What do you sound like right now? (a YSI thread)

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This thread is to post whatever it is you are currently working on (half finished, half ideas, or half assed material is entirely welcome.)

I've been in a heavy MBV phase recently so I've been doing my best to imitate their guitar sound. Here's something I did tonight, just guitar until I figure out what else to build around it.

In the Dark

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

I like that.

Here's a demo of a song we're going to record. It's two parts - the first part is instrumental here but now it has vocals.

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=27WKGZIXDK48M1LEB71ZPL6X6V

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

I'm liking when the vocals come in.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, I like the second part better too.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

What gear are you using to get that MBV sound, Matt? It's a very good imitation...

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

I've completely given up on language.

http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=03STG1E67WXES2V8SSIUGE4SJE

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

a short idea for a song that i worked up during a lunch break. features a vacuum cleaner, bells, & radio transmissions from saturn

http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=36HTMQRO200EA0A47R9BXCT3XZ

― 6335, Monday, 10 October 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

this is the last thing i finished, and i am in the process of chopping it up so that it becomes tuneful and structured with beats...

http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2USUD7PG6O6X534DI67RMISA9K

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

as it is, the thing above was the result of trying to rip off fennesz, fwiw...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

What gear are you using to get that MBV sound, Matt?

I'm using a few filters in Sonar. I have no amp to my name right now, so I've plugged my guitar into this little mixing board through my sound card. EQ'd (lots of boost to the low end, cut the high end); reverb; amp sim (British overdrive); and Sonic Foundry's distortion filter.

The guitar is a Fender Mustang that my dad had bought back when it was the cheapest guitar around. Needless to say, it has appreciated in value some since then (I think it was late 60's, but it might be a 1970 model). I don't have a tremolo arm, so to bend pitch I'm using my forearm/elbow to push down on the bridge while I'm strumming.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

And now, if Dirty South Philip Glass soundtracked a Nintendo game:

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QFG1AE55Z4F13HJOLX0NU1QRO

(Btw, Chubs McKenzie is my corny beat-making alias.)

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Lynskey, this song is great.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone's stuff has been great, actually.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Here I come to break the streak, then:

My Intended

This is fairly unfinished.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Morph:
In The Dark has great texture. What reverb effect did you use?
I've been using the reverse reverb presets in Waves Rverb, and it's been working quite well, but I'm always open to finding alternatives.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to try to make a point of listening to everything here until the thread becomes unwieldy.

Lynskey: this is just totally not my kind of thing at all, but it seems well crafted as what it is.

6635: This is pretty cool. I especially like the way you use the bells.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Brooker

It's Cakewalk's DSP-FX Studioverb. It's packaged with Sonar, I believe.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

Light Toucher: I've already listened to some of your stuff and like it. You're on my myspace page. I think I liked other stuff you've done more. This is a bit static, but I guess it's unfinished so it depends where it goes.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

Dirty South Philip Glass: I like the Nintendo Philip Glass stuff but I don't think the dirty south beat quite fits, texturally. I also like the breakdown where the beat cuts out.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

Spielfrau: Very good lyrics. I don't like the music and the vocal phrasing on the verse that much, but it opens up in a really awesome way on the chorus, and in a way since the verse is so crowded it kind of makes the chorus that much more effective. The way you, or whoever is the singer, sing "Learn, goddamn you learn" is really great.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you. No autotune anywhere in sight! I will also gladly concede that the verse is a bit of a "watch us do stuff in weird time signatures" wank. By the way, I salute your resolve to listen to everything on the thread, and will follow suit tomorrow.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

You'll get no complaints about time-signature-wank from me. We do plenty of that ourselves.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

The song I put up is very "Look, we're doing prog-country-western" for the first few minutes. But I actually think the second part (which is almost a different song) is rather haunting and pretty.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

This is pretty raw compared to some of your recordings. I put this recording together last weekend writing the tune as I went. I don't really sing, so it is just an instrumental that I am calling "Clockwork" for now.

http://s25.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0RK93JO9FOQXJ1DSYG4TLSXLM4

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

Here's a song that's been sort-of sidelined whilst we've been concentrating on more recent tunes.
I think maybe because it's one of the first tracks we worked up together we are collectively a little bit tired of it as our newest stuff is what we're all getting excited about at the moment, this track sounds little like our latest material.

Caveat: it's a monitor mix, has no vocals yet, the piano sounds slightly out of tune (so that'll have to be rerecorded), the snare reverb is a bit POW and there are other instruments yet to go down like harmonium & baritone guitar, so it's quite sparing.

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3OK06GXOMMGDE0NETWIUPGIZA6

― mzui (mzui), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

(Lynsky, that's really stunning!)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

(So stunning that I can't spell your name!)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

I must listen to some of these tonight.

Hopefully I can post something soon...yesterday I turned in the hard drive with my band's new album for mastering (of course, by this point I already feel like 'oh, that's old news, we sound sooo much better now, blah blah').

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Lynskey - amazing production/programming. I don't like this kind of vocal treatment but that's a personal idiosyncrasy.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm liking what I'm hearing here, still got a few more to plow through.

I spent years trying to get MBV tones but never got anything like that!

Lynksey, I like your style.

Here's one of the tunes I've been most pleased with recently. I think it's somewhere between Germanesque "minimal" and London tech-house but with a little twist.

http://s56.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1KRT2OXO41TCD179PGYULAYJRC

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Lynskey's is flippin' awesome.

Here's my first foray into Protools from about a month ago (and with a poorly balanced, midrange- and reverb-heavy mix to show for it!):

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=070QODFZXPTNN28QLY5KNZVUEU

Shitty keyb'd love song as you might expect from a 17-year-old.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

(most of my songs have a more complex orchestration than that - it's just a low-key tune)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you for your kind words. After a couple of years of being mistreated, swiped at and generally kicked around a bit believe it or not it's gone a fair way to restoring some confidence in myself.

