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Anyone made or making an album? (pg. 3)
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| Mad for Brad |
| leitmotif is a wagnerian reference that refers to specific music to represent characters or emotions in an opera or I suppose now in film and TV. This is just using regular motives and messing around with them. I mean a remix is a variation on the original and you can really take it to the extreme so that although it is related, it does not sound at all the same which can give the album variety. |
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| Kysora |
Ferry Tayle did something like Eddie mentioned in Carnet de Vol, uplifting trance broken up with ambient tracks. I still don't think it was very cohesive. It's an incredible album but none of the songs seemed to rely on each other.
Basically what I'm saying is you can only get so much imagery with uplifting trance, I wouldn't want to try and convey any kind of theme with it because so much of it would be implied and not very strong anyway. |
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| Mad for Brad |
| by theme , i meant like a melody or motive. Not like a cat or dog theme. |
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| Kysora |
Oh, yeah, and that would obviously work in an album like you were talking about, one track and multiple remixes of it. That would be no problem.
I was speaking really personally, if I ever wanted to write an album I'd want an actual theme that all the tracks play a part of, and I don't think that's possible with the kind of equipment I have at the moment. |
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| 19503 |
i posted about my album idea some time ago and its starting to take form lol. Basically its 14 1 minute loops @ 128 bpm which is looped each 8 times (8 minutes) and overlapping each other every 4th minute making a 60 minutes (exact) mix/album. transitions will be done with my Xone32. Each track will go on for 8 minutes but it will be Eq and filtered so that only the middle 4 minutes of each track will be in focus. Exception is the first and last track which will last 6 minutes. it will look like this in the sequencer (as xone 32 have 3ch i will use that lol:
time:0_2___6___10__14__18__22__26__30__34__38__42__46__50__54____60
ch1: 111111110000111111110000111111110000111111110000111111110000
ch2: 000011111111000011111111000011111111000011111111000011111111
ch3: 000000001111111100001111111100001111111100001111111100000000
1 means active loop, 0 means no loop (waiting for next track on that channel).
on ch1 theres loop/track nr: 1, 4, 7, 10, 13
on ch2 theres loop/track nr: 2, 5, 8, 11, 14
on ch3 theres loop/track nr: 3, 6, 9, 12, (and maybe outro)
This will be the most generic, repeatative album ever lol as each of the 14 tracks is just a repeating 1 minute loop. This is also why 128bpm is the perfect tempo and 8 minute is the perfect lenght of a track. Its pure math. It might turn out really ing boring but I want to complete it anyway, what could save it though is the live transitions and efex (Xone32 analog eq+filter) which i will have to rehearse a few times first. And ofcourse the loops will have to be amazing, which is what im currently work with, trying to keep some of them in same key but thats really not so important as i first thought as this is very much techno thingy. If this work I will try to do the same with other genres than tech-house too. |
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| G-Con |
| quote: | Originally posted by 19503
It might turn out really ing boring |
you think so? |
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| Owsey2008 |
My album is almost complete. On a whole, it's like a book, and each track is a different chapter. It's built on a theme which is very important to me.
I've noticed trance artists gather up a lot of incoherent tunes and toss them together without any thought. This isn't right at all. In fact, it makes me sick and I will refuse to listen to a bunch of tunes devoid of soul and consideration. Of course, it's not only trance artists who do this, but I think they are some of the most notorious for it. |
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| Kysora |
| quote: | Originally posted by 19503
This is also why 128bpm is the perfect tempo and 8 minute is the perfect lenght of a track. Its pure math. |
I really don't understand you. Do you make music specifically to bore people with it? |
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| 19503 |
| i make music for myself really. :p |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Just curious here if anyone has made or set out to make a cohesive album (i.e. not just a collection of random tracks, but something that feels like it fits together) at any point, and how it went.
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Well, we made Glaciation with Mart a couple of years back. It took about 6 months from talking stages to its initial completion, although it was mostly on-off as we worked pretty much when we could have the time. It was also pretty much unplanned at first but when the production went further it was pretty clear it would have a clear style and playlist (a "theme" of some sort, if you will) although it wasn't really a theme album as such.
I found it much easier to work with someon else on the project - we could help each other out if/when we had worked ourselves in the corner. It also helped me personally to focus much more on the end product than the endless noodling and tweaking so many of us seem to succumb to.
I've also subconsciously been working on my solo project for years now - it's basically supposed to be one long track with several movements. So far I have absolutely nothing concrete to show for it, just titles and ideas really, and I won't be posting anything of it until it's completely finished. Which may be never. |
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| drogtech |
| Ive made an album lately as well, it took me almost 2 years to complete it, there were few tracks in the process that wouldnt work out with other so i didnt included them. I mostly was doing it for myself to expres myself.Ive done it and the hardest part is right now because I would like to bring it out but Would be cool to make some cd release but reaching the audience could be really difficult nowadays. Could someone give advices what to do with having that album on your computer?? Releasing album for unknown artist is even harder than just one single i guess? |
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| Raphie |
I am finishing my album "For Those Who Like My Groove" at this moment. Some of the tracks have evolved from going back as far as 15 years
I've recorded 8 tracks and of 7 of them i've got my final mixdowns ready. I hope to finish by the end of August and aim for release early October.
At the moment i am still considering my mastering options, I do a lot of mastering for other people, but I've been working on these tracks for a very long time and i might be to biased in final judgement. On the other end I wasn't to impressed with snippets I've got returned from eMastering houses so far.
And i don't want to risk leaving this up to the label either.
But still some time left to make a final decission here. |
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