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adj · Post by **adj** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:34 am

Really enjoying the reviews this month

...as well as the many awesome entries

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:48 am

Yes, thanks for reviewing, Max and Core.

Emerald Tablet · Post by **Emerald Tablet** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:53 am

core wrote:Emerald Tablet - Story
Lovely track, great work on the midi. Great instruments used and sweet vocals. Just one minor thing, the vocals sound a bit distorted on the louder parts (like around the 1 minute mark). I noticed this in other tracks you did as well, don't know if this is intentional in your setup but don't like it. Love the dreamy lead solo in the second part, very catchy.

liked your version very much too
sorry about the glitches

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:53 pm

Max el Belga wrote:Ixox - A celle qui est trop gaie : Through your singing, French gets a flavour of "très simpa". Sa me plais. Sa plane pour moi. (ment to be compliments, but if they result to be insults, then my French got worse than I thought... ).

Your french is perfect...

Thanks.
Are you a Plastic Bertrand fan ?

core wrote:Ixox - A celle qui est trop gaie
Love the instruments, the guitar and bass combination sounds excellent. Good sparse percussion and lovely vocals. Well done Xavier!

Thanks a lot...
I tried to make it sound "live/acoustic".
I'm glad you like the result.

Xavier

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 12:57 pm

Max is the reinplastification of Bertrand...that's for sure.... .

melloinsider

Max el Belga · Post by **Max el Belga** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:30 pm

Xavier, I'm rather a "Lou Depryck"-fan; I've worked with him (at the Belgian Telephone company in Evère

).
He's the "crazy" man (and voice) behind Plastic Betrand and lots and lots more ! MFP-records, Two Man Sound, Lou and the Hollywood Bananas, etc...

"Bertrand" was just a goodlooking guy with the right personality to do the playbacks.

Lou's also the mental father of my virtual Tanga-girls concept (that's excactly as far as my wife permits me to work with females...

).

Au revoir,

BananaMax... .. .

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:52 pm

I was asking because i've never heared "Ca plane pour moi" except in this song.

I didn't expect such a detailed answer... interesting....
But i do believe that's Plastic Bertrand's own voice !!

MaliceX · Post by **MaliceX** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:00 pm

Beardedone - Well, it surely is a piece on the road. I love the 60's touch you have with the instrumentation (that typical cheesy organ sound that hurts my ears). The end is spot on.

Ixox - Francois lyrics! Along with the fantastic vocals which I can't understand (well-sung though), the instrumentation is fantastic. It's as if this was a recording (film?) of a performance in central Paris, with buskers and artisans.

This wins most convincing theme setting without a picture.

Hovmod - Funfair is definetly the ambient. It's a rather interesting soundscape you have here. Somehow it seems like a blind picture of a camera sitting next to a ferris wheel and rollercoaster ride. Haha.

core - This is most certainly off the road just like the other rendition. It's more contemporary and has a more typical modern touch with a bit of the short film aesthetic. (Or advertisement-type piece, or one of those car ads.) Aside the repeating lines, it sounds as if it's moving slowly, which is fine by me.

sttjelle - Christian Rock-style. Wahoo. It's got the whole modern gospel movement going there, with the improv on the keys, simple drums, but everyone is playing in unison which is important. A well varied arrangement.

Legion Hush - (Yous gave up on file 2. awww)
I like this song you put together, it's catchy, and the lyrics are cool (and subliminal!

). Although I feel this song sounds a bit quiet than I would personally like (course it sounds clearer this way). I could see this song used as a credits piece for an animated series.

Very lighthearted.

Jonny Quest - Uh... Okay, the melodies have been put together. The instrumentation sounds like a typical high school band. I like the turnaround around 0:57 where it moves next two beats early.

:D I like these. (finally the polka syndrome is finished)

Hovmod · Post by **Hovmod** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:04 pm

MaliceX wrote: Hovmod - Funfair is definetly the ambient. It's a rather interesting soundscape you have here. Somehow it seems like a blind picture of a camera sitting next to a ferris wheel and rollercoaster ride. Haha.

Thanks. That's pretty much what I was trying to trick you into thinking. It's really not.

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:32 pm

MaliceX wrote:Ixox - Francois lyrics! Along with the fantastic vocals which I can't understand (well-sung though), the instrumentation is fantastic. It's as if this was a recording (film?) of a performance in central Paris, with buskers and artisans. This wins most convincing theme setting without a picture.

Thanks a lot....

Here is a attempt to a translation by google translation tool (and me)....

<REPLACED_BY >
Thanks farlukar

http://fleursdumal.org/poem/138
</REPLACED_BY >

Max el Belga · Post by **Max el Belga** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:53 pm

Xavier, it's good believing, but I know it's Lou's voice you hear (at least on "Sa plane pour moi") !

At that time I was still living in Belgium and the Belgian scene has few secrets for me until '87.

BTW Xavy, as soon as you get filthy rich, go and live there, for the taxman ! (cfr. Johnny Halliday

)

À bientôt, mon ami,

Max le freak... .. .

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:04 pm

Ixox wrote:Here is a attempt to a translation by google translation tool (and me)....

> clicky <

Ixox · Post by **Ixox** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:15 pm

Oops....
Thanks that's much better...

Echo Voodoo · Post by **Echo Voodoo** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:54 pm

core wrote:Echo Voodoo - A polka list now
Wait a minute, is there no Mello in this? I was just casually listening to some tracks and it wasn't until I heard Mello's entry that I realized I thought this track was his

Thanks for that comment; I felt just a little like I was channeling Mello for some of this track (however imperfectly, of course).

Legion Hush · Post by **Legion Hush** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:57 pm

Thanks to all the reviewers! Glad you dig the song.

I must comment on one in particular:

MaliceX wrote:Legion Hush - (Yous gave up on file 2. awww)

I think you pretty much took reign over that file.

I like what you did to it (I like Max's version too) and as i stated earlier, i honestly like the file the way it is w/o any manipulation.

Although I feel this song sounds a bit quiet than I would personally like (course it sounds clearer this way).

Bingo! I feel today's standards of recording sounds like crap. Music these days has no breathing room because it is overly compressed to make it LOUD LOUD and even more LOUDER!!!
I feel sound systems (be it car stereo's and even iPods) are adequate enough to accomodate volume and equalization so it's our job to mix and master w/o pushing the envelope.

Thanks again to all for the reviews!
(except you Echo.......

)

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