Frankly Fucking Great -- ILX Pre-Covers Hesitation Marks

And behold!

http://i.imgur.com/fJJfmsy.jpg

1) "The Eater of Dreams" -- Mark G
2) "Copy of A" -- da croupier
3) "Came Back Haunted" -- HI DERE
4) "Find My Way" -- Rex Mantlepiece
5) "All Time Low" -- Gypsy Chips
6) "Disappointed" -- Never Embers
7) "Everything" -- The Jupiter 8
8) "Satellite" -- Ismael Klata
9) "Various Methods of Escape" -- Fügügüffü
10) "Running" -- snoball
11) "I Would for You" -- MaresNest
12) "In Two" -- Scare Quotes
13) "While I'm Still Here" -- Glass Half Inserted
14) "Black Noise" -- Identify 9

http://www.sendspace.com/file/90jzxw

https://soundcloud.com/nedraggett/sets/ilx-pre-covers-hesitation

Spread far and wide...

Quick immediate apology that the SoundCloud link is being VERY weird/fussy right now. Will look at it later but I have to go into work.

downloading omg

I don't mind that you've used it for these pre-cover projects but just FYI I'm not really using the Fuguguffu name anymore

huh so is Spotify mangling my MP3 or did I do a terrible job mastering this ;_;

Sounds OK here (I downloaded the album from sendspace)

the beginning and end definitely sound glitchy but I don't know if that is because I am playing it through Spotify or if it really starts/ends that way (the ending probably yes, not sure about the beginning)

btw who is Gypsy Chips, because A+infinity for channeling Twitch-era Ministry

does "Everything" end with a sample of a sink draining? lololol

stellar work so far, everyone

crut: noted! Sorry, I thought you were still using it as a backup there.

holy shit DJP

i'm taking a break after the first side (#1-8) but man that was strong. Almost sounds like 4AD Pre-Covers NIN's "Hesitation Marks", in part because the pace suggests real Ivo Watts-Russell consideration on Ned's part, even if we know people were calling dibs on a web forum.

We should get Wim Wenders to build a movie around this soundtrack

we should tweet this to Trent, right

Hahah if someone wants to do the honors...

This is very good. These projects rock.

done and done

omg snoball

ok i thought side 1 would be hard to beat but three tracks in to side 2 (#9-14) and this is outstanding

I think this may be the high water mark of the pre-covers. Kudos to all.

100%. Just finished it and the pacing was perfect.

I was completely out of it last night when I gave it a test listen through so today after work I will properly zone out to it.

I love everything on here; I don't want to single any particular song out because they are all awesome but I will say that Trayce's nerves on the other thread were SO SO SO unfounded

as was your self-deprecation re your guitar playing

haha thanks, but what you're hearing is basically me looping myself after I managed to play a given phrase cleanly

also there's a reason there are no chords in there

three quarters through and as always, it's a surprising mix of styles... most people's tracks were waaaay more serious, musical and professional than my joke effort (I did the Gypsy Chips one DJP).. Never Embers and snoball are seriously great...

I love everything on here; I don't want to single any particular song out because they are all awesome but I will say that Trayce's nerves on the other thread were SO SO SO unfounded

x2

i am not going to say my track is the best one but i think i definitely did the most shredding

really disappointed in how little shredding there is on this overall tbh

you and adrian belew

yeah Trayce yours is super lovely. Everyone else is also sounding cool on my quick flick through, can't wait to take on the full thing.

brag all you want n/a, but I don't think you came anywhere close to my shredding. After all, this was my inspiration.

http://vimeo.com/18220797

FUCK
Your love
I'm going to the club

^^^^ gonna be running through my head for a while

DJP's is great, pure haunted-Gahan-era Depeche

gah it's even called 'haunted', I promise I had that thought independently

2nd listen even better than the first - esp listening to it in one fell swoop

my dream is that trent actually listens to it, takes the breadth as a challenge to more fully explore the textures and palettes of his influences, and drops NIN's The White Album.

also that he calls in Ned to sit on the studio couch and answer the question "what would an ilxor do?" inna rick rubin stylee

ned like a mole

I'd rather mod than give you a POLL

Oh dear. (Then again, that could be the dream worth chasing.)

