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Long Gone

By Tone Matrix on June 19, 2022 2:38 pm

This week I decided to reopen last week's project to give me a bit of a head start with the thought process.  I think sometimes I overwhelm myself when I start with a blank project.  Even with a template I tend to think of all the possible options, samples, presets, etc... available to me.  Which results in me putting it off even more.  So this was a nice way to skip all that and just focus on letting whatever happens... happen...
Recently Q-Rosh had asked if I liked Radiohead.  I lazily forgot to answer. 
Yes I love them!  And I think I sorta ripped off or at least this was heavily influenced by all the years of RH absorbed into ma brain.  Oddly enough I haven't listened to an album entirely since their last release.  But I think their ending of "Exit Music (For A Film)" is kinda what I was hearing in my head once the Piano was laid down. 
So I added 2 different random walla tracks from freesound.org (highly recommend a visit).  Cut, reversed etc to sorta get that vibe. Hopefully the volume and eq are decent and I didn't leave any harshness in there for those headphone listeners. 
The vibe being:
Saying goodbye to someone or that sinking feeling of getting on a flight when you really just want to stay.

Thanks for reading and listening!  I hope y'all have a nice Father's Day weekend! 

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melancholy and gorgeous

Really like the way the drums fade in and out, like you're kind of hearing them underwater at points. It adds this really interesting dynamic to the melancholy progression.

lovely

I for sure get a Radiohead vibe off of this one.  I recently listened to OK Computer again for the first time in probably years and continue to marvel at the production on it.

The mix on this is really nice. I like how that piano melody is front and center and unchanging, yet we hear a lot of movement behind it between the cut-off effect on the drums and the panned sounds to the side of the central performance. The piano itself is a really nice, gentle progression.

What can I say? Other than this is a beautiful tune! I loved the somber melodies and atmosphere. The subtle use of drums was really great as well!

here you catched marvelous tones of bittersweetness. I can hear your sympathy for Radiohead pianolines.
thank you for the beautiful track.

awe - think you achieved all the feels!

Yeah, hearing the Radiohead influence here. Lovely melody and dreamy accompaniment by those drums fading in and out. Bittersweet.

An haunting melody. I like how the simplicity of the piano brings the vibe home. The drums is creatively mixed, it brings some accents, and instead of being the skeleton of the track, it becomes more like accents of lights here and there. What I like the most of this track is how it succeeds in conveying an emotion, in making the listener stop and reflect as the notes strike a chord in their own memories.

Beautiful track, really like that drone underlying the piano and how those drums creep in and out just enough to let you know they are there but let the piano shine. 

This is such a cool track production-wise.  I love how the drums are interacting with everything else.  They fade in and out but having them predominately in the right ear (I think?) makes them feel almost not part of the rest of the song.

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