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

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.

God damn. Confounded's ecstatic house piano is even more ecstatic than mine. ::jealous face::

<3 u guys

oh, it's great how ciderpress' track and mine go together well !

Panda Bear keeps getting better and better. I want to smother him in electronic butter.

beshortcuts 3 hours ago

Um, I don't like butter. Can I have white chocolate instead?

thanks WCC! your track is really impressive (as are all of these)

WCC, after hearing your amazing opener you have no idea how much your praise means, tyvm

stupid technical question; what am I doing wrong in Garageband that everything I export comes out really, really soft? I have no idea how to make my stuff LOUDER, which is frustrating

Hm, the BBBB track doesn't seem to come up when I search on youtube. Has it been pulled already (for being far too believable, obviously) or did gr8080 miss it when upping, or is search just rubbish?

I am trying to listen to the ~real~ Animal Collective now, but Spotify clearly has other ideas. :-(

omg

Fake and gay

KillRothschilds2012 10 hours ago

can I use this as a pull quote

I see no reason why not.

also emil.y, try here

stupid technical question; what am I doing wrong in Garageband that everything I export comes out really, really soft? I have no idea how to make my stuff LOUDER, which is frustrating

The most direct tool you can use to increase loudness is a limiter. Limiters work by reducing the amplitude of the largest peaks in a waveform, allowing you to then increase the gain further without clipping. The downside of this of course is that you're compressing the dynamic range.

Whoa, just started listening and I love Karen's song.

B-boy Bualadh Bos would seriously fool me.

Overall this is very impressive and I think it will end up being better than the real thing.

that high-pitched tone in Confounded's Amanita that pans completely from one side to the other each time it comes in cracks me up

B-boy Bualadh Bos would seriously fool me.

Yes, this is the one I'm most impressed by!

Who is BBBB?

ecuador_with_a_c

Ahhhh.

that high-pitched tone in Confounded's Amanita that pans completely from one side to the other each time it comes in cracks me up

i went to freesound.org and searched for "shrill" :)

God damn. Confounded's ecstatic house piano is even more ecstatic than mine. ::jealous face::

All yours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoUw97JZT7M&t=0m30s

this is staggeringly brilliant guys. I'm a little dumbfounded. If I were in AnCo right now I'd be PISSED!

(btw each mp3 has an id3 tag with 4MB excess padding, so the whole thing is about 80MB larger than it needs to be)

Ha that is probably the cover art at work, now that I think about it...

god i love the smug expression on the little dog on the left's face!

Cover is awesome. Still haven't heard this yet, i will listen tomorrow!

Hmm the sendspace link has corrupt files in it.