what is going on in your musical life

this can be a rolling thread, maybe. forgive me if one already exists, i didn't see it.

i started taking guitar lessons again! that is exciting

my long term black/doom metal band (argentinum astrum) recorded an album last fall and we're waiting on a label dude to get another label to go in on releasing it? i have no idea how or what that is about. i want it to come out soon because we haven't put anything out in a couple years and i want to tour and am antsy about it.

im learning ableton in order to start doing electronic stuff by myself. that's kind of on the backburner atm tho

one of my fave local bands atm asked me to replace their bassist/harmony singer and i am probably gonna do it. it is kind of superchunk-esque?

i started a band with 2 of my girlfriends and we just had our first practice. guitar, bass and drums. playing kind of 60s-esque poppy tunes so far, but i have no idea where we will end up. i think we are gonna be called "high school"?? please tell me if that is a ridiculous name.

i recorded this local band called Killer Whale who play very crazy surf-influenced punk/metal, i love them and i am excited to record bands and put out records and things tho god it is so expensive to do this

i've been playing in this band with a weirdo that plays only covers of local, small time musicians. i just joined it, but it's kind of a local institution, been around a while with a rotating cast of ppl around this one guy. i don't know. it's fun to play with him , and very fun to choose and learn the songs, but he has a weird value system w/r/t music, ie he doesn't want me to sing harmonies cause i sing "like an angel", which isn't really true. he also has no ambitions (how can you be ambitious with a covers band really tho) and is really skeptical of people who have them. its fun tho.

i dont really have time to do any of this stuff

this band with a weirdo that plays only covers of local, small time musicians

haha i love this

haha its exactly what it sounds like

the first person I contacted about guitar lessons is too busy to take me on as a student but promised to give me contact info for other ppl, which basically means I am back at square one re: finding a guitar teacher

I am currently in the process of tracking down sheet music for a recital of solo and ensemble spiritual arrangements I'm doing as part of a quartet made up of ppl from my church choir (inc. my wife as the soprano) for the Tuesday before Easter; we're also going to take parts of that recital to do as music for the Good Friday service later that week.

I'm also looking over the Dvorak Mass in D major, which I'm doing at an evening Good Friday service in Dorchester; my primary responsibility AFAIK is augmenting the bass section but I believe I'm also going to be doing the tiny solo parts as well. (The other ppl from that include my wife again plus other folks from the spiritual ensemble we sing in.)

Also have a concert with the church choir coming up where we're doing Stainer's Crucifixion; I am not the bass soloist for it (thank God).

i didnt realize you were a bass! it occurs to me that i have never actually heard you sing. i imagined you having a very high tenor voice. haw.

i started a band with 2 of my girlfriends

Me too! We are called Ta1nted Pussy and have played 2 shows so far. We were supposed to have a show next Saturday opening for this weird Dutch guy, but he got detained by the Dutch government and told he can't leave the country without a work permit, so that show was cancelled. I play bass. I have not played bass since I was a teenager. So now I get to have fun learning/re-learning an instrument, plus I get to have fun with pedals. We are all noise/new music ladies, thus lots of fun with pedals. I got a Dr. Sample 202 for christmas! More fun! I kept one of the built-in samples, which is a lady saying "Stand By" for when we have technical difficulties during our sets.

We are planning to tour at some point later this year. L.A., maybe the South?

next month we have a gig opening for Cock E.S.P.

Our singer said, "Why do we always end up on shows with other bands with dirty names?"

having trouble finding time/motivation/energy to do anything too focused or serious over the past couple of years. i was playing with my friend who's a full-time musician but he decided to just play shows solo instead of with a band because the economics/logistics are easier that way. i've been doing some sample-based stuff on reason recently, i like it because it takes me back to when i was learning guitar and didn't know what i was doing and would come up with cool stuff by accident. also occasionally jamming/recording with the drummer from my old band, doing shitty lofi four-track stuff.

i would really like to have a more regular band where someone else bore the heavy lifting of the songwriting and i could just come in and play guitar and play shows a few times a year. but i'm not really connected to any kind of music scene anymore so i don't know how to find that kind of situation.

