This initially had started out as my attempt to do a basic electronica track - I sort of failed miserably at this. (Like most music I program, it ultimately begins to sound like 'not electronica' by the end, for better or worse.)
The re-recording…
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! excellent sounds and instruments mix; all the cultures of this planet in 3 minutes, perfect to send on a interplanetary voyage
Alternate name: The Post-Mortem Pitchman
We live in an age nowadays where a celebrity can endorse a product or service long after they meet with the proverbial reaper.
Has anybody bothered to ask the dead guy if he wants to endorse half…
Also, I definitely recommend checking out the Gormenghast novels if you have some time on your hands. They could be described as "fantasy novels", set in a medieval castle lost to time... but they have a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd and a sort of social commentary perhaps informed by the search for meaning after the horrors of World War II.
That part at the beginning reminds me of my friend who is an excellent saxophonist. In our college bands he had a few parts that were wild like that and really threw himself into them.
I'm really enjoying the album. You make great sounds, and melodies out of them! Congrats on another RPM finished!
Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
Trademark dreamy, alluring sounds from AMUC. Excellent album, guys! Every track sounds like a cityscape from underwater - sometimes edgy, sometimes sunny, but always cool, refreshing and totally original.
Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
Really enjoyed this - not my usual kind of thing at all, but there's something in it that grabbed my attention. I'll check some more of your stuff out.
Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
Sometimes it's easier to run with the flawed routines we're familiar with than to turn over a new leaf..
Compare to "Firecracker" and "Livewire" from RPM 2010 and 2009 respectively.
It's said that we're neurologically set to be the happiest as children - everything is at its most vibrant when we're young, and every experience is new.
As adults, a lot of that vibrance is lost, but just as autumn comes around with all its…
This RPM Challenge album had a bit of a ying-yang vibe to it. Compare "Marbles" to "Constellations" and "Fisher In The Sky" to "Tied By The Lies".
This wasn't planned - it just sort of happened.
It's kind of funny how you can intend to create electronica, and then end up blindly wandering into a different sub-genre. The end result almost sounds like it wanted to be stoner rock.
For more on the song title, look up "Ganzfeld Effect…
It's kind of funny how you can intend to create electronica, and then end up blindly wandering into a different sub-genre. The end result almost sounds like it wanted to be stoner rock.
For more on the song title, look up "Ganzfeld Effect…
This is probably the least electronic-sounding of everything that I did from RPM 2010, although it still heavily uses samples (either self-sampled or from Freesound).
That is me playing the harmonica, though. (No, really!)
If the song makes…
The most challenging track to record during the RPM Challenge this year. I like how a lot of it turned out, but there were so many clashing pieces, that I was pulling my hair out trying to assemble it.
"Dagger's Blade" from the RPM Challenge Album "Dearly Beloved" by the band Doll Butcher. A blend of rock and electronic music, this song is about the introvert's struggle.
"Deal Breaker" from the RPM Challenge Album "Dearly Beloved" by the band Doll Butcher. A blend of rock, metal and electronic music, this song is a father's perspective during a military attack in which he realizes his family will become refugees.
Hanging on my closet, I have a sticker for Narraganset beer and a mock-road-sign reading "Dystopia" with an arrow pointing both directions. The juxtaposition was unintentional, but I decided I liked it.
The Dystopia name works here. It sounds like the sort of song that would play the first day after the end of the world in some eight bit chip-tune reality. It's kind of bittersweet.
Modern Language is Lucid Optics on rhymes and Museum on production. This song is from the Ok Txt Me EP. Read more here: http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/modern-language-ok-txt-me
The second part of the new album "Space".
The songs are:
Barrel of a Gun
Afterlife
Somewhere South
The Walking Dead
Thanks for listening. More to come . . .
I'm digging whatever song it is that's playing around six minute mark here. I like the way the melody flutters around unexpectedly. It would be nice if the album was divided up song by song. (Easier to navigate that way.)
I like the minimalism of this. You do a lot with a very simple synthesizer. This is the sort of thing I could envision playing over a shortwave radio in the middle of the night, announcing the commencement of a number station or something.
