[LAU] More Shoegaze..

[Leigh Dyer]

On 21/10/11 05:55, James Stone wrote:
> Apologies for those with an allergy to soundcloud, but I don't have a
> better way of distribution at the moment.
>
> http://soundcloud.com/jmstone/never-again
>
> I recorded this a few months ago now, planning to make some further
> changes, but I'm not sure I will get round to it in the near future,
> so.. RERO.
>
> The extreme distortion, and vocals back in the mix is on purpose - and
> hopefully reasonably in keeping with the genre. The piece could
> probably do with a better ending!

Nice work -- I'm certainly no expert on shoegaze, but it definitely 
seems like it's in keeping with the genre to me. The structure actually 
reminded me more of electronic music than traditional writing, with the 
way it builds up from elements introduced at fairly regular intervals 
rather than having a strong verse/chorus/verse/chorus structure. That 
might make sense given how you put the track together, though :)

I know it's the kind of genre that tends toward a slow burn, so I could 
be right off the mark here, but it felt like it could have done with 
some more textural variety by the end of it. I love the spacey, 
washed-out feel of the guitars, but I wonder if there's some other way 
you could mix up that texture in the second half of the track, rather 
than just building up the same guitar parts again. I'm afraid I can't 
offer any ideas, though!

Thanks
Leigh

>
> This track is composed of a load of guitar and bass loops recorded
> into Renoise. Effects are mostly the built-in Renoise plugins IIRC.
> The guitar (Aria TA50) was recorded thru a Behringer V-AMP 2 and the
> bass (Ibanez Roadster RS800) through a BDI 21. Vocals were through 2
> different cheapo Behringer mic preamps (minimic 800 replaced by a mic
> 100 after I fried the former accidentally!) Samson C01 condenser.
> Drums were laid down in 10 seconds! :)
>
> J
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