Osterzone's first ever track [rough version]

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Posted by osterzone on Nov-09-2010 03:44:

Osterzone's first ever track [rough version]

Since I don't have a SoundCloud right now (sorry), here's the link:

http://www.filefront.com/17495675/Transitions.MP3

- The genre of the song is a mix of ambient (and breaks I think?)

- Everything in this song is made from loops except the piano melodies which I recorded myself using a handheld voice recorder

- All the layering, arranging, sound mixing, etc. done by me

- Some of the audio levels and recordings in this track sound like shit. That's why it's a rough version...I'm looking for some feedback on the song structure/quality before I go leveling them all out to sound better.

- The final version of this song will be part of a three-track EP I'm working on for my friend's online record label, which will hopefully be out by the end of the month. The EP will be available at the osterzone-preferred price of free.

Thanks for any feedback.

Posted by Operand on Nov-09-2010 19:18:

The first two minutes are definitely the best part of it. I was hoping to see them expanded and built upon, but then the track went off in a different direction.

I don't think this piece hangs together very well as a whole. It seemed kind of random to me, in that (after around 2:00) elements usually appeared without being foreshadowed in any way, and looped for a seemingly random number of measures, with no apparent musical or dramatic reason for stopping or starting. Some of the piano part was also a bit out of time.

Posted by osterzone on Nov-09-2010 19:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Operand
I don't think this piece hangs together very well as a whole. It seemed kind of random to me, in that (after around 2:00) elements usually appeared without being foreshadowed in any way, and looped for a seemingly random number of measures, with no apparent musical or dramatic reason for stopping or starting.

The reason why I wanted the randomness in sound is because I didn't want to make yet another track where it's 16 bars of this, then 16 bars of the same thing plus a slightly different sound added on, then add this, etc...

I feel like too much of electronic music is just waiting to get to one part. I'm not a fan of boring DJ-friendly intros. Not that I made this track with the intent of someone mixing it into something else, but I wanted to trim the fat.

quote:
Some of the piano part was also a bit out of time.

Yeah that's something I was planning to go back and rework a bit.