Underground Hip-hop Instrumentals

[Prophet-One]

Hey I'm sort of new to the board but everone seems to have intelligent feedback/advice.

So I figured I'd register up and share some of my music and any advice or help I can give. All the songs are rough version all need some tweaking and stuff but good none the less. Any advice or comments are apreciated.

So to keep you waiting no more:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/prophetonemusic.htm

I have 2 tracks up Ghosts and Northwest Saigon. Hope you enjoy.

 

[bmorris]

I see...

you have had some views and no replies and I know how that feels so I'll try to bless this post. I am no musical genius or mixing fanatic so take all that I may say (+ and -) with a grain of salt...

I am feeling the tracks, but would love to hear the repetition break at times. I guess you don't necessarily have to change the sample or sounds but possibly add more to it so that you could have a variation of mute/unmute to produce different sections of the song. Basically it becomes difficult to distinguish the verse from chorus, bridge so on and so forth...

I really dig the sample in the second track, It has a real beatnuts flavour to it with a real underground drum program. As for the first track (the guitars), the sample seems to be draggin a bit. Was this intentional? It could possibly work to add a bit of natural player realtime swing, but I am not sure if that is what you were going for.

For both samples, it seems like the loop point may not have been clearly defined because I hear an abrupt stop in audio before the sample restarts (minor stuff).

All in all, I was feeling the tracks and I am sure if you are patient you will receive receive a lot of good quality feeback.

-Humble-

 

[Pedullist]

I agree 100% with bmorris. And I am both a musical genius as well as a mixing fanatic so...

LOL

 

[Prophet-One]

Yea I know what your talking about on the loop of northwest saigon it is off by some rediculously small amount of time. As for the natural feel thats what I was goin for as well as why the drums were left reasonably alone, real drumming.

And Beatnuts thats a complement man. For Ghosts I was thinking it needs some horns maybe, we'll see.

Thanks for the input though any other pointers on stuff would be appreciated.