 FraDonaghy
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 12:42 PM
Gripping right from the get-go. 
As always production and vocals are of the highest order 
Is that a keyboard making that delicious bass-like sound, or is it a bass itself? 
This is great - no secret about that 
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 BOWILLIE
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 12:48 PM
that was just lovely ..yes indeed.
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GeneHilbert
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 1:31 PM
The production is really very good..... All aspects are done very well. This is a very nice composition.
In the end - I would like to hear you explore the vocal line a little more - ad lib dynamically and tonally. Intensify your delivery and embellish your melodic sense.
Kewl Tune - Good Job
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 Apertome
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 2:04 PM
Not a fan of the synth string thing here, but aside from that, this is great!
I think your vocals sound better than ever here ... and they fit the slow, sexy groove. The synths in here are awesome, great modulation and I like the drums, except that the uber-ringy snare gets a little grating after a while.
Digging the wordless sections, slight breakdown and return to form. You've done a great job in creating a mystical feel here. I also like that the backing vocals are different in different parts.
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AgentMGD
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 2:14 PM
what a song...give it a more powerful ending with your voice - jmho ...otherwise i loved it
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 moam
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 2:37 PM
Wow everything's great  The beat is very creative and interesting I haven't heard too much harmonizing in the vocals from you but I hear a lot in this song  and it sounds great This is like my favorite song from you  Keep 'er coming 
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ChillinBuzz
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 2:49 PM
  speechless  
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zique
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 2:50 PM
Love this.Slow groove something that gets you moving.I thought the synyh parts were cool and i also thought the drum track was on.Well and of course the vocals sounded good!your voice was strong but still very soft and its very pleasant to listen to.you can adapt to anything.very cool tune.
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freddemillio
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 2:53 PM
Definitely a well-polished sound. I think that AgentMGD is on to something: the very ending did not do justice to the mood that was built up. As she mentions, maybe some powerful vocal acrobatics could be fun? 
You have a lot of clarity and power in your voice and it comes through the mix very well. That interlude that starts at about 2:00 is  ! I like the way the music changes at that point and what you do vocally during it.
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dennytate
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 3:20 PM
Wow ! Diane you have outdone yourself ! This is incredible !
I like the strings a lot. You give Beth Gibbons a big run for her money.
This is the most trip-hop/lounge feel i have ever felt from an indie artist !
Great vocals because they are always great ! You keep amazing us
with more power and beauty each and every time we hear your beautiful
melodies and songs. The lyrics are great, those vocals phenomenal
and this music is by far the most professional i have ever heard for trip-hop/indie.
All around a record signing perfect 10 deal ! Great Fantastic Job !
  
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 TDUBB
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 3:36 PM
once again great vocals i love your voice you need to go to american idol. you would win. you need to sing a hook for me on day.
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MonnieB
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 4:23 PM
Excellente...
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 DevilAngel17
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 4:23 PM
this is a great song, i really like it
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tsand19151
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 4:24 PM
wow, i natually come to expect a great vocal performance from you and you ALWAYS deliver. Love the harmony in the chorus. Killer overdubs on the vocals. The feel on this is awesome. This whole thing is hot..... well, no, very well done....
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dsindel
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 4:39 PM
It looks like the "secret" is already out!!! And I am glad it is!
Great production, although the snare is perhaps a few db's louder then the vox (intentional?). It is just me but I would much rather enjoy your fantastic voice than the snare.
The vocal performance is very good, I like the overdubs which cast a dreamy melodic spell! Beautiful!
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MindSculpture
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 4:51 PM
I'll echo Mux on the harsh sounding strings at the start there...
The drums sound excellent(snare is a bit  ) the overall production is good.
I love your vocs on this track - the harmonies are sooo sweet 
What is the big secret anyway 
Great work 
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BlackMage
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 5:12 PM
I'm much more of an instrumental trip-hop fan than vocal trip-hop.
I likes the production of the background and the beat. The snare for example is very good and snappy, yet it has a nice little sustain. The synth strings from the start sounded a little rough, but the beat did too. The roughness which creates some kind of clarity, is the forte if this song. I like the beat very much.
Now as for vocals. I wasn't really excited about them in the start and frankly not now either. You did an excellent technical job and poured everything you got to the vocals, but in this case it didn't get to me that much. As I said, I like instrumental trip-hop more.
So I like the beat very much and would have enjoyed (much) more if I had heard a flute of some kind. Some kind of woodwind (may it be real or synthetic) is always a plus in trip-hop. The vocals as an individual achievement earn my respect in any case, but as vocal trip-hop, this is very so-so to me.
A for effort, A for the beat, A for the vocals, but B- for the overall.
