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Paleface Makes Some Music

21:20 / 03.01.03

In September, before this current time, I finished working on a demo-CD of sorts of this dreadful kind of advert-music (that wants to be laid-back/chilled hip-hop) which I make. It was recorded over about a year, and in that time equipment, skills and general competence got a lot better, so the later tracks are more worthwhile. But basically: there's a low-fi version available on line. By lo-fi, I mean 22khz mono mp3. Not very good quality, but good for a quick listen to get the gist, and at under 1.5mb per track, very downloadable (and it's streamable if you can't even be arsed to download).

It sounds rather lush at points in hifi, and I was quite proud of the acheivement. Am currently working on far better things than this.

Anyhow, if you'd like to listen to the sound of a Channel 4 documentary or whatever, just make with the clicky and scroll down for details of "Industry". I appreciate it's terrible - but if you want high-quality files on CD, drop us a PM. I was pleased with it at the time, and it's definitely going somewhere now. (Chronology: Solar Power/Rainy Days, first, FLF remix and Dub for Rothko last. Most godawful track: The Sting, do skip it if you can).

20:37 / 06.01.03

Funky.

I like The Sting. What does that say about me?

21:02 / 06.01.03

Oh, not a lot. I quite liked it too, at the time, but it's a bit... cheesy. And an excuse to flex some piano chops. A bit wanky in that respect, you see.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:09 / 06.01.03

I meant to post earlier, but I'd heard some of this stuff previously when Paleface had been workshopping it, and I wanted to give it a big thumbs-up.

S'all good.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:21 / 07.01.03

I quite like it too - the trouble with music that's designed to be laid-back, chilled-out etc is that if it's doing what it's supposed to do, you won't really notice it. Which I found was often the case, but as I say, if that's what yr aiming for then consider it a success (actually this sounds really like faint praise, sorry about that). It's certainly far from dreadful, and there was at least one maddeningly familiar sample which I can now not remember the origin of but was sure I knew when I heard it (I always like those).

21:39 / 07.01.03

Sure, Flyboy. I understand that entirely - it's just I want it to do a little more than just become elevator music, and I'm aware that that album is really handy as elevator music, but there's not enough of interest, yet. That's partly because I need to master the instruments and skills a bit more; the new stuff at the moment is leagues ahead of some of the earliest tracks there, which I wrote in late 2001.

The maddening sample is the guitar riff from "There's No Other Way", probably, turned into dodgy David-Holmes-esque funk. I apologise wholeheartedly.

22:16 / 07.01.03

For some reason, I get the "page not found" when making with the clickety.

11:51 / 08.01.03

I could access it today, so gave The Sting, Dub For Rothkoid and Solar Power a quick listen through...

Might I say, as a lover of most of Aprel Records' output (Future 3, Dub Tractor, Double Muffled Dolphin, Tokyo Combo, etc.), you check with them?

Link here.

You are cool.

12:02 / 11.01.03

Well, whilst I posted that, I have been working on other stuff this vacation. And have a new track up. This isn't a change of direction, just an experiment - house-liking friends have long suggested I do something a little housier, so I tried it. And came up with this:

Paleface vs Liberty X - Just A Little (Fazed Out Remix)

Basically, I had the a capella, I had the idea, I worked out how to program the drums, and woosh. You can download or stream the lo-fi version from that link; I'm cagey about uploading hi-fi stuff after people had things downloaded and released by others. Low-fi is entirely unreleasable, but you get the gist quite well.

I'm rather pleased with this one...