Original Message 1/19                 Date: 21-Feb-02  @  10:31 AM     Edit: 21-Feb-02  |  10:33 AM   -   Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

dARKSTATe

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Hi folx

Well after some time, Darkstate is back with some new material... this time its dark'n'funky drum'n'bass!!!

This one'll be on our new project but we liked it enough to get it out early in order to get some feedback...

"One Clean Break" Feat. Suzie Clarke

Our new bass player Stu on funky double bass...

Any thoughts and comments please??

Thanks in advance...

Marc_D

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Message 2/19                 Date: 21-Feb-02  @  09:56 PM   -   RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

Moujik

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Very nice!

Got a bit of an EZ Rollers / Kosheen vibe to it IMHO which is no bad thing. Vocal sounds great even at this bit rate; I guess having a decent singer help the mixing/engineering, eh?

I thought the double bass was a bit quiet; I couldnt really hear it on hi-fi speakers but it came through quite nicely on headphones. I also got quite a bit of skipping at around 2.30 - I'm assuming it was my connection, but thought I'd mention it.

Top stuff overall!

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Message 3/19                 Date: 24-Feb-02  @  12:11 AM   -   RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

nxo

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Not the kind of music I can give comments to, but I like it. Sounds very cool. Did the vocalist actually sing to the music while recording or they are written and put together during the production?

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Message 4/19                 Date: 25-Feb-02  @  07:44 PM   -   RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

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Thanks for the interest guys!!

The vocalists all sing along to the tracks in the recording sessions themselves.. sometimes these just start out as ideas sessions that evolve into Jam sessions and finally recording ones.. othertimes, we've already got the song written and a specific idea and just get the girl to sing it.. sometimes its the vocalist herself that has the ideas..

 

Marc_d

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Message 5/19                 Date: 28-Feb-02  @  06:40 AM   -   RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

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This is really well done. More soulful to me than Kosheen. Like that bass a lot.

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Message 6/19                 Date: 28-Feb-02  @  10:15 AM   -   RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

milan

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yeah man, good track! hehe, vocal dnb is my particular cup of tea. very cool bassline, (reminds me slightly of ez rollers).

my only comment is that everything sounds overly compressed, like you stuck a heavy limiter at -10db treshhold. maybe let it breathe a bit more? or maybe not, this gives it certain weight.

anyway, cool stuff, keep it up.

cheers, M.

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Message 7/19                 Date: 28-Feb-02  @  11:41 AM   -   RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

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Thanks again folx..

Milan, dunno about overly compressed ;) I'm guessing any detail like you're picking up on is prolly an artifact of it being a lo-fi compressed audio stream here at DT... I could be wrong, but there you go...  

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Message 8/19                 Date: 28-Feb-02  @  11:57 AM     Edit: 28-Feb-02  |  11:57 AM   -   RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

milan

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yeah, i thought it might be the lo-fi thing.

cool. i play melodic dnb out in bars and such quite often, and this is the kind of track i´d play with no problem.

cheers, M.

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Message 9/19                 Date: 28-Feb-02  @  12:10 PM   -   RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

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Well.. if I can get the financing sorted out, we'll be putting this and a more instrumental flavoured remix out on vinyl soon...

Could throw a copy your way if you think you'd get some play out of it?  

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Message 10/19                 Date: 28-Feb-02  @  01:35 PM   -   RE: Dark Vocal Drum'n'Bass

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Crunchy dnb.... very funky.. the girl sounds luverly!!

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