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Your EP reminds me of a blend Yes (in concert), and Dire Straights. School Crush is simply great FUN!
Lots of fine instrumentals, tones, beats and moody moods. Makes me want to experiment.
And better the second time, which is not true of many so-called hits.
Cheers

GMaq wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:42 pm

Playing some catch up down here..

Enjoying 'axiom'! As we've discussed before we work in very different genres but I think we have a nice overlap in appreciation for Deep Purple and I like the great riffs and organ work in the first 2 songs and you got a great Blackmore tone in Red and Blue! I would have liked a little more grind on the Hammond like Jon Lord but it's a tricky business fuzzing up a B3, it can get unnatural sounding pretty quickly..

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I tried playing a lot with the Hammond simulator, but I didn't want to overdo it, especially considering I had double guitars and Deep Purple usually had Blackmore on one side and Lord on the other (thus acting as two "guitar" players" basically). Making the Hammond too dirty would have caused too much muddiness, I felt, which is why I kept it simpler.

GMaq wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:42 pm

Not directed at you in particular, I know this is a genre wide thing but WTF is with metal Kick drums!!?? For a music that is supposed to have such 'heavy mass' how does gutting a Kick drum to such a flaccid 'thup' accomplish anything but subtracting the one instrument that brings the weighty wallop?

I would guess you are really comfortable with DrumGizmo but I think at the very least the first two more retro songs would have benefitted from a more old school Bonham/Paice type of drum sound instead of the modern Metallica kinda thing..

Yes, you do make a good point but it is indeed laziness on my end. Working with a different kit would have forced me to work much harder on the mix and the sounds I wanted. Besides, as I said, I grew up with the metal kick of the 80s so it's engraved in my brain

GMaq wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:42 pm

The melodic playing in Hitori was lovely BTW, amazing! Amadillo has a great apocalyptic impending doom rumble to it, it not as manic as 'Tarkus' by ELP but it for some reasons reminds me of that ELP period..

Ah, I listened to very little of ELP so I couldn't say, but I'll take that as a great compliment!

glowrak guy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 6:06 am

Your EP reminds me of a blend Yes (in concert), and Dire Straights. School Crush is simply great FUN!
Lots of fine instrumentals, tones, beats and moody moods. Makes me want to experiment.
And better the second time, which is not true of many so-called hits.
Cheers

I haven't listened to much of Yes and Dire Straights either, but those were wildly talented and popular bands, so I'll take it
I'm glad you listened to it more than once and ended up enjoying it even more, there's no greater compliment than that I think, thanks!