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| The Seventh Seal (Forever Night) by Surak | 1 month ago |
 not my usual style, but dang, do i like it. intense! |
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| The Dream Resumes by signorina_oscurata | 1 month ago |
| they're sort of supposed to be diverting and disconcerting. the whole thing-- it's supposed to be uncomfortable and not-entirely-conscious-- like something expensive and metallic rumbling around in a washing machine. am *I* making sense? and yes, you grasped the vocals entirely! like ghosts. like things struggling to fit on one side of the line or another, and hovering someplace in between, entirely discontented. to clarify, i don't feel this way often. but i do sometimes. i feel like these days, i'm treating my music as a filing system for my emotions, as if in giving sentiments melodies and jangly upsetting percussion lines, i can tag them for the purposes of future feeling. or box them up and push them away. you know? |
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| MIDI test by signorina_oscurata | 1 month ago |
| no kidding, pete... i wish! | |
| Tous Les Mers by signorina_oscurata | 2 months ago |
| la pierre = stone... Pierre = peter. French has a nasty way of making a bunch of words that sound the same all mean different things (and frequently, be spelled differently). such, for example, as the past participle of the verb 'to be' and the word for summer... also, weirdly, disconcertingly, many of the more complicated verb tenses sound the same spoken aloud, and it's only on paper that they seem different, and while, then, my spoken French SEEMS quite good, and i can hold a conversation about Satrian existentialism with any old French dude, my writing is sometimes unintelligible. BUT. mystery solved, i hope? (and thanks for the great review!) |
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| Your Heart by signorina_oscurata | 4 months ago |
| my gosh, thank you~ | |
| X-F i l e s: Theme Song by Mikee | 5 months ago |
| i love this! the geek in me is rolling over and dying of happiness. |
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| Where Did I Go Wrong? by amateurpro | 5 months ago |
this is wonderful! i love it. it's sad and happy and beautiful, and the chords totally make me think of the pink dawn after a long storm. i don't know why. |
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| I WANTA LOVE YOU lapskin 8bit filter (NOT FINISHED ITS FOR EAR TESTING) by Lapskin | 5 months ago |
| quite like it. here's a song for the active listener, the participant. i like how you diverge from the vocal sample, then change tack a little, then bring it back once you've reached a different place in the song. | |
| pale blue haiku by Justin_Case | 5 months ago |
| which is not a word. | |
| pale blue haiku by Justin_Case | 5 months ago |
| love it. favoriting. | |
| Ride it Out ( mixless) by livelargemusic | 6 months ago |
| i love your voice! the more there is of it, the better in this song. and re: the lyrics-- don't i ever know exactly what you mean. |
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| Stop War - In Pace by dirigent | 6 months ago |
| your voice reminds me of a particularly moving experience i had... on a gray day while standing outside of a relatively small, moss-covered, but ornately carven cathedral in the country town of saint-lys in france. it was close to noon, and i was with a very good (french) friend. we stood by the front facade as mass came to a close, and the choir inside took up a last hymn-- the noise was muffled, coming through the walls, but the voices were so pure, strong, and full of feeling and conviction. they sung beautifully, like you. you could be one of them, easily! | |
| Three Christmas Motets by dirigent | 6 months ago |
frightful pretty  ... wish I had as much control over my vocal chords!the harmonies in this are not the canned, pasteurized, and expected. beautiful dissonance. if they did this sort of thing at mass, you bet i'd go without fail... |
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| Dance of the Navel Gazers by soulima | 6 months ago |
| this is a hell of a coherent atonal piece. i can't usually relate to this kind of thing, but this is easy to get into the groove of. it took me out of my zone of expectation, but didn't make me uncomfortable. great song! |
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| Lux Aeterna by Justin_Case | 6 months ago |
love this! strong in its purity; delicate, choir-like vocals say 'cathedral' to me. |
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| Layton's Easy (dnb mix) by sAro | 6 months ago |
| i listened to the version without the drums, and i liked it, but think this one flows much better, as it's tied together with the percussion so well. I love how the vocals track between speakers, and how you can use the faltering beat to effect. you definitely have a better hand on production than i. |
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| jammin with kate...why hold on by j0j0 | 7 months ago |
