james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >On Sat, 16 Apr, 2005 at 05:45PM +1000, Shayne O'Connor spake thus: > > >>hi all >> >>this has taken me ages ... dog knows why ... ten years, in fact :) >> >>http://www.machinehasnoagenda.com/downloads/diggin_a_hole_-_final.ogg >>http://www.machinehasnoagenda.com/downloads/diggin_a_hole_-_final.mp3 >> >> >> >>first "verse" was written said ten years ago during a particularly >>scummy inner-city/amphetamine/paranoia period of my life ... second >>verse was just since i got it happening with linux audio (few months >>back) ... >> >>it used to be just the first verse and chorus, really ... since then >>i've dragged out the latent sonic youth-isms into the outro and given it >>some more interesting (i think) rhythmic melodies. >> >>i got this finished now so's i could rehearse it with the "band" on the >>weekend. >> >> >>i used hydrogen for the drums, and ardour to record all else (except >>that feedback you can hear floating over some of it - with two young >>kids around, i haven't found time or place to record pure feedback from >>my amp, so i got this from the Slayer 2 VST guitar plugin - it has >>astoundingly good feedback that you can control like well!). >> >>also, there's a bunch of ladspa plugins for reverb and tube preamp >>emulation on some parts (i've only just recently discovered the TAP >>Reverb Editor - wow, it rocks!) >> >>hope you all enjoy ... >> >>and now to check out the back issues of music made with linux :) >> >> > > > >Wow. Another great track. I need to listen to this a few dozen more >times, but my first thoughts are: this is really nice. I'd probably >tighten up the vocals, but then again it's obvious you were after that >particular sound. > > > actually, yr right about the vocals, even though they've got the general flavour i'm after - the only reason i didn't make sure they were absolutely nailed was my wife coming in after about 1000 times through trying to sing them properly to say: "Shayne, the landlord is next door, and i think he's a bit disturbed by this" ... (i was wearing earphones, so he only would've heard me singing "i'm gonna burn it down! burn it down etc") :D >The end is great, from the break. I love it. > >Again it reminds me of the pixies, with some little bits of (sorry) >status quo ;) > > > > is good company to be in ... except for the status quo, ha ha - nah, a *cross* between them *and* the pixies is fine ;) >I got very excited when I noticed that you had something else for us >to listen to, and I wasn't disappointed. > > > which reminds me - in my excitement of signing off on it, i forgot to send it to LAM (which, hopefully everyone here will migrate to eventually for music). cheers, as always, james ps - i'm gonna download yr song tomorrow and listen up - sorry, i haven't had time to scratch my bum lately, and my word does it need scratchin! shayne
