What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

nice -- good voice on that (i'm not familiar with your work so i don't know whose voice it is, but it got me all emotional).

Andi I love the spooky space in your piece. It feels like a haunted attic.

new single up at http://www.myspace.com/mamadigdown

that really sounds very good! got my coworker singin

myspace.com/marginz

aaaah pulling the trigger!!!

sounds good!

the songs could maybe use some more development in the drums though? it makes them seem kind of static.

yeah we were at the point of pulling our hair out and just wanting to be *done* with those particular demos so programming took a back seat near the end there. i totally agree that that drums probably need to be redone from scratch on all those tunes

Margins = fantastic. I can't work out if the production is terrible or awesome, in a Russian Futurists kind of way. Any chance I could remix "Never Too Late". It gives me all kinds of ideas.

Hey, it's Lynskey

thanks so much lynskey! (although i have to ask, what elements sway you towards 'terrible'? we are always looking for ways to make our music a little less terrible.) you are absolutely welcome and encouraged to remix it; what would you need to do so? the multitrack, or just an mp3? i think you can download an mp3 from the myspace; if not, or that's not what you need, just send a message on our site. thanks again!

EQ is boxy, the attributes of any reverb used seem to be pretty random, separation is woeful, vocals sound like the singer is trying to hide under a table in case anyone notices who he is, the dynamics suck, the distorted guitar sound has about as much prescence as an anemic ghost, that keyboard bass sound needs throwing down the nearest volcano, where's your snares at? . . . .

HOWEVER there's several serendipitous moments where it just seems to work really well, which is probably down to the strength of the ideas present more than anything. If you could send me the bits (and please send the vocals without verb) that'd be awesome. My emails in my profile.

Do you still have a myspace page or something Lynskey? I really dug the stuff you put up here a while back.

I had a Myspace but there's something so inspidly sinster, useless and naff about the whole thing that I got rid of it. Plus some theiving hippy (cunt still has my speaker stand) was plastering it with flyers for his godforsaken acoustic night.

New Year's show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PESn_gvHHyY

Took for ever, but we finally finished our last cd.

http://www.thecontestantsmusic.com/mp3s/08%20Cosmonaut.mp3

last as in "we won't be making any more"?

Oh we'll make more, but the Pro Tools learning curve slowed us up quite a bit. You know how it goes.

Lynskey, where can I hear your music now?

A short instrumental demo I just laid down. Kind of David Axelrodish:

http://download.yousendit.com/13E5C511243FCA32

http://www.zshare.net/audio/71761126891caa/

i hope that works

Sounds good, Hurting. The reverbed-out cymbals are awesome.

thx. I was pretty surprised at how decent I could get the Garage Band synths to sound, especially the drums.

I wound up changing the mix a bit - I think the repeated piano pattern gets a little harsh so I pulled it down a little. I may turn it into a multi-part proggy suite I think. It's my first effort toward that RPM challenge thing.

Are the drums live or Garage Band?

i really just love GarageBand, and it surprises me

Drums are GarageBand, inputted with a keyboard (as in piano keyboard) interface

everything is garage band

everything.

Oh, I see, it was only the dynamics that made me think they might be live.

Dan I, Hurting - I've put a load of stuff up on my ftp here -

http://www.bilblio.nildram.co.uk/PORL/Lynskey/

I'd put the whole lot up if I had the room but I dunnae

Surmounter--that's a cool sound! Did you sample the voice or the strings or is everything from scratch?

it's really just from scratch! scratch being anything and everything u can futz with in GarageBand :-)

surmounter, that's pretty awesome, must say.

So wait, did you record your own voice and mess with it?

kinda sounds like burial ramzi

surmounter, that sounds hella indian on the singing front, and dope all around

http://www.myspace.com/ohthisisathing

got baby's first ambient techno (c'lapse) and my kirby's adventure sampling shit (grape garden) up and running now

thanks guys! yeah i recorded my voice and messed with it. and i totally felt the indian thing while recording!

Great to see you are still around, Lynskey!

lynskey, !!! @ 'shoot' cover and amazd at 'god and patience wait'. you shd rly be hella bankin with these

http://www.zshare.net/audio/74556161f916e0/

I recorded a cover of Engine by Neutral Milk Hotel today.

mostly finished mix of one of the songs that will be on our album. we're still in the mixing process, which is the part i hate the most. basic guitar/bass tracks were recorded live w/ 2 drummers, vocals/gtr overdubs added later

http://download.yousendit.com/2C5F71C64A620F50

http://download.yousendit.com/D10BC5D62A570919

i sampled jorge ben's "umbabarauma" for a beat

^^sounds pretty cool once all the drum parts come in

Sounds like a great recording, 6335. I wouldn't stress too much over the mixing. You've got good tracks, that's the most important thing.

And that was cool, m bison. I like the stereo hi-hats.

My first (and so far only song):

http://www.myspace.com/stepdaughtersca

Heavy Pet Shop Boys/New Order influence.

Advice/criticism would be appreciated (pls don't be to harsh though, this was done entirely on midi with not very good quality sounds; I'm just starting).

My next song will sound even more Pet Shop Boys.

get rid of those claps or replace with tight synth sound! otherwise the song writing is good!

OK thanks, that makes sense.

i will listen when i get home! and i will be honest.

WHERE ARE MY "MARGINS"???????

i'm really into this song, david. it definitely sounds like it's influenced by New Order.

the synth/bass is completely great. the strings(?) feel right but could do with a little bit of variation. maybe u could blend them with a nice background synth in parts?

the percussion is fine, especially when you play with it, but the drums sound canned. but this might just be myspace sound.

the melody is really nice, and i like the epic feel of it, like it's taking its time until it gets to the chorus. but the vox should be clearer, and they should cut through the mix more. maybe with a phaser at times to vary up their position in the sound. i'd also just like to understand what you're singing better.

also, you could do with a little more oomph on the "i'm gonna be a star" line cuz it is one that can sound tired. i mean, i LIKE it, but at that point in the song, it feels like you could have a little more impact. i do think, though, that this could be achieved through singing the lyric a bit differently, if you're not up for altering the actual words.