It sounds like what should soundtrack a watercolour animation of a Chinese rain-dragon moving through the sky. Also, some of the timbres positively remind me of late-period Coil.
Have you ever listened to Negativland? I assume that you have, but if not, your zanier, more chaotic stuff really seems to mine similar aesthetic territory.
Their stuff is not quite my usual domain anymore as I've moved more closely to conventional hip-hop (and sometimes House if I'm in the mood) but I do like them.
have you listened to the first two Magic Planet records yet?
if they have an influence in my sound still it's that I love to cram vocal samples into any available blank space on a track, granted that's also a trick Madlib--who I'd count as a much closer influence--pulls a lot.
It's supposed to evoke a particular mood and to carry one along with the chord progression, which is in itself the main melodic element. The buildup is relatively simple because there are very few elements in the song. It is, in essence, a piano ballad—or given the timbre that the echo and bass lends it, an organ ballad.
^^ There is a tuning family referred to as "orgone." It's a class of temperaments defined by tempering out the difference between the octave and the product of two natural sevenths and three harmonic elevenths. 26-tone equal temperament is the classic flavour.
^ It's kind of hard to strip that down any further at the beginning seeing as it is literally loops of chords run through a series of delays.
There is a tuning family referred to as "orgone." It's a class of temperaments defined by tempering out the difference between the octave and the product of two natural sevenths and three harmonic elevenths. 26-tone equal temperament is the classic flavour.
very conspicious choppiness in production bothers me more than i think it does most people. It sounds like you didn't declick your chops of whatever you used to make the backing track (possibly deliberately, but it's not an aesthetic choice I'm onboard with necessarily).
Otherwise though it's fine I think, I'm not maybe the person to ask about this because heavily dissonant music is kinda hard for me to get with, it's why I could never get into Swans. Dissonant is not the word I'm looking for, you know what I mean I think.
I get a Wm. Burke's The Hideous Truth vibe from this song.
^^ The clicks from the chops are there quite intentionally. They form the subtle backbone of the rhythm, particularly in conjunction with the heavy filters and slight delays all over. The kick and hi-hat happened later, courtesy of the boo.
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It sounds like what should soundtrack a watercolour animation of a Chinese rain-dragon moving through the sky. Also, some of the timbres positively remind me of late-period Coil.
So.
If so, you're actually pretty good.
also i think maybe it could have been a teensy bit more... dynamic?
I agree with Jane on the Ariel Pink thing she mentioned earlier, too.
...I thought I posted this a while ago.
but why no download for tracks 7 & 8?
i can't see the download for 7 either, though
can hear both fine, though
idk how they are about that