Bonsai's random song-overview

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

so hello there,

so i've been making music for quite a while now and since most of it is somewhat influenced by all the japanese stuff i'm finding here on the board i figured i'd perhaps ask around here for some input.
any feedback very much appreciated (exept for the negative parts of course )

here's sort of an overview of my works so far:

 

Song: [WhoNeedsAmplifiers]
Genre: Funk-Metal, Hard-Rock
Sounds like: hmmn, perhaps a little bit gazette-ish in the droptuned parts

This one got re-done tons of times but is sort of my favorite, like the riffs here.
one of two songs with a real drummer

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Song: Casual Paranoia
Genre: Power Metal (-ish?)
Sounds like: Sex Machineguns with again a hint of Gazette (Headache Man anyone?)

I wanted to do something really "metal" for one, but ended up with this. as always added tons of freakishness (played beerbottle and such...)

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Song: The Fall Of Reason
Genre: Classical, Pop, Kitsch
Sounds like: Tragic Drama-Music of sort

actually wanted to do a pop-ballad of sorts, but i guess due to my classical education it turned out much more classical than i wanted, still like it though

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Song: Horrible City
Genre: Indie-Rock, Garage-Rock
Sounds like: The Unique Star

my only own track with vocals so far. this is one of two tracks, where i (as not a drummer) tried to learn drumprogramming,
by reprogramming a preexisting Track (Unique Stars 不敵な笑みを浮かべる日) and building another Song on top of it.

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Song: Alienmovie-Outro
Genre: Filmmusic
Sounds like: Wannabe Hans-Zimmer Inception

A Music i did for an animated ScienceFiction shortmovie with good aliens/dinosaurs and bad humans (*coughavatar*). pretty short, like the movie...

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still here? that's nice of you...

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Song: [strangeCircus]-core
Genre: Rock'nRoll, Metalcore
Sounds like: Something and Crossfaith and something else

the other track with the Drumprogramschool-approach. took crossfaiths drums from

for once wanted to do a really mean-sounding brutal-electro thingy. mom cried when she heard it


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Song: Noise-cancelling - cancelling
Genre: Postrock, Noise, Drone
Sounds like: 101A, Dir En Grey, boris

my latest try. i suggest headphones for that one, and go easy on the volume...


and the last one, again from the funk-metal corner

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Song: すっげえ
Genre: Funk-Metal, Hard-Rock
Sounds like: don't really know something that sounds close, but i'd like, suggestions?

the other Track with a real drummer/drums, also i got some "real" guitarist to play a solo for me, since i personally can't play guitars for shit (it takes me dozens of takes to play those other simple things you've heard so far )

so, thanks a ton if you actually listened to some of it (or even, god beware, all of it) and thanks an additional ton in advance, if you'd give some feedback

Edit: also those "genre" and "sounds like descriptions are of course highly subjective ^^

[Kaleidoscope 195]

Wow, that's what I call a talented composer. I'm really impressed by all of your stuff, so you had a classical education? I especially like Noise cancelling, the shock effect when the real noise comes in is really great WhoNeedsAmplifiers, The Fall Of Reason (I'm a sucker for everything with piano ;D), clipp and Casual Paranoia are pretty cool too, do you have any solo albums yet? And do you play all the instruments yourself?

Didn't listen to all of your stuff yet though, but what I heard so far seemed without any exception very well composed although there are of course some genres I like lesser than others.

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

thanks a lot for the reply ^^

yeah, for some strange reason i did my diploma in classical saxophone... don't ask, i don't know why either -.-

i don't really have an album out yet, but i guess one could call those 14 soundcloud-tracks my first album (they're all free for download btw)

in general i play all of the instruments myself, although drums are most of the time a drumsampler, but i have some sort of "guestmusicians"

whoneedsamplifiers: bass and drums are from friends

すっげえ: drums and guitar-solo are from friends

the rest is narcissistic intrument-wanking by myself

as for the near future i have to do some exam-projects for university, so i plan to do a proper recording of "strange-circus" aswell as a surround production of "celebrating drop-e" with two simultanious drummers (the ones from the tracks above actually), curious about that ^^

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

it's been a while
so due to annoying weather and beeing bored to hell despite shitloads of work that i'm supposed to do i made a new track suiting the atmosphere

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Song: Full House
Genre: Stoner-Doom with a little bit drone
Sounds Like: Boris, Knellt, Sunn o)))


or here

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i'm actually a little bit proud of this one. i like it, which doesn't happen often ^^

[Jigsaw9 6783]

^ I'm not really a fan of purely instrumental music but I really liked your song. Good atmosphere and sound. Keep on rockin'!

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

finally managed to finish the mixing of the new recording with the two simultanious drummers.
this turned out to be a whole lot more difficult than expected actually. a real pain in the neck to get the two drumkits to go well together...
the song is pretty much the same as the "celebrating Drop-E", just with more goodness
(two drummers, guitars and bass dropped one octave...)

