What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

Wrote a blues song!

https://soundcloud.com/timellison2/snowflake-power

nice! I like the little instrumental breakdown halfway through

New track on a free comp, it's the last thing I made out of everything last year. Percussion and bells recorded to cassette, put through a Whammy pedal for the parts that sound like they're going through a Whammy pedal, and Microbrute. As n/a pointed out the synth part sounds like "Snooooooooooooooop".
https://soundcloud.com/do-the-astral-plane/chants-2_22

cool, gonna play it on my radio show tonight

oh that's exciting, thanks!

Tried to do something Two Lone Swordsman-ish, obviously ended up with something completely different

https://soundcloud.com/constantlightduo/automating-inverse-geometry/s-0KWv7

Oooh.... This is nice (S-). Reminds me of some early 90s house/rave classic crossed with, yeah a little bit of Fifth Mission-era TLS. I'd normally say to put a lo EQ cut on the bass but that's what kind of makes it cool. Really wobbles my tragus when listening on headphones

This is my favorite thing I've done in a while: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-87

That was pretty, and chill.

my last few songs have kind of been emo as fuck but that's kind of where i am right now. it's a shitty time in my life! i'm trying to balance it with melody, though. here's a new depresso-pop song along those lines: https://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/creature-of-the-night

I enjoyed that.

thanks DJI

Thanks dog latin. All the musical bits are from slowed down cassettes, so ah, there wouldn't be much left with a hi-pass put on there!

nvm, have a new favorite: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-90

I made a new track inspired in no small way by Reverend Dollars' Arson EP: https://soundcloud.com/chokice/big-t

I like that dl. Funny, I was cleaning out my Dropbox and came across a five year-old (!) demo with a similar vibe. Sounds better than I remember, I would try to salvage it except I ended up using the same kick drum pattern on this one.

that link doesn't work Jordan, cna you resend?

oops
https://soundcloud.com/do-the-astral-plane/chants-crushed-lollipop-vip-1

Which is really the bass drum pattern to this New Orleans classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vANq5i3ia7A

hah, we should do an ILM comp of clappy stompers. My track was inspired by the track Clip Clap on Rev's Arson EP: https://soundcloud.com/reverenddollars/sets/arson-ep

Love that Rev track.

Sometimes I think my favorite genre is "dotted 8th notes".

I’ve been working on a cover arrangement of Blake’s Jerusalem.

https://instagram.com/p/Bf8h78oHz5d/

it me https://persistentmidnight.bandcamp.com/track/final-voltage

I have a track from a new EP, I think everything on this was initially recorded to cassette.

That link didn't work for me but I think I found the track and am playing it on plug now (Chants - "Diptych" on The Astral Plane's page?).

That was cool. Interesting beat.

Thanks! Yep that's the one. Idk why I can't seem to post links anymore.

The full EP is out today btw:
https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/carious-motion

Been having fun rediscovering my experimental project, Drachma: https://soundcloud.com/drachmanoise

I have a 3 track EP out today. Album out next month : https://templo.bandcamp.com/album/flower-eaters

https://automating.bandcamp.com/album/lightbox-sky

a beautiful beast of a piece that for all I know could have been a bit longer than twenty-one minutes.

Happily, not my words

Earthquaker Space Spiral has landed.

Starting to catch up. That was pretty cool, S-. I'll definitely listen again.

The recording quality wasn't great, and it clips a couple of times, but here's a video of Hub New Music playing a short chamber piece I wrote in February: https://youtu.be/-DcFOlo_kUA

Video of a performance of my 10-string classical guitar piece

i've been rehearsing new songs with a band and it's been really exciting and also scary (first time leading a band). it's interesting how knowing you'll have to play everything live changes the writing process. i've been listening to a lot of alvvays and tom petty recently, trying to simplify things a little bit. this is just a demo but one of those where i spent way the hell too long working on it. i'm pumped to eventually play it all really loudly with real people!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fSbJpSBXKM8ZI6qbxacuLf9j42CYDJFq/view?usp=sharing

it's about what time it is in the usa

whoa -- tell me more!? do you need your drums from my basement?

nope, or at least not yet! i'm not playing them - sticking to guitar and keyboard. it's still really early going with the whole thing, and at this point i'm still figuring out how to play my own parts. it's really weird to learn how to play your own songs, but even when i recorded old demos i'd just learn it well enough to record and then forget, or programmed them in the first place and never really thought about what scales or chords were being used. so basically i'm doofusing it up left and right

no prob! lmk if you want some drum support :)

recorded 2 new songs at our show on sat, i think they sound pretty good aside from the snare buzz in the second one
https://soundcloud.com/marshmallowy/sets/boob-sweat-6-16-18-at-club

Nothing wrong with a little triggered white noise, I think the snare buzz sounds cool.

yeah it's not terrible. it gets drowned out pretty quickly -- i was playing someone else's kit and wasn't used to the way the snare turned on/off or i would have turned it off in the beginning

Lechera, I like your stuff. 'Watery' reminds me of a more clattery variation on the early modular synth stuff that Sam Prekop was doing with the Sea and Cake: 'Early Chicago' and 'The Sewing Machine'

I was using the Electro-Harmonix Freeze Sound Retainer as a crutch. It was just too applicable for the kind of music I want to make and it was starting to make its way into pretty much every recording I made in almost the same exact context. Even though it was exactly the thing I wanted it for, I became too dependent on it. And, I don't know, maybe I'm a glutton for self-punishment, but I got rid of it. Instead of just having that magic button to press for instant ambience, I'm making myself try to rely on stacking my two delays (Carbon Copy Deluxe and FlashbackX4) for that sound. Ultimately, even though the Freeze got me where I wanted to be, I do prefer the more natural sound of two (or three) stacked delays. So anyway, here's one of the first recordings I did after the Freeze had made its exit. I'm pretty happy with the direction I'm heading now with my effects chain. I downsized considerably over the past few weeks from about twenty five pedals to about twelve (not counting tuner or loop station). I would like to get another envelope filter / auto-wah type pedal again, but I really need to research it pretty heavily, as my wants for that type of effect are pretty specific.

Anyway, good thread. Always like to read and listen.

thanks! listening to sea and cake back in the day opened my mind to a wider variety of rhythmic options than i had heard before -- it was a long time ago but it must be still swirling around in my brain matter :)

my band recorded a whole album last month (my first ever, i'm v nervous but enthusiastic about the final product), and we put out a cover we recorded (which is not on the album) today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnS5ty-vpMY

that's me on drums and lead vocals; the recording is kind of a snapshot of my drumming after 2.5 years of learning (so far i'm only self-taught)

Damn, that's fucking great. I love your voice!

omg thank you!

Nice work

fun song to sing and play, good choice!