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seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sat Jun 09, 2012 9:17 pm

This one took 8 hours to record in April 2010. I took an immediate dislike to it. The June 2012 remix involved a lot of reconstruction. I scrapped the original intro, dumped all of the original percussion, replaced many synth parts, wrote a new intro section, which became the basis for the third part/outro, and 16 hours later, I am fairly happy with the piece. What was originally an '80s quirk-rock oddity has now been festooned with ambient/electrohouse/pop trimmings.

I'm off to have a Ginger Beer (6% alcohol)

EDIT: 20160523 mp3 link removed

Dancing in the clouds

http://soundcloud.com/whatsisname/stand-still-i-say

EDIT: 20160523 - 2016 remix

Recorded in EnergyXT2.5.2/Remixed in EnergyXT2.6/EnergyXT2.7
Oxytocin
Adonis
RedTron_400
EnergyXT Drum Sampler
Analog Warfare
DiversionFxCM
FreeAlpha
RedTron_SE
CM SR-202
IK Classik Studio Reverb
Satin
T-Racks Linear Phase EQ
T-Racks Opto Compressor
T-Racks Vintage Equalizer
T-Racks Brickwall Limiter

DR - 13

EDIT:20240602 - almost 12 years later, also on YouTube as a static video

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:25 am

great driving beat on this one, with great variety of sounds. must say this one gets a Seismic favorite label

very very nice indeed

PaleBlueDot · Post by **PaleBlueDot** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:40 am

Nice work. Like the percussion. Noticed certain elements of the percussion were panned out. Enjoyed the effect, and also the sharpness of those sounds (open high hat sounding). The structure of the song was great as well, and I liked the choice of synths. Good job

It must be nice to access to your old work and can still be able to que it up and rewrite it. I upgraded my computer recently and reinstalled software, moved a bunch of stuff to an external drive. The good news is that my music rig runs much better now and I can run stuff side by side that I wasn't able to before. The bad news is, I can't pull up any old music

PurpleCatfishBettie · Post by **PurpleCatfishBettie** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:40 am

great flow to this... (edit: a really productive 'day's work' (8+16))

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:55 am

layzer wrote:great driving beat on this one, with great variety of sounds. must say this one gets a Seismic favorite label

very very nice indeed

It's really odd. This beat wasn't planned. After I tore the original to shreds, the beat just appeared, and the entire character of the music changed.

Now That's What I Call Luck Vol. 38

Thanks very much for listening and commenting, Dave. Glad you liked it

2NDMOUSE · Post by **2NDMOUSE** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:12 am

Your track "surgery" sounds so similar to how i work on mine. Sometimes ya just know there is the DNA for something better in a track , but it involves reconstructive surgery , and taking a sample from the existing bones / tissue , and rebuilding it , sometimes years later . I generally work on track parts that were created years earlier .

Love those opening synths , and the almost locomotive beat that enters has a nice subtley delayed feel to it.
It's great to hear something of this quality being done with freeware , cos there really are some awesome VSTs out there. The mix is mostly clean , and everything can be heard fine....just maybe a few little frequency smudges that would be sorted with some EQ nudges ......stuff that I also hear in my own work , but am not yet expert at eliminating.
Love the arp that comes in at 4:50 , but I wish it had more of a part to play in the track as a whole , or maybe to hear it in isolation , cos it has a great groove to it.
Some great kinda explosion FX off in the distance that I liked too.
Keep on keepin' on =)

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:24 pm

PaleBlueDot wrote:Nice work. Like the percussion. Noticed certain elements of the percussion were panned out. Enjoyed the effect, and also the sharpness of those sounds (open high hat sounding). The structure of the song was great as well, and I liked the choice of synths. Good job It must be nice to access to your old work and can still be able to que it up and rewrite it. I upgraded my computer recently and reinstalled software, moved a bunch of stuff to an external drive. The good news is that my music rig runs much better now and I can run stuff side by side that I wasn't able to before. The bad news is, I can't pull up any old music

Thanks for listening, Steven. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the great comments

My C: drive on my 7-year old XP machine died in October last year. Fortunately all of my project data and many VSTs were on a second internal disk that I installed a couple of years earlier. When I bought a new Win7 machine I replicated the setup with new hardware and housed the old F: drive in an external enclosure and managed to retrieve all of the old VSTs and project files. Some of the VSTs won't work with Win 7 and some are unavailable (and require installers etc.), but I managed to get about 85% of my old projects back into a working state. I still have the unmastered wav files from the others, so things worked out quite well. I used EnergyXT for all of these projects and that is quite easy to setup in terms of DR. I also run weekly backups now!

