The lovely ILX COMPILATIONS and what they all are..

the disco inferno one never happened, I don't think?

I imagine 'cuz the vast majority of even ILXors have never heard them

a fair number of people volunteered to do tracks but then some (including me) dropped out and no one ever really worked to keep it going

Download links on the Wire covers thread are all dead, but the album can be downloaded a track at a time from here: http://official.fm/playlists/33504

I did have ILXVols 1 to 3 and the u2 one hosted, but all my site content strangely disappeared one day and I didn't notice for 3 months.

Yeah the Disco Inferno one is temporarily on hold...but this year should change that, I suspect.

There is a new compilation to announce if you don't follow ILM much!

ILX Pre-Covers LULU I

1. Brandenburg Gate -- tylerw
2. The View -- Gypsy Chips
3. Pumping Blood -- Pleasant Plains
4. Mistress Dread -- Ars Lulrich
5. Iced Honey -- charlie h
6. Cheat On Me -- Matthew Mathieu
7. Frustration -- Blue Weather Ghosts
8. Little Dog -- Matt H3lg3son & Chris B3singer feat. Dottie
9. Dragon -- HI DERE
10. Junior Dad -- Virgin Killer

Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?90z3w0ic284sw9i

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/ilxprecoverslului/sets/ilx-pre-covers-lulu-i

ILX Pre-Covers LULU II

1. Brandenburg Gate -- Le Bateau Ivre
2. The View -- Theoretically Lou Reed and Metallica
3. Pumping Blood -- n/a
4. Mistress Dread -- Fügügüffü
5. Iced Honey -- da croupier
6. Cheat On Me -- AlXTC
7. Frustration -- snoball
8. Little Dog -- Confounded
9. Dragon -- Therapist Sweater/J3ff T.
10. Junior Dad -- Sean Carruthers

Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?mtn5dp56w5cht7d

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/ilxprecoversluluii/sets/ilx-pre-covers-lulu-ii

How this all came about:

