What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

to be honest I think I was trying to completely rip off of Yo La Tengo's "Spec Bebop"

Found a new home for rap beat depository:

http://www.myspace.com/chubsmckenzie

One of the songs uses cowbells pitched down to sound like steel drums (probably the only drum sounds I've actually recorded myself).

Hey, I made a new track - "These Once Were Men". I'm gonna add maybe some better drums and a few more lead vocals, but I'm pleased with how it is so far.

http://www.myspace.com/mightysandyheathtransmitters

My band is going in the studio in two weeks! Been waiting for this for, like, five years.

Which band?

Is the 0ptimistic still a going concern?

Digd0wn.

0ptimistic has not been very active at all but is still technically a thing. They played a show a few weeks ago but I had a gig with another band and couldn't do it.

http://www.vietgrove.com/sonix/panthea-01.mp3

The drums (cough) "need work". Like, a lot of work.

The other night I got a bunch of people round and had a drunken jam - people hitting pots and pans, me on guitar, flatmate on bass and a particularly good drummer friend of ours. Made a track totally on the spot, drunk out of our minds. Great fun really. It's up now as "Belligernet Cnt Jam 1" at The Mighty Sandy Heath Transmitters site. Have a listen, it's drunk and a good laugh.

That was excellent!

haha, cheers. Seriously?!

I like the distortion.

haha, cheers. Seriously?!

Yeah I'm serious. I can't hear what the singer is singing though, apart from one word which happens to be "motherf***er"! The distortion is at just the right level.

That was me singing. I was more or less yelping syllables over whatever it was we were making up. It was all recorded on the internal mic of an MP3 player, but it was pretty much as distorted as it sounds on the recording.

The bit with the "all right you motherfuckers" is an "introducing the band" bit, except I asn't actually saying anything other than "we've got duh on duh, duh over there on muuuh and me on mUUAAHH!"

Listening to Andi Mags now - nice stuff!

-- the next grozart, Sunday, August 12, 2007 1:14 PM (2 months ago)

This is such a great thread. I get to hear so much great music from you music-making types! As a special shout out though: Andi Mags, you are a genius.

-- I know, right?, Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:42 PM (2 months ago)

I hadn't checked this thread for awhile. Thank you. Whoa. I'm working on some new stuff lately, so I will post more here when it's up.

We have done another drunk jam, and now it has its own site. http://www.myspace.com/belligerentaunts

All drunk/drinking improv jams

I have also done a Tiny Tim-esque solo cover of I Remember You by Frank Ifield. Forgot to take out the click track or even master it properly, but I think it adds to the jokesness http://www.myspace.com/mightysandyheathtransmitters

Audacity click track! One day someone's going to make a song where that's the only percussion, although it'll probably just sound like "Da Da Da".

Also, what MP3 player are you using? Just wondering as when I try doing field recordings on mine it sounds like garbage.

Creative Zen Vision M. I've only been using it for the Belligerent Aunt jams though. The Mighties is all recorded on computer using Audacity or Acid Pro and a Shure SM-58 for the vocals. I tend to record guitar straight into the soundcard as when I use an amp it gives off a ridiculous amount of hiss and buzz.

just finished a new song! it's really simple but i like it, you can listen here if you want: http://www.myspace.com/clonefeed. the song's called "Jellyfish"

This shouldn't count for "what do you sound like" but it's amusing so I'll post it here. As part of an exhibit on art and rock & roll at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, my band "rehearsed" in one of the artworks on Saturday. The artwork is a replication of the artist's old rehearsal space. It's supposed to be silent, with the instruments running directly into a mixer and electronic drums, and people can listen to the mix through headphones, but as you will hear, the vocals are obviously not silent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySMKfHEpRh4

what do you not sound like on nu-ILX

I need to sit down and plow through this thread's links sometime. I just opened up latebloomer's "Jellyfish" just to get started and it's great! Love the energy level on all the Clonefeed tracks really. Are vocals in the future? These feel wonderfully like karaoke tracks from my next favorite band.