I know what you mean about that vocal treatment, I find that about 90% of people don't like it - thing is, I don't like the sound of my voice so I'll do anything I can to get something different out of it. The whole "get rid of lyrics" thing has been coming for a while. It's just far too interesting to have loads of slices of a vocal on different keys of a keyboard - they're non-sequential, so your usual chromatic brain doesn't get a look in and you do things more on feel. I finally got it how I wanted it a while back with these two tracks (Hope I'm not overstepping the bounds here on "what do you sound like right now?"), one mellowish that samples Shirley Ellis (which I believe the Go!Team have done since, I'll take it out when I get round to it, it's only the "And they all went to heaven" bit I want, really) and the other some sort of demented dancefloor shenanigans.

DRAY
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=333SEFILYYX6W1783CQRUNN92B

GLITTERATI
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=357RJY09HVHHH145AD9N1TQTMA

In summary, CAN ANYONE GET ME FUCKING GIG SOMEWHERE?

Ah - Is Chewshabadoo "Sum of A Pitch"? - if so I've liked all the stuff I've heard from you, in fact I think I DJ'ed a track somewhere last christmas. Superb track, the breakdown about 4.10 is really, really good. Get. Your. Stuff. Put. Out.

That In the Dark thing is the most credible Sheilds I've ever heard. Score! If I did that I'd never do anything else but that for the rest of my life.

Hurting - right back at ya! Not my thing, but I can appreciate it. It's the kind of thing that needs really, really pristine sound quality so you can get feeling of the band being right in front of you and get every little nuance. What it doesn't need though is an absolutely perfect take. It needs to live a little.

Mzui - similarly I'd like to hear it ultra-pristine and perfect and more studio than live sounding. The combination of instruments is gorgeous in places.

6335 - that's brilliant. I'd leave that as it is. Maybe remaster it at 6-bit or something to make it crunch like a fucker.

Firstworldman - that's exactly the kind of thing I rattle off and then cut-up to make something out of. There's loads of potential in it. I'd be a bit worried about some of the harsh treble in it. Or maybe not. Millions of possibilities.

Chubs - The beginning is like NINTENDO SHELLAC! I'd be throwing a ridiculously heavy hip hop beat in later just to confuse things further. Great ideas.

Mr Cotten - like it, like it, like it. You are one lucky bastard to have that drummer.

Nash - Great guitar sound. Needs the drums really in your face though.

Curtis - That's so up my alley. YOU CAN SING. DON'T BE SHY. Less verb, get it up there, get more confident. Get some beers in or go out and get a bit drunk then come back and record the vocal. Compress it a bit too, or two-tier it for preference, a light compressor catching most of it and a limiter to get the high peaks. That way you can put the verb in there beforehand and it'll rise up when its needed and stay out of the way when it's not.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

This is my attempt at a Basement Jaxx / Daft Punk style tune, although it's probably a little poppy for the genre. My DJ friend had the idea for the vocal hook and the basic groove. I fleshed out the beats, played the keyboards, and ended up singing the thing after my friend chickened out! We tried to make it sound like we'd sampled an old disco record, but it's all us:

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0V3ZSD7D6VFCK0XRQCKA593W83

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to Lynskey's and Chubs' choons last night, and they're both great! The latter reminds me of Telefon Tel Aviv a little bit with the beat, and in keeping with that I think the drums could stand to be a lot louder.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Tantrum - this is a good dance track. I like the fact that it has proper chord changes in it, which too many dance tracks don't have. Singing sounds nice.

Lynskey - Gliteratti kicks ass. This makes me want to breakdance.

Curtis - Agree with Lynskey about the vocals. Sound good, bring them out more. I could stand it to be a little faster too - feels like it takes a while to get started, and the slowness maybe makes the vocal phrasing more difficult too, methinks.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Chews - I don't listen to much music like this so I don't have much reference to evaluate it by, but sounds pretty cool. I think I could dig this if I was on the dance floor.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

If I was going to get incredibly nit-picky, I'd say I don't really like the "oh be-be-bop be-bop-be" sound, but I like the other ones.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Hurting. I'm influenced as much by classic pop songs as I am by anything else!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell, this should be a rough mix of a Jackson 5 cover from the forthcoming brass band record:

http://www.cleftandcloven.com/bethere.mp3

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to the Spielerfrau song, I really like it. Esp. the bass and the electronic-sounding 16th notey stuff in the background.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

firstworldman, i really dig your song just the way it is! it has nice textures and i love the little intertwining melodies. if you released an album like this i would probably buy it.

i like the lynskey track too! (which surprised me, because i don't listen to any music like this) took me a bit to get used to the vocal effect, but by the end of the song it seemed to be a perfect fit.

also, the first track w/ the mbv-ish guitar really floored me. i've tried to emulate that mbv sound before and never even got close to something that cool.

still getting to the rest..and thank you all for the nice compliments about the one i posted. :) one question, because i'm dumb - how do you master in 6-bit? is that lower or higher than normal? will t-racks do this?

― 6335, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I like that Jackson 5 cover a lot. Sometimes Brass Band covers of pop songs feel forced to me, but I think the arrangement you guys did really works. Nice and spare. And great drumming. From a drummer.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 13 October 2005 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

This is last night's experiments with multitap delay. I spend a lot of time recording guitar parts and then applying vsts to them to see what happens.

http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0R4M8034JR4Y3J2UT3AGQDNZU

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 13 October 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

one question, because i'm dumb - how do you master in 6-bit? is that lower or higher than normal? will t-racks do this?

What I'd do is stick the degradation plug-in in your master section (what's your DAW, by the way?), then insert your master plug-in after that. Think of it as if you're taking a high-res snapshot of your deliberately crapped-up signal. That way your end file is still CD quality, even though it doesn't sound like that.

I'm stupid tired - email me if you like!!!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 13 October 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

one question, because i'm dumb - how do you master in 6-bit? is that lower or higher than normal? will t-racks do this?

