This is - as usual - an excerpt from Tuesday's jam session that we stream weekly on Twitch and YouTube. It's actually two parts - a kind of random soundscape intro that smoothly (well, almost) transitions into a dubby, spaced out trip with a bunch of solos and soundscapes on top of a unchanging rhythmic riff.
Find it high quality here: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20210720-feat-lagoon-city
And also the full jam session: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/lagoon-city-x-trent-hawkins-18-20210720-weekly-audiovisual-livestream-tuesday-830pm-cet
@Ranranzeau Thanks. The long runtime is something that I am trying to fix all the time. The problem is that I really get into playing and noodling long solos and then I don't have the heart to cut, and because the raw material is a jam session that transitions from one mood to another quite smoothly it's also kind of difficult to separate parts into tracks.
On the other hand, I do like long repetitive tracks that kind of suck me in and I get lost in thought and all that, and so I am not going to be very sorry when people say my tracks have the same effect. :) For example this is one of my inspirations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onu8yBDFxOw
It is - as usual - very nice to listen to the evolving soundscapes you create. Keeping things interesting for 20 minutes is quite the challenge, and you're definitely up to it.
I really like the top bell layer - it's easier to hear from 5:50 onwards. This sounds like bells with a delay and another layer mixed to it. It's very nice, shimmering, like a clear mountain stream - I really like this effect. How did you do that?
Nice trippy track. I get the space rock vibe around 17:00 with the guitars.
I played around with my MPC1000 and Volca Sample, then finished this project in Live.
Happy last day of the year, everyone.
Happy holidays!
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-sky-ratio
Something more contemplative (?) for the end of year mood. I should probably go back and make this track even more shorter and minimalistic though!
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-ppsshhff
Happy with this one, I hope I mixed the guitars nicely.
Here is a better high quality and mastered version: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-logout
The saga continues.
I thought what if I try to very quickly make an EP out of the jam session I did earlier this week. I managed to "finish" 4 tracks, but I am only posting the 1st one here for now.
This is some loops and sounds I noodled around with on the Yamaha QY100 and then later finished up on the computer and used all of my other regular gear.
I kind of wish it had more structure somewhat.
(edit) Uploaded in high quality here: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20211120-feat-yamaha-qy100
Really had to rush this arrangement and mix because I did not have much time this week. There's even a whole second part that I did not have time to work on at all, but maybe it's actually better as it is now than if I had worked on it too much.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-7830
This is an outtake from this week's livestream jam session, and I hope it shows how much better it is to jam along with someone else (although noodling alone has its perks!)
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-clockout
Full jam session and other related stuff here: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/post/666854425888997376/audio-recording-from-livestream-29-video
Tried to make this kind of stream of consciousness harmonic mess with repetitive but out of sync loops out of last part of the streamed jam session that I did last Tuesday.
It's not perfect but I am happy with how it came out.
High quality here: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-antivision
Full jam session here: https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftlchrgr.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F666214343956955136%2Faudio-recording-from-livestream-28-video-here&token=815375-1-1635718034419
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-rain
Full jam session: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-livestream-27-20211019-weekly-audiovisual-livestream-tuesdays-830pm-cet
This week I did a major rework-remix of an old track that I submitted here in 2019 when doing the weekly challenge.
I still did a jam session stream this week that you can find here: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-livestream-26-20211005-weekly-audiovisual-livestream-tuesdays-830pm-cet
Decided to rearrange a more energetic clip of this week's livestream.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-arpeggionism
Live stream and audio archive here: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/
Something calm from Tuesday's livestream.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-speak
Full stream: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-livestream-24-20210928-weekly-audiovisual-livestream-tuesdays-830pm-cet (audio only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OJ4Gi9l2JM (original audio-video)
The name has nothing to do with the song, I gave myself 5 minutes and this is the best I could come up with.
This is an edited and arranged part from the solo livestream I did last Tuesday.
As always, high quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-slow-forward
And the stream itself: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/post/662969092925440000 Remixed (and fixed) full audio: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/post/663057739318198272/audio-recording-from-yesterdays-livestream-video
Decided to give a name to our streaming project with this inaugural track thats a hypnotic kind of minimal part from our jam session this week.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/telecharger-2513
More links to video/audio here: https://tlchrgr.tumblr.com/post/662770927134720000
I found the funk factory preset phrases in the Yamaha QY100.
Intro came out well, not sure about the rest of it - I am not so good at mixing dance music maybe.
High quality on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/202109090909a
Rushed track. This time I experimented transposing stuff to different scales-roots using the QY100.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20210830a
Just a quick one from a longer jam session. I was on the road so I did not have time to work on it too much.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20210823a
More experiments with the QY100. I tried an approach where I copied the song structure from another track that I like (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVyTLx2e_tQ).
I like the sound in general, but I should have focused a little more on making the drums more interesting with varied rhythms and some percussion sounds. Better luck next time.
High quality on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/trent-hawkins/20210820-feat-yamaha-qy100
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@Kedbreak136 thanks! I really liked the bells sounds as well, that's why I had such a hard time fading it out because it felt really necessary to have it all the time!
Technically I think it was Korg MS2000 (OrilRiver-Valhalla Supermassive reverb), and the PG8X VST (Tal-Reverb-4), and some more delays (Live's Ping Pong through LFO-d auto filter, eq, compression, feeding back into itself). All individual elements going through Cabinet effects to try and fake that analogue feel.
Definitely adding the Cabinet and Reverb effects gave a much more interesting life to the sounds, so I recommend trying that out if you feel your stuff is boring and feels too dry and dead.