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Song: Droptuner
Genre: Stoner-Doom, Postrock/-metal
Sounds Like: Boris, Knellt, Melvins


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and for the heck of it a few pics from the recording

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i'm so hipster, making pseudoinstagram vintagelook with photoshop6 like it's the fucking stone-age...

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

Since ChugChug-Metal seems the be the hot shit since quite some time in the heavy-corner I chugged myself away into Djent-territory aswell, failing miserably and then deciding to nevertheless finish the song due to it's stupid character. i actually like it after all (perhaps even better than "conventional" djent )

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Song: Let Me Eat Your Sandwiches
Genre: Djent
Sounds Like: Meshuggah (hmmn, perhaps ), ChugChugChug


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if i played any life-shows i guess this would be a fun song to play...

[Jigsaw9 6783]

^ Awesome sound. Good job! (this coming from someone who rarely enjoys/listens to instrumental stuff)

[AliceAuua14 5]

Great stuff bonsai!

Digging Let me eat your sandwhiches especially.

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

oioi,

 

long time no updates, but today i have a VIDEO!! (woohooo, *claps...)

 

basically was just screwing around with my cigarbox guitar and wondering if some djent-y cover would be possible on that kind of guitar.

demetori came to mind, so here is a Crazy Xenomorph full cover on 3string Cigarbox and pink SG

 

 

 

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Cool stuff. Sweet guitar!

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

i did music again!!

back to something original this time...

i guess one notices i've been listening to worlds end girlfriend a LOT recently...

 

 

 

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Song: Satin Lullaby
Genre: Ambient, Noise
Sounds Like: Worlds End Girlfriend / Boris


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[MAJ 0]

A late reaction but I have to say that I really like Satin Lullaby. I like how it's sweet and dirty at the same time.

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

A late reaction but I have to say that I really like Satin Lullaby. I like how it's sweet and dirty at the same time.

late reaction to a late reaction thanks a lot, glad you like it, that sweet+dirty was exactly the intention

now for something small and new.

as it happens i have an ukulele here right now and oviously i had to try to learn it and make a track out of it. this is what it resulted in (includes a carboard-box as bassdrum, a bucket full of bottlecaps + tambourine as snare, a shaker, and the cigarbox as bassguitar )

 

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Song: Bo-Tah-Fly

Genre: Jazz, Hillbilly

Sounds Like: Shit

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[Jigsaw9 6783]

Nice one dude, haha!

[jduv86 224]

You have a new fan! Just went through this thread! Very awesome music! I like how a lot of your songs have this funky vibe to them. Even the ending of Let Me Eat Your Sandwiches Chug FEST has it! Very awesome music! If you made a CD, I totally would buy it and fan boy over you lol

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

whoa thanks man! that totally made my day

all of the songs are downloadable btw on soundcloud, so although they're not tagged or anything one could make one's personal "Best-of" of it i guess ^^

 

also a CD release (or probably free Bandcamp) is actually planned for sometime this summer, but with a Funkband of mine (think a mixture of tower of power and jamiroquai of sorts) so it's a little bit of a different cup of tea

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

ok it's been a while, but it looks as if the long in the making project of my Funkband would finally come to a close

 

as we're playing a Gig this weekend i created an Album Trailer from some random video-shots we did while the recording. it teases a few songs (not the best, but the only ones with a bit of video-reference to them )

 

if anyone of you happens to be in or around Aachen/Germany this Weekend i'd be more than happy if you'd come by (but i doubt it^^ still hey, it's free...)

 

Video

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

it's been a while that i've seen a church from the inside, but when recording blackmetal it just seems appropriate...

 

#swagorgan

 

 

also guitars...

 

 

 

kvlt imagequality

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

well, time to test out that new soundcloud code of yours monsieur le MH...

 

 

this was my bachelors-project. originally this is a mix in 9.1 Three-Dimensional-Surround

 

 

now for us mere mortals I did a stereo-mix aswell, although that's obviously not nearly as impressive as the full thing

nonetheless i would recommend good headphones to listen to it, also: more loud = more good

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

i just found some pretty old project of mine on an external HD which is probably about 2010-ish and uploaded it, as i find it pretty decent actually. if i remember correctly this is heavily inspired by MUCC - Soushin no Koe (?)

 

very distorted, gloomy dark rock stuffs

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

i made something new^^

 

it's obviously very much "inspired" by some danc-y kpop, tried a bit to learn pop production with that. mad stallion wrote somewhere he tried to make a song in a day. so i tried to do the same

 

here it is, have fun with it

 

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Awesome track as always!!

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

thanks

 

i'm kind of in a productive mood nowadays, new track here. 

 

This time it's a more game-themed sorta 8bit-ish Chiptune track with a hint of a powermetal feel to it

 

[bonsaijodelfisch 328]

and another one.

 

Post-Black-Indie-Alternative or sth. #AmIHipYet?

 

sounds exactly like all the other shit