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Originally Posted by Severian
This is Fucking incredible. Seriously. This is the kind of shit I spend hours on obscure electronic music sites digging through shit to find. I loved the entire thing, from beginning to end, and I have no criticisms.
However, you said you wanted feedback, so as a fan of this kind of music, I will tell you what stood out most for me:
(~6:47 to ~7:50) — I was already enjoying myself immensely, but I peeked up quite a bit right around here. The vocal sample (if I'm hearing it right?) seemed to add a new dimension to the music.
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Thanks. Is there really a vocal sample? I know there's one important one at around 15:00 (by my Iranian friend who talks about some serious shit), but here I'm not so sure, what the sample really was.
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Originally Posted by Severian
(~10:26 to ~15:00) — I love this... the hypnotic quality of the kind of chopped up arpeggio is just beautiful. This section really reminds me of something... some artist or song that I love the shit out of... but it's eluding me right now. Could it be Boards of Canada? I kinda don't think so, and if it is I can't think of the track that this brings to mind. I'm not saying it's derivative — just that the sound (which I can't identify because as much as I love bleeps and bloops I know fuckall about synths and equipment) is familiar. Can you speak at all to your inspiration for this segment of the track?
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This is quite a tough question actually. But lately I've been listening to the sort of more traditional ambient stuff (that I had loathed previously) like Tangerine Dream, Steve Roach and the like, so I guess this could be an inspiration for this live track. Plus, I play the wonderful Analog Four synthetizer and it's capable of nice analog arpeggios and bass sounds like these, so I wanted to make the most out of it.
Anyways, these tracks won't end up on any record (except the first one, which I really like), they're mostly just fun stuff to play live.
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Originally Posted by Severian
(~16:35 to ~20:00; 23:00) — Ok, see, I thought the song had peaked. Then this build starts. Your transitions are flawless. I would never have guessed that the piece was going to go in this direction based on the start. Then at ~23:00 it touches on perfection. I'm rubbish at identifying the tones (sorry!) but this is dope as fuck.
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This could be my favourite part of this live set. It's got this polyrythmic thing to it, that I did kind of by accident, but it sounded really good in the venue.
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Originally Posted by Severian
(~27:35 to the end) — Heating up like crazy again a little after the 27 minute mark. Then the lower tones that start to blend in at around 31:00, along with the vocal samples, make for a very vivid sound collage indeed.
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This track is the only one that had been released already:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCqblVJQMZU
it's not really "live" per se, I mostly play it from Ableton (+I added the synth arp over it to make it more interesting).
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Originally Posted by Severian
I don't really know what else to say man. I wish I could give you more constructive feedback, but fucking WELL DONE.
Shit.
ETA: It reminds me of Tortoise - "Djed." 
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Thanks man, this comment was really interesting to read! Highly appreciate your feedback and am very glad you liked that.
And Yes, "Milions Living..." by Tortoise is an album that I used to spin on a daily basis many years ago!
