Electronica.MY

I created something for Malaysian Electronica @ SoundCloud

Electronica.MY

This group aimed to collect and gather Malaysian electronica artists & producers. To share tracks and ideas. To build a support community of like-minded people and passion. Any genre with Electronica substance are welcome.

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Gloomy Sunday

Note: This a depressive and mysterious song by Reszo Seress, that caused many deaths and suicides in the early 20th century. Some said it is a cursed song. Know more about it here and more detail here.

My fav retake of the song is by Sinead O’Connor which uses the revised ‘radio-friendly’ lyrics and orchestral composition. The original was VERY haunting and doomy. Here is the original lyric plus a few other translation.

You can listen to the song at Imeem free MP3 preview. Recommended remake by: Elvis Costello, Sinead O’Connor (orchestral) and Sarah McLachlan. One artist did record the original composition & lyrics in english – look for Diamanda Gallas @ Imeem. Be warned, this version is true to the original cursed composition…

Rezső Seress, the composer, jumped to his death from his flat in 1968.

Gloomy Sunday (revised)

Sunday is gloomy,
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coaches
Sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Wouldn’t they be angry
If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy sunday

Gloomy is sunday,
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and i
Have decided to end it all
Soon there’ll be candles
And prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep
Let them know that I’m glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death I’m caressing you
With the last breath of my soul
I’ll be blessing you

Gloomy sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is telling you
How much I wanted you

Gloomy sunday

Goodbye Horses – Q Lazarus

a beautiful symmetry.
a grotesque scenery.
a haunting song.

-------- Q Lazarus --------
a very unknown band.
a very low-key female vocalist.
always misunderstood as a male singer.

-------- Silence of the Lambs scene ---------
underground cellar.
Goodbye Horses playing in background.
a naked man, a serial killer.
dancing, imitating his female self.
put on lipstick and admire self.
"Do you wanna fuck me?"
"I want to fuck me"

Goodbye Horses - Q Lazarus
You told me, I see the rise
But, it always falls
I see them come, I see them go
You say, "All things pass into the night"
And I say, "Oh no sir I must say you're wrong
I must disagree, oh no sir, I must say you're wrong"
Won't you listen to me

You told me, I've seen it all before
I been there, I've seen my hopes and dreams
Lying on the ground

I've seen the sky just begin to fall
And you say, "All things pass into the night"
And I say, "Oh no sir, I must say you're wrong
I must disagree, oh no sir, I must say you're wrong"
Won't you listen to me

Good-bye horses, I'm flying over you
Good-bye horses, I'm flying over you
Good-bye horses, I'm flying over you
Good-bye horses, I'm flying, flying, flying over you

Fragile new songs

I've decided to release my new songs to the public for the first time.
These 3 songs are what I call perpetual beta. I'll never satisfy to finally called it FINAL.
Well, have a listen and comments & critics are welcome.

FRAGILE NEW SONGS

Bought a floor unit!

Yep I did it again. I bought a Zoom G9.2tt floor unit guitar fx yesterday. My mission and objective that day was to test out studio nearfield monitor, possibly buying one, but got meself in trouble testing out the G9.2tt at Chambers Music. It is shiny, sturdy, sexy, and ofcourse sound great! So I bought it. I'll get that monitor some other time :)

First of all, I've been checking out the Zoom guitar fx series for quite a while, targeting the lower range G7.1ut but that was out of stock. So I saw a bigger, sexier G9 on the shelf....just to test out the features and sound you know....

The G9 got TWO vacuum tubes (12AX7) - 2 actual physical tube! One is pre (input) preamp, the other is post fx (output). Since it got real tube, the warmth and organic tone - which is somewhat lacking in software emulations - are apparent once i turned up the tubes' knob to get warm saturation and solid state sweetness.

The amp & cabinet simulation was great considering the price range (RM1550). I haven't tested it extensively but it sound as good (or better when combined with the real tube preamp) than Guitar Rig 2 or Amplitube 2 software emulation plugins.

