Subliminal Colors out Now!!!

[Mendel]

Yes Sneapsters,

Finally after hard work it's here for free or name your own price:

http://mendelian.bandcamp.com/

 

[blue_fAng]

Congratulations man, music and production are incredible!! I've only heard 5 tracks right now and every of them are great, still listening!!

 

[Donovan S.]

Yes! Been waiting so long for this. I absolutely loved Sumerian Sun.

 

[amarshism]

Mendel you're a genius! I look forward to catching up with you again later this year.

 

[xTomx]

Sounds super nice

 

[Mendel]

Thanks for all the positive feedback!

@amarshism: When are you back in the Netherlands? You need to share me those secret Putney Techniques!

 

[Mendel]

Bump

 

[updog]

i'm halfway through the first track and all i can say is... holy shit. best stuff i've heard all day.

i wish you had some vocals in there but this is some brilliant music. def buying this.

 

[Mendel]

Thank you so much sopulurn, i have no idea what to say besides that!
The month has been a blast, reaching the 10,000 plays hopefully today (Please share the bandcamp link to support me!).

The album is completely free to download again (got free download credits from bandcamp thank god).

Thank all of you guys!

 

[Forceps]

Klinkt goed man!
Als je ooit een zanger zoekt, bied ik me bij deze aan

 

[Virgil.]

wow don't know how I missed this. This album is fantastic. Great work man! I'll be buying this as well for sure!

 

[AgentX]

Been listening to this on repeat at work for the last couple of days and I must say its the most refreshing and interesting album I have heard in a while! its fantastic!

Great work!

Out of interest, have you had any formal training in music? the composition seems really high level and something I would love to be able to achieve! any tips you can give me?

 

[Mendel]

Klinkt goed man!
Als je ooit een zanger zoekt, bied ik me bij deze aan

Will keep that in mind!

Virgil

Been listening to this on repeat at work for the last couple of days and I must say its the most refreshing and interesting album I have heard in a while! its fantastic!

Thanks dude , appreciate it!

AgentX

Great work!

Out of interest, have you had any formal training in music? the composition seems really high level and something I would love to be able to achieve! any tips you can give me?

First of all thanks again! means a lot.
I'm basically self thought on composition, it mostly comes down to awareness of what you are doing/writing. Analyse the music you dig, figure out what is happening and try to make something of it your own.

Let's go more in depth here with an example:

A few years i learned an transition trick (or modulation?) for an example:

You play something in C minor, and you want to go F minor, to most going from C minor to F minor instantly and using the F minor as your new root sounds weird. So what i learned (trying to memorize where i heard it the first time but it's done a lot) was in theory C major is the V chord of Fm.

So instead of going from C minor to F minor instantly i figured out a lot of composers did this:

C minor - C major - E dim - F minor.

http://mendelian.bandcamp.com/track/absolution
At the song Absolution @ 1:13 (last track of my solo album) I do this constantly over and over again till i'm at the root i wanted to be (which was from C minor to F# Minor)

So what i did was taking my I chord (Cm) making it major so in perspective it changed to an V of Fm (which was going to be my new I chord) and once i was on Fm did the same thing. Fm became F major so becoming the V dominant chord of the next etc.

What i am basically trying to say is to be aware of what is going on, it doesn't need to be in theory even your "fret" vision is a sort of theory knowing what is happening. Almost all music in modern western culture comes from Bach, Stravinsky so analyzing stuff like that makes you (well, it made me ) understand what is going on and how to keep stuff interesting (for yourself).

Stuff i recommend:

The Dark Knight Film Score by Hans Zimmer aand that other dude.
Bach
Chopin.

Fuck it, all composers

Don't know if this stuff helped, it comes down to figuring stuff out lol.

 

[akarawd]

You must have put endless hours into this album during these 7 years.

Can you elaborate on how you achieved your sound for each instrument ?
I am mainly interested in your rhythm guitar sound and the drums.

Thanks,
T