the first fruits of a collaboration between frequent thread poster S- and my good (ha!) self
VI
― mintox plus oral (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
lately I've been producing and beat making for various local rappers...this one is particularly whacky - the MC is Sargon and this is his diatribe about Gary Puckett (& the Union Gap):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/d0wftt
― Space Is The Place, Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/02/09/funky-rock-n-roll-needle-and-spoon/
― Gorge, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
New album drops tomorrow.
Have a track to download for free! Bass programming by electricsound.
http://www.last.fm/music/Spitfire+Parade/Death+On+The+Eastern/Seconds
― Slacker Bilk (S-), Friday, 26 February 2010 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/herecomethetransients
They're rough as hell rehearsal tracks, but all we have right now.
― Dr.C, Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Live in Sydney in January:
http://automating.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-sedition-16-january-2010
Video of a small part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi-vbs3mnJo
(warning pretty much all arse shots)
― The Girl With The Southern Cross Tattoo (S-), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Pencil"http://www.sendspace.com/file/yodnkp
"Let Go"http://www.sendspace.com/file/j91h2d
― black jeans stained by (snoball), Friday, 26 March 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, i played on this singer/violinist's record, the first track is up here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ida-Jo/176029030736?ref=ts
it's by far the best recorded drum sound i've ever gotten, thanks to the gear/expertise at sm@rt studios (which unfortunately is closing in like a week).
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Monday, 5 April 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
my latest jam, kind of a departure from what i usually do
http://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/rotting-in-the-san-antonio-sun
― i'm 84 cars seesawing with demi moore (m bison), Monday, 5 April 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i like it!
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah thats fuckin dope man
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
good drumming, jordan
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks! the best part is that i got the drum tracks from the session, so i can sample myself and use those good sounds for my record.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 April 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/clonefeed
new-ish song called "sawbone"
― fuckin' rainbows! (latebloomer), Friday, 9 April 2010 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I just had to get a bandcamp page. Very lovely.
http://danielfridholm.bandcamp.com/
― owenf, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 06:55 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds really good
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, into it
― stunting how my father did before me (m bison), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
playing drums for a friend's band:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_4MPTohKLw
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiGXfgGsPwY
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
This is a not very well produced old track I did of me doing the opening to Bohemian Rhapsody (all my voices)....
http://www.angelfire.com/band2/slayerrobfl/
The other two tracks are a pisstake of Witchcraft, a doowop song I wrote called "I Hate You, Bitch"....and played guitar and did backing vocals on. all very rough, keep in mind.
― Bogart Puff 'n Stuff (Cattle Grind), Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Bohemian Rhapsody sounds badass. Do the rest!
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
lol thanks. part of the reason I didn't go further is that I'm a baritone and can't really sing Mercury's solo part. I also have switched computers and need a new (re: PIRATED) version of CoolEditPro.
― Bogart Puff 'n Stuff (Cattle Grind), Sunday, 25 April 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
You might want to try REAPER - one of the included plug-ins is a pitch shifter that can be accurately set for cents/semitones/octaves.
― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Sunday, 25 April 2010 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for the tip. I got pretty good at pitchshifting on CoolEdit actually but I always sounded like a chipmunk. what I usually did was lower the backing music a few steps instead, sing over it in a range I can do, then undo the key lowering of the backing music and pitchshift the vocal up a few.
I made a really weird cover of "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Sergio Mendes that way....which I don't have anymore.
― Bogart Puff 'n Stuff (Cattle Grind), Sunday, 25 April 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I recently did a piece for my electronic music class based on W. S. Burroughs' cut-up-technique (actually not his original idea but he's who tuned me in to it). I recorded a piano track to 1/4 in. tape and cut it to pieces and reassembled it.
Hope you enjoy it:
Cut Up Technique
― Captain Ahab, Monday, 26 April 2010 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
That's really good. I like the reverse bits - I guess that doing cut-up in a DAW wouldn't sound the same unless sections were randomly reversed.
― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Monday, 26 April 2010 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"Burning Giraffe"http://www.sendspace.com/file/8z76fu
― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Monday, 26 April 2010 09:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I was fucking around in Reason and accidentally figured out how to modify the filters on parts I'd already recorded so I recorded most of the instrumental for this song as a test. Then I decided it sounded a little too uh Fatboy Slim-esque so I laid down some psychedelic harmony vocals and a little guitar part. Now it's kind of busy and disjointed but I like it:
Static on the Line
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 26 April 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Awesome. I did a Burroughs style project in my degree. Was there a music or musicology book that features his cut up stuff in relation to music? Seem to remember an excellent book with this and can't for the life of me remember the name of it.
