who here actually makes music?

There's my band Green Theory, which has been called "an incredible, unique funk/rock/rap/metal" band, for which I do vocals. We can be heard at www.greentheory.net or www.garageband.com/artist/greentheory or www.mp3.com/green_theory among other places.

There's also my solo 4-track creations which are housed at http://nickaliscious.iuma.com which are pretty uncategorizable...a goofy-ass guitar-jangley coffee-wired pop-song here, a stonerly reverb-drenched bossa nova-with-spoken word piece there, a couple tweaked-out instrumentals, a rawnchy hip-hop song in 5/4, it's all good.

Is ironic that right on the eve of our greatest success is the time that I am seriously considering letting it all go and walking away. And not due to bad reviews, thank you... just general personal problems etc.

We've learned the hard way not to self promote on ILM. If anyone tries, they get the slapdown of piss-taking. Or maybe that's just me...

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http://www.tapefuzz.com/chimpspit/music.htm

THE EARWHIGS

I use these kinds of statistics to my own advantage. About once a week, I sit down and write, in a couple of hours, at least six and up to fifteen songs. Most of these are shit. How it usually works is that the first one is good (because I've been storing the inspiration for a week), and the last one is good (it's always the last one, because once I've realised I've written another good one I can't be bothered hacking away any more, preferring to do more work on the good one). The rest are usually rubbish, although sometimes salvageable in different forms. I think the 90/3 good to bad ratio that you have isn't uncommon. The trick is, as you say, to write so much that it's statistically impossible for you not to come up with a classic.

Demos soon.

http://cacophonix.wh3rd.net/

maybe a couple of dozen i would like to record. mostly quite different.

as to whether i ever record anything, i cant really afford a 4-track recorder and forming a band is proving to be extremely difficult, so those ideas are gonna sound very bare if its just voice and guitar. not what i imagine them to be.

i think the best thing to do is get out doing shows if you want the chance to get those songs sounding how you want them to sound. practice makes perfect, and money helps.

not that i'll ever do that. too scary.

but hey, i'm only 18, there's time yet.

"yctc011 - sean-fuck tape : **coming soon** solo electronic punk no fi action? glitch-core too and a helen love remix. its a heck of a responsibilty to take on"

END SELF-PROMOTION

www.youthclubtapeclub.com or email me, it's crap but cheap.

that's lovely. I did always want to organise a gig by descension, which i always liked to see.

Zesty.

I have no proof of this whatsoever, so you have to take my word for it.

one year later and it's still being born. goddamn

We have done some fun recordings and are currently struggling to try and afford to release our new ep.
But its all fun!

I have tons of ancient 4-track ridiculosity still stored here, but the newest recording on that site is possibly 3 years old now.

I'm recording on a digital 4-track nowadays and hope to have summa dat stuff ready to ear-peep before the month is over. Like anybody cares ha ha.

(you can ignore the Humectant Interruption track on that page since it's not us, tho perhaps you _should_ listen to it anyway).

Russ

Still have not posted any although I have burned a few cds for friends.

The icefrosted realms of letchworth are killing the false!

Niroth will fucking kill you with necro BM
Autofire will make you skin up with demented beats`o`war

and theres some others too, but they havent bought us enough beer yet.

hehe
Go to www.niroth.da.ru, you bastards!

I laso quiver gingerly on stage playing a tambourine and wearing a large bulb on my head for this band:-

http://www.freedunit.co.uk/

but I guess that doesn't count really.

Nothing is online because I don't have a good way of transferring audio into my old, ancient, USB-deficient, 5-gig computer.

I play in a band with my roommate and our friend who lives downstairs. We aren't very good, but we sure are loud and noisy.

Reviving this ancient ILM thread to share ancient music of mine I've revived via Bandcamp, for the purpose of donating to good causes:

'The Irish Sea' is an album of improvisational music I made 20 years ago:https://t.co/wVEKsx9RYt

All sales donated (and I'll double them in full) to community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers here: https://t.co/PmLe0JwWJg pic.twitter.com/yql2K42LuQ

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) October 21, 2020

Stream here:https://t.co/wVEKsx9RYt

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) October 26, 2020

I'm doubling all purchases (before Bandcamp takes their 15% cut) and donating here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd. As of 10/27, that'll be $226 so far.

It's gorgeous! Will definitely be grabbing that this evening.

Thank you, Evan!

It's funny, I made this music so long ago--literally half my life ago--and haven't made music since, such that it's not even really like I made it. Weirdly, has allowed me to like it, now; whereas I was almost embarrassed that it's what came out of me instead of some cool Brian Eno-esque thing, when I was 20.

Made my first new music in 20 years. Have to be in the mood for something quiet, melancholy and very simple--but I like it, to my surprise.

https://www.twitter.com/musicophiliamix/status/1478134648312115206

Well, that didn't work. Anyway, it's here:

https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/sketches

Why did you took such a long break? you're good at it!

I like that

I used to, but my singing voice has deteriorated to the point I either have to write songs that don't wander out of the low register or have someone else sing them (it feels strange to me having someone else sing and interpret lyrics I've written about my own situations if you're not used to it). Also, I'm not even close to up to date on recording gear and/or it's too expensive or too difficult to learn.

Thanks, Moka and Blues!

Don't know why I didn't keep going. I know so many very talented real musicians, guess I felt a bit silly doing my skill-free thing? And then 20 years of life happened? But lately I was just feeling the pull, to play as almost a meditation. So far, it's really providing that.

just into the first track and this sounds cool. gonna go for a walk with it, ty for sharing!

Winter walks seems to be the best application of this music : )

Really nice! Are you playing or programming those strings and woodwinds?

Thank you!

It's all VSTs played via keyboard (Arturia Keylab 88 MkII. All improvised, in one to four passes. The strings and woodwinds mostly are Spitfire's 'British Drama Toolkit' instrument. I was so clueless, three weeks ago I didn't know there was this huge world of great-sounding sampled instruments...