ILX Compilation v4: Tiny Music (Deadline/Submissions/etc!!)

OK, moving forward! Here is a nice outline:

• The song/piece/etc that you submit must be tiny, with a MAXIMUM runtime of 77 seconds (1:17). But don't be under the impression that you have to create a 77 second song; it can be 5 seconds or 23 seconds or however many seconds you'd like. As long as it's not more than 77 (the shorter, the better IMO)
• Since these musics are so tiny, you can submit more than one if you'd like! I'll say a maximum of three (3).
• When you have finished your work, send it to ilxtinymusic at gmail dot com. I'd highly suggest either an uncompressed WAV or AIFF (iirc gmail has a 25MB attachment limit and maxing out at 1:17, this shouldn't be a problem). You can also send a high-bitrate MP3 if you'd like, I guess (like 256+).
• I am going to set the deadline of Sunday, November 14th, giving you slightly less than two months. It's the end of a weekend so all you last-minute folk can still throw something together, and it's also not the weekend RIGHT before Thanksgiving, so it won't interfere with travel/preparations/Thanksgiving crazy.

i'm in

So am I.

Will do.

BTW for the U2 collab project, everybody uploaded their tracks as 320kbps CBR MP3s.

hmm would 1:27 sneak in if I asked nicely? That's still tiny, I think.

i want in!

Oh, um, me please?

I've never done one of these before because I have problems with finishing tracks, but 45-77 seconds seems about the range they grow to before I feel like I ought to have ideas about what they need to do. Um. And if those don't sound finished enough, I can just make 20 seconds of strange noises for people to furrow their brow at between proper tracks, I guess...

Yes! I am in for this!

I will do this.

hmm would 1:27 sneak in if I asked nicely? That's still tiny, I think.

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I am going to be a hardass abt the 77sec thing. Sorry. I originally wanted to make it 30 but everyone kvetched. 77 seems like a good threshhold for "smaller-than-normal" and I am interested to see what people do when they're forced to reapproach the format in a way that forces them to convey all of their ideas with such severe restrictions. Think Brian Eno's Microsoft sound which is absolutely magical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUbjTapNImM

Also I seemed to have forgotten that Tiny Music was the name of an Stone Temple Pilots album. Should we change the name of this? ILX Compilation v4: Lil' Baby Songs 4 U perhaps

gkart is hard at work on this project. current running time: 1:15.

I've got a 76.5 sec track ready to go, contemplating submitting another couple before the end but I reckon 1 each wd be nice if there were enough submissions.

are Flacs okay?

I am going to be a hardass abt the 77sec thing

Cool - you should be. I just thought I'd ask. I will submit something within the 77 secs limit nearer the time.

Can we still enter three pieces each?

I'm in for this!

me too! (if i can get my sorry ass round to firing up my audio pc)

Flacs are fine! I had no idea so many people would be interested! Maybe we should do just one each? Or up to three tracks with a combined total of 77 seconds?

Well potentially you could have 70-80 tracks, so I wouldn't worry about there being too many contributions

i'm gonna send you the novelty track i made tonight ("serious" "ambient" track forthcoming).

yeah i'll do this

If there are too many tracks there should be voting and shit on quality.

I'm in too

Am in.

yes

i'm in, too.

Thinking on this, I decided to listen to all the 77" long tracks on my pod today.

Kraftwerk - Regeneration
XTC - Do What You Do
Pavement - Serpentine Pad
Robin Williams - Richard Simmons
De La Soul - The Magic Number (from a mix cd)
YMO - Bridge Over Troubled Music
Kraftwerk - News
Fantomas - 04/09/05 Saturday
David Sylvian - Thoroughly Lost To Logic
Pavement - Flood Victim
Oum Kalthoum - unknown

can i do a track?

i dun a choon.
hope ya like it kidz.

I am going to set the deadline of Sunday, November 13th,

Just as FYI, Sunday is November 14th.

i'm in, if there's room (my track will be tiny)

I'm tentatively in.

in it 2 win it

Whoa I thought I had forwarding set up but apparently not coz I just checked the tiny music submissions inbox and I've got SIX submissions already!! Wheeee!!

are remixes ok? (i just found some acapella wutang mp3s)

I'm gonna chant 77 77 times. yeah.

submitted

Submitted a track surm and I worked on recently (his vocals/ concept, me on the synth).

