What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

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!

great going brad!

thanks everyone <3

and we just put out the first song from the album!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZqVtjNtli8

Omg I love it - nice work! Can't wait to hear more. When is the album out??

New collab track, sort of ambient dancehall: https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/track/chants-x-korma-sleepless-rhythm

This was fun because the other producer wrote the main loop as a demo, so I just got to arrange it into a full track and only think about sounds & layers. I wish I could work like that all the time (also had only one day to get it in, which helped with committing to decisions).

Spacey, and I like the bell sounds!

I made a track this week. Kind of prog/deep house with lots of choppy pads and reverb: https://soundcloud.com/djisbister/chop

I love everyone's new stuff! Such a wide array of sounds.

Here's a revision of a semi-recent thing. I've created my jangle pop masterpiece!

Really pretty.

Thank you! That's what I try to do. There's enough ugly in the world already, how about something nice?

i really like that austin!

Omg I love it - nice work! Can't wait to hear more. When is the album out??

― tangenttangent, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 9:47 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg thank you that means a lot!!!! the album is out september 8, here's the bandcamp: http://faithvoid.bandcamp.com

I made a track this week. Kind of prog/deep house with lots of choppy pads and reverb: https://soundcloud.com/djisbister/chop

― DJI, Tuesday, August 7, 2018 11:48 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh also this is v nice

Thanks!

That's a really good song, Brad.

Ok I re-uploaded with the pads un-muted (which was my favorite part! :P)

https://soundcloud.com/djisbister/chop

What have I done?

i love a good 8 minute guitar bliss out, v "small hours"

my band also put out another song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXP5CmuQpjA

i don't sing on it at all but i'm v proud of the drumming. i also love all the cool vocal parts my bandmates came up with and i especially love how there's a track on the album where i don't have to hear my voice at all lol

our album comes out tomorrow and then we're playing a release show on saturday! i'm so excited

i love a good 8 minute guitar bliss out, v "small hours"

O_O

omgomgomg

Did you. . . did you just —COMPARE ONE OF MY SONGS TO JOHN FREAKING MARTYN????!!!

I. AM. SPEECHLESS.

lol i was like "i bet austin will really dig that this reminded me of 'small hours'"

good work imo!!!

Some brass band clips I just found on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqetfMcmlCo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4-kNFiXp84

Your band is shit hot Brad! Love everything you've put on here, plz to share a link to the album when it's out. Hope the release party is a hoot!

aw thank you!!! here's the album on bandcamp https://faithvoid.bandcamp.com/album/embrace-nothingness and on spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/5dCZxKeOKenT1nY9OVN7Vm?si=C8avZAxtTwu1pbzHJBlhHQ

Thank you!! <3

I've reached a point where I don't even know anymore if I like the stuff I record or if I'm just fascinated by how actually terrible I am. Anyway, : https://austinato.bandcamp.com/track/computer-love-talk

How did you release party go Brad?