Musicians on woz-forum

[archman]

Here's a thread that, from my search results, hasn't been on boards 'till now. I'm making this thread 'cause I've seen some people here being musicians or just playing instruments in some way
If anyone here wants to share some experience of being a musician or simply playing some tunes at your homes, feel free to write something.

I'll start with myself

I've started my musical journey far back at the elementary school days. I've signed to the elementary music school, for classical guitar player.
I've had some great time there. In first class (on the end of the year) I was performing on some show that happened in our local theater. I performed with some other two guys, which were about 3 years younger than me. It went almost well. We f***ed up some riffs . And I saw a tear in profesors eye when he was looking at us thinking: "What the heck, boys?!?"
And all went ok for other two years, until i got into puberty stage (s**t!!!).
I got into some Limp Bizkit and KoRn era, and felt my classical guitar playing inappropriate for my lifestyle...Yes, I quitted the school in 3rd grade. (and I f**king regret it now!!! ).
I've been of of a musicians world for almost 3 or maybe 4 years, until I realized that I have that need to play an electrical guitar (yeah, Korn-influenced...but I got deinfluenced from them the first day I started playing ). I've played some White Zombie and Metallica (ofcourse) stuff...later on I've got into In Flames, swedish Melodic Death Metal band, and started to learn almost all of their songs. I've been playing them for a year. I was totally into them...But that passed me by after some time (luckily ) I turned to more intelligent, more up-tempo and more "pro" playing, listening and watching guitar heroes, mainly John Petrucci (my guitar god ). I've been, and still, playing some Dream Theater songs (Constant Motion), building my technique and songwriting, which I began about a year ago. I've also made 2 songs for now...3rd is in progress .
It's all for now...

You can hear my and my friends work on http://www.myspace.com/darthirr (Death Metal/Progressive)

Fly hi!

[INFAXSU]

Are you Marko Teskera (session guitarist)?

I play Keyboards, but only as a hobby... influenced by Britney Spears' last two albums. I've written about a dozen 30 second Hip-Hop sounding bits, which I don't think are compatible with guitars/rock music.

But maybe in the near future you and I will jam in my New York apartment!

[archman]

Ahhhaa,
No, I'm Mario Kozjak, the second one...

[EPSILON]

Good idea ^^

This is my "new Work", Remix is it.

www.epsilon.musique.com

or

http://www.myspace.com/epsilonremix

But my first passion is to create with Keyboard (Korg Trinity, Z1, Karma etc...) and Drum machine (Korg ER-1, MC 303, MC 909 etc...)

Love machine, love electronic, love melody and love when it's progressiv music.

[archman]

This sounds nice, bud!
Wow, you're real serious there!

[INFAXSU]

I need to upgrade my Keyboard possession (Roland Juno) to POSSESSION (microKORG XL)

Then I'll get serious w/ my music production. My ambition will be to work on a Britney Spears album. The Keyboarding on her song "Get Naked (I Got A Plan)" particularly influences me.

- INFAX

[archman]

haha, you make me laugh, man, and it's an art!

[EPSILON]

This sounds nice, bud!
Wow, you're real serious there!

Thanks archman, It's always a pleasure to make some Remix track especially when the original is excellent ^^

If i class my top :

1/ RemixEPsilon Revolte (Hmm, Revolte love it !)
2/ RemisEPsilon Teenage (4 parts in 1 remix, lot of work on it)
3/ RemisEPsilon Bloody Beetroots (Yeah, savage Sound, I love it too)
4/ RemixEPsilon Justice (the last, a mix of several music)

In fact, I create my new studio in 1 month and I'm very impatient to turn on my keyboards ^^

[xtriko]

Hi mates! Nice to have a little space here in the zone for the pilots that also like to produce some music! Great projects and songs EPSILON and archman! My songs are not that professional but I like them anyway lol.My alias is Alien Speech and I'm into Psy/Goa Trance. If you want to check them out, go to these links.

These 3 songs were made for my WipEout Pulse Custom Soundtrack:

http://rapidshare.com/files/20078815..._Outpost_7.mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/20078976...a_Version_.mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/20079119...a_Version_.mp3

This last song was made with DjManiac21 here from zone and it's for WipEout HD Custom Soundtrack. It has a few songs taken from Wipeout 2097 PC that you all should recognize

http://rapidshare.com/files/20079277...c_Project_.mp3

Hope that you guys like

[archman]

Hehe, all of my favourite tracks!
Nice work, you've done it like a pro.
I'm not into that type of electronica, but it is nicely done!

