What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

quantizing failures: call and response

http://mikehanley.bandcamp.com/

my latest compilation

new song, acoustic fingerpicking, just worked this up this morning, recorded into my phone

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/haunted-model-home

I want it to have echo and atmospheric stuff

yeah i hope to use a recording device that isn't a phone in the future! but yeah i agree, i think if i try to *really* record i'm going to have to do some sort of distinctive production, my playing isn't good enough for a straight-up "close mic'd acoustic guitar" sound

you should just throw the iphone tracks in Garageband (or whatever DAW you have available) and experiment with some mixing/effects/background textures. i'm a big fan of lo-fi, carelessly recorded elements mixing with clean in-the-box synths or whatever.

i have access to protool....i can't use it very well though...good idea

sorry to spam on this again but i redid the song i posted the other day a few times and came up with this instead: https://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/call-and-response

that's very cool, a bit the knife meets xiu xiu (ON ACID!!!!!!).

i just tried to upload something but soundcloud blocked it because it thinks i've plagiarised this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaf1V-weS-I

i feel bad about myself.

new remix out today, juke-meets-bounce vibes. i'd been wanting to mess around with Triggaman samples in another tempo/context for awhile.

https://soundcloud.com/virtualfeelings/ben-aqua-reset-yourself-chants

Inspired by Disclosure's excellent "Call on Me" bootleg, I made a (lol) Nelly remix

https://soundcloud.com/edb-i/kelsey-grammar

More cynical synthpop in my first track of the year:

https://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/keep-it-to-yourself

Now with 100% more female vocals

video of my band playing last night.. obv it's just camera-quality sound but it gives you an idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgtB0m6uG-c

You can only barely see me in this video since I am off to the right lurking in the shadows. When the camera pans my way you mostly just see my hands.

lol - I just recorded guitar and vocals in kitchen with phone while watching tot and then added more tracks on macbook in garagrband later in cafe - mobile recording lifestyle

http://softpowerrecords.bandcamp.com/track/solo-amor

old project but was reminded of it by the cd vs vinyl thread, sounds much cooler on cassette! this song is partly about zool.

Some more techno-y acid-y electro-y tracks:

https://soundcloud.com/matty-balaam/plaith
https://soundcloud.com/glocknspiel/matty-balaam-bubblin

I just downloaded most of your tracks. I dig them. They're just weird enough to be interesting.

Story of my life! Thanks though Dan, appreciate it.

I try to straddle a line between my stream-of-conciousness indulgence and something which could hopefully work on the dancefloor. It’s hard to talk about your own music without sounding pretentious isn’t it?

I feel like I can relate to it. I'm attracted to certain kinds of music that not only sound like I like it, but sound like something I would want to do. A few of your tracks have that vibe for me.

I stayed 3 months in an uninsulated cabin (ala Boniver) recording house music with my buddy. I'm proud of this track but I have no idea if anyone would actually dance to it. At the very least, if you give it a listen, I thank you.

https://soundcloud.com/archaeli/price-of-love-bass-mix/s-thZw8

Not sure if I posted this before, but here's a 4-track EP I made a little while back. Thoughts always appreciated.

https://soundcloud.com/doglatin/sets/mighty-sandy-heath

Captain Ahab, your track is excellent.

https://soundcloud.com/doglatin/perfecting-my-side-eye

And a piece of spoken word / sound art I made.

It's not one of my tracks, but I took on a recording project for a local metal band we have played a few gigs with that didn't have a demo. It was a chance to record and mix some stuff that I had never done before, including a huge double kick kit and a band tuned down to I think Bb.

You guys like the electronic music more on this side of ILXor, but you might find this interesting. I don't think the production turned out too bad for being recorded in a living room in suburbia with a couple mattresses against the windows to keep the Romanian neighbors from calling the cops.

https://soundcloud.com/#earlnash/worm-10

lots of cool stuff everyone

earlnash, that link just sends me to my own page so i couldn't listen

here's a new thing i wrote, this is about right when i got the structure nailed down so it's kind of halting performancewise, i'll need to play it a lot better than this...but overall i think it's pretty good. more folk/fingerstyle instrumental stuff recorded on my phone

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/nondisclosure

Dog Latin, that first track sounds similar to the 'Bicycle Rider' motif from Heroes and Villians.

Er, and that would be why it is called Bicycle Dub. Silly me!

Anyway, I like it.

my latest sample-based thing
i don't really know what i'm doing but that's why i like doing it

https://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/teller

skimming through everyone else's music now, lots of good stuff on here.

earlnash your link doesn't work for me either :/

Thanks Chewshabadoo, yeah it's Bicycle Rider of course!

man i've been posting shit on this thread for a long time

^

dog latin, n/a, your shit rocks. I love how varied everyone's music is. this thread is awesome.

been starting to go through the gear i've been accumulating over the last while and made a couple of demo tracks using nothing but the titular synth

https://soundcloud.com/constantlightduo/sets/putting-the-gear-through-its

not especially amazing tunes but these were fun to do

There's a really fun album from Andy Meecham of Chicken Lips called Monophonic Volume 1 where each track is completely comprised of a particular synthesizer.

http://www.discogs.com/Andy-Meecham-Monophonic-Volume-One/master/388354

ha cool, the clips sounds really nice. making percussion sounds on synths is really satisfying

thanks Captain Ahab.

Should have some actual finished "proper" music up here quite soon, as opposed to these little sketches I've been posting up since time began.

dog latin, how long have you been making music?

more little riff sketches on acoustic

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/pentangle-jive

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/new-riff-dadgad-bouncy

Captain Ahab - I've been doing things here and there with breaks in between since I was about 17. I used to make a lot of tunes with DOS trackers under the name Autofire from about 1999-2004. Then I took a bit of a break from writing any music for a couple of years. Rediscovered the guitar and started playing around with Reason and stuff circa 2006. Recorded a sort of weird bedroom pop album during a bout of redundancy in 2007 under the name Mighty Sandy Heath Transmitters. I'm now in a band called Disco Zhivago, been jamming around together for about a year and a half or so but we've just played our first couple of gigs and are about to get a two-track single together.

I did a Magnetic Fields cover:

https://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/if-you-dont-cry

https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply

trying to get back in the lol post-rock/ambient/musique concrete game - again, one for the crowd that find things like 'chords' totally unnecessary

http://mikehanley.bandcamp.com/album/king-power

how have I not updated this?

http://carta.bandcamp.com/album/the-faults-follow-the-iowa-fight-song-single

album forthcoming on Saint Marie Records (Piano Magic, Keith Canisius, Bloody Knives).

and there are some demos for the next album on here:

https://soundcloud.com/cartamusic

i like that alot akm, remind me of a (dearly departed) local band i loved called vampire hands

ok so i need some advice about what to do with this:

https://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/ethel-merman

i accidentally came up with a loop i really like and did some stuff to it. then i added a subtle organ part. but i can't decide if it's done now or not. i feel like maybe it needs something else but nothing i try works. i tried recording guitar on it but it pushed it too far into a stereotypical psychedelic thing. but also i know i have a tendency to overstuff songs and record more tracks than i need to, so maybe it's ok as is and i just need to move on?