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Say a Little Prayer for my Demo
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Author: 11t1 on April 12 2007 Viewed 1730 times. 13 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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Greetings & salutations, one & all.
I'm finally getting things sorted out to the point where I think I'm ready to mail out demos to some production music libraries. The question that's plaguing me is this: what should my track order be?
Luckily, you can weigh in an opinion if you so desire. By visiting my virb page, you can see that I've set up a 4-song album that is the 4 tracks, in all their monaural glory, that I'm considering for the demo. I've set them up here in the order I was thinking of using for the demo itself, so you can tell me if you think it flows, or if you think I should change it up a bit.
I was thinking of leading off with "Try It for a While" because the guitar gives it a little something extra, and then throwing in "Cinqo" because it breaks things up a bit without slowing it down too much. It's got a darker tone with the kalimba samples & all the borrowed chords, plus the percussion is a little more esoteric than the break-beat action of "Try It for a While" & "Snowsuit Up!" Then I was thinking of riding out with the mellow ambiance of "Lucky Punk."
These 4 tracks are also my 4 official em411 releases, so I guess you could also check them out that way, or if you'd prefer to download them to your personal system so you can play around with the order, here are some links that can help you in that regard:
Try It for a While
Cinqo
Snowsuit Up!
Lucky Punk
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In a zip file:
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27.9 MB (29,328,396 bytes) – 4 MP3s @ 320 kbps
Also, I'm constantly expected to rattle off a list of influences & artists I can compare my music too, and I always come up drawing a blank. I don't really sound like artists I listen too, so this question keeps stumping me. But you can help me figure it out now by telling me who you think my music reminds you of.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be much appreciated by me to say the least.
thx - stv
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edited: Apr 12 2007
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yghartsyrt
edit:
note to self: first read then post.
will follow that rule a littel later
04/12/07
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yghartsyrt
fingers crossed.
can't listen to the stuff right now, so no comments on the tracks an order and such
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11t1
you can now spare yourself a little download hassle by getting all 4 files in 1 convenient zip package:
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27.9 MB (29,328,396 bytes) – 4 MP3s @ 320 kbps
can't wait to hear your thoughts, yghartsyrt (and others)
edited: Apr 12 2007
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Roshi
Good luck!
cingo is definitely old school aphex like
snowsuit is definitely nu-skool breaks (tipper)
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11t1
i had never even heard of tipper before - thx 4 the tip
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Roshi
I swear I hear him at least once a month on CSI.
Uh, not that I watch CSI.
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11t1
stupid iTunes Canada only has 3 tracks by him though - hey, i wanna not hear myself on CSI one day
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i liked the selection and how it flowed. was not so keen on the drums in snowsuit. they seemed a little dry and for real drums not full enough. but that may be onl ypersonal reference
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11t1
thx again 4 the link, roshi - tipper's a lot of fun (pretty rare for teh electronics) & there's over an hour & a half of free samples on his site (yay!)
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11t1
thanks for backing up my thoughts on the flow, yghartsyrt - i know what you mean about the drums - if i could drop the beats you can, this wouldn't be a problem
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haha. cheers for the kind word steve. i hink using different snare would alter it massively and enough. but hey that'S just a thought
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GregTArtZ
I really like Lucky punk, very fantasia, almost enya sound, very beautyful.
Good luck with the demo, sounds great.
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theflame
actually, in reference to Yghartsyrts thing about the drums being dry - i actually like them way more that way than i i imagine them being otherwise. what did you use for those drum sounds Steve? Loving them
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11t1
i believe they started out with a kick drum from a sample pack yghartsyrt posted here a couple of months ago and then some free drum machine samples I found on the web one day. Then a liberal dose of LiveCut and almost no reverb whatsoever.
I was sort of going for an old-skool, quasi-propellerhead-ish sound, but it's a real love-hate maker. i'm going to send out this round of demos as is, but maybe i'll re-do them on a future round
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