AFX...[ish]
This trk is a definite nod to the past works of Aphex Twin, his ambient works, mixed with the double-bassline from a track on the Richard.D James album, with hints of the piano stylings found on his Drukgs album.
I liked the track, has a nice freeform element to it. I think there's too much verb on the piano and beats though, I would've liked to have heard the beats a bit more abrasive and cutting as the overall track feels a little dated sonically imo.
Mellow...
Quality piece of ambience. You should check out Music For Airports by Brian Eno if you don't know it, excellent ambient record.
I give this 8/10 as I think it could develop a little more and it needs some bass-end freq's running beneath it imo, some nice subby drones perhaps.
V.Nice work though.
KB
Wow thank you! Yeah I have listened to Music for Airports- that's what inspired me to make this. Awesome to get praise from you- I've checked out your stuff, It's fantastic being a radiohead fan (I find your styles somewhat similar.) I'll keep on working on this stuff probably.
Emotive...
Thanks for the link/download to this track, really good listening. It's a very visual piece, conjures up all sorts of imagery, as all good ambient music should. The pad sounds are very contradictory in my mind, in a good way. There's a glassy/icy cold feeling to the pads in the mid to higher frequencies and yet a noteable warmth in the sound too, perhaps thanks to the subtle bass frequencies giving your ears a little hug:).
Perhaps you could develop the track even further with some extra layers, maybe some deep sub-bassy pad elements or some fx/field-recordings and some extra synth layers. Whilst the track definitely conveys your mood I still think there's scope for creating a more evolving piece. At the drop out in the middle section around 4:30 it would seem a perfect opportunity to bring the track back in with a big flourish of extra layers, sounds and development to take the end to a big crescendo, but then again, perhaps adding to much and busying up the track may be detremental to it's emotive nature, it's a hard one to call, but maybe worth trying out?
KB
I actually had thought of going out to my classroom and record people walking by and mixing it into a subtle background atmosphere that could provide a certain sense of "insanity", "enlightenment", or other things depending on how the track is interrupted. 4:30 is exactly where I wanted it haha, but I am not skilled enough to develop such a layered 2nd part. I did not want to stop it there, however, because I wanted to create another soothing pad development. I also had problems making the right type of sounds that, as you said, wouldnt distract from the flow of the song.
I am creating an album currently that has a mix of ambient / jazz / classical. It is all about the journey of this man who falls in love with something/someone and comes to realize its all in his head. I have been slowly improving my ambient skills and was very happy to get such a great turn out from this one. I just need to add a bit more of a "spark".
Thanks a lot KB, your one of the guys I look up to here. :)
Very nice
I hear this track more as an Autumnal piece, the last few leaves falling from the trees. At first I thought I was in for another ambient track with wind n rain and 'the elements' motiv tagged on, but there was a lot more thought and quality execution of ideas throughout this track. It's very well arranged and has just enough going on throughout to maintain the ethereal mood. To me it had a similar refrain to that of Richard Skelton's 'Landings' album, mixed with hints of Eno & Budd's 'The Plateaux Of Mirrors'. As with a lot of ambience I find it ever so slightly over-long, the last 2 minutes don;t hold me as much as the rest, but still, great stuff.
Conjures very vivid imagery in my mind.
5'd.
Atmospheric
A good spacious feel to the mix, the clean percussive elements of the beats against the lofi synth sounds and big bass kick work nicely. I would say the bass part is perhaps a little too much and overpowers the other elements, but it doesn't damage the dynamics of the overall mix too badly. I really like the little synth melodies and off-key stabs combined with the arp. It has a feel of a dark soundtrack to a sci-fi movie. The vocal samples/overdubs are a nice touch, a little cliched, but they work well within the context of the track.
I would like to have heard some more elements perhaps, as in parts the track seems to labour a little, perhaps some more progression and a longer track in general to fully develop the ideas. I think the introduction of some really big upfront beats in a 'big-beat' style would really take it to the next level and some real erratic chopping up and resampling of the vocal sample spliced with some more growing synth melodies.
Overall a really good atmospheric track that has some great elements and ideas that could developed into a real dark and brooding piece.
KB
Lovely
Just Lovely:)
Nice
Cool to hear this on guitar, I never thought of translating this track across and have to say you've made it work really well. Look forward to hearing some additional layers to it too if you get the chance:)
Yeah it isn't exactly a song you would think to arrange for guitar, but the idea popped in my head yesterday and I was dead set on tabbing it out and figuring out the best way to play it. I originally played this on my classical guitar. It sounds best there but I was having trouble with my mic so I just went to electric guitar.
I'm definitely going to make a new version. I'm gunna try and add in some strange background noises like the original. I want it to be like an organic version, so no synths :)
space-stations and chattering robots
Nice depth of sound and spacious feel to the mix. The synths are big and warm and the production is solid. I think you could maybe have a slower development of the elements in the track to stretch out the dynamics a little and I was hoping for a longer track as I felt the end fade had a lovely chilled sound to it and could easily be developed into an ambient bridge section for the whole trk to mellow out then come back in even bigger. I really like the lead synth that comes in @ 0:55, maybe you could make more of this with some widening and panning elements to it with some automated distortion or phasing/flanging on it to bring it out of the mix a little more.
Beats are nice n punchy, if you do go on to develop the track it may be nice to really focus on the beats and bring some glitch/breaks elements to them, to mix the rhytmn up with those nice big synths floating about them.
Overall a cool track with loads of potential, that conjoures up images in my mind of space-stations and chattering robots:)
5's and I gave it 8/10 as I think there's plenty of room for development.
Great
Just the sort of ambience I like, just the right amount of mellow mixed with noise:)
I'm not lying when I say I was heavliy inspired by your ambient songs on this one :)
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