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I recommend this track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpJZNaFx8Og

Oh this is great! Reserve one for me please!

There are countless of house and techno tunes in that bpm range so it's nothing new. Blatant self promotion it is.

Grindcore is a subgenre of hardcore, which is some kind of post-punk music. Mr NEMO.BOFH can close this thread

Erpland, Jurassic Shift and Arborescence IMO.

Well, you could have just defended yourself and said "this didn't happen at mastering stage". Also, I don't believe that I should have to master the art of mastering before I can complain about (what I believed to be) extremely bad mastering. How about music critics? They're all immoral just because they can't play the guitar or write a song? I've never said I could master records at all. I can hear when something is brickwalled out of this world, though. No need to get choleric and make yourself look dumb over something that's been sorted out already.

Yeah it was a bit harsh, my other reply. Just trying to be open with my feelings because that's truly how I feel. I listen to Aphex Twin once in a while anyway. Is "this guy" you?

Your english is perfectly understandable, so don't worry about that. About Zodiac Youth: I've heard the album and found it to be some nice goa fodder! Lots going on. I also like Elysium's solo work although I rarely listen to it. It's hypnotic and intriguing.

He's been to popular to be interesting for me all along. Listening to Aphex Twin seems like such a poser thing to do. All these kids listening to "electronic music" always have Aphex Twin at the top of their heads. Yes, I'm fucked up.

I loved the beat skips! They made the song more groovy, organic and unpredictable. They're not there in the new version? Put them back!

Your maturity is soaring through the roof, mate.

I see nothing.

Engrish much?

Perhaps you should chill out.

Please make it no mastering except level normalising between tracks.

Good to have an explanation. I'm sorry because I've bashed Aerosis before in other threads, thinking he was responsible for the poor sound quality. I can just say "good luck" to Mindsphere with his new project and "turn the threshold up a bit"

I think you should learn some about music theory. You know; learn the rules, then break them. I'm listening to the first track now. It's neatly arranged, but I really think you could get your idea across more effectively with some harmony knowledge under your belt. That being said, the song still conveys the feeling of a fever dream, like the title promises. It sounds amateurish to my ears, but that isn't necessarily bad. Some good build-up ideas in there. You've listened mainly to yourself which is great. This doesn't sound a lot like any other music I've heard. The closest thing would probably be something from the Australian label Psy-Harmonics, such as Shaolin Wooden Men. The track drags on a bit in my opinion (meaning it's longer than I reckon it has to be). Alien Machinations suffers more from your lack of musical training. The melodies in the end are (?) supposed to sound uplifting, but end up sounding even more quirky, off-beat and weird than the rest. Your mixes are ok overall, but some things are way too loud compared to the rest, specifically the melodies in the end of Alien Machinations. If there's one piece of advice I want to give you, it's got to be this: Approach music from a musical point of view. Many people who start out making psy-trance go for the weird synth-sounds and the side-chaining first. I say listen even more to what your brain wants to express through music. You don't even have to care about standards such as 4/4 kick drum if you don't want to. A great device for converting your emotions into music is musical theory, and preferably some instrumental skills. This will allow you to analyse your thoughts, for example "I'm feeling a mellow kind of sentimental sadness", and turning that into musical output, for example "This calls for minor key with slow, grounded melodies and subtle harmonics" or something like that. You can then start jamming like that on your keyboard, or just putting something sad in your piano roll in FL or whatever you're using.

But still, he knows he's close minded. Which makes it a bit funny

I use latency as a creative device, much like I use windsurfing as a means of relaxing.

A limiter is in essence a compressor, though with a very high compression ratio (meaning that it lowers the volume very much).

To my knowledge, intelligent people usually don't let their conscious minds influence their enjoyment of music. They are able to like anything, regardless of shit like "intricacies". Sorting music into good and bad by set properties inhibits the ability to listen to and like music. My two cents. That's another take on it.

The new school labels (coughsuntripcough) brickwall their stuff too. Whether it sounds ok or not depends not only on how lacking it is in dynamics, but also how many dynamics you'd expect to hear from the composition. For example, a song consisting of a kick and a bass only will sound more natural and good when brickwalled than a full orchestra with crescendo and dimenuendo, etc.

That video makes it seem a lot less severe than it is. If I remember correctly, the video shows a song with very a couple of very loud transients being compressed to allow a volume gain. Most modern records are compressed far beyond that; every slight peak is squashed down to the level of the lowest sounds in the mix. This results in what is called a "brickwall waveform" which (on a macro scale, i.e. looking at a whole song for example) looks like a brick, essentially. Of course this is not about how things look; it's about how they sound. And dynamics is one aspect of sound that the world is slowly beginning to forget - all because labels assume that people are incapable of using their volume knobs.

Will you ever make sense?

The sole reason why this engineer is making the tracks louder is because of this loudness war. Brickwalling stuff that shouldn't be brickwalled is always lousy work - and the loudness norm makes it happen. I'm not blaming a war. A war is a human construct, and thus I am blaming the people involved.