"...and yeah there was that one MBV show I saw, that really inspired me, are you drinking that wine, thanks there, anyway yeah..."

HOLY SHIT DJP.

omg you guys thanks! I just woke up to this haha. time to get a listen in.

Wow you're not fucking kidding abou DJP channeling Gahan on this. Thats amazing!

thanks everyone! (humblebrag: there was a point earlier this year where I was blasting Delta Machine on my computer and my wife came over and said "wow, you're getting really really good with Garageband")

loool

that is kind of a hilarious nu-Depeche zing

yeah, it's a little "omg thanks"/"wait did you accidentally diss my boys ;_;"

I wasnt zinging in the least!

My only bother is as always my mix is slightly low. I dont know why that keeps happening? I need to learn how to use Reaper better.

mine sounds like I threw it together in <2 hours which is true

I need to do that next round, the studio bills are killing me

crut meant my wife, I think (I certainly did)

I don't know how Reaper works but GarageBand has a normalization feature that basically makes your output super quiet, so you have to reimport the quiet file and push it through some other filter to boost the volume (I got this tip via Google) so Reaper may do something similar?

Yeah, I was complaining to Ned about this last night - I think effectively GarageBand rebases everything to set your loudest track back to normal, so if you've mixed one track up it resets it to mid-volume and everything else comes out v. quiet. I gather djp's tip will be the solution, but sadly hadn't worked that out by deadline.

Is how I understand it anyway, no doubt there's *technical wizardry* involved.

Yeah Ive been using a normalize function on my vox at least, but Im not sure why the overall output is low, maybe i need to run it over the whole kaboodle. I use FLStudio for all my synth/drum work, and Reaper for guitar/bass/vocals. Still learning the ropes, only been doing this for a year or 2.

happy to master anything you do trayce, hit me up sometime

great work everyone btw, i'm impressed

Jim thats a really grand offer, thanks mate. Might hit you up sometime once I decide which of my recent tracks are worth mastering/redoing properly for a Bandcamp release (which I'm hoping to do eventually)

coolio

I love Turrican's bit, it segues nicely after mine and it sounds a bit like Tones on Tail.

LJ is that your missus singing?? She's good!

She is! I am a big fan of everyone's vocals actually, everything really matches well to their respective songs.

Yeah same. Such variety and it has just made me want to go and write even more awesome songs, now.

Yep, a talent she has usually hidden. Beats me. xps

These are really well thought-out from an initial listen, and yeah the whole thing flows like a badass. I really enjoy PP's minute of madness, feel it deserves a mention

Holy shit, I missed the unveiling of this! Going to give it a listen right now! :)

does "Everything" end with a sample of a sink draining? lololol

― THE WORINÐLVE (DJP), Monday, August 5, 2013 1:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pitched down sample of a toilet flushing, but with beginning of the sound edited off :) There's also a floppy disk drive loading up, a sped-up sample of a chainsaw and a heavily pitched down sample of some people screaming on a rollercoaster.

I love Turrican's bit, it segues nicely after mine and it sounds a bit like Tones on Tail.

― It is like ganging up on Enya (Trayce), Monday, August 5, 2013 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thank you! Looking forward to hearing yours! :D

I just loved that, it came across as a track full of all of these sampled noises and then... the kitchen sink, too

aw, thanks, imago, you old stranger. one of these days, i may be able to submit something that doesn't have a young pup yelping in the background.

Really enjoying this, guys!

I'm only five tracks in and this is fucking great so far! :D

Right, just finished listening to all of that and my god is it hard to pick highlights, everyone has put in some sterling work here! My favourites on first listen were da croupier's, DJP's, Gypsy Chips, Never Embers, snoball's (absolutely love this one!) and Identify 9, but really, everything here is just fucking great. I also love the "fucked Pong machine" vibe of Mark's opener, the coda on the Glass Half Inserted track, and the way Ismael Klata's 'Satellite' has those synth trumpets at the end (which remind me of the ones from Depeche Mode track of the same name!?) ... Well done all, that was great to listen to! :)

Well spotted! Those are they: sampled, chopped up and doubled.

