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Topic: Link to soundclick.com
Posted: December 01 2006 at 18:16

For those not familiar with my old/new music:

www.soundclick.com/protos

Send me your link and I'll listen to your music too.

Best wishes

Rory

"Remember Protos as the best progressive rock act since England (Garden Shed, 1977)" (Marquee Magazine, November 1991)

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Posted: December 02 2006 at 16:42

Interesting stuff... A lot of the stuff sounds a little bit too much like midi, but musically, it's quite entertaining. I'd say production issues aside, I like the music a lot. Especially the live track, which I find to be the best.

You can check out my music in my signature... I likewise write a lot of electronic music, though I approach it a little differently from how you do. It's good to hear an artist that has similar ideas to myself - I'm a bit of a hypocrite, as my production is probably just as lacking as yours (probably moreso) but it's one's own flaws that they find first in others, heh.

Go and listen to my music.

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=31725

protos

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Posted: December 02 2006 at 17:09

I|I|I|I|I wrote:

Interesting stuff... A lot of the stuff sounds a little bit too much like midi, but musically, it's quite entertaining. I'd say production issues aside, I like the music a lot. Especially the live track, which I find to be the best.

You can check out my music in my signature... I likewise write a lot of electronic music, though I approach it a little differently from how you do. It's good to hear an artist that has similar ideas to myself - I'm a bit of a hypocrite, as my production is probably just as lacking as yours (probably moreso) but it's one's own flaws that they find first in others, heh.

Interesting comments. Thanks. Nearly all the music is 'performed' rather than programmed, although I did use a midi sequencer on some of Passing Decades and A Question of Expression to do the 'recordings' and tidied up the performances (perhaps too much?). Protos will be releasing an album of live music in January (recorded in the 1980s so no sequencer/midi!). The One Day a New Horizon album has no sequencers either - it was recorded in 1982.

The albums are all available from iTunes, and also as physical CDs from CD Baby:

www.cdbaby.com/cd/ridleyduffprotos1 (Space)

www.cdbaby.com/cd/protos1 (One Day a New Horizon)

www.cdbaby.com/cd/roryridleyduff1 (Passing Decades)

www.cdbaby.com/cd/roryridleyduff2 (A Question of Expression)

The live album won't be listed until January 8th 2007.

Not - let's check out your music :)

Best wishes

Rory

Edited by protos - December 02 2006 at 17:20

"Remember Protos as the best progressive rock act since England (Garden Shed, 1977)" (Marquee Magazine, November 1991)

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Posted: December 05 2006 at 16:00

Yeah, the place that suffered most from a "midi" sound was perhaps the drums... your musical ideas are top-notch and most certainly entertaining, so I'd love to hear the available CDs that are recorded live.

I think if you continued in the same direction with less synthesized sound, you might reach a wider audience.

Go and listen to my music.

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=31725

protos

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Posted: December 05 2006 at 17:57

I|I|I|I|I wrote:

Yeah, the place that suffered most from a "midi" sound was perhaps the drums... your musical ideas are top-notch and most certainly entertaining, so I'd love to hear the available CDs that are recorded live.

I think if you continued in the same direction with less synthesized sound, you might reach a wider audience.

Thanks for that. Only two of the five tracks (not including the first) have Midi drums. Is it that noticeable? I always felt that the drum sound on the Roland Sound Canvas was better - more realistic even - that the drums sounds we got in the studio with real drums! You could, of course, be thinking of the cabassa on Passing Decades. And yes, I do use a 'clap' which is very 80s, but this is deliberate to give it an 80s feel.

Hopefully you'll enjoy the live album. We'll be finalising plans for a new studio album around Xmas (hopefully to come out before the end of 2007). If everything goes to plan, we should be gigging again by 2008.

Thanks for the encouragement - I've downloaded you huge file of music (took forever and a day). I will find time to listen to it before the end of the week.

All the best

Rory

"Remember Protos as the best progressive rock act since England (Garden Shed, 1977)" (Marquee Magazine, November 1991)

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Posted: December 05 2006 at 17:59

Thank you! It's an entire album, so it takes some real commitment (for lack of a better word) to download.

Go and listen to my music.

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=31725

protos

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Posted: December 22 2006 at 11:23

Hi,

New 'singles' and review posted to Soundclick today. Have separated out band and solo material onto separate pages.

For Protos tracks visit www.soundclick.com/protos

For Rory Ridley-Duff tracks visit www.soundclick.com/roryridleyduff

Best wishes

Rory

Edited by protos - December 22 2006 at 11:26

"Remember Protos as the best progressive rock act since England (Garden Shed, 1977)" (Marquee Magazine, November 1991)