Reviews for -=LJC=- Tribute

[Buoy]

Tribute...

tribute to what?

The one thing I don't understand with IDM, glitch and similar genres is how you manage to push in so many random sounds into such few seconds of music...

The start is pretty awesome, could've turned into something really awesome experimental sound art if you went even more experimental with it. This is some crazy shite already though :D

The bass seems to be the only thing that keeps the song melodic- except for the piano-ish thing, but it's only there half of the time. Which is awesome :P

def and totle download

LJCoffee responds:

Thanks SBB,

"tribute to what?"
I dunno - I guess it seemed right at the time - still does I s'poze - I drew influence from a few of my fav. artists here on NG - and to be honest I'm not sure if you can hear any difference or not but I was thinking it at the time so I guess that vaildates it :)

"The one thing I don't understand with IDM, glitch and similar genres is how you manage to push in so many random sounds into such few seconds of music..."

It might sound that way I guess, but a lot of my stuff is much simpler than you might think. Often, I use polyrythms to make it seem like there's more going on than there actually is.

- An experiment you can try at home :)
create a few loops - use midi or dump wav's or whatever...

loop 1 - sparse rythm 4/4 time 2 bars
bass, snare and maybe a crash

loop 2 - heavily syncopated 5/4 3 bars
hats and a tom or two

loop 3 - 3/4 rythm with swing 5 bars
more hats and another bass - maybe abother snare for good measure

Now add them all in on top of each other for 16 bars or so and play it back... Neat huh? I'll bet it sounds VERY intricate but there really isn't anything incredibly difficult going on.

Now go back and change some of the timbres of your drums to whatever you want - screeches, yelps, scratches and twists...

Add a pint of vodka, shake gently and dump out your new wav. Now dump out another two or three variations, start chopping clips up - rearranging things where you think it might sound cool,
rinse and repeat as necessary.

Oh yeah the most important thing
- ignore everything I've said -
most of the time I don't know what the hell I'm talking about anyways :D

[snoballandthmonyshot]

hush, it's lush

yes old man,

nice to hear you took my advice and made a real life tune. just listened through, you noes i love it. some beautiful moments of keycangedom that tickled my fancy. drums aren't too shabby either.
respec

;ped

oh btw, sounded a tad murkey, not enough high end :P

LJCoffee responds:

I will gladly accept your respec and give you a bigup in return.

I was really hoping that I would get a chance to tickle something with my keycangedom and your fancy will do nicely.

Glad you liked it - you were one of the people that I took a little inspiration from - I just listened to all of your stuff and promised myself I would never make such shite.
heh heh.. :P

[pitbulljones]

Ohhhh very good opening

loved that opening, thought for a second where it was going then, that bass (line) kick, came in and i thought 'Oh Yessssss!'

Lots of proverbial pots and pans being chucked about in this tune, thats your beat arrangement im on about, really off kilter, but freaking awesome.

It's quite an intensely moody and dark track, be absolutely terrible to hear hungover or coming down. great for a night out tho.

I think the main melodic synth may be a lil quiet compared to the beats, seems to be fighting for attention but its a minor gripe.

The production is spot on, full of musical energy and dynamism, pans are right, sound choice is bang on, like i said earlier that synth is desperately fighting for some space, it's either a case of rolling some of that bass off, or pushing it more into the mix. awesome tho.

5/5 mate.

pitters

LJCoffee responds:

Thanks for the review! There are, as you've mentioned, a few issues with levels - I'm blaming headphones for that. I still have not quite yet learned how to compensate for what I think I hear through cans.

I made two mistakes on this one, I created it using headphones, tweaked things and then only ran it through externals for a few quick adjustments - almost always a mintake.

The second has more to do with compression. I usually apply a bit of compression to certain elements as well as a little medium compression to the master bus - with this one I bounced everything and then cut it up a little to create the stutters and repeats here and there. By doing that, I compressed everything during the bounce and then it all got recompressed during the export.

That may be why certain instruments feel like they're fighting for freq space and/or why the volume levels are off a bit.

Thanks again - let me know when you have some new stuff up.

[wolf-tech]

niceeeee.

the bass line was really catchy and the electronic sounding synths are a nice touch. sounds like it would fit in a game. keep up the good work. ttyl

Wolf

LJCoffee responds:

I'm glad to hear that you liked it. If you can get another nine hundred thousand people to listen to it as well then I might have a chance at selling a CD some time :D

Thanks!

[HybrisHybrid]

very unique

I like the beat. Weird sounds in rhythm... wow. Very cool. The bass line sinks so perfectly into the track. Its one that you don't need to hear, because you feel it. Thats the best kind of bass line.

When phones are dialed on Earth, I think this song is what what entities in parallel universes hear.

Truly some crazy sounds were put into this with some strange method of organization. Its really hard to review this but I was glad to see LJC on the top 5 so I had to drop a comment. This song needs to go in a trippy flash. I think I might try and do that.

I hope I don't have to stuff like this to have a career in music because I can't even begin to grasp how you put this together. The organization and variation mix up so perfectly. I've been listening for a while, and although the bassline is pretty repetiive, I can't remember hearing the same pattern twice and I know the song must have looped at least 4 or 5 times by now. How? Mind blowing... my mind is blown.

Good one LJ, keep them coming.
-hybrieoufdalhfda

LJCoffee responds:

:D

Let's see, "phones are dialed...parallel universes hear" that was great!

As far as having to "do stuff like this to have a career in music" - Don't worry at all about that, just look at my music career - ha ha - apparently doinf stuff like this is a pre-requisite for not ever having anything that resembles a career or fans XD

I really enjoyed your review.

Thanks again!