I'm stupid tired - email me if you like!!!

-- Tantrum The Cat (tantrumtheca...), October 13th, 2005.

ergh, to show you how little i know about what i'm doing, i had to look up 'DAW' on the internet. anyway, i usually use cool edit pro 2, but i used audacity to make that specific song (on my work computer)

anyhow, i think i see what you're saying and i'll see if i can simulate it somehow. (not sure if i have a degradation plug-in) thanks for your help! i'll take you up on the email thing if i can't figure it out.

― 6335, Thursday, 13 October 2005 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks a lot, Hurting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 13 October 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Track Three of the future Sister DJ's Radio Band album, recorded recently:

http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2LP0D2VGCWOP435DS9YTC36LGU

― everything, Monday, 17 October 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Just did this one today. Fairly M83-ish...a same set of chords throughout, just layering and layering and layering.

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=243DZBOTAIGIF3APLP20W0J7M7

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, just discovered this board after a couple weeks of ILMing. This is rad! Although I'm bummed at how many of these are already expired on YSI... especially the nintendo philip glass thing, I wanted to hear that.

"My Intended" - digging the interplay between the bass-drum-vocal arrangement and the flourishes of high guitar and busier percussive noises. It lopes along nicely.

"Rumble at Pearson High" is great! The rhymes are occasionally a little bit wack ("If you look like a window dresser?") but they set the stage well and the chorus is just plain great. Is this a deliberate homage to "Stranded in the Jungle," same sort of bongo beat verse cutting abruptly to upbeat jazzy thing for the chorus? I absolutely love that song so it's hard for me to not like this. I can't tell whether on repeated listens the verses would grate or grow. One random thought: at the end when he's like "Rustle with the breeze and recite along with me, let's go" he really should continue on and sing the "Shoobey doobey dooba" stuff. Otherwise, what exactly are we reciting along with him?

"Reply" isn't my usual sort of thing so I'm probably not well prepared to evaluate it, but I like it, especially as it goes on and there's more happening. Creates a nice "space" and works as background music without being complete air pudding.

The "I'll Be There" cover is pretty much solid, can't go wrong with great melodies and a brass band. Something sounds a little bit off to me, I think it might be the mix, drums too high or something? And my rock n roll side really wants there to be some kind of instrument just keeping the rhythm moving, but really, this is as good as any brass band record I've got and would sound perfectly suitable on a summer day at the park, coming off the bandstand.

Somewhat less rad: what I'm working on right now, which is probably not the best way to show off what I'm all about, but whatev. "Half finished" being allowed, here goes.

I've just started working on what I hope will be a double LP of Paul McCartney covers. First stab, being fiddled with for the last three days or so, is "I'll Give You A Ring," minor b-side extraordinaire. My version is ending up somewhere between the Faint and the Postal Service in terms of keyboardy indie crap. The vocals are probably going to be scrapped and redone entirely, I have a cold and never should have attempted to record them.

http://www.ummagurau.com/Temp/i'llgiveyouaring05.mp3

(vocal-less version http://www.ummagurau.com/Temp/i'llgiveyouaring04.mp3 )

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Dr Casino, thanks a lot for the positive feedback about Sister DJ's Radio Band. "Rumble At Pearson High" is indeed inspired by "Stranded in the Jungle", to connect it with the Blackboard Jungle, kinda. The earlier version even had a little bit of "Rock Around The Clock" (which was in that movie) to further suggest the connection but it ultimately got ditched. Also, excellent suggestion about the final chorus, I think. Cheers!

― everything, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Dr. Casino. I think you're right about the mix, that was a rough cut and the final version has louder horns and the highs boosted.

And my rock n roll side really wants there to be some kind of instrument just keeping the rhythm moving,

Do you mean like a chordal/non-percussive instrument?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

This is something I've been toying around with for the past week...an atmospheric instrumental based around a piano, a xylophone and some saw....

http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2UV54HMVXG4961G3KP84BBI2R3

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

(Lynskey: Do you have any for-sale recordings?)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I second this request.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Lynskey'll probably be able to answer this mor fully himself, but check this out. (The first release mentioned on that page is a free download.)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

(Er at least I assume it's the same Lynskey)

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

Argh. Do not link the evil. The biog! Jesus Christ! Yes, there is a record to buy there, but I'd prefer if you didn't, I got royally screwed by that "label" - apparently I'm not going to see any royalty from it even if it does sell any more copies so you'd just be giving money to a someone else at my expense. I'm pretty sure they don't ship to the US too.

The EP itself is a bit unsatisfactory - they made me use what where essentially two demo versions of tracks and the lead track is really, really out of context. As soon as a new website is up and running I'll have it all up as a free download.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Haha sorry I had no idea.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm completely in love with the tracks you posted. They are satisfying musical yearnings I didn't even realize I had.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hahah there's about 50 more Lynskey tracks and they're all as good if not better.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

***puts on Station Valentine and Home.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19QWEUV3U2K3S0D4A6TLLR7QGS

I put some things around the guitar and now "In the Dark" sounds like a less ably mixed version of "To Here Knows When".

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 23 October 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

I like it, and I like the touch of the Loveless-style intermission part after the track. Would you mind if I did a little remix using your original guitar part?

I am in the middle of making another track, it hasn't been properly mixed, and I need to do little intricate programming touches, but it's pretty much there.

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0C3Y7B67EOFQI0G4WJNM2IM0DU

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

The new-ish song I like the best of ours (though not really all that new) is available on our myspace page. I don't have the file but the demo can be heard there. It's the one called "Blind Bird"

http://www.myspace.com/americanaltitude

― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

This one is a little darker:

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PULYN1FXUVM51FCMT908FJSJW

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Sunday, 23 October 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Chew, go for it, I'd love to hear it sometime.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers. Can't promise when it will get down, but it's such good source material.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

er, *done*

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1OOH963V6ZCA80G47KQP6EBZBC

is this crap?

is it too car commercial-ly?

do i need to cut it up more?

please help!

