Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
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Song of the Month Club - November
What is the Song of the Month Club?
It's a place where musicians come to give and receive feedback on their work. Anyone is welcome, whatever their level of ability.
The spirit of the club is to contribute: if you submit a song for others to comment on, you should also have the courtesy to listen to everyone else's contributions and give as much feedback as possible. Posting a track and not listening and commenting on others is not cool.
The purpose of feedback is to be honest. Essentially you should give your truthful impressions of the song, whether good or bad. Negative feedback, if done in the right spirit and with courtesy, is often the most useful and can help the artist to grow and improve.
All submissions are welcome, don't hesitate if you want to contribute. Instrumentals are very welcome, and songs with vocals are especially encouraged, so if you are thinking of experimenting with vocals this is a good place to get started.
Comments
SoundCloud account:
https://soundcloud.com/song-of-the-month-club
Entries for the month:
Matt_Fletcher_2000 - Swiftly:
https://m.soundcloud.com/matt-fletcher-2000/swiftly
Simon Acetone - Wilful Misrepresentation Of The Truth:
https://m.soundcloud.com/simonacetone/simon-acetone-wilful
gburks - No Fear To Bleed:]
touchconspiracy - The Infinity flames project demo
https://m.soundcloud.com/touchandcreate-com/the-infinity-flames-project
NoiseHorse - Fall Downbeat:
https://m.soundcloud.com/heimie-andthe-spelunkers/fall-downbeat
LostBoy85 - Aim to please:
https://m.soundcloud.com/leo-b-5/aim-to-please-1-5
Igneous1 - Catalan Box:
https://m.soundcloud.com/formbank/catalan-box
richard yot - Buzzards:
https://m.soundcloud.com/richardyot/auriapro-buzzards
mrufino - Greyer Than at Shutterwax
https://m.soundcloud.com/mrufino1/greyer-than-at-shutterwax
Matt_Fletcher_2000 - Sliding Into Tomorrow
https://m.soundcloud.com/matt-fletcher-2000/sliding-into-tomorrow
JeffChasteen - Kabuki Makeup Syndrome
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-404172643-656437977/kabuki-makeup-syndrome
monzo - Meat Based Snack
https://m.soundcloud.com/horse-gas/meat-based-snack
Bluepunk - So what
https://m.soundcloud.com/mptyofeverything/so-what
BvsMV - The Lights Go Passing By
https://m.soundcloud.com/bvsmv/the-lights-go-passing-by
rkmonkey - she (devil)
https://m.soundcloud.com/rkmonkey1/she-devil-1
Jocphone - disappointment life such crash twinset more upset roar
https://m.soundcloud.com/jocphone/disappointment-life-such-crash-twinset-more-upset-roar
Jocphone - disappointment life such crash twinset more upset roar (vocal mix)
https://m.soundcloud.com/jocphone/audiomasterdisappointment-life
JohnnyGoodyear - Just Passing Through
https://m.soundcloud.com/johnnygoodyear/just-passing-through
Here's goes then.
This was made with MultiTrack Studio
Animoog (two patches), Patterning (pants of death ambient kit), Drum Jam bongos and electro kit and a seriously mashed up and reversed Urdu, Sunrizer bass chords (courtesy of a BM Moore patch).
Supposed to be in the same set as Occular and Vegas Slowed Down from last month...
@Matt_Fletcher_2000
Another great track. Somehow complex and understated at the same time. Great vibe and melody. On my third listen. Very professional sound.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 very nice, I really like the melodic motif that you used, just the right blend of repetition and variation. It's a subtle evolving track, I prefer this kind of chilled out vibe to the drum and bass stuff.
(edit) I think it's probably my favourite track of yours so far - I'm a sucker for a pretty melody.
