I like Dead Animal Guts better as a name than Azure Wave but that's probably just me. Girls will probably be more prone to going to a live show by a guy named Azure Wave; Dead Animal Guts sounds like it would be a crustpunk show.

You've got some interesting sounds going on. I feel like with more time, more songs, and more experimentation, you'll do a better job of integrating and balancing the electronic and acoustic elements of your music. You have some interesting tendencies on both fronts: your acoustic guitar stuff has some decent songwriting and good melodies, and your electronic stuff has some interesting textures. Both have a lot of delicacy and atmosphere. I think if you worked on mixing both your simpler songwriting tendencies and your textural electronic beat tendencies, you will end up with some really moody, subtle, engaging music.

Do you play live or are you planning to in the not-so-distant future? If so, how do you envision that happening? Guitar and laptop or a small sampler or something along those lines? I think you could do some cool shit with live guitar playing and a sampler or laptop running the electronic elements, and your vocal work running through the laptop/sampler for effects, since you seem to use a lot of effects on your voice.

Also, I want to post this here because I feel like this duo might give you some good ideas on ways to incorporate electronic elements into low-key singer-songwriter type music.

https://soundcloud.com/looms-music/homesick

op here. thank you so much for your input! yeah honestly im not sure about azure wave either. i guess the name is temporary. i checked out homesick. its a pretty chill song. my main problem with producing music is my damn hard to use recording program that i have on my comp. but i usually just use garage band on my iphone. when i first started making music i used to use garage band on the mac which was, imo, the best and easiest recording program to use. im a dummy so i dont know how to use lots of the features in magix music maker 2013.

but anyway making music is fun and now that i finally have some awesome input, i now know where to focus and what to work on more!

https://soundcloud.com/gunsandsynths/rejoice

if ya like hip hop vibe stuff :3.... https://soundcloud.com/amartifact

Since I heard about Terror Pigeon through Rich Aucoin, you might enjoy his work if you haven't heard it already, OP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljiWYQYjutw

Music like >>1792 ?
Mash up remixes but more LSD less MDMA also preferably laid back

Also http://religiousgirls.bandcamp.com/
Kinda like cult ritual sounding stuff. Idk, what is this kind of music even called?

>>2055
Oh btw thanks for the rec ill have to check them out more when I'm not on my phone

have you seen that band live, op?

>>2075
No but a new album is coming out soon by them so I'm hoping to catch them. I havent been listening that long but i loved it on first listen.Have you seen em live? Keep an eye out. They are just "Terror Pigeon" now

  GEMS

  Goddamned beautiful. Better than Honeysuckle Aeons for sure, maybe as good as the absolutely mind-blowing Baalstorm[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u_TkKOOifQ

I was expecting so much more from them after the wildly experimental Revelations[...] and the more streamlined but still drenched in atmosphere journey that was Demonoir. I kinda almost wanted them to go the path Mayhem or DsO took, but with their own, unique brand of rifftastic chaos.

It's still a perfectly enjoyable slab of contemporary black metal, but not much more. Like a sedated Hellfire. Sigh.

Also embed doesn't seem to work.

Godflesh and Aphex Twin released new albums the same month after the same amounth of inactive years (13).

They're both very, very good albums. They're also both incredibly disappointing.

  The saddest song.

  this

>>2011
That could be said about basically any Townes van Zandt song.

Tecumseh Valley, oh my god, it hurts my soul. Lump in the throat every time.

  test

  >>2014

Definitely. I find his more personal songs (like The Hole) harder hitting though. Nothin' just manages to elicit some complete sense of emptiness whenever I listen to it, I don't think I have ever heard a song that manages to do the same.

Anyway, Hank Williams.

>cinematic metal
I facepalmed so hard my palm lines are now permanently tattooed to my retinas. Just pick a random epic orchestral OST form a high-profile hollywood drama/action film and have Malmsteen ejaculate all over it. There. Isn't that pretty much ÜBER EPIC MELODIC SYMPHONIC POWER METHUL already? Cinematic?? Pretentious wankers.

