heh
Is that you singing? 0_0
Good work!
5/5
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Reviews for "Khuskan - Not Enough"
Khuskan responds:
No, I am a man, dude.
I'm gonna be honest with you...
I really have always been a fan of your work, and you lived up to your reputation in my book with this song. It's absolutely spectacular! You have a way with the piano, and those strings fit perfectly. The thunder was great, and so were the vocals! I personally suck at working with accapellas so I have to admire that.
I like that old record sound it had throughout the song, but gradually moved more towards the background, that was a very nice touch =)
Great work! 5'd and fav'd!
OCON
Khuskan responds:
Well to be fair, the vocals were made for the track, not the other way round, so all credit goes to Tamar for being bloody exccelent. She even has her own IMDB page :O
imdb.com/name/nm2659692/
The record sound doesn't intentionally get quieter, that's just one of the fabulous effects of the side chain 4 band compression system I used to emphasise the drums and melody.
Thanks for the 5s!
Not enough? More like... um...
You know you're my hero. We both know that.
That thunder made me look outside. >:(
But to be honest, this is professional. Professional like a pornstar. Who's been doing it for awhile. Yes. Porn. Mmm, porn.
Oh, right, song. I should probably say something about that.
QUIET PIANO, awesome drums... kinda sounds like SOMEONE COULD BE A MCAWESOME HIPHOPPER?! Seriously. Try your hand at it. From what I heard of this, it sounds like you could get something awesome going.
Her voice is beautiful. Tell her I told you that. Then get her number for me.
...please? :D
Anywho, there's definitely not enough Khuskan in mah life. FIX THAT SHIT, BOYO.
Fifen, of course. Download, and favorited... and now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for and that I've been stumbling towards in an ADD-sleep deprived haze of METHAMPHETAMINE AND ABSINTHE, HUFFING KITTENS AS WELL...
j00 GETZ A MCPERFECTBURGAH.
WIT TEH SPEFFLE SAUCE.
Khuskan responds:
Hip-hop? Almost.
I love the backing music to a lot of hip-hop tracks, but I'm not much of a rap fan. That's why I went the trip-hop loop. I've gone into more depth in another review (NOT BECAUSE I DON'T LOVE YOU SOLUS, BUT BECAUSE I RESPONDED TO THAT FIRST) so give it a read if you get the chance.
Thanks :D
Nice
It was well made and the vocals were a nice added bonus.
Greeksta
Nice use of texture
I love how you used touches of compression and subtle eq'd reverb decay on the drum samples. The vinylizer you ran on the samples also helped knock off a lot of that "OMFG PROGRAMMED" sound the various fruity loops faggots seem to have.
The track still sounds extremely keyboard driven to me, however, and the vocals sound a little over wrought (yeah, I fucking said it. OVERWROUGHT. The american idol style is NOT to be emulated; it's to be ridiculed) For example, I couldn't hear the supposed "guitar track" in the mix, either because I'm deaf, OR because the guitar sounded EXACTLY like a key board, which I consider a bad thing.
This is still a fucking excellent track though, no doubt. And that's coming from a guy who is definitely not a fan of the whole "soulful ballad" concept.
Khuskan responds:
Well that's awesome, because I didn't use FL, giving me an excuse not to make it sound like FL, and this is an awesome review in that it gives me a bit more time to explain the track, style, etc for the sake of people who have likely never heard this sort of music before - i.e. anyone outside the UK.
The track was written for a big college project, in which we had to closely emulate any style we wish. We got free choice over what style we could do, however, we get more points depending on how close to the style your track is when completed.
The style you're hearing here is called Trip-Hop. It's a sort of ambient acid jazz originating from south-west England, around the Bristol area, and started off with key bands such as Massive Attack and Portishead in the early 90s. It was extremely keyboard and loop driven and almost all have a breathy female vocalist.
I'm not one for using loops, so apart from the very subtle guitar which I recorded and looped myself (you can hear it most after the end of the first chorus, about four bars into the middle 8), everything here is sequenced, but written in a way that adds the essence of what sampled music is. Everything flawlessly loops, there isn't much variation in any of the individual loops and the grungalizer (which you sort of correctly recognized as a vinylizer, though I've never heard it called that before) was used to not only cover up loop imperfections but to add another little bit of depth.
I didn't have as much time to work with my Vocalist as I would have liked, but when compared to Massive Attack and Portisheads tracks, the vocals seem more or less spot on to me.
Oh and trust me, that isn't a touch of compression, the whole track is compressed to the drums - another trip-hop sound, but it creates such a subtle boost that it's perfectly enjoyable :D
Thanks for the review.