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Posted by Majutsu on Apr-30-2006 00:14:

[IDM] Odin eye - majutsu

Here is an IDM tune for you. I think you will enjoy it. Many beats, many sounds, and many melodies as always. Please let me know what you think. All opinions and points of view appreciated

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Posted by Akia on Apr-30-2006 20:08:

I cant load down anything from Putfile... WHY??? Anyway, I like the name of your track.

Akia

Posted by richg101 on May-01-2006 15:14:

i like the main synth from the start. quite fresh.

overall this sounds quite nice. original. not what i would listen to or buy. maybe listen to it when i wanted to hear somethin 'different'. all your melodies work well. but dont suit my mood today.

keep up the work majustu. you always have an original input into this cool community we all share.

rich

Posted by sterilis on May-01-2006 15:19:

original stuff here again. i couldnt even put it into a category. nice work on the synths and melodies. your productions sound cleaner all the time.

keep it up!

Posted by Dj Cola on May-01-2006 16:34:

the track didnt want to load more then like 30 seconds so... the intro synth sounded nice and the melody, ill try again after supper...

Posted by covert23 on May-01-2006 21:00:

very melodicy breaky stuff you got there..create you own neiche id say stay origional keep up the good work...review my tune ...twisted by covert23 thanks michael....

Posted by websley on May-02-2006 21:09:

I like the breaks in this track. And together with the synth melody, it sounds all very funny
Very original synth-use here, especially when I listen to 02:00, or so... Really dig the subbass. I'm working on a Trance-step song at the moment, and I can find quite a few unique elemenths in my drum-use that sounds a bit like this here.

But then: What's your definition of IDM? - Because I think people don't have a clue what that is nowadays

Posted by Majutsu on May-02-2006 21:49:

idm = intellectual dance music or intelligent dance music, the former being preferred as less arrogant-sounding and more accurate to people that make it. The term was invented by music journalists to describe EDM artists that seem more intent on exploring ideas, mixing genres and increasing self-expression and individuality rather than focusing on making people dance. Tendencies like the above are seen as "mind-music" rather than "heart-music". I think the term IDM is very accurate as the biggest criticism people have of my music (and other IDM) is its lack of emotion and lack of feel, but with the trade off of greatest novelty and experimentation.

I suspect you are talking about a specific phenomena in the term IDM, which is, the first few artists to get such terms like aphex twin, autechre, etc. got the label "IDM" (according to wikipedia and my memory of the time) for the reasons i stated. it became that thing to younger kids of assuming IDM = aphex twin music, as though he were the only IDM artist. i wouldn't worry about people so mis-guided, as they are probably young, don't remember the origin of the genre, and probably not very intellectual or IDM-type people (read: nerdy).

the sound of an IDM artist depends a lot on exactly what branch of music their experiments are in. aphex goes for new sounds and beats. i have little interest in this, as it really just seems like experimental techno to me. I prefer to study novel compositional ideas and scales (schenker, schoenberg, twelve tone rows, polytonality, lydian dominant harmonies and modes, etc) i mostly use fl presets for my sounds. that's all. all my experimentation is confined to the departments of composition and genre-combining. my sounds are fruity loop presets and a 909 -- nothing new at all. very old-school sounds. the weirdness is all coming from harmonies, melodies, and arrangements rarely seen outside of bebop jazz and baroque classical music.

Posted by cybernetica on May-03-2006 12:40:

Hey,

your stuff sounds very original indeed.
The beat is funky. good good
I think the synths are too droning. That squarey synth in the middle is not my cup of tea.
The midsection is very funny, a little arcade/IDM feel. The elements work well together.
Haha, that arp @3:40 is funny. I like it. Pretty abrupt change to the track, but it really works.
Damn, the structure of this is interesting. Your track keeps doing what I least expected.
I suggest you rework some of the synths, maybe do a little additional mixing to make this sound more like a unity. Anyway, good job with this!