The Chubs McKenzie beats are nice too. Somehow I keep wanting them to be LODUER, which you'd think would be solved by me turning up the volume but somehow it isn't. Maybe I'm just craving more of the everything-besides-the-drums part of the sound, dunno.

"Baby When I Found Out" is cool. No guess at all on the sample but it sounds weirdly familiar in a good way.

negotiable, if you're out there, I'm very curious about your Acid mixy project as it sounds a lot like mine! The mainline Doctor Casino recording project is a little bit on the back burner right now, but: http://www.myspace.com/djaktorcosimo , I have been doing little mega-mashups in the Girl Talk tradition as a sort of diversion this school year...I somehow can't focus enough to work on my own songs so this is kind of fun in the meantime. Link from there to the Doctor Casino stuff if you're interested in my keyboard folk too.

Sample list o' samples (from "Hours & Hours")

Generation X, “Ready Steady Go” - Helium, “Lady Of The Fire” - Hall & Oates, “Portable Radio” - Pras, “Ghetto Supastar” - Fats Domino, “I’m Gonna Be A Wheel Some Day” - Jerry Reed (???), “When You Hot, You Hot” -
Paul McCartney, “Temporary Secretary” - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, “Rag Doll” - Love Tractor, “I Broke My Saw” - Mark Morrison, “Return of the Mack” - De La Soul, “All Good” - Notorious BIG, “Mo Money Mo Problems” - Men At Work, “It’s A Mistake” - Percy Thrillington, “Monkberry Moon Delight” - Britney Spears, “Slave 4 U” - George Clinton, “Atomic Dog”

It's fun!

er...that should be "LOUDER" up there, although LODUER sort of sums it up too.

Hey hey I play bass in another band and we've just got the masters back from our album. You can hear three tracks at the website, or at the myspace.

You guys want to hear a rough mix from our last recording session y/n

Y

HI DERE this is my band

Few older things on MySpace, and more coming:

www.myspace.com/promqueenUSA

The friendlier you are, the less strange my profile looks.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vixnz7

I spent an eternity trying to get all the notes just right, but I will be using this from Kirby's Adventure in a song for my NaSoAlMo project. (This is the stage music from the Grape Garden level).

ps - nabisco's music is otm

http://www.sendspace.com/file/b087vf

Okay this is an actual song using said Kirby music, and is the first song on said NaSoAlMo album.

Yes, I recorded this for the Sufjan contest:

http://media.stevegoldbergmusic.com/Steve%20Goldberg%20and%20the%20Arch%20Enemies%20-%20Christmas%20Time%20for%20Girls%20and%20Boys.mp3

it's very earnest

(real strings or synth?)

Yeah, I didn't want to make it jokey. The strings are real.

My band pretending to play on famed public-access tv show Chic-a-g0-g0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTbC4m-7j2s. (Sound isn't that great, sorry)

OMG, n/a, that video is amazing. It makes me a little worried, but WOW that is fun.

I put up a new song (HAH song is pushing it, it's a minute and a half long). So, by tomorrow, when myspace finally processes it, it can be heard at www.myspace..com/andimags

Us last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQmlT2f0e5U

excerpts of five pieces edited together for a folio/showreel type deal as part of an application for a uni course:

http://download.yousendit.com/7732C2E4651FACC7

Thoughts/feedback appreciated.

Hey go HERE if for some reason you want to hear a couple of my Christmas songs.

I like the video: n/a. Weren't you the one talking a while back about how your band had no stage presence? B/C you do seem to have it now.

I'm not sure what that colon was for though.

S-, what course is it you're applying for?

Weren't you the one talking a while back about how your band had no stage presence?

i don't think this was me

snoball, Sound Art. It's like painting... but for sound!

And I got it!

I am in a rock band. We have been playing shows for a year and a half or so. Sometimes people see us and say that we sound good but that we need more "stage presence." I guess they mean we should move around more and be more exciting. But we worry about THINKING too much about what we are doing on stage, that it will come across as too fakey and thought-out.
So how do you approach "stage presence"? Can you develop it?

-- n/a (Nick A.), Monday, October 3, 2005 9:30 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

Stage presence = drinking

oh that was back in the day. we have more stage presence (drinking) now.