Band practice tonight. Eagerly anticipating our two track demo bak from being mixed/mastered although worried it might sound bad as we only spent two days on it.
Working on writing and practising our next batch of songs after an initial 6. It's now a concern that we have a 'sound' and aesthetic developing, meaning that we have songs we wrote and quite like that for one reason or another don't work very well alongside the others. Anyone had this problem? It didn't really matter before because we were still forming an identity which eventually formed into 6 upbeat slightly unhinged post punk numbers, but now this next one is a big dramatic sweeping thing with a more serious tone and we're not sure what to do with it.
Also written a reggae song, which I'm please with but need a way to subvert because right now it's verging a little too close to sixth form peace and love bob Marley cliches and I want to put a twist on all that really.
Wrote a sort of fast kinda sung-rap song but my girlfriend said it sounded like flight of the conchords. Not that that's an insult, but I wanted it to aoud more like Haim or something.

i didnt realize you were a bass! it occurs to me that i have never actually heard you sing. i imagined you having a very high tenor voice. haw.

haha that would make my dad very, very happy (he's a failed tenor in a previous life, sang lead in a doo-wop group in college)

I am technically a "bass-baritone" which really means that because most of my singing experience comes from being in ensembles rather than private, focused vocal study, I have no idea how to use my head voice and sing practically everything in chest; I have a sneaking suspicion I would end up being a true baritone or even a low tenor after several years of focused, serious voice training based on how my low range actually sounds, but the flip side is that I can actually croak out low notes even if they're inaudible unless I've been binge-drinking the night before so I dunno. But yeah, I've always sung low.

(which is actually why, in my teens, I realized I was never going to be a pop or rock singer, and why I was so taken by the grunge explosion)

putting the last touches on my new record (doesn't feel new, been working on it for about 15 months now) to send to mastering next week, figuring out how to put it out.

then i want to take some time to switch up my process, shake things up a little. work on some new synth sounds without any goals, try to finally learn ableton, record a bunch of new percussion samples. i want to take some piano lessons too, since i do everything with midi + mouse. i can figure stuff out on piano very sloooowly, so i thought it would be fun to play through some tunes in real time and get some chords under my fingers.

honestly though i probably won't do most of these things and i'll go back to what feels easy & comfortable. :/

I just got our first track back from the studio. I love it and I also cringe a bit because I can hear bits where my voice goes a bit wrong or a beat doesn't quite land how it's meant, and I'm trying to work out if anyone in their right mind would really notice or care.

roxy high school is an amazing band name

this is a neat thread idea.

i've been playing with a couple guys for the last month or so but it's just working out that well. they seem like they really want to sound like real estate or something, which isn't terrible, but a bad real estate impersonation comes out sounding reaaaaally bad, and it's not much fun to play drums to, either!

i've been writing and recording some new tunes, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually been a big breakthrough for me after about a 10 year songwriting/music coma that i didn't realize was a coma.

i'm moving back to chicago in a few months and i'm determined to join up with a good band. i used to be good friends with the cave/bitchin bajas scene so i'm hoping i can be looped back into all that stuff and that someone needs a good drummer

and yeah, high school is good, although i have to say i liked it even more when i thought the name was high school??

haha

whoa z s do you want to be in a band with me?

this is going to be really awkward when you reject me

well, that was easy. sure, let's play!

it's gonna be more like september or so

i think we are gonna be called "high school"??
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I started a band in college called junior high university. I recorded one song for it and we had two practices and then everyone split up in different directions. that was the last band I was ever in.

have not touched my recording computer since my son was born. I long for a classical acoustic guitar so i can play around the house but I have no money for that now. debating selling an amp or two. I think my creative well has run dry for the foreseeable future.

i'm really burnt out on school this semester & have been slacking off to spend more time doing music stuff. all three bands i'm in are pretty active rn which can be overwhelming at times but is really fun. most notably i went on tour in january and started a new band called l0ud s3x which i am just so, so stoked on. the other songwriter in the band is really prolific and i really want to keep our ratio of songs 1:1. it's been a really fun challenge trying to keep up, he also writes amazing songs so i've had to be really strict about scrapping my tunes if they're not up to par. we're playing our first show at the end of the month & i'm pretty nervous because not everyone shows up for practice consistently and i want it to be spectacular

sp3ctacular l0ud s3x

I am not going to go into any more detail than this but the biggest audition opportunity of my lap literally just fell into my lap; I fully expect it to go nowhere but still, you never know...

would watch n/a z s band

DJP on x factor, it's America has been waiting for
xp

l0ud high school s3x

the biggest audition opportunity of my lap

lol dan

oh no, I've said too much

I am in month 15 of releasing a home-made recording every month. A lot of times I put it off until the month is almost over and then go into crunch mode. But at this point, even though I approach each song as its own thing and wasn't trying to make an album or anything, I can listen to all the tracks straight through and it sounds really cohesive to me, which I think is really cool. I also feel like I get a little better/more efficient at production each time.

