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Fallout
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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 13:04 Edited at: 26th Nov 2005 13:11
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If you half like my tunes, help me figure out which one to finish next. I've got a massive backlog of unfinished tunes of various flavours and not enough time to finish them all. So I'm trying to get some inspiration from what people like and what people think.

Check out this promo MP3 with snippets from 15 of the tunes I'm working on, and lemme know which are your faves. Remember they're all in production, so only shells of tunes. Most of them are dnb of various types, and there are a few breakbeat tunes.

Fallout Tune Check

WIP Track names:
1. Shadow Mech
2. Frost
3. Enar
4. BigBeat
5. Shader
6. Machete
7. Galleleo
8. Parasite
9. Radical
10. ShinSplint
11. ShinSplint 2
12. ShinSplint 3
13. Undead
14. LightSabre
15. PocketRocket

Cheers peeps. I might have time tomorrow to give one of these a bash.

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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 13:14 Edited at: 26th Nov 2005 13:15
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/me listens

Frost sounds like it has legs. You could take those strings up a key or something, or even have another set of sharper strings on top for a second melody.

What does Shader sound like if you get rid of the beat, or take it to a half count at least. I'm thinking it could sound spookily like some kinda final fantasy song. Infact, I'm curious to know what all of your songs would be like if they didn't have "the drum n bass beat"

LMAO at Galleleo. Dude, that rocks. I tried to do a Hip Hop style remix of Albinoni's Addagio in G minor, so I sympathise on how difficult it must've been to get the sample in a reasonable, consistent BPM.

Radical sounds like oldschool computer game music. It sounds like something right out the old ST/Amiga demo scene - ignoring the sound quality of the beat of course. Dunno if that's a good or a bad thing.

Pocket Rocket Is good as an incidental tune... I like it, but I can't see it going too far.

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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 14:14
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Cheers chap. Frost is one that's been kicking around for months in one form or another. I think it has good potential, but I can't hit on the right formula for it. Gotta think on that one. At the moment I'm struggling with a crap Java assignment for some make-believe airline traffic control/booking system so any of those tunes are attractive bits of escapism.

As for the half speed thing, a lot of my tunes seem to groove quite well at slower speeds, but they lack the elements to make em proper slower tempo tunes, if you get me? They work on the quick dnb level, and that's what I prefer to write to be honest.

I'm still waiting for some flippin game dev team to ask me to write some music for their project though. hehe. Then I can play around with more atmospheric, beatless, slower tempo stuff.

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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 14:48
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hi fallout,

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I like the sound of ENAR, it has a retro synth quality to it. but imho RADICAL is a brilliant tune that reminds me of the better 8bit works by the legends ROB HUBBARD and DAVDID WHITTIKER and the sounds are perfect for the tume, it's like SID V's POKEY on overdive, brilliant.(a very unusual tune indeed, totally original)

i get flashes of WARHAWK on the atari 800xl whenever I hear that snippit of radical now, and it warms my heart. please finish it!!!

regards, grant.

btw there ain't a bad snippit there, so you could finish any one and it will still be brilliant.

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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 15:09
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Cheers mate. Glad you like em. Yeah, Radical is one of my faves in there too. I started that months back, trying to do something a little bit quirky and went with the old skool 8 bit sound. I've been toying with that one for a while, looking at the possibility of some vocals over the top - but something really quirky, like slow style gorrilazesque rapping, plus Tamara holding a few notes in there. Definitely one I'll finish at some point, but I think I need to dedicate some time to it to do it right.

Thanks for the comments mate. I think Radical and Frost were on the top of my list (aswell as Machete, cos I think it has a good hard groove), so good feedback from you two!

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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 15:14
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Frost has serious legs man, that's just screaming out for attention.

Shader sounds like something to make teh dance hall go crazy, make those freaky synth sounds a bit louder, and step the tempo up a few notches.

Radical is pretty cool, it's got justttt the right amount of shuffle on the highthat line.

The string part in LightSaber is spot on.. the beat is a bit screwy though.

All of these are quite good man There's only one complaint from me... MAKE TEH DRUMS LOUDER! It's like dnb music, only without any pumping beat to it :/ I'd be interested to see how they sound with better drums (or even no drums at all), a lot of those sound like you just lumped on some old breakbeat over the top without really trying.


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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 23:46
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Quote: " lot of those sound like you just lumped on some old breakbeat over the top without really trying"


You've got some nerve!!! But you're absolutely right. My WIPs are always that way. The bassline is the most important part to me, so I get a tune going, get a sound/synth/bassline that works for me. While I'm doing that, I work on a half arsed break and just layer it in there with the right rhythm. I dont work on it till later, so you gotta ignore the breaks a little. Machete is one of the few in there where the beat was integral to the bassline when coming up with it.

Anyway, cheers for the feedback chap. I like Lightsabre too. It's a bit empty at the moment, but there's scope on that one.

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Posted: 26th Nov 2005 23:53
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I like em! Id say just do some more DnB stuff. Cant go wrong with DnB!! Unless you screw it up. But yea i have one of your tracks from a while back, i was wondering who to give credit to, it was called fallout- hurricane but i didnt realize your name was fallout >_<. haha, thanks anyways i love your stuff. Do have any of it on vinyl? Always lookin for some good Vinyl...

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Posted: 28th Nov 2005 13:47
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Thanks mate. I have three tunes on vinyl - Minotaur, Time Machine and Preying Mantis, but these were releases in Germany, so it'd be hard to get your hands on copies. You'd have to see if you could find anywhere that distributes vinyl from the label A5 Recordings.

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