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weeeeell! no dp fadc but the damage is nice

thanks guys. blue, you and me both bro. definitely feelin that line too roetaka. shing02 puts the lyric in lyrical. to meteo and anyone else, you can help support me by simply spreading the word! much love

i'm completely floored by the response this has gotten. a big thanks to everyone for putting this smile on my face. much love and stay tuned for the album release on the 31st!

absolutely free!

we're good, thanks for the concern! shing is genuinely encouraging of people using his acapellas. he also personally hosts them on his site. i didn't get your message on youtube, could you shoot it to me again? back to the music though, i appreciate the kind words man and hope you get a copy of the album

luv (sic) part 5 is live! make sure to watch in hd!

i almost read that as dumbbeat

gonna unveil the first completed track off the new album tonight, featuring the mastering work of our very own sixto! stay posted.

hey dude, not near a guitar at the moment so i can't give you an absolute transcription but this should be relatively (in the musical sense) accurate. the song sounds like it uses the phyrigian dominant mode, which is derived from the harmonic minor scale yngwie malmsteen loves so much. i'm guessing your timestamp is referring to that little exotic descending run? if so, that lick is best played across two strings, especially if you want to alternate pick every note. the tab, in the key of e harmonic minor (start with an up-stroke): e -14-12-11----11------------------- b --------------13----13-12-11-12- all you have to do is transpose the 14th fret to whatever the actual first note of the run is, and the rest follows! good luck!

i'm used to low forwards getting stuffed for free, my strong dps trading with jump-ins, and lack of whip tatsu making turtling against characters with super safe pressure that much more risky where your salt at

yea, appreciate it dude! i told him i already found someone.

wow, really stunned by the interest. my deepest thanks to everyone there is some unfortunate news though: the album has been delayed till the 31st. a couple of my people need some more time to work, though you will have a much better end product for your patience!

hey thanks guys! spread the love!

thanks so much for your comments guys! making this piece was a huge pleasure and as always, a learning experience for me. big ups to amaterasu as well for his masterful violin playing. yes, there is an album in the works! check it here: http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread.php?t=36932. gonna drop october 7th, so relatively soon. also, if i could call your attention over to 4:04.. any ideas as to what that is?..

edit (10/31): due to an overwhelming response from my supporters, we have exceeded bandcamp's monthly bandwidth cap. to circumvent this and keep the momentum alive, the album is now available through my mediafire account. grab it here: http://tinyurl.com/singularityalbum facebook event page (invite your friends!): http://www.tinyurl.com/singularityfacebook _____________________ singularity is a soulful blend of hip-hop and jazz, and the distillation of the transformativeness of much in my recent life. the style of the album is inevitably a synthesis of all my big inspirations: nujabes, yngwie malmsteen, motoi sakuraba, yoko kanno, and the list goes on. for those unfamiliar, the album carries some serious overtones of both jazz and hip-hop (big nod to nujabes), though i've injected much of my own flavor into the mix. there is a touch of electronica. and the gratuitous guitar solo. check the album at www.intheori.bandcamp.com much love and God bless, peter kim/in theory sig:

update, mostly of the samples. they've been trimmed and replaced with higher quality rips. didn't know the recording was of del close and john brent.

whaaaaaaaaaaaat the, have you noticed part of ryu's theme from street fighter sits on the gerudo chord progression pretty nicely?

thanks for the reply bro, what about them makes them sound fake? is it just the sample? thanks drakken, rukunetsu. shing is def one of my favorite rappers. and yea, i'll upload an instrumental version for you as soon as the track is finished

thanks man, do those violas sound at all realistic to you? i had a hard time getting ewqlso to sound anywhere near decent haha

happy birthday man, here's to another year of your great music

final update?? the rap is courtesy shing02 and the spoken word is a sample of an old radio interview. op updated with the link

huge update. op updated

i think angelcityoutlaw summed it up aptly. the track evokes a sense of serenity and wonder in me, and paints the enchanted forest as this sort of paradisaical destination of one's lifelong spiritual pilgrimage, or something like that! all this imagery is more enhanced by the chirping bird samples that bookend your mix. at any rate i have already listened to this around five times and i just keep finding more and more to like about it. there are a few areas though that i feel do a disservice to your artistic vision, like specks of dust on an otherwise perfectly specular surface. - the melody around 0:58 is a bit loud. though i'm on sennheiser hd280s and not studio monitors you might want to look into the levels. - the disconnected attacks on your melody's pickup notes at 0:58 come off as unwelcome intrusions rather than conscious compositional decisions. that harmonic leitmotif, the cascading arpeggios, shimmering pad, and heavenly choir, all of which are articulated by subdued synths, cohesively lay a harmonic foundation for your piece that is simply celestial. so when 0:58 kicks in, the impression isn't really that of tasteful contrast or phrasing, but of a group of notes that stand in lone opposition. your lead synth sample clearly has the capability to portmanteau consecutive notes, and i definitely think minimizing the presence of distinct attacks wherever your melody is more verbose (for lack of a better word) will serve this song well. - speaking of, the sample is in desperate need of some presence. whenever your melody finds those beautiful notes to temporarily rest on, there is this homophonic consonance formed with the chords that seems downplayed by a lack of any enduring to the melody's notes. you can definitely reverse that with some nice reverb. in a song like this your lead synth needs to be especially wet man anyway that's just my two cents. take my advice with a grain of salt and whether this gets posted on ocr or not, it has already found a permanent spot in my own library.

man i knew your name sounded familiar. peeped your game over mario and shiki no uta mixes a couple days back and couldn't remember where i heard rukunetsu before haha. anyway, your stuff is pleeeeenty dope