I was hoping I would get to hear surm! Wheee, thank you!!

!!!

i wanna hear all of these. i'd like to contribute too but that seems less likely.

could use ilx group on soundcloud for uploads btw
http://soundcloud.com/groups/ilx-makes-music

My main music computer sort of went pop and smoke came out and my laptop won't run my music software properly - hope I can still do this but not sure, can't afford a new computer right now

(thought it was just the power supply but it's looking like the motherboard is toast too and that means replacing p. much everything as it's an out of date architecture </geekchat>)

have you d/l'ed the two I sent?

I just emailed you a song as well, Stevie D

I've received/downloaded all the ones sent so far. They sound great, guys! Keep 'em coming!!!

Is the deadline still November 13th?

It's actually the 14th, which is Sunday, but yeah.

sent a second track your way. 77 seconds on the nose, yo.

got 4 songs to submit, all ~20 sec, probably under 77 sec all up. just gotta master em up..

Will sort some stuff out next week.

My math-flamenco tribute to Thingy/Powerdresser is done, sent it to my friend Emily to see if she is keen on singing on it, might just be an instrumental tho'.

sent u a song oooh so tiny

3 tracks sent!

These are all so great so far!! I am very, very excited that this is happening.

Are there any graphic designers that want to collaborate on a cover? I have some ideas but I lack actual graphic design experience/knowledge of Illustrator.

Two letters... Z S

(seriously, I think the ILX/U2 cover art GIF was awesome)

I'd be happy to put something together, if no one minds

Z S webmail me!

I will when I get home late tonight! I can't (or shouldn't, more accurately) access ilx at work, and there's no webmail feature on the iPhone app. I'll send you a message later tonight, though!

uploaded to soundclouds - redbulldozers is me

i have a couple of instrumentals, remind me 2 record my euphonious vocals soon

Don't forget, ZS!

My guests spilled beer all over my laptop last night! It's been bananas.

Oh fuck! That is awful, I am sorry :(

sent our trax in

oh sorry ignore my soundclouds upload - i'll email it tonight (and also tidy it up a bit)

So lovely! ZS I got your email but not your address so I webmailed you back; is that your proper account?

did you get mine stevie

SENT

Hmm I should do this, I actually have some small tracks I never expanded.

Howzit goin'?

Is the deadline still the 14th?

i think i have something for this! very neat idea.

It's going pretty well! Yes, deadline's still the 14th but it's no prob if you can't finish by then and email it to me within a day or two after.

Oh! It's next weekend. I thought it was last weekend and I missed it due to NaNoWriMo insanity. I'm ahead of schedule now so I might be able to finish something after all.

I'm doing this.

Thanks Stevie, a days grace or thereabouts would be great.

*writes on hand to remember to send stevie a track or 2*

I sent a couple in, but i REALLY have to do my last track idea, so..

oh snap

I had this idea around when the iphone 4 ads came out to make an album of :30~:32s songs composed as if they were supposed to be edits of real songs

I should enter

where do I mail stuff?

When you have finished your work, send it to ilxtinymusic at gmail dot com. I'd highly suggest either an uncompressed WAV or AIFF (iirc gmail has a 25MB attachment limit and maxing out at 1:17, this shouldn't be a problem). You can also send a high-bitrate MP3 if you'd like, I guess (like 256+).

Wow, so many submissions so far but KEEP THEM COMING!! In the next few days I'm going to create a .xls to keep track of everything with the song title, preferred artist credit, and ilx handle. So if you haven't sent me all of those things I will follow up in the coming days.

Is there a limit on how many tracks each person can enter?

How many do you think you've got so far?

I've got about 25 tracks totaling ~25 minutes. Half of them are exactly 1:17 (I've only got 7 under a minute)

Limit is 3 per person but if you want to submit more than that I'll let you as long as they're under 0:45 seconds

I have no idea how I'm going to sequence this.

random

I might just!

keep forgetting to work on this, i guess it's this weekend or bust

2% chance of recording vocals, may just have to go instrumentals or bu$t

so close. big push tomorrow.

Recorded vocals last night, doesn't help that I had a hard drive trash all my material about a week ago, so now I'm overdubbing on top of a really quick rough mix that I sent to Emily (singer). Still, it's nearly done.

