Everything I Had

(had a rough week ended up fucking some shit up while taking shrooms for the first time inbetween me and this girl, the shrooms were fun but i thought since she was a traditional art chick she'd be more open minded about "experimentation" but she wasn't, whatever tho because whenever i feel down i think i always do my best work to pull me up.)

https://www.facebook.com/100009653190902/videos/312083992456705/

work in progress, this is mainly a all analog piece, but I used nexus for the strings, piano, and choir.

only spent 8 hours on it so far.

please note since this video is hosted on facebook, they compress the quality things may sound blown out and ect.

and to all you kids on EB, the lesson here is stay away from drugs and use extreme tact when trying to propose kinky sex practices to art school girls!

instead of eating magic mushrooms yesterday I decided to take my son to ride Thomas the Tank at the Day out with Thomas... all those shrieking toddlers and steam engines with animatronic faces are surprisingly trippy though. no chemicals needed

EDIT: now, out of curiosity, was she objecting to 'impure acts' in the "you want to put that where" sense, or kinky foreplay? because with the art set roleplay, bdsm etc is going to be a much easier sell, though it is unwise to engage in such behavior when intoxicated unless both parties are very experienced and know eachother well in the biblical sense

incidentally, I am not feeling anything from this song, nothing wrong with it sonically, but like your romantic encounter it doesn't go anywhere... a lot of your other dance tunes are vastly superior from a compositional standpoint

Lmao hahaha. Yea basically...

I aim to entertain.

by the way, its nice to see you resurfaced.... I've missed seeing your posts, I always get a kick out of them and enjoy listening to some of your stuff at work

here's my anti "everything I had"

its the direct opposite, prepare to be pummeled, and yes I smashed and cranked the 80hz range on purpose

edit: not sure why the 'emded' is showing me laying a strat and not the guts of my old poly800, there's only a smidgen of guitar in this one used more as a pad

thanks, yea i still lurk around here, i like your track, has a great industrial vibe

finished up my track with 12 hours and 40 minutes

Artwork: http://i.imgur.com/kFjYSpO.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rVmCnR7.jpg

Everything I Had (Stems) 1.33GB http://grahamphisher.com/downloads/EverythingIHad.zip

I don't know what possessed me to post that industrial/jungle track outta the blue.

anyway, stems? looking for remixes?

EDIT:

grabbed your stems and started destroying them....

what's the BPM on this tune Whorse? I am totally going to remix this today

nevermind, just saw the embed... off I go

grabbed your stems and started destroying them....

hellz yea :D id love to hear a remix from you

n yea 128bpm

okey doke, I started mangling your stems.... I am deciding if I want to keep your structure intact or not... my remix policy, especially with house and trance type of stuff like this tune, is to completely ditch the drums and do MY kinda thing with it instead of the typically 4 on the floor beat, but to build the rest of the re-arrangement up using ONLY the existing sounds

though I may block out a few extra parts with the DX7 or ensoniqs on this just to add some digital synth texture and also to build some harmonic density that's only implied in your arrangement... I've done a lot just using your bass synth line already, syncopating a new groove and taking away the crispness... I might be able to knock this out over the weekend

sounds dope

love the dx7 :D i didn't even see that you had one and I looked at your page multiple times, just saw it though.

I got rid of most of my synths at this point to fund some important life issues because I just don't use them that much, but some stuff I can't get rid of

even at my peak I had nothing like your stable!

but the poly800, matrix1000 rack and volca bass had to be sacrificed on the altar of good parenting... given the choice between thinning the guitar herd and thinning the synth herd I usually ditch synths since you can do a lot with very little synth-wise, especially when you have a roland analog, Yamaha FM and a digital wavetable synth as well as tons of plugins

a little sample of where I'm going with this:

it must be going well, because whenever I work on it while my son is awake he's like "No no, this music is too loud!" even when I am monitoring at ridiculously low levels... if its offensive to small children then I am doing my job

I am totally stalled on this remix. now. I just realized what was throwing my groove when I tried to use big chunks from your stem files, they were all a 1/2 step off in FL, and getting them time aligned has changed my perspective on what I can do with it...

Its in Em right?

like: Em - C - Bm - G - Bm - Em repeat or something

I should sit and play it on the piano or guitar with just your bass and drum track to wrap my head around the timing in your original version

gettin' there... I used to be so much faster when I did this for part of my living, its taking me forever just to get something going. At the rate I'm going just warping your sounds and building up my structure I'll probably be balancing the levels for the rest of my adult life!

sorry for the afk, (depression, threw myself into my work got busy working on tht exotic robotics track tht trneded 38 on new and hot on soundcloud.)

send me your stuff solo'd let me try and mix it down, i think itd sound sick as fuck with those drums you got going

[email protected] or drop box or whatever, if you need ftp access to my server let me kno so you can send it. :D

do you use fruityloops? If so, what version are you using?

I actually had something screwey happen with my FL file for the remix and it won't open all of the sudden, but I only have FL on one machine so I can't see if it'll open on another computer

every time I try to reopen the remix the fruity loader freezes, not sure whats up

EDIT: I managed to get the file to open and debug her in FL10 on a shitty laptop, then scoot her back over to the music machine and I am back at it. I need to print some of the non-automated channel effects on these samples....

getting there Whorse....

I'm slow, but....

i do use FL Studio, i hardly use any of the native plugins, I use the waves mercury bundle and sound toys primarliy, i just love the workflow of fl studio, i do get some problems with it tho sometimes that are relative to yours

here's the midi just incase you want it still

bass http://grahamphisher.com/photos/hreahah_0000_Layer%207.jpg

lead http://grahamphisher.com/photos/hreahah_0001_Layer%206.jpg

pad (duh) http://grahamphisher.com/photos/hreahah_0002_Layer%203.jpg

arpgeio (of course) http://grahamphisher.com/photos/hreahah_0003_Layer%202.jpg

it should probably help the process ya know ofc