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

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? ;-)

possibly! what form is the unmixed version in?

That's a cool idea

I did it in Reason/Record (which seems to be a format that no one uses) can you read that at all?

I've got a rough mix on MP3 now...

i came up with some lyrics, which i may or may not use. they started out funny but got a bit bleak.

Hey hon we are in south st paul, probably be home around 6

Oops that was supposed to be a text to my wife

maybe that should be our formal constraint. all tracks have to contain that post as a lyric.

Just throw in something about warm family feelings and farting flowers.

WCC - I use Reason v4.0 (no Record sadly) & I can also work with .wav/.mp3 files. my ILXmail goes to a defunct address so if you want to contact me via email my addy is curtis.stephens (AT) gmail (DOT) com, but feel free to just ignore & do your own thing if that is what you would prefer.

otm all

After slapping a "pop" compression all over it, I decided the mix was fine but after listening to The Orb and Adrian Sherwood all afternoon I've decided to rip all of the 303 out and replace it with booming dub bass. Stop me before I ruin everything!

hey i don't post here much but if this is really happening i will pre-cover an animal collective song called "monkey riches"

Seems like there might actually be enough interest to warrant the third volume.

Third volume should be done totally in the style of Warrant imo.