Polyslax - Down Tempo Jazzy Trip Hoppy Feel

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:11 am

Guess I'll start individual track threads rather than the one unwieldy thread I was using.

Your Umbrella

128 bit .mp3
7.2 mb
7:51 mins

Comments welcome.

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:37 am

Not sure I would say this is jazzy, but a nice chill tune none the less. A bit tooo mellow for me personally, but only barely

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:19 pm

Tarekith wrote:Not sure I would say this is jazzy, but a nice chill tune none the less. A bit tooo mellow for me personally, but only barely

Hey thanks for the listen Tarekith!

j0shu@ · Post by **j0shu@** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:12 am

nice man. it is very slow and chill, but there are certainly times for that.

one thing i would change would be the bass tone and cut it a little shorter, bring the trumpet thing in earlier.

i dig tho!

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:07 am

Thanks J0shu@! I appreciate the feedback.

Brittney Sparse · Post by **Brittney Sparse** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:35 pm

Nice. I just love the atmospherics. The crackly stuff happening around the audible edges is nice too. The Rhodes-y thing is great. And just the right amount of off-notes ot be unsettling. Works for me!

even · Post by **even** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:52 pm

about 15 seconds in and i'm loving this. thios shit is beautiful man. plenty of subtle little things going on in the back, just the way i like it. this never gets dull.

really amazing piece of work and it's not even halfway in the song.

anymore tunes like this i could check out?

and any info on how this tune came to be that you'd like to share? (production and inspiration wise)

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:44 am

Brittney Sparse wrote:Nice. I just love the atmospherics. The crackly stuff happening around the audible edges is nice too. The Rhodes-y thing is great. And just the right amount of off-notes ot be unsettling. Works for me!

Brittney, 'preciate it brutha, cheers!

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:40 am

even wrote:about 15 seconds in and i'm loving this. thios shit is beautiful man. plenty of subtle little things going on in the back, just the way i like it. this never gets dull.

really amazing piece of work and it's not even halfway in the song.

anymore tunes like this i could check out?

and any info on how this tune came to be that you'd like to share? (production and inspiration wise)

even - glad you're diggin it, thanks for the nice comments!

Check my sig for more tracks, virtually all down tempo. Some other recent ones with a bit of a similar feel might be:

Toadstone
Essence Of
Tetrabiblos

Production wise, this track uses:
Lounge Lizard for the EP, doubled with one being run through PSP84.

String Studio for the bass, with a little Sonalksis compression.

String Studio for the main weird instrument in the back. It's actually what I originally played for the bass part, much less sparse than the final, pitched it up an octave and ran it through Grain Delay and PSP608.

For the drums I took a loop from Stylus RMX and made 7 different loops out of it. Lots of enveloping in Live, I think a touch of Beat Repeat. Other than that the main effect was Lucifer.

I didn't have a proper Jazzy trumpet sample, so I actually used one from Garritan Personal Orchestra. Doubled it down an octave and ran the pitch shifted one through Tassman's Crumb effect.

EQ is by Eqium on all the tracks. I normally run Ozone on the master, and in fact I've never done this before but I ran the whole thing through PSP Vintage Warmer, just on light tape compression.