improved

S.HUSH · Post by **S.HUSH** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:43 pm

The good news is that my first serve and topspin backhand have improved Smile

I played a couple days ago after, oh, about sixteen light years and lemme tell ya...actually i'd rather NOT tell you.

I'll be playing today as well. Hopefully i'll be rallying for more than 20 seconds.

S.HUSH · Post by **S.HUSH** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:49 pm

As 4 ideas:

1)Ballad virtuoso: Play a reaaally nice, slow ballad...and shred over it with some finger tapping distorted guitar! Throughout the WHOLE song!

2)Trance hop: Gangsta rap over Trance music

3)Square dancing grindcore: Name says it all

Round and round she goes.....grindcore/hardcore style!

Beardedone · Post by **Beardedone** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:52 pm

Quote:
The good news is that my first serve and topspin backhand have improved Smile

I played a couple days ago after, oh, about sixteen light years and lemme tell ya...actually i'd rather NOT tell you.

I'll be playing today as well. Hopefully i'll be rallying for more than 20 seconds.

It helps to play on clay if possible and make sure you warm up properly. Enjoy the game.

Cheers,
Gordon

Jack Shack · Post by **Jack Shack** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:18 pm

How's about "Old Time New Age?"...fer Flute an Flugglehorn in D minor...I believe a Breathy intro followed by a diminished "Blast" wud be jus dat...A Breathy Blast!

Jus Jack
Never on da Level
An Alway's off Center

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:39 pm

Greg Lake said to Boogie Emerson: "We did this 'lucky man', you remember? Let's do something similar..a bit more weird....yeah, the 'Strauss'-thing. And I won't sing, 'cause I sold my voice to 'Father Christ-mess'." "Ok", said old Emerb/moog, "but where is the ladies' choir, you promised to put in?" "It's the only thing, I'm missing".

Mellmerson

groovesys · Post by **groovesys** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:30 pm

Just heard Choc's tune. Thought it should have a bit more classical touches in it. Half way in, it goes into full DnB/ambient and not much else.

It also may be too long for the contest. It shows 2:05 in my iTunes player. And it's encoded at 192kbpbs.

Markleford · Post by **Markleford** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:41 pm

groovesys wrote:It also may be too long for the contest. It shows 2:05 in my iTunes player. And it's encoded at 192kbpbs.

Naughty Choc!

128kbps and 2:00, please: you'll need to chop off those extra :05 and resubmit.

- m

deaf dunderkwac · Post by **deaf dunderkwac** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:49 pm

Markleford wrote:
groovesys wrote:It also may be too long for the contest. It shows 2:05 in my iTunes player. And it's encoded at 192kbpbs.
Naughty Choc!

128kbps and 2:00, please: you'll need to chop off those extra :05 and resubmit.

- m

is this where we get to point and giggle and such

Choc · Post by **Choc** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:50 pm

No problem, a little pitch shift without time correction and the song duration is: 1.59.504

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