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| Slave To The Rhythm w/Bampot! by RubyDubidoux | 2 years ago |
| Oh WOW you guys, this is so good and wonderful! You've made my day and maybe I'll be able to get through this silly report I'm working on now that I have something so great to listen to!!! Elaine, I really, really love your voice. Your timbre is really great!! And Colin is such a wonderful person to work with — get him to do something for you with the really clean guitar chops that he does and it will be like going to heaven. Oo, oo, oo, I can't wait to hear your next track!!!! Chella : )) |
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| Dirty Love [Chella Elaine Vocal Version] by artneuro | 3 years ago |
| It's been a pleasure working with you on this one Art! Chella : )) |
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| Tight Jeans by RubyDubidoux | 3 years ago |
| Elaine I just love your voice in this track. The delivery is so ... fun/ny ... You've got that wonderfully understated way of putting things which is essential when asking headless male strippers to bend over. And Mick! ... what a beutiful slinky guitar sound to accompany all the truth in advertising. I'm gonna put this on my iPod and take a walk down to the climbing gym. Chella : ))) |
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| Fat Dub [Bampot Mix] by pharmakeus | 3 years ago |
| I do love this song and thank you to everyone who has dropped in for a listen. I think this is one of Chris' best songs. It's complex and beautiful like its writer. For a singer there's an incredible array of ideas and feelings to empathise with and we recorded it a few times before we felt we got it right -- or as right as these things can ever be. This is also the song on which I learnt to do back-up vocals, so its kinda special for me in that way. And we are sooooo so very lucky that Col has worked his magic on this remix. Col is amazing and reckons he knocked this baby over in about two hours. Sometimes the man just smokes under all that hair and we get these explosions of amazing creativity. Thanks Col! We also need to thank Tony Wheeler who plays saxophone on this mix. Tony still hasn't heard a mix 'cause we've been really slack and not sent him one, but I'm going to send him the link so he can see what we've been up to. When we release the track as a single -- which may happen sooner than later now that Colin has produced this lovely remix for us -- Tony's sax lines will appear in the original radio mix that Art has created. The mix that Art has finalised is a little different to the mix that appears on the Coelacanth site as we've fiddled with things here and there. In addition to creating another wonderful explosion of creative genius, Art also dealt with both Chris and my wanting to redo lots of things which I'm sure drives Art nuts, but this is what happens when people care about what they do. Anyways, we may have the artwork for this release finished soon so the project will be finished, and we'll let ya' all know when that happens. Chella : ) |
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| Six Days on the Road [live band; cvr] by Bob6stringer | 3 years ago |
| And what a wonderful six days they are! It's raining in Sydney and I have a vitamin D deficiency so I am going to listen to this as I go off to sleep tonight ... 'cause its a happy swanky little number with lots of sunny guitaring. Chella : ) |
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| Slave To The Rhythm [Art Neuromantic Mix] [COVER] by artneuro | 3 years ago |
| Thank you everyone for your fabulous comments ... but, oh gee ... Art, there are some spots in this where my pitch is really very bad. And I'm always amazed at how we don't pick them up when we're recording. But I think your guitaring ... in addition to being extremely and really wonderfully fabulous ... is covering most of it. Chella X ps. Can we do a film clip for this over christmas? I'm picturing all white backdrop and a series of silly outfits with equally silly props after a few drinks. Given that I genuinely am a slave to my job, I really do need some sort of event at which I can wear all my different shoes at once. |
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| Pandora's Box by pharmakeus | 3 years ago |
| Chris, this is really beautiful. I really liked Lyndon Tree - it sort of had the same feel - but this song is much better and more ... moody ... and the guitaring across the verses is just perfect. It slides beautifully like the mood of the song. Chella : ) |
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| HALCYON DAYS by Bampot | 3 years ago |
| Oh guys! Wow! I know I'm gonna have such a good day now listening to this. Rinca this is wonderful! I love what you've done and its amazing to hear it, especially as I've listened to Col's wonderful arrangement more than 200 times. You have such a lovely voice! And don't you just love those little guitar chops of Col's. They are so perfect! Chella : ) |
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| How Many More Times [Led Zep Cover] by artneuro | 3 years ago |
| Oh wow guys! This is really amazing. I agree with Julian. Dave's voice is much better than Robert Plant's. It's much richer. If you were to take it out in public, young woman would probably through their nickers at you Dave. And Art's arrangements! Wow they are so amazing too. Luuuuurrrrrve the bass and the sitar thing. Nothing wrong with a bit of 'World' lads. Love it, love it, love it! Chella : ) |
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| Home For Two [A Voight-Kampff Test] by artneuro | 3 years ago |
| I'm so glad you put this one up! I'd forgotten how much I used to enjoy this song ... and the bass is really wonderful! It grundles right along with that lovely melody over the top. You've certainly got scripts on the brain at the moment!! ; ) Chella |
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| THE TASTE OF LIFE by Bampot | 3 years ago |