I very much like the main chordal figure and its great to hear some imaginative drum / percussives too. However, the timing is a bit 'loose' in parts and the song doesn't build that significantly to me.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 Very strategic of you Mister Fletcher. Your game theory is strong. Post early while we critics are still young and fresh, still full of hope
This is lovely. Either late at night, neon skylines and all, or the white light of a desert floor at midday. Doesn't rise or fall too much which is why I think of it cinemagraphically, no beginning or end, and -as ever- I wish there were some sad or sultry vocals, even a distant chorus or choir of some kind, but I like the movie. Very mellow and wistful, a good combination.
Haha! Alright then chaps and chapesses! This is NOT my finished track for the month.
This is me stepping up to last months threads "Walkman and a Ukelele" challenge!:D
Ok,so no Walkman, but this is a worts and all,super rough,one take demo of my future Nov/Dec track where I attempt to play a real life instrument and sing directly into audioshare!! Haha! It was a good laugh!
It's just two verses/two choruses for now as I haven't written a middle 8 yet.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000
Hands down my favourite track of yours mate! Really,really good!:D
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 Beautiful. Like end credits to a major (or upscale indie) motion picture kind of beautiful. It's like you captured a very specific flavor of wistful optimism in a bittersweet world that just about any listener can instantly latch onto.
I'm usually with Mr. Goodyear and others regarding the more songs w/vocals, less instrumentals mantra, but in this case, you get a pass. I wouldn't change a thing.
@LostBoy85 thanks for posting your demo up. Sure it's not as practiced as your usual posts but it has a great feel already. You should seriously think about rehearsing the ukelele part and including that in at least part of your final track.
Thanks @Jocphone. Well,I literally saw u guys having a laugh about how someone should post a uke track and as the weathers shit here at the mo and I was stuck in,I literally just went for it! Yeah,it's just supposed to be rough mate:) man,I have issues changing from "D" to "EM"!!:D The uke sounds a bit too harsh for a finished track imo.
Still,it was just supposed to be fun:)
This forum has been a lot of help to me recently, so I guess I should throw my hat in the ring here for the first time...
"If anymore of those young people riot, we must help them. So, we will use water cannon, and we will use the police"
BTW, This one is, erm, somewhat more political than a lot of my stuff...! The music was mainly done in Gadget, then all the individual parts imported into Cubasis, added a few bits and tweaked up the production and arrangement. The vocal is my mate improvising a skit as a deranged Tory MP, which I then had to heavily edit into something vaguely coherent!
Tremendously awesome with 110 extra house marks just for doing it. Music can become a bit too overthought and serious when it's also quite capable of being silly and fun and of the moment. So, well done you.
AND you have a song here, of course. Not a 100 per cent sure about the lyrics, but then we've all got our own toast.
Looking forward to the full bells, whistles and wardrobes version, whereupon we shall inevitably gather in secret around the invisible water-cooler and mutter how, yeah, it's perfect, but did you hear his original? Back in the day? so authentic though....
@Simon_Acetone
Welcome aboard dude! I gave yours a couple of listens & I really liked it.I thought you had some good variety of beats/sounds going on.I especially liked when u went off at 3.15!:) very cool! So who was the sample? I liked what u did with it,u didn't mash it up within an inch of its life.Maybe it's just a bit long but that's all I've got in terms of critique.
Well done dude!
Hey @LostBoy85 I like the tune but I even more like your voice. Costello's overtones which scores very highly in my book. Haven't heard your other stuff but you should definitely develop further. Gift of a great timbre is a special one, I think.
Welcome to The Club Simon, hat well thrown.
I liked this. My guess is that I would have been hit a bit harder by its intent if it had been four minutes as opposed to six, but then I have a notoriously short attention span.
Can't say the Tory MP sounded particularly deranged. The thing that makes this effective (from the polemical point of view) is that it's really not so very far from the double-speak we have become altogether too used to from most politicians (irrespective of their affiliated stripe).
I did think that the vocal effects/sound might have been yet more effective if they had been delivered as smoothly and creamily as possible, but for all of that towards the end the sound you get is very akin to a thoroughly believable human Dalek. Robot overlords indeed....