Also, in this thread everyone can post links to their music or just announce their new song or album or whatever is done! Be free, and be creative!

arch

[Mad-Ice]

I just came back from a Drum'n'Bass party! There were 5 Djs playing and our live improvisation with a drumkit, synthesizer, teramin, bass, percussion and MC.

I brought my big case full of bells, woodblocks, laughing bags, sticks, thundermakers, surprices and two big African drums (Djembee)

We rocked the house and they want us back on the main stage.

I used to play in a band three days a week for years. Pure improvisation dance music. Never practised and we played everywhere. Tonight it was a call from an old friend of mine, who arranged a gig for the night. Well, it was legendary.

[djKyoto]

I'm just not a pretty name.

But it's just something I do for casual fun.

[archman]

Congratulation, Mad-Ice! I want to experience the same feeling of playing live one day.
You sure are doing good!

arch

[YouAreFubar]

xtriko, I only downloaded Outpost and it sounds pretty good! Psy-Trance is a very polished and difficult sound to produce for because every track that comes out is to a very high production standard, you have to try and match (if not exceed) that to get yourself noticed. The melodies and arrangement are excellent, keep at it!

Epsilon, while Electro isnt really my cup of tea, the production is excellent! You sound like you have true skills in the studio, you should definitely keep that up. Do you send tracks out to record labels? If not to major league pop music labels, you should at least send some out to smaller House/Electro labels. Smaller labels are generally on the lookout for new talent, you never know if you dont give it a go.

Ive got a few Techno/Hard Techno tracks up at www.myspace.com/chrisharbron They are nothing special though. Ive been messing around with Ableton Live over the past few years which is an awesome piece of software! Infect is my last track where I was figuring out more in depth production techniques and what arrangements work best for Hard Techno. Im hoping anything I produce in future will be exactly the style of music im aiming for. I just need to sort the acoustics of my monitors out as the bass seems a little muddled and when I bounce the track to audio, its nowhere near as heavy. Youll have to excuse the recording quality, Myspace seems to do something when it compresses my tracks and they never come out as great as tracks I hear on other pages.

Ive also got some DJ mixes up at djs.choons.net/chrisharbron if you want to check them out. What music do you play DJ Kyoto?

[xtriko]

YouAreFubar I'm listening your track Infect. I'm really enjoying this! I love when the song as an evil and mech feeling! and your kick! wow! so heavy!!! your myspace page is on my browser favourites!

[archman]

I love the Outpost track very much!! ((only if the kick was softer... ))

[Feisar31]

Some good music in this thread!

My music is also not that professional; I'm still trying to improve my production skills. One of these days I'll get some real monitors--that might help. I haven't been working on music very much the last year or so, but I hope to get back to it soon. I have a lot of unfinished songs because I work very slowly.

As a sample here are a couple of my Björk remixes:

Army of Me (Feisar remix) - 11 MB

Show Me Forgiveness (Purity Mix) - 9 MB

There are more Björk remixes on this page; just a warning though, those are some of my earliest songs. I have some original songs here as well.

[archman]

Sadly, even if I bought myself some quality monitors like KRK RP5 or RP6, they would produce that awful bass feedback, because my room is unthreated.
You guys you all have the absorbers in your "producing" rooms? Or do you use headphones?

[EPSILON]

Epsilon, while Electro isnt really my cup of tea, the production is excellent! You sound like you have true skills in the studio, you should definitely keep that up. Do you send tracks out to record labels? If not to major league pop music labels, you should at least send some out to smaller House/Electro labels. Smaller labels are generally on the lookout for new talent, you never know if you dont give it a go.

Thx YouAreFubar

No, I don't send track in any Record Label, it is just for the Fun not to make money or to become a Real DJ lol

I'm not a "DJ", I make some Remix because my studio is building and it allows me to keep my musical ear.

My passion is more to create not to remix but I love doing that

[GreenPhazon]

I've taught myself blues and rock guitar over the past 5 years.