And educational! 

It's all pop music to me. 

If it's too loud, YOU'RE TOO OLD!!11!! 

If anyone is interested, I need some honest crits on the demos I've done. If you see potential or think they straight out suck, let me know. They took about 6 months and I wrapped them up months ago. The "ante" stuff in the folder was for that Q1 mod I'd uh.. started, and the rest were just demos that I could've always spent alot more time on, but if I was gonna do that I'd of started my CD at that time. They were moreso ideas of where I might've wanted to go.

- http://www.thecarbonflaw.com/music/ (for some MP3's not at the next URL)
- http://www.soundclick.com/thecarbonflaw/

Thanks. 

It's not too loud, it's just too lame =D 

But here it is again, if so:
http://www.epitonic.com/
Free mp3s in all kinds of genres -- not much of that vapid pop faggotry, tho. 

thanks biff! there's some really good stuff there! 

[nt] 

http://www.jesselawrence.com/images/challenge.jpg 

It's pointless, boring, annoying, and basically the equivalent of watching paint dry. It does nothing, says nothing, creates nothing -- it's worse than a campaigning politician who is facing a landslide -- it smacks of desperation, futility and ultimate forgetability. It is shit. 

yes you fric & blitz

I'm sure you're aware that most pop music has compressed waveforms in order to make them sound "better" over as many forms of media as possible (especially shitty radio & tv speakers) ... the interesting part comes into play where this type of compressed sound actually slows the listeners brain down and makes it more susceptible to opinions/advertising/messages etc...

thus making pop music and even more effective advertising tool than originally planned. 

Thank you, Special Agent Mulder. 

Doesn't do anything except make the the sound in question louder without actually raising the volume. While I don't know the physics behind it, I know that's what it does.

"Most pop music" is mixed at the same level as any other kind of music or else it would sound like a blaring TV ad (which utilizes compression by making the ad louder without actually making your volume louder.) Since the biggest pop stars have the best budgets, obviously they have the most experienced engineers, who wouldn't let the album go out sounding anything but perfect.

We already had an exhaustive conversation about "pop" music and what it entails and all I can say is that you should never dismiss any kind of music -- all music has something to say.

I agree that the Britney Spears and commercial hip hop/rap type crap has got to go -- simply because I can't respect the type of people who put out music solely to make money and gain fame.

Good pop music is the type where the artist's intention is to say something and make art for art's sake. Not every person in the world wants to listen to Plastikman or Whitehouse and they take their musical art in small, lyrically adept, somewhat poetic doses. 

is #1 right now in our store...

c'mon after 10 years you gotta give the dude some credit! 

=D 

looks like you misspelt
8==D 

it must hurt to possess a unit like that when you are sliding out. 

This person (guy/girl?) plays the SMB theme on guitar but with the coin noise on harmonics and other stuff.. looks like they forgot the fireworks though

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/marioguitar.wmv 

So I thought I'd get some MIDI files online and play them in my Fantom to see how they sound. Some are interesting some are "what the?".. I was impressed with how "Heart Shaped Box" by Nirvana sounded with the drums and guitars... of course it could be better - I'm not sure who composed the MIDI, and it wasn't explicitly made for the FS, but here it is:

http://www.phait-accompli.com/crap/fs_nirvana.mp3

and some more

Tool - Stinkfist
http://www.phait-accompli.com/crap/fs_stinkfist.mp3

NIN - The Becoming
http://www.phait-accompli.com/crap/fs_becoming.mp3 

that nirvana one sounded very smooth, sounds like a quality keyboard 

Cost me $1500 (originally $2k), but there's an updated version called the Fantom-X for around $2000. I'm gonna dig around for some other potential songs.. any "requests"? 

Still -- you should be using the Fantom to make your own electronica-style stuff :D

Nice though. 

I'm not really into Electronica... although I like Bjork, but alot of that stuffs been done already. I've been using it lately to conceptualise and experiment for the CD I want to release, but it can get frustrating so I've been taking a layed back stance on it and just messing around. Doing that I've found things getting less frustrating and alot more melodies and such start to come, especially on guitar. 

Well it was about time.. occured to me today to load in some DooM midis!

http://www.phait-accompli.com/crap/fs_doom.mp3

3.7 MB - a compilation of 9 songs.

Again, some things aren't going to sound the best because the midis' used GM patches, and those aren't the most realistic, but I didn't want to change anything.. although I did change some drums to ones with a bit more release, they just sound better. 

you may want to check an interview I did with Mathias Grassow, of Nostalgia. He is from Germany, perhaps some here have heard of him. There is a link to clips from the first Nostalgia album and his website.

http://written.phait-accompli.com/interviews/mathias.php