New Music! "False Flag" by LX NEN

[Matt Seil]

Could someone repost the original link? I seem to have everything but 
the OP (>_<)



On 3/4/2023 7:49 AM, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Hi Romain
>
> 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.
>
>>     1. Strengths -
>     I really like the synth lead at 1min52.
>     I enjoyed  the birds and synth solos with the granular.
>
> 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.
>
>>     2. Weaknesses
>     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
>     a Spiritual song but suddenly after 4min there is a D Bowie synth
>     trip that I really dig :)
>
>
> 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!
>
>>     6. Anger - A solid 10 minute slab of 120bpm techno. 808, 303,
>>     quirky gritty noises.
>     This one sounds like kind of a jam.
>     But I may be wrong … you only know : )
>
> 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.
>
>>     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.
>     A bit too tropical or classical for me but it s easy listening …
>     My only remark would be  at  0:33,  0:36, 0 :44 the low bells are
>     too loud(a click is bothering me), after  is ok tho …
>
>
> 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!
>
>     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 ..
>     However,  as usual I did enjoy the journey of what your music is
>     giving/making  !
>     I m curious to read the comment of others, they may have better
>     advice :)
>
>
> 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?
>
> The album is now on all the major music streaming services (Distrokid 
> makes this so easy), here's a Spotify link: 
> https://open.spotify.com/album/1eQgu59Jc0xa772jGLFX8V
>
> 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.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Andy_R
>
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