auberginedreams
07.23.12 | http://soundcloud.com/auberginedreams00/sets/the-voice-in-my-head-sounds-a/
i'm gonna upload it to bandcamp asap since it's a lot easier to download from there, but i have to retrieve the lossless files in order to do that and that takes like an extra 10 minutes so yeah. but i'll let you know when that happens. |
Aids
07.23.12 | weird band and album name....
i'll listen to this as some point but yeah...."The Hedgehog's Dilemma?" |
Scoot
07.23.12 | cheers man i'll certainly check it out |
Rev
07.23.12 | BLATANT EVANGELION REFERENCE |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | lol i knew you'd show up at some point. i figured you'd be the first to catch that. i thought it was a cool name tbh, it describes the emotions that i try and evoke with my music. and it's better than one of those generic futuristic-sounding names that most electronic producers use. |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | lol no, see above posts. |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | damn |
Apollo
07.24.12 | stfu with these stupid lists |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | yeah what sonic said!
(can't believe i just typed that.) |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | sorry for insulting your heritage sonic, i didn't mean to offend you. |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | i will try not to be racist against hedgehogs anymore, okay? |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | damn |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | wow you guys only one play on transcendence? i'm telling you it's a righteous jam. i was going for a sort of post-deviantcore sound on that one, but apparently my genius is not appreciated because everyone just keeps listening to the first song. |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | sorry i'll be on my best behavior. |
mindleviticus
07.24.12 | I'm ready to review man. I'll give you the word. |
mindleviticus
07.24.12 | Thanks for mentioning me too. |
mindleviticus
07.24.12 | BTW End of Evangelion is best movie |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | no problem, you can review it whenever you want. and yeah that movie is one of my favorites. apparently aids and stokes need to watch more anime haha. |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | the one thing i noticed (it won't effect your review or anything) is that the volume on my ep is a little low for some reason. i'll try to fix that before i put it on bandcamp. it's funny because initially it was weirdly loud and i thought i got it just right, but now i have the opposite problem. if anyone knows how to fix this i would appreciate it. i know you can set the songs to automatically play at a louder volume in itunes, but that's kind of annoying to have to do. |
Scoot
07.24.12 | it can work if you're going for a more minimalistic approach |
Ovrot
07.24.12 | Hey you never shouted me out when released my albums |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | yeah it just sounds kind of amateurish when the volume is too low though. i was going for sort of a fuzzy/distorted/lo-fi (if that's a thing in electronic music lol) sound in most of these songs so that doesn't bother me, i just wish the stupid program wasn't so finicky about volume. even if you normalize it some songs end up way louder than others for some inexplicable reason. i wish there was a way to just raise the volume of the entire ep (like itunes does, but permanently, not just when you listen to it in itunes.) |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | "Hey you never shouted me out when released my albums"
i'm sorry, i didn't know you released one recently. i just mentioned scoot because we were working on ours at the same time and they're similar genres (well not really, but they're both electronic.) |
mindleviticus
07.24.12 | did i send you my album set, man? just wondering. Anyway, I will review it if you think it's better on bandcamp? |
Deviant.
07.24.12 | 'Beginning' still reminds me of the Halloween theme (not the famous piano line but all the backing synths), but now it's a cross between that and Fear Factory's 'A Therapy For Pain' |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | @mindleviticus was it the ambient/drone one? i listened to most of it on your soundcloud page yesterday. it was pretty interesting, i don't know much about that genre tbh but it sounded well done. lots of cool textures. i was gonna leave a comment at certain parts that i liked but i've been busy and haven't gotten around to it :/ there was one part i liked a lot in either the second or third song that i need to search for again, the songs are really long so i can't remember where it was now lol.
@deviant lol i'm not sure i hear it but i'll listen again. i've never heard that fear factory song. i think it's a pretty simple chord progression so it's probably been used before. the thing i like about that song is that iirc i did the backing synths in a minor key and the main melody in a major one. actually i wrote that song like a year ago so i can't remember right now but i think that's right haha. |
mindleviticus
07.24.12 | The album's called Introspective, yeah :) |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | yeah that's the one. it was an interesting listen because it's probably the first thing in that genre i've actually listened to, but now i kind of want to try something similar haha. |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | yeah you're right dev it does sound a bit like that fear factory song lol. |
mindleviticus
07.24.12 | To be honest, it's pretty hard to make. I spent days trying to get the right sound for "Yes". It took
a friggin' long time and it got me frustrated. In the song "Maybe" I recorded my dog snoring and then
I fiddled with the effects and thats the really hazey sound in the background. |
Deviant.
07.24.12 | EP is best when you drop all the beats and percussion and just fuck with the keys |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | haha that's awesome. i've never heard of anyone using a sample of a dog snoring. i never really work with samples since i'm a guitar player so i think that way, with melodies and chord progressions and stuff. i mess around on a keyboard until i find a melody i like and go from their. but the sampling thing is something i'd like to experiment with sometime. |
mindleviticus
07.24.12 | EP is best when you drop all the beats and percussion and just fuck with the keys
Fuck yeah! |
Calculate
07.24.12 | stop posting this shit and go practise |
mindleviticus
07.24.12 | Yeah man definitely. I've tried making songs with beats and they just flat out suck |
mindleviticus
07.24.12 | I may make a list with my album, but I'm going to wait a bit. |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | "stop posting this shit and go practise"
go practice what?