― owenf, Monday, 26 April 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
My Soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/blueweatherghosts
(my track for the ILX Wire covers comp is there too)
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 26 April 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I wrote a paper on the use of the tape machine as an artist tool in the fities/sixties a couple of years ago, was great to research. Been using a couple of reel to reel machines myself for a while, such a rewarding medium to work with.
― circle git (S-), Tuesday, 27 April 2010 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks guys.
snoball- I've sort of tried to do cut up on Cool Edit, but it really is not the same at all. While visual editing with the waveform mapped out on screen is great and all, doing it with tape and having to edit with my ears was much more challenging and satisfying. I did so many edits that my razor was blunted.
Owen- I haven't heard of such a book but I would love to read it if you can remember what it's called.
S- This was my first hands on experience with reel to reel and I seriously wish I owned my own machine. I think I could do an entire album based on the cut up technique. You're right, it is an incredibly rewarding medium because if you fuck up, the flaw is physical and by nature the tape requires minute attention to detail.
― Captain Ahab, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
So I've been fucking around with importing non-audio files as raw data and out popped this. I really like it but I can't really take credit for it since I just like 3 things.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?td12rcjhwkw
― Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm Ann Reinking! (Stevie D), Thursday, 29 April 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.zshare.net/audio/755014793185187b/
essentially a 25-minute collage of some of the trippy space drone sounds I've made in matlab, spear, and max/msp over the past year and a half
― Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autoban (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 29 April 2010 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
1 min clip of what will hopefully become my first song on Garageband. Big 80s "Phil Collins" drums + New Order synths:http://soundcloud.com/stepdaughters/ffs?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fstepdaughters%2Fffs
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Saturday, 22 May 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
that track sounds amazing, exactly what I love.
I just finished the first track from my new album and am judging whether it's too OTT
http://soundcloud.com/danielfridholm/smoke-you
― owenf, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
That sounds really good. The OTT-ness fits the track, it's not excessive at all. I think that the string sound from the intro could be used a bit more. There's a long section between the verse and the chorus that could be cut down to a 4 bar build using those strings. Also the chorus could be repeated again at the end, with all the instruments.
― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks owenf. I agree with snoball, I think the chorus comes in a little late. Besides that it's excellent.
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Thursday, 3 June 2010 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Thank for the kind words guys. Think I might do some cutting of tracks. The whole idea is to make a really pop/vaguely commercially viable album so I suppose keeping track lengths down is a must.
Finished another one today
http://soundcloud.com/danielfridholm/wait
― owenf, Thursday, 3 June 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a problem with that new link:
Oops, looks like we can't find that page! * Did you try to access a private track, but were not logged in? Log In or Sign Up * Maybe the track or user has been removed
The link you posted yesterday still works.
― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Thursday, 3 June 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
try that link again, I had to take it down, boost a little volume and then put it up again. That link ought to work now.
― owenf, Thursday, 3 June 2010 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Link works now. I like that song. But when the guitar came in and then cut off again I was like "FUCK YEAH! er... hang on?", because it really sets up an air guitar moment that then doesn't come. So either more guitar or lose the guitar entirely.
― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Thursday, 3 June 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like everyone had the same views on the guitar front, I'm not making this kind of music for subtleties so I added a load more guitars including a solo (lol)
any better?
also thanks so much for the advice, I'm wa
― owenf, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
whoops,
wa......y more happy with the results
― owenf, Friday, 4 June 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry didn't see this until just now. Much better with extra guitar.
― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Sunday, 6 June 2010 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
live drone + guitar ambience excerpt: http://soundcloud.com/blueweatherghosts/tonystock-fragment
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 7 June 2010 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Really want to do something with this, but don't know what to do yet: http://soundcloud.com/blueweatherghosts/unknown-2009-track
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 7 June 2010 09:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU59OfgIeoE
― Dr.C, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I have ANOTHER new one up due to a record company man telling me to write a load of pop songs. This is my attempt at something vaguely Ke$ha or something. Not too sure about the autotune thing. Happily selling out though!
http://soundcloud.com/danielfridholm/limez-demo-mp3
― owenf, Monday, 14 June 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
^ Excellent! I think the autotune works and I love the synths in the chorus. There's something that bothers me a little about the contrast between the "Sometimes" and the rest (the autotuned part) of the verse. Either one is too loud or the other one not loud enough.
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Monday, 14 June 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link