| This is a winner, jeff! I'm shocked-- in a nice way-- that my vocals meshed so well with a completely different feeling. I approve wholeheartedly of this version! (also, who told you that the mandolin is my favorite instrument?!) |
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| Black Mountain Poet by Rusticalia | 7 months ago |
| This is so pretty! Granted I'm a little late to the party, but I was perusing and the title attracted me (I'm a poetry geek). Your playing put stars in my eyes! The good kind, not the kind that come from dehydration/staring at sun/concussion. | |
| The Wreck of The Trainwreck by sonic_magpie | 8 months ago |
| This is quite impressive. Everything of sonic_magpie I've heard is impressive. Effective in portraying both themes you discussed in the description-- I really hear the "train" near the end, though! It's a noise portrait, but equally musical-- the warmth of the atmosphere is a pleasant surprise given the mechanical (or, in the sirens' case, maleficent) nature of the subject. |
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| We Thought We Knew by vegetal | 8 months ago |
| vegetal, this is incredible! i love it. such good work. anytime you want to do this, go right ahead. i'm beyond impressed, and glad to be attached to such a fantastic remix. | |
| The Sound and Shape of the Words by sonic_magpie | 8 months ago |
| Oh my gosh. I'm falling over, here. The editing is professional, the ideas are pure and well-conveyed, the sound is full.... I feel like a bug in the face of this talent. |
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| [-_-] A Stone Won't Notice by Mikee | 8 months ago |
I love the relaxed feeling... which I suppose is the point of it having been a jam... but it's so unhurried and self-confident (in a good way-- makes me feel that way, too). I like the atmosphere. I really do feel like I'm in California, or something. |
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| Loves Me Not by lilichi | 8 months ago |
| i love the way the samples of your voice are woven with the effects and with each other-- it reminds me of MIA, with less tribal frenzy. | |
| YOUR BODY & A BOTTLE OF RUM by Barretok | 8 months ago |
| a perfect slice of somebody else's life. the cleanness of the instrumentation provided a nice contrast to the nature of your voice and the words you were singing-- the effect was as though you could remember bits and pieces of a relationship with exacting clarity. | |
| Solitude by FrozenEntropy | 8 months ago |
I'm on my second play of this song, and love it, love it, love it. Reminds me of wintertime, and that particular clarity of mind that comes from listening to yourself to think for a while. It's like a wordless anthem for the balanced-at-heart. |
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| Riddlin™ by nothing | 8 months ago |
plays on words aside, this is totally cool. hooray for nothing. |
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| FARAMAESI by AURAMELA | 8 months ago |
this is so much fun to listen to, and so full of color and (though it may sound strange to say it), imagery. it really provides a full-bodied scene. great. |
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| Girl from Ipenema by fatchance | 8 months ago |
| i like this a lot! i usually don't have the patience for jazz (and everybody turns and glares at me), but this is different. a lot of different spinning plates around one central theme, and vocals that perfectly match the rest of the track. | |
| Contemplate by TheKomrades | 8 months ago |
reminds me of david gray and u2 and a little matchbox 20 and counting crows thrown into a big musical salad. except more aerodynamic than salad. i'm probably making no sense, but... suffice to say the musical result is great. i love it! |
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| Water Night by eurostrike | 8 months ago |
This is hauntingly beautiful. A style reflecting the subject matter. Your voice reminds me of the vocals from Nickel Creek-- the male bandmembers, Sean Watkins and Chris Thile, had this way of sounding like a collaborative instrument when they sung. I could be crazy, but... |
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| Libertango by macoco | 8 months ago |
i love this! it's like tango plugged into an electric socket, all charged up! |
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| into the sun by Mikee | 8 months ago |
CRAZY! I'm getting to the party a little late here, but seeing as how I didn't know you existed 'till yesterday.... Full of feeling. The changes in the headphones do add a lot... a sense of fluidity and motion, maybe? |
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| All in All by Mikee | 8 months ago |
Humming is reminding me of Damon Albarn. He's wistfully hummy and it always sounds like he's singing from inside a room all the way down a marble hallway, but that's probably his choice of effects.YOUR choice of effects here is original and makes me feel like I'm being abducted. I wish i were wearing a tin-foil hat to protect myself. I really like it as a sort of transportive interlude. I don't know what I'm trying to say. I just really like it. |
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| Not Today by bonsushi | 8 months ago |