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theblacklodge
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 6:26 PM
This is good, but I also know what Lunitari means. There is for me kind of a contrast that challanges us and forces us to pick sides here: either we take the way you sing this, very professionally with that almost "angelic" pop sensibility (with some very good rougher edges too, this time) you put in there, and stick to that, but then the beat becomes a bit too hard, and eventually bit too repetitive in it's approach, and is in the end something I feel I then don't really want as a "contrast" to, for instance the mellow rhodes and your voice.
Or I can enjoy the beat and the quality it definately has in its own right, its very well produced sound not least, and actually embrace the contrast with (once again as an example) the rhodes, that exists. But then I end up with the same feeling about the vocals as Lunitari, not bad but not really "grabbing" me.
One could say it's an interesting "balance" that happens, and I think at some points during the parts where there are harmonies in your singing, and the chorus, it works as a balance, but at other points, for me, not so.
But I enjoyed this, I think the sounds of the synths "lift it" as a whole, they almost tell a story of their own. I like the way you wrote the rhodes' part too, they have a kind of cleverness about them I really like!
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leplume
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 6:42 PM
I know you wrote this for me! Love ya babygirl!  Seriously beautiful song. Nicely nicely done!
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 onewhodreams
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 7:34 PM
Thank you EVERYONE for your awesome comments and constructive criticism.
I just want to let you all know that this song was Recorded and Mixed in one day.
Adam found one of my ads, asked if I wanted to write a song with him, and I'm like "sure!" So having never met, I went up to LA and Bam! That was it!
Yeah, we could have changed, re-arranged, added or taken out many things, but it was just for fun, and I myself think it came out pretty darn good for a one day production.
I do appreciate and value all your comments though... you know I do!
 to Dmusic!
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saetan
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 7:58 PM
I am actually in love with this line "In my heart I can't erase" the way that comes mixed in weaker and flat really sounds awesome. I must say that in one day to construct and put together a peice like this is phenominal. The quality forsure is top notches. Vocals sound really well. The backing vocals are really spectacular too, there is a break for mmmmms and ohhhs that comes in midway and its purifying. They also are very sweet behind the final chorus. Very nicely done.
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TameasDust
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 8:02 PM
Haunting and beautiful ... wonderously seductive wrapping the listener in meditative rapture ... Well Done
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jd2theog
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 8:25 PM
^^lol..leplume...and me 2.
I love this!!Your vocals are great..harmony's kick butt!!The beat is fantastic.. 
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theblacklodge
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 8:43 PM
Really impressed Diane Great job!
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DeadraveN
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Date: August 9, 2005 @ 11:37 PM
Very cool!... i think this is my personal fave of your songs... nice fx on the vox!...
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Vickxxx
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 12:36 AM
Vox sounds killer D. The harmonizing is haunting. Totally awesome job for the time frame you had to work within. You got some mad skills to write,sing and compose and just basically throw down on the fly 
Barring the quick mix and production (which wasn't bad at all) the feeling and performance is excelent.
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DaveWL
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 7:09 AM
Hey you’re good, you’re very good, you’re very, very good. I think I saw you as a rock chic when I first joined the site, perhaps because of “Maybe” and “You wanna fly, but since I’ve seen you sing so many styles. Recently it seems there has been a mini-reinvention of yourself as you dabble with more of a urban type of music.
This is wonderful for a days work and you worked really well with this guy.
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csaintg
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 7:19 AM
There is an old movie called Dark City, and the best part of the movie was this perfect smoky jazz bar scene, where this beautiful woman sings the most seductive song. You could have been that woman, singing this song, and it would have fit just as well. I just wished the ending would have grabbed me as well as the rest of the song did. One day? Unbelieveable!
Chris.
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Snoogans775
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 7:23 AM
I disagree with the synth string, the sustained tone is very piercing, a little over the top.
I love the drums, they're a really creative sound, they are squeezed intot he mix with grease and fine carpentry.
I love the softness of your voice, it's shining very well through this, especially in the lower notes, the ones you use to finish the phrases
gorgeous!
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greatscottpr...
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 10:59 AM
 
I'll be singinging this all day
  hhhhh
N W Dian
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klindsay
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 12:24 PM
hey, i really like how this track started. The production is great also, some of those effects i use occasionally on some vocal pieces... check out my 3 newest songs! PLEEEEEAAAASSSSEE LIKE ME LIKE ME!
