What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

the first fruits of a collaboration between frequent thread poster S- and my good (ha!) self

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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

http://dickdestiny.com/blog1/2010/02/09/funky-rock-n-roll-needle-and-spoon/

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

http://www.myspace.com/herecomethetransients

They're rough as hell rehearsal tracks, but all we have right now.

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 Pencil"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/yodnkp

"Let Go"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/j91h2d

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).

my latest jam, kind of a departure from what i usually do

http://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/rotting-in-the-san-antonio-sun

i like it!

yeah thats fuckin dope man

good drumming, jordan

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.

http://www.myspace.com/clonefeed

new-ish song called "sawbone"

I just had to get a bandcamp page. Very lovely.

http://danielfridholm.bandcamp.com/

sounds really good

yeah, into it

playing drums for a friend's band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_4MPTohKLw

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

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.

Bohemian Rhapsody sounds badass. Do the rest!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"Burning Giraffe"
http://www.sendspace.com/file/8z76fu

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

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.

My Soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/blueweatherghosts

(my track for the ILX Wire covers comp is there too)

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Thanks owenf. I agree with snoball, I think the chorus comes in a little late. Besides that it's excellent.

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

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The link you posted yesterday still works.

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.

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.

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)

http://soundcloud.com/danielfridholm/wait

any better?

also thanks so much for the advice, I'm wa

whoops,

wa......y more happy with the results

Sorry didn't see this until just now. Much better with extra guitar.

live drone + guitar ambience excerpt: http://soundcloud.com/blueweatherghosts/tonystock-fragment

Really want to do something with this, but don't know what to do yet: http://soundcloud.com/blueweatherghosts/unknown-2009-track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU59OfgIeoE

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

^ 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.