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

i'd been listening to a lot of justice/sebastian/similar french stuff... though i know i sort of missed the mark there.

and am i crazy for thinking there's room in there for vocals? the right kind of vocals?
also, i know the high tones are a little high.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

maybe my anxiety about wanting someone to comment on this means i should start a thread for songs we're anxious about and need advice for? i will start it if one person agrees. maybe i should start a thread about starting that thread, i'm feeling a little anxious about it.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

firstworldman: i like it! and there's definitely room for vocals if you choose so.

hahaha i was about to say 'i think it would be great though if there was a point where you dropped a 4/4 bass drum beat like over the snares' and then it HAPPENED
i'm so happy right now

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

xp mchesnut: is there any way you could gmail that track, or host it somewhere else? i get to 43% and it dies

also, i support the anxiety thread

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

dropped a 4/4 bass drum beat like over the snares' and then it HAPPENED

Not sure what you mean, by 'HAPPENED'. But I agree that t does need a bass drum on the snare-beat too. At the moment the rhythym isn't propulsive enough. I like it though.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

sorry Chew that was me to firstworldman... i haven't gotten to listen to 'Koze-G' yet but will once i get back to my computer

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

This is a rough mix for an 18-year-old girl that I was hired to produce. I co-wrote this one with the artist & her voice teacher, and handled all programming & production duties.

DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HATE THE TEENY R&B GIRLPOP!!!

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3GNVXON8MXTQM1ZXQ1G0TEIKIX

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I love it, especially the Neptunes mouth-clicks. Sounds great, just jack up the snare to radio-ready levels!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

especially the Neptunes mouth-clicks

That was her! She did it for a joke and I was all "No, that stays!"

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 27 October 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

sorry Chew that was me to firstworldman... i haven't gotten to listen to 'Koze-G' yet but will once i get back to my computer

That was me replying to you, replying to firstworldman - not about my track!

Confusion ahoy!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

This is a rough mix for an 18-year-old girl that I was hired to produce. I co-wrote this one with the artist & her voice teacher, and handled all programming & production duties.

I wish I could write a pop song like that! Great stuff.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Chewshabadoo & Jordan!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 28 October 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

nervous, confirm/deny that that is your correct gmail address and I'll send you the song.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3J5FXLJLGE9AQ1OO7MJT463WZ7

When I get my band back together, I'm hoping we can do some live version of this.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

mchesnut: indeed it is

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 3 November 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

i really like this song, matt. i'm curious as to how you would arrange a live version of it as i think it sounds great the way it is... do you mean kind of a la one of those whomadewho covers? one of my favorite things i've d/l'd from this board. sounds pleasantly areal-ish but with something else.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

My idea is to have a looser, funkier, more disco band approach to it. In the context of either an album or live set, this is where things would get theatrical. I would try to replace my band with machines and play this version and laugh manically as I have put everyone out of work. And then they stage a revolt and we play an extended coda of the loose, funky version.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fractured.info/

Have a listen on the mp3 tab.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Sunday, 6 November 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=34U0JUUP5EVHF3EPKJZWQUN22V

noise!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 6 November 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3JAUXJ88CN5PK37SOOTJ6VUQ0U

School assignment time! Making music for films and it has to be under 2 minutes.

― Its morph 'em to pun cute (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 17 November 2005 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

Swing yer pants! First track I've done in this stylee for some time. Nice working with big cockular guitars again.

http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2BGR0XGTQ1ZYC3UXLY3MFF9O8X

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Saturday, 26 November 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Nice, I like the synths. I'm not really a fan of using programmed drums to sound like rock drums (open hi-hats and whatnot) but I like them in the rest of the song.

It inspired me to post a track from last year, from a now-defunct project with a friend. It was my stab at a minimal techno-ish thing:

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1M3Q83KQ9IIDE3SI3GDT9PP8PQ

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 26 November 2005 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

OH, I can put these on here too. I did both of them REALLY fast yesterday, they both have mistakes, are pitchy, etc. etc. Neither of them are "real" songs.

Solresol: http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2V355X03OG6ZV01X96U523VRVI

Bird-Eyed Dog: http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WHN0EBQH5WWC3B0Y8B0OHX6XM

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 26 November 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

it's yours, go ahead and skate it:

http://www.myspace.com/noreasternj

― nor'easter, Monday, 28 November 2005 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

I need to mix this better, but I just finished this:

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0H8R6N2YA5RO42JXKVT7OJGIER

ps - No spelling corrections plz.

― Loltenant in the Lmaoist Rofflution (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sister DJ's Radio Band's newest Christmas recordings,

"Fruitcakes Of The World".
http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2SXZ3EIQ620VG03ANE1VY5DXWT

Diesel Christmas
http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H6ZDB3EQMELS3GS1HR62FF7II

― everything, Friday, 9 December 2005 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05Q1850XRSC581Z1QU2DJSAUBU

experiments with noize - but all good fun.

Four tracks:

1. Sleeptalkin' Woman
2. Ravermouth
3. Succotash Wish (Unplugged)
4. Testing

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Saturday, 10 December 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0YFGBE2KBKONN1MR5HVFX4WBWR

this one's called "Roast (Endoskeleton)", its an alternate mix of a track i made recently. it's got a 4/4 dance-y kinda sound i guess.

― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09T23LY3AP8AG1L84J2UCX5CAX

and while we're at it, here's the original version, "Roast (Exoskeleton)"

― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

This is a well-recorded demo of American Altitude - "Graced By Your Absence," which is on the new Beekiller compilation (also features Grizzly Bear, Mike Wexler, Mazarin, Elizabeth Harper, and others)

We'll definitely re-record it but it sounds pretty good.

