God send a plague - collab with Industrial Okie

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Sounds pretty good!

Some of the panning on the hi-hat hits seemed weird when I listened to it on laptop speakers, but it got better when I used headphones.
 
yeah its two high hats panned pretty hard...not really meant to follow any conventional rules but kinda jumps out during the breakdown...ones a little off time as well i think..intentionally, or maybe not lol


Thanks for listening mate...hope you enjoyed yer turkey :)
 
Yes, a tremulous league of humanities neoromantics each girded in ruffles and sidelong glances, each searching for a shade of grey into which to fade, alone; but not without an audience, (or, at the very least, a mirror!!!).
Not the place for a rangah!
This is the right mix for the era/aim. No doubt about it.
Not sure about the frequent use of vibrato on the voice - I think it works and is effctive/effecting but is constant so loses the impact. I think if it were used on the 1st line but not the 2nd it'd have more kapow or then again, p'haps just do what works for you!
A plague of Esteban Estranges, (where even one is more than enough) or Feel Okies could not write a line as good as...
"you never know when the urge will leave you"
But then again the sheer poetry of "Dont you want me baby? Don't you want me oh, oh, oh, oh?" is inescapable, (as are the nightmares of that "band's" singular skill at singing toward, beside and beyond, but not managing to hit, the right note).
THis is really good - I'd like some more bass m'self but that's not appropriate for the synth pop that it is - 'tis AM radio friendly, this one.
Cheers
rayc
 
rayc said:
Yes, a tremulous league of humanities neoromantics each girded in ruffles and sidelong glances, each searching for a shade of grey into which to fade, alone; but not without an audience, (or, at the very least, a mirror!!!).
Not the place for a rangah!
This is the right mix for the era/aim. No doubt about it.
Not sure about the frequent use of vibrato on the voice - I think it works and is effctive/effecting but is constant so loses the impact. I think if it were used on the 1st line but not the 2nd it'd have more kapow or then again, p'haps just do what works for you!
A plague of Esteban Estranges, (where even one is more than enough) or Feel Okies could not write a line as good as...
"you never know when the urge will leave you"
But then again the sheer poetry of "Dont you want me baby? Don't you want me oh, oh, oh, oh?" is inescapable, (as are the nightmares of that "band's" singular skill at singing toward, beside and beyond, but not managing to hit, the right note).
THis is really good - I'd like some more bass m'self but that's not appropriate for the synth pop that it is - 'tis AM radio friendly, this one.
Cheers
rayc
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Thanks Ray

Tom sent me his vocals as is, same when I collaborated with Joey, and to be honest Im fine with that...fucking about with someones guitar is one thing but Id hate to screw up someones vocals...the only thing i touched was a little volume automation and de-essed them. Though in truth the sound he is going for is pretty spot on and the impact of the effect not really sought after...I think a drier female vocal always stands brilliantly with this stuff but thats the one thing we lack in here, a female singer to collab with

My wife sounds like a bag of cats being hit with a hammer or Id ask her (looks over shoulder) ;)

Ive be A & B'ing a lot more pop stuff from the time and I think we all push the bass a bit hard nowadays as soon as we here the word electro..I think its good as it stands in that dept

hey one thing I noticed...music was bloody quiet back then...some of my plain mixes seem louder lol

thats for listening mate and waxing lyrical :D
 
This came out really well. The two of you compliment each other in a way that, having heard each of your separate material, is not surprising.

I think it sounds fine mix-wise. Full and wide. Much better production value than an '80's pop mix to my ears. The music sounds kinda '90's ish, but the vocals certainly take one back to the dark old days of 19eightywhatever.

I thought the chorus was cool - both the melody and the lyrics. I lost quite a few of the verses admidst the effects. The synths and drums and breakdowns and stuff were really well worked out here. nice job. :)
 
Thanks Pete...its no groundbreaker but I like it, I hope Okies up for more :)
 
Keith... Keep em' comin'. I've haven't been on much, but man.. I really enjoy listening to your stuff. Sounds so much like Depeche Mode, I'd have a hard time not surfing their site and poking around for new stuff, had I not known this was you guys.