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ebarbarella
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 1:33 PM
i love those strings nice! and the drums and fx  ... a very different kind of song from you Diane love it!! vocals as always are sweet
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 Dizeazed
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 4:31 PM
GHEAH!!! Wow, this is amazing. The first thing that caught my attention was the bangin' percussion! I was very surprised to hear that it has a hip-hop tint to it. Every instrument is perfect: percussion, strings, synth, bass, etc... The melody is so grovy, and all of your layered/harmonized vocals blow me away! I love the trippy little break @ the 1:55 min mark, and how you bring it back in with all of your layerd vocals @ 2:19... Very, VERY excellent work.
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 just2ska
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 6:02 PM
wow, this is scandalous I really really really really really really like this. The melody is great, and i believe you said moam helped you. So he def deserves credit on some GREAT music.
Those vocals and lyrics are sexy, sounds very forbidden, i like what's going on here.
Everything in this song is just super... obviously the only thing that would be better is a real tight band playing. But we can't ask you to do something like that! Not until you're famous..
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onewhodreams
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 7:17 PM
Actually it wasn't moam... don't know where you got that from,  but thanks for the comment!
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pancreaspuppet
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Date: August 10, 2005 @ 11:51 PM
Nice job - this is good... something about the vocal doesn't sit right for me... but like the voice is great, and the melody's fine... don't know what it is.
Anyhoo great arrangement & gorgeous sound all through..
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imemine
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Date: August 11, 2005 @ 12:14 AM
I guess I would ask first why you went outside of DM to do this……your voice is always fantastic….no exception here. That dry snare is about to knock my head off……grant it that I’m on crappy headphones in a hotel but you seemed adamant that I listen to this right now so here I am. Please remind me to come back when I’m at home. It’s a decent song near as I can tell….not my favorite though I must add. Diz could have done this right here at home. No offence to your outside connection! Time to STFU! Sorry!
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swoppy
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Date: August 11, 2005 @ 6:44 AM
Even in genre's I don't particularly like in general, it is a pleasure to hear you warm, clear and skilled voice.
Good harmonies, good choice of instruments and a smooth production. I like the effect that makes the voice come straight from the in the 4th line, it adds to the meaning of that line.
What you could do more (in my opinion), is create secrecy in the sound of your voice, I mean, in my imagination, I can almost hear you use your voice to express the meaning/message of the song in more than just the words, like in reading or telling an electrifying  story to a kid, that opens it's eyes wide to let it all in.
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independentm...
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Date: August 11, 2005 @ 4:46 PM
Diane, just shut up (and go back to heaven!)
We MORTALS have to be able to make music too!
Goddesses and Angels should save their amazing stuff for the great beyond when we finally get there!
GRRRR!
:hugs:
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Scott-Le-Rock
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Date: August 12, 2005 @ 11:18 AM
Wonderful Diane, your vocals and lyrics are jsut great. This should be going through my head a lot today. Love the drums! Terrific production all around. That old skool sequence in the middle was killer - right in my sweet spot!!
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furiousBall
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Date: August 12, 2005 @ 11:46 AM
You sound incredible Diane, this groove is great for that gorgeous voice of yours. I echo the earlier stated sentiments - that snare gives me a migraine and the artificial strings are less than pleasing. The vocal performance makes the rest of the track really pop. Don't get me wrong, this sounds pro, but the snare and strings are such prominent motifs in the piece it's hard not to notice the short comings.
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jess1561
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Date: August 15, 2005 @ 9:02 AM
This is very different from you Diane ...
the drums they just need tuned down a little...
Love the harmonization you threw in
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happyhappyhappy
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Date: August 16, 2005 @ 10:16 PM
Love the drums. Including the snare. No migraine here. A very good tune with an interesting mood. Somewhat sad, somewhat indicative of an agonizing pain that will have to be accepted. As expected, phenomenal vocal performance. Thanks for posting this in my shoutbox.
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BlueDeliverance
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Date: August 19, 2005 @ 11:52 PM
There is some classy, futuristic stuff going on here. Gotta love the funky bass. Those overdubbed tunes at 2:42 sound faintly Indian. Haunting. Brilliant.
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Notary04
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Date: August 21, 2005 @ 1:45 PM
Mmmm, I'm a sucker for great drum tracks! This thing just oozes atmosphere; the violins and layered choral "Heeere" give this one a kind of, heck, I dunno, a really HEAVY atmosphere, like I better listen up for all that's holy or something. That's a pretty doggone clever marketing tactic, by the way.
Anyway, your vocals are beautiful and flawless. I'll admit that they sound commonplace pop in many sections, which isn't bad except that I tend to associate pop with a major lack o' soul. Of course, that doesn't stop this from being an amazing piece of work, as my personal stigmas for pop sounds certainly don't stand a chance at marring this. Serious Congratulations are in Order. There you go.
