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Digital Romance


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New Romantic

 Genre: Electropop
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Here is my second song, the follow up to Metropolis. This song is more up beat than the last, but the theme is still on the dark side- your partner is out on the town and you're left alone with your computer.
The majority of tracks on here were done with the impOSCar- gated chords, hi hats, bass, arpeggios.
Once again any feedback would be greatly appreciated to help me take this song where it needs to go.
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Hits: 829
Comments: 6
Fans: 0
Plays: 72
Downloads: 74
Votes: 1
Uploaded: Apr 13, 2007 - 09:31:18 AM
Last Updated: Apr 13, 2007 - 09:31:18 AM Last Played: Apr 13, 2013 - 07:47:47 PM
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Hardware:
Macbook, Em-U X Board 49
Software:
Logic Express 7, Gforce impOSCar
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drakonis said 2234 days ago (April 13th, 2007)
Hmm....
Well, I must be honest and say that I liked your first one better. This on is "OK", but at least to me seems to suffer from a few things. Overall, it seems to just meander, and not have a strong direction or story. The drums seem a little too repetitive throughout, I was waiting for a refrain or something that would break the constant thumping. At about the 1/4 mark in, it sounded like the bass-line was a bar out of place from the melody, the harmonies sounded "wrong" to me for a few bars. I liked the high synth oriental-sounding melody line that shows up in the second half, but maybe that should show up earlier? Do some variations on it through the piece? I do hope these ideas are taken as helpful opinions... feel free to ignore them if they're not where you were intending to go with the piece. And I'd love any reciprocal critiques on any of my stuff if you get a chance (wink). I'm just learning all this stuff too.
ttfn,
Drakonis
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New Romantic said 2234 days ago (April 13th, 2007)
Critique
Thanks for the feedback Drak, that's why I posted the song here to help me resolve the issues I've been dealing with. I used an Apple drum loop for the drums, I'm still trying to figure out how to use drums without making them repetitive. Actually I'm considering purchasing the Stylus RMX software in the future.

As far as repetition goes I was hoping the lyrics would clear that up, sometimes I get too caught up on the melody and I feel it only complicates things. What's your view on this?

By the way, I've checked out a few of your songs a few days, nice stuff, love the electronic music!
Check out my latest song called 2 AM
drakonis said 2234 days ago (April 13th, 2007)
more ideas...
Well, as far as drums go, you can copy/paste/cut-up-and-edit the MJ drum loops, drag individual notes/hits around to alter them, to create new fills/transitions here and there, but of course it takes time. There are other drum-software things out there that might make this easier (like "Drums on Demand"), but I've not used any of them. I hand-edit my own drum loops/fills in a different program before I import the final composition into GB, myself... but mostly, drums are really hard, and I don't do them well, so don't listen to me :-)

As for melody, I'm a nut for strong melodies usually, I want my music to get stuck to the roof of your mouth so you sing it all day :-) So I don't see the melody getting in the way... instead I usually START with melodies, then fight for weeks trying to figure out the chords underneath them (since I don't have any music training). That's why it takes a long time between new things from me. I also like dark ambient non-melodic stuff sometimes, but I like it to evoke its own imagery.

Anyway, hope that is helpful.
ttfn,
Drakonis

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musichead said 2234 days ago (April 13th, 2007)
Just one
I have just one sugestion. Just a bit low end.
But other than that...its very well produced and written!!
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deus ex machina said 2232 days ago (April 14th, 2007)
vibin
I dont have much in the way of feedback but I wanted to tell you it kept me bumpin the whole time. It has an awesome vibe to it and i like the techno synth stuff, just my style.
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spruce said 2017 days ago (November 15th, 2007)
wow...
this is great. I love it. Reminds me a little of Felix Da Housecat - original but familiar.
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Electropop (also called Technopop) is a subgenre of synth pop music which flourished during the early 1980s, although the first recordings were made in the late 1970s. Numerous bands have carried on the electropop tradition into the 1990s and 2000s.

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