| Aside from the great vocals and production, what I really love about this track is the fact that its a school teacher singing it — an evil fact if you really think hard about it. Mr Factman, after listening to this, I find myself suddenly fascinated by the thought of what the state of your curriculum is. It's a thought that's kind of scary but exciting at the same time. Love the guitars Bamps! |
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| The 7th Bestowal by Justin_Case | 4 years ago |
| Justin, this is really very beautiful. It's a lovely composition and Andreas and Ursula have made it wonderfully ethereal. I enjoyed this very much! Chella : ) | |
| Curse of the Common Man by BossHook | 4 years ago |
| Oh my ... those guitars! Can I have your babies? ... no, no, it's OK. I'll just go home and listen to some Steely Dan and I'll settle right down. Chella ; ) |
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| Pony The Orangutan by artneuro | 4 years ago |
| You need to be really careful with this song Rinca, 'cause its got a really contagious hook line. The subject matter is horrible and Art hasn't been delicate with the details. I was in a meeting last week and the lines 'Pony the orangutan, she gives you more pleasure than a human woman can' kept going through my mind while we were meant to be discussing reasonably serious things. It was worse than sitting there and thinking about what your clients might look like naked. Chella |
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| Scattering by letileti | 4 years ago |
| This is just beautiful! And as good as anything Portishead has ever put out. I wasn't keen on the spoken section when it first kicked in, but when it dissolves into the more whispered delivery, the phrasing is really beautiful. And the arrangment is so sparse and perfect! Very difficult to do well, but very very nice here! Congratulions!!! I'm really looking forward to the download! Chella : ) |
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| The Canyon Dwellers by Coelacanth | 4 years ago |
| Oh guys, thank you so much for your comments. And special thanks to Justin for all his support throughout this year. Its wonderful to know there are such good human beings out there in the world! As Art says 'It's been a costly year', but once we have a little break, I'm sure we'll be bouncing back and ready to launch the sodding album that was meant to be finished last year. Thanks dirigent for always dropping in, thanks Bernie for your encouragement and thanks Julian -- what can we say? -- you are so good!!! Thanks KC, we'll pass your regards onto Pharm and thank you Dylan for always saying such nice things about our project. Now that the workload in my other life is easing off a little, I hope we may be able to find some time to sing a song together. And if I don't get to catch up with you all before the silly season really begins, I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season! Chella : ) xx |
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| Parachute Blues by MusicLeft | 4 years ago |
| My most favourite band in the whole wide world is Steeley Dan and this piece has much of that wonderful 'cool' and sunny sound that I love. Wonderful! Wonderfl! Wonderfl! | |
| Astronaughty (For US Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak) by Coelacanth | 4 years ago |
| Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments. This is a song that we have all grown to care for very much. It's not just about Lisa Nowak of course, its also about the American media and they way they invent 'evidence' in criminal cases like this to make the story more entertaining. The whole astronaught in space thing became a wonderful metaphor for people who end up isolated and alone. Art wrote this song, and while I liked it when he first played it to me, I've become very fond of it since then. It's also one of the few songs we've done where I only took one session to lay down all the vocal tracks. We had lots of technical problems with the guitars however, but in the end Pharm came up with these strange scratchy sounds that run through the chorus -- like static over a communications system -- and a wonderfully haunting hormonica line for the instrumental section. Art's bass in the last verse however is a real treat. When I was interstate recently, I used to hum the base line while I was walking to catch the bus. Thanks again to you all for dropping in, Chella : ) |
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| Without A Warning (Graziella's song) by Dyl | 4 years ago |
| Dylan, this is very, very beautiful. I really love the timbre of your voice in this piece against the instruments. Your phrasing is wonderful -- warm and generous. A fascinating story that held me captive from start to finish. Chella : ) | |
| LOVE & TEARS by Bampot | 4 years ago |
| Thank you everyone for your very kind comments and BIG BIG BIG thanks to the amazing Bam -- what a guy! what a sound! what a happy day it was when he heard Chris Crocker and became the architect of this work!!! Also BIG BIG BIG thanks to Art Neuro who did the vocal recording and was instrumental in the last minute brainstorm to finish off the lyrics -- he's so quick and clever! Chella : ) XX |
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| My Conundrum by Coelacanth | 4 years ago |
| Thank you Justin, it took us ages to get that bridge to work and there are parts of it I'd still like to redo, but I think that would drive Art completely round the twist. Now I know you're being wonderfully cryptic here about the cowboy, but my wit doesn't work that way and sadly I could never avoid seeing cowboys as they are part of my work ... I see them once, I see them twice and then I see them again tomorrow. I couldn't avoid them if I wanted to. There are just so many things to do with dwindling oil resources! But I find that's OK, because I have wonderful friends and I get to see them everyday as well. They are my rock ..... 'n roll. Chella : ) |
