Track Notes!
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@numaphlex
Hey brotha,
Went through the tracks you sent and made some notes. Please keep in mind these are just personal notes of which tracks I feel are your strongest ideas and have the most potential. Ultimately you'll have to decide which ones to work on for a cohesive release. Theres a lot of ground to cover, different styles and different genres, which can be a good thing because there's plenty of directions to choose from... the downside being it could also make things difficult to decide what you really want to work on.
as Electhrottle
61.5 E - Introspek v1 - 2024
Love the acid lines, very well done. The chords progression feels off though, almost like it doesn't belong in the same space. The pads themselves are fine but the chord structure needs to be fleshed out better to support the bassline.137 - Escape v1 - 2024
Some potential here with the groove which needs to be fleshed out a little more but the constant chord changes are a bit distracting and don't feel like they resolve.137 - Hydraulix v1 - 2026
Groove is great on this one but its missing a melodic element to build and release tension.137 - NXVM v1 - 2026 & 137 - NXVM v2 - 2026
This has a great vibe, electro funk isnt something I really hear much these days which is a shame because it really moves you and this has that in spades. Personally I feel this has the most potential in this group. You'd be really pushing into a territory that isn't over saturated which is great and that has plenty of potential for carving out a space. Personally, I would take both versions and fuse them into one track. Overall though, I think NXVM 1&2 are your strongest in this bunch, and you could even mix in Hydraulix into NXVM to add a change up somewhere in the track for a middle 8 or 16 bar switch upas GESSiKA
128 - Cold ft Vanilla Ice - 2024
Fantastic fucking vibe, LOVE the Vanilla Ice samples, thats not someone most producers would consider sampling but you flipped it, it sounds HARD lol... this one is ripe for potential especially since it already sounds solid as stripped back as it is. This could be a real winner.128 B - Celso BJ - I See You (2-Step Trevas Printed Remix) - 2024
Great vibe, sound selection is solid overall, but the off key pattern that comes in at around 1:30 and throughout is distracting and kills the vibe. It does work well rhythm wise with the beat but from a melodic stand point I dont feel it works or service the rest of the track128bpm Am - Haunted ft Riya - 2020
Beautiful atmosphere, the intro vocals feel a bit long. The beat itself is great and adds a lot to the atmosphere but gets very repetitive. Overall though this one has some good bones, just needs the arrangement to be tweaked a bit to build and release tension a bit more.as NUMAflex
130 - Think Break v1 - 2023
The vibe on this one is fantastic, beautiful tension with those strings in the background, on vibe alone this one has great potential, just needs to be fleshed out137 - Ping Break v1 - 2026
Some potential here but needs to be fleshed out more50.5 - Crazy v1 - 2026
Love the It Takes Two sample, starts off pretty solid but starts to get a bit repetitive until that tempo switch up, which is not a bad thing but its just mirroring what came before just slower so it still gets repetitive. Personally, I think theres something here, just needs to be fleshed out more in the arrangement to keep the groove from getting stagnant125 - Arpeggiator Amen Break 2 - 2026
Not much going on in this one, amen tunes are a bit hard to pull off these days just because amens have been so overdone and when you have one in a track you definitely want to bring something different137 - I Love Acid Ping Break v1 - 2026
Too short and not enough in this one to make a a good assessment. Right now it just feels a bit thrown together140 - The Lion v1 - 2026
Nice vibe, great sounds and atmosphere but needs to be fleshed out moreas Trevor Treva
60 - Intensity v1 - 2026
Goddaaammmnnn!!! Fucking amazing vibe, gorgeous atmosphere all the way through. It really is lovely dude, even at 2 minutes long it flows. You could easily keep it as is or extend it, it sounds like a finished track. My personal favorite in the in the entire bunch -
it kinda boils down to what i told you about harmony and theory, that i don't know what buttons/keys to press, i didn't grasp all of it yet, i even bought a "for dummies" book in pt-br so i could fully understand that shit, and that's where i felt i should hold and go back on that. i think (i might be wrong) but i think that's what's im missing, could be more than that also, but i always looked back as that to the piece im missing.
50.5 - Crazy v1 - 2026
Love the It Takes Two sample, don't tell anyone its dave matheus band - crush lmao, if you thought vanilla was not conventional... that one was put together like that but i agree it does needs more. i was sampling pieces like those used by Todd Edwards, where he does a full melodic line using dfferent chord pieces from different instruments... and ended up with that. need to work on the drums and the rest.the idea of showing all my drafts was to show that i can transit between all that and some projects do have their own feeling. i mean, when you look at the tracks as whole together.
since you liked this one
130 - Think Break v1 - 2023
The vibe on this one is fantastic, beautiful tension with those strings in the background, on vibe alone this one has great potential, just needs to be fleshed outwe could try that for the side b i think its still 'on topic' whatchu think?