@JohnnyGoodyear ah,thanks man!:) its a shame your not feeling the lyrics,it's supposed to be a bit silly in places and I actually wrote it about a good buddy of mine (funny story) who I worked with in Tenerife when I was in my early twenties.We were both working in a Boyband tribute act called "Boys R Us"!!!:D (he pauses..to let that sink in...winces a bit...ok,move on man,maybe they didn't notice:D ) anyway this dude was a super hit with the ladies but also completely clueless and some of the shit he got away with...or not in this case...:)
Thanks @Supadom,nice to see u back on the thread dude.
@LostBoy85 voice is great as always. Playing is cool. "Your mom's a cougar" Awesome.
@Simon_Acetone excellent track. Thoughtfully assembled. I am going to dream "we will use water cannons, we will use the police" love the break at 3:50.
Instantly took me back to a track from one of my all time favourite albums @Simon_Acetone
Completely different song but featuring the Emperor Tory Dalek, I think you'll see the connection..
@LostBoy85 very very good, it's really great to hear an actual performance, and also the stripped down instrumentation suits the track and gives your voice some room to breathe. You should do this every month.
I will have to take points away for not using a Walkman though. You gain some back for the watch however.
@Simon_Acetone I really like the music in your track, really nice choice of sounds and great synth riffs. Less keen on the spoken word as it detracts from the pure musical enjoyment - much as I agree with the message, I prefer the tune as a tune, and the tune is really good.
We had riots in London last night, it feels like the 80s and early 90s again, with a hated tory government sending the country to hell in handcart and people expressing their rage in the streets.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000 What a beautiful, peaceful tune. I really liked Vegas & Occular from last month & Swiftly has easily joined that "set" you've created Octobers went together like fish n chips. I will add some vinegar to that as the 3 compliment each other very well.
I listened last night before bed & again this morning. A perfect song to both unwind & wake up to. Wonderful, serene sounds with a calming effect on the soul. The rhythm section do a great job of caressing your song along its path & im looking forward to a 4th instalment joining your trio of wonderful songs.
Thanks @JohnnyGoodyear, glad you like it! I've been using 'deranged' as a kind of shortcut to describe it to people - but your description is much more on the money!
The 'Dalek' effect was intentional but almost everyone who's heard it has mentioned it so I'm wondering if I overdid it and should tone it down a bit? But, perhaps not, because as Johnny alludes to, the intention was to make these people sound like they're not human...
Thanks @LostBoy85!!
The vocal isn't a sample, it's an original recording of a friend of mine, recorded in my front room with an AKG mic. He's really good at improvising, so I just hit record and let him go!
So, the vocal may not SOUND mashed-up, but it's heavily edited - cutting out words and phrases that weren't working to make something coherent. I then added a variety of effects to it.
Thanks @richardyot!
I live in London too so know exactly what you're talking about - and it's why the message in the vocal is what it is!
For quite a while the track was a pure instrumental, but I think the vocal adds to it.... Maybe I should do a dub version for people who are not so keen on vocals...
@LostBoy85 that's the thing. You could have a full blown orchestra behind you or just you & your voice. Your songs have that feel to them. At home in front of a packed Wembley Arena or around a camp fire with a few friends (& your guitar or ukulele). Looking forward to the finished track but in this form (naked) it proves how great your voice & songwriting skills are.
I can only imagine the fun you had in your boy band tribute act in Tenerife. Lots of material to scribe some future songs about I'm sure!
Thanks @rkmonkey!
Plenty more here:
https://soundcloud.com/simonacetone
Everything on there is 100% iOS, apart from three really old tracks at the bottom of the page... I have lots more material that's not made it to SC yet for one reason or another, be that it's not quite finished or there's something I'm not quite happy with yet...
@Matt_Fletcher_2000: Smooth, very smooth and well-produced - enjoyed it a lot.
@LostBoy85: Your voice is really good and I think a more polished version of the song is well worth pursuing.
@Simon_Acetone: Like the Kraftwerk type sounds and the general idea. Not a big fan of politics though. The track did seem to go on a bit too long - just like most politicians, I guess!