― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob snoom, Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
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...
― kate, Thursday, 7 November 2002 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
( ( ( ( *_* ) ) ) )http://www.tapefuzz.com/chimpspit/music.htm
― Rahul Kamath (Rahul Kamath), Thursday, 7 November 2002 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
THE EARWHIGS
― David Allen, Thursday, 7 November 2002 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 7 November 2002 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 7 November 2002 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Thursday, 7 November 2002 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 7 November 2002 22:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Douglas, Thursday, 7 November 2002 22:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Thursday, 7 November 2002 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David Allen, Friday, 8 November 2002 02:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 8 November 2002 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 8 November 2002 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― indecypherable (doorag), Friday, 8 November 2002 02:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 8 November 2002 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 8 November 2002 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 8 November 2002 02:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 8 November 2002 02:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Friday, 8 November 2002 02:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 8 November 2002 03:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio, Friday, 8 November 2002 03:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 8 November 2002 05:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― charlie va (charlie va), Friday, 8 November 2002 06:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ashley Andel, Friday, 8 November 2002 06:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
Demos soon.
― meirion john lewis (mei), Friday, 8 November 2002 08:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Friday, 8 November 2002 10:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
http://cacophonix.wh3rd.net/
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Friday, 8 November 2002 11:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Miss Laura, Friday, 8 November 2002 11:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dleone (dleone), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 8 November 2002 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 8 November 2002 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― alistair, Friday, 8 November 2002 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― charlie va (charlie va), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
"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.
― slit magnet, Friday, 8 November 2002 18:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Friday, 8 November 2002 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 November 2002 21:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway, yeah, me too.
― Nick Mirov (nick), Saturday, 9 November 2002 00:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
In some ways, yes. But, generally, no.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Saturday, 9 November 2002 01:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
Dan Perry to... oh.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 9 November 2002 01:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 9 November 2002 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 November 2002 07:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
that's lovely. I did always want to organise a gig by descension, which i always liked to see.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dog latin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 9 November 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dog latin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
Zesty.
― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Well, that didn't work. Anyway, it's here:
https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/sketches
― Soundslike, Thursday, 6 January 2022 05:12 (two years ago) link
Why did you took such a long break? you're good at it!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 6 January 2022 05:34 (two years ago) link
I like that
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 January 2022 06:13 (two years ago) link
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.
― Lee626, Thursday, 6 January 2022 07:56 (two years ago) link
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.
― Soundslike, Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
just into the first track and this sounds cool. gonna go for a walk with it, ty for sharing!
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link
Winter walks seems to be the best application of this music : )
― Soundslike, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
Really nice! Are you playing or programming those strings and woodwinds?
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
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...
― Soundslike, Saturday, 8 January 2022 03:52 (two years ago) link
Made another one. You'll have to be in the mood for music that breathes very slowly, but it might appeal if/when you're in that state:
After a twenty year pause, I've made two albums in two months. 'Sustain' is for when you need to slow all the way down. Improvised sounds, made of heartache, dread, and hope. But it's also mostly pretty.For those it reaches, may it ring true.https://t.co/7FZIqQcesO— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) February 27, 2022
― Soundslike, Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link
Will listen
― calstars, Sunday, 27 February 2022 02:50 (two years ago) link
Do not listen while operating heavy machinery
― Soundslike, Monday, 28 February 2022 22:31 (two years ago) link
hello ilx, i made an album
https://elin.bandcamp.com/album/secret-work
― maelin, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
I'm still just amazed by virtual instruments today. Me, some nobody, can improvise a piece on cello quartet and get something moving out of it:
https://www.soundcloud.com/ian-manire/sketch-19
― Soundslike, Sunday, 17 July 2022 21:51 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-iQGS2rnD0
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 July 2022 23:11 (one year ago) link
As mentioned passim I bought an old Akai sampler a few months ago, and I've been re-enacting one of my childhood dreams by recording samples into a sampler, instead of my computer, which is also a sampler:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB2_pJGO4vc
I may have said it before but I have a renewed respect for Future Sound of London. They must have spent every waking moment listening to records, sampling bits - and then adding the samples to programs, fiddling with keygroups and envelopes, then adding the programs to a multi setup. Samplers and synthesisers in the 1990s were needlessly obscure.
