Code - "See The World As A Dream"

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Something I finished up this week.
Started this back in the summer of 2010 - haha.
162bpm breakbeat D&B with some atmospherics & brass Smile

https://soundcloud.com/codesubtleaudio/c...t-mix-clip

https://soundcloud.com/codesubtleaudio/c...t-mix-clip
I like it Conor, thanks for sharing. I'm not a massive fan of the 'bustly' or 'clustered' beats though - I prefer more space in my drums; but that's only a point because what I've heard you produce before has been quite 'clustered'. If that's what you enjoy making then fair play for you to advancing that. I really like the swells of atmospheric melody tracing over the percussion line. As firefinga said in the main forum, Aphex was someone I thought of first, very "Druqks" d'n'b, like "VorHobsn". It sounds excellently produced. I'd consider playing it. Good work overall. Smile
Muttley Wrote:I like it Conor, thanks for sharing. I'm not a massive fan of the 'bustly' or 'clustered' beats though - I prefer more space in my drums; but that's only a point because what I've heard you produce before has been quite 'clustered'. If that's what you enjoy making then fair play for you to advancing that. I really like the swells of atmospheric melody tracing over the percussion line. As firefinga said in the main forum, Aphex was someone I thought of first, very "Druqks" d'n'b, like "VorHobsn". It sounds excellently produced. I'd consider playing it. Good work overall. Smile


Thanks for checking Mick.

Yes, as you guessed I do like some bustling, busy drums.
I hear lots of people talking about space and giving things a chance to breath. But that's just one approach and there's no such thing as the right approach. That's not to say that I'll always make things in this style and not something more sparse. It's very much on a tune by tune basis. But since I started making beats I've been mostly motivated by making stuff where the material is fighting for space and to somehow make it work. Whether I've achieved that or not, I'm not sure, but I want to keep trying. I'm still learning and this is why I'm kicking off a sub-label of Subtle Audio called 'Experiments' for my own stuff. It feels like I'm experimenting and learning as I go.
Surely more people want to say that they like this Wave
I'll listen to it later Kisskiss
Statto Wrote:I'll listen to it later Kisskiss



Still formulating your critique Jon ?
Code Wrote:Still formulating your critique Jon ?

forgot Oops
okay, I like it for the first minute and a half, sort of 95/96 moving shadow business Smile

but it doesn't really go anywhere – the keyboard riff isn't exciting enough to hold it together for 4½ minutes – and when it changes up (around 1:40) it just sounds like a rather dodgy mix, i.e. a transition between two separate records in different keys

not sure whether that's a positive review or not Wink
Statto Wrote:not sure whether that's a positive review or not Wink


Doesn't sound all that positive Hahaha

But honesty is the best policy Xyxthumbs

The keyboard riff doesn't stay the same for the whole 4.5 minutes though, it changes quite a bit in the breakdown and thereafter... to my ears, but maybe it just sounds like more of the same malarky to yours ?

I'm pretty much finished with this tune but I may at least try to vary the emphasis of some of the notes or something like that in that first section up to 1.40

ta for listening.