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Some recent down tempo tracks I haven't posted here yet:

All 128 bit .mp3

The Things You Take

5 mb
5:26 mins

Folly Ditch

6.7 mb
7:20 mins

Withdrawal

6.1 mb
6:36 mins

Back On The Hill

13 mb
14:15 mins

Thanks to all who have a listen!

Wow. Withdrawal and Folly Ditch are very well done.

They all sound great but those two are my favorites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wct9u6-kCY

I liked withdrawal the best. Thanks for the mp3's. I added them to my itunes

Just curious, which midi controller(s) do you use for Live?

Cheers guys!

I just use an Edirol PCR-M50 keyboard, which I actually dislike the feel of. I also have a Korg Pad Kontrol, but I've never used it.

Weird, glitchy, ambient, cool stuff. I like the background talking in The Things...

I'd have to agree Withdrawal is my fav too, nice bassline and drums in that.

Care to share what you use to make these, maybe how you go about writing your tunes? You've got a nice unique style, sparse without being boring or minimal.

Oh yeah, the out of phase stuff in Hill is a right head fuck.

Tarekith wrote:Weird, glitchy, ambient, cool stuff. I like the background talking in The Things...

I'd have to agree Withdrawal is my fav too, nice bassline and drums in that.

Care to share what you use to make these, maybe how you go about writing your tunes? You've got a nice unique style, sparse without being boring or minimal.

Oh yeah, the out of phase stuff in Hill is a right head fuck.

Thanks a lot Tarekith!

I tend to turn to many of the same basic tools/sounds when writing:

Trilogy
Pianoteq
Lounge Lizard
Stylus RMX
Guru
Battery
µTonic
Ethno Instrument
Twin
Minimonsta

I most often begin with a phrase/motif/progression on piano or epiano, then use RMX to see what kind of rhythm I want on it, move on to bass, then leads and other texture type sounds. I'll then usually do a lot more work on perc tracks, making variations and layering with other apps.

I use a lot of fx to treat the basic sounds and I like volume clip envelopes to glitch things up a bit. I record everything in session clips and then usually record an arrangement of clip launches then move over to arrangement view for fine tuning.

Anything you hear in the way of real world sounds would be field recordings I've made with my Zoom H4. The Things You Take, for instance, has recordings of me driving around in my car listening to the news (mostly high-passed for the mix, unfortunately, as it removes a lot of lovely car sounds) and picking up my daughter from ballet lessons (talking, muffled piano etc).

Fx almost always involves Sound Toys.

I use Altiverb on a return for reverb.

I like to throw an ssl compressor (waves) and an L3 on the master.

Thanks for the interest, hope that answers some questions.

Interesting man, honestly a lot more tools than I woudl have guessed by listening. Not that that's a bad thing mind you, just typically when people use that many tools in a song it tends to be a lot busier sounding, and you've definitely got a lot of space in your tracks. Makes me jealous in fact, my stuff always tends to be so filled up, sounds going off all over the spectrum

I just downloaded all the tracks.

I will take a listen later today

Very nicely done. Withdrawal is probably my favourite, due to the crispy, tight beats.

Tarekith wrote:Interesting man, honestly a lot more tools than I woudl have guessed by listening. Not that that's a bad thing mind you, just typically when people use that many tools in a song it tends to be a lot busier sounding, and you've definitely got a lot of space in your tracks. Makes me jealous in fact, my stuff always tends to be so filled up, sounds going off all over the spectrum

Thanks again Tarekith, appreciate the kind words!

Rogue Scrunt wrote:I just downloaded all the tracks.

I will take a listen later today

Cool man, cheers!

FurnitureFunk wrote:Very nicely done. Withdrawal is probably my favourite, due to the crispy, tight beats.

Thanks FurnitureFunk! I guess Withdrawal is the clear winner in this set.

I like the ambience of all the stereo noises.

Also, I really like Withdrawal -- the beats especially. Very chill.

dn83 wrote:I like the ambience of all the stereo noises.

dn83 wrote:Also, I really like Withdrawal -- the beats especially. Very chill.

Thanks dn!