Power Metal is entirely enclosed into five albums, released between 1983 and 1988 by just the two musical projects. Everything that came afterwards is the exact same shit again and again, only in an ever increasingly watered down, overtly overproduced way, chock full of faux epic singing about faux epic themes while guitar wankage and critical levels of keyboard cheesiness ensue.

Melodic Symphonic Power Metal? Fuck off. There's a name for that: Wankcore.



...but hey, that's just, like, my opinion, man.

>>2032
You're funny.

But isn't this faux epic singing about faux epic themes while guitar wankage and critical levels of keyboard cheesiness ensue exactly what we expect when listening to Power Metal? I mean if the modern-day Power Metal composers simple perturbate/permutate/entropyate the old masters, why shouldn't we enjoy that too? I know that's exactly the reason why I listen to bands like Rhapsody and Pathfinder.

Cinematic metal - or whatever you want to call it - seems to be Turilli's neoclassical approach to Power Metal. Nothing wrong with that, he's just experimenting.

Have another album cover.

>>2033
a) I'm not saying you shouldn't enjoy it. That was just my feelings towards the genre.

b) A neoclassical approach to Power Metal is hardly experimental, original or even clever.

c) "But isn't this [...] exactly what we expect when listening to Power Metal?" My point was that what passes for Power Metal today is a caricature of what once was. Unlike most metal subgenres, Power Metal stopped evolving five or six years into its existence and just became more and more a parody of itself. That's what I meant by all that.

But anyway.

>>2034
My point is that a music genre, subgenre or simply a band should not have the need to evolve. I've seen a few/a lot of good bands evolve into much worse music than they originally were. A recent example of this is Hammerfall: their last album sounded way more commercial and by consequence somewhat bland and plain. Thank god they are now on hiatus.

But of course, there are also bands that do evolve regardless of whether their evolved style is a global evolution into better/more varied music.

I don't really know where I'm going with this, but in my opinion once a band has established a certain style of music, I expect all of their music to be in that same style. Also, labeling music is hard and should not be taken seriously.

Fuckin' sick radio! I know what i'm going to be bumping on the way home from work/school! How much does a rig like this cost?

>>1771
>>1772

The service I'm using is free. They inject ads into my radio, and as long as I get a certain amount of listeners on average, my account remains active. They do revenue sharing too, but I haven't made anything from that.

So really the only cost was buying the domain name http://www.hammerheadradio.com and having to purchase music for the station (gotta be legal yo!).

>>1784
Why not every Wotansday?

Today is Thor's Day!

So my radio is playing all viking/folk metal.

Plenty of Ensiferum and Eluveiti to go around.

Speaking of metal, I recently started to listening...yeah, I know...deathcore. It sounds horrible, and I can't do it for long, but I feel really good doing it too. It's a huge ego boost for some reason. I feel super confident on it. It's like the flooding of negative stimuli like death and pain and torture and filthy sex and associating it with pleasant music desensitises me to my worldy anxieties. I see a psychologist and psychiatrist regularly and perhaps it's just my fucked up mind making the connections but I think deathcore could be the new exposure therapy. Start with Postmortem Promises which I currently like and work your work on from there. Ps, I still don't know what the lyrics are for anything I've heard, but the album art is what is disgusting.

>>2001
http://lyrics.iztok.org/lyrics/270100

>>2002
it's not listed there

>>2003
You might want to clarify the name of the song then. I thought it was that one, and that the line you can't hear was just the last line repeated over and over.

>>2004
That's the right song I don't think they include that part in the lyrics

>>2007
Then it's most likely a chopped up phrase altered in studio not meant to make any sense.

  I don't know what "techno trance" is, but that sounds more like dark ambient to me. If you like that kind of thing, you may fancy Demdike Stare.