In that tune the drum loops come from the original Zero-G Datafile One, which is treasure trove of 1990s sounds, and the rest of it is a mixture of samples of my modular synth, samples of my Korg Volca FM, and GForce M-Tron, which is a simulation of a Mellotron.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Monday, 18 July 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
sounds great!
I've been trying to learn a bit more about modular, right now in the phase of just finding ways for different pieces of gear to play nice with each other. Came up with this piece of drifty melodic techno over the weekend that makes use of most everything I have, although I had to record each instrument in a separate pass.
https://soundcloud.com/moodlesmix/galactic-dancer
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 18 July 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
Both of those sound cool!
― DJI, Monday, 18 July 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
Made a new track with Hammond B-3, cello and harmonium--all instruments I've had a low-burning obsession with for their yearning timbre. Have to say--I'm just moving my fingers around instinctively, no conscious music-making skill. But despite that I'm actually getting sounds that are something I'd want to make even if I knew what I were doing, sounds I like as an experienced listener, which has been a beautiful experience:
https://www.soundcloud.com/ian-manire/sketch-20
― Soundslike, Sunday, 31 July 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link
Had insomnia and so decided to make hay while the moon shines. Ended up with a kosmische-adjacent piece I rather like:
https://www.soundcloud.com/ian-manire/sketch-22
Thought I was going to hold off on electronics for a while... But seemed essential for what this piece wanted to be, with Buchla synth, harmonium, clean electric guitar, cimbalom, and cello:
― Soundslike, Monday, 1 August 2022 10:10 (one year ago) link
“Music”
https://raymondcummings.bandcamp.com/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 1 August 2022 10:36 (one year ago) link
I actually rather like this new album I did, and think others might, too--which is an odd feeling.
Comprised of improvisations made with cello, Hammond B-3 organ, Buchla Easel, harmonium, harp, piano, and electric guitar. I have no preconceptions of what I'm going to make, other than picking an initial instrument for each track. I just play something that's a total surprise to myself, and then layer other things over that.
What surprised me most os this sequence of tracks has an undercurrent of... hopefullness? Not something I consciously experience very often, but feels good to hear.
It's alled 'Flying Blind':
https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/flying-blind
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2513932504_16.jpg
― Soundslike, Friday, 5 August 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
excited to check these links out
My 2017 album, maximalist post vaporwave disco inferno inspired sample collage. skip the first track lol
https://soaplibrary.bandcamp.com/album/meta-flux
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Friday, 5 August 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
I have no idea what "maximalist post vaporwave" could mean, which is intruiging, but you hooked me with Disco Inferno, so will be listening : )
― Soundslike, Friday, 5 August 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
my new old punk gig, though the band's sound is already shifting a bit from this June session
https://frankycantclimb.bandcamp.com/releases
― Jaqueline Kasabian Oasis (bendy), Friday, 5 August 2022 17:31 (one year ago) link
So I made a 2-CD set, my first ever real, glass-mastered CD. It's a dead medium, they say! You're not a real musician, they say! I'll show 'em--I fully expect this album to rocket to sales of literally tens of units!
https://www.twitter.com/musicophiliamix/status/1634616668184870913
― Soundslike, Saturday, 11 March 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
Really excited by how these turned out. I've bought 8k+ CDs by other people in my life, so somehow it just feels right to have one with my name on it.
I'd say it's minimalist, contemplative, melancholic, a little haunted:
https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/improvisations
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsQCa1NWIAw65eF?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsQCa1IWYAEii-H?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsQCa1HWIBEEGlT?format=jpg&name=large
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link
really lovely stuff! i've only started listening
― it's a new day in the international landscape (z_tbd), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 00:41 (one year ago) link
those are lovely Ian/soundslike, I'll visit bandcamp and check out.
some here are well aware that I've got a 'band' called Carta, we've released 4 or 5 albums if you count the remix release which is here: https://carta.bandcamp.com/album/the-sand-collectors-dream-remixed
Attempting to do a new album, it's been exceptionally difficult, between needing to find a new drummer (we did and she is excellent) and time to actually practice (difficult as at least three of us are dealing with extremely ill parents).
