ILX pre-covers Animal Collective's "Centipede Hz"

No worries -- okay, so to sum up:

Volume 1

01 Moonjock -- White Chocolate Cheesecake
02 Today's Supernatural -- sarahell
03 Rosie Oh -- Stevie D and boyfriend
04 Applesauce -- Gavin, Leeds
05 Wide Eyed -- B-Boy Bualadh Bos
06 Father Time -- Mark G
07 New Town Burnout -- upper mississippi sh@kedown/Chris B.
08 Monkey Riches -- n/a
09 Mercury Man -- get bent
10 Pulleys -- ciderpress
11 Amanita -- AlXTC from Paris

Volume 2:

01 Moonjock -- MaresNest
02 Today's Supernatural -- V79
03 Rosie Oh -- da croupier
04 Applesauce -- dog latin
05 Wide Eyed -- Adam Bruneau
06 Father Time -- Z/S
07 New Town Burnout -- snoball
08 Monkey Riches -- a hoy hoy
09 Mercury Man -- J3ff T.
10 Pulleys -- HI DERE
11 Amanita -- Confounded

Deadline will be two months from now, July 15, with an eye to have this 'released' by August 1 at the latest if not sooner. Send mp3s or whatever direct or use Sendspace et al via my address: ned at kuci dot org

We will need appropriate artwork of course.

just use the lulu artwork

You mean there's no room in your heart for some original artwork showing pink sparkling vomit?

I'm willing to try a collaboration with anyone who didn't make it on the list in time - contenderizer, uh oh, whoever.

imo cover should be this:

http://i.imgur.com/zYPmd.jpg

Cover needs to be some combination of:

http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/sketch-4-THC-sm.jpg
http://www.hasdeu.bz.edu.ro/softuri/fizica/mariana/Mecanica/Waves_4/Combo.gif

combined with this

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qibinDrwRBo/S3SSYYHokcI/AAAAAAAAAOI/KFv3I9rmxWk/s400/animalistic.jpg

god i love you guys

We do our best!

I'd love to take a shot at the cover unless someone with more clout gets dibs.

Hey, go for it.

http://api.ning.com/files/LfDPgaID9O919yqn2iVd-9x1q5UzurQ3xrFhBrZYUUOtogXIpoyCbo9q0h0*CaEBi25xRRGi-cxsBMwuRADa0KkIELyLGxT6/centipede_arcade_game.png

Animal Collective's Brian Weitz (aka Geologist) spoke with Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 last night to discuss the band's newly announced album Centipede Hz. Lovers of early Animal Collective, rejoice: Weitz said the band has moved away from Merriweather Post Pavilion's sound and "back to our roots."
The band members all moved back to the Baltimore area to record together. Weitz said, "We got a little practice space in this barn on Josh [Dibb, aka Deakin]'s mom's property and it was basically like being a garage band again."
That means you'll find less sampling on Centipede Hz than on Merriweather, and more organic instrumentation. "This one we wrote more as a rock band in a room and we wanted to record it that way as well." Weitz also mentioned that they've played most of the music on the record live on tour over the past year.

Is it a rule that you can't have heard the live versions before doing this? Cos I haven't and now that I think about it yeah maybe some people have.

Perhaps so! Doesn't matter, live versions don't always sound like the studio ones anyway.

It's a shame if AC have taken a step backwards for this record, hoping that ILX are going to take up the slack a bit.

in the interest of trolling youtubers, i fully endorse ppl hearing the live versions first and then attempting the most ~creative~ interpretation of them, though i realize that may go against the ILX Pre-Cover philosophy

We'll rent a state-of-the-art studio in NYC, take over two floors of a nearby hotel, pay a guru to make sure that the 'chi' is balanced, and then get loaded on 100 year old brandy and coke.

(xp)

ah fuck gr80 you better be careful if you're going to go all lulu on this

lest we all forget the

web sheriff

ha, it really is the most ideal premise for the third installment of my internet trolling trilogy!

Ha ha I won't listen to live bootlegs of as yet unreleased animal collective songs for less than 50 dollars american....

Crap i don't think "Wide Eyed" has been performed live yet.

At least an initial youtube search indicates as such.

I was thinking "ha ha, we should totally pre-cover the next Radiohead album" but then I remembered that 1) they drop their albums so quickly there's not time to and 2) fans are so obsessive that they already pre-cover the songs the minute that they're played live.

I dunno, what's fun about these comps is covering a song with ~absolutely no idea~ what the original should sound like.

j3ff i can play clarinet

Yeah ppl I agree w wcc, don't listen to these songs! You will never really ”get gone” if you do!

Who is Animal Collective to tell you what Animal Collective songs sounds like?

The joke is, I don't even particularly like Animal Collective and I would actually think I'd completely failed if my track ends up sounding anything like theirs. :-P

My first decision - fake Avey tune or fake Panda Bear. So much to work with in either case.

I have a basic idea but I guess I'll just let it evolve in my head lazily until the deadline gets closer and I have to rush to finish the song !

Free reign, but I like the idea of some sort of formal requirement otherwise. Any suggestions?

Does anyone have any thoughts on this or are we just leaving things open? I've got some ideas for my track and don't want to get ahead of myself.

I also like the idea of a formal constraint but can't really think of an interesting/good one...

No Synths?

that may cut it down to half a volume worth of tracks!

oh no, I need synths !

you'll find less sampling on Centipede Hz than on Merriweather

no samples ?

i can't really work without samples, don't own a drumkit etc etc

I can work without samples, synths, guitars, and acoustic instruments, but then you will more or less be getting electronic noise with someone shouting over the top.

if anybody wants it, here's a little reference on what "garage band" AnCo used to sound like 10 yrs ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGIsIlL07Kg

(thx Ned for signing me up for vol 2! already thinking hard about the tune)

What I have in mind will be made up of samples, acoustic guitar and percussion - purely because that's what I have at hand but it does seem fitting for AC.

Maybe the formal requirement is a mewling baby somewhere.

pooing babies surely?

http://www.brand-licensing.com/DBImages/lizenzen/no-rules-1.jpg

i have little enough talent without placing formal constraints on myself

Yeah, pretty much thinking that after the time limit for the last one that's about as far as we can/should go.

the only rule for this i could possibly get behind is requiring everyone to say "C'MON JAMES!" at least once per song

Or having that generic owl noise Panda Bear used on Person Pitch

the only rule is there are no rules !

So in a colossal bout of annoying my upstairs neighbours, I've finished recording this. It's going to be a pain in the arse to mix it, though. Maybe the twist can be that everybody sends their track off to someone else to mix it? And the person who mixes it (or remixes it) submits the finished track without playing it for the original artist first? That would be v v funny.

dammit, I missed this.

Do you want to mix my track, Crut? ;-)