80s Style Dance Track

InterDimensional

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Hi Folks,

This is a little 80s-music influenced dance track that I put together in GarageBand 2. I'm working on getting a decent microphone and recording a vocal track but it's just synth, samples and loops for now.

I'm posting it here specifically for feedback, so please let me know what you think and what I could do to make it better.

Thanks for listening!

Be excellent to each other and party on Dudes!
- Bill and Ted

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Song Stats

Hits: 810
Comments: 4
Fans: 0
Plays: 131
Downloads: 38
Votes: 2
Uploaded: Dec 06, 2005 - 03:36:18 PM
Last Updated: Dec 06, 2005 - 02:59:41 PM Last Played: Aug 07, 2009 - 05:55:17 PM

Song License

Creative Commons License:
Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial

Song Actions

Keywords:

80s (37), Dance (609), Synth (308)

Hardware:

Mac G4, M-Audio 61es MIDI keyboard

Software:

GarageBand 2

Comments

rover101	rover101 said 1449 days ago (December 7th, 2005)
	Needs that lyric fun, but seriously repetitive, even for dance music Check out my latest song called Call My Baby Rover

dane

dane said 1448 days ago (December 8th, 2005)

i like where its going.
vocals will certainly help make this track stronger. also, maybe see if
you could infuse the track with some gritty analog processing. i'm sure
there's a way to to do that in garageband, maybe use the multi-band
compressor or filter or something on the master track. just something
so the production sounds a little less sterile. also, i really like the hi-
hat on the choruses, but maybe consider using a more "retro" sounding
snare. if you need some inspiration, go to the itunes music store, and
listen to clips from the band "yaz".

i think its a solid foundation for a good final project. id like to the hear
the final version when its finished.

peace
dane

Check out my latest song called Dear Airplane (sinking stone mix)

	InterDimensional said 1448 days ago (December 8th, 2005)
	I am in your debt. Thank you so much, Dane, for your thoughtful and constructive feedback. Your words are both helpful and encouraging. Peace to you, and wishes for many magical musical journeys! Check out my latest song called 80s Style Dance Track

zach.B said 1353 days ago (March 13th, 2006)

Great Rhythm - Needs strong melody line.
I won't say that this song is amateurish - it's not. The musical transitions are very strong in places. I recognize most of these as canned GarageBand loops, though, and I wonder if this song wouldn't really benefit from some non-looped melody line.

Basically it's good rhythm track (which actually buys you a little leeway when it comes to the repetitiveness also commented on here) and it needs a strong melody on top.

(See the issue is that in absence of a separate melody line, the looped synth ends up basically becoming the melody to your ear. Since it's looped so many times, it seems like it's a repetitive melody.)

You mention a vocal track - that may do the trick but if lack of a mic is holding you back, you might try playing a synth lead over the whole song. Some rich pads or chords would be a nice addition too, since the rest of the song is kind of staccato, for lack of a better word, and the contrast would be nice.

I echo Dane's sentiment above when he says that he'd love to hear the final project when it's finished.

Good luck!

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Name: Interdimensional Music

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Electronic dance music is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. Such music was originally borne of and popularized via regional nightclub scene

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