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 05:25 (one year ago) link
Did a test listen and thank god no glitches or anything--for me it was anxiety-inducing to commit things to a glass master heh.
Really digging Carta, AKM. Picked up 'An Index of Birds'--reminds me of The Sonora Pine so far, one of my favorites.
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 28 March 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
soundslike I am really enjoying your pieces. I wanted to buy the CDs but they are $6 with $26 shipping to Australia - I know the US Postal Service has jacked everything up but wow. Any reason the digital costs twice the physical? I wondered if there was a pricing error or if you want the donation amount for the CD to be entirely up to the buyer.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 03:16 (one year ago) link
Thank you for checking them out!
Yeesh, yes, US Republicans have nearly done in the US postal service. I couldn't believe the (remarkably convoluted) rate chart (here: https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c346 and here: https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/Notice123.htm#_c419).
It looks like to Australia might be more like $17.30 + a special evnelope they made me buy (sent one to Japan today and had to buy that). If will try to break down the international rates by country more specifically, so it can more accurately reflect the cost--I think I just looked at shipping to the UK, which seemed the most likely, and for some reason is more than to Australia and Japan, despite being a fraction of the distance haha. That price (around $18 US) is still absurd, I'm so sorry... There are a couple friends in Australia I'd want to send them to, maybe I should send several to one person, and tjey could then ship domestically at a more reasonable rate...
I put the digital at $12 just to make it $1 more than the CD + shipping within the US, as I'd like to actually get rid of the 300 CDs I made haha. But if you could settle for digital-only, all the albums/EP compiled on the CDs are "name your price," individually...
Sorry again for all the complication!
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 05:33 (one year ago) link
No problem at all, I actually enjoy paying for music and aside from the beauty of your design there, I feel better about digital delivery anyway. I only raised the pricing issue in case it was an error you needed to know about. Congratulations!
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 29 March 2023 06:44 (one year ago) link
Really appreciate that--was trying to make an attractive artifact, without driving myself insane thinking it had to be my one perfect graphic design statement--just wanted to keep it simple.
If all-digital works best, have at them, and no shame in paying $0--I'm not a professional musician, it's just a labor of love.
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 29 March 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
Made a new album:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5NCSmhXYAAdiwT?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5NCT3fWMAAsM6G?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/evensong
Dark, thick, slightly unsettled ambient/drone but hopefully the emotion put into it comes across.
Feel free to grab it for a name-your-price of zero
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 03:28 (eight months ago) link
I'm making a CD version of the album I released digitally a few weeks ago (previous post), with the addition of a cover of Low's "Laser Beam," and want to give it a new cover.
This is the music: https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/evensong
I've narrowed down to these two options:
Option A: conveys reverberance, unease, mystery of the music. "Cooler," more graphical
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6uTO4cW8AAqe93?format=jpg&name=large
Option B: captures organic vs inorganic, beauty in decay, slightly chaotic quality of the music. "Warmer," more abstract.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6uTQrcWsAAFFH9?format=jpg&name=large
For reference, rear cover and inside cover:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6uTiadWkAAcHkc?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F6uTZqWWIAAkqd5?format=jpg&name=large
Any thoughts?
― Soundslike, Saturday, 23 September 2023 16:45 (seven months ago) link
Yeah, Option B seems the better choice. The shift in mood between Option A and rear cover is jarring and they seem to work against each other.
― sawdust lagoon, Saturday, 23 September 2023 23:35 (seven months ago) link
Yeah, much as I like the under-the-bridge album, I think it's ultimately too clean and a gular for this music, which is more breathing and messy.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 23 September 2023 23:47 (seven months ago) link