Loki's MIDI streams

[kooper]

My pal Wendy Stephany who I have done several collaborations with and is a dear friend, showed us this myspace page from our now deceased friend David Thompson (from Scotland). I was friends with David (loki) through ICQ, but Wendy was actually in a band with him for awhile and she went and visited him in Scotland way back when. They met through the Rockeers Network and MEIN back when all online collaborations were done with MIDI. So these three songs are audio rendered from David's MIDI. Wendy is on two of them (vocals). R.I.P. Loki.

myspace.com/1001001ab/music/songs

Here is a finished track I did with Wendy sites.google.com/site/fjatestsite/home/finished-tracks-jukebox/finished-tracks---pop/illusion

And there is one that is "in process still. Wendy singing. www.copy.com/s/uyS3JCgqBIBw/Life%20After%20Heartbreak%20Rough%20Leads.mp3

[Sequenzzer]

Hey Freddy,

The tracks are good man...I really really liked "Lupine",but of course I'm a fan of certain trance stuff and vibes,and that song has that feel. Sorry to hear about your friend,he had some skills for sure. "Give It" was kinda cool to hear as well,with that sample line over and over again,and then again at the 2:19 mark it started to filter sweep and really groove. This is some bad mutha programming if he did this from scratch. I'm curious as to what instrument(s) were used for the sounds for "Lupine"..Do you remember? Software? or all hardware synths? I personally love the sounds and groove in that one.

Haven't listened to the ones with Wendy..I'll have to give those a listen later today or tomorrow.

Take Care

Mike

[kooper]

Yeah I have been working with Wendy about her technique with the mic. She has just gotten back into MIDi and recording her voice and such after a decade away from it. I talked her into buying Studio One (DAW) and an entry level vocal mic. She has had a tendency to get too close to the mic when singing. A common problem for singers.

That reminds me of what I used to tell Ed Bitner, our longtime bassist in a couple of my old bands. I used to tell him.... "Ed you gotta use your stage monitor to judge whether or not you are too close to the mic!". I could always tell if he was too close to the mic, just from how he would distort in the vocal monitors. I would know before i would look at him, and sure enough when I did look at him he'd be eating the mic. I was constantly telling him to not overpower the mic and give it a few inches at least.

Wendy has acknowledged this and is getting better about it. You hear a twinge of this in the tracks I linked to, but not terrible.