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CrazyHarij

20-09-2006, 12:18 AM

some random tracks I've made recently :D just playing around really, none of these are properly mastered or anything like that..

http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=18631
http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=18633
http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=18634

i'll be posting more stuff in this thread, stay tuned. i'm in a bit of a playful mood!

eraser

20-09-2006, 12:56 AM

Dude, I am not worthy. I ****ing love it. The second one just blows me away, BEAUTIFUL melodies. Post more!

edit - Oh and, just because I think I overestimated myself in my reply in my thread, could you give me a thorough explanation of modulation. :/

Does it have anything to do with the mod wheel, or am I just an idiot, hah.

Absinthe

20-09-2006, 01:05 AM

I reckon I'll post a thread like this. That is when I actually start completing some tracks instead of farting around.

Eraser, modulation is just... modulation. Editing variables such as frequenciy, resonance, pitch LFO's, et cetera. If you have a keyboard, it should have a modulation wheel. You can assign variables to it. For instance, the further up you roll it, you can increase resonance while decreasing frequency, or lower your pitch while increasing your LFO amount.
You don't even really need a mod wheel. That just makes it easier. Controlling such features with your mouse is essentially modulation as well.

eraser

20-09-2006, 01:11 AM

Absinthe

20-09-2006, 01:11 AM

Aye, it's just a fancy name for real simple shite. :)

JellyWorld

20-09-2006, 03:13 PM

Links don't work mate.

CrazyHarij

20-09-2006, 05:57 PM

complain to wikiupload.com

CrazyHarij

23-09-2006, 02:03 AM

wikupload should work now. they seemed to have changed their download thing to entering a short string of numbers.

I synced ableton and my 606 to my tr 707 and did a short track. I routed the finished track through my mixer and back and got some really cool and weird analogue effects! i have no idea why it sounded like that this once. maybe has to do with recording it in 80BPm then speeding it up and ****ing with the wav abit.

http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=19083

kjac

23-09-2006, 03:49 AM

sounds like something Aphex Twin would make. I don't care for that style of music, so I can't really rate yours fairly. Doesn't sound like amateur work though.

Geogaddi

23-09-2006, 05:11 AM

Have my babies.

CrazyHarij

23-09-2006, 02:19 PM

sounds like something Aphex Twin would make. I don't care for that style of music, so I can't really rate yours fairly. Doesn't sound like amateur work though.

Thanks man, I appreciate it! Not many people who like crazy ass electronic music, i'm glad you took the time to listen :)

Have my babies.

Your place or mine?

CrazyHarij

23-09-2006, 03:45 PM

tr707 synced goodness (http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=19182)

tempo is a bit ****ed but i think its pretty cool :D the 707's tempo is uneven as hell, its great fun syncing everything to it

bliink

23-09-2006, 03:51 PM

this is kickass.. I never knew you made this stuff, haij!

edit: the 1st one you linked is what I'm listening to now, and I think it'd be cool for an RTS game or something :) (DEFCON? hehe)

eraser

23-09-2006, 03:55 PM

Your newest one is some good stuff. I don't know why but the melody that comes in (that's constantly filtering) reminds me of Fingerbib. Nice.

Vegeta897

23-09-2006, 05:48 PM

Loved the first and second song. In the first one, I was secretly hoping you'd introduce an awesome drum beat, but severely doubted it because of the peaceful nature of the song. But then you just blew my mind with that super heavy beat, out of nowhere, I was like "**** yeah!"

Krynn72

23-09-2006, 06:49 PM

Dude, you have some awesome stuff here. The first one is my favorite and I was just thinking how awesome it would be for my 3D Demo Reel (hint hint).

CrazyHarij

23-09-2006, 07:19 PM

thanks a ton guys lol. Krynn, i'm really flattered, knock yourself out man! :D If any credits wouldn't be too out of place I'd appreciate it, maybe even a link to myspace.com/derelic7 ?

kjac

24-09-2006, 12:14 AM

I take back part of my last post, I didn't listen to the first one, it's awesome.