| I like this a real lot. The nice thing is, it takes nice common notes then does something new with them. Shame it's so short! I agree with fromano about the full-fledged song thing. Play with it. | |
| your pain becomes my legacy by that80sboy | 8 months ago |
| Damn! SO CATCHY!!! I grew up on this kind of stuff. I love how the lyrics fit so perfectly into the fabric of the song. | |
| Divergence (UF) by becwil | 8 months ago |
This gives me the creeps. In a really good way. As in, it's totally effective, and I feel like someone's coming up behind me wearing a leopard skin and holding a club. I like how the meek voices mesh with horn, and then it gets a sort of solo... |
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| Break by Jacob | 8 months ago |
this is great. subtlety in music is something i like to hear, and while the sounds in this may be 'big', it's clearly arranged in a very intentional and practiced way. Reminds me of running in the rain. |
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| I Know I'm Lost by vegetal | 8 months ago |
| i like this a lot. it's easy on the brain without being too ordinary. awesome work! | |
| Sociopath by DanielLambert | 10 months ago |
| Ooooh. Odd. I like this a lot. Not what I'm used to hearing, but I'm glad. Actually, I ran a google search to find a sociopathic personality profile, then read it while I listened to the song... the result was super-creepy. As everyone else, I especially like the chopped-up speech in the end... |
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| THE PAINTING by Barretok | 10 months ago |
This song just put me in a good mood, when not even a marathon of my favorite tv show could. When I can't really hear out of my left ear. Your voice is just so... fun. And the story is so strange, but I love it. Real creativity and energy. |
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| call it what you call it by quviq | 11 months ago |
| so much fun to listen to! | |
| D.A.R.E. - Gorillaz cover by eurostrike | 11 months ago |
OH MY GOD!!!!!! I'M DOWNLOADING THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!! If I had some more extreme means of expressing my ecstaticness about this than all-caps, you bet I'd use it. OH MY GOD. THIS IS MY SONG. MY THEME SONG. AND NOW IT IS ELEGANT. *dies* |
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| Chant Funèbre by dirigent | 11 months ago |
This, I think, is the first of yours I've heard. And man oh man... You have a voice any singer (male or female) can envy. People refer to the voice as an instrument, and I've never heard proper justification for that-- until I heard this. This was very intentionally done, and what I'm starting to work in a layer-by-layer, what-sounds-good sort of way, I retain my appreciation for things that are thought out and well-executed. I appreciated this so much. |
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| Sample Song 2 by Uplink | 11 months ago |
| i loveLOVE what i heard... more? |
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| Corkscrew by flo | 11 months ago |
| I loved this! Looks like I'm a little late to the punch here, but wow. This reminds me of the Cranberries Natalie Merchant and REM... three of my all-time favorites. Speaking of favorites, this song is being favorited. RIght now. |
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| Melting by macoco | 11 months ago |
i completely enjoyed this. wow. i was dancing in my seat! |
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| Red apple by tetsuya | 11 months ago |
| this is strange and beautiful. i like it a lot. you've got skill. | |
| EUROTRASH GIRL by Dylan | 11 months ago |
| I'm always sober, lol... But I have to respect a group of people that can do good work under the influence! I'm loving this. Shame I can't rate it! |
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| What you wanted by lilichi | 11 months ago |
you sound like sheila chandra with a personality. i may be late to the party, but this is great, so i'm commenting. |
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| Beneath The Veil by letileti | 11 months ago |
I love the way this sounds. The first thing I ever sang in public was 'Om Namah Shivaya" by Krishna Das, so the eastern sound was very welcome, and you sound like so many of my favorite singers. As far as your pitch goes, I like it the way it is. One of my qualms with a lot of music today is that too much emphasis is placed on uniformity, and nowhere near enough on style or vision. I love how this came together for you-- you wove a lot of ideas into one whole, and I think every part of the song is necessary and complements the rest. |
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| Teach Me Kama Sutra by nothing | 11 months ago |
| i almost didn't want to touch it, it sounded so good. but i compromised-- didn't add instrumentation or anything funny like that, just vocals-- copious vocals. At first, a bit of my normal, primadonna writing-- then a little surprise from my french muse. oops. with your permission, will upload so you can hear. |
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