Next two songs:
Oursvince: Groovy guitar-tune with fine playing...fast two minutes. I just read, you used samples....I couldn't hear it in the solo-guitar-lines, but I thought, the acoustic chords were 'Real-Guitar' or a similar program. It stops a bit too fast after a chord-change, but that's the only complaint I have. Well done!
thma: A very homogenic track...good combination of different genres. You could drop the volume of the indian voice a bit more, but..anyway...it's a fine track.
Mellolisten
July Contest: GOSSIP
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- KVRAF
- 10170 posts since 2 Jan, 2005 from somewhere in the woods
"It dreamed itself along"
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funkychickendance funkychickendance https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=78609
- KVRAF
- 2097 posts since 19 Aug, 2005 from Where Sheep May Safely Graze & They're Using A Chicken 2 Measure It
First Impressions 4:
btw, y'all should know this is what I type into Notepad while listening. Little post-editing is done. First impressions, geddit?
Joanna Polka Lesson/Mellotronaut: A polka mutation, and then some. Starts as reggae with 'distressed' vocals...and then came Joanna with her mighty banana. Pure Zappa, with some music box polka. You can't beat filth, I always say. Nice playing. One of the best so far.
Sacred Mask Dance/1,2-Many: "Bossa Nova Synthpop" Guest vocals by wobbly Eddie Vedder? Neat Navajo singing, it transpires. OK dance track, decently played. Drums way too heavy for anything bossa {a truly wimpish musical form I associate indelibly with women singing flat}. Perhaps they oughta play this in discos at casinos?
Nobody Knows/Jonny Quest: "PsychedelicCelticArtRock." 12-string with some mellotron. Vcls are oddly appealing. Actually this is pretty good, until vcls get all wonky around 1:05. Then it recovers. This guy's pretty talented.
The Crab Song/Laguna Rising: "psychedelic Surf/minimalist reggae/ambient". The producer returneth, with great ambient and whatever intro. WTF is my first reaction, with a whistly whatnot (theremin-like, but not) over clanky guitar. Yep, it's what he says. A kind of Spongebob reggae from hell.
Empty To Depot/Oddbods Finger: "Balkan Cowboy." Whistling, with plonky guitar intro. Then, Clint Eastwood voiceover...where be dem Balkans? Ah, the cheese organ and wooden clackers? Sung bit here, then more voiceover. The sort of thing Hollywood 'stars' used to release in the 60s to prove they were versatile. It's nicely done, but I don't think it hits its mark.
Gilligan's Pride/Rockstar_Not: I hate this frigging song, y'know? And Gilligan's Island? Barf...I guess this lacks elements with which I feel inclined to demonstrate empathy
Is that the Bonehead lui-meme das sprecht? R_N is an okay singer. Production is OK.
Refrain/Barnardine: "Classical boogie-woogie" Two dead styles, he says. It's vaguely pleasant, kinda like Stravinsky would sometimes lay on us, though less adventurous by a country mile...or a taiga verst I guess...halfway we break into clarinet and flute, and whoo-wee, it's a ghost of the Strav alright. This guy's a capable keyboardist. And he ends up singing. Yep, a genuine hybrid!! A contender.
Disturbulance/Dreibel: Dance track, with the entry of heavy metal cliches. Yeah, it works, but it's not incredibly novel concept-wise, eh? Is it all a bit too straight for this jokey contest?
Am I asking too much? Good guitars, good production.
Trace Elements/loveless: hardware/software? That's a genre? Sort of HM D&B by a rehearsal band in a multistory car park. 'sokay. Oh, le break, and we have mellotron strings over acoustic. Then back to panel beating...can I get this dent outa the fender? No, not the Strat, the car fender, Brenda...if ya bend it, ya gotta mend it
Prairie Gamelan/Markleford: More Roy Rogers whistling and guitar, plus mouth harp. Oh, ugh! Nice gamelan perc in background, shame to waste it on ... no, leave it! You know those Dylan live songs where the f**king harmonica solos never seem to end? Cat asthma attacks? We all love Mr.M, of course. 
