Alleykat
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Alleykat always quite fascinated me because of its spacey melody and this very strange rhythm feel.
I'm not really sure about this but it almost sounds like Steve Turner had no idea that he composed this song in 6/8 beat and placed the drum instruments just where he found free places in the patterns. Weird result, almost making you feel you're listening to a 4/4-beat!
My approach had some kinda concept:
1. Convert it 1:1 as an enhanced electronical version (including the "wrong" beat)
2. Do it the rocking way with human feel and drums that bring out the real timebase
3. Combine them with some psychedelic part (I call it the "Whole lotta love"-part). It connects both worlds using electronic sci-fi sounds and effects with a live played eighth bass groove.
Further details:
I wanted to let the tune rise dynamically as well cos the lead melody appears three times in both parts.
The electronic part:
1. Lead instrument made of 2 layers sinus waveforms.
2. Lead instrument made of 1 layer sinus, 1 layer square wave with live modulated pulse width. Accompany instruments get to the fore.
3. Lead instrument made of 2 layers square wave with live modulated pulse width. Accompany instruments' low pass filter modulated in higher frequency range.
The guitar part:
1. Lead played with neck pickup.
2. Lead played with bridge pickup and more distortion. Pad added in the background.
3. Lead played with bridge pickup and more extreme phrasing, rhythm guitar is played 'let ring'-style.
I used: My Ibanez RG 7-620 and my new Yamaha RBX-375 5-String bass with Guitar Rig, Battery samples, Reaktor and a few other vst synths.
Hope you enjoy it!
(@ Tank69: Yes, it is!
)
I'm not really sure about this but it almost sounds like Steve Turner had no idea that he composed this song in 6/8 beat and placed the drum instruments just where he found free places in the patterns. Weird result, almost making you feel you're listening to a 4/4-beat!
My approach had some kinda concept:
1. Convert it 1:1 as an enhanced electronical version (including the "wrong" beat)
2. Do it the rocking way with human feel and drums that bring out the real timebase
3. Combine them with some psychedelic part (I call it the "Whole lotta love"-part). It connects both worlds using electronic sci-fi sounds and effects with a live played eighth bass groove.
Further details:
I wanted to let the tune rise dynamically as well cos the lead melody appears three times in both parts.
The electronic part:
1. Lead instrument made of 2 layers sinus waveforms.
2. Lead instrument made of 1 layer sinus, 1 layer square wave with live modulated pulse width. Accompany instruments get to the fore.
3. Lead instrument made of 2 layers square wave with live modulated pulse width. Accompany instruments' low pass filter modulated in higher frequency range.
The guitar part:
1. Lead played with neck pickup.
2. Lead played with bridge pickup and more distortion. Pad added in the background.
3. Lead played with bridge pickup and more extreme phrasing, rhythm guitar is played 'let ring'-style.
I used: My Ibanez RG 7-620 and my new Yamaha RBX-375 5-String bass with Guitar Rig, Battery samples, Reaktor and a few other vst synths.
Hope you enjoy it!
(@ Tank69: Yes, it is!
)
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Reviews
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REVIEW BY OJ Oscillation (14/05/2006) the 1st part comes with a synthetic sound which fit the tune quite well, whereat the rhythm is flowing like kinda odd and interesting.after that the break with the windows sound-gimmick prepares the tune for a very solid rock number. romeo pulls the right stunt with his guitar and squeezes the essence out of the original sid with his superb skills. there`s nothing more to say then : hold ya nuts and let`s rock ! |
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REVIEW BY the_jinx (10/03/2005) I really like the sound of this song !!Anyone else notice the "Windows 98? startup sound" halfway.. |
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Skitz shouts: Loved the original SID and this is a really good remix of it. Dan shouts: Great mix of a great sid, nuff said :) Makke shouts: Weird! LMan shouts: The synth part flows, the rock part rocks - each outstanding in its own way. A bad idea to put them together with little or no transition, IMHO. Original, but bad.:) Tas shouts: A really unusual mix, but I like it :) Waz shouts: Really different, and although it may take some getting used to, well worth perservering. Great stuff. DHS shouts: Original and well sounding the 1st part, but about average. \X/ the second part, as usual from RK. The 2 parts compensate themselves in some way. dumper shouts: Not a fan of the sid, but the quality of Romeo's work here is damn good.
c64glen shouts: Flawless Victory! tko shouts: As mentioned by other here it's a bit of an unusual composition, but damn it rocks. Play it loud. LOUD!:)
infamous shouts: Very enjoyable to listen too eliot shouts: Nice & funny :-) anaconda shouts: First half is utterly crap. Why did you have to bring that in the song. The last half is good. Too bad, the song had potential. _steve_ shouts: The first half, while true to the original, just sounds so wrong. The second half more than makes up for this though OJ Oscillation shouts: Soulfull played rock omoroca shouts: It's an Ok remix. scyphe shouts: It's just as quirky as the original SID, and then slapped with drenching talent. Romeo Knight once again kicks butt!!! vurtx shouts: Awesome work by romeo - everything the guy touches turns to gold!
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