Can anyone host my track?
Regards
july contest ... GOSSIP
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- KVRist
- 436 posts since 10 Mar, 2005 from dk
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- KVRAF
- 4176 posts since 2 Feb, 2003 from lost in music
if you e-mail it to me I can host it
sound is vibration, vibration is life
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- KVRist
- 436 posts since 10 Mar, 2005 from dk
Thank you!
Regards
Regards
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- KVRAF
- 4176 posts since 2 Feb, 2003 from lost in music
you´re welcome
sound is vibration, vibration is life
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- KVRian
- 1367 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from Australia
Some more:
knockman/harimogura - Has a concentrated, stylised feel to it. Formalised sweeps of the arm, crouching, and such. Made me realise I'd been forgetting about a whole aspect of the theme, dance as ritual. Which gives your song an antique patina that plays nicely with the jazzy inclinations. Though mostly in 5/4, some parts seem to have different plans, and these conflicting meters maintain interest by themselves - simple, emphatic fragments stabbing up as ritual punctuation. I did have a personal taste problem with the brassy synths, which triggered the dreaded 'GM' lobe in my brain: the characterless middle ground between 'real' instruments and interestingly synthetic ones. But one of the most distinctive entries so far. And the lyrics spoke to me.
AndreasE/Dance of the Animals - I'm starting to think of your songs as boat rides - some constant element carries us along while all sorts of strange scenery goes by. You wave the possibility of novelty barnyard song at us to start with, but shift into the first main waltz before patience fails. The theme is always fluctuating, never quite finding a final form it's happy with. The distorted tunnel section at 0:42 is the most sonically pleasing to my ears, very nice. The solo section starting around 1:00 seems prolonged; attention starts to wander despite the tempo fluctuations. And the shifts into and out of the animal sections are sometimes a little awkward. But there's a disneyland-gone-toxic feel to it all that makes me smile.
aldred/Twinkle Toes - All that reverb makes things quite muddy. This feels like it's caught between two worlds - intimate celtic folk and epic soundtrack, which is a fine idea much loved by film composers, but isn't achieved just by slapping on lots of reverb. Probably needs more careful, restrained use of effects to keep the clarity and avoid mushiness. Let the details shine. But mix issues aside, this is a pure-hearted little piece with a lightness of touch about it. And you get extra points in my book for stopping when the piece told you to, rather than padding out a naturally short song to 2 minutes for the sake of it, as many are tempted to do.
astanine/halothane - What can I say about your music that I haven't already said? It's optimistic, it's like a musical balm, it's the sound of someone who's mastered their idiom. Here, like Multree, you've taken your basic sound and teased it out in the dance direction, with a more emphatic kick pulse. But still very much astanine. My only reservation is this - while I love your sound, part of me is increasingly curious to hear you try your hand at something completely different. Even if only for a month. Just for the hell of it. Go on.
wilkoryte/SlowDance - Late night and slow. Nice. You've sensibly stripped things back to the essential elements. Roomy, uncluttered sound gives the guitar plenty of space to bloom. No technical complaints. I've expressed in the past my ambivalence to the whole concept of the guitar solo, but this fits the mood like a glove.
pheeleep/Make Music For Fun - At first listen it seems quite monochrome, but still holds the interest. So it's interesting to relisten and notice all the small things you've done to draw in the listener. Little touches like tightening up the snares for certain sections. Great attention to detail. But surely that horrible mid-bar song cutoff at 1:45 isn't intentional. Must be a faulty download. I'll try downloading again.
Gregjazz/All I Want To Do Is Dance - Others have already made the Michael Jackson comparison. It's quite striking. I was never a particular fan of this kind of music, but your skill here is obvious. Well-balanced mix, apt instrumentation. A relaxed mid-tempo song that never feels hurried, yet feels satisfyingly complete at two minutes. That's an achievement.
knockman/harimogura - Has a concentrated, stylised feel to it. Formalised sweeps of the arm, crouching, and such. Made me realise I'd been forgetting about a whole aspect of the theme, dance as ritual. Which gives your song an antique patina that plays nicely with the jazzy inclinations. Though mostly in 5/4, some parts seem to have different plans, and these conflicting meters maintain interest by themselves - simple, emphatic fragments stabbing up as ritual punctuation. I did have a personal taste problem with the brassy synths, which triggered the dreaded 'GM' lobe in my brain: the characterless middle ground between 'real' instruments and interestingly synthetic ones. But one of the most distinctive entries so far. And the lyrics spoke to me.