It have a lot of fx modules and 5 simultaneous configuration. Obviously, you can't beat soft-emus over the shear number of unlimited modules & configuration. But the G9.2tt is more than adequate for a lot of guitarist - both in studio/rehearsal and live on stage.

What i like about it is that the layout is based on hardware amp-head (aka preamp combo/stack). The topmost area housed a row of knobs. You get the usual Gain, Level, Bass, Mid, Treble, Presence. This can be tweak live, just like real thing while busy wowing the crowd :)

On the top left, you get the usual LED + screens. But there is another row of knobs beneath for editing the EFX module. This is also tweakable live - like having stomp-boxes and fine-tuning the [parameters...or simply playing with the knobs for special fx is always fun - like tweaking Boss Digital Delay's parameters creating dreamy out of this world fx :)

Oh I forgot to mention that it have 2 pedals. One is typically a Volume pedal, the other is Expression/Mod controller. The catch is, there is another sliding (horizontally) pedal on top of Pedal2. This is like having a Vector XY controller in synths!

AND ohhh, the respond time between changing patch is 5ms!!!! no more silence in-between patch! OK i will stop writing now and get back on playing it :)

SONAR 8 is out!

Oh man, these days software development is faster than human learning curve - or atleast for people in the mid-thirties. I still haven't completely toured SONAR 7's new feature...

Cakewalk SONAR 8
Producer Edition - $619 US Dollar
Studio - $369 US Dollar

Watch the Youtube product vlog

It seem Sonar 8 is a much more efficient performance-wise (30% general performance gain) rather than laden with new features. Beside performance tweaks, which is quite a few, the one I like is the Dedicated Instrument track. It used to create 2 tracks for a virtual instruments which i feel a bit clunky to handle on large tracks. Now it's a single track. yeay! The Live Bounce sounds good too but i rarely bounce tracks but its good to know now its a single step action. On this line, with Anytime Recording you can now Arm track to record while track is playing, something Sonar users will feel like a removal of small splinter in the butt :). Most of the enhancements are previously minor irritation but now ironed out like the automatic Bus Inputs Quickgroup - no more adjusting ALL guitar tracks using FX Send 3 one by one. Cool.

Enough of the mediocre updates, let's move on to juicier new features.

Sonar 8 now include Beatscape - a loop manipulation and realtime triggering/performance. Maybe its something like Sonar's Cyclone which is already an excellent loop manip plugin. But seem it has more of a synth approach with filters and all. Cool.

Sonar now have a full Dimension Pro included. This is good since Dimension is an awesome sample/synthesis plugin. Also included is NI Guitar Rig 3 LE - wow this is avery welcome addition! Even though its only Limited Edition, GR3 will wet any axeman's tight pants anytime! Awesome amp sim modelling. We also see a lot more xx-64 plugins which started with the excellent LP-64 mastering plugins.

All in all, this iteration is not something to run-around-the-house-shouting about. New instruments can't really be called an 'upgrade'. It feel more like a beef-up rather than a version iteration. But I guess Cakewalk is concentrating more 'under-the-hood', tweaking performance and cleaning up codes for a better, stabler product - which is a VERY good point already. I just hope the performance tweak be as good as what on paper.

The Cure - Untitled

No other song have this effect on me; a feeling of lost & regret, of giving up hope & dreams, of broken past & uncertain future. Just simply wanted to stop everything and drop dead.



The Cure - Untitled
(Disintegration 1989)

hopelessly drift in the eyes of the ghost again
down on my knees and my hands in the air again
pushing my face in the memory of you again
but i never know if it's real
never know how i wanted to feel

never quite said what i wanted to say to you
never quite managed the words to explain to you
never quite knew how to make them believable
and now the time has gone
another time undone

hopelessly fighting the devil futility
feeling the monster climb deeper inside of me
feeling him gnawing my heart away hungrily
i'll never lose this pain
never dream of you again