RPM'09 Album - "Headmelt" by LX Nen

Fri Mar 6 18:48:33 CET 2009

Andrew, you re welcome ...

Thank you, you!, for the good music and explanations
it s well appreciated and I take notes :) .
I didn t expect  that you used Reason 4 cause in general I recognised
when musician(s) use it but it wasn t the case for your album  ...

thank you for the sample of a Tampura, I love this sound ...
It was used in one song( i don t remember the name of it ) in the
synthesizer compilation album ( i dont know if you know them:
http://s141.photobucket.com/albums/r52/custodianguard/Album%202/?action=view&current=Cover-46.jpg),
maybe one of your songs should be on the next one ( if there is one )

:D

Cheers
Romain

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Andrew Robinson <andrew at bml.co.uk> wrote:

> 2009/3/3 Romain Gros <xtechcode at gmail.com>:
> > All your bass
> > I don t like so much the beginning ( sound beat) but i would like
> > to  know which synth you used ( one with pan delay  ) , when the big
> > beat comes in the 3/4 of the song it s really nice ...
>
> I agree - the idea of this one was to throw every 1980s cliche into
> one track and see if it made sense. It's sort of the 'dub mix' on the
> back of a fictional 12" single. The drums you don't like are DMX
> samples, plus TR-727 samples - both machines so cheesy that they
> haven't bee heard much since 1st Jan 1990! There's also 808 cowbells
> and the Fairlight orch5 sample - If I'd though of it at the time, I'd
> have thrown some syntoms in there too!
>
> The sound you do like is a sample of a Tampura from the Reason factory
> soundbank, fed through unison, delay, phaser, compressor and reverb
> modules.
>
> > 2: make me think of Matrix music .( melancholic sphere)
>
> > B Castle
> > Really relax with a heavy beat  (it s perfect for me to go to
> > work ; ) , I love the bass you used ( make me think a bit of david
> > bowie music "outside " period), Do you used the chaossilator at the
> > end and change the pitch in ableton or logic?
>
> I'm very happy with this one, even though it's not my usual style. The
> end was done by holding the last note (from reason's analogue synth)
> for a minute, this has a heavy delayed vibrato on it which you don't
> hear much in the song, as it cuts off before it reaches 100% normally.
> When I came up with the long ending, I planned that it would be the
> last track on the album, as I hadn't done the arrangement on 'bast'
> then. The idea was to smoothly bend the last note down, inspired by
> the ending of Schnauss's 'Stars' but I got as far as using a stepped
> descent generated by the 'curve' of a reason Matrix Seqencer and
> decided that I liked it enough and time was running out.
>
> > 4 Hic
> > 5 Icemelt
> > 6 TMD
> > 7 U happy
> > 8 Glisten
> > 9 P R T M
>
> > Bast
> > I like the experimentation  of the sounds ( did you sample
> > yourself the sound banks for the experiment part ?)
>
> Sadly no, it's all heavily manipulated reason sounds. I don't have a
> microphone of any decent quality here to do my own recordings.
>
> > then when it goes to the relax part around 3 min ( it s a genius
> > evolution !! I love it !).
>
> I'm really happy with this bit too.
>
> > ...and finish with old computer games sounds .
>
> My second try at making a long ending, this time I looped the track
> for a minute with all plats playing, then used that as a sample in
> reason. I was going to try a 'radio' style fade out, with high and low
> pass filters coming in and then an overlay of radio static, but in the
> late night rush (this was the last track I arranged) I couldn't
> quickly get the 2 filters to stop overlapping and cutting the whole
> lot out, so I swapped the low-pass one for a scream distortion unit,
> which gradually reduces the sampling frequency, and simply faded the
> result out in logic.
>
> > Hic
> >  this song is quite Hip hop/techno for me ... the techno is quite
> > energetic :),
> > Did you use a real guitar  or is it samples ?...
> > I really like the end of this song from 3.50. its genial ... waou ...
>
> This is the track I had most trouble with, the version on Headmelt is
> 20 bpm slower than the first try, which was all techno and not
> guitarry at all. I think I'll go back to this and make whole song like
> the end, which came about by accident, I dropped the audio for the
> bassline onto the lead channel and it sounded good! The 'guitar'
> sounds are reason analogue synths through Logic's guitar amp plug in.
>
> > U happy
> >  it seems  tribal at the beginning :) and goes to a kind of acid
> > electronic techno without BOOM BOOM BOOM but with a tribal beat ...
> > cool !  this song should be perfect in a coffeshop in Amsterdam ;)
> > just before the end of the song, it seems chaotic(4.20 till 4.42)it
> > gives me the idea you get shortcut in your cables settings lol  but it
> > doesn t disturb me . it s really well done
>
> Thanks, I'm in two minds about this track myself, I think I've somehow
> made a very good job of creating a type of song I don't like, if that
> makes sense! It should definitely be shorter, that's for sure.
>
> >  9 : I like the fat drum sounds and the keys in the background...
> > ( compare to the other song  we can hear that you start to get a bit
> > stuck with harmony-structure-creation ... )
>
> You've hit the nail on the head here, this was arranged on the last
> day, as a low point when I was convinced that I would fail to get the
> album done in time. The structure is non-existant, it's just a mush of
> drums cut up by feeding them through 2 instanced of supa trigga, then
> a little manual editing of the results. Originally I made about 8
> minutes of this. promising myself I'd trim it (or better yet remove it
> entirely) if I did hit the minimum length for the RPM challenge.
> Eventually, with Bast turning out to be 12 minutes instead of the 4 or
> 5 I expected, I  only cut this one down a bit to make the whole thing
> an hour long, which sounded like a good idea at 4am, but I think it
> was a mistake in retrospect.
>
> Thanks for all the comments, it's been really useful for me to get
> another pair of ears onto this!
>
> Regards,
>
> - Andrew
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Romain
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