I like:
Outerspace
Electric Man
Outerspace remix
In that order. Outerspace and electric man are fucking awesome. But, man. Outerspace, it just hits the spot. It's so funky!
Thanks man. I've been working on my solo record for three years and more so than that, I've been developing my own sound and movement that I call neofunk. It's part hip-hop, part electrofunk, part pop. Music influenced as much by people like Prince and Nine Inch Nails as by people like 'Pac, Dre, etc. I found that when I sit and compose my neofunk sound is very organic. It's just what comes out when I program the drum patterns, manipulate the sounds and play the synths. Everything on Outer Space was played or programmed by me, there's no samples or anything like that in this track. The bassline was what I wrote first and then I built the track around it.
Outer Space is the first released neofunk record and I think it's a good way of drawing people into what I'm about.
Also thanks for letting me know in which order you liked the tracks. I had a slight dilemma after I did the remix, because the first few people I played it to said they preferred it to the original version. I was debating just making the remix the main version for a short while, but then the more people I asked, I found it was pretty evenly spread out. I intended for the main version to be more commercial, radio friendly, and accessible, and for the remix to be more underground and grittier..... I think I made the right choice.
I listened to them quickly now, but as a first listen, I'm really enjoying Electric man. Seems to stand out the most. Not that Outerspace is bad or anything, but Electric Man is greater.
After I listen to them a few times, I'll let it be known which one grows mostly on me.
Thanks for the feedback man. 'Electric Man' is actually two years old and had a decent amount of radio play here in the UK back in late 2007 when I first recorded it.
Very much influenced by Nine Inch Nails, musically, but again, I played and programmed everything myself on it. I didn't even mix Electric Man at the big studio, I recorded and mixed it at my home studio because I wanted it to come out with a dirty, gritty distorted feel. Funny thing is that the original mix I did that got played on the radio was so pushed up and distorted, that when you look at the spectral view of the audio wave, it was literally pushed to the max. It was a big rectangle filling up the entire window.
For those who might not know what I'm talking about, this is a spectral view of an audio wave:
and 'Electric Man' was filling up the window. Just, LOUD, clipping, distorting. But due to the industrial nature of the song, it worked. And it got played like that on big BBC radio stations LOL. And I heard it on the big BBC systems and it sounded PHAT.
No professional sound engineer would ever let a song looking like that escape from their studio, lol. It's a strange scenario because "technically" it's wrong to do that. But there's a line where technical knowledge begins to interfere with art.
Things done in the big studios with professional engineers can often come out too clean. And that's good for commercial, pop music. But I've had situations where I've said to the engineer "crank up the snare drum more" etc, and they've said "you can't do that, it starts distorting" and I've been like "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK". lol.
Anyway....I had to turn down 'Electric Man' a bit for this release because it was noticeably louder than 'Outer Space'. It still is a little bit, but fuck it.
One of my favorite Prince albums, "Dirty Mind" was all recorded and mixed at his home studio that was leaky, had electrical faults, etc. There's low-level hum throughout the album etc. But somehow it all adds to the vibe of the record, and I much prefer it to his first two albums (Dirty Mind was his third album) that were recorded in huge professional studios. The reason for this was because he had gone over his budget with the recording of the first two albums. Funnily enough, the grittyness of the album coupled with the fact that it was his best songwriting yet made it get way more critical acclaim than the first two. Just goes to show. Sometimes, overproducing, getting a really professional mix, spending ages on songs etc really kills the vibe.
lol. it's all good, i don't plan to utilise the mailing list that regularly anyway. Twitter/Facebook etc are the best for small updates, news, etc. I'll really only utilise the mailing list when I have actual new product to promote.