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0HEX4D8M6O96G2FJHKR7AA7EXH

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds good, Hurting. Nice beat.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

TY. Yeah, That one always gets a "WTF?" from an audience member or two after shows (double-stroke roll triplets with a slight lilt against normal 4/4 guitar part)

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

(nerdy snortle)

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

It sounds good with the brushes because it gives the impression you might be ghosting some other crazy shit in between. Also, I don't know if it's the reverb or the levels but the drums sound very...far away. I like it, I think.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that far-awayness was actually the accidental result of a limitation with the way we recorded it, but I think I like it too. I think when we lay it down for the album we might go for some of that effect but a little less of it.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I need to get some sound editing software. I have all sorts of good ideas for remixes.

In lieu of fun stuff like that, though, the Canasta album can be listened to in its entirety at www.canastamusic.com. (Click in the upper-left corner.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Btw latebloomer, I like the remix much, much better.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

i do too.

― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

i like it a lot. i don't think it needs re-recording especially.

it sounds really pretty well balanced all round as a mix, like a starting 'static' mix that could maybe use some level rides across it to get the overall dynamic of the song and sectional flows coming out a little more. the drums are a bit quiet but they sound real nice - laid to tape?

i would also go for some sense of 'over-the-edgeness' right on the ascents at 3.22 and at the end, like the sense that the ground is giving way under you, a brief disorientation like drums collapsing inside before it resolves again - maybe like your double-stroke roll triplets with a slight lilt against normal 4/4 guitar part - feeling of momentary polyrhytmic calamity )

i'll shut up now.

― john clarkson, Friday, 16 December 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

No I totally like what you're saying. We have to re-record for a couple reasons - one is that there are some weird electronic blips at the end - not the kind of thing you might hear on first listen but not the kind ng we want on an album either. The other is that for some reason the drums sound like shite if we put them any louder in the mix. It was kind of a rush job demo that we made for another purpose and just ended up using for this cause it sounded good enough. You're totally right about the drums needing to go "over the edge" more at the end, giving impression of disintegration -- that's exactly how we do it live.

And no, by the way, the drums were done digital, but we used good mics.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not the "recording guy" in the band so I might not be able to give the best explanation of everything.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

Here's another well-recorded demo (recorded by same guy) of the other band I'm playing with now - Begushkin. It's also on the comp. I think we actually sound better now and I wish we'd played more shows before recording the disc, but this is one of the better tracks:

(song is called Nightly Things)

http://s62.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3P1IFV4O2Y2WU28WNPZHBI4E09

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 16 December 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

Latebloomer -- I really like the initial musical ideas in Roast (Exoskeleton), but I feel like they need more development, more build. Somewhere in the middle the track lost some energy for me. Maybe I need to hear the remix.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 17 December 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

i think my remix is better, but you're probably right about it needing more development and build. after a certain point i tend to run out of steam on these kinds of tracks.

― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Monday, 19 December 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

we finally got our EP done, and here it is, if anyone cares to take a listen. It is a year old at this point, mind.

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0OJ0SWXLU5W7709ZRGM5QLOOE4 indian giver
http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1MIBA2VLVOE832M717D2PC1CNP reconcile these things
http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=23D8UERISTMD505DH5ENXOB7V1 starlight
http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0495YVUWAPU0E3J4EDZLV7OK60 real love
i swear it's true
http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3VVVLWEY9KYW631YM5U1X0KKCQ longtime sunshine

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I can't get them to play, windows media just sits there trying to acquire a license.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Same here!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I got it to play after downloading the license they prompted me to download. Listening to Indian Giver - sounds great, roxy!

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

woops i didnt uplkoad i swear its true. crap!

thanks, guys!

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

here it is. its my favorite:

http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RNH7RJ4PBOVQ0MHEUYMWJHXPD

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yay roxy!

If I have to put on my critical hat the one big thing is that I keep wanting to ride the faders on the vocals... there are a lot of places where they are hard to hear and where the harmonies are buried by the rest of the mix. It's partly cause they are mixed low and partly cause they are competing a little with the guitars for sonic space, probably around 5-7khz.

But yeah. I swear it's true is rockin.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, martin!

― Roxymuzak, Mrs. Carbohydrate (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I just got here -- did I miss the redoubtable Lynskey oeuvre?

― Paul Eater (eater), Friday, 23 December 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Here have another

http://s62.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3LGRGNUMUO5HU1HHTQG46GI0A4

Let's throw this open to the floor - wtf should I do with the arrangement? I had an idea to do it like that Gorrillaz Don't Stop Wiggle Wiggle thing but I kept having visions of Damon Albarns iron shaped face while I was doing the drums. I'll have an export session and throw it open to whoever wants to to do the beatz if people are up for it.

And before you comment on the Cher voice again, YOU TRY SINGING THIS ONE! It's an utter fucker, really fast and right on that normal/falsetto borderline.

― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Lynskey, I totally hear a Big Pimpin'/semi-dancehall beat with this, with a big kick drum and offbeat quarter notes. I don't have much of a setup right now, but I could do it out of Reason if you want.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I actually did pound out some beats this morning, but one of the YSI's didn't come through, so I'll post them tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, here are my ideas for hot beatz, let me know what you think.

A section:

http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0G1TLWPX02UWQ2W3E7PTYCC4TD

B section:

http://s15.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2PZHJG17053BZ2KEA3Q774QENN

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

(I just guessed at the bpm btw...123ish?)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

This is the same song I've been working with since the beginning of this thread, but I've cleaned some parts and dirtied some others with some filters in Cool Edit.

http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=339GBV15BZC8L1L8FL2PA0549L

― ohmyface (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 8 January 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I've been listening to "A Rainbow In Curved Air", so I wanted to try my hand at something like that. There's five parts, each repeating a bar in 7/4, 6/4, 5/4, 4/4, or 3/4 until they all finish their bar at the same time. And then they start a new passage, get a new bar to repeat, and do the whole process over again.