Craaaap I cant find the raw FL file of this awesome phillip glass piece i was gonna send in. Shit shit. It must be on another PC.

Hey, I have totally finished this & it is coming but my home interweb connection is totally groaning under the weight of a 20 mg file & I don't know if it'll go through. Please, if it crashes can I just send it tomorrow from work? Pretty please?

Yes, no prob! trayce if you can find it and have it in in a few days it's no prob

You should have had it by now if it had gone thru. I sent a test message just after so if that turned up but no track I know it didn't work. I'll try again from work tomorrow so thanks for the extension!

Really excited now to hear what everyone else came up with!

i'm going to resubmit one of my tracks -- i heard it last night on speakers that were actually *good* and it needs a tiny bit of tweaking.

Sent one more from Ramz and I and one of my own.

see if i can send in trax tomorrow

guys why does garageband insist on adding several random seconds of silence at the end of my otherwise 77 second long song? and why does it give me no option to set output format when i export song to disk???? i thought apples are easy to use wtf!

Okay everyone, 48 HOUR DEADLINE EXTENSION just to make sure everyone who wants to submit can.

shit, better get cracking

shit forgot about this completely until now, but i probably have tons of semi-recent <77sec sketches i could touch up and send in, will take a look

I thought I would have something together, but I'm going to have to sit this one out.

Computer still bust so no music software, will see if I can read anything off the hard disk this evening in hope that the "work in progress" before it died might sound kind of finished-ish, if not going to sit this out

either way, looking forward to hearing other people's results

no help with garageband?

I never got Garageband to output in any other format than MP3, though you can at least change the quality of the MP3 to 320 which should be OK.

As to the seconds of silence at the end, I'm trying to remember how to fix that. I've used so many recording softwares that I forget which one is which. Is Garageband the one that doesn't actually go by the endpoint you set, but by the loop you define? Or is that Cubase? I'll try and look when I get home but I don't have my mac with me.

garageband is that one that is like a soft toy like all other apple products

Anyway, Stevie, I have sent you the track again from my KDT yahoo account, so let me know if it turns up.

no help with garageband?

Shorten the song?

iTunes lengthened the song that was 1:17 in Reason to 1:18 in iTunes. So I just sped it up from 131bpm to 131.5 BPM and it was fine.

(can you do this in Garageband?)

in Garageband, there's a little purple arrow at the top of all the tracks (in the section with the time delimiters) that you can use to determine the ending point of the song. So you need to make sure it's actually placed where you want the ending.

speeding it up would only work if the track was all software instruments; if there are any "real" instruments then it won't adjust those

I made a track for this btw but I don't know if I like it.

Man, ReCord has spoiled me that way.

Hey Stevie, just sent you a YSI link to the gmail address, let me know if you don't get it. Thanks!

i just sent something in -- let me know if it works?

How long do I have to knock up an 8-part prog suite/something simple?

77 seconds

I never got Garageband to output in any other format than MP3, though you can at least change the quality of the MP3 to 320 which should be OK.

Choose "Export Song to Disk" under the Share menu and make sure "Compress" is unchecked in the resulting dialog. Hit export and GB will save it as a AIFF file.

Seriously if you could actually condense an 8-part prog suite into 77 seconds, <3 <3 <3

have decided it will be 10-part

Stevie, I did a resubmit for my track did you get it okay?

Yep, got 'em all!! I love this final surge of music. This will probably be over 30 or 40 min tbh.

Awes.

how long do I have SD? I am working on something right now

Like two days

sent one

134 rpm makes the song seem so much longer than it actually is

should have been 154 rpm imo. Multiples of 77 ftw

(let me know if I should raise the volume - because I can use a brickwall limiter)

Multiples of 77 ftw

(New (sub)title?)

mine is almost done and will be sent later tonight! it is a simple and very linear piece of ultra-minimalism

OK, how many people have submitted 77 seconds of silence?

submitted. peace god

submitted piece, god

submitted peas cod

hope i wasn't too late!!

It's never too late to rearrange that little snippet!

Submit, Ted.

Peace,
God

I am working on getting this into some sort of logical order at the moment, and then I will tag/rename them nicely and produce a perfectly neat .zip file of 320kbps mp3's

Seriously some of these are totally getting stuck in my head a lot now.

one of the songs reminds me of St. Etienne which makes me v happi.

nice. can you post track list to confirm submissions?