How long have you been doing this?

CrazyHarij

24-09-2006, 01:19 AM

Thanks man!

Roughly 3 years, I think. It was back in 03 that I started playing around in Reason and began randomly pressing keys on the family piano.

Krynn72

24-09-2006, 11:31 PM

How do I actually download the file? I can only get it to open in the browser.

And its going to be some time before I actually have a demo reel to put it with. Like a year and a half lol. Still, it would be awesome to have music not everyone has heard yet.

Im going to save it in a folder with your name in a text file so I dont loose it. Do you want me to put your real name in it? Or just link to the myspace page?

staticprimer

25-09-2006, 05:36 AM

Wow... the first one is absolutely mind blowing. No exaggeration, either. This is high quality stuff. I hope to hear more out of you!

CrazyHarij

27-09-2006, 12:43 AM

http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=19962

a track i made that i think is pretty beautiful. ableton exported it with too much reverb and shit, and i routed it through my mixer in an odd manner which really affected the sound, detuned it alot at more heavy parts but i think that's a pretty cool effect :) makes it sound like old tape

Baal

27-09-2006, 12:48 AM

The second one made my ears hurt with the scratchyness of it. I'm not sure if it was a problem on my end or what, but now I'm listening to the third one and it sounds great. I've yet to check out the first one.

Good stuff.

CrazyHarij

28-09-2006, 04:28 AM

http://www.ftp.nu/files/5964/

I had great fun recording this one, I decided to try and route every ableton track into a separate track on my analog mixer to let it be mixed there, see if it does it better or anyhting like that, and it actually does imho! sounds much smoother in a sense. anyway, i recorded some guitar playing for this one (not the first loop you hear, it's later in the break). I also sampled some monologue off a porn movie :O

everything was looped then i recorded it, altered the faders and some settings via midi completely live and raw! much more fun way of making music than spending days sequencing shit. might sound better the other way of course, but whatever :D

its a bit long but time flies when youre looping stuff and i think the length is somewhat bearable.. i've noticed alot of ppl don't like really long tracks but i enjoy diving into a mood for more than just a few minutes.

tell me what you think folks!

Absinthe

28-09-2006, 04:35 AM

Of everything posted here so far, I like the third track you posted on the first page. Only problem is that three-repeat of the bassline, it kicks my subwoofer into overdrive for some reason and murders the ears. As a result, a lot of the other stuff is drowned out.

Good stuff all in all though!

First one on this page is also good. I like the strings you've got going on it. Drum beat sounds kinda weak, namely because of the reverb. Sounds like it's from an 80's movie, and feels out of place with the rest. My personal opinion is that you can either rework that a bit for the more full, industrial vibe that I think you might have been going for (I'm thinking the Aphex remix of "Raising the Titanic") OR just do away with it and replace it with something more fluid to accompany the strings.

CrazyHarij

28-09-2006, 04:45 AM

thanks man. yeah I was experimenting abit and the reverb was a result of ableton exporting the track in a way i didnt think it would, and i didnt save any of the wavs i recorded.. it's a bitch recording 8 minutes all over again so I just let it stay like it was, was fun for an experiment. The latest track sounds more like what i actually did when i recorded it, i placed reverb on the individual tracks rather than routing returns, somehow it doesn't work properly when you're sending your sounds out through individual channels.

Absinthe

28-09-2006, 04:52 AM

Yeah, routing between programs/hardware is always tricky business. But it can pay off in nice ways (ie. running a Subtractor line into Ableton's Beatrepeat effect is something I love).

I'd love to get into it more, but it kills my laptop and everything freezes up. I got a fat ol' Ableton project file running all sorts of crazy shit between Reason, Ableton, and Rebirth. Not to mention all the VST instruments. But I can't run it for any more than ten minutes before it gets shot.