Great tune, and great collab.

--Jason

PS - Keith, if I had $500.00 for a synth of some sort to get my foot in the door for creating some of these sounds, what would you recommend? :D
 
PoeticIntensity said:
Keith... Keep em' comin'. I've haven't been on much, but man.. I really enjoy listening to your stuff. Sounds so much like Depeche Mode, I'd have a hard time not surfing their site and poking around for new stuff, had I not known this was you guys.

Great tune, and great collab.

--Jason

PS - Keith, if I had $500.00 for a synth of some sort to get my foot in the door for creating some of these sounds, what would you recommend? :D
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thanks Jason...yeah its shite not having you around more often..your input in the clinic's great

seriously if I had $500 to spend again Id prolly get a controller and a couple of choice softsynths

Lennardigital's Sylenth, NI's FM8 would be on the list, and something good for pads..maybe Rob Papens SubBoomBass as well...that would get you going and some mate

Though most of the sounds on this one were my JV and the vintage synth expansion...thats around $400 for both :)
 
This one does take me back a bit to when I was growing up. You said your stuff was out dated and maybe this one is going a little back in time, but I really like it because, like I said before, I grew up to this type of music and though I am a little more into todays rock, I still like this style. Cool stuff and I like the vocals on it there. Great vox Industrial Okie.

Though I don't think I have heard any covers by you, I would like to hear you do the Axel F cover that I mentioned in one of your earlier threads. I was actually thinking of maybe trying it myself, and may do just that, but I won't do it any justice like you would and I know that this would be something that you could do just awesomely. Just a thought. :D

Either way I like what you got going on here. Yall keep'em coming please.
 
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trumpino1 said:
This one does take me back a bit to when I was growing up. You said your stuff was out dated and maybe this one is going a little back in time, but I really like it because, like I said before, I grew up to this type of music and though I am a little more into todays rock, I still like this style. Cool stuff and I like the vocals on it there. Great vox Industrial Okie.

Though I don't think I have heard any covers by you, I would like to hear you do the Axel F cover that I mentioned in one of your earlier threads. I was actually thinking of maybe trying it myself, and may do just that, but I won't do it any justice like you would and I know that this would be something that you could do just awesomely. Just a thought. :D

Either way I like what you got going on here. Yall keep'em coming please.
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thanks Justin...glad you liked it..and Tom does a great job on this type of vocals doesnt he...like some twisted soul

If Axel F has a guitar part or you want to collab it Im sure its pretty simple to remake, I kinda remember it blaring from my little bro's bedroom..he had the 12inch when it came out..cant remember it sounding too complicated
 
Yes, Tom and you both do one hell of a job on this tune and all the other tunes I've heard the two of you do.

The Axel F song has no guitar on it and that was kind of what I was thinking of doing, maybe, but it is off in the distance on my thinking, but if I do it, I would love to send it to you to see what you could do with it. It's a lot of techno stuff that you are great at, but maybe it would be cool with some guitar.

Later dude.
 
Love it Kcearl,

Very "Shoot that broken arrow through my heart/arse" romantic. Fat Moog bass with clean DX pads.

The hi hat is a drag... the boom boom bass drum needs a chucka chucka disco hi hat (closed and opened for each bass drum beat... sometimes with 2 quick closed... )
 
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you're the second person to mention the hats...mmmm...Ill maybe try a tighter pattern

It didnt start out in this arrangement so that might highlight them more

Thanks for listening Tobe, glad you liked it mate :)
 
You know the disco pattern...

t -cha -t -cha -tt-cha -t -cha

Recon I should get a job writing tabs :)
 
Where is the suitable smiley I need to respond with? Lost in the 16th's?
 
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