Long time no hear I think! Time for a preview of a new track... I've uploaded a lofi full version of the Vocal Mix of my first release at Abora Recordings to my server. Featuring vocals and vox parts by Sarah Guy aka Shyenne.


You can get the track here:
Icone Feat Shyenne - Sorrow (Vocal Remake)
Icone Feat Shyenne - Sorrow (Dub Remake)


Let me know what you think

Bye,
Wim

PS: updated versions now online!

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Last edited by Icone on Jun-19-2005 at 21:02

gorgeous melody

good production too, i love that bassline

i don't like the piano at all though, sounds too artificial. the breakdown is rather long as well.. that's not really going to please the crowd on the dancefloor

the vocals are ok


nice track overall, but i feel there's more you can do with it

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This is a beautiful track, I'd give it ten out of ten koolaid guys. Keep up the good work, I look foward to hearing more.
-Alex

Sarah is helping lots of us out, cool to see. Planning to work on 'Cloudland' tomorrow.

On topic now . Wim I really like the full sound of this, and I'm glad it sounds nice at 96 kbps, tho it's a bit wetttt... and so it seems the lead and vocal could be more defined. But there's a good drive in it and I love the stabby acid synth. You added some elements since the last time I listened to Sorrow.. nice arp. (I have a n old version on my disk maybe).

Sarah does her job well with just what I'm used to hear from her: subtle soft voice and whispers to a track. Now in my opinion her voice is better off in more in the trance breaks, laidback trance and progressive/chill tracks, so not the uplifting part. But that's just a question of making choices I guess.

The track itself was impresse and still is. I like the rework, as I haven't heard it yet.

Good luck with it, if you've found a destination for it.

-Jay

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The dada da dad dada vocal is not in sync.

Production is top notch as ever...

- Bass that filters in is too low (frequency wise when it filters up i mean)

- Someone said the dada da da vocals are out of time, i have to agree!

- The bass seems to stoppy-starty, i think it could flow better

- When it all kicks in, sounds clean as fuck!

- Overall mate only a few minor issues, but its good

Shep

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Thanks for the comments guys

Will probably be adjusted here and there before doing something serious with it though.

Breakdown is idd quite long, was to fit all of the verses in, maybe I'll cut on it a bit. Which stabby vocal do you guys mean, can you give me a time?

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Hey,

I guess they mean the chopped voice that first occurs just before 28 sec into the song it is used many times troughout the song later.
Indeed it's not synced to the rhythm.

More comment on the voice from me though, at 4:08 , 4:22 and 4:36 the words that are spoken just don't match the dreamy voice in the other parts , they seem out of place, followed directly at 4:41 with out of synced chopped voice ... that part ain't so great.

For the comment i read about the bassline, i must disagree . The bassline flows the way it should. In a Large Club this would sound just ... it adds speed and energy
I could imagine this being playing in the "dearly departed" Zillion Club in Antwerp.

Even more comment though , between 5:21 and 5:22 the strings just go away for a second, ... it's so unlike strings to do that ... just imo.

All in all , i still like the track a lot. High grade Trance from Belgium (my home country also) , and it's NOT m.i.k.e !

Sorry to go on like this ... great work dude... i'll visit yar site l8r.

One question if i may , did you record the vocals yourself , @ home ? or what studio ? I've got a great female singer , but no facilities ... thx

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hey groundzero!

i'm not expert at working with vocals yet, so the first tracks might indeed need some tweaking. it was the intention of giving the vocals alot of variety though. my vocalist recorded the vocals for this track in her own studio and sent the to me via cd-r.

i did notice the out of sync part, will look into that - won't be too much work i think. at 5:20 is indeed a small error; didn't notice it when exporting, it should actually come a bar later when the pluck builds up.

thx for the pointers!

// Wim

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i love the voice!

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nicely done mate!

and indeed that first chopped ah-vocal isn't exactly in synch with the beat.
Nice break! maybe you could replace the piano with a guitar? It reminds me of envio - sunset highway.

keep it up m8

nice work there wim, melody is great, bassline is fantastic.. just as everyone said the timing on the vocals with a bit of adjustment.. fine fine tune man, great work.

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