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2JEOV3C6PKC1R144P7S5YJJ0YJ

― Guitar Phase (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 26 January 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

I like it, although based on the top voice I can't help hearing the first section as straight 4/4 and the second in 6/4. The third section is my favorite.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0SM81YE1Q1KVM331PX42E593TH

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 26 January 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

What do you guys think of this one?

http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0DUZ8RUYAVELH33DS13QI1XW9P

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 9 February 2006 08:09 (nineteen years ago)

I liked that a lot, Chew! Damn, there are a lot of talented people on this board.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 10 February 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers Vinnie! It needs some tidying up - but not too much -and as ever it needs some one to master it, but I'm pretty happy with it. A friend of mine described it as akin to being on a seedy fair ride, I liked that.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Saturday, 11 February 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=35TK57YMVL6341E92HUYVOTEXQ

I think I might add some more voices to this, but I'm pretty happy with this. I tried some stuff with the different time signatures, my new delay pedal, and some new sounds from some libraries I got for my birthday (hurray illegal cd-r's).

― what does this confusing fream mean? (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 12 February 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I would really love to add beats to your shit (or be better at writing that sort of thing).

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hey, there are some beats. But still.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 12 February 2006 03:08 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, your beatz iz wicked kewl!

And another note, We sound like crap. Right now. Ugh. Nooooo! HELP US!!!!

― Jubalique (Jubalique), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

now we sound like this. THe only song we have finished from our album.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:59 (nineteen years ago)

This is kind of a suite along with the track I posted a week ago. The first part (which is actually the second part of the suite) is nearly a note for note redo of the second track I posted here in this thread. The second part is brand new, though.

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=18Y0GGRQC6TY70EJX5HBHQB9JI

― what does this confusing fream mean? (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 19 February 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1G5KZD893DWSY1VHE7INEWS1QA

― Dan (I Am So Going To Regret Posting This) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://s61.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1ZQU92BJ8ZM5G2WQLLE27WJ0YQ

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 23 February 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Is that two vocalists, or double tracking? It sounds great, either way.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 23 February 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

double-tracking...can't seem to ever be satisfied with one-tracked vocals (perhaps my voice is weak or mic is cheap)

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Space, that DOES sound great!

Dan: yours is broken. WHAT GIVES?

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

The double-tracking works great on that song–I really like the way you've got a perfect line drawn between double-tracked and two vocalists. Sounds fantastic.

Here is a song we finished the other week. It is unashamedly pretentious (well, the title is) and 'post-rock':

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PSLH9ZA9OH0M1UHNYYP7A48IW

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, mine's broken???

― Dan (Bullet Dodged!) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Too late Perry, we all heard it ;)

I will be distributing copies starting tomorrow.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 23 February 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like another chance to hear Jordan's hot beatz, since I missed them the first time around.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 24 February 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

And yeah Dan, I clicked on yours and heard Justin H4wkins of Teh Darkness.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Friday, 24 February 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Last month, live to 8-track:

She's In Parties

I'm not saying covering Bauhaus is a good idea or anything.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I need to stop making this my personal mp3 dump, but here is a rap instrumental I would like to sell for half a million dollars.

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1X9O1NAJU2JWH1RNUXNLKDIW9T

― what does this confusing fream mean? (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 26 February 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like another chance to hear Jordan's hot beatz, since I missed them the first time around.

You mean the beat ideas for Lynskey's tracks? I can re-YSI if you want.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

I like the rap beat a lot. It would be perfect with a more cold-blooded snare sound, like some added claps or something.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 February 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

Here are those beats I demoed in Reason for Lynskey's tune again:

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3U60XWVK2JD2D1UAWVD5T8958L

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0NBJUHN4XO7EU2OB8ONYM9Q2CO

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3AN5OZPDBANN519K51TOF5RRHK

This is the same crazy-time signature shit, but with marimbas and organ, accompanied by swells of violins.

― Pwnjabi MC (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://s45.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=055J3OX55AXHP1EB4BON72PCCM

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Pash, it stops so suddenly, I'd like a fadeout or reverberation so as to alert me that the song is properly over!

x-post Ignore the link from a few days ago, this one has beats.

― Pwnjabi MC (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

This number is called "Steve Reich Is Running Through The Sprinkler In The Backyard At My House" or "springkler" for short.

http://s41.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3V1810WVJXA0A2G13T3276TBUA

― Pwnjabi MC (Matt Chesnut), Saturday, 8 April 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

ATTENTIONL: YSI CREW

― smokemon (eman), Sunday, 9 April 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

this is the title track from our record, which is 95% finished.

http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1ZP28APOARTO83VDEDIUV1EQZS

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

hey that's real nice. i like whatever it is that starts in about 8:45 in (organ/harmonium sounding).

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

melodica, thanks! it's a bit ballsy to stick a 12 minute song on our record but I'm hoping it moves well enough.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=14FRDNA3CFB862DQYD286JOJGX

Here's a spaghetti westernish track I did with a friend about a year ago, and I'm just revisiting it now. It's too long and I'm not sure about the rock-out section at the end, but otherwise I think it has a lot of potential.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 16 April 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://download.yousendit.com/EE0269D80CD0167B

this track is similar to the last one I posted...mostly acoustic and vocals, some vague sampling

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 17 April 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2N9XNVJLQC6GX2G5KAMXA9CIWO

Is my most recent self-recorded, self-performed music. Not self-wrote though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I like the Space is the Place track. The guitars sound really good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

here's the song we just finished...a final (for now) mix....it's not mastered, but i think it sounds good...played a rick bass through an old ampeg portaflex on this one, way different bass tone than i usually use...and the guitar player actually played through a marshall half stack, which isn't known for clean tone i guess but actually does it pretty well..

note: the arty noise stuff in the intro will prolly be short and faded in, we had to let it go for awhile to let the digital delay really start looping back on itself and get all "chirpy"...

anyway, here tis.

http://rapidshare.de/files/18364683/01_Traffic__Final_Mix_.mp3.html

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think that's the best thing I've heard from you guys, Matt.