"EP is best when you drop all the beats and percussion and just fuck with the keys"
yeah i'd have to agree. i like the melodies i come up with but i struggle with making interesting beats. i've been working on a new track and i'm trying to get that shuffle-y sort of burial drum thing down but it's tough to do without it just sounding like a clusterfuck of random sounds. |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | oh and sorry for the exclamation points in the list title, i thought it was funny but then i realized people aren't getting that i was joking and now it just makes me look like sort of an attention whoring douche. you guys don't have to listen if you don't want to obviously, i was just really excited about it/hyped up on adderall when i made this list. |
Scoot
07.24.12 | so much excitement |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | lol yeah, sorry about that. i have pretty shitty self-esteem though so it's nice to be excited about something for once.
also, @aids and stokes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog's_dilemma
see, it's not a dumb name! it's like... intellectual and stuff! |
Scoot
07.24.12 | If you worked hard for it then take pride in it |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | thanks, that makes me feel better haha. |
Ovrot
07.24.12 | did you hear my stuff aub? |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | no i haven't, do you have a link? |
Ovrot
07.24.12 | http://apodiablosis.bandcamp.com/ |
Calculate
07.24.12 | go practise your music bro |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | thanks ovrot i'm checking it out now. |
Ovrot
07.24.12 | you better like them
or i'll beat you up |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | yeah it's pretty cool so far. tbh drone isn't really my thing normally but it's good for what it is. i like how organic and horror-movie-ish it feels. nice atmosphere. i was honestly expecting black metal for some reason though lol. |
Ovrot
07.24.12 | It's neat
The second album is a lot more mellow, you could say. |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | i think that's the one i'm listening to right now. spiral. |
Ovrot
07.24.12 | Spiral is the second but it's the first on bandcamp.
Krop is the more mellow one |
auberginedreams
07.24.12 | @ovrot yeah i'll check out krop next.
@darthmann ???
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mindleviticus
07.24.12 | snichaelmoxall lol |
auberginedreams
07.25.12 | @snichealmoxall you make an interesting point! |
auberginedreams
07.26.12 | oh sweet thanks for the flattering band pic guys. |
blastOFFitsPARTYtime
07.26.12 | eggplantnightmares |
YankeeDudel
07.26.12 | you're gonna be huge man!! |
auberginedreams
07.26.12 | "eggplantnightmares"
the one and only!
"you're gonna be huge man!!"
not sure if serious but thanks. |
auberginedreams
07.26.12 | hmm, 4 ratings in and i can see you guys are a tough crowd lol. that's good though, it gives me room to grow and incentive to work harder. just started working on a new track so hopefully those of you that didn't dig this will see some improvement. |
auberginedreams
07.27.12 | anybody know how to delete band pics? it's not working for me and the meds thread is all weird now and i haven't got a response yet. also i'm trying to add post-rock as a secondary genre and that's not working either. it's been like 2 days since i submitted the edit. |
auberginedreams
07.27.12 | thanks man, i really appreciate it. honestly i'm not a huge fan of electronic either but i like making it for some reason. i hope you like it. the last track is the least electronic sounding and probably my favorite. |
auberginedreams
07.27.12 | thanks dude, means a lot. |
Ovrot
07.27.12 | dude you have a dinosaur? |
auberginedreams
07.27.12 | haha yeah my goal was to try and take a genre that i'm not normally a big fan of and fuse it with elements of genres that i do like. there's a lot of post-rock influence and some of the synth lines are based on metal riffs that i'd written in the past. |
auberginedreams
07.27.12 | "dude you have a dinosaur?"
lol no. i went to the zoo last summer with a friend of mine who is into photography and she took some pictures of me sitting on one of the velociraptor statues in the dinosaur exhibit. |
Ovrot
07.27.12 | did you ever listen to krop? |
auberginedreams
07.27.12 | nah dude i just listened to the first one, i'll get on it. sorry, i've had family from out of state here the last few days so i haven't been on as much. |
Ovrot
07.27.12 | You have 2 hours before bomb I hid in your house explodes. |
auberginedreams
07.27.12 | well i'm definitely going to want to avoid that so i'll go check it out. |
Ovrot
07.27.12 | 1 hour then boom |
auberginedreams
07.28.12 | k ovrot i finished listening to utrechtse krop. i think i might like it more than your other one. i'm still not huge on drone in general but it was a cool listen, i like the whole dark atmosphere you've got going on. the guitar on of marrow and flesh was a nice touch but the ending scared the crap out of me lol. i had the volume up too loud too late at night. |
Ovrot
07.28.12 | lol
that rules. Thanks man.
PS There wasn't really a bomb. You got worried about nothing. |
auberginedreams
07.28.12 | damn, i was looking all over for that thing.
what do you use to make your music? like in terms of a DAW. |
Ovrot
07.28.12 | combinations of my bass and amp, keys and multiple programs including but not limited too audacity, fl studio and some other ones |
kirbdog09
07.28.12 | wow this got really low ratings |
auberginedreams
07.28.12 | yeah well check the users who gave it 1's, they've got rick astley and the naked brothers band 5'd
lol. pretty sure they're trolls so i'm not too worried about it. it's a little annoying though. if
anyone does like it though feel free to rate it. |
Ovrot
07.28.12 | rating are for faggots anyway |
auberginedreams
07.28.12 | true. |
Yuli
07.28.12 | Cheers for persevering through the SputTrolls, dude. I'll check this out when I get a chance and give you my honest opinion on it |
auberginedreams
07.28.12 | thanks man. i was a little annoyed by the troll ratings at first but it's probably just sonic or something so who cares lol. and thanks for the rating ovrot. |
Ovrot
07.28.12 | m/ |