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Polyslax - Down Tempo Jazzy Trip Hoppy Feel
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:11 am
by polyslax
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.
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:37 am
by Tarekith
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
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 5:19 pm
by polyslax
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!
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:12 am
by j0shu@
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!
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:07 am
by polyslax
Thanks J0shu@! I appreciate the feedback.
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:35 pm
by Brittney Sparse
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!
Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:52 pm
by even
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)
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:44 am
by polyslax
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!
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:40 am
by polyslax
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.