Musicians Thread

[Merlijn]

Hello hello, I also love to do music and here´s some songs I´ve created. They are unfinished, but you can get some kind of touch about my music style. Have a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7N14dKUL4g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNbPiA7MwAE&feature=related

Constructive critism, please! 

I've listened to the first one (for some reason Youtube is being a bitch when I'm trying to play the second one  :-\Anyway, good stuff!  Kinda reminded me of the more upbeat Unreal stuff. Are you programming the music?

Here's another one from me, this time it's just me and Maarten performing a little piano song (the other band members are also there, but they took the opportunity to get some beer.  )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK4csEhFjO0

This is basically how Calculated would sound when you strip it down to just piano and 2 voices. 

[Henri K]

Hello hello, I also love to do music and here´s some songs I´ve created. They are unfinished, but you can get some kind of touch about my music style. Have a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7N14dKUL4g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNbPiA7MwAE&feature=related

Constructive critism, please! 

I've listened to the first one (for some reason Youtube is being a bitch when I'm trying to play the second one  :-\Anyway, good stuff!  Kinda reminded me of the more upbeat Unreal stuff. Are you programming the music?

Here's another one from me, this time it's just me and Maarten performing a little piano song (the other band members are also there, but they took the opportunity to get some beer.  )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK4csEhFjO0

This is basically how Calculated would sound when you strip it down to just piano and 2 voices. 

No, I´m not programming the music, I created these tracks with Fruity Loops (nice program).

I´ve always wanted to create a 3D platformer game by myself and these tracks are supposed to be in that game. Yeah, this may sound cool, but game creation can be extremely tedious, too. 

Oh, and your simple song sounded good, although it isn´t my style really - but people are different and I appreciate you as you are. 

[ck3D]

Merlijn that was just awesome really enjoyed that song. You and your brother are just talented

[Merlijn]

Thanks! You always seem to enjoy our soft piano stuff the most. 

Also forgot to mention: one of our gigs has been professionally filmed; the video should appear online one of these days. When it does, I'll definitely post it. 

[Merlijn]

I might just as well post this: Calculated - Into the dirt

First time we played on a festival, and it's the biggest stage we played on thus far. Nerves caused some small fuck-ups on my part, but overall we fucking nailed it - especially on this song. By far the best live rendition we did of this song thus far, especially the outro. I'm really happy about it. 

[Gambini]

Nice. Do I need glasses or that time around you´re playing the guitar and Maarten the piano?

[Merlijn]

Thanks.  You saw that correctly, I'm playing guitar here.
You shouldn't congratulate your eyes too much though - my long hair probably gave me away 

[Gambini]

Yeah i know but it was strange to see you exchanging positions  

[Merlijn]

It took a while, but it's finally here: professionally filmed material of Calculated!

Go to www.20minutes.nl, scroll down to the video that says 'Calculated' and click!
The site is in Dutch, but the bandname is above the video.
There are LOADS of close-ups of me and my brother, you can take this either as an extra reason to watch or as a warning. 

The video lasts 22 minutes, the songs we played are: 42, Delaying, Into the dirt and Souls (in that order).

I'm pretty proud of our band when I see us perform like this, so enjoy and leave some comments! 

[MikeNorvak]

Hey congrats Man!!! I really like Souls, is The Monster gonna be recorded again?

[Merlijn]

Thanks man. We already have a pretty good recording of I am the monster on our myspace page. There's no newer recording of the same quality of that song.
But we'll get some high quality sound files of our latest gig within a few days, maybe it will be worth posting. 

[Merlijn]

Another Calculated video. 

This is our most recent song 'The dissident', it's a bit heavier then our usual stuff.
Also, the sound quality is GREAT, because Maarten mixed the sound afterwards and synchronised it with the video (shot from 2 angles):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-1kRKFe4lM&feature=relmfu

Also, a good version of Into the dirt with the same sound quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UmEyBWUZOU&feature=relmfu

[Puritan]

Check out this band.
They're friends of mine 

Nix Nada - Friends