CrazyHarij

28-09-2006, 04:57 AM

Yeah totally, i love having tons and tons of beat repeat instances on audio and beats and stuff with very low percentage of occurance and small filtered changes, making for tiny changes on the sound throughout the track, but it's a bitch on the system. my audio interface tends to slow down the system abit too.. i seriously need more RAM

I mean, you can always turn devices off as you're not using them but ****, i dont know anything that kills creativity more than having to do things like that. i guess that's abit why i'm keeping to a simpler sound atm, aside from just wanting to experiment and have fun

Krynn72

28-09-2006, 05:12 AM

haha holy crap. Its a 12 meg mp3... how long is it?!

(no need to actually answer that, by the time you read this i will probably have downloaded it already)

CrazyHarij

28-09-2006, 05:23 AM

somewhere around 8 minutes. if you manage to listen through all of it

CrazyHarij

02-10-2006, 09:45 PM

dont have much time to make music nowadays, ive just moved into my own apartment, but heres a pretty short track that i like

http://www.ftp.nu/files/6034/

ive kinda decided to drop the 8 minute thing, its better to fit an idea in a shorter frame

Vegeta897

03-10-2006, 02:32 AM

Not the greatest you've done, but good anyway.

CrazyHarij

03-10-2006, 08:06 PM

another track

http://www.ftp.nu/files/6043/

impakt

06-10-2006, 03:53 PM

Crazyharij, are you derelic7 / dr. drumatix ?

CrazyHarij

06-10-2006, 04:37 PM

no, i'm just an imposter posting someone elses tracks to get acknowledged by random people on the internet..

of course I am :D

are you impakt off teh wattem forums?

impakt

06-10-2006, 04:59 PM

Hehe, yes I am.

CrazyHarij

06-10-2006, 05:17 PM

cool, i love your music man! I downloaded some of your recent electro tracks and they are absolutely delicious.

CrazyHarij

06-10-2006, 05:50 PM

here's a semi ambient piece i made

http://www.ftp.nu/files/6070/

impakt

06-10-2006, 06:38 PM

Thanks mate, I'll check out your semi-ambient one.

impakt

06-10-2006, 06:45 PM

It's lush and comfortable. Good.

CrazyHarij

10-10-2006, 10:28 PM

http://www.ftp.nu/files/6124/

new track.. dark and idm ish

CrazyHarij

11-10-2006, 06:47 PM

http://www.ftp.nu/files/6130/

happy track

CrazyHarij

12-10-2006, 03:22 AM

i'm sick atm so i made a pretty calm, dark and odd tune

http://www.ftp.nu/files/6133/

Krynn72

12-10-2006, 07:15 AM

haha, so much for not having time to make music nowadays.

Downloading some now, will edit with impressions.

CrazyHarij

27-10-2006, 03:27 AM

made a slow steady beat track with some piano improvisation. its kinda dark and badass i suppose, made as a doodle for some hl2 mod. :)

http://media.putfile.com/lunar-collusion

Geogaddi

27-10-2006, 03:33 AM

made a slow steady beat track with some piano improvisation. its kinda dark and badass i suppose, made as a doodle for some hl2 mod. :)

http://media.putfile.com/lunar-collusion

Awesome, reminds me of an action movie where the badass is walking down the street looking badass, or during a montage where he's preparing to take revenge or something.

CrazyHarij

29-10-2006, 01:46 AM

http://media.putfile.com/derelic7---alpha-and-omega
abit trancey i guess, some playing aorund iwth swing too

Qonfused

29-10-2006, 02:27 AM

I like it for what it is, but I like your more ambient stuff better.

Vegeta897

29-10-2006, 06:20 PM

Ahh, the swing is fantastic :D

This track had me bouncing, awesome work. However, it may just be my speakers, but I felt the bass was a little too powerful. Atleast the parts where it's constant.