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| Turning Wheel of Science by Coelacanth | 4 years ago |
| Oh no Justin ... does this mean we're having our first fight? Chella : ) x | |
| Silly Love Songs [Wings Cover] by artneuro | 4 years ago |
| What kind of whack? .... I have decided not to treat this as a rhetorical question. It is the same kind of whack who lets Adrien Belew strum away in a little cocktail mixed up with 'little looks' from Ditta von Teese while smoking a bubble pipe. Now I know that Art was not actually smoking a bubble pipe during the production of this number ... but he could have been given the end result. You would have thought that people had had enough of silly covers. But clearly we have not. |
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| Silly Love Songs [Wings Cover] by artneuro | 4 years ago |
| I love it when you sing in drag! Chella : ) | |
| My Conundrum by Coelacanth | 4 years ago |
| Mikee, thank you so much for sharing this! I have to confess that I listen to this one quite a lot too ... even though I am singing the damn thing ... and I still think I'm singing flat in a lot of places at the opening. But despite that, it's just such a good song. I remember the night when the 'evolution' of Conundrum started. Art, and our drummer at the time Henry, just started pumping away with this amazing bass riff and big thumping drum sound ... and we all really liked it. The energy was very contagious. Pharmakeus then started putting together lyrics for it ... something about big red lobsters, which at the time seemed really silly to me. Pharm later explained that red lobsters are the symbol that appears on the coat of arms for the Vatican ... so the song was originally about something to do with the Catholic Church. Anyhow, that idea got discarded thankfully. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was in the news at the time, and a week or so later Pharm arrives with these very different lyrics, for which I shall be forever grateful. Two decades later, we have a song that seems more poignant now than it did then. We did this song live a few times and a lot of people liked it. So much so, that someone carved the words 'death is my conundrum' into a wooden table top in the beer garden at one of the student hang-outs at Sydney University. Ah, they were heady days. Chella |
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| My Conundrum by Coelacanth | 4 years ago |
| Thanks JILLB, Teddy and Made for your comments. And thank you also to Mikee, Pink and Itis, Barretok, K6 and Vegetal. I can't wait to get back to Sydney to start work on the graphics fot this one ... it's amazing what can be done with images of death and devastation. Will keep you posted on the future of this 'happy' little number. Chella |
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| My Conundrum by Coelacanth | 4 years ago |
| Dylan, thank you very much for your kind words. I'm a big fan of your work too ... as are my other thirds. Art has been working on a new Conundrum mix. We've taken on board the suggestions that 55, Illuminator, FE and Julian have made and its made a big difference. Thank you again. Chella : ) |
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| My Conundrum by Coelacanth | 4 years ago |
| Thanks everyone for your suggestions and compliments. Art, Pharm and me really appreciate them. They're really helpfull when we're trying to finalise a mix/song we've been working on for so long and heard so many times. We've had a hell of a time with this one and we still have a little way to go. So, thank you again ... and if there is anything else, please feel free to tell us as we really want to nail this one well and good. This is one of our old songs and was written not long after the Exxon Valdez oil spill that trashed a whole lot of towns and animals. I just love this song and feel very lucky to be working with two really great song writers and musicians -- who I probably don't say that to enough. Chella : ) |
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| My Girlfriend is a Video Game Character by Loopboy | 4 years ago |
 I really love this concept! I like the mood swings in the composition. I can't see anything sad about the idea, its honest and that's always a good basis for a song. I really enjoyed listening to this! Chella |
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| HOCUS POKUS by blueprintorchestra | 4 years ago |
Yep. Long live prog rock. |
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| Taking Crude Mountain (by Sophistry) - mastered by Tim N by Coelacanth | 4 years ago |
| Thank you itisiwotitis and Barretok. Barretok, it could be because the song *is* contentious.  But at least it's being heard. |
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| Taking Crude Mountain By Sophistry by Coelacanth | 5 years ago |
| Thanks Barrtok and avonbrandt! We laughed ourselves silly recording this one; little did we know the pain awaiting us in the mix. |
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| Afromazda by Coelacanth | 5 years ago |
| Thank you kindly itiswotitis. We can't figure out why people don't comment either. The silence has been defeaning, but also really disappointing. So once agian, thank you for taking your time to listen and also for the very nice comment. - Art | |
| Shrunken Head by Coelacanth | 6 years ago |
| Hi Narrowgate, thanks for the high praise. We truly appreciate it. Also, thank you Aircraft for at rating it. Some feedback is better than none. |
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| The Birth of Tragedy by Coelacanth | 6 years ago |
| Thank you Slothsmolder for dropping in for a listen and giving it such a high rating. It is enromous praise indeed for such a pithy piece. The remark about censorship was merely a pithy sentiment in line with the pithy song. | |