AndreasE/Dance of the Animals - I'm starting to think of your songs as boat rides - some constant element carries us along while all sorts of strange scenery goes by. You wave the possibility of novelty barnyard song at us to start with, but shift into the first main waltz before patience fails. The theme is always fluctuating, never quite finding a final form it's happy with. The distorted tunnel section at 0:42 is the most sonically pleasing to my ears, very nice. The solo section starting around 1:00 seems prolonged; attention starts to wander despite the tempo fluctuations. And the shifts into and out of the animal sections are sometimes a little awkward. But there's a disneyland-gone-toxic feel to it all that makes me smile.
aldred/Twinkle Toes - All that reverb makes things quite muddy. This feels like it's caught between two worlds - intimate celtic folk and epic soundtrack, which is a fine idea much loved by film composers, but isn't achieved just by slapping on lots of reverb. Probably needs more careful, restrained use of effects to keep the clarity and avoid mushiness. Let the details shine. But mix issues aside, this is a pure-hearted little piece with a lightness of touch about it. And you get extra points in my book for stopping when the piece told you to, rather than padding out a naturally short song to 2 minutes for the sake of it, as many are tempted to do.
astanine/halothane - What can I say about your music that I haven't already said? It's optimistic, it's like a musical balm, it's the sound of someone who's mastered their idiom. Here, like Multree, you've taken your basic sound and teased it out in the dance direction, with a more emphatic kick pulse. But still very much astanine. My only reservation is this - while I love your sound, part of me is increasingly curious to hear you try your hand at something completely different. Even if only for a month. Just for the hell of it. Go on.
wilkoryte/SlowDance - Late night and slow. Nice. You've sensibly stripped things back to the essential elements. Roomy, uncluttered sound gives the guitar plenty of space to bloom. No technical complaints. I've expressed in the past my ambivalence to the whole concept of the guitar solo, but this fits the mood like a glove.
pheeleep/Make Music For Fun - At first listen it seems quite monochrome, but still holds the interest. So it's interesting to relisten and notice all the small things you've done to draw in the listener. Little touches like tightening up the snares for certain sections. Great attention to detail. But surely that horrible mid-bar song cutoff at 1:45 isn't intentional. Must be a faulty download. I'll try downloading again.
Gregjazz/All I Want To Do Is Dance - Others have already made the Michael Jackson comparison. It's quite striking. I was never a particular fan of this kind of music, but your skill here is obvious. Well-balanced mix, apt instrumentation. A relaxed mid-tempo song that never feels hurried, yet feels satisfyingly complete at two minutes. That's an achievement.
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- KVRAF
- 2831 posts since 11 Jun, 2003
Hi Barnadine, thanks for providing comments for my comp entry. I did indeed spend some time fine tuning things, making variations, etc..
There definitely should not be any cuts during the song. It must indeed have been a faulty download, or your mp3 player having the hiccups..
Thanks again for commenting
There definitely should not be any cuts during the song. It must indeed have been a faulty download, or your mp3 player having the hiccups..
Thanks again for commenting
Play it by ear
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- KVRian
- 1367 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from Australia
Ah, I didn't think so. I should have waited to re-download before I wrote the review. Sorry.
Hmm, I'm trying to download again, but your link in the submissions thread doesn't seem to be working. I'll have another go tomorrow.
Hmm, I'm trying to download again, but your link in the submissions thread doesn't seem to be working. I'll have another go tomorrow.
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- KVRAF
- 1870 posts since 21 Feb, 2004 from somewhere! anywhere!