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it kinda boils down to what i told you about harmony and theory, that i don't know what buttons/keys to press, i didn't grasp all of it yet, i even bought a "for dummies" book in pt-br so i could fully understand that shit, and that's where i felt i should hold and go back on that. i think (i might be wrong) but i think that's what's im missing, could be more than that also, but i always looked back as that to the piece im missing.
50.5 - Crazy v1 - 2026
Love the It Takes Two sample, don't tell anyone its dave matheus band - crush lmao, if you thought vanilla was not conventional... that one was put together like that but i agree it does needs more. i was sampling pieces like those used by Todd Edwards, where he does a full melodic line using dfferent chord pieces from different instruments... and ended up with that. need to work on the drums and the rest.the idea of showing all my drafts was to show that i can transit between all that and some projects do have their own feeling. i mean, when you look at the tracks as whole together.
since you liked this one
130 - Think Break v1 - 2023
The vibe on this one is fantastic, beautiful tension with those strings in the background, on vibe alone this one has great potential, just needs to be fleshed outwe could try that for the side b i think its still 'on topic' whatchu think?
@numaphlex
To be honest man, you have so much potential here and some really great ideas. I think that's a real testament to you as a producer is that you're flexible and you can flow between different styles. Stylistically, the 130 - Think Break v1 - 2023 would definitely fit well and it has that old school vibe that would sit perfectly alongside the 170 version. They share similar dna so that would make for a very cohesive ep.
RE: harmony and theory, lets talk about this more in the next session. This is something I personally had a hard time getting to grips with myself, and I'd like to learn more about how you approach it so I can understand better where youre at.
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This is something I personally had a hard time getting to grips with myself, and I'd like to learn more about how you approach it so I can understand better where youre at.
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thats the problem, when it come to this im a trickster/joker because, since i dont know like how to put up a song in "X" key, i know myself around shit like ableton midi devices, (so i kinda know how to fake until i make - tune a kick to the dominant bass note, which usually is F for instance) how to chord and to be at scale, kinda hacker approach, which i know true to my heart that it isnt "proper".
i had guitar classes at younger age, also never could grasp shit, just played the fave riffs from fave bands and thats all. almost recently i tried piano classes, but dude was aiming at me playing at bars at night, even tho i had made clear, that i wanted to know how to chord progression, how to navigate and build, improvise and all that, dominate intentional dissonance and all that. i had to drop off when he kinda dared me that i was spending my money wrong.. not what i wanted. i kinda just got to know how to read, kinda just that, cause you had that book with tunes and you had to sit and play at the piano. just that from that course.
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[quote data-userid="1" data-postid="164"]
This is something I personally had a hard time getting to grips with myself, and I'd like to learn more about how you approach it so I can understand better where youre at.
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thats the problem, when it come to this im a trickster/joker because, since i dont know like how to put up a song in "X" key, i know myself around shit like ableton midi devices, (so i kinda know how to fake until i make - tune a kick to the dominant bass note, which usually is F for instance) how to chord and to be at scale, kinda hacker approach, which i know true to my heart that it isnt "proper".
i had guitar classes at younger age, also never could grasp shit, just played the fave riffs from fave bands and thats all. almost recently i tried piano classes, but dude was aiming at me playing at bars at night, even tho i had made clear, that i wanted to know how to chord progression, how to navigate and build, improvise and all that, dominate intentional dissonance and all that. i had to drop off when he kinda dared me that i was spending my money wrong.. not what i wanted. i kinda just got to know how to read, kinda just that, cause you had that book with tunes and you had to sit and play at the piano. just that from that course.
@numaphlex Bro if someone asked me to create a real chord progression on the fly I wouldn't know where to start. I know basics, if that, but you really don't need much. I can show you some tricks I use to help me but believe me, its not complicated at all for what we're doing. I was trying to find a few tutorials I made for a friend to help him get started, but theyre not very detailed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ALv7FQd9r8vP1hvASCp8YjmHpTdelpzO/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xWWfYhrfwWrsI-61nzG-86aWZQS86VAX/view?usp=drive_link
Probably not that useful, but I'll see if I can find better ones and we can talk more about it in the next meeting. Talk soon!
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