21-10-09 - It is now.....and forever will be so.....OUTERSPACE

Casey

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#1

Click here and you should see a link...

Tracklist:
1. Outer Space (featuring Kazz Kumar & Rukas)
2. Outer Space (S-Endz's Industrofunk Remix)
3. Electric Man

I know you are all cheap bastards, but if any of you feel like buying it, then muchas gracias. To get the free download, simply enter '0' as your price after clicking download.

I'd be interested to know whether people prefer the original mix or the remix. There was supposed to be another remix as well but the people I asked to do it didn't make the deadline, so oh well.
 

Casey

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#4
Thanks guys, much appreciated :)

I've had a few people buy it already which is re-affirming my faith in humanity :)
 

Shadows

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#6
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! :D
 

Flipmo

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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.
 

Casey

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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! :D
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.
 

S O F I

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#10
I didn't DL because I don't want you spamming my e-mail account but I did stream it.

I like Outerspace quite a bit. I like the beat, the feel of the track and the chorus is nice. As for your verse, some things don't sound right:

why yall all wanna know bout s dash
the line's awkward when you say s-dash it kinda damages the flow.

and maybe you don't know but i perfect that
oops, meant to say perfected that
only lil wayne gets away with saying "oops I meant this"...nobody else.

As for the rest of the verse, it's on point I think. I like Ruk's verse but i feel like I heard that "don't eat meat got beef on the menu" too many times in different forms.
 

Casey

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I dl'd it, the process sucks btw. I'll let you know whats up after I listen.

How come you're never wearing sleeves
Cool. Thanks.

LOL. Actually I very rarely wear sleeveless tops...just so happens that I was on the day I took this photo and the day the footage in the 'Sugarless' video was filmed.


I didn't DL because I don't want you spamming my e-mail account but I did stream it.

I like Outerspace quite a bit. I like the beat, the feel of the track and the chorus is nice. As for your verse, some things don't sound right:
Cool. Thanks for the feedback.

the line's awkward when you say s-dash it kinda damages the flow.

only lil wayne gets away with saying "oops I meant this"...nobody else.
when i did the original demo, the first two bars were "why everybody wanna know about me/s-endz but some call me casey"

I wasn't happy with the verse though so ultimately rewrote it all. It doesn't feel awkward when I spit those bars though.

there was someone else that that second part you quoted reminded me of after i wrote it....but i couldn't place who it was, and i'm still not sure. i'd have to think about it, but it wasn't wayne. i'm really not familiar with enough of his work to know if he does things like that regularly.

As for the rest of the verse, it's on point I think. I like Ruk's verse but i feel like I heard that "don't eat meat got beef on the menu" too many times in different forms.
thanks.

lol, it's funny that he threw that line in there when i'm always the one going on about vegetarianism on here and have yet to mention it in a song. it's all good. i was impressed by ruk's verse, he rode the beat in a different way than I did so it gives it a good dynamic.

That's why I have another email account for these things ;)

I also like "Electric man" more but both tracks are nice.
lmfao. you guys suck. my emails are gonna go unnoticed :( 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.

Anyway, if any of you guys have any good suggestions for promoting the material, I'm all ears. I decided to put out this EP firstly so that I can have something to promote while I finish the album (I was getting impatient and this seemed like a better idea than just rushing to finish the album purely for the sake of having product to push) and also it gives me a good opportunity to explore promotional avenues, see how much mileage I can get out of it etc.

Someone suggested I put up multitracks for remix purposes. I plan to do some research to see if there's any good platforms for doing so. It seems like something that should exist. I remember a couple of years ago we did something like that with the band, but the platform that approached us to do it was kinda lame. It was all online and flash based and you couldn't actually download the multitracks, only isolate them, arrange them and add a bunch of predefined crappy effects to different tracks. I'd like something where users can download the multitracks and remix them in their software of choice, then upload them to to a site that has some sort of social networking functionality and vote-based scoreboard system.
 

S O F I

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#13
I wasn't happy with the verse though so ultimately rewrote it all. It doesn't feel awkward when I spit those bars though.
I don't mean awkward in its definition sense but it doesn't sound smooth to me as a listener. Maybe it's just me who thinks that and no one else.

there was someone else that that second part you quoted reminded me of after i wrote it....but i couldn't place who it was, and i'm still not sure. i'd have to think about it, but it wasn't wayne. i'm really not familiar with enough of his work to know if he does things like that regularly.
most recently, Fabolous on one of his records on the new album. I can't recall who else at this point.


lol, it's funny that he threw that line in there when i'm always the one going on about vegetarianism on here and have yet to mention it in a song. it's all good. i was impressed by ruk's verse, he rode the beat in a different way than I did so it gives it a good dynamic.
Yeah, it's rather common lately to have that kind of dynamic. It reminds me of Project Lionheart's Heart of a Lion remix with Crooked I. One of the dudes has a more sort of old-school like verse and Crooked has a more modern misogynistic braggadocio type of thing lol.
 

THEV1LL4N

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#16
firefox is telling my its an .exe file and could be malicious. i was expecting a .zip or .rar file. ive even tried doing individual tracks.
 

Casey

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firefox is telling my its an .exe file and could be malicious. i was expecting a .zip or .rar file. ive even tried doing individual tracks.
Your firefox is fucked. It's most definately a zip file. I've tested it on multiple computers. No-one else had had a problem either. Try using Google Chrome as your browser.
 

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