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[music] hellfire
http://pusga.bandcamp.com/releases
the last few months of the last year i spent working on a collection of tracks with more or less the same theme, and after i was done i thought it would make sense to put them together as a "release". didnt think of posting it here because its essentially bedroom non-music with bad production, but the few people i showed it to actually thought it was alright and i am actually satisfied with the end product
since i do a bad job at describing music i will just leave some keywords that hopefully give you an idea of how it sounds: mellow, ambient, pad abuse, reverb abuse, bassy, lack of high end, repetition, overall muffled sound. i believe the optimal is listening to the whole thing but if you dont want to then i just recommend listening to 4 5 and 6 in that order.
i used: ableton live, tons of samples, varied vst plugins, and my keyboard as a midi controller
the last few months of the last year i spent working on a collection of tracks with more or less the same theme, and after i was done i thought it would make sense to put them together as a "release". didnt think of posting it here because its essentially bedroom non-music with bad production, but the few people i showed it to actually thought it was alright and i am actually satisfied with the end product
since i do a bad job at describing music i will just leave some keywords that hopefully give you an idea of how it sounds: mellow, ambient, pad abuse, reverb abuse, bassy, lack of high end, repetition, overall muffled sound. i believe the optimal is listening to the whole thing but if you dont want to then i just recommend listening to 4 5 and 6 in that order.
i used: ableton live, tons of samples, varied vst plugins, and my keyboard as a midi controller
oh yeah
This pretty much is something that sounds better every time you listen to it. What I've noticed with music like that is that usually the first time there's a lot of strange stuff that distracts you and ruins it a little bit for you but you get used to it with repeated listens. I'm not sure if that's intentional.
Honestly there's not a lot I can say because I'm not sure what's intentional and what's not. All in all, you did a good job on this, but there are really little things that ended up being very distracting for me.
Surge was pretty good. The two notes you add after the first three on each period are reaaaaally distracting. It's clear they don't really fit into the melody very well and I think doing something similar to that is possible but the way you have it done is really distracting for me. Besides, that, no complaints.
You do a lot of really strange things with the bass. Like... I remember in one track, don't remember which it is, you had a sort of ebb and flow of straight bass and then drums going, and every time the bass was at its height was when the high hat played, and you made drums super duper quiet. That made the track almost unlistenable for me because all I could focus on was that. It felt so out of place, and while it was an interesting idea I don't know if it really added to the track.
Mm... the drums right after that really fun part in Mortgaertalo (1:40-1:50, my favourite part of the entire tracklist) is really messy and honestly first struck me as nothing but noise. There's a shitton going on and none of it feels very cohesive at all, and it kinda killed the rest of the song for me.
Jupiter is good, I actually like it. No big complaints there.
Make sure that you're working towards a common theme in your work. It tends to make everything a little bit more cohesive, because that's the second biggest issue I had with your stuff - that a lot of it wasn't necessarily cohesive with the rest of what was going on.
Honestly there's not a lot I can say because I'm not sure what's intentional and what's not. All in all, you did a good job on this, but there are really little things that ended up being very distracting for me.
Surge was pretty good. The two notes you add after the first three on each period are reaaaaally distracting. It's clear they don't really fit into the melody very well and I think doing something similar to that is possible but the way you have it done is really distracting for me. Besides, that, no complaints.
You do a lot of really strange things with the bass. Like... I remember in one track, don't remember which it is, you had a sort of ebb and flow of straight bass and then drums going, and every time the bass was at its height was when the high hat played, and you made drums super duper quiet. That made the track almost unlistenable for me because all I could focus on was that. It felt so out of place, and while it was an interesting idea I don't know if it really added to the track.
Mm... the drums right after that really fun part in Mortgaertalo (1:40-1:50, my favourite part of the entire tracklist) is really messy and honestly first struck me as nothing but noise. There's a shitton going on and none of it feels very cohesive at all, and it kinda killed the rest of the song for me.
Jupiter is good, I actually like it. No big complaints there.
Make sure that you're working towards a common theme in your work. It tends to make everything a little bit more cohesive, because that's the second biggest issue I had with your stuff - that a lot of it wasn't necessarily cohesive with the rest of what was going on.
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