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IncarnateX wrote:Oh, thanks waggy.You are such a comfort. :hug: Maybe we should turn this thread into a Bad Taste Society with initiation rituals and all. :party:

@Eauson. Yes, I am not close enough to eternal misery, thus I was in doubt whether it belonged here. It is hard to judge because you have to consider that the listener cannot hear how it “should” have sounded. But if you had heard the draft in my head, your score would likely have been a good deal closer to misery. If my old percussion teacher had been alive to hear it, he would have strangled me, no matter the draft.
:lol:
If my music teacher knew how much I :love: music and the lack of attention I gave to her, she'd have a firing squad ready :D
Saying that, there is only so much enthusiasm you can have when given a small metal vibraphone/glockenspiel? ( dont even knows its name :) ) and expecting to enjoy learning music!! :D
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:hihi: ^^^^ Sounds like she was on a budget. That is one non-representative instrument to explore rhythms with. No wonder, @E; My parents would have had to beat me to it :cry:
wagtunes wrote: I have no problem with the rhythm. I think it's very cool. Musically a bit odd but in a quirky fun way.
You may have as bad a taste as my own, but you have good ears, you see the "odd" part was really where I messed it up. Initially I started with this wonderful old school Bollywood clave in 5/4: ONE-two-three-FOUR-five-ONE-two-three-FOUR-five. Just try to clap your hands on one and four and feel the subdivision in 5. If you play it right, many would not even notice that they are not in 4/4. Then I thought it did not sound strange and unpredictable enough to illustrate a runaway slave being hunted, so I decided it should appeal to a twisted 4/4 more than 5/4 and here we go: A clusterfuck, which may only have served the purpose of being odd but not anything remotely related to a groovy rhythm. Besides, to do this without even trying to bring dynamics to the drums (velocity and sounds are the same all over) is musical suicide by default.

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I think I would need to know more about the intentions to consider these ^^^^ as fails. In think they both have something promising at a more serious level.

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Oh, man I have albums worth of this stuff, just like DT. I think we've both posted at least an album's worth of "trash" each in the equivalent thread on the IL forums. Heck, I even set up a second SC to dump some of these tracks. The IL forum contest also provides a good excuse to be kooky/stupid, with me even serenading the master DT himself when he thought it's be a good idea to blend disparate genres together to see what happens. The results, as you can imagine, were shocking. And like DT, I have been known to sing very NSFW lyrics over popular songs.

Rather than assault you with the full barrage, here's a choice few:

Inspired by chatting with another FL user, who claimed that covering Oasis was tantamount to sacrilege. Never one to shirk from a challenge, I present you with this:

https://soundcloud.com/steevm/wonderwall/s-0AQtp

It actually reminds me a bit of the DT cover of the Smiths that he seems to have withheld for now.


Here's an IL contest track heavily inspired by Fat Boy Slim (in case it wasn't obvious). The challenge was to make a Big Beat inspired track...

https://soundcloud.com/steevm-outtakes/ ... g-in-devon

Don't forget to check the name on the image!



And here's the genre mash-up with me singing about everyone's favourite master of lyrical disaster:
https://soundcloud.com/steevm/big-mash-up

Which strangely also won that contest :lol: :o :?: :hyper:
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Vortifex wrote:Found a couple more. I think I posted this one on the Image Line forums in a similar thread. This was deliberately silly...
But good fun! I linked to the IL thread in my previous post, but didn't find this track there anywhere.

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Deleted (compared to what other people are presenting here it was completely horrible)
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IncarnateX wrote:I have run out of cartoonish tunes but I still have a few tragic ones. I have been wondering whether I should post since people would not necessarily know this is a fail and not just a matter of extremely bad taste. However, here it is. With a little explanation you may understand why this is a fail.

1.The first and most obvious reason is that the exceptionally non-dynamically clippity clop percussion driving the base was supposed to be deep lively tribal toms.

2. The second is that I wanted it to be in 5/4 to create a different and a little more unpredictable groove than 4/4 usually bids us. However, it is not a groove at all but the most mechanical dum-dum-dum-train I have ever heard.

3. To make that even worse, the highly stacatto synth-drop melody in 5/4 that replaces the psytrance lead line in 4/4 adds heavily to the mechanical feel despite all the possibilities to make the melody loosen the bonk-bonk.

In all, it is an offence to the concept of rhythm and nothing less than a rape of the magnificant 5/4 parameter.

What can I say? It sounded so great while making it on weed but the next morning I got a system-shock when hearing it again. Don’t do drugs kids. This is the proof.

https://soundcloud.com/incarnatex/maroonhunt
You see that all sounds fine to me (although I know nothing of the sinthesisers...), making music on weed is ok, albeit one has a tendency towards the 'Hawkwind' stylee. :hihi:

Utterly pissed on the booze is much more fun and challenging. My workmates used to send me home from the pub on a Friday evening with instructions for General Midi covers of famous songs. Many of these are lost in the mists of time, and others are un-postable due to adapted scurrilous lyrics featuring people with whom I work. This however is fairly representative. Of course it features some 'bad language';

http://www.bennyleeds7.myfreeola.uk/againstthodds.mp3

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Vortifex wrote:
recursive one wrote:Deleted (compared to what other people are presenting here it was completely horrible)
Reinstate it right now! I can guarantee you 100% it won't be worse than anything I've got on my hard drive.
I mean I posted some stuff from my soundcloud but then deleted the link after listening to some other tunes in this thread (yours included)

Well, very naive and unsofisticated attempt at "uplifting tarnce", early 00's style.

https://soundcloud.com/recursion-loop/metropolis

yet another one :)

https://soundcloud.com/recursion-loop/bridmen
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Yep. Not bad at all.

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sjm wrote:
It actually reminds me a bit of the DT cover of the Smiths that he seems to have withheld for now.

If we're talking the tarnce.. :hihi:

http://www.bennyleeds7.myfreeola.uk/sweetness.mp3

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