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Many years ago, my English-speaking friends started to call me "Fernie" for short, and I liked it enough to use it as my name. I just don't even bother come up with a funny/creative alias for myself. I like my name, and I wouldn't try to define my identity through something funny or clever. I like ...

So this is the result of the last couple of months of work.

It's only one track out of a planned six, but it's already something. I suspect that was the most difficult track to write, anyway, as it serves as a sort of prelude for what's about to come.

drillkicker wrote:(...) a friend of mine, when talking about one of the tracks from Exai, described it as "the big clunky one." I still don't know which one he was thinking of.

All of them?

(but seriously, I'd wager on "recks on". Those drums do have a big, clunky feel)

For me, even as a child growing up in the 80s, I drew futuristic cars and rockets (not necessarily ones I would own), wanted to be an astronaut, learning was exciting because the future was bright.
Fast forward to today and yes, it's a cliche and a generalisation, but kids seem to want a quick ...

Where are the airhorns?

It's been two months, and I think I managed to overcome my concerns. I think most of my worries came from a very disproportionate internal pressure to produce and make progress, and fear of not getting things right. When we're afraid of our own capabilities, I think even the most minor problems can ...

Smokes Quantity.

I may have said this elsewhere but the thing with Cage wasnt as simple as 'hurr im copyrighting silence' it was that the timing of it was 4 minutes 33 or 273 seconds... -273 degrees C being Absolute Zero - hence the silence.

I've never heard about that connection. It is known that Cage often used ...

Rodheh wrote:At least it is a good track. It's BoC's "Creep", but nevertheless a good track.

Funny; for me, it's more like BoC's "Paranoid Android".

It's difficult to make relevant citicism based on a few paragraphs which are basically long descriptions of vague settings, but if you're pulling that off without much serious training, then you're on a good track. A few specific lines feel a bit perfunctory, but it works as the start of something ...

I am ok with those results.

drillkicker wrote:These results just keep getting shittier. This is an even bigger disappointment than Garden Of Delete.

Fuckin' opinions, how do they work?

Olson is the only single track among those that I don't consider godlike.

I always racked my brain for examples every time I saw this thread, but never came up with anything. But just now, I remembered this: Junia, by the Banda Black Rio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8J2sBBVq_U

In spite of my limited knowledge, I feel this may be the single most beautiful recording ...

Unless I'm mishearing, Track 3 is made of two or three samples being triggered over a bed of... another sample? I'm pretty sure layering like that (with melodies even!) HAD to have been done before BoC

I know it's a long shot, but I think you could go back to Fripp & Eno's experiments with ...

That's a pretty illuminating interview. It's interesting to see how the game came out as something put together rather randomly, because that's exactly how Minecraft is. It also annoys me that other sandbox games seem to be drawing on that influence way too heavily; Starbound is an excellent game ...

I really admire your effort to try to work out this stuff on your own. Still, those transcriptions look very much like the result of someone trying to work out that stuff on his own.

The first thing you should do is start using key signatures. Having all those redundant accidentals on the sheet ...

Rush ain't really a rock out group (with some exceptions, e.g. The Analog Kid, Animate, Far Cry), that's not what makes them good. They don't play as if they had something to prove. They know they're good, and I guess that's what disappoints/frustrates some people. When they try too hard to rock (e ...

So we're talking about Rush, and I'm going to make my "controversial" comment here: Clockwork Angels is their best album ever

I mean, when I look at their "golden" era (circa Hemispheres - Moving Pictures et al), their records are good, but they function more as a collection of great tracks (with a ...

I just made the upgrade. Aside from having to reinstall graphics and audio drivers, things went smoothly, and everything seems to be in order.