Barnadine wrote: knockman/harimogura - Has a concentrated, stylised feel to it. Formalised sweeps of the arm, crouching, and such. Made me realise I'd been forgetting about a whole aspect of the theme, dance as ritual. Which gives your song an antique patina that plays nicely with the jazzy inclinations. Though mostly in 5/4, some parts seem to have different plans, and these conflicting meters maintain interest by themselves - simple, emphatic fragments stabbing up as ritual punctuation. I did have a personal taste problem with the brassy synths, which triggered the dreaded 'GM' lobe in my brain: the characterless middle ground between 'real' instruments and interestingly synthetic ones. But one of the most distinctive entries so far. And the lyrics spoke to me.
thanks for such a thorough and insightful review, strangly i didn't think about ritual ideas, though it now seems a possibility in the light of your words! the power of suggestion 
yeah the brass is as you say, i gave rudimentary treatment getting them to sound otherwise, they consist of a sound font and xt sample sets, but i allow myself only a day or two for these contests then learn by comments such as these. thanks again
regards
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- KVRAF
- 2093 posts since 19 Jun, 2003 from UTM 18 317254E 4295335N (WGS84/NAD83)
Sorry about that everyone. I've been having some issues[/s] lately with my service provider and/or network recently. Friday, the whole wireless segment finally died. In the process of restoring it, I managed to give the WAN uplink hiccups. Whilst fixing that, I messed up the webserver. It's nearly a full-time job just taking care of all the technology around the house - maintenance, upgrades, backups...pheeleep wrote:Sorry about that. Thanks for letting me know.
"You" is hosting my track. I'll let him know about this..
Anyway, it should be working now.
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- KVRist
- 227 posts since 11 Sep, 2003 from london
Thanks for the review. Next month if the theme allows I will try something darker or noisier or something. I can't guarantee it will be completely different though.Barnadine wrote: astanine/halothane - What can I say about your music that I haven't already said? It's optimistic, it's like a musical balm, it's the sound of someone who's mastered their idiom. Here, like Multree, you've taken your basic sound and teased it out in the dance direction, with a more emphatic kick pulse. But still very much astanine. My only reservation is this - while I love your sound, part of me is increasingly curious to hear you try your hand at something completely different. Even if only for a month. Just for the hell of it. Go on.
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- KVRist
- 110 posts since 10 Jul, 2001 from france
thank youBarnadine wrote: wilkoryte/SlowDance - Late night and slow. Nice. You've sensibly stripped things back to the essential elements. Roomy, uncluttered sound gives the guitar plenty of space to bloom. No technical complaints. I've expressed in the past my ambivalence to the whole concept of the guitar solo, but this fits the mood like a glove.
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- KVRian
- 1367 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from Australia
Even more:
(pheeleep take 2 - Much more satisfying without that cutout.
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Khepira/Ikt Hut Eit - The chopped up grunts are quite arresting and convey a real sense of urgent discomfort, like someone undergoing a difficult bowel movement. Which is a perfect counterpoint to the spacious female vocals. The song's subtitle suggests a political undercurrent here, but I couldn't really pinpoint it in the music. The kick stabs in the opening are a bit too haphazard to build anticipation, but things gel together when the rest of the percussion joins in. Has a pleasant brooding quality.
respirator/waltz - This appeals to me. The slightly melancholy pacing, the musty lo-fi quality, the chopped-yet-human guitars - all of this is excellent. The only thing I didn't like was the clicking where the samples were chopped. I mean the little clicks at the start of the slice panned right on the third beat of the bar (not the more intentional click on the first beat later on, which actually balances it out well). Or it could possibly just be plectrum noise. I try to tell myself to be more open-minded about it and just accept the clicks as an interesting part of the sound, but I can't quite trick my brain into liking that sound in this context. Stupid stubborn brain. But yes, this is a very nice song.
vurt/dance or die - Do I hear beatboxing in there? The delay patterns set up some interesting evolving beats. The fun here is in the incidental details as the scenery changes. I like how it starts maching-gunning around 1:27 for a few seconds. For alert dancers only. Or for dancers working to a slower, more cosmic beat.
aeida cin/forrage - I love the loping beat here, and the smoky synths that ooze along beside it. The mix is a bit murky, like you've run it all through a low-pass filter. But that tends to suit the dark, late-night quality of the music. It doesn't really develop over the course of two minutes, but for some reason I didn't mind that at all here. Just content to lope along. Unsatisfying ending, though. Even if it's a cut down version of a longer jam, it deserves a real end. Could have ended cleanly on one of the final series of kicks.
