What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

Enjoyed it. "Skyway" made me think a bit of Mary Timony.

thanks for listening! i was going for power pop on that one but i am a timony fan

Sounds great NA, great to hear the classic lineup back together.

I did my annual serious jazz gig backing up trumpeter Ler0y Jones, and it was definitely the best one so far. Pandemic pad practice apparently paid off, since I felt more able to relax, breathe, and listen while playing. Sounds so simple, but it can be so hard when your body is not doing what you want it to do.

Short clips here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CXriWMZv0z2/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CX128QGPF46/

Cool.

Nice, Jordan!

short new ep: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/album/ace-sides-ep

I dig this, Austin. Really warm and lovely vibe.

Here's my latest ambient doodle:

https://foundriver.bandcamp.com/track/waterglow

Been going to back to my roots and playing a lot of Clyde Stubblefield-type beats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSb1SXsX1mw

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAIn2xlBOA/

That style always made sense to me because I'm actually left-handed. :) And it's a lot more fun to pretend it's the '70s rather than practicing the super linear, displaced gospel chops style that's in vogue now.

Funky stuff! Do drummers usually keep time with the right hand? I don't play (I wish I had the sort of living space where I could), but I'm always trying to understand technique so I can apply it to beat programming.

Right-handed drummers do, yeah. The right hand is generally playing more notes on the hi-hat/ride, while the left is on the snare. I'm left-handed but learned righty, so I've always had more trouble with faster right-hand parts. Taught myself to lead with the left (ie left hand on the hi-hat) for certain types of beats, but it never feels quite as comfortable coordination-wise.

I broke my thumbnail so spent a little more time with a pick and finally got this first section of Django's "Minor Swing' solo up to tempo last night: https://soundcloud.com/sund(a)r-subramanian/django-reinhardt-solo-from-minor-swing-excerpt

Remove the brackets from my first name in that URL.

Working on a thing for the first time in a very long time: https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply/in-my-room

Cool groove! Could use some vocals over it. Feels like Violater-era DM track.

Yeah, I thinking vocals would help it out. My own voice isn't fit for purpose, unfortunately.

Uploaded a live recording of William Walton's Bagatelle no. 2 from a Zoom event from a few months ago. Still mean to do a proper recording of a bunch of classical repertoire this spring now that I have decent condenser mics at home (not used here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPAI1SxXIWA

Embraced middle age by jamming out this standard on my birthday (remove brackets):
https://soundcloud.com/sund(a)r-subramanian/it-never-entered-my-mind

Those are good! Lovely vibes for a spring evening. I really need to check this thread more often. Feeling King Boy Pato's EBM style jam above too!

And I made some new tracks!

https://soundcloud.com/pluwa

Thanks, paolo. Some cool beats there. Some of it reminded me a little of Plastikman stuff I used to listen to.

Thank you!

Here's a new slab of downtempo neo-kosmiche whatevercore from yours truly:

https://foundriver.bandcamp.com/track/more-old-dreams

I labored over the mix for days and I'm still not really happy with it :(
Nevertheless, enjoy!

That's good! Mix sounds fine to me

Feeling King Boy Pato's EBM style jam above too!

Thank you! Have done another EBM-ish thing: https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply/mitsubishi-city

Recorded a few standard classical guitar repertoire pieces (Bach, Tàrrega, Villa-Lobos) over the weekend to promote teaching and event gigs ahead of the summer. All complete single takes: https://soundcloud.com/sund(a)r-subramanian/sets/music-from-the-standard-classical-guitar-repertoire

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Something? A little different?: https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply/low-sky

thank you for reminding me of my favorite novel by that author

x-post thanks for the link

this is a mini lp i made of orchestral pieces to pitch for soundtracks/sync licensing

Wow, that sounds very pro, hope you get some gigs!

Here's me trying to generate a forcefield of notes.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfHMr2mAUjk/

As discussed on another IMM thread, it's amazing how real red light fever is even when recording on a phone in my own house, for zero stakes. Although I think it's worse when playing alone, I'm much less likely to choke when playing along to actual music in a studio or with a band. Anyway it's good to record yourself as a reality check whenever you think you may be in danger of sounding good. :)

that is very nice to hear jordan, thank you! i'm still searching for libraries where i feel like my stuff would fit well, but im hopeful

the last couple of weeks ive been doing a few ambient/orchestral songs, so here they are

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/sets/julambience

Something? A little different?: https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply/low-sky

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Like it!

i finally got some free time to record again and made it about halfway through a cover of a willie nelson deep cut:

https://on.soundcloud.com/yb8z

Did this version of "The Nearness of You" a while ago (remove brackets):
https://soundcloud.com/sund(a)r-subramanian/nearness-of-you

Coming out of the rabbit hole of recording & mixing drum breaks for this sample pack:
https://chants.bandcamp.com/album/drum-basement-breakbeat-sample-pack-vol-1

Learned a lot on the mixing side especially, I think the results are pretty good for one microphone. Would love to another one in the future, maybe being more meticulous and varied about the sound of the drums themselves (I wasn't too fussy aside from adding some muffling, the mic placement was fairly haphazard as well).

Ooh, those drums sound nice, Jordan. I may use some of these!

Here's a new 30-minute mix of whateverthefuck it is I do:

https://soundcloud.com/found-river/woodshed-tales

Thanks! That's very nice sounding stuff, you should put it on youtube with anime clips because that's presumably how you get the big beat bucks?

i made another set of gong songs
if you only want to listen to one, i recommend #20. i think it's the best one. https://on.soundcloud.com/oaUT3

Some good stuff here folks! Number 20 is the best one on the playlist above

I put some new tracks up if anybody is interested. It's not often I get a bit emotional at one of my own tunes (in fact it's never happened before) but the vocal samples on Longer get to me, it's French people talking about being trans and I am going through my Difficult Trans Phase rn. Not really sure about most of what they're saying tbh

https://soundcloud.com/pluwa

Hi folks--I made something almost embarrassingly stupid, because I needed to:

https://on.soundcloud.com/rtsw3

happy holidays!

loool, it's perfect.

I played my annual serious jazz gig backing up a master trumpet player, which is also my annual test of where the floor of my playing is. It was definitely the most relaxed and in control I've felt on one of these gigs, pretty swinging, just a couple moments where I let the time sag a touch (and only on uptempo tunes interestingly, I held the line on all the awkwardly mid-tempo tunes and not-too-slow ballads). That's the thing about playing with a master rather than your peers, if the tempo isn't right, it's *noted* instantly. It was generally a successful night though, always a learning experience but nothing that's going to haunt me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzRS4hzBNt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0bFbrXQlhs

Now back to computer music and recording projects, thankfully. :)

Little holiday funsies w "You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9hjFURlyOA

Here's the very first mini-album of the nonsense that I keep plugging away at: https://themanitobanoreply.bandcamp.com/album/you-lived-in-princess-street

Some fine electro workings on there, to my ears!

Thank you for the very kind words!

decided to do my first project in Logic using all in-the-box efx and modellers, ended up spending way too much time on this joke but i think it turned out way better than it has a right to be

https://houseofsleep.bandcamp.com/track/runaway-train-new-wave-version

got a new album of independent rock and roll music coming out at the end of the month, but we've got two tracks up already on bandcamp: https://shreddedsun.bandcamp.com/album/each-dot-and-each-line

https://shreddedsun.bandcamp.com/album/each-dot-and-each-line

full album out today. 12 indie rock songs in 37 minutes. lots of guitars, lots of hooks. there's a slide guitar solo on one song.

Great to hear the band back together!

yeah i like this