Ten Commandments/Scotthagel: various voices, female/android, go thru the Big 10, though I hear nothing about coveting ass. Nice freeform music underneath. I suppose this has some deep satiric intent, but it's good nevertheless. My higher power doesn't dish out lists, he just says: 'do the next right thing, hear me? Or dere be trouble, chickenleg'
Deep Lagoon Blues/peppy197: Badoomph drums, then pingy squawk guitar with wahs, okay that's enough, where's the toon? We skip over that ancient concept in favor of more of the same. Arrival of some fat synth and other Fx...I guess the Dead were sounding a bit like this in the later jams, now I come ta think of it. It's okay, lots of people like this kind of music.
Samba Country/Freeztar (w/ Xander): As it says, F's great new drum kit, and Xander does Elvis/Bono. Gtr is suitably barmy for the genre mix-up. Solo especially. Cool!
Spain/Scoops (w/guitarjeff): Get outa here, you bums! Way too pro. Piano/perc/drums are very fusion, the guitar is what you'd expect. Has a tune, all kinds of odd features. The jeff solo is over the top in a clever way. This stuff is unfair competition, in my book
Dueling Keyboards Nogaku/Unfocused: Shouldn't this have been in 'Fight' (June 06)? It's well conceived, but, uh the basic idea sucks. Dueling banjos is something that made me reach for the dial. It's perfectly well done, btw, it's just that the time should have been spent on using these instruments in a more interesting way.
Balkanic/Petrudamsa: This is pretty good in a world music/African/Balkan manner, wiv a lot of bass. I wonder if envelopes are really being pushed all that hard, though. Good piano break round 1:40. The female vocals are great.
Spanish Samba/oursvince: "spanish orchestral funk rock samba". How many more fershlugginer sambas...? This seems C&W to me...y'know, those endless Nashville picker albums? Who's the guitar? Loops or MIDIs come to mind. It's well done.
Indian folk meets Funky House/thma: Yeah, this is moderately adventurous. Good vcl clips, and the music track gallops along convincingly. This one's a contender, even if it's not groundbreakingly strange.
Ethnicity/RichieBee: Intro is good, very reminiscent of my own crappy stuff...which I rarely post
I don't think we get far from homebase here, but it's very nicely produced. Woo, look at that expensive kit list!!
funxi
btw, y'all should know this is what I type into Notepad while listening. Little post-editing is done. First impressions, geddit?
Joanna Polka Lesson/Mellotronaut: A polka mutation, and then some. Starts as reggae with 'distressed' vocals...and then came Joanna with her mighty banana. Pure Zappa, with some music box polka. You can't beat filth, I always say. Nice playing. One of the best so far.
Sacred Mask Dance/1,2-Many: "Bossa Nova Synthpop" Guest vocals by wobbly Eddie Vedder? Neat Navajo singing, it transpires. OK dance track, decently played. Drums way too heavy for anything bossa {a truly wimpish musical form I associate indelibly with women singing flat}. Perhaps they oughta play this in discos at casinos?
Nobody Knows/Jonny Quest: "PsychedelicCelticArtRock." 12-string with some mellotron. Vcls are oddly appealing. Actually this is pretty good, until vcls get all wonky around 1:05. Then it recovers. This guy's pretty talented.
The Crab Song/Laguna Rising: "psychedelic Surf/minimalist reggae/ambient". The producer returneth, with great ambient and whatever intro. WTF is my first reaction, with a whistly whatnot (theremin-like, but not) over clanky guitar. Yep, it's what he says. A kind of Spongebob reggae from hell.
Empty To Depot/Oddbods Finger: "Balkan Cowboy." Whistling, with plonky guitar intro. Then, Clint Eastwood voiceover...where be dem Balkans? Ah, the cheese organ and wooden clackers? Sung bit here, then more voiceover. The sort of thing Hollywood 'stars' used to release in the 60s to prove they were versatile. It's nicely done, but I don't think it hits its mark.