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:19 pm

mrblitz wrote:great flow to this... (edit: a really productive 'day's work' (8+16))

When you put it like that, it doesn't sound so much

Thanks for listening and commenting mrblitz. Glad you liked it.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:06 pm

2NDMOUSE wrote:Your track "surgery" sounds so similar to how i work on mine. Sometimes ya just know there is the DNA for something better in a track , but it involves reconstructive surgery , and taking a sample from the existing bones / tissue , and rebuilding it , sometimes years later . I generally work on track parts that were created years earlier .

Love those opening synths , and the almost locomotive beat that enters has a nice subtley delayed feel to it.
It's great to hear something of this quality being done with freeware , cos there really are some awesome VSTs out there. The mix is mostly clean , and everything can be heard fine....just maybe a few little frequency smudges that would be sorted with some EQ nudges ......stuff that I also hear in my own work , but am not yet expert at eliminating.
Love the arp that comes in at 4:50 , but I wish it had more of a part to play in the track as a whole , or maybe to hear it in isolation , cos it has a great groove to it.
Some great kinda explosion FX off in the distance that I liked too.
Keep on keepin' on =)

Thanks very much for taking the time to listen and comment, 2NDMOUSE. I appreciate it.

I have about 800 tracks in early "building-block" mode at the moment and almost 20 others that were complete a couple of years ago, but which need editing/mixing/mastering. When I get these 20 tracks completed, I am looking forward to getting back to composing, although this remix eventually involved quite a lot of new parts, so I still occasionally get to make some new music. In fact, last night after I put this track up, I fired up a piano VST and put it through FreqEcho and Shimmer and within 15 minutes I had the basis of a new track.

A lot of the free VSTs are capable of making some great sounds. I just made up a list of the VSTs I use regularly so I can clean up my VST folder and make a few donations to various devs.

I need to work at my mixing skills, I have seen an improvement over the last year, but there is still a long way to go.

So much to do, so little time

ATS · Post by **ATS** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:12 pm

Yeah there are a lot of projects I can no longer access. I am trying to be a little more careful about that now when I work on stuff. Also trying to just work with one host that I know will be around.

Song was great. I love how it builds up and like others love the percussion. Great job.

crimsontider · Post by **crimsontider** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:24 pm

Great song, great depth, great mix. Professional.

The rhythmic restrained drum track reminds me of the band "Garbage" from the late 90's early 2000's. Very nice.

kryptonaut · Post by **kryptonaut** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:59 pm

This is great - I love the way the different elements are brought in and layered on top of each other, so that what starts out feeling fairly sombre ends up being really uplifting. And I've always been a sucker for a nice bit of Mellotron! Excellent track, lovely sound.

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:49 pm

ATS wrote:Yeah there are a lot of projects I can no longer access. I am trying to be a little more careful about that now when I work on stuff. Also trying to just work with one host that I know will be around.

Song was great. I love how it builds up and like others love the percussion. Great job.

Of course, there is an upside to losing access to those old project files. I would be forced to compose some new music

Glad you liked the song. Thanks very much for listening and commenting, Alex

n0rd · Post by **n0rd** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:47 am

Nice one seismic1

seismic1 · Post by **seismic1** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:03 am

crimsontider wrote:Great song, great depth, great mix. Professional.

The rhythmic restrained drum track reminds me of the band "Garbage" from the late 90's early 2000's. Very nice.

Thanks for the great comments and thanks for listening, Greg. I fear you are being a little generous when using words like "Professional". The Seismic studio is a shoestring operation, staffed for approx. 5 hours per week, and solely dedicated to one cause

Stand Still" I Say (ElectroProg - Seismic Excavation)