Once I get everything sequenced I'm going to email everyone who submitted just to confirm that everything is spelled/capitalized/attributed correctly but I wanna keep it a surprise to everyone else til I post a link.

But I definitely received your tracks. The one is v majestic in an E6 sort of way and I really like it!

crap too late!

(pssst if it's already done and ready to send like right now I might look the other way etc etc)

hey stevie D, could you remove mine? I sent you the wrong version- the real version can't be put together yet

aw thanks man!

other comps will appear long and boring after this one comp to rule them all

xxxp

i will be finishing it tonight.

xp brownie as soon as you said that I thought "oh man I really hope brownie's track isn't that one song that I really like" AND IT IS :( I was going to open with it, forreal. Is the completed one gonna be done in time and if not is there any way I could use this if I indicated it as a "demo version" or something, or would you prefer I just remove it entirely?

whoa, go ahead then

yeah demo version is ok

just sent mine over.

did you get mine in time?

I did have an idea for a very very short song, never got the time!

Everyone, I'm sure with the preeminent success this thing's looking at, there could likely be a sequel.

xxp ya i'm p sure I got yours. Seriously this thing is like 45 minutes; maybe there will be a sequel someday?

Any idea of a release date Stevie?

Oh jeez I don't know, right now I'm trying to familiarize myself with/categorize them enough to put in some sort of logical order. I want to say like a week or two?

seems like you should come up with the running order in 77 seconds, right?

Doing it in your own time = take as long as you want imo

otm, I don't envy you, this thing has got to be a sequencing nightmare

will make a nice xmas present

my track was a little quiet, I jacked up the volume, got rid of a glitch at the end and resent it
it's up to you what you do with it though

don't resent it; i'm sure it's fine!

yeah, it probably is fine

re·sent
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oh lol

Tiny Music.

ayo this is more worthy of yr time than kelpolaris ;)

totes otm

OK so everything is nicely tagged and organized and mostly sequenced, I just have to put the finishing touches on it and assemble the artwork and etc, so we are looking at probably the next few days

and then it will be yours to critique and consume

bravo! can't wait to listen!

yay!

I am very very amazed. There are abt 45 tracks and ~50 minutes of music.

:D

excitement, she wrote

Hurrah!

Stoked like a steam engine for this!

Stevie is it too late to change one small thing on the name of my submission? If so, no worries.

Na just email it to me and I'll replace the file

Cool, thanks!

Slightly updated file for Grannykart's "Ipswitch" (or rather, a link thereto) also emailed to you! Thanks.

then there was my file that I told you I fixed and re-sent

but u lied?

i really did resend it

I'm very much looking forward to this comp. More exciting than 'the best song of the 20th century poll' imo

chrisv did you get my email abt yer track?

Every time I see this thread bumped…. y'all are killin' me. ;-)

it's soooo almost done I promise!

*faints*

sorry stevie, just got it. Not a problem, i shall edit it in the next day or two.

Could you post a tracklist maybe for us to check out?

Once I get everything sequenced I'm going to email everyone who submitted just to confirm that everything is spelled/capitalized/attributed correctly but I wanna keep it a surprise to everyone else til I post a link.

Nyahh to you E3 :)

some excellent track titles! lol Nunez

steve I just sent you a quick question regarding the back cover, and it's something important enough for me to pause until hearing back from you (so I don't have to do a bunch of stuff over again)

I have this strange urge to suggest ban Track 8 for some reason.

CENSORSHIP

I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas Day over this!

I can tell you it is mostly all ready and will be released any day now.

I usually put these things up on fairtilizer (guess they're official.fm now) but... 49 tracks... fukkkk

is there anyone out there willing to edit my track down to the appropriate time? my software is all fluxxored and pissing me off! im going to try with audacity but have never used it...is it easy?

Audacity is incredibly easy. I use it at work.

I say split it at some apposite midpoint and call it x part 1 and x part 2

x (hostel-maxi) and x part 2

ok, audacity appears much easier than what i use on a regular basis, i shall fix it tonight.

yeah, audacity process would be 1) import it, 2) highlight what section of the track you want in the end product, 3) do file->export selection

You can also apply fades if that is yr thing

How come people are talking about track numbers?

