My good bud lee and myself mastered a track for a local instrumental(ish) prog three piece Nasdaq. Pretty happy with the results. Its a long track but it is pretty sweet so do try and listen to all of it if you can be arsed. Anyway:
http://soundcloud.com/nasdaq-band/nasdaq-dead-peasants

soundcloud has squished it a bit with file compression but thats always going to happen I guess.

Sounds fantastic, and this is a type of noise i can get behind. A little mathrock, a little neopsychedelic, a little metal. Nice guitar sounds, nice bass sounds, interestingly tight drumsounds. Huzzah!

(definitely a bit long though. the only minus, IMO. i have never liked the format of 26 minute "songs". though really, this is kind of more like four or five simpler songs with no silence in between.)

Nice warm mix. I enjoy the snare sound. I also dig the mathy element to the music, it sounds like the rock and roll version of some of my own ideas.

Chars guys
The cool thing is that this was all recorded in a basement with what ever shit could be scrounged together in time! The guy who mixed it did a pretty damn tooting job so we just had to make it better. The other two tracks on their soundcloud were done with an old reel to reel valve driven 4 track which sounds lovely. My bud has an old sony valve 2 track reel to reel that I should probably fix to run master bounces through.

Their usual material is in the 10-15 minute territory and we've got a few more of their songs to work on as they werent happy with the current master (the guy brickwalled it ) and one of the tracks ends with totally crushing doom! Cant wait to break out the trick bag on that one.

I really like this, both the music and the overall production The guitars sound thick and brutal

I didn't dig it at first, but I kept listening...


I'm about 4 minutes in now... and I'm digging this shit. Especially the cleanish tone. That's some cool tone. The bass tone is very Porcupine Tree-esque.


Don't dig the drum tones at all, but those aren't your fault.


Now to keep listening until shit gets heavier and I'll tell you what I think there.

From knowing what dan usually rocks I'd guess this was done with an SG special into a mid 70's (indicator switches) superbass and 1960 with H30s boosted with a marshall jackhammer.

Is there a way to download this? I'm on my laptop and sans 'phones at the moment.

Wait, not Dan as in newholland, right..?

About to listen to this here in a moment.

No download unfortunately.
Nah this is a different dan.

I got off before I could reply, but I liked it.
Good tones, very spacious and creative ways of using a three piece.
Never once did I say, "Man, this sounds thin and sparse because of the limitations of the number of instruments".

However, that kind of stuff is too drone-y and monotonous for me.
I like the concept, but without a vocalist to add additional structure to that sort of music my attention span is ever fleeting.
It's my burden to bear.

Its their most ambitious piece for sure. I've spun it a fair bit as you'd imagine and even after mastering it I can still listen to it!