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balistic · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:19 am

previews from an upcoming (hopefully) EP:

Buford Highway
Suspended City
Sum Other Funk
Seven Cymurai
(you may have heard early versions of some of these)

preview of a remix I did for a UK label:

[url=http://www.bprince.com/ConcreteSoul-ItsGrooving(BrianPrinceRemix).mp3]Concrete Soul - It's Grooving (Brian Prince Remix)[/url]

Sorry about the cut-length previews, but I'd rather not have this stuff showing up on peer-to-peer until after it's out.

Thanks for listening, and for your comments on early versions.
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Max · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:41 am

Sounds familiar. Cool stuff. I really like it!
"Concrete Soul" has some nice sounds!!
Just the fade out is too long I think. ABout 17 seconds. That's quite long...not?

balistic · Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:54 am

Mikko K · member Member # Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 639

I'm not a specialist of this particular genre, but I'm liking these.
I like the sounds, very relaxing. I'd rather listen to this than the new Prodigy album.

Lunatique · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:44 am

Oh yeah, I like these much better than the last batch of stuff. These have a more mellow and melodic feel to them, with synth lines that bring me back to the good ol' days of 808 State.

[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

OMG!
I like Buford Highway the best.

Good song for successful living!

Gort · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:18 am

Yeah - Buford Highway is my fav too. Well done, Brian - great work!
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balistic · Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:44 am

thanks guys!
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balistic · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 7:28 am

*edit*
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Yarik · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:30 am

Mind if I get these for my new Ipod Shuffle?

[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

Brian Prince, you are dangerous, grotesque, exciting and EXCELLENT!

I LOVES YOU!

balistic · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:20 am

Just an update on this: I've signed a record deal and the first promos should be pressed up within a couple weeks. Yay! Thanks for your support over the years, guys.
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Francis · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:25 am

Whoa congrats Brian!

Let us know where we can buy the CDs.
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balistic · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:50 am

Thanks mang, though it'll actually come out on vinyl first. Wax is still the preferred format for techno. It might make it onto CD compilations though. I'm going to talk to them about doing the iTunes store or something too.
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Francis · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:04 am

Heh right uh I was just testing you that's it. Embarassed

Obviously I'm not very well acquainted with the techno music world. I actually play guitar in a trio that's more into progressive and old art rock stuff. We're a long way from a record deal though!

Still, good job.
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pb · junior member Member # Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 13

great work man, suspendedcity reminded me of pacific 202 by 808 state....

A question for Brian and Shizo - what kind of equipment/programs are you using? anything like reason / pro logic?
and what is your setup like, sequencers etc...?
I;ve only really tried reason.
anyway sorry to deviate

balistic · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:29 pm

Thanks.

I use Orion by Synapse as my sequencer. Riding on top of that I've got a few software synths, a Synapse Junglist and Poly-850, and a LinPlug RM-4 for drums. And I just use Goldwave (lol) for final mastering (not mixing though, that's all done in Orion).

That's a lot less than what most people think they need, but I find that limiting my palette keeps me focused on the music instead of the tools.
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watmough · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:39 pm

wow,balistic!....congratulations,really great!
francis,i play guitar,too....used to teach when i was younger,went to school for jazz,but really i am into classical.

Naeem · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:14 am

balisitc, once again, beautiful work. i really dig them.

Francis · Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:18 pm

Andromeda - cool man, I have much respect for jazz guiatrists!

Brian here's a question for you - how do you go about getting a digital recording of a midi drumtrack? I use cakewalk to put together simple guitar, bass and drum scratch tracks, but I've always had to find a weird kludge to get the midi drums onto the wav file.[/img]
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balistic · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:21 pm

Francis: I don't do a lot of porting MIDI around, because Orion pretty much does everything I need internally. But if I had to guess, I'd say the problem might be that MIDI drums are usually all on one channel, with different notes being different parts of the drum kit. Usually you'd want to feed that channel into a VST or DirectX drum machine capable of linking the right notes with the right drums. Does Cakewalk support VST instruments? My favorite software drum machine is the Linplug RM-IV. It's not dirty cheap, at 150 bux, but it comes with a TON of nicely assembled drum kits. I think it even comes with a bunch of pre-programmed MIDI beats but I've never actually used them.

If you're just doing simple stuff and don't need the huge array of knobs that the RM-IV has, there are probably a number of free VST/DX drum boxes you could use.
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