NICK I'VE HEARD THAT SONG ALREADY

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

this track is similar to the last one I posted...mostly acoustic and vocals, some vague sampling

nice one!

― nervous.gif (eman), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=2F7F613E19A7C322

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 17 June 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

That's me, Mary Halvorson, Kevin Shea, and Jason Forrest.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 17 June 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know who those people are, but I like it. Are all the drums sequenced?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=F2669B711B6C64E4

Here's a drum n' bass tune I finished this morning. Are the cymbals too abrasive? I haven't done any EQ'ing yet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 18 June 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

"I don't know who those people are..."

http://www.cockrockdisco.com
http://www.peopleyourmind.com

"Are all the drums sequenced?"

No. It's all mixed up.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Sunday, 18 June 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Are the cymbals too abrasive?"

Impossible. It's like asking if the chocolate's too chocalte-y. I like yer tune; I'd like it more sped up and run through gobs of cheap distortion, but I like it as it is.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Sunday, 18 June 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

DONE (in 2 min)

Oranges (Xtreme Colin Mix)

Some of that actually sounds kinda cool, so I may split the difference (thx!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 18 June 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

last summer some friends recorded glockenspiel and emailed it to me in Brazil where I added guitar and effed it up...id like to rerecord the guitar (all I had was a cheap vocal mic plugged into a laptop) but my ex-fiance has since deleted the files....i've heard rumours of a program that can re-separate tracks but never confirmed its existance

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8TLT1OZ3

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 19 June 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/lcu8oq

Nutso tweaked out jungle sampling the Commodore 64 version of the music from Golden Axe on the Sega Megadrive, improvised and recorded live. This pretty much sums up everything at the moment.

Someone sends me a message on IM the second the bassline kicks in, so it sounds intentional. It wasn't!

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Monday, 19 June 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

What did you do this in, Live?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Reaktor 5, but I'd love to be able to do the same thing in Live, as I find it so more straightforward and predictable.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't used either, but getting some of the same sounds/effects using my caveman Cubase techniques takes minutes per bar. Certainly can't do anything real-time. Huh.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 June 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

As of today, between the hours of 3 and 5pm, this is what we sound like.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=98D8CCE757490411

Further evidence that we are in desperate need of a producer, a mixer, and probably a songwriter or two.

― Jubaliquee, Friday, 23 June 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

its been a month so...revive

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=6232F5EC7866B17D

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Sunday, 23 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thefakefictions.com/mp3/ImpossibleYou.mp3

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 24 July 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.redbulldozers.com/music/century.mp3

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

My current band situation is problematic. I can't sing, and I tend to play guitar on the songs I wrote. So my own songs have someone else singing, and someone else playing the drums (my main instrument). I like playing guitar, but I'm not an especially good guitar player.

So the songs that are aesthetically mine are instrumentally not quite what I'd like, and vice versa.

Anyways, here's a rather silly trifling novelty song that I wrote and played all the instruments on:

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=B603CD405D2AA15E

And here's a trifling novelty song that I wrote and played the guitars on: http://www.gibsoncondo.com/~patrick/ttr/03_PostApocalypticLoveSong.mp3

And here's a trifling novelty song that I played drums on: http://www.gibsoncondo.com/~patrick/ttr/01_Superhero.mp3

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 3 August 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Garage Band version of a song that's very different from how my band plays it.

― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Thursday, 3 August 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I like that song Ken!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 3 August 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

cheers Dan! (you have to thank damon albarn from Blur for the song though really)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 August 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, ha.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 4 August 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

is this the nearest thing to an introduce yourself thread?

― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 6 August 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

more like introduce blur

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 7 August 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=flying+blackbird+ensemble&search=Search

well, here's my band, the flying blackbird ensemble, at our second ever gig. one's a screamy one, one's a spacy guitar one, one's meant to be tuneful but god my vocals, sorry anyone who cares about that sort of thing, probably best not to look.

(email someone just sent: "I can't really comment on your band other than that I really don't get that kind of "music"." IN QUOTE MARKS, haha god)

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Tom.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

"oh, tom"? thanks much, you sod

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry! It just struck me as very British and collegiate.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

tom, have you ever thought of using an I Love Books thread as a source for song lyrics?

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

well, we are a band made entirely of british students

k., i'm not sure i haven't used an ILB thread as a source for song lyrics

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

hXXp://rapidshare.de/files/28662524/01_Wild_n__Crazy_Guys.mp3.html

― Colin Cassidy (Colin Cassidy), Thursday, 10 August 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=568AAFEF53495872

I think I posted a verson of this to another thread, but this is a more final version (changed some synths around, added noize to the organ, gave it a better drum line, and above all, gave it a new title: "Music for 808 Musicians").

― While my guitar gently skeets (Matt Chesnut), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

Heh. That does sound a lot better. Sounds great, actually.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

I spent awhile last night trying to tweak the mix of this one, but the result is almost the same. I think the problem is the mastering. But I think it sounds pretty nice.

(Neutral Milk Hotel cover)

http://media.stevegoldbergmusic.com/Steve%20Goldberg%20and%20the%20Arch%20Enemies%20-%20In%20the%20Aeroplane%20Over%20the%20Sea.mp3

― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Saturday, 19 August 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thesharx.com/

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 26 August 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

actually, just skip to

http://www.autraumaton.org/sharxweb/design.mp3
http://www.autraumaton.org/sharxweb/kidsknow.mp3

― gbx (skowly), Saturday, 26 August 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

awesome production on those, sounds like albini meets a big heap of freshly raked leaves

songs are hottt too

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 26 August 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds good, dudes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 26 August 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

its like franz ferdinand meets snow

― millenarian (millenarian), Monday, 28 August 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

u_u

― gbx (skowly), Monday, 28 August 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

I can't seem to start new material, so I've just been reworking existing material. Not sure if I posted this song before, but here it is, this time with claps.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=5AFACA2026365FE4

― Mahatma Blondie (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 3 September 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

From my rock band's first gig, last night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rol1QS_t5wk

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

More: http://www.youtube.com/areyouoptimistic

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Something I started the other day:

http://nf.wh3rd.net/dump/2006-09-09.mp3

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

And here's a clip of the brass band that I think actually sounds really good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIl6tuSPFiQ

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

New plunderphonic-ish album from me here.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 05:08 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, 'zat you on the funky snare in yr brass band video?