Hate to be a dwyck but can we put a real deadline for fixes/changes/revisions? Only fair to those who turned theirs in on time and would love to listen to this! (fire away)

*put down a real deadline

hey its understandable.

lol, this is never going to actually be done

How come people are talking about track numbers?

― Housewife Up Yer Fuckin Arse Music (MaresNest), Wednesday, December 8, 2010 2:43 PM (15 minutes ago)

stevie emailed the track listing to participants

guess you didn't make the grade sorry

j/k you are track #27

Proud to be #27 :)
Stevie, may I have an email too thx

FYI this is totally finished spare chrisv2010s track which was too long and is being edited down and re-sent. I do apologize for the wait (crazy hectic past few weeks) but I can promise you that it's not lol never actually going to be done

Are there any more edits to the track names? If not, u can go ahead and send the tracklist images tonight

dangit, U = I.

Done and sent.

cover and traycard completed and sent to stevie d, should be posted in t - pretty soon!

stoked!

ILX Compilation 4: tiny music zip file for you to download and listen to

Let us all thank Z S v v much for these wonderful covers:

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1030/frontcoveranimated.gif
http://img802.imageshack.us/img802/5645/traycardsmaller.jpg

!

downloading!

and i'm not sure if they're in the zipped file or not, but there's also a nonmoving version of the cover (small version for iTunes cover art, super huge version in case you want to print it out for your own cd) and a big version of the tracklist with spines (again, in case you want to print it out)

hooray! downloading.

Oh yes all of the covers are included in the .zip file.

listening!

for some reason, the album artwork that iTunes automatically used was Rex Mantlepiece - Elastic Avenue

Oh fuck I meant to embed the artwork in the mp3's as metadata OOOPS

ah whatever, rex mantlepiece elastic avenue is not a bad accidental cover to have! looool

these are off the hook so far, and the short track length makes for an interesting listen

Thanks guys!

unnnzzzziiippp

oh shit SUPERTROG WITH TEH TAINT SHOUTOUT

qu'est-ce que c'est motherfuckers

FÜGÜGÜFFÜ's stuff is crazy good as usual

surm music is <3breaking, want more

major props to constant light for making the only sub-30 sec track (the only sub-15 sec track too, actually!)

xpost yeah, just got to lou and surm's songs and it is awesome

Thanks.

m bison- More surm here and here.

mark grout- If you're out there, <3 that track.

I am constantly getting zappi's stuck in my head btw (it is the one that I mentioned sounded like St Etienne imo)

major props to constant light for making the only sub-30 sec track (the only sub-15 sec track too, actually!)

thanks! all 4 tracks were originally made for very short educational promo videos, and none ended up being used, those fussy bastards.

really enjoying this

I can't get track 39, crüt's "ID," to take its rightful place when I sort by album. It jumps above track 1 and I can't figure out what in the metadata is out of sync with the other 48 tracks.

crut's first song is astonishing

pixel farmer get rid of the 'album artist' text

yeah the tracks don't work in itunes for me

xp nevermind

ok yeah that was it, thx lj

love that arp odyssey sound on jay vee's track!

yes, jay vee likes YMO, he's of good provenance :P

maresnest track made me hit replay in a combination of surprise and utter bliss

<3 <3 <3 "galaxy... of terror" too

love that arp odyssey sound on jay vee's track!

^^

oh shoot! This is LIVE? Gonna d/l now. Thx for kind words, btw! Glad people like these : )

Surm/Lou's tracks are like Mariah Carey meets Cocteau Twins

one problem: "ipswich" is repeated where "minor antarctic island" is supposed to be. if i didn't send the right file, i apologize!

here's the correct one. it may be 78 seconds now (oops)? we did a little more work on it.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/fix8xh

lol @ get bent's song being on here twice under diff titles XPOST

Okay this makes more sense and I totally didn't want to be rude and be all "listen I don't hear enough of a difference between your two works!!" (thus the email I sent)

pfeh, sorry for bollocksing it up

oh shush, it is no thing! I am abt to upload another .zip as we speak (with proper tags and art and everything this time as well)

want to hear more Constant Light

our 'proper' stuff so far is a bit less poppy than that but these are not unindicative of future directions

HERE IS A NEW AND FRESHLY FIXED ZIP FILE WITH PROPER TAGS, EMBEDDED ARTWORK, AND GRANNYKART SONG; DOWNLOAD THIS INSTEAD UNTIL A MOD FIXES THE LINK ABOVE

YAY! i can't wait to listen

this answers my qn i had about the mysterious KELLY tracks that lou posted on FB, btw

Didn't want to nitpick but if you're fixing mistakes Track 16 = merchandising

Yes that's how it's spelled in both filename and tag...?

just on the sleeve :)

<3 lou & surm tracks, want to hear more

Holy shit E3!! Ox!

