On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:12 AM, James Stone <jamesmstone(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi James, I'm diggin' it. Fun - sort of reminds me of synth movie soundtracks from the late 70's or early 80's. No big suggestions musically. It is what it is and I like it. Mix-wise it could use something spatially I think. Something more in the panning. That sort of genre likes to spin around your head. This mix is all a bit too centered for me. Fun! Cheers, Mark

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:53 AM, M Watts <zwy648rct(a)gmail.com> wrote: Thanks to everyone for these very kind comments! I will try to make some further changes, and maybe post an "extended mix" later... James

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Chris Cannam <cannam(a)all-day-breakfast.com> wrote: Well OK, that wasn't very helpful. But I love this sort of thing and this is practically a short clip in this genre. You could just repeat the last three minutes a few times and I wouldn't tire of it. I'm now struggling to think of other tracks of this type in odd time signatures -- I'm quite sure there have been some successful ones. The drum and bass sounds throughout, and the first few seconds generally, sound practically early-80s -- there's very little depth there. That's quite intriguing in terms of development (it starts out sounding very thin, then expands when we get our acidy fix), and it's good because it can withstand high volumes, but it does mean it's a bit lacking in bass on your home stereo experience and the acid solos sound like they're mixed too high there. (I listened to this first on headphones and then through speakers, and it was fine on headphones but rather one-dimensional in the speakers.) Don't get me wrong, I like the _quality_ of these sounds, it's not always good to sound too hi-fi. Just that the balance may be tricky. You can't really tell unless you're playing it on a club system at club levels though, and I haven't one to hand and have an old guy living upstairs and two kids asleep in the next room. Good stuff though. Chris

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Chris Cannam <cannam(a)all-day-breakfast.com> wrote: I thought the rule was that if you noticed the time signature you weren't really there? :)