>>1972
Demdike Stare
Haxan Cloak
Lustmorde
Forest Swords
Andy Stott
The whole Modern Love roster

>>1959
Yeah, the fact that his list included Thee Oh Sees should have been the tip off. Damn good psychedelic noisey garage rock, but definitely not anything remotely new.

yeah i was confused, and also high. I thought this was a "nothing good is released anymore" thread. Sorry.

I will say that The Botanist is innovative and new, Black metal with a dulcimer.
Antwon still stands - the track "tramp on a jumpoleen" that's crust crunk, and thats new.

And i still contend that Lil B has been a defining influence on hip hop, even if he is an amalgamation of lil jon's repetitivety and Lil Wayn'es ignance, his entire career was created on twitter and youtube, he is the biggest of the myspace rappers.

I don't know how to embed bandcamp.

https://antwon.bandcamp.com/track/tramp-on-a-jumpaleen-feat-dog-leather-produced-by-dog-leather

>innovative [...] Black metal with a dulcimer.
...have you ever listened to folk black?

www.soundcloud.com/jackandtheripper

i feel like these guys are really pushing the envelope towards finding something rare and new. it sounds like a a mixture of everything thats happened in the last 4 years. the first album delves into a genre im pretty sure will eventually exist and take off to become part of the mainstream culture. but not for at least another 6 more years. i would consider them pioneers. second album is more mature tad safer sounding wise but way more pristine. they are looking for something else by sailing through and skipping between genres. i feel the second one is a great mix between acoustic and electric driven. it reminds me of a weird hi fi bjm but at the same time nothing to do with it. i dont know you should def check these guys out.

>>1968
Where they from, boy?

>>1790
Actually old videos.

  >>1790
Okay, riddle me this.. Which category does this video fit into??

>>1801
Old video used with retro intentions by contemporary authors. Pretty simple stuff.

  funkadelic.

  no gay shit please

I like it, but the biggest tip: humanize it. Make every repeating sound slightly different. The looping creepy vocal, make it change position, phase, volume, and/or timing slightly as the song progresses. The tings and tangs, make them not so robotic and digital. Overall I love the use of melody and its a gloomy intermission that keeps almost climaxing but never does. It's so torturous but that makes it good. The way it's timed wouldn't catch onto mainstream stuff as it's too difficult, again this makes it good music. The background vocal texture if used behind a trap or dubstep beat would be an instant hit. Both are targets

>>319
By both, I mean both use as-is and use as a background melody to a more "accessible" mainstream sound.

It's pretty cool. I don't know if it necessarily needs to be "humanized" but a little more variety in texture would definitely be nice. Plus it could use either some EQ tweaking or a good master because some of the highs went beyond crisp and became piercing. I went to your soundcloud too and that's really the only criticism I have there as well: those highs is too damn shrill sometimes, it wears on me.

Other than that, you have a great ear for sounds and composition. Your songs are generally well balanced. I'm not usually one for the ultra-crisp, ultra-clear digital sound, generally preferring a little more texture but I'm digging the cold feel you have going on here. Despite the generally cold production, you tracks still have a charming character.

On your demo for Krishna, you kind of hint at the textural variety that I'm craving with some of your percussion, especially the handclaps toward the latter half. Oxygen as well has a warmer, rawer feel, probably because of the field recording in the background. Loving the tribal feel on that, as well as the way it builds as different elements are introduced. I was never sure where it was going, if it was going to stay as an ambient piece or move into banging beat territory or first one then the other. Great track.

You create tracks with great depth, and a lot of variety from track to track while still maintaining a pretty unified aesthetic. Nice incorporation of elements of different genres as well, nothing is overdone or feels shoehorned in, it's all distinct, yet it all makes sense together too. Interesting melodies, nice balance of beat-oriented pieces and ambient pieces, great use of reverb (especially on Krishna).