I haven't performed onstage in like a year though, which was a conscious decision and I don't miss all of the bullshit that made me sick of doing it, but I do miss being onstage. But I maybe just joined a band that I actually think is really good and is kind of successful locally, which is cool because I don't feel that way about hardly any local bands and also I've never really been in someone else's band. They have kind of a Modern Lovers/Beat Happening/Magnetic Fields/Morrissey vibe. It'll also be neat because I'll be playing synth and I'm not actually a keyboard player at all, I'm a guitarist and songwriter, but that's also why I'll be a good fit for this.

kicking off recording of a new album. finally a chance to properly use all this new synth gear

Hey all - could I get a little bit of constructive feedback on this please? We've had an initial "how's this?" from the studio engineer on one of our tracks. Overall, I think it's okay but it's very difficult to distance myself and listen to it with uninvolved ears.

I'd really like to hear your thoughts, particularly on the mixing/production (we can't really go back into the studio to do any overdubs or retakes so we're working with the raw material we have, for better or worse). Are there any glaring errors on this track or things I should mention before I get back to him? One thing I noticed is that he's been a bit heavy handed witht he gating and compression, particularly some of the vocal parts where the sibilants and plosives are almost non-existent.

I'm only gonna keep this track online for a short while, but if someone could give it a listen and let me know their thoughts, i'd be very much obliged: https://soundcloud.com/doglatin/honolulu-demo-050313

god this sounds like a super harsh thing but i dont mean it that way - do you want/intend the beginning to sound like a 80's nylons style acapella group thing? like exactly like one? because thats what i hear. also some pitchy weirdness in the "so afraid" "yesterday" multivoice responses. again, if these are intentional things, no prob.

Lol, I haven't hear the nylons but it is supposed to be a bit of a tongue in cheek doowop thing and if it comes across that way I guess that's intentional. The song is very much a comment on retro culture and so it's littered with 60s and 80s references. Cheers for checking it out jjjusten, I'll look into the autotune thing. Think the sound guy's gone a bit overboard with vocal manipulation, but then we're not at all trained singers so there's undoubtably gonna be a push/pull thing going on.

song sounds good to me, esp. for a demo. i like it.

Xpost If you're talkin about Housemartins/Flying Pickets, I def see what you mean and kind of don't mind. I (was made to) grow up with that shit, haha.

Cheers n/a

I am making a lil album of songs that are about a min long each, I have about 10 so far where the music is done but I have finished singing over one of them, I've come up w/ vocal melodies for about 3

I am seriously using the dumbest most unwieldy out of date programs to put the songs together because for whatever reason I like how it all sounds more than if I do it in ableton?

what are you using?

I (lol) am using cues in virtual dj to play my laptop like an mpc or w/e (I could slice to a drumkit in ableton and do the same thing I guess, but idk, when I use ableton I spend 3 extra hours on shit) and then editing shit further and recording vocals in audacity, its a forehead in my hands deal, but still

i love stuff like that.

well I hope it lives up to its rudimentary description, I'm starting to embrace it, at least this way I don't end up fucking around with corpus for a week with no results

Good sounding demo, dog latin. I'd get some friends in a room for the backing vocals. And as for your solo performance it's a little too measured, just make sure you're saying "gate" instead of "gay" and make it fast and effortless

I was just in Prague recording with a budget-priced orchestra, stuff for five different clients and some stuff for my own use. There were 30 "pieces" ranging from 45-second long bits of orchestral incidental music to 20-minute marathon workouts. A total of 2.5 hours of music and 24 hours to record the whole thing. I def. got paranoid and overworked but I didn't break. I drove that bus.

