Written More as a Rock Band in a Room: ILX Pre-Covers Animal Collective's Centipede Hz

Confounded's bosh-bosh track is the jam, btw.

Am listening now. My mind is blown. There is literally mind dust everywhere.

thanks for the kind words re: my track. i'm downloading now, excited to listen to the whole album.

in case you can't tell, i thought my song was supposed to be called "monkey tricks," didn't bother confirming i had the name right, and didn't find out i had it wrong until i saw this thread this morning

I can't wait to hear this!

Adam your track is amazing! Everything I've heard is amazing!

dang, AIXTC's Amanita is really good

KDT track is stun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FArmPRZsAs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj-P4Hptbz8

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0UBFp5HNy0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3XZViQ6xSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CRgALJkfzg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb08pqscZNM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd4HMD-R8MI

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyUu-jbKTNo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4rFDQcTvJw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wayQTiJ8is4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4j6-LWKjoI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVU1AcGG2pk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNcUw6Q7aJE

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9bFMqRIJO8

http://i.imgur.com/Mp17g.png

stoked for the madness

i tried to fix my lighting on audacity but finally had to be like "fuck it"

uuuuuuuuuugh, i want my track deleted. the really fucking annoying high pitched "click" that persists throughout the entire track is supposed to be a low-pitched percussive bass tone. actually, it IS a low pitched percussive bass tone on headphones (never mixing anything on these headphones again), but out of laptop speakers it is a terrible, terrible noise. and everything else sounds terrible too. i'm really embarrassed and i wish there was a way to delete my track. :( i should have listened to it out of laptop speakers before submitting because that's the way music is heard these days, pretty much.

really loving everyone else's tracks, by the way!

lol Z S, you have described exactly how I feel about what I submitted (on "Pulleys", half of the percussion tracks were somehow muted when I was generating the final MP3 and I didn't notice until the next day!)

yeah, it's such a bummer! i mean, it wasn't that good of a track anyway, but that terrible noise is actively irritating and almost painful to endure. last time i'll mention this, but ned - if you ever reupload the file, please remove my track or use someone else's in my space. sorry!

chill out bro it sounds great

wait you're freaking out over "Father Time"?????????? gtfo your track is great

i listened to it on my quality headphones and it sounds nice and creepy

actually, it IS a low pitched percussive bass tone on headphones

i had the same problem. i also forgot to do any compression, which is kinda important when working with recordings of instruments

lyrics to "mercury man"

The man is so mercurial
Around his girlfriend Muriel
He vandalizes the hotel art
He topples the room service cart

The man is so belligerent
He'll douse her with refrigerant
When she's listening to Luciano Berio
He'll destroy her thousand dollar stereo

The man is so aggressive
Paranoid and possessive
He'll break her catalytic converter
And say he never meant to hurt her

The man will go to great lengths
To fault her and downplay her strengths
A string of epithets from here to Norway
And she sits there like the mat on a doorway

Mercury mercury man
She's shaking the shit off the mat
Mercury mercury man
Turn and leave him it's over that's that
Mercury mercury man
Won't forget what begat the begat

Mercury Mercury man
She's a goner, she's a quitter
Mercury Mercury man
She says danke, there's no bitte
Mercury mercury man
Turn and leave him and that's it-ah

Thanks for saying such nice thing about my track.

I haven't been able to listen to the album yet. (Soundcloud doesn't work on this locked down computer, the way ILX links youtubes makes them not play for me, and my home internet connection is so shitty I can barely get ILX half the time, let alone any high bandwith sites blah blah complain) but I am really looking forward to hearing it based on the descriptions/reactions people have posted!

Sometimes, the first track on an ILX comp is a nice 'easy-in' to the general concept.

And sometimes, it's like "whoa" and the bar is set high.

Today, it is the latter.

Who on earth is "Mystery Meat"? this track is the business!

I haven't listened to the whole thing yet but I love KTD's first track.
Somehow it reminds me of LULU I's first track !

B-Boy Bualadh Bos clearly cheated. That is an actual Animal Collective track there, not a cover!

I call shenanigans on Square Quotes, too. You clearly have Bernard Sumner locked up in a box in your bedroom studio, and it's time for you to let him out. (Again, this is clearly awesome.)

Loving the vox/lyrics on Mercury Man.

OK, Ciderpress, this is some next-level loveliness you got going on here. I keep thinking this is on Spotify and trying to star it. What a beautiful piece!

mystery meatz is the nom nom nom de guerre of djp iirc

Ah, that makes sense.

Damn, I don't mean to be liveblogging this like it looks like now, ha ha. It's just that everything on here is so great! Just got to the end of Disc 1 and AIXTC is such a fantastic closer.

Jealous now. Maresnest's Moonjock is WAAAAAAAAYYY more ~space~ than mine ever was.

Ha ha, DJP clearly has Depeche Mode tied up in a box in his basement studio, but we knew that already.

It just doesn't seem a very nice think to do to *them* either.

your track is p awesome. some folks need to learn to be happy with they have.

This is great. I love all the tracks. Absolutely adore the first track though.

Please do not believe these recordings for a second. These will not be on the final recording and are just demos that were leaked by an engineer who has since been fired. These were unmastered and do not reflect the final contents of Centipede Hz or the true capabilities of the band.

Sync NYC 1 week ago

sorry ned...you've been fired. also, once you were the engineer for animal collective, congrats on that!

Ned Lord-Alge Raggett

Well, I wear many hats.

holy shit I was listening to the new ac single just now and it sounded so fuckin incredible and then I realized that I had that Nhk'koyxen album playing in the background

I didn't do this with the intention of fooling anyone, I can understand why people would be disappointed or annoyed if they were expecting AC and got me.

I wouldn't sweat it. This isn't like people releasing fake Boards of Canada mp3s on the sly back in the day, this is a band with two (extremely distinctive) vocalists. A band that have been playing these tunes live for ages - they're all over YouTube and other sites so unless ILX really takes it to the next level and starts shooting fake gigs, it's pretty obvious what's real and what's not.

Sure as long as someone's happy:

this is sooooooooooooo good. i <3 u avey tare and want to make you wide eyed and wide other things

beshortcuts 12 hours ago

totally shocked that WCC would fail to find the fun in making AnCo fans mad but I went ahead and deleted her track from the youtube channel at her request anyway.

will happily oblige anyone else who wishes to have theirs removed.

Youtube comments should be weighed, not read.

All the YouTube videos are gone "due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group."

RIP

i <3 u avey tare and want to make you wide eyed and wide other things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

I blame the Herman's Hermits sample.

asdfzxcv430 has posted a comment on your channel:

i want the fake wide eyed song where can i find it