What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

Took for ever, but we finally finished our last cd.

http://www.thecontestantsmusic.com/mp3s/08%20Cosmonaut.mp3

last as in "we won't be making any more"?

Oh we'll make more, but the Pro Tools learning curve slowed us up quite a bit. You know how it goes.

Lynskey, where can I hear your music now?

A short instrumental demo I just laid down. Kind of David Axelrodish:

http://download.yousendit.com/13E5C511243FCA32

http://www.zshare.net/audio/71761126891caa/

i hope that works

Sounds good, Hurting. The reverbed-out cymbals are awesome.

thx. I was pretty surprised at how decent I could get the Garage Band synths to sound, especially the drums.

I wound up changing the mix a bit - I think the repeated piano pattern gets a little harsh so I pulled it down a little. I may turn it into a multi-part proggy suite I think. It's my first effort toward that RPM challenge thing.

Are the drums live or Garage Band?

i really just love GarageBand, and it surprises me

Drums are GarageBand, inputted with a keyboard (as in piano keyboard) interface

everything is garage band

everything.

Oh, I see, it was only the dynamics that made me think they might be live.

Dan I, Hurting - I've put a load of stuff up on my ftp here -

http://www.bilblio.nildram.co.uk/PORL/Lynskey/

I'd put the whole lot up if I had the room but I dunnae

Surmounter--that's a cool sound! Did you sample the voice or the strings or is everything from scratch?

it's really just from scratch! scratch being anything and everything u can futz with in GarageBand :-)

surmounter, that's pretty awesome, must say.

So wait, did you record your own voice and mess with it?

kinda sounds like burial ramzi

surmounter, that sounds hella indian on the singing front, and dope all around

http://www.myspace.com/ohthisisathing

got baby's first ambient techno (c'lapse) and my kirby's adventure sampling shit (grape garden) up and running now

thanks guys! yeah i recorded my voice and messed with it. and i totally felt the indian thing while recording!

Great to see you are still around, Lynskey!

lynskey, !!! @ 'shoot' cover and amazd at 'god and patience wait'. you shd rly be hella bankin with these

http://www.zshare.net/audio/74556161f916e0/

I recorded a cover of Engine by Neutral Milk Hotel today.

mostly finished mix of one of the songs that will be on our album. we're still in the mixing process, which is the part i hate the most. basic guitar/bass tracks were recorded live w/ 2 drummers, vocals/gtr overdubs added later

http://download.yousendit.com/2C5F71C64A620F50

http://download.yousendit.com/D10BC5D62A570919

i sampled jorge ben's "umbabarauma" for a beat

^^sounds pretty cool once all the drum parts come in

Sounds like a great recording, 6335. I wouldn't stress too much over the mixing. You've got good tracks, that's the most important thing.

And that was cool, m bison. I like the stereo hi-hats.

My first (and so far only song):

http://www.myspace.com/stepdaughtersca

Heavy Pet Shop Boys/New Order influence.

Advice/criticism would be appreciated (pls don't be to harsh though, this was done entirely on midi with not very good quality sounds; I'm just starting).

My next song will sound even more Pet Shop Boys.

get rid of those claps or replace with tight synth sound! otherwise the song writing is good!

OK thanks, that makes sense.

i will listen when i get home! and i will be honest.

WHERE ARE MY "MARGINS"???????

i'm really into this song, david. it definitely sounds like it's influenced by New Order.

the synth/bass is completely great. the strings(?) feel right but could do with a little bit of variation. maybe u could blend them with a nice background synth in parts?

the percussion is fine, especially when you play with it, but the drums sound canned. but this might just be myspace sound.

the melody is really nice, and i like the epic feel of it, like it's taking its time until it gets to the chorus. but the vox should be clearer, and they should cut through the mix more. maybe with a phaser at times to vary up their position in the sound. i'd also just like to understand what you're singing better.

also, you could do with a little more oomph on the "i'm gonna be a star" line cuz it is one that can sound tired. i mean, i LIKE it, but at that point in the song, it feels like you could have a little more impact. i do think, though, that this could be achieved through singing the lyric a bit differently, if you're not up for altering the actual words.

maybe u could blend them with a nice background synth in parts?

or electric guitar?

Wow! thanks a lot Surmounter. That's definitely the most comprehensive and IMO best piece of advice I've heard so far!
I had a very limited palette of sounds I could use, yet I admit my limitations are precisely in the beat/drums section and the vocals; I mean, recording vocals is incredibly difficult. Like you did, I also felt like I wanted something else than the background synth strings at some points, but I just didn't know what to use. Overall I think I need to learn to "produce". Again, thanks a lot!

of course :-)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/7838222daa900b/

i s'pose this is just the skeletal version, but these days that's pretty much what comes out. the skeletal stuff.

my dub mix of jaymc's band is up, it looks like. how many other ilxors are on there?

lol I came in second to last place

sounds good though!

I am always afraid to click on the links here or go listen to other ilxor's electronic musics mayhems because I think about what if one of you internet people makes music I like better than my own? I would have to throw my computer out

haha, i didn't know your opinion of ilx was quite that low.

both the remixes i've listened to so far sound awesome (tom's & n/a's).

other ilxors i know about:

michael f gill is an ilx dude
eazy is on there under his government name
promqueen USA is nabisco

pretty sure there are others

based on a quick scan, mine in easily the worst. not being falsely modest, still pretty proud of mine since i don't really know how to do remixes at all. just the quality seems high across the board

The top two tracks currently on my myspace page are from the album I did for the RPM 08 challenge. For a project slapped together just because I could I think they turned out pretty decent.

What we sounded like in January
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn4Kx5mf8SU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZh7blzPz0I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uad6tKc0wg