It went very well but I instinctively prioritized the work of my clients, taking the time to really get something beautiful out of that shaky orchestra. I left not enough time for my own material. Now I'm futzing.

cheers FGTI - I did the lead vox, the others did backing. I think the engineer's but too strong a release on my vox because yeah, "gaze" sounds like "gay" etc...

i'm listening to spotify

gotta get these tapes out soon (for this band i recorded) but have no idea what im doing! i need to buy a tape duplicator! i need to buy...tapes! i need to figure out how to get this shit onto a master tape! what am i doing with my life! HELP!

i told my mom i was in a new band called high school and she recommended that we call it COOL GIRLS instead. additionally, "i like just a girl's name, like maureen, or mabel, for a girl band"

lmao at cool girls altho tbh i would like it as a name for a coed or all dude band

I'm against the disestablishment of floccinaucinihilipilification! If only there was a word for my philosophy

I’m too busy dealing with a respiratory conduction— apparently I inhaled some volcanic silica— so I can’t help you out here imago

*infection

It's fine, I have a contact in a small Anglesey village who can help me

Anyway the longest 'normal' word is 'uncharacteristically' iirc so I encourage you all to throw this one in, it's even subtle of a monster

Lol thanks fgti

I just screwed up my simple aria on the first time I’ve gotten to sing it all the way through with the orchestra

At least it was rehearsal and not the performance

tomorrow the announcement goes out that my band is playing a trans music festival in DC, and my brain is flipping around in my skull just looking the bands/artists we're technically opening for

Where in DC?

the black cat! one of the many unbelievable things about this show

amazing! classic venue

ok here's the lineup

https://i.imgur.com/11fYqJg.jpeg

surreal to be technically opening for ted leo and l'rain

Wow, Ivy!!

Very cool, congrats.

damn, wtg!

Verrrry cool, I will let Unctious know

Wish I could come see you! Unfortunately my wife’s abroad and I got two kids. Knock ‘em dead!

don't call your wife that

Lol

I forgot to tell you all about the ep I put out last week, Why Don't Pictures Like This Ever Trend? More sinister noises. Anyway, it and everything else I put out that has 3 or more tracks is pay-what-you-want until the end of Bandcamp Friday.

https://chrisirregardless.bandcamp.com/album/why-dont-pictures-like-this-ever-trend

Hope it was more enjoyable for you this time Christine!

I’m about to have my first studio recording experience at the end of the month. Psyched mostly, feeling good about material, focused on keeping my shit together until then.

we're doing this next weekend ... are any ilxors in these towns?????? should be fun.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/f536337c31735bc85f6cbfe24a31398c/42626f0c29cd5e60-68/s1280x1920/34795e72bfa266796aff269f06c3a38da881dfa8.jpg

Just venting:

I've been in the creative doldrums a bit lately, mostly because I finished an album a few months ago (after spending 4 months producing & mixing, building on months of groundwork with my collaborator last year) and haven't been able to find anyone to put it out, or really even to respond with feedback.

Partly this seems like a uniquely terrible time to release music...I know running an indie label is a thankless job and a losing proposition, and the only ones who showed an interest are also pausing or folding due to financial stress (either from the music industry itself or day job crises due to, y'know, everything). I know the obvious answer is to just put it out ourselves, but given that the previous record felt like the best received thing I've done and this is a direct sequel to that, it feels weird that I'm having a harder time finding a home for it than ever before. And it seems like it would be anticlimactic to just put it out ourselves and be limited to the dismal reach of social media, which is feeling more limited and depressing than ever. It could have nothing to do with the music, but I've never felt more confident that a record is good before it's come out, so the total lack of response is giving me some cognitive dissonance.

I've always had a very strong drive to just make the next thing, and I'm definitely open reassessing my relationship to creativity and my reasons for making music. It's always been a combination of the satisfaction of making something but also having a context for it, seeing what it does in the world. But I'm feeling very "what's the point" rn, why put a ton of work into a recording project when I've just done that and, well, we'll see.

I'm practicing my instrument a lot and that's great, but even though I've gone through periods of taking a break/not making any music after finishing a big project, I've never felt this existential about it. It's very small change in the scheme of things, I know, but making music is the main thing I spend my free time on that feels constructive & nourishing, and this gives it a tinge of blah. Probably just need to put it out and move on (and I know at least one pleasantly surprising thing always happens when you put music out into the world).

i had a very bad time playing that festival in dc but i’m sure it’s just my period or something. idk what’s wrong with me. i just feel like the ugliest and most untalented person in the world after that lol

You are neither of those things!don’t listen to toxic inner critic around period time!

