04-12-2017, 11:12 PM
Thumps up from me. I've just listened to the first two track so far, but Sprawl seems to be a pretty good opener, it has a strong melody and it sounds pretty wide, mixingwise. I'm really impressed with the stere image and how everything has it's place, it sounds not that overborded but still pretty huge. I also like your use of non-music noises, like the police siren and the people talking.
Cryosleep is a lovely piece of music, it sounds very dark and relaxing and once again i dig using originally non-musical noises into the music. The melody isn't as prominent, but I think that would actually change the mood a lot and I think it's just right that everything stays together in the background and is part of the atmosphere.
(I just shortly listened into AI Daydreams, i really like the idea of automating the pan of the appregiator and it's a pretty cool to use that slightly artifical sounding singing sample for that theme.)
While listening a bit more I had the feeling that some melodies seem to be kinda holding back a bit (in other instances i find them pretty cool and nice and on the same time not being to much in the foreground for creating an atmosphere like for example the "string"part at the end of Shinjuku Station, i feel like they take up the perfect amount of space there. Another example would be the end of "Leaving Earth", maybe I'm just a sucker for that string sound). On the other hand that might be what you are going for, but you gotta know that.
Out of interrest, were you tweaking the synths yourself or are these samples?
Despite me one aspect that i criticised I have to say, i really like the "Orchestration", everything is really big, while not being too dense and you used the reverb/delay pretty nice, there is a lot of nice spacing. The sounds are also pretty nice, while you might wanna make the snare sound in "Ghost in the machine" a little bit sharper, with less release and more percussive sounding. But once again, that might be what you're going for.
I think "The future that never was" is actually a pretty good title for an album. I was discussing with a friend, how Sprawl is really dirty, fucked up cyberpunk and Blade Runner is really dreamy, nearly romantic (as in the art movement) cyberpunk in a way. I feel like you fit more and the last category, the tracks are overall pretty dreamy, lush, cinematic and atmospheric.
Keep on what you doing and keep us updated!
Cryosleep is a lovely piece of music, it sounds very dark and relaxing and once again i dig using originally non-musical noises into the music. The melody isn't as prominent, but I think that would actually change the mood a lot and I think it's just right that everything stays together in the background and is part of the atmosphere.
(I just shortly listened into AI Daydreams, i really like the idea of automating the pan of the appregiator and it's a pretty cool to use that slightly artifical sounding singing sample for that theme.)
While listening a bit more I had the feeling that some melodies seem to be kinda holding back a bit (in other instances i find them pretty cool and nice and on the same time not being to much in the foreground for creating an atmosphere like for example the "string"part at the end of Shinjuku Station, i feel like they take up the perfect amount of space there. Another example would be the end of "Leaving Earth", maybe I'm just a sucker for that string sound). On the other hand that might be what you are going for, but you gotta know that.
Out of interrest, were you tweaking the synths yourself or are these samples?
Despite me one aspect that i criticised I have to say, i really like the "Orchestration", everything is really big, while not being too dense and you used the reverb/delay pretty nice, there is a lot of nice spacing. The sounds are also pretty nice, while you might wanna make the snare sound in "Ghost in the machine" a little bit sharper, with less release and more percussive sounding. But once again, that might be what you're going for.
I think "The future that never was" is actually a pretty good title for an album. I was discussing with a friend, how Sprawl is really dirty, fucked up cyberpunk and Blade Runner is really dreamy, nearly romantic (as in the art movement) cyberpunk in a way. I feel like you fit more and the last category, the tracks are overall pretty dreamy, lush, cinematic and atmospheric.
Keep on what you doing and keep us updated!
