KVR Audio

lindseyp · Post by **lindseyp** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:42 pm

I haven't made a full track since 1997, then I was messing about setting my keyboard and PC up again this Saturday. Started messing about at 4pm, and before I knew it, it was 10pm, I was starving and thirsty, and a track had appeared.

Taken aback by the simplicity of Man With No Name's "Axis Flip" quite recently, I had been wanting to make a trance track with a good monotone mantra feel to it by sticking to the basics and not getting too complicated with the melodies and key etc. Just concentrating on the 'feel' of the track and imagining a clearing in the woods with 400 tie-died followers bobbing up and down in unison.

I really want to make it more psy-trance, but to do that I'd have to spend a lot more time learning how to make psy-sounds. heh! I intend to make it a but more psy in the future but for now this is all I have.

http://lindsey.jp/audio/chakchak-v3small.mp3

Intermittent hiss caused by Sytrus demo version, but not that noticeable.

Comments?

sailorboy · Post by **sailorboy** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:38 pm

very clean track, not exactly the idea i ave about trance. i think you put a voice on this it would be wonderfull. very good track

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:53 pm

Not bad.

Needs a bit of a creschendo after the build ups, it kinda falls flat.

I cant hear a bassline, and it doesnt pump much, not very uplifting.

quincy · Post by **quincy** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:24 pm

Like it

lindseyp · Post by **lindseyp** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:32 pm

Thanks for the comments!

Kriminal: I agree on both points. I need to fill in the layers to build up more after the crescendo. I was planning to do this with more freestyle percussion type sounds. The disappearing bassline is just engineering, I didn't use any compression yet. Engineering is one thing I'm really bad at. When I say bassline, I do of course mean that one note

lindseyp · Post by **lindseyp** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:35 pm

Oh, and voice?

I appreciate the opinion but not likely

Voice instantly limits the audience to speakers of that language, and it's hard to find a GOOD voice!

... and don't get me started on lyrics.

voice is eeeviill. EEEVIIILLL I say!

j_T · Post by **j_T** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:52 pm

Like it, too

Works very good without voice for me. Sounds very clean and clear here, but it might have a bit too much sub bass, depending on the speakers you use.

Anyway, what do I know

It's a good track the way it is.

Regards,

Tommy

jmh · Post by **jmh** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:15 am

Excellent track!

Definitely no voice

Perhaps a little bit more movement... and one or two lofi percussion elements. Think Underworld or Sven Väth's older works.

You'll get there

And no psy please, it'll ruin a great track

One of the best new things I've heard in a long time... marvellous.

Regards,

JMH

Forever Sun · Post by **Forever Sun** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:11 am

lindseyp wrote:Oh, and voice?

......

voice is eeeviill. EEEVIIILLL I say!

Noooooo ! Stick a throat-singing shaman on your tune and it'll become real trance.
They are good at banishing evil as well, you know.

I like the mood, but it's a bit empty production-wise. I know that's what you wanted though.
Nice muted sine-like sound and melody which plays throughout the track.

lindseyp · Post by **lindseyp** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:20 am

Forever Sun wrote:
lindseyp wrote:Oh, and voice?

......

voice is eeeviill. EEEVIIILLL I say!
Noooooo ! Stick a throat-singing shaman on your tune and it'll become real trance.
They are good at banishing evil as well, you know.

Hah! Like this one:

Gotta love the Delay Lama.

Forever Sun wrote: I like the mood, but it's a bit empty production-wise. I know that's what you wanted though.
Nice muted sine-like sound and melody which plays throughout the track.

Thanks!

*fires up the multiband compressor...

Forever Sun · Post by **Forever Sun** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:27 am

lindseyp wrote:

Hah! Like this one:

Gotta love the Delay Lama.

...

Indeed !
Just look at his Nirvana-infused eyebrows.

thimk tamk · Post by **thimk tamk** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:53 am

Some of the percussion sounds are a bit clear cut for my taste, but I like this. You didn't go overboard with the lead, which is a good thing. Kinda makes me think of recent Kraftwerk. I would recommend touching it up a bit, but that's me...being a fan of more instrumental music, I somehow don't feel a vocal section is completely out of the question here. Good stuff, though.

Monotone trance