ugo/Bonfire - Great intro. I almost wish you'd made a whole song just developing that, but it does set things up well for the big stormburst entry. I find myself drawn particularly to the more stripped-back sections of the song, where you evoke some great moods. The huge anthemic sections are well handled, but less distinctive for me. The mix feels a bit weak on the bass during the climaxes, and the main kick could be louder, I think. But I like what you're doing here. Recognisably a formula dance song, but you've added a personal voice to the formula. Apocalyptic. Nice one.
rsmus7/Poddies Dance - Some nice squelching going on here. A bit over-reliant on those arp patterns. A repeated arpeggio with different base notes isn't quite the same as a developed melody. Without human variation it tends to sap away the forward movement, although I do like it when things become more dissonant towards the end. The synth break is a nice spacious reprieve, though afterwards we fall straight back into the same arp pattern. Nice sounds though, Feels like the sort of dance that involves a lot of giddy whirling round in circles. Your mixing has become so much cleaner since you last used to enter these contests. Leaps and bounds.
(pheeleep take 2 - Much more satisfying without that cutout.
)Khepira/Ikt Hut Eit - The chopped up grunts are quite arresting and convey a real sense of urgent discomfort, like someone undergoing a difficult bowel movement. Which is a perfect counterpoint to the spacious female vocals. The song's subtitle suggests a political undercurrent here, but I couldn't really pinpoint it in the music. The kick stabs in the opening are a bit too haphazard to build anticipation, but things gel together when the rest of the percussion joins in. Has a pleasant brooding quality.
respirator/waltz - This appeals to me. The slightly melancholy pacing, the musty lo-fi quality, the chopped-yet-human guitars - all of this is excellent. The only thing I didn't like was the clicking where the samples were chopped. I mean the little clicks at the start of the slice panned right on the third beat of the bar (not the more intentional click on the first beat later on, which actually balances it out well). Or it could possibly just be plectrum noise. I try to tell myself to be more open-minded about it and just accept the clicks as an interesting part of the sound, but I can't quite trick my brain into liking that sound in this context. Stupid stubborn brain. But yes, this is a very nice song.
vurt/dance or die - Do I hear beatboxing in there? The delay patterns set up some interesting evolving beats. The fun here is in the incidental details as the scenery changes. I like how it starts maching-gunning around 1:27 for a few seconds. For alert dancers only. Or for dancers working to a slower, more cosmic beat.
aeida cin/forrage - I love the loping beat here, and the smoky synths that ooze along beside it. The mix is a bit murky, like you've run it all through a low-pass filter. But that tends to suit the dark, late-night quality of the music. It doesn't really develop over the course of two minutes, but for some reason I didn't mind that at all here. Just content to lope along. Unsatisfying ending, though. Even if it's a cut down version of a longer jam, it deserves a real end. Could have ended cleanly on one of the final series of kicks.
ugo/Bonfire - Great intro. I almost wish you'd made a whole song just developing that, but it does set things up well for the big stormburst entry. I find myself drawn particularly to the more stripped-back sections of the song, where you evoke some great moods. The huge anthemic sections are well handled, but less distinctive for me. The mix feels a bit weak on the bass during the climaxes, and the main kick could be louder, I think. But I like what you're doing here. Recognisably a formula dance song, but you've added a personal voice to the formula. Apocalyptic. Nice one.
rsmus7/Poddies Dance - Some nice squelching going on here. A bit over-reliant on those arp patterns. A repeated arpeggio with different base notes isn't quite the same as a developed melody. Without human variation it tends to sap away the forward movement, although I do like it when things become more dissonant towards the end. The synth break is a nice spacious reprieve, though afterwards we fall straight back into the same arp pattern. Nice sounds though, Feels like the sort of dance that involves a lot of giddy whirling round in circles. Your mixing has become so much cleaner since you last used to enter these contests. Leaps and bounds.
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- KVRian
- 1367 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from Australia
By the way, if someone here sent me a PM recently, it never came through. I got the email notification, but no actual PM. Odd.