My summer of 2010 really didnt go to plan so I havent been tune making for a while, but I have finally got my head down again and been productive.

"Living to Breathe" uses a 16 bar chord sequence rather than the usual 8 and no hook lines so has a more laid back/unrushed evolving feel to it and the mix relies heavily on fader automation to move from section to section rather than drum rolls or over the top swooshes.

So if anyone has a few spare minutes i would be honoured.
LivingToBreathe by ajames

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http://soundcloud.com/ajames/livingtobreathe

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My main toys: Fujitsu Laptop+Vista, Cubase Essential 5, midiman axiom49 plus more plugins from KVRaudio than i have finished songs!

Not bad at all, This sounds a bit like the full on trancetracks of a couple of years ago. I find the production itself sounding a bit "boxed" and the sparse snarerolls, need some more attention. overall I can here were you're getting to, but you need to work a bit more in order to get there.

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Funny you should think it sounds like its few years old.... I actually wrote the chord sequence and lead arpegiated riff way back in 2003- tha last time I wrote a song until recently! So its guenuinely "old", but i didnt have enough synths back then to do it justice (Nords and JP8000s were expensive back then!)

I was thinking I might rename it "Dream of '99" or something and play up to its dated sound, though.

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My main toys: Fujitsu Laptop+Vista, Cubase Essential 5, midiman axiom49 plus more plugins from KVRaudio than i have finished songs!

Dated is a good thing, So that's a well done, I am a sucker for dated trance tracks from the likes of Paul Miller and Simon Patterson, upon the early Sean Tyas stuff. After that with TATW, ASOT etc everything changed, The darker more electro side and the current fluffy farty shit like A&B.

So exploit the old Paul Miller and mr Patterson stuff and you're on to something really nice.

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