Thank you Lee!
@Michael_Urquhart thank you as well Michael!
Hi Everyone! I could use feedback for this new track of mine, mostly because I can struggle to find peace in a track when it’s nearly completed. I can’t decide if it needs anything else or not. But this track was sparked by a recent trip I took, looking back in the past on some car drives, and all this talk on pedals. It’s my first track where just about every part is now from live instruments, and will feature the marvelous @jordonez6 on the bass here soon. It’s taking a major shift from my solo piano project, and going back to my roots of indie electronic music (@christianhenson will have to forgive my hi hat rhythms), but I am already very excited for the future of this project (not yet mixed/mastered): https://on.soundcloud.com/Nu0bFU6IgsPBLtNNZm
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This is awesome. I love the ever-ramping intensity that somehow remains chill throughout, very much zone-out-y music I could listen to on a long bus ride.
And you’re telling me this is isn’t even its final form??
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That sounds great to me as it is, Noah. It has an immediacy that you don’t want to lose through over-production. I don’t get the crack about Christian and hi-hats, mate, what’s wrong with those rhythms?
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The hat is a bit of a blend between live drums and 909’s, it’s meant a bit more as a joke as he’s not the biggest fan of 909 hats
Ah, didn’t know how Christian felt about 909 hats and that they’re a blend explains the odd attack they have. I have no experience of drum machines, being a drummer I have little use for them, but was the Roland 909 the first machine to use real samples for hi-hats, in this case a mismatched Paiste/Zildjian pair?
Dreamy 
Very much car roof down in the sunshine (not that I can ever do that)
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Hi Noah,
Really enjoyed this, I could definitely see this being music to drive to. The bass rhythm is great (look forward to seeing what Jay does with it!) but there is always that cool chilled synth backdrop that keeps it mellow. As HexaCryonic already said, it’s hard to believe this isn’t already a finished product. 
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That shivery build up from 1.15 onwards is very effective Vishen. Excellent piece!
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This was great Noah! I’m looking forward to the live bass being added but agree with others that it feels complete already!
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Thank you very much Ali!
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This is Beautiful Michael, Well done !
Ditto the other lovely comments 
Loving the way different time signatures interact towards the end too (if my ears are serving me correctly) - such a great way to bring together the guitars and cello
Really loved this! So detailed! I loved how you used all that amazing sound design as instruments to mess with the tonal centre, and then brought in that inspired organ line towards the end, and how you structured it to have dynamic shape and space to be intense and to breathe alongside that… it was like an orchestral piece with all the detail of a symphony, but made with found sounds - super clever and really emotionally impactful! Thank you for sharing!
I’m buying the album! 
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‘The 1983’ - a take on 1980s ‘post punk’
Hi Guys
1983……….and then there was Post-Punk - 4AD were rocking it with Cocteau Twins, John McGeogh left Siouxsie and the Banshees and was replaced by Robert Smith moonlighting from The Cure, and Peter Hook was redefining the bass (with Joy Division and New Order) - and I turned 20 and started writing songs……..
https://soundcloud.com/user-292096597/the-1983
This song actually has me playing real guitars x 4 and real Bass x 3 (for a change) along with the VIs.
As always, feedback and constructive criticism is very welcome and appreciated.
Lee
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Thanks for sharing, Lee, that’s a marvelous rendition of the music of our youth (I’m two years older). For me that just caught the style perfectly. The Hyaena line-up of the Banshees and Hooky with that Eccleshall custom hollow-body… what memories.
Thank you Ros! I have to admit I mainly used sounds from the newly released Korven library from Orchestral Tools along with Grimm and Heavyocity Dystropia. The organ you mentioned hearing is actually a hurdy gurdy, I do like my folk instruments used in such a way! I’m glad you liked it though!
Stephen, that’s it exactly
Plus rather a lot of Cocteau’s 
Thanks for the great comments. Lee
I recognised some of the sounds from guy michelmore’s recent spooky music video, but it’s how you used them I loved - really creative tonally. Orchestral tools’ own write up for Korven is sort of cautioning that it’s not the easiest library to use - this is a great advert for it! Thanks again for the inspiring share