Fuck it, I missed this entire thread :(

also I have gotta say that Captain Lorax's one is totally rad, and that rent has a lovely melodic sensibility

ZS Awesome!

wait-a-minute... LJ is secretly Vivian Stanshall?

you mean you DON'T fancy a wine-and-middle-aged-spread do at the Great House?

Ha, you just made his day,.

xpost told yer. Or rather, I didn't...

It's the shoehorning of cricket references into songs that gives it away.

Just downloaded! EXCITED.

I'm listening to this right now and it's really good!

I actually only logged back onto ILX to comment on this comp...

I've listened to it one and a half times through now and it's of pleasingly high quality throughout. Because it's such a huge chunk of music (surprising given its actual brevity) I starred tracks that stood out as particularly wonderful - so my initial favourites (and I'm sure I'll add more as I get into it):

Zappi - Snowblood, Tyler W - Denver Diatribe, Kelly - What You Do To Me, Clonefeed - Skipper, Snoball - Gas, Fügügüffü - ID, 77_2 - Capitaine Jay Vee, rent - 771, Grannykart - Minor Antarctic Island

(oops, sorry I think I've inverted artist and title in some of those but you get which tracks I mean.)

this thing is great, my track fails in comparison to all of these.

minor antarctic island sounds like the theme from "heroes"

What a great comp. A lot of you should be recording/releasing music if you aren't already! Really happy to have been part of this.

Here's some of my other music (much longer than the tracks on here): soundcloud.com/professorjorge

chrisv2010 : your track is excellent.

huzzah! just started listening to this -- sounds amazing so far. thanks to everyone who contributed and stevie for organizing. great cover art too ...

Thanks!

ol dirty malkmus = awesome

i think a fun way to listen to this for the first time might be to just put the lot in a playlist, hit shuffle and not look at what's playing unless i really like the sound of it (which could certainly happen a lot) so gonna try that tonight - no disrespect intended to stevie for thoughtful sequencing tho

karen, i loved your track! and the kelly songs are wonderful, too (i esp. liked 'books and records')

Karen, you did a wonderful job. Your Reason skills are pretty advanced imo

yeah i dug yours too, karen. whole thing is wonderful, kind of oddly cohesive.
would anyone be averse to me posting a link on my blog? totally cool if we want to keep it an ILX-only thang.

Gosh - mine are quiet. Should've mixed them louder. ah well...

Same here - my 1st and 3rd tracks could do with being a bit louder as well.

Wish I still worked at the sportstalk station. Some of these would make for great bumpers/liners.

I think I suffer from that pretty badly as well, especially coming 13 seconds after EdIII's marvellous blast of raucousness (xp)

but hey it's not a prob, listen to the whole thing damn loud imo

ken c's is one of the real underrated growers here i think

ha, that's actually what my contribution began as -- a potential bumper thing for a podcast. rejected! glad it's found a (better) home. xpost

I've got "Denver Diatribe" on my list of favorites here, so I guess it hit its mark!

"Snowblood"
"Denver Diatribe"
"Blues Name"
"Song for Denver Lucas"
"House of Clocks"
"Production"
and "Steering" all made me sit up and take notice.

Special, special recognition to all the Clonefeed songs. I wrote all of those down too. I would buy any Sega game for the soundtrack alone based on those songs.

Two Denver songs, eh? "Denver Lucas" could almost be a cover of an outtake from later Minutemen album.

This is v good! I could play favourites but maybe I'll give it a few more listens first as there's just so much to take in.

(Still sad that smoke came out of my computer when I was hoping to work on it but would've been totally outclassed so all good in the end)

I'm sure more of the others will latch on after a few more listens, but on Day 1, those were the ones that stood out.

I dare someone to create a poll that ends in a year.

this is excellent!

