Leonard Smalls

Finally finished mine... [url="https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/dance-until-you-drop"]https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/dance-until-you-drop[/url]

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1415193091' post='2597652'] You may indeed sir , but you are likely to find that it sounds more like boney M with an Anthea and Donna influence [/quote] Uptown Top Ranking in the Ring? Strictly Rasputin?

Been off today so I've laid down bass, drums and keys. Not only that but I've also written lyrics. Unfortunately my singing is so bad it'll take a month just to do sufficient retakes and to plaster over the bum notes'n'stuff with reverb and backwards noises to disguise the awfulness of it... Perhaps I should stick with instrumental!

Inspiration for those taking part in this month's Basschat Composition Challenge: [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYKYYjk0Lq8[/MEDIA]

Nice!

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1415043341' post='2596080'] Here, then, is my entry... [color=#0000cd][u]'Last days of Disco'...[/u][/color] Enjoy. [/quote] I like the influence of Cage in this piece... And Mr Lurks, may I suggest a cross of Divine and Wang Chung with a touch of Sylvester and Chic?

The pic is called "Last Days of Disco", and was taken at the legendary Studio 54 night club in New York...

{Hollywood mode]I'd like to thank my manager, M Ableton, everybody who voted for me and my ma and pa {breaks down in tears}[/Hollywood mode] Cheers all - I've PMed a pic to Skol... It's called "The Last Days of Disco"

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1414666486' post='2591952'] [url="http://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/the-difference-engine"]‘The Difference Engine’, from Leonard Smalls...[/url] The bass is now bopping along nicely with false modulations to trick us into thinking we're changing key. "Key..? What is this 'key' of which you speak..?" seems to be the premise behind the uncontrolable trombone which has decided to taunt us. Vive la difference. Douglas [/quote] Nice review - perhaps I should have sent a slightly larger cheque? And the bass does sneakily change key by a semi-tone, then just as sneakily goes back! The trombone, however, was played by a well-known anarchist for whom the bourgeois concept of key is anathema...

Cheers! Looks like my effort this month is slightly better received than last month's appalling racket. This one's just a racket...

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1414522184' post='2590239'] Lovely that you're doing these reviews, Dad [/quote] Aye! And presumably my cheque arrived?

Tis all pretty darned good so far!

Eek!

I could do with a van like that!

Nice!

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5MXlAAsRVY[/MEDIA]

"Maggie" by the Exploited!

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1412704283' post='2571183'] as for latin I have no recall whatsover [/quote] If you look up the active indicative conjugation for the verb [i]ducere[/i] you'll see why I remembered it, and why I'm not going to finish it in a post! Alternatively, ask your brother - I'll bet he remembers it to... However, I might add that mentally I never got past 15.

I remember Jonah handing in dirty mags instead of homework to her... Duco, ducis, ducit stayed in my memory as well!

I wouldn't dream of slipping in any innuendo. Being brought up as a Catholic meant that large parts of my youth were spent at Catechismm under a priest. We were taught to be upstanding and not smutty!

Cheers! But what's IBTL?

I got inspired (arguably!) and with some crazy 'boning by a local jazzist, produced this: [url="https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/the-difference-engine"]https://soundcloud.com/dredd-and-the-badass-weed/the-difference-engine[/url] For a change I used both Wal and Sandberg basses with plenty of effects to disguise them!

[url=http://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Adam-F5-Active-Studio-Monitors-Pair/N48?origin=product-ads&gclid=CNDzpIPnlcECFabMtAod6QgAng]Adam[/url] make some of the best studio monitors. At this price you'll never get earth-shaking bass but those will give you a good idea of what's there! And don't get anything like Yammy NS10s. They were designed as a worse-case speaker - if you can get it to sound good on those they'll sound good on anything. They over-emphasise the treble so they're screechy like a banshee - they're almost always used in conjunction with a good main monitor!

Still considering - all have considerable merits! And big thanks to Bilbo for voting for my "song"... I was kind of expecting [i]nul points[/i]...

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1411147122' post='2556992'] [size=3]([i]Although, leg-pulling aside, [/i]y[/size][i]ou're probably going to get far more votes than me, so what would I know..! [/i][size=3])[/size] [/quote] I'm going for the Christmas no.1! And you'll be pleased to hear I deleted 2 extra drum tracks as well as 2 drone tracks... I'll listen to a bit less Derek Bailey and Company before next month.