Author Topic: Watcha Been Listening To? (Read 128213 times)

TheNlightenedOne · « **Reply #105 on:** May 18, 2012, 11:08:38 pm »

Referring to CMG's post, the music from Kid Icarus: Uprising is amazing.

Sorunome · « **Reply #106 on:** May 20, 2012, 08:56:48 am »

Recently a lot of omnimaga radio and a lot of wise guys

lkj · « **Reply #107 on:** May 20, 2012, 02:20:14 pm »

Eluveitie and Skrillex

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #108 on:** May 20, 2012, 02:37:12 pm »

Quote from: Art_of_camelot on May 13, 2012, 07:28:02 am

Quote from: BlakPilar on May 11, 2012, 07:39:43 pm
@DJ_O, that sounds pretty good! I'm just still not too big on power metal If you're into We Came As Romans (if you've never heard of them, they're metalcore with clean singing and they have synths in some of their songs), you might like Erra.

@Balanced_Fury, I used to listen to SOAD and Slipknot nonstop lol. Slipknot was actually the band that got me into metal. My still best friend had me listen to "Wait and Bleed" in sixth grade (at that time I listened to Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace; bands like them) and I loved it. I still think their self-titled from 1999 is their best album.

Metal core can be really good. I especially like it when the bands have clean vocals as well. I'll have to check both of those bands out.

@BalancedFury: All of those are great bands.

@Other stuff: I'm really digging the new Dragonforce album, and I really love the new singer. In fact, I'd say I like him better than their old singer. However, I still think Ultra beatdown is my favorite album.

I liked Ultra Beatdown too, but probably due to the video game feel it had. I like the new signer but still getting used to the difference. My favorite DF album was Sonic Firestorm I think, then in second place came the original version of Valley of the Damned (I'm probably one of the very few who prefer the non-remastered release to the 2010 re-release and I think it's due to the higher reverb it seemed to have and maybe because I'm used to listening to lower quality sound from '80s or early '90s power metal)

Anyway what I've been listening to recently is the following:

-Ensiferum (mostly From Afar album. This band is power metal ish but with growling death metal style vocals)
-Almost done with Dragonforce's new album

-Five italo disco songs I recently found
-The Protomen - Light up the Night (probably the only song I like from the band, though)
-Three happy hardcore songs I don't know the artists of, since most old happy hardcore on Youtube lacks the artist name
-The Sound Assasins - Like a Prayer (happy hardcore)
-Cascada - Bad Boy
-Roxette - Fading Like A Flower (one of the very few song I like from that artist)
-Old Yngwie Malmsteem stuff (my favorite song being Rising Force)
-The old TIMGUL Rave mixes

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #109 on:** May 21, 2012, 04:44:31 pm »

Yea, Ultra beatdown was pretty video game influenced, but I also liked that they slowed it down a bit on some tracks as opposed to being all speed all the time. Yngwie Malmsteems's Oddesy album is pretty good overall, best I've heard of him anyhow. The Trilogy album is pretty good as well, but IIRC the singer isn't as good on that album. Early Yngwie albums are also great because they feature Jens Johanssonon keyboard. Jens Johansson went on to join Stratovarious in 1995 and has been their keyboard player since.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #110 on:** May 22, 2012, 08:26:46 pm »

Quote from: Art_of_camelot on May 21, 2012, 04:44:31 pm

Yea, Ultra beatdown was pretty video game influenced, but I also liked that they slowed it down a bit on some tracks as opposed to being all speed all the time. Yngwie Malmsteems's Oddesy album is pretty good overall, best I've heard of him anyhow. The Trilogy album is pretty good as well, but IIRC the singer isn't as good on that album. Early Yngwie albums are also great because they feature Jens Johanssonon keyboard. Jens Johansson went on to join Stratovarious in 1995 and has been their keyboard player since.

Yeah my only gripe about Odyssey is that the sound recording seems kinda different than their 1985 and 88 album and with some headphones, you barely even hear the guitar riffs due to lack of treble and some drum sounds seems to drown out others. I had the same issue with the first Stratovarius album.

I wonder if Yngwie was the first artist to venture into power metal styles? Until I listened to his stuff, I was sure power metal and derivative neo-classical metal stuff started in 1995 or so (since most power metal bands before were more on the heavy/thrash side, especially Blind Guardian)

piexil · « **Reply #111 on:** May 23, 2012, 04:52:01 pm »

Sonata Arctica's new album \m/
Ensiferum
Amon Amarth
Pig Destroyer
Iced Earth
Symphony X

My friend got me into hardcore (And pretty much all electronic music) a few months ago, so:
DJ s3rl
Anything off of Hardcore 'Till I Die (Recon, hixxy, etc)
Nightcore (The group, not the genre)
Rotterdam Terror Corps
Dune
Scooter

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #112 on:** May 23, 2012, 05:53:06 pm »

To be honest, I'M not a big fan of Nightcore, because all Nightcore does is taking eurodance songs then pitch them up to hardcore speed, with absolutely no other modification, then claim the songs as his own. It's the same thing as DJ Rankin and DJ Cammy, except he at least doesn't add extra out-of-sync eminem vocals on top of speeded up songs. Basically, he pretty much steals music (although in most cases the result sounds kinda cool)

I like Hixxy, Scott Brown (1999-2003 stuff), Dune, Scooter ('90s stuff) and s3rl, though. I'm mostly into late '90s happy hardcore and early 2000's UK hardcore personally.