Cheers Pleasant Plains.

If you like 'Steering', you may enjoy http://spitfireparade.bandcamp.com/track/steering-wheel

It is making me so so happy that everyone is enjoying this so much!

my two big favorites are "Song for Denver Lucas" and "Repetition Pears 77"

lotta good stuff on here -- lou & surm, Grannykart, crüt, P Nunez... latebloomer's tracks are kinda hysterical, I'm not sure if he meant them to be funny or not...felt like he was channelling mid-70s Devo

Thanks for the nice words. I've been enjoying this so much, honoured to be part of such an accomplished and fantastic sounding compilation! Kudos to everyone involved.

yar k8 yr song is rulesome in addition to the ones I've already praised

rly just cannot get over 'i gave you all my money...' tho

and obv maresnest's one is jagger catnip alert bleep bleep bleep

Played a couple times now, every so often, checking the track counter, so will have to log them...

at some point.

Some are 'long things, shortened'

Some are 'exactly the right length'

Only one is 'didn't need to be that long, did it?' which is the point, kinda.

asked upthread -- does anyone mind if i post a link for this on my blog?

dude it's on a public message board, don't think anybody cares where it gets posted

ilx is a public message board? then how come i'm paying ned raggett monthly subscription fees?
jk, yeah, i guess you're right.

Can I put this compilation onto a cafe press coffee mug?

yes

Buh, realised there's about six more songs that could go on here.

If anyone feels this comp is lacking in some retarded punk, feel free to fill it out with these:

http://thesalivationarmy.bandcamp.com/track/house-of-doner-3
http://thesalivationarmy.bandcamp.com/track/happy-birthday-lisa
http://thesalivationarmy.bandcamp.com/track/three-bucks-for-a-pot-2
http://thesalivationarmy.bandcamp.com/track/no-muff-too-tough-2
http://thesalivationarmy.bandcamp.com/track/come-on-die-young
http://thesalivationarmy.bandcamp.com/track/poser

so the comp's nearing completion?

http://i55.tinypic.com/ddml1z.jpg

I had to re-submit my track again, so it's going to take another few days probably.

I've heard murmurings that this is postponed till 2011.

I sent it over to Kevin Shields to master... Hopefully he'll be dpne soon?

it'll be done when kate bush finishes aerial (oh wait, that was five years ago already)

ts release date of tiny music vs chinese democracy
(on the latter, i bet there really WILL be chinese democracy before that thing gets released loool)

wasn't it released? (or is that the joke)

hehe, yep

Haha oh I knew that! I meant Chinese Democracy.

Just listening now, wow! what about that alcaholic guy, he crazy.

a-HA!!

Hi.

This is the song I recorded for this compilation. I never submitted it because I wasn't happy with it. But now in hindsight I think it's kind of fun:

http://scarequotes.net/mp3/Tapdance.mp3

yes, I just got around to mixing it down today.

nice. the stereo-panned guitars sound really cool.

thanks brah

:DDDDDD

awesome, as usual

The original comp. was like, what, 60 mins? So you could do a Deluxe Special Edition with 17 extra tracks!

n/a brings it, nice job!

Great stuff n/a.

listening to the comp again right now! "card declined" might be might be my favorite song that mentions sriracha sauce.

i've listened to ol' dirty malkmus a zillion times btw

thanks!

feel a deep sense of personal satisfaction at rhyming "sriracha sauce" and "tube top off", you can put that on my gravestone

xp

can you post the full lyrics svp?

sure

here are card declined lyrics

daymare nation, terminal station
total nihilation, noise divination
hit the black lights and I spring into action
everything's moving in a circular fashion

disco balls, hotel bloedel
no need to wash a taint cuz my shit don't smell
hit bong rips while yr sister trips
we're smokin pixie sticks with a pair of roach clips

(I'm a hot and bothered astronaut) eatin corn dogs
with sriracha sauce, get yr tube top off
bass mutilation, prognostication
trash gets off on zombie penetration

here is the church, here is the steeple
open up the doors (I see dead people)
flunked science but one thing I know
mix ben-gay with K-Y, you could make a hormone

never got along with my coaches
like upson pratt hates roaches
when I shine I shine like a fly in yr wine
yr card was declined, PVD divine
(doggone girl is mine)

wau that song kinda just got 10x better

After all this time I only just now found the song I'd wanted to submit ;_;

Oh well!