So yeah, for Texas in a Lexus and most of your other stuff, my only criticism is take those highs down a bit, and maybe look into ways you can use compression and filter effects to get a little more variety in texture.

Fuck, just realized this thread is like a year old.

>>1889

no shame. everybody finds things at their own pace

About half the time, I use a Tascam 414 but when I use the computer, it's Reaper for multitracking and sometimes Audacity for trimming the occasional sample that I can't get to loop smoothly.

Everybody who mentioned sound quality is a bullshitter. All modern DAWs sound virtually the same.

>not one person has mentioned Pro Tools
>you still call yourselves Engineers

>hope no-one's calling themselves 'professional'

Pro Tools master race reporting in

(USER LIKES JAM ON THEIR TOAST)

>>326
No one here has called themselves an engineer. The title of the board is audio engineering, yes, and every piece of software here is audio engineering software. And this is clearly a board for hobbyists, no one has even hinted at being a professional.

Also:
>greentext quoting things no one actually said
>using that "x master race reporting in" BS
>treating this thread like a contest instead of a place to discuss which programs you find most conducive to creativity
>being an asshole on a board with a long history of helpful sharing

Fl studio and cubase weren't intuitive enough for me, Proteus was too simple and magix music maker was kind of awful.
I use ableton live, it's by far the best for visual learners in my opinion.

>>1810
I meant "wide" as in there are a ton of artists in each of those respective subgenres. I'm familiar with chiptunes, not generally a fan of freakfolk, and have friends into circuit bending. Once again, I posted this thread because I am interested in recommendations from individuals here, and discussion of specific artists.

  See how good a version of this you can play on the sk-5 OP.

>>1813
That would be super fun. With a reverb pedal, a low-pass filter, a multi-phrase looper of some kind (RC-30 or something), and some creative sampling with the SK-5's sample pads, I think a really fun take on this could be made. Doing it on the fly would obviously be extremely difficult, but recording it layer by layer could yield some cool results.

  Small Black with an SK-5.

>>1936
I could not agree more. A good live-looping act is really fun to watch/listen to.

I recently got a Boss RC-3 from Craigslist and I cannot think of a better tool for generating strange melodic ideas.

Why does everyone have to post this at least once every month

If the music I listen to was meant to have rain in it, it would have rain in it.

  >>1917
Tons of ambient music, chilled out instrumental hip hop, mellow electronic music and so on.

who?

SAGE has been used.

>>1593
That wasn't bad. Give us a review when you get it and give it a few listens OP.

I hadn't heard of that band, but that video has won my heart. The music isn't fantastic in my opinion but the video is so nice it somehow makes the music better. Thank you for this thread. I've been listening to Ode To The Bouncer on repeat for the past hour.

  oh. my. god. Thank you OP. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.

  The USA Is A Monster - Florida (from their album Space Programs, 2008)

http://www.discogs.com/USA-Is-A-Monster-Space-Programs/master/402173


All you had to do was google the lyrics.

Handsonic HPD-20

>>311
That's the one! Thanks! :)

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/05/hands-on-with-korgs/

Apparently they're all going to be under $150USD, which was surprising to me. I'm not nearly enough of a gear junkie to go out and buy one of these even at that price, but if I was just starting out and looking for affordable hardware or one of those people who fetishizes analog gear, this would be a decent option. They seem very limited as stand-alone "grooveboxes"," not a lot of variety of sonic character and the drums sound pretty weak. But for supplemental synth or drum machine sounds or just having analog gear for dirt cheap they seem like a good option, especially considering that a Moog Slim Phatty will run you $850 and a Dave Smith Tempest will run you like $2k.

Here's three totally SUGOI videos with Tatsuya Takahashi who's totally MOE! :3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhh_YMnKuVA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxKC9jhuA3k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL6bLrxLz5U

>>300
http://www.youtube.com/v/MLhVBtIB8rA

Don't fall into a bliss coma over this beauty, please:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lScjx9lADI

meh