Also I can't wait for the new Sonata's Arctica album. I wonder when it comes out? Because I've checked stores here and it wasn't yet. (although they hard Dragonforce's new album). Also it sucks that Winterheart's Guild is no longer being sold where I live... (every other album are still easily available on a regular basis)

::CMG (UTOPIA):: · « **Reply #113 on:** May 23, 2012, 06:09:34 pm »

Quote from: DJ_O on May 23, 2012, 05:53:06 pm

To be honest, I'M not a big fan of Nightcore, because all Nightcore does is taking eurodance songs then pitch them up to hardcore speed, with absolutely no other modification, then claim the songs as his own.

"Another Night" definitely comes to mind when I hear people say this, but where did "Dam Dadi Doo" come from?

Also, not defending the artist, but if you wanna get technical, a speedcore drum sound and a few new-school synths count as "other modifications". It could be worse though... Nighcore could pull the same shit every other rap/R&B artist is doing by ripping off 90's songs and giving no respect to the original creator whatsoever (Jason Derillo's "Dont Wanna Go Home" ripping off "Show Me Love" by Robin-S, and the more obvious one that has Eminem in it where the "What Is Love" melody and lyrics are taken right from the song... those are just the tip of the iceberg too unfortunately =/ I could go on but I wont, lol)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #114 on:** May 23, 2012, 06:20:37 pm »

I swear I heard Dam Dadi Doo in some eurodance songs before. But yeah I see your point. In the past I did see people remixing songs and not even mention the original artist anywhere. Even here it happened before, although the guy asked my permission to remix the song. Initially he named it Grooving to the Melody but put his name in the artist field. I edited it and changed it to reflect that the original was by me and explained it to him. But normally you only put in your artist name in the title field when you create a cover then mention the original artist in the description or in parentheses and even then some people still mention the original artist in the field then mention theirs after the title, mentionning it's a cover.

Hence why for example in the Omnimaga music player you'll see song names such as "Cirque Du Soleil - Alegria (DJ Omnimaga Happy Hardcore Remix).mp3" instead of "DJ Omnimaga - Alegria (Happy Hardcore Remix)". Of course back in 2007-08 I didn't follow that structure, though, so for example, in TIMGUL rave mixes track lists there migth be some confusion.

However doing this is kinda hard when your song remixes switches to a different music genre entirely. Eg, if I used Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give you Up (DJ Omnimaga Remix), nobody would know it's now UK hardcore instead of pop/disco, so I went with "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (DJ Omnimaga UK Hardcore Remix)" instead, which, however, is very long.

::CMG (UTOPIA):: · « **Reply #115 on:** May 23, 2012, 06:30:20 pm »

Quote from: DJ_O on May 23, 2012, 06:20:37 pm

However doing this is kinda hard when your song remixes switches to a different music genre entirely. Eg, if I used Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give you Up (DJ Omnimaga Remix), nobody would know it's now UK hardcore instead of pop/disco, so I went with "Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (DJ Omnimaga UK Hardcore Remix)" instead, which, however, is very long.

You can always go for "Never Gonna Give You Up (UK Hardcore) - Rick Astley Remixed By DJ Omnimaga". That's the format I use with all of my remixes. I picked up that trick from DM Ashura when he was remixing DDR/BMIIDX songs up the whazoo back in the mid 2000's

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #116 on:** May 23, 2012, 06:32:25 pm »

I guess that can work too. Do you put everything in the title or in the artist field too?

::CMG (UTOPIA):: · « **Reply #117 on:** May 23, 2012, 06:52:35 pm »

Quote from: DJ_O on May 23, 2012, 06:32:25 pm

I guess that can work too. Do you put everything in the title or in the artist field too?

It depends... when it comes to videogame music remixes, I usually slap my name on them with no worries (I.E. "Bloody Tears (Dance The Night Away Remix) - ::CMG (UTOPIA)::"), mostly cause the song choices i pick are from popular video games that everyone as played before (albeit OBSCURE and sometimes BAD videogames, but still, lol), so its automatically known that I'm crediting the videogame that it came from, and I wouldn't claim it as an "original creation" to begin with. However, with actual mainstream media music (I.E. songs from the radio, movies, ect...), thats when I mention the original artist followed by my name as the remixer (I.E. "Dirty Talk (H-Core Clip-Clap Remix) - Wynter Gordan Remixed By ::CMG (UTOPIA)::") just as an insurance policy.

Although, there are other artists that are a little more brave than that. Going back to the DDR/BMIIDX series, take songs like "My Fire" and "Wonderland" by X-Treme for instance. They aren't doing anything different to the original songs they came from, yet at the same time the remakes themselves are unique enough that they can get away with it (hence why people call them "covers" i suppose), since everyone and their grandmother knows that both those songs were originally made in the 70's disco era. The "Dancemania" series (which has over 50+ albums in Japan) is filled with stuff like this. But both the albums, and DDR/BMIIDX games give credits in the credits section (even in the instruction booklet of the games) just for good measure.

So really I guess it just depends on the situation

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #118 on:** May 23, 2012, 07:17:04 pm »

Usually covers are different versions of the originals that don't contain a single sound sample from the original artist work, while remixes contains them.

Talking about Dancemania, I used to have most of it on my computer in 2007, but then it crashed and recently I tried to find Dancemania Classic Speed again, to no avail. It seems those are rare nowadays

::CMG (UTOPIA):: · « **Reply #119 on:** May 23, 2012, 08:16:02 pm »

Quote from: DJ_O on May 23, 2012, 07:17:04 pm

Talking about Dancemania, I used to have most of it on my computer in 2007, but then it crashed and recently I tried to find Dancemania Classic Speed again, to no avail. It seems those are rare nowadays

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