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, I'm playing bass drum on that gig.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 21 September 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR56WPIWiIQ is my main band. Live at the lovely Bull and Gate.

My other bunch is www.myspace.com/anationmournsmusic.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 2 October 2006 07:52 (eighteen years ago)

"this video has been removed by the user"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 2 October 2006 10:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.tugboatonline.com/mp3/flightpath.mp3

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

Whose video has been removed, Pash?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

When I click on your link, Dr!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR56WPIWiIQ

It brings up the "video removed by user" dialogue

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

Funny, it was working earlier today. Will check.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 2 October 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

electric sound of jim - I really like that song. Nice work.

― darin (darin), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/044ujh

This is a danceable song made for my babycakes.

― Dionne Warrick Dunn football psychic hotline (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

thanks darin! that's the first thing we've recorded and mixed entirely by ourselves. kinda telling that it's also way better than all our previous recordings.

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

This is a danceable song made for my babycakes.

I liked this a lot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 2 October 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, I did my damndest not to screw up the singing in Spanishes (listening to Tejano stations helps diction).

― Dionne Warrick Dunn football psychic hotline (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQbGb5fN8E0

Now working!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 07:24 (eighteen years ago)

What's up guys? I go by the rap name Colin C. and I'm in a currently unnamed group with MC Burbs and Sef. Please, feel free to check out the two songs I have on my myspace and let me know what you think! Enjoy!

www.myspace.com/colincmusic

Take care.

― Colin Cassidy (Colin Cassidy), Friday, 6 October 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago)

That's great, DrC, nice tight & pokey feel to the playing, good lyrics, too.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 6 October 2006 08:49 (eighteen years ago)

from our record we just finished. very rough, unmixed. gimme some feedback!

hope this works: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=3D17E3430F27D82D

(is the three part harmony at the end too much)

Mahatma Blondie: the song is really cool. It's hypnotic and dream-like. Awesome.

Roxy: I like the song. I like how it picks up and really gets going. I don't think the 3 part harmony at the end is too much. I'm not sure but maybe some slow singing at the end like the singing in the beginning (when you turned twenty-two etc.) might be a nice way to end it. Just a suggestion...

http://www.myspace.com/colincmusic

― Colin Cassidy (Colin Cassidy), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

Like I said just a suggestion I'm not even sure it might be better like it is...just an idea...

― Colin Cassidy (Colin Cassidy), Sunday, 8 October 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

**That's great, DrC, nice tight & pokey feel to the playing, good lyrics, too.**

many thanx, Norman!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Sunday, 8 October 2006 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

thanks for listening, colinnnn

I only hear two-part harmony. Am I missing something?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

it's mostly 2, but there is a section with 3 -- two male voices and a female voice. on "i tried, i tried", etc

fractured song quite cool. nice tshirt dr.c

roxy's song reminds me of the wygals and dream syndicate for some reason

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

never got that one! cool

x-post : Thx Roxy. That's not my t-shirt, I'm on keybds. It was my first gig with them 2 yrs ago - I have been playing keybds 2 weeks! Now I'm playing guitar on most of the set, thankfully.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

i was talking about the fac51 t shirt

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Oh sorry Jim, I thought Roxy posted. I am fool. As Haircut 100 once said, it's my favourite shirt.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 12 October 2006 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.190mphmonkey.com/music/uploads/demo-wakeup.mp3

We played pianos backwards. Yay!

― Jubalique (Jubalique), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

rap beat w/sonic youth sample ("the wonder")

http://www.sendspace.com/file/kfeh2d

― Dionne Warrick Dunn football psychic hotline (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

another rap beat, this time screwed (sample: bruce springsteen "working on the highway")

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xx6a4z

― Dionne Warrick Dunn football psychic hotline (Matt Chesnut), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Here's my happy drum 'n' bass song. It is abt a hummingbird. Unfortunately it is drowned in reverb.

Hummingbird

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 23 October 2006 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

(recorded w/MIDI software on a Roland RS-5 for my high school music tech class. The melody is mostly based around the toms of the RS-5's 808 kit pitch-bended up 2 octaves.)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 23 October 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago)

That is very cool, Cur1s.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

Also,

high school music tech class

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

COSIGN.

Okay guys, this isn't exactly "right now" (more like Feb 06), but I just did/took a massive 4-track-to-hard-drive dump and kind of need someone to listen to this stuff. This is a song about, um, aliens:

http://download.yousendit.com/F50C6FEB3DAC2361

ps also the first time I've ever yousendited!

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Curt1s that shit is my theme song if I was a Pokemon.

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

haha Matt C3hsnuttz, me & my bro just got crazy over yr beat "chimpanzees takin D-U-M-Ps all over the white SUVs driving through gated communities" and shit

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, I think!

― Dionne Warrick Dunn football psychic hotline (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

www.myspace.com/fracturedinfo

Have a listen to The Shocking Price of Bread and Everyone's A Bastard.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 10 November 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago)

I enjoyed 'the shocking price of bread', although none of those bread prices shocked me that much. Maybe there is some American bread inflation I've just become accustomed to.

At any rate, here is a cover of Jackie DeShannon's 'Put a Little Love In Your Heart'. I've only heard it a few times on oldies stations and kinda forget how it went entirely, so I just did a minute and a half and decided that was enough.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/lyghs0

― Dionne Warrick Dunn football psychic hotline (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 10 November 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/tenderhooks

the track is what we just finished recordin'

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 November 2006 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/timellison

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 20 November 2006 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

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