What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

sounds really nice. i would add a heavy dilla-style beat, but you know me (actually i would love to sample this).

i do think you could add some subtle percussion, like fast clicky stuff in the background or a reverbed-out tambourine on the 4.

do the bass notes hit on the upbeat or the downbeat?

Yeah, I was thinking kind of flickery percussive noises. But that might be something to avoid if you want to not get Post-Rock/IDM crossover comparisons.

good feedback guys. i like the idea of some spidery percussion but the biggest problem is that no click track was used at all, so the timing is almost certainly all over the place - so it couldn't really be a 'beat' per se. the sensible thing to do would be to re-record it but that's kinda against the spirit of what we do..

a tambourine that follows the bass could probably work though, will give it a try. the bass is on 1 & 4 so kinda both the up and downbeats i guess?

also feel free to sample if you desire!

Lazy bad idea: drop it into Ableton and warp it

More complicated idea that will keep the natural live groove: edit it in something which allows you to visualise the wave forms so you can tell where the beat falls naturally, and drop in samples that align

jim could you send me a download link or email it to me (jordan 1 at gmail, no space before the 1)? i'll give it a shot.

we've added a couple of things, here's a more finished version

http://constantlight.bandcamp.com/track/medium

jordan i will organise a download of the earlier version & email u.. might take a day or so

lol @ burg on the page there

i am recording an ep and it will be linked here sometime

excited abt this

what a day that will be

Mighty Sandy Heath Transmitters - Mighty Sandy Riddim.

The start of a little reggae pastiche - thoughts? Any way I can extend/improve it in an interesting way?

Tune is playing on a loop in my mind right now, so it's good. Are you planning on adding vocals later?

How about adding muted guitar chords to double the keyboard?

thansk snoball - I would like to add vocals and a middle-eight for variation, but I'm struggling to think up some melody lines. The stupid horn-section is its own worst enemy in that it's all-encompassingly catchy (like you said, it sticks in my head all day).

lotsa pop tracks currently being decided how to use

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7xxnnu

playing my first solo show:

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

http://soundcloud.com/snoball/05-2489-the-downwave
http://soundcloud.com/snoball/08-when-im-cleaning-windows

p cool.. i dig the first one particularly

swag

i am recording an ep and it will be linked here sometime

excited abt this

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this is no longer happening :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eGs2E53UQg

\m/ (-_-) \m/

I don't know what that means! (Sorry I am shit at net-speak)

http://www.metalinsider.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/devil-horns-201x300.jpghttp://topnews.in/healthcare/sites/default/files/Headbanging2.jpghttp://www.metalinsider.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/devil-horns-201x300.jpg

(er, that should all be in a single row)

Haha!

solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvia7d_dZDI

my jazz band's last show for a few months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfvDq84v4N4

been doing the backing musician thing for the past year and a half but kinda missing making original stuff...so anyway, here's my first ever attempt at making beat-oriented, dance whatever type stuff....

don't really know what the fuck i'm doing figured fucking around in garageband would be a good way to start

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/01-summer-bricks

jordan your solo stuff is rad as hell!

reminds me of the chemical bros. doing who's next!

dude m@tt, this is dope

thanks man! i was just thinking that i'd love to do a minneapolis show, but i don't really have any contacts in the electronic/indie scene there (my bros are all jazz/salsa/brass band horn players).

don't really know what the fuck i'm doing figured fucking around in garageband would be a good way to start

just stumbling around w/ Audacity/GarageBand/whatever is the best

w/ --> in

dude Jordan, this is dope

haha matt, your string loop at 1:25 brings back memories of the youtube rap battle that went down between me & my girlfriend vs her brother and his girlfriend.

haha shit yeah that's the exact loop! i was just using all the corny preset loops and stuff that come with garageband, i don't even know how to use it really yet so i was just kinda winging it...it's a nice loop...also that rap is hilarious...

(and thanks HI DERE...the beginning i was trying to get a "big sky" kate bush type thing...i dunno mostly just learning i guess)

btw i thought i posted it here, but n/a did a video for the studio version of that song: http://vimeo.com/15282315

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5wXNaxAPI4

This is the first home-recording I've made in a very long time. It's a demo of a song called Fiction.

http://tinyurl.com/27ad6jw

hey elvis your band sounds awesome, do you have recordings??

hey elvis your band sounds awesome, do you have recordings??

An album and a six-song EP. There's a link to an e-version of the EP on this thread: The vaguely rolling ExDetectives thread of self-promotion (Do Not Read If You Hate Us)

New album on the way in a couple of months (need to get some $$$ to master it)

Here is a couple of tunes from my newish band, pretty much made with a couple overdubs on practice recordings. I'm going to sit down and do another mix session this week and add in the overdub we did on one tune on Sunday.

http://soundcloud.com/earlnash/sets/the-big-hustle-demos-1

did another song w/beats and loops and stuff. i feel the song title is very accurate:

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/sad-volkswagon-commercial-3am-1998

love it earlnash! man all your guitar tones are super raw and awesome...like garage punk zep

Don't remember if I ever posted the whole of the bedroom album I recorded a couple of years back... It starts off kind of shit and gets kind of better as it goes on.

http://mightysandyheathtransmitters.bandcamp.com/album/catgut-beefsteak-and-pride

Had the good fortune to work on some tracks with surm recently. We recorded about an hour's worth of stuff--his vocals with me playing along on his synth, just kind of letting out whatever came to us. Big thanks to him for letting me post one of the tracks.

sounds great. reverb on the vocals is really nice, what are you using for that?

Thanks, Jordan. We didn't use anything fancy for the reverb--just GarageBand.

Pretty happy with this track i finished a couple weeks ago, i guess its an attempt at a Kompakt type track, made with ableton (which i am just learning) and reaktor. definitely needs some work on the mix and eqs

http://soundcloud.com/user2884875/massive-insomnia2

http://www.youtube.com/user/fracturedid#p/u/0/6f1vEXNa2M4