CrazyHarij

30-10-2006, 12:54 AM

yeah, i felt like the bass was way too weak at the end so i put this bass boost utility on it, but i think it went just a bit too much. but bass is all the rage nowadays anyway :P :P

CrazyHarij

30-10-2006, 06:03 AM

two ambient tracks, everyone seems to like my ambient stuff more than the rest of my stuff, and i almost feel the same. i always end up enjoying making ambient music alot, it's a very nice genre in general and i love the visuals it conjures..

thought of a game or movie like soundtrack thing i suppose.. they describe two environments, hence their titles

http://media.putfile.com/derelic7---garden-3477
http://media.putfile.com/garden-3477-reactor-facility

CrazyHarij

13-11-2006, 12:49 PM

two new tracks
http://media.putfile.com/derelic7---bananas
http://media.putfile.com/Derelic7---what-I-said

CrazyHarij

13-11-2006, 09:12 PM

just me and me acoustic guitar :) a little ambient sort of thing. got a proper host too! :)

www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/derelic7%20-%20west%20of%20field.mp3

TheAntipop

14-11-2006, 12:01 AM

I love that reactor facility piece. On my Music Tech computer in school I have looooadds of Cubase files kicking around of stuff I've just titled ''generator 2'' and ''station [number of how many songs I have titled 'station here]'' and the like because I've recently found a whole range of kickass industrial/machine/factory/desolate/grinding synths. It's great making stuff like that. I've been making alot of recently because when it comes to synths and pianos and stuff Cubase is really good, so, with stuff like Amber and SAWI/II and lots of Boards of Canada being listened to, I've succesfully filled half of my school computer with a ton of files that I really cannot navigate my way around to. Too much.

CrazyHarij

27-11-2006, 08:22 PM

A pretty nice club-ish track i made. sounds pretty pumpy :)
http://www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/gemini.mp3

and a track i made with my microkorg. look ma, no metronome!
http://www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/theiwayin.mp3

some idm track thing.. the bass turned out catastrophic so i had to EQ it down abit making it all sucky.. wasn't really meant to be uploaded but what the heck. a little melancholic?

http://www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/noah.mp3

CrazyHarij

08-12-2006, 12:27 AM

just felt like making something that sounds badass, dirty, ****ed up, crazy, mad, cool, distorted.

http://www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/bomb%20squad.mp3

your ears will explode upon listening.

CrazyHarij

12-12-2006, 02:22 AM

http://www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/derelic7-28_dnij_poznej.mp3

new little tune

Vegeta897

12-12-2006, 02:50 AM

just felt like making something that sounds badass, dirty, ****ed up, crazy, mad, cool, distorted.

http://www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/bomb%20squad.mp3

your ears will explode upon listening.
Pretty loud and crazy. The synts were great but the drums were meh. The kick had way too much bass and cut out everything else.
http://www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/derelic7-28_dnij_poznej.mp3

new little tune
This was nice. Lots of arp-ing! Sounded like an EMX.

bam23

12-12-2006, 05:42 AM

I like lunar collusion. It's exactly like the type of music I've been trying to make (failing miserably).

Stigmata

12-12-2006, 05:54 AM

Grendosa.net is the only site I've been able to get your music off of. I only had time tonight to listen to your "new little tune" and I very much like it :D

It seems to be lacking a certain something, I can't quite put my finger on it. Nonetheless, I enjoy it, and it's currently keeping me from getting some damn rest before my exam that I have in 8 hours.

CrazyHarij

12-12-2006, 03:10 PM

I think bass is what it's missing. :P

evil^milk

12-12-2006, 03:26 PM

http://www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/derelic7-28_dnij_poznej.mp3

new little tune

Nice. I like how you vary your style and don't stick to those crazy ambient songs (storm1, although admittedly I like those kinds more =p).

Just out of curiosity, do you work on these songs on and off, or do you finish them in a single day? How do you find the inspiration to finish a song you got stuck on, or how do you even begin making one?

CrazyHarij

12-12-2006, 04:14 PM

Thanks for the comments guys, I really really appreciate it!

www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/derelic7-dust_spotted_fields_with_urban_scenery.mp3

another new little tune. :) i love the reFX junox2 soft synth! so fat and nice, and incredibly simple which makes it easy to just chuck in the track here and there. and it's free!

