Nikmis

[formerly]

Hooray! Let us know when they're up on CDBaby.

[Dr. M]

Want a seriously trippy experience? Listen to Nikmis backwards...

[Nikmis]

if you listen to only one nikmis music backwards this year, make it 'Pulpe'

[Nikmis]

http://cdbaby.com/cd/nikmis
it is there!

[Jono]

Awesome! So, it looks like there are some “old songs” and new songs together. Did the “old ones” get reworked any?

This CD is high priority for me. :)

[Nikmis]

they have all been reworked. some of them even re-recorded. but this guy did the mixing mastering:
http://myspace.com/ambitunes
i just sent him dry files of everything and he made new mixes using binaural methods and fun. you can even download 5:1 mixes of them from somewhere. things i don't understand

[Ambitunes]

The Ambisonic Picnic CD-R is fully stereo compatible Ambisonic surround, so you drop it into the CD machine and play as usual. This sounds slightly stereo-widened on normal two-speaker setups and will work pretty well in full surround sound on Dolby Pro-Logic systems and old Quadraphonic decoders. The real surround target for the CD version is a UHJ Ambisonic decoder which at the moment are about as popular as the 8-track cassette. However the native "B-format" mixdown of each song can easily be transcoded to other surround formats in the future. B-format may even become a de-facto standard for digital surround sound distribution. There's information on the subject here:

http://www.ambisonia.com

I thought from the style that it was likely Mr. Nikmis would be working with individual soundfiles rather than a polyphonic real-time software synth. That made it ideal for transferring the files to me on a disc for surround re-mixing. I thought the style suited it too. As for the music, I think it's excellent and well worth the effort. There was only minimal adjustment of any of the tracks that have been heard before. A little spring reverb in the opposite direction from the main sound source here and there, some slight level changes, some small imagination required when stereo tracks had significant out-of-phase stereo content. The aim was to make it sound the same as the old mix, just with the surround sound element added.

Does anyone else fancy the Ambisonic treatment?

Henry Walmsley. http://www.myspace.com/ambitunes

[Nikmis]

hello, henry!

[Jono]

I didn’t understand much of that, either.

But it sounds cool!

[Nikmis]

update: I have not written or recorded any music in about two months. my synthesizers have sat in a box, and my computer too. I whistle a lot.
I just thought people need to know this.

[Nikmis]

Nonloso, on sendspace
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3w9ca5
i am posting on the joy electric board!

[Nikmis]

I have another album. Just thought I would bump the ol' LOTM thread
http://spoomusic.com/

go on, listen.

[Dr. M]

EVERYBODY GO LISTEN TO IT NOW DO IT DO IT DO IT

[Nikmis]

yep yep yep! four albums in a little more than a year! i just only wished i made music that people wanted to listen to, lol. Maybe i should be making some derivative hardcore music with screaming and badly played guitars. maybe than people would love me, lol

[charis]

then don't make that weird music anymore!

you should just rerelease metter. do a whole album of metter remixes.

[Nikmis]

METTER!!!!

[phlegm]

Way, way better than sliced bread!

Now I know what you meant by "classical" made with synths.

[charis]

but it's pseudo... classical.

[Jono]

Neoclassical?

I downloaded it and I'm going to listen in a few minutes. My sister sure will be excited to hear about this... I think she is the first official Nikmis fangirl. Maybe. I'm not kidding.

[Dr. M]

[quote="Jono"]I think she is the first official Nikmis fangirl. Maybe. I'm not kidding.[/quote]

I think somebody will sure have something to say about this, if she reads this forum.