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zedsalt
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Date: August 21, 2005 @ 6:17 PM
Have you ever seen the episode of Saturday Night Live where Blue Oyster Cult is recording, and Eric Bloom (Will Ferrell) is going...um...a little heavy on the cowbell? Their producer (Christopher Walken) comes in repeatedly, demanding “More! More cowbell! I have a fever and the only cure is more cowbell!”
On first listen, from the point the percussive clank comes in to where the vocals start, that sound seemed a bit heavy. On SECOND listen, I got into it, heard how well it fit in the almost Ennio Morricone-ish melody.
The dulcet tones of Diane and the simple, immediately engaging lyrics are...as per usual...top notch all the way.
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 Swampman
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Date: August 31, 2005 @ 7:18 AM
This is another killer track enjoyed it 
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SoulArtiss
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Date: September 3, 2005 @ 5:08 PM
you got a soothing groove to ya voice. the way ya spit yar vocal on the beat was pure beauty. you have a talent that i cant explain, keep it up
Peace
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onewhodreams
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Date: September 7, 2005 @ 4:25 PM
***Song File Updated***
A little less snare...
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deathrow1204
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Date: September 7, 2005 @ 9:15 PM
this is gotta be one of the best songs ive heard in a while, finnaly a good listen for my ears. and im also the 50th comment
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farfor44
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Date: September 11, 2005 @ 12:08 AM
This is excellent DianeIts so
secret, its so unclear how YUR
vocals always sound so greatbut they always Danother great trackclap: #51
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hantu
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Date: September 12, 2005 @ 5:22 PM
wow this is spectacular, production is so raw and the rhythm is different... lol enjoying this so much it made me stop typing, thats gott asay something about it alone, i don't stop typing for no reason... and the vocals i really liked, gave the beat a drive, if that makes sense, like its pushing it.. then breathe .. then push again.
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hate9wicket
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Date: September 20, 2005 @ 12:01 AM
Some reason the beat and synths remind me of lying down with someone, ear to their chest, listening to their heartbeat and breathing, relaxed, ready for sleep, when those deep thoughts invade your brain. Really enjoyed the bridge with the harmonies. Easy to see why so many here enjoy your music.
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BrSoccerChic89
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Date: September 23, 2005 @ 10:13 PM
Your voice is naturally beautiful. I so envy you right now.
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spencm
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Date: November 1, 2005 @ 6:13 PM
Another masterpiece. how do you do it? your voice is so natural and the quality of the recording is first rate, It's such a pleasure to visit your site
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thought-fox
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Date: November 5, 2005 @ 6:59 PM
More proof of what a great artist you really are. You convey so well the message of the lyrics with the music. It's certainly full of mystery and what I like about it is it sets me off on a train of thought about 'what we're doing here' because it could be a couple having an affair, but it could also be more spiritual than that. You could make a relationship between a person and their god, then it becomes a question about existence. Sorry! I went off on one then! But that's the great thing about music (I speak as a listener not a maker) it can transport us. Fantastic Diane!
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INoxx
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Date: November 12, 2005 @ 11:30 AM
I love it, nice production, u've a very very nice voice. The arrangements are nearly perfects.
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100thmonk
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Date: January 23, 2006 @ 8:25 PM
okay, now i am starting to really reel what you can do..
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AbortiveMind
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Date: January 28, 2006 @ 12:26 PM
Jeez, your vocals got me shaking when I stream your music ... not many get me as far as that, believe me on my word!
The lyrics are really *WHOAH*. What you managed to express with what many would call "simple words" is just amazing. And when singing, it just adds more the the emotion, which I think is incredible
To be honest I'm not really fond of the instrumentation and beats that accompany you (a bit too loud too in my honest opinion) ... your voice really did it on this track (maybe it was intended to be like this) Anyway, I do keep in mind that this was a one-day recording, which is absolutely fabulous.
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mcmullen
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Date: January 31, 2006 @ 5:31 PM
your vocals rule, please don't bull horn them. in fact, you don't even need the mix track, do you have a version of this with just vocals??
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mcmullen
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Date: January 31, 2006 @ 5:32 PM
hey, yea!!!! I made a smiley face above! my first time! sorry...
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leedsquietman
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Date: January 31, 2006 @ 10:35 PM
This is one of my favourite of your submissions and I have yet to hear a dull or poor piece from you yet. Great expression in your voice backed up with a great musical accompaniment. You are an emerging talent and if I were a rich man I would deffo sign you up!
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davinalise
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Date: February 15, 2006 @ 12:26 PM
very nice lyrics "what we're doing here" yeah!!!...and...again...what an amazing voice!!!
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