Just out of curiosity, do you work on these songs on and off, or do you finish them in a single day? How do you find the inspiration to finish a song you got stuck on, or how do you even begin making one?

haha i remember when i used to ask other musicians the same question.

let's just say, i don't finish my songs, i abandon them. they're usually nowhere near where i want them to be when i finish them but I feel like my energy is best spent elsewhere, like on a new track.

i have lots and lots of unfinished tracks that i like to go back to and polish up a little each day until they're finished. it's great to just leave the track for a day then get back to it, you'll have a much better objective look at it.

i used to finish most of my tracks in one sitting, like 3-4 hours but now I usually get the basics done, leave it and get back on it the next day and wrap it up. it's a much better of working imho. i would like to spend even more time on most of my tracks but i'm lazy as ****.

i like to look at my tracks as little brainfarts of melodies and feelings that i have when i make them. :D

what i find interesting about getting back on tracks and doing a little work is that they always take directions you never thought they would. the "bomb squad track" was supposed to be completely different with the original melody being part of the bridge or some odd thing at the end, but i chucked the original stuff out because i didn't like it.

finding the inspiration to finish a song i'm stuck on? never gonna happen. if i'm stuck on it i'll probably leave it till forever. just now i started polishing up some tracks i got stuck on months ago. it's a pretty interesting way of working.

how i start making one? don't ask.. i just chuck a few soft synths in, play around with the keyboard and suddenly i have a basic melody thing, usually i loop that for forever or add fun little changes that i think fit. i look up a good drum loop i have somewhere in the anus of my computer, or make a drumloop myself. i usually spend alot of time shaping the sounds with filters and little effects.. i like to jam alot and don't want to get stuck in the process of endlessly working on stuff with the mouse. most of the melodies just come spontaneously.

right now alot of my melodies come up when i jam around on my guitar. my tracks would have a lot more guitar in them now if it didn't take ages to set up the mic and record it..

neptuneuk

12-12-2006, 05:20 PM

^^ It's cool! i create electronic music too, but more harsh and heavy (like industrial ear rape) and love it!

your method of production sounds like me too!
if you force yourself to finish a track for the sake of it, it sounds like it has no energy or feeling. It's best to leave it unfinished if thats how it's supposed to be!

Absinthe

15-12-2006, 07:33 AM

Crazy, you still dabble in MAX/MSP? I finally downloaded it and thought about giving it a whirl, but I fear I'm going to become frustrated with it just as I did with Reaktor (and Reaktor is supposedly the easier one to learn). I've just played around with some of the example patches, which are pretty ****ing nifty. Just running any of my tracks through the "granularized" patch is wonderfully twisted. Something I wish I could do in Reason. Can also get some good time-stretches on drums which Dr. Rex doesn't really handle. The most you could do to generate such an effect is with the samplers and drag out notes with increasing Start velocities, and even that only works to limited extent and would be hell to do with drum kits.

Naudian

15-12-2006, 09:14 AM

Bomb squad = 8D

CrazyHarij

15-12-2006, 02:10 PM

CrazyHarij

17-12-2006, 06:06 PM

some pics of my gear

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/CrazyHarij/DSC_0052.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/CrazyHarij/DSC_0048.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/CrazyHarij/DSC_0046.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/CrazyHarij/DSC_0050.jpg

Absinthe

17-12-2006, 06:27 PM

I want.

Vegeta897

17-12-2006, 10:04 PM

Damn that's awesome.

*some day*

eraser

19-12-2006, 03:44 AM

I drooled.

CrazyHarij

19-12-2006, 03:49 PM

got a hold of a uber cheap crappy guitar. like same quality of my school guitars, i.e not much but enough for me atm. :p

made a little ambient tune with it.
www.grendosa.net/crazyharij/derelic7-abyss.mp3