I made my first studio recording this week 💪

I made my first studio recording this week 💪

Whoops

hell yeah ll, thats rad

boo to ivy's inner critic who does not know that ivy rules

Just venting:

I've been in the creative doldrums a bit lately, mostly because

I'm surprised. I listened to some of that and I thought it was very good. I'm really surprised that nobody would want to release it. You say that a number of labels have shut down. I suppose if that's a trend, it would eventually make room for new ones to come in, and then the market might expand, but then it would get saturated again. But like you say, external conditions may well have got harder as well.

I recognise in your post things I've been experiencing myself. I released a vinyl-only EP through a label at the end of last year and it sold over 200. The next one, which I've nearly finished preparing, I am going to have to finance myself, but I am struggling with understanding how to widen the scope, because I'm not interested in just selling 200 on vinyl and no one outside underground DJ circles, mainly in continental Europe, knows who you are. It's got to be wider than that. I've thought about approaching labels, but I don't know which are good ones for what I do (retroish house music with an indie flavour).

I know I should be able to find suitable labels, though my music is probably not mainstream enough for them. But also, when I look, all I seem to see are thousands of so-called 'labels' that just put stuff on Spotify. I want a proper label. To just put stuff on Spotify and have no one listen to it would make me want to give up. I've already got it in the back of my mind that this is all doomed and it's affecting my desire to make more music. I joined something called Groover, where you pay to pitch people, but I suspect that would be pouring money down the drain (although I have found just a handful of influencer and music people – not really labels – that seem like they could be promising as contacts). And there are a lot more of these types of services, and they all want paying of course.

Then there's social media. I use Instagram and I see the type of content that a lot of people do, where they are DJ-ing and/or fiddling around with hardware synths, drum machines and so on (DAWless jams). First thing is I'm not a DJ. I'm sure I could learn the technique but I'm far too old for the stress associated with performing. I never liked it anyway when I was younger. Then there's the way I make music. I do everything ITB, which isn't video-friendly. I mean, you can screen-capture, which is OK for YouTube perhaps, but not Instagram. I suppose I could pay for Instagram advertising, but the content needs to be something that the right people will be drawn to. I started Instagram years ago just posting photos, completely separate from music. I want to integrate the two but it seems like two different sets of people. The ones who like my photos don't necessarily like my music, and vice versa. I do have secondary accounts, so maybe I should strictly compartmentalise the type of content. Trouble is, the 'music account' has hardly any followers, and the original photo account has a lot more (though the numbers are pathetic in the greater scheme of things). And in any case, I don't WANT to treat the photos and music separately. When I see an IG account that is just one music performance video after another, or just shots of record labels, it's boring to me. I don't want to be like that.

Don't know your music, but would labels like Shall Not Fade, 100% Silk, Toy Tonics, or Limousine Dream be appropriate to talk to?

IG videos are tough, but perhaps having some shorts where you talk through the process of making a track could be interesting, especially if you can tie the track to personal inspirations drawn from your life.

boo to ivy's inner critic who does not know that ivy rules

― petey, pablo & mary (m bison), Sunday, June 1, 2025 12:42 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

haha yeah i was too in my head. same thing happened after recording! hope to figure a way around this some day

in retrospect playing that festival in dc was super cool and one of the best weekends of my life. wish i could've enjoyed that more in the moment

finally got a new music laptop and i'm using two new songs that my band recorded to learn how to use logic. it's nice to have a music system that can like actually run plug-ins and doesn't randomly decide to restart and then take 15 minutes to get back up and running again. the options are honestly a bit overwhelming.

Don't know your music, but would labels like Shall Not Fade, 100% Silk, Toy Tonics, or Limousine Dream be appropriate to talk to?

IG videos are tough, but perhaps having some shorts where you talk through the process of making a track could be interesting, especially if you can tie the track to personal inspirations drawn from your life.

Thanks very much for those label suggestions. I'll take a look at them. And that is a good idea re. the short videos suggestion. For reference, this is one of the tracks on the last EP and is representative of the general style of what I do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45RCofufGI0

Unctious saw your set and said it ruled, ivy!

yes unctious said hi to me while i was there!!!

full disclosure i was pms-ing and my period loves to tell me i'm an untalented person who should detransition and disappear lol. she's such a card

oh i see i mentioned that a few posts ago, i love talking about my period and how much it sucks

Yesterday I had to make an LCD-style sleaze track for a film score and I made a basic-James drum beat and added some silly super distorted bass and started singing “sexy sexy sexy / you don’t know what is sexy” in a heavily gated chain so the vocals were stuttering and basically I can’t wait to get back to working on that stupidity again today

that sounds fucking rad

I took the job because they wanted dark wave and indie sleaze and I’ve never done a score like that before and I know I can, coach!

