3am - Oceanside (drugs and bass)

[justin3am]

i like the sedulous effect of algorithmic sequencing. aah you made something with real instruments again

Sorry man, no algorithmic devices here, this one this was all hand programmed. The instruments are always real; though, here they are occasionally closer to what they once were. Who knew that electric guitar would respond to FM so wonderfully.

Thanks for listening.

[Slug (37,2°)]

tag:

will reply about this track later! Downloading the stems, my style may be very different from yours, but we'll see if something comes out or not.

Regards! Slug

[justin3am]

tag:

will reply about this track later! Downloading the stems, my style may be very different from yours, but we'll see if something comes out or not.

Regards! Slug

Judging from the tracks I just listened too I think things will work out fine.
I'd love to here a Lustmord style remix of one of my tracks. Thanks for listening.

[Az're-ul]

Really like this one even if I don't get the Oceanside reference

Love that bass & how all the other elements are still perfectly clear despite how dirty and overpowering it seems.

[shamann]

Wow dude, I think that this embodies the feelings that inspired the track better than what I came up with. Hauntingly beautiful. From what little of your work I've ever heard, I'd really like to hear MOAR!!!

You're too kind.

[justin3am]

Really like this one even if I don't get the Oceanside reference

Thanks, I'm glad! Oceanside is a city in southern California, between Carlsbad and the Camp Pendleton Marine base.
Oceanside
A good friend of mine died there for some stupid reason.

@Shamman, I'm never too kind.

Regarding the bass, it all began with Zebra... and ended with SoundToys' Filterfreak. The patch started as three detuned sine waves (as opposed to saws) which were gently wave shaped and ring modded... this resulted in a harmonically rich sound that doesn't muddy up the mix (the way detuned saws commonly will).

[ouroboros]

Both tracks are a treat, guys Thanks for sharing them.
my very initial reaction on first listen- I like the sounds of course Justin and your mixes are great; I liked the unsettled feeling. Not that it was a see-saw purposely unsettled piece, but that I felt there was a kind of lack of resolution to it. Not compositionally, i mean in the emotions I felt as i listened. And Shamann, I really liked the pacing of yours, especially as I have been thwarted with slower pieces myself. It takes a special kind of timing.

And of course, congrats for the opportunity to mix the album!

[justin3am]

but that I felt there was a kind of lack of resolution to it. Not compositionally, i mean in the emotions I felt as i listened.

Yeah, that is kinda' how I feel about it. It was more or less inspired by unsettled feelings for the friend I lost in Oceanside. Truth is, I have too many songs that were inspired by the memories of friends who died for the same pointless shit. Also too many songs about the haunting knowledge that I survived the same stupid shit and how little I've done to make it up to them.

But enough about that... I've recently heard the framework for another remix that I'm very excited about. Fittingly and without knowing the significance, he called it "Gratitude Mix".

Do ya' s'pose that there is some kind of psychic equivalent to gravity? It seems to me that emotional moments don't have an inherent weight as much as a force relative to proximity and mass. This gravity, having properties we don't understand, appears to effect our surroundings in ways we can only observe in awe.

[Laguna Rising]

Very nice and effective. Some cool beats here
Well done

Cheers

[justin3am]

Very nice and effective. Some cool beats here
Well done

Cheers

Thanks, dude.

[rosllow]

cool justin, i can an old wireless malfunctioning while granny plays the piano in a sepia toned movie, then granny turns round and she's bitten the head off her cat !!!

would make an excellent horror movie sountrack, excellent beats and production as always.

i'm amused by the vocal snippet, i can imagine your missus' reaction as she expresses real concern over your exclamation, just to be told "i've lost clock sync"

cool tune.

rosllow.

[Jazzyspoon]

Do ya' s'pose that there is some kind of psychic equivalent to gravity? It seems to me that emotional moments don't have an inherent weight as much as a force relative to proximity and mass. This gravity, having properties we don't understand, appears to effect our surroundings in ways we can only observe in awe.

well said.

[Kriminal]

quite an interesting piece, but too disjointed for my tastes, tho i did enjoy some of the sounds you used.

[Klemperer]

I found the beginning, before the drums set in, unspeakably sad, but in a most beautiful way. I admire the mixing and how you sound as always, like I admire the work of all who answered here, jazzyspoon, ourobouros, Shamann and all.(just jancivil is missing as far as I see up to now, his music seems the nearest to me from you creative and experimental guys). I find the song unbelievably sad, but haunting. Then I read what ouroboros wrote and can understand that too, which kind of puzzles me, as I was imagining such sad things (happened a lot in my family, not because of drugs, but in the end it is all...you know.) and found it full of overwhelming emotions (if that doesn't sound too stupid)
maybe I just don't know a wide range of songs from you like ouroboros does .

The shamann song is to me like taking parts of the song, slowing it down and quite other things come out of it this way (for Shamann I always try to not say what I feel or see, as he doesn't like my descriptions too much that way, and I can really understand this ) Shamann made a really slow dance song, so to say, for me, whereas 3am an unbelievingly sad song, and both are haunting. After listening to Shamann's remix I liked to listen to yours, 3am, just up to before the faster drumsounds begin (even though they are wonderful as always) and to the end of the song. So I got 3 versions in a way, the both songs plus A 3am - Shamann - end 3am

As usual with me here some Legendary Pink dots (the weirder ones) songs come into mind. Just slightly, but we all listen different.

[Klemperer]

Do ya' s'pose that there is some kind of psychic equivalent to gravity? It seems to me that emotional moments don't have an inherent weight as much as a force relative to proximity and mass. ...

Sometimes I think this is one of the reasons that novels are written and music is composed and all works of art are done (subtract the fashion, as I always have to add of course). I think emotional moments of all possible kinds don't need such an equivalent, as they are vague AND strong by nature; but sometimes to at least understand each other a bit real music is necessary. This kind of music seems still easier to be found in what we called long ago "underground" or so. Even if many say that word makes no sense.