<div dir="ltr">Aha! An excuse for more self-promotion. Thank you.<div><br></div><div>It's <a href="https://lxnen.bandcamp.com/album/false-flag" target="_blank">https://lxnen.bandcamp.com/album/false-flag</a></div><div><br></div><div>- Andy_R</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 at 15:54, Matt Seil <<a href="mailto:xeno6696@gmail.com">xeno6696@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Could someone repost the original link? I seem to have everything
but the OP (>_<)</p>
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<div>Thanks for listening, and for the detailed feedback, it's
really appreciated. Overall I think you're absolutely right
that many of the tracks are too long, I've been thinking the
same myself listening back to it - if I had a few more days
in February I would have devoted them to tightening it up. </div>
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<div>1. Strengths -</div>
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I really like the synth lead at 1min52. </div>
<div>I enjoyed the birds and synth solos with the
granular. </div>
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<div>I think this is the second 'single' - I'll do a 'radio
edit' to make it get to the hooks more quickly and see what
I can come up with for a video, and possibly a more dreamy
ambient/dubby alternate mix.</div>
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<div>2. Weaknesses </div>
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A bit too long in my opinion, however I really like the
flute (in Phrygian I guess) and what you do with the
voices in general , it feels like </div>
<div>a Spiritual song but suddenly after 4min there is a D
Bowie synth trip that I really dig :) </div>
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<div>Yes, I was quite obsessed with hitting my goal of an hour
of music and was expecting to fall short for most of the
month, so I made my strongest track quite long.... probably
too long!</div>
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<div>6. Anger - A solid 10 minute slab of 120bpm
techno. 808, 303, quirky gritty noises.</div>
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<div>This one sounds like kind of a jam.<br>
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<div>But I may be wrong … you only know : )<br>
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<div>Actually, all the tracks are made the same way. Build a
16 bar loop in Reason, export as audio segments, assemble
those segments in another Reason file (arranging in an
almost jamming way), then if needed, go back to the first
file and make any missing elements or extra bits I think it
needs. This is actually one where I changed the structure of
the track several times, the first version quickly built to
a big drop, then elements dropped out, then I has two big
drops, but they felt the wrong way round as the first drop
was bigger, so I tried to smooth the arrangement out and
make it less about drops. </div>
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<div>7. Bargaining - The silly one. A cross-genre
kitchen sink wall of sound with distorted bells,
sci-fi noises, violin solo, tom-toms, 303, an
orchestra, timbales and 1/4 speed distorted toy
piano of doom.</div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">A bit too tropical or
classical for me but it s easy listening … </span><br>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">My only remark would be </span> at
0:33, 0:36, 0 :44 the low bells are too loud(a click is
bothering me), after is ok tho … <br>
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<div>I think this is the one I put the most work in to, but
also the one that's the least successful. To be honest, it's
too tropical and classical for me too! </div>
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<div>All in all (for me), your productions are very well
made in general, the mixes are cleaned and precise, they
all have a very nice width, the only thing which is
bothering me is some songs are too long .. </div>
<div>However, as usual <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I
did enjoy the journey of what your </span><font color="#000000"><span>music is giving/making ! </span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span>I m curious to read the
comment of others, they may have better advice :) </span></font></div>
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<div>Me too! I've actually tried to make these tracks less
clean and precise than most of my work, there's more
imprecise timing and layers of dirt than before, maybe I'm
getting the balance right now? The whole thing was mixed and
arranged on little M-Audio computer speakers, so I'm glad to
hear that I've not messed the sound balance up too much,
just a bit of excess bass in places which I often seem to be
guilty of - perhaps I need to add a subwoofer to my setup?<br>
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The album is now on all the major music streaming services
(Distrokid makes this so easy), here's a Spotify link: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/1eQgu59Jc0xa772jGLFX8V" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/album/1eQgu59Jc0xa772jGLFX8V</a><br>
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<div>My big news is that there's an experimental / electronic
/ IDM night in Worcester that I wasn't aware of, the
organiser likes the album, and has asked me to play a gig!
I'll have to work out how to turn this into a short live
set... and I might add a cover version or two in there, as
I've been meaning to do a covers project next. </div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>- Andy_R</div>
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