That sounds so fun.

Ha, that does sound like a blast.

Thanks dubmill, I appreciate that. Good luck with your release, that track sounds great and I'm sure you'll be able to find a home for your new project.

I'd like to be so egoless as to have making music be its own reward, but making an *album* is a lot of work, and unfortunately that's the medium I fell in love with. Putting it into the world and it having a bit of life after release is part of it for me (I feel lucky to have had the experience of releasing some music that still feels 'alive' out there, and of course a lot that's digitally dead sitting).

There's nothing wrong with self-releasing of course, I just haven't had much luck with it and likewise at this point just can't play the social media game (and working with labels has felt specifically like the way out of that trap). So I'm feeling stuck between not being able to move on until I put this album out, and not wanting to just shove it out in the cold.

Anyway I don't want to be a downer, congrats LL on your studio session!

Mostly the experience of sending music to labels makes me very glad that I'm not dating or applying for jobs, the rejection without explanation eventually gets wearying.

the rejection without explanation eventually gets wearying.

I used to find that upsetting years ago, because I'd build my hopes up and my confidence would fall apart after a few rejections. I think I'm a bit more resilient now, like I wouldn't really care if they didn't like it. Because maybe I hate the things they like anyway. Not necessarily, but that might have something to do with why they didn't like what I'd sent them. It's not like I think what I'm doing is perfect. I know it's nowhere near, but I also know it's up to a certain standard, and I've had enough people tell me they really like it for me to continue. It's the lack of having a proper plan of action, a strategy, which is making me, not exactly lose hope, but foresee that I might begin to lose hope if I don't figure something out.

But I reckon you'll get offers eventually. It's just going to take a bit longer than you first thought. It might be later this year, or it might be next year. It's not like it has a short shelf life. It's unusual and it's good. In the meantime, you can work on something else, but also continue to push this out to other people.

My studio has been down for a year as I had to take it apart because of having an issue with some termites in the house. My garage studio is packed with stuff so it was a beast getting everything off the sides of the building into the middle and I have have been working so many hours and dealing with other BS, I have not had energy or a free weekend to get it together.

I mostly jam and practice guitar on a Vox Trailblazer in my bedroom. I play a bit everyday and it kinda sucks not having a band, as I think my skills have improved a bunch as player. I'm getting pretty good using the thump pick and playing claw style mostly with my index and middle finger on my picking hand.

Practice and jam a bit every day, some days 10 minutes and some days a couple of hours. Got a pretty good amount of raw material in the notebook.

My guitar practice material is pretty much same as it has been for a while, working on triads and then adding in other notes playing through the chords of major and minor. I also do a bit of game working on learning the neck playing say a A note or A chord in across the neck. I've been also doing some ear training playing along with records, which was something I have almost always sucked at doing. There has been some improvement though. I was jamming along to all of Exile on Main St. today.

Doing this kind of work, you do really start to 'see' the symmetry of how the 12 note music form is put together.

i bought a porta 02 mk II 4-track at a yard sale for $40 this weekend. unfortunately it doesn't seem to play or record correctly but i've been enjoying running my guitar through it with all the levels maxed out as a fuzz circuit. it seems like it would be easy for someone with a minimum of knowledge to convert this into a proper fuzz pedal but i have almost zero mechanical/electronical skills.

Oooh NA I have an MF-P01 that I think works but is of no use to me. I am not using, would gladly send along to a good home.

Btw I got some good, specific feedback (not from a label but from a trusted collaborator) and I'm going back to re-record drums for 4-5 tracks on my album. At first I wasn't sure about it for a variety of reasons, but these are all tracks where I sampled myself and made loops, and I did wonder if the loops were too static (even though I do a lot of dubbing to give them some life). But now I'm excited to go back and do live drums, especially because it's rare to get to play drums on an otherwise completed track with all the parts there.

Oooh NA I have an MF-P01 that I think works but is of no use to me. I am not using, would gladly send along to a good home.

― zydecodependent (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, June 9, 2025 4:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

yes please! if you want to email me to set up details, it's naamme at gmail

finally got my shit together enough to peddle a cassette of wack lofi ambient interludes https://dreamscan.bandcamp.com/album/reduced-pathways