Rate or Slate? - My first microhouse tracks.

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spent the last couple of months working on some microhouse tracks, finally completed a couple and wondered what y'all think.

The mp3 quality isn't the best, but it gives you an idea.

am i any good? if so, what labels do you recommend me sending this stuff to?

if not.. what am i doing wrong?

http://members.chello.at/kennaarnung/kenna1.mp3

http://members.chello.at/kennaarnung/kenna4.mp3

oh, and happy new year!

― kenna arnung, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://members.chello.at/kennaarnung/kenna1.mp3

http://members.chello.at/kennaarnung/kenna4.mp3

― kenna arnung, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I like 'em ... I'm listening to them through headphones, so I don't know how they'd work in a club (or if they're even supposed to) but
they're nice'n'funky.

Also anyone interested in odd / interesting beats, my BeatBlog is still running at :

http://216.36.193.92/cgi-bin/beatblog.pl

― phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

well, i'll get to the songs later. as of right now the main thing you did wrong is botch yr html and tag mp3's as images, which is befuddling my browser.

;-)

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i wouldn't say funky...

rather minimal..
kenna4.mp3
is the better of the two I thought.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Thursday, 2 January 2003 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, minimal. i don't know what microhouse means, so maybe that's just what it's like.

― ron (ron), Thursday, 2 January 2003 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't have my laptop hooked up through speakers at the moment so i can only pass comment on what i'm hearing through my shitty built in speakers.

i do a monthly microhouse night and i'm wondering if i would play these. i would although probably in the earlier part of the night (or really late in the night when things are getting weird). i would say that, yes you are good and hope you keep at it. labels that spring to mind that your music would sit well on are andy vaz's background label in germany and the audio nl label in holland. i'd also suggest sending them to traum/trapez and klang in germany as they might be interested too.

also, if you do any more tracks, could you email me and let me know as i also run a small label (i don't concentrate on a fixed style but might well be interested).

whatever, best of luck - i look forward to buying one of your records one day.

― stirmonster, Thursday, 2 January 2003 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the sound design is really excellent. You have great sounds and they all fit together well.

The main problem I had with it is that it needs a bassline to tie all the chord stabs and shuffled beats together. A bigger kick drum would have been nice as well. Not even a 909 kick, but a compressed Mika Vanio 808 kick with short decay would have been cool. I also would have liked to see some key changes or at least major changes in the theme. They were good, but they did not seem to go anywhere, just permutations of the same place.

I think it is very good, just a bit too tracky perhaps. If you are after minimal tracks you have pretty much nailed it. I am probably one of the most vicious electronic music critics on ILM, and if I think your stuff is alright it is pretty damn good.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:54 (twenty-three years ago)

nice, but you need to mess around with the decay on that main synth sound. otherwise, these are very good.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 January 2003 19:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I listened to the first one and quite liked it (not being snotty just I'm not heavily into that sort of music). I agree with the comment about the kick drum - a slightly fatter one would've been nice. I disagree with the comment about the bass. There *was* a bassline - single deep notes here and there. Everything on the track except the hihat and the kick was a single stab of something or other (no riffs or melodies as such) and the bass being just another thing hitting a single note now and then fitted the concept imo.

― David (David), Thursday, 2 January 2003 20:34 (twenty-three years ago)

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