ILX Compilation v6: FREESTYLER - rock your microphone

(no pressure, just wondering if i could mentally file this info away for later use)

of course, assuming it is something that can be done over the internets

That is great news! Thanks.

Also: song has been submitted!

Hm I spose I should start thinking about this, haha.

I just got one of these:
http://www.strapya-world.com/pic/2009/English-otamatone-0082.jpg

should I use it on my track y or n?

y obvs!

zero of the signified and i are going to record a cover of steely dan's "barrytown" for this.

1) Otamatone jams? A+++++ superdoubleplusgood YES

2) we can do covers? Because after the 22 Listens project, I really am feeling like this is the next step.

I am going to hold off on this until I am sufficiently decon-kanye-nated, otherwise I will end up doing something I will regret.

"Doing something I will regret" is the whole point of my idea, but also, feel like "doing something I will regret" is a huge part of Kanye's very ethos?

fine, you do a kanye cover, I will do something else.

I don't know any Kanye or I would. Maybe I'll do an Interpol song in the style of Kanye.

Any contributions yet? I've got a Winter Olympics inspired track ready and rarin' to go.

4 tracks submitted

- covers are allowed if so desired
- Otamatone definitely allowed

submitted
1. Ismael Klata
2. snoball
3. MaresNest
4. NA (feat. La Lechera)

to come
1. ken c
2. Tom D.
3. Karl Malone
4. imago
5. Stevie D(eux)
6. Mark G
7. andrew m.
8. Merdeyeux
9. Trayce
10. sarahell (feat emil.y)
11. color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that

Maybe
- La Lechera
- electricsound
- crüt
- get bent
- Branwell Bell
- upper mississippi sh@kedown
- joygoat
- Tarfumes The Escape Goat
- Eyeball Kicks

I think my Otamatone won't come in time. ;_;

Oh noes, it could have been an Otamatone themed album.

Never mind. I have 2 weeks to learn how to smoke like Udo Kier, without choking, to get my beats fascist enough for this project.

i think it has arrived!

ken, did you get the new version of our song? i sent it a few days ago. just checking!

Yup - received! Sorry I have been checking that mailbox sporadically but will do so more often now we're approaching the deadline...

Hope the rest of the tracks are going well. I am picking up a knackered imac tonight hoping it can be combined with my knackered imac in order to produce one non-knackered imac with which to record music, wish me luck!

5 tracks submitted

- covers are allowed if so desired
- Otamatone definitely allowed

submitted
1. Ismael Klata
2. snoball
3. MaresNest
4. NA (feat. La Lechera)
5. Tom D.

to come
1. ken c
2. Karl Malone
3. imago
4. Stevie D(eux)
5. Mark G
6. andrew m.
7. Merdeyeux
8. Trayce
9. sarahell (feat emil.y)
10. color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that

Maybe
- La Lechera
- electricsound
- crüt
- get bent
- Branwell Bell
- upper mississippi sh@kedown
- joygoat
- Tarfumes The Escape Goat
- Eyeball Kicks

when all tracks are submitted I will email all submitted with the track listing so you can verify that the names are all correct

Optionally, if there are additional details you'd like to include with your track, please send it to me and I will include it in where available!

hope to finish my track tonight or tomorrow. it's a #1 hit single, guarantee it!

o shit. typical last minute approach to homework from me.

i'm sure my track will fit really smoothly into the flow of the compilation. particularly if the rest of you are also basing yours off of local "Firefighter for a Day" news segments

Holy shitsnacks, this snuck up on me and I've been so busy with Weeklybeats and my band I havent done anything argh!

Not to worry, I'll get something out soon :)

I have finally got my "studio" up and running again (bought a cheap knackered imac) so it's frantic recording time soon.

I have a boring machine outside my window for the next few weeks. I have no idea if I'll be able to record. Or if I should turn in eight minutes of boring machine samples!

When the gas board replaced all the pipes on my street a few years ago, I recorded the sound of the big JCB mounted pneumatic drills and used them in a song.

^ I think we've found our 'Aphex Twin of Today'

We used a 1973 writing textbook, I'm dying to know who we get to be!! I'm also pretty excited about this -- it's the first time my drumming has been used in a song I also had a small hand in composing. How many more days?

submitted!

Welp, looks like I'm last-minuting this one after all my whining about it being too MUCH time hahaha. Guess I better crack knuckles over this tonight then.

what happens now? how many songs do we have? where will they go?

fuck I have totally forgotten about this until today and am completely unprepared to do this ;_; I am going to have to withdraw, I am v v sorry :( :( :(

I have a reserve track that I did fairly recently but I will try to do something fresh right now

Ken, please post an absolute deadline tho

I am sorry; I am going to move from "maybe" to "no".

I didn't do any music during February, but in my defence, I did write a 200000 word novel? But until ILX does anthologies instead of compilations, that's no good to you.

I thought about an ILX anthology, it didn't go well...

Hi all,

Current status as I understand it:

submitted
1. Ismael Klata
2. snoball
3. MaresNest
4. NA (feat. La Lechera)
5. Tom D.
6. Karl Malone
7. andrew m.

to come
1. ken c
2. imago
3. Mark G
4. Merdeyeux
5. Trayce
6. sarahell (feat emil.y)
7. color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that

Maybe
- La Lechera
- electricsound
- crüt
- get bent
- upper mississippi sh@kedown
- joygoat
- Tarfumes The Escape Goat
- Eyeball Kicks

withdrawn
- Branwell Bell
- Stevie D(eux)

Thanks to everybody who made efforts to submit on time!

Now, for those 7 "to come" (myself included, for shame - i only managed to fix the recording equipment last week), can you please let me know if 2 extra weeks is likely to be helpful for you?

I think we'd all prefer to wait a bit longer if it means we get to hear more tracks, but only if it is likely.

Let me know please.

After we have a final list of tracks, I'm going to compile a CD image to download so that you can "make your own CD" and will put it on SoundCloud as well.

are previous ilx compilations still extant/available to listen to anywhere on line? I liked the Beatles one from a couple of years ago, I haven't been able to find any of the others

two extra weeks would make all the difference in the world

My song is basically done now! But tbh, if I had a few extra days I could mix and frou it up.

soref: Ned often puts em on soundcloud.

Was going to say , can't make it..

But maybe 2 weeks might help..

possibly dumb question: am i allowed to post my song to a personal (but public) account before the new due date? i want everyone to have the extra time, i just wondered. (i told my mom she could hear the song and she doesn't understand emailed sound files but she does understand clicking on soundcloud, kind of sob but mostly lol)

I am not in charge here, but a suggestion if it's not okay: you can make soundcloud files private but available to anyone with the link.

P.S. Sarahell do you still need my wonderful otamatone playing/some kind of contribution?

Good point! I forgot about that.

yeah it would be very useful to me to have any extra time, this deadline is very inconveniently clashing with an irl one i have.

Two extra weeks it is, then! End of day 16th march!

Btw of course that is fine! Xposts8

Does the track have to be new? I could send something I donkeys' years ago or is that against the spirit of this thing?