ha this is probably my fav song by you OP
...the rounder we get.
Cool stuff. the distorted, scratchy, dirty vinylness is appropraite.
the guitar playing is really nifty.
I'm not terribly fussed on the rap part simply becasue your singing/speaking voice does the job really well.
Your music is awesome!
This song is so cool, energetic and puts me in this "keep going"/dancing mood
Your voice compliments the rhythm and music you make.
awesome stuff!
Man this is awesome.... I can't help but think of Cake when i hear it though.
I love the bass at the end. that is so awesome...
Good work man. I got nothing for you in terms of crits. Good job.
That is really nice of you - thanks TMS. I think maybe I've learned to make music that is simple enough that my voice will work with it. My voice is kind of strange and doesn't really work for too many different kinds of things. I try to identify the few things I can do and stick with them.
I dont see it simple at all.
I dont hear much stuff like this being made these days.
I might be hooked on the genre
Your voice is what your voice is. Not strange to me at all.
As I said, it compliments the music you are making.
And you are doing it all right!
Compare the "Defective" and "Rustbucket" - two different songs, but both excellent!! (Most favorite of yours)
Look, make a CD of your cool songs, finally...
Ha! I've been hearing that more and more lately which is of course very flattering, but I've read about it some and it just doesn't seem worth it in terms of effort & expense vs. end result. I'm not saying I'll never make a CD, but I don't see it happening anytime soon. Thanks again for the support though .
Very enjoyable listen, P -- like Greg thought, it sounded a lot like Beck to me too. No mix nits here, this was solid.
The beat is cool. Not a big fan of this kind of voice, but it is still a great production !
great mix.. love the retro intro in the start.. i'm no techi so can't say much man. great mix!
Hey Heat,
Maybe just make your soudcloud page downloadable,,or safer idea, put the songs on a different place(dropbox?) so peeps have to ask you for the link,& you can keep tabs on who's doin what with it!!
Yeah, I used to make every track downloadable...not sure when or why I got away from that. I think when I thought about possibly making a CD, I must've thought that playing hard to get would generate interest or something. At some point I stopped allowing it. I don't know that I want to keep tabs, and my dropbox account is often full of files for collaborations, so here's what I'm going to do since you and a few others have asked lately...
When I get home tonight, I'm going to enable downloads on all tracks on my Soundcloud page. I'll leave it like that for say, one week and see how it goes. I may turn it back off then, or maybe not...a week should be plenty of time for anyone to download MP3s if they like.
Personally, I have no use for MP3s, as I really only listen to CDs and tapes, but it seems to be the standard medium now I guess?
Thanks.
I think on soundcloud, you can put up say a 16 bit wave or wma or even an MP3 and that will be the download. So, if you want a better quality download, you can do something like that. Seems WMA has a better sound than MP3 and the neutral format of FLAC. Which is supposed to have high quality and still give you compression. Audacity has an FLAC export built in.
Interesting. Frankly, a lot of this stuff is over my head. I'm one of those perhaps rare people who, while I think I have a good ear for mixes and tones and whatnot, really can't tell any big difference between file types. 128kps MP3s sound fine to me (at least my own tracks) and not too different than a 320, or even the CD "masters".
There've been a bunch of discussions here about what format to post on Soundcloud/Soundclick, etc., but my understanding was that they ultimately stream at 128kps, so I have always ripped 128 MP3s from my CDs and posted those.
It sounds like you're saying you can upload a higher res file type, and although they will stream at 128, the downloads will come out as whatever original file type you used?
The other issue is that, with a free Soundcloud membership like I have, you can't replace files - only delete and add new ones. I put many of those up a long time ago and don't really wish to replace them, you know?