This is the sort of thing that I would set on a time delay to begin playing while I'm already asleep. I could see it subtly interacting with my dreams and sending them in interesting directions.
This is fantastic - the lyrics are thought out very well and interweave nicely with the synthesizers. You're totally right - it has an 80s vibe to it. (Maybe late 80s / early 90s.)
Comments on AMUC's stuff
Nice off beat feel to this, quite haunting and strange. Like it.
I know that fence. Liking these beckoning beats!
This track does it for me , totally excellent , love the percussion , love everything
Very nicely produced track , dripping with so many tasty sounds , love it
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! excellent sounds and instruments mix; all the cultures of this planet in 3 minutes, perfect to send on a interplanetary voyage
Awesome synth! Nice!
Also, I definitely recommend checking out the Gormenghast novels if you have some time on your hands. They could be described as "fantasy novels", set in a medieval castle lost to time... but they have a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd and a sort of social commentary perhaps informed by the search for meaning after the horrors of World War II.
That part at the beginning reminds me of my friend who is an excellent saxophonist. In our college bands he had a few parts that were wild like that and really threw himself into them. I'm really enjoying the album. You make great sounds, and melodies out of them! Congrats on another RPM finished!
Trademark dreamy, alluring sounds from AMUC. Excellent album, guys! Every track sounds like a cityscape from underwater - sometimes edgy, sometimes sunny, but always cool, refreshing and totally original.
Just listened to the whole thing. Terrific album. Great job this year!
Really enjoyed this - not my usual kind of thing at all, but there's something in it that grabbed my attention. I'll check some more of your stuff out.
Great work on the album. It took me places that I didn't expect, and which I greatly enjoyed being taken to. Serious congratulations are in order.
interesting trip
I really like this... outstanding job :)
Nice!
fascinating to listen to. took me off somewhere that
love the sounds ur getting..
Fantastic!
yes this is neat neat stuff ,, much enjoyed.
nice!!
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I remember Circles -- this is a nice 'slight return' of the melody from it.
I'm blown away by the sound production here. (And the vocals are pretty darn good as well.)
This is one of my favorites off the album. The lyrics are colorful.
I'm digging this album - just the little morsel-sized audio capsule of 'wake-up' that I needed.
I'm digging the instrumentation on this one - it's very lush. You really get sucked right into it.
I'm digging this - it's catchy. It has an 'Arabian Nights' sort of vibe to it.
Catchy little ditty. I'm digging the vocals. The album art? Is that a reference to The Quiet Earth? That was the first thing that came to mind.
The Dystopia name works here. It sounds like the sort of song that would play the first day after the end of the world in some eight bit chip-tune reality. It's kind of bittersweet.
I like melodic twists and turns this one takes. It has an off-kilter/unsettling sort of atmosphere to it.
This has a nice crunch to it. The sound production on it is top notch as well (and louder rock is not easy to mix at all.)
Ha - naturally a song like this comes on when I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to replace the blinds on my window. The lyrics fit the task perfectly.
Nice - reminds me of Black Sabbath or Count Raven.
This is fantastic -- I like the interplay between the rapping and the sung choruses.
I really liked this one. Very relaxing - it helped me to unwind.
I'm digging whatever song it is that's playing around six minute mark here. I like the way the melody flutters around unexpectedly. It would be nice if the album was divided up song by song. (Easier to navigate that way.)
I like the minimalism of this. You do a lot with a very simple synthesizer. This is the sort of thing I could envision playing over a shortwave radio in the middle of the night, announcing the commencement of a number station or something.
I'm digging some of the sound effects you're making here. Was that an FFT-style synthesizer you were using at the very beginning?
This is the sort of thing that I would set on a time delay to begin playing while I'm already asleep. I could see it subtly interacting with my dreams and sending them in interesting directions.
Ha! A swimming pool of espresso sounds really good right about now. =)
This is fantastic - the lyrics are thought out very well and interweave nicely with the synthesizers. You're totally right - it has an 80s vibe to it. (Maybe late 80s / early 90s.)