Oh my goodness xps, my one has OUR dog yelping in it! End of the second chorus. The daft thing :)

oh yeah? what kind do you have? ours is one of those shorthair mutt breeds, possibly with some english bulldog or scottish terrier in him: http://i.imgur.com/HOdo5an.jpg

Well spotted! Those are they: sampled, chopped up and doubled.

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:19 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought it was! I heard it and wondered if you'd slotted them in there as some kind of personal in-joke, or a musical play on the fact that both songs shared the same title :D

More than that, really. The sample was kind of my starting point, in that the three notes used there gave me my chord progression; which when I transposed down for the verses suggested a flamenco feel for the intro - which mostly didn't survive because I couldn't play it well enough, though there's some Spanish guitar still on there.

It was a struggle not to borrow the melody to Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams, because it turns out that's the same chord progression too - but there's a horrible cover of it that plays at my gym, and it's ruined it forever for me.

Tis frustrating, can't listen to any of these due to being 'away' (you late bods grrr)

But it can be a nice thing to come back to, and shall add to my nice burned cdr collection with sleeve and all that...

I've been listening to this in one ear at work (having only one earphone in is my concession to the fact that nobody else wears headphones and people might disapprove) and it all sounds rad so far, got to remember to give this a proper stereo listen this evening

nice work everyone!

I think MaresNest's is inevitably emerging as my favourite (alongside PP's), and Matt M's is sneaking up very slowly and gracefully too. Finally gotten around to giving it a proper listen! Hurrah for us.

o and lol PP :D

o o and talcum mucker's is also really good; it reminds me of none other than EARL BRUTUS a bit and its author need not be so denigrating of it

Can't stop listening to snoball's one, it sounds like something that could have been on Mute in the VERY early '80s... like fucking Fad Gadget or something! :D

marks

I'm blushing over here.

um sorry mark its da croups im listening to atm browser acting up

thought you were making a joke about the album title

i dont do jokes m8

WHich one is PPs? darn you people and your "band" "names" :D

Rex Mantlepiece

Ah :)

I love everything on here; I don't want to single any particular song out because they are all awesome but I will say that Trayce's nerves on the other thread were SO SO SO unfounded

― THE WORINÐLVE (DJP), Monday, August 5, 2013 5:07 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM! I'd personally be up for hearing more of Trayce's work based on the track here! :)

wait, which one was trayce's :-p

Hah :) Sorry PP, I shouldve paid more attention on the other thread ;_;

I have my own soundcloud page as NeverEmbers fwiw, if yr interested Turrican! (ugh I feel weird tooting my own horn)

Following! :)

Awww yeah :D

Hey, this is great! Y'all are awesome.

you guys, this whole thing still kind of rules

sarahell and I did a listen-thru the other week and we agreed that large parts of it were pretty good yeah. your own pitch-perfect Depeche Mode impression included (I mean, previous tracks you'd submitted to ILX comps were instrumental, which is a criminal waste of voice)

Haven't listened to this for ages. I do know I'm not satisfied with the mix on my track at all.

snoball's track on this still does it for me, too!

One of my more half-baked ilx comp submissions :(

the lyrics to my "copy of a," which i think are better than trent's ("why all the change of heart?" gtfo)

it ends today
the pain must go away
i tear the skin
just to feel the blood kick in
fuck your love
i'm going to the club
i must be moving on
time to shake my bon-bon

the drums kick in
the delicious sense of sin
the heat gets hotter
gonna drop my drawers and say "welcome back, kotter"
gettin' freaky tonight
dancin' in front of the floodlight
all the girls and all the boys
flap your arms and make some noise

we don't need a copy of a...
we don't need a copy of a...

when the kids come 'round with a brand new sound
just bob your head and give 'em a pound
it may be strange or re-arranged
but the game was made to be changed

driving home, getting dome
feelin' like the last days of rome
hey, if it all ends tomorrow
at least i didn't beg or borrow
what happens next, you send a text
and ask if i'm possibly down for sex
"what's the deal?" baby, here's the deal
you got no love, no love you'd call real

we don't need a copy of a...
we don't need a copy of a...

^^^ rules

Agreed!