Gilligan's Pride/Rockstar_Not: I hate this frigging song, y'know? And Gilligan's Island? Barf...I guess this lacks elements with which I feel inclined to demonstrate empathy
Is that the Bonehead lui-meme das sprecht? R_N is an okay singer. Production is OK.Refrain/Barnardine: "Classical boogie-woogie" Two dead styles, he says. It's vaguely pleasant, kinda like Stravinsky would sometimes lay on us, though less adventurous by a country mile...or a taiga verst I guess...halfway we break into clarinet and flute, and whoo-wee, it's a ghost of the Strav alright. This guy's a capable keyboardist. And he ends up singing. Yep, a genuine hybrid!! A contender.
Disturbulance/Dreibel: Dance track, with the entry of heavy metal cliches. Yeah, it works, but it's not incredibly novel concept-wise, eh? Is it all a bit too straight for this jokey contest?
Am I asking too much? Good guitars, good production.Trace Elements/loveless: hardware/software? That's a genre? Sort of HM D&B by a rehearsal band in a multistory car park. 'sokay. Oh, le break, and we have mellotron strings over acoustic. Then back to panel beating...can I get this dent outa the fender? No, not the Strat, the car fender, Brenda...if ya bend it, ya gotta mend it
Prairie Gamelan/Markleford: More Roy Rogers whistling and guitar, plus mouth harp. Oh, ugh! Nice gamelan perc in background, shame to waste it on ... no, leave it! You know those Dylan live songs where the f**king harmonica solos never seem to end? Cat asthma attacks?
We all love Mr.M, of course. Ten Commandments/Scotthagel: various voices, female/android, go thru the Big 10, though I hear nothing about coveting ass. Nice freeform music underneath. I suppose this has some deep satiric intent, but it's good nevertheless. My higher power doesn't dish out lists, he just says: 'do the next right thing, hear me? Or dere be trouble, chickenleg'
Deep Lagoon Blues/peppy197: Badoomph drums, then pingy squawk guitar with wahs, okay that's enough, where's the toon? We skip over that ancient concept in favor of more of the same. Arrival of some fat synth and other Fx...I guess the Dead were sounding a bit like this in the later jams, now I come ta think of it. It's okay, lots of people like this kind of music.
Samba Country/Freeztar (w/ Xander): As it says, F's great new drum kit, and Xander does Elvis/Bono. Gtr is suitably barmy for the genre mix-up. Solo especially.
Cool!Spain/Scoops (w/guitarjeff): Get outa here, you bums!
Way too pro. Piano/perc/drums are very fusion, the guitar is what you'd expect. Has a tune, all kinds of odd features. The jeff solo is over the top in a clever way. This stuff is unfair competition, in my book Dueling Keyboards Nogaku/Unfocused: Shouldn't this have been in 'Fight' (June 06)? It's well conceived, but, uh the basic idea sucks. Dueling banjos is something that made me reach for the dial. It's perfectly well done, btw, it's just that the time should have been spent on using these instruments in a more interesting way.
Balkanic/Petrudamsa: This is pretty good in a world music/African/Balkan manner, wiv a lot of bass. I wonder if envelopes are really being pushed all that hard, though. Good piano break round 1:40. The female vocals are great.
Spanish Samba/oursvince: "spanish orchestral funk rock samba". How many more fershlugginer sambas...? This seems C&W to me...y'know, those endless Nashville picker albums? Who's the guitar? Loops or MIDIs come to mind. It's well done.
Indian folk meets Funky House/thma: Yeah, this is moderately adventurous. Good vcl clips, and the music track gallops along convincingly. This one's a contender, even if it's not groundbreakingly strange.
Ethnicity/RichieBee: Intro is good, very reminiscent of my own crappy stuff...which I rarely post
I don't think we get far from homebase here, but it's very nicely produced. Woo, look at that expensive kit list!!funxi
Every Potemkin village needs its idiot savant
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- KVRAF
- 2495 posts since 18 May, 2004 from ATL-USA
Just so you don't feel jealous, I had Taco Bell for dinner.xander wrote:freeztar wrote:...I guess I'll have to settle for pecan crusted salmon cooked in a parsley-rosemary sauce...
