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Subject: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
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Original Message 1/19 21-Feb-02 @ 10:31 AM Edit: 21-Feb-02 | 10:33 AM - Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Well after some time, Darkstate is back with some new material... this time its dark'n'funky drum'n'bass!!!
This one'll be on our new project but we liked it enough to get it out early in order to get some feedback...
"One Clean Break" Feat. Suzie Clarke
Our new bass player Stu on funky double bass...
Any thoughts and comments please??
Thanks in advance...
Marc_D
Message 2/19 21-Feb-02 @ 09:56 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Got a bit of an EZ Rollers / Kosheen vibe to it IMHO which is no bad thing. Vocal sounds great even at this bit rate; I guess having a decent singer help the mixing/engineering, eh?
I thought the double bass was a bit quiet; I couldnt really hear it on hi-fi speakers but it came through quite nicely on headphones. I also got quite a bit of skipping at around 2.30 - I'm assuming it was my connection, but thought I'd mention it.
Top stuff overall!
Message 3/19 24-Feb-02 @ 12:11 AM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Message 4/19 25-Feb-02 @ 07:44 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
The vocalists all sing along to the tracks in the recording sessions themselves.. sometimes these just start out as ideas sessions that evolve into Jam sessions and finally recording ones.. othertimes, we've already got the song written and a specific idea and just get the girl to sing it.. sometimes its the vocalist herself that has the ideas..
Marc_d
Message 5/19 28-Feb-02 @ 06:40 AM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Message 6/19 28-Feb-02 @ 10:15 AM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
my only comment is that everything sounds overly compressed, like you stuck a heavy limiter at -10db treshhold. maybe let it breathe a bit more? or maybe not, this gives it certain weight.
anyway, cool stuff, keep it up.
cheers, M.
Message 7/19 28-Feb-02 @ 11:41 AM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Milan, dunno about overly compressed ;) I'm guessing any detail like you're picking up on is prolly an artifact of it being a lo-fi compressed audio stream here at DT... I could be wrong, but there you go...
Message 8/19 28-Feb-02 @ 11:57 AM Edit: 28-Feb-02 | 11:57 AM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
cool. i play melodic dnb out in bars and such quite often, and this is the kind of track iŽd play with no problem.
cheers, M.
Message 9/19 28-Feb-02 @ 12:10 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Could throw a copy your way if you think you'd get some play out of it?
Message 10/19 28-Feb-02 @ 01:35 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Message 11/19 01-Mar-02 @ 12:09 AM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Anyways, this is a real nice track. Very nice to listen too. The kick really slams down nicely. The pad that starts out in the beginning sounds like a jv pad, but could come from lots of sources I imagine. The track continues on longer yes? She cuts out abruptly there. I'm listening for the 3rd time and the pad doesn't sound so much like it came from a jv I guess. Just curious. I love the bassline. Sounds almost acoustic but nicely detuned.
Message 12/19 01-Mar-02 @ 09:41 AM Edit: 01-Mar-02 | 09:44 AM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Strings come from the uQ.. with a bit of additional post processing via the VST mix..
Yeah, I think I had to truncate the track to get it into the DT running time.... I'll prolly feed ya a hi-fi version on CD if you like???
Susie Clarke is the singer... she's new (she's GORGEOUS) and she's done one other track with us that you might like.. its called "GLASS" and its on our website (I'll be posting it here shortly too)
I'll have a think about the young girl.. but its a dicey issue that could cause more problems than it solves... and we are quite well stocked for vocalists right now..
Message 13/19 01-Mar-02 @ 01:00 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Well the young singer. I understand what you're saying. Just thought that encouraging a younger person might be a big thing for her even if you have no place for her in your musical plans. Still, dicey it could be.
Message 14/19 01-Mar-02 @ 02:19 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Just making a typically male observation, and yes, she's very cute, can sing and has a good working attitude... excellente!
Stu's been dropping some phat bass on quite a few of our new tracks - I guess that's what's giving our stuff a bit of an "EZ Rollers" type vibe (which is quite a nice comparison ta very much!)
Marc_D
Message 15/19 01-Mar-02 @ 04:06 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Message 16/19 01-Mar-02 @ 07:59 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Message 17/19 01-Mar-02 @ 08:03 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
btw, check out the dj mixes on my page for some smoove vocal dnb, if you like that style. (plug ends here)
cheers, M.
Message 18/19 02-Mar-02 @ 03:00 PM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Message 19/19 04-Mar-02 @ 09:25 AM - RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass
Marc_D
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