Trayce, we can totally put it on the Deluxe Edition.

haha :) Eh its just a silly little piano plinkle.

we can do this every 6 months

hotel bloedel

one of my favorite fall songs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJXTQEZwdw

ha me too, I totally jacked an entire line from it

ooh, what's the next comp gonna be?

There was talk of a protest music comp while we were on the sandbox? I got as far as recording an instrumental which emil.y was going to do some reciting of Marxist texts for, but then we just stopped, I don't think I've even listened to it since last year?

We'll probably end up doing a different them, anyway, I'm guessing.

i like the protest music idea!

oh i forgot about that one. there should be a thread for it that can be revived.

i'm bad at finding these things... if something turns up, please post it.

Hmm, that could work...

i don't see it, maybe the discussion was part of a bigger thread

The thread was on the Sandbox!

i could have sworn the conversation was older than that but you could be right.

can someone produce said sandbox thread? i can't find it.

Oops, sorry WCC - I had a rotten cold and was generally feeling blue so never got around to it, but I must confess it just slipped my mind over the last couple of weeks. I will get on it soon - I think either tomorrow or Monday (recording on my birthday!) are good days, so at least by early next week.

an instrumental which emil.y was going to do some reciting of Marxist texts for

<3

I could do one next week!

Nah, I knew you were poorly, emil.y so I didn't want to hassle you, and also there was no rush as no one else showed any sign of moving. When you get a chance!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/SAM_0055.jpg

Finally got round to 'making' these!

has there been any more comps? i couldn't find any threads further than this one.

i'd like to be involved if there's any!

Reminded you of the glory days did I

AFAIK these all happened after the v4 comp.

ilx comp v. five - this is not the music of l. ron hubbard, music maker (available to download)
"Now That's What I Call ILX" (comp # whatever: we cover/mutilate/remix the POP HITS of the day)
ILX pre-covers LULU -- the Lou Reed/Metallica album
ILX Christmas Compilation: Deck the Halls With Boughs of LOLly (2013 expansion! Deadline is December 1!)
ILX pre-covers Animal Collective's "Centipede Hz"
Download & Listen to COMP TOGETHER - ILX Covers The Beatles (Available Now!)
ILX Pre-Covers Bowie's _The Next Day_
Frankly Fucking Great -- ILX Pre-Covers Hesitation Marks

They're all pre-covers apart from the Christmas album.

... and there weren't too many contributors to the Xmas one. I'm generally up for any sort of comp. but I must confess I have no idea what these pre-cover comps are and don't pay them any attention tbh.

I was bummed I missed the Xmas one. saw it pop up on sc. I don't read ILM so I can often miss these!

oh man damn same trayce. i wish there's some way to be notified but i suppose it's the point that i should be more an active member and part of the community and all that..

pre-cover sounds kind of fun it's to take the title alone and write a song based on that, right?

Aw, I wish I had known about the tiny music one, I used to fool around with some short songs.
http://studioefficiency.com/music.html

xp re pre-covers: yes

Having said that, it would be nice if the next compilation album was a 'regular' one where people submitted whatever track they wanted.

Hey, nobody's stopping anyone from doing a new all original one. What I might suggest, though, is a post here AND ILM, or a post on one board linking to the thread on the other.

be sure to make a thread on I Love AFL too.

i love Albums with Frivolous Lyrics

all original one sounds good but should there be a theme?

or properly freestyle anything goes?

Completely freestyle would encourage more people to get involved, I think.

let's give it a try!

what compilation number would this be now?

be sure to make a thread on I Love AFL too.

― Mmm yes hello (crüt), Monday, January 6, 2014 7:25 AM (Yesterday)

haha. am totally down to contribute

xp The U2 pre-cover came between comps 3 and 4, so pre-covers don't increase the volume number (comp 5 followed the precover 'pick a track title' idea but the original album was from the 70s). So a future comp would be volume 6?

What I might suggest, though, is a post here AND ILM, or a post on one board linking to the thread on the other.

Sage advice from Ned as always. Main thread on ILE and a locked thread on ILM with just a link to the main thread?

and it's done
ILX Compilation v6: FREESTYLER - rock your microphone

haha btw imago yes