Great vibe on this! It would work very well as part of the sound track to a fantasy/sci-fi game. Makes me think of some of the music in the Metroid games (Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, etc). Sounds alien, yet ancient and mysterious. Like it came from an advanced, yet ancient civilization.

Nice feel Good combination goes very well

Can't blame you for not sounding like Rammstein, I guess.

Hey, that was an enjoyable listen! I agree that it went far away from a FR style track, but you came out of it with something creative and interesting. This really had some parallels with some of the 70's stuff like Eno and Bowie when they were in their early ambient phases. Had some cool classic sounds in there, and the drum parts were nice as well. Well done!

Thanks for the reply, Joe.

No, you don't need to take pills for making music. No unless you've got some particular medical problem.

Interesting to hear about your working method. I'm similar as I also try to go with the things that I feel really inspire me. My simple belief is that good parts that I really enjoy are most likely to inspire other good parts and riffs and new ideas. But if I only think something is OK/average, I won't really care much about it and probably won't be able to come up with anything to improve it.

So, I think it's good that you gave up on the FR direction when you felt the power of that Anubis drum groove.

One idea is that if you doubled the tempo of the Anubis beat, it would be much more suitable for doing an FR track. So, maybe a fast, tribal dance track. You could try doing that and seeing what happens.

I find that the same good groove at either half or double tempo (half if it's already fast, double if it's slow) makes me play other instruments in a different way. That's one reason I have lots of double time/half time tempo changes in my tracks. The same riff usually sounds good on top of a fast or slow groove.

Just a few ideas for you.

I will check out your other Anubis track.

Maybe he will return to Looperman sometime. He is a talented musician/producer and also seems to love a lot of my music.

Hi Joe. This one is very cool. Tribal and tropical. Chilled! Keeping the steady groove throughout the entire composition is really something I like.
The sound-image of your track reminded me of SeriousSam PC game soundtrack. Don't ask me what version - I played it over 10 years ago. Truly I was never into an alien-vampire kind of thing ever but this one opens up a space to many possible interpretations for sure!
If you found my comment far too ambivalent do not worry - I really enjoyed this chilled music! Best, Alex

Hi again Joe.

Well, it was a good guess that Anubis would probably like this.Surely he must do if it's his main beat, right? I have not seen him on the site for a long time. Maybe you should send him a message that you used his beat to make this track.

Even though it is a great beat you could do so many things with, the synths you have added are still good. I'm thinking it coukld still be a decent track if you removed the Anubis beat and made it just a pure ambient thing. I'm not suggesting you do that, just making a point about the other synth work.

If you want to do an FR track, you should definitely go for a faster tempo! When I pressed play, I thought this was going to be at least 120 BPM, probably more like 140. But this is only something like 90.

"Good to know that i not waist your time to much"

No, you didn't waste my time at all.

Good luck with any other tracks in the style of other people and I hope they all come out as different and good as this one.

Hey Joe.

Big congratulations on coming up with this track. It doesn't sound like FR's stuff but that's absolutely fine. I thought some people might try to do somethng in the style of another Looper and the track not sound anything like them but still sound good. It was just a fun idea that I thought might inspire some people.

I do like this slow, tribal vibe. It has a lot of space in it so works well as deep chillout music.

I like your intro melody and then we get the big main beat. I think you could make about a million good tracks out of that beat!

This is actual original trance - not the modern electronic dance genre known by the same name. This is much closer to ancient tribal music than hands-in-the-air drug music. Definite dream state here.

Someone on the site who will definitely like this is Anubis as he makes cinematic music quite close to this.

I like all your synth sounds and this has a good length for a hypnotic piece of music. It doesn't change much but that's fine for dream music.

Very well done!

Very Nicely Done, love the groove has a soft jungle feel to it...
Sitting in a house on a hill, and below all around you is nothing
but miles and mile of deep dark jungle...

From there it's ok, cause you've got your honey with you and a
nice bottle wine, made from local grapes...And your just about
ready to get it on... :-)

Cool track Guys...

Peace...TG.

Geez, this is an awesome tune Joe, not exactly in the FR style as his head is squarely in the late eighties and nineties style of rave and underground K dance. This is like eighties tribal wave (I just invented that sub genre). The synth you used reminded me of Douglass Adams Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy for some reason. This is a very cool tune and I am glad u were inspired to make it.
Cru

Nice track man,good work!

Breaking News: The Mars rover has discovered a tribe of Native aliens performing a ritual dance and smoking the peace pipe :p FR was the the chief :D I could picture FR doing one similar, well done :D Maybe this was their war dance? I just listened to War of the Worlds radio broadcast.