Damn that sounds good!
I want some
Anti-aliasing is for "synthmonk%ys".
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- KVRist
- 143 posts since 3 Nov, 2004 from Romania
Direct link issue regarding my song is solved.
Thanx xander for doing it this month.
I'm glad that many of you guys are ready to help others to comply with the rules of the game, even though this is a contest (and a prety difficult one). IMO you are allready winners.
Cheers,
Petru
Thanx xander for doing it this month.
I'm glad that many of you guys are ready to help others to comply with the rules of the game, even though this is a contest (and a prety difficult one). IMO you are allready winners.
Cheers,
Petru
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- KVRian
- 1367 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from Australia
Thanks for the detailed comments, funxi. Thought I was butchering the corpse of Chopin, but can see how Strav graverobbing might fit. (While somehow managing to avoid the poetry of either. ) And yeah, adventurousness of first part circumscribed somewhat by boogie woogie bassline. Cheers!
And cheers for the movie scene, S.HUSH.
) And yeah, adventurousness of first part circumscribed somewhat by boogie woogie bassline. Cheers!And cheers for the movie scene, S.HUSH.
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- KVRist
- 304 posts since 31 Mar, 2006
Thanks mello and funky for the good reviews,the guitars are free real guitars samples, that you may find here:
http://www.loopasonic.com/bass1.htm
and here
http://www.glooped.com/gloop.php? gloopId=ff808081fcf44a1000fd203a612c0009
To create the funk melody, I've cut the sample every 500 ms of the whole 4s and recombinated it in the way it appears
, cheers Vince
http://www.loopasonic.com/bass1.htm
and here
http://www.glooped.com/gloop.php? gloopId=ff808081fcf44a1000fd203a612c0009
To create the funk melody, I've cut the sample every 500 ms of the whole 4s and recombinated it in the way it appears
, cheers Vince-
- KVRAF
- 10170 posts since 2 Jan, 2005 from somewhere in the woods
Thank you very much for your funky review, Funxi! 
Maybe Joanna eats her banana......
Thanks for the links, Vince.....you're conVinceingly clever...a person with Chuzpe!
Mello
Maybe Joanna eats her banana......
Thanks for the links, Vince.....you're conVinceingly clever...a person with Chuzpe!
Mello
"It dreamed itself along"
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- KVRist
- 304 posts since 31 Mar, 2006
mellotronaut wrote:Thank you very much for your funky review, Funxi!
Maybe Joanna eats her banana......
Thanks for the links, Vince.....you're conVinceingly clever...a person with Chuzpe!
Mello
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- KVRian
- 779 posts since 21 Jan, 2005 from The Vale of Eden
I don't think I even know what it's "mark" is.....let alone hitting itfunkychickendance wrote:[Empty To Depot/Oddbods Finger:
....It's nicely done, but I don't think it hits its mark.
perhaps I should've stuck with my first idea
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- KVRAF
- 7270 posts since 4 Apr, 2005 from here and there
funkychickendance wrote:First Impressions 4:
The Crab Song/Laguna Rising: "psychedelic Surf/minimalist reggae/ambient". The producer returneth, with great ambient and whatever intro. WTF is my first reaction, with a whistly whatnot (theremin-like, but not) over clanky guitar. Yep, it's what he says. A kind of Spongebob reggae from hell.
yeah, that's it ! a lazy entry for me this month Thanks for reviewing
Enjoy the contest !
Cheers
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- Banned
- 4073 posts since 15 Mar, 2004
No probs Petrupetrudamsa wrote:Direct link issue regarding my song is solved.
Thanx xander for doing it this month.
I'm glad that many of you guys are ready to help others to comply with the rules of the game, even though this is a contest (and a prety difficult one). IMO you are allready winners.
Cheers,
Petru
Back a few yonks ago, we was all in the same boat -- me had no money, a Compaq 286 with a 20 megabyte drive and a copy of Notator and no direct link -- but somewhere, somehow, one of the boys was there to save me with a direct link up to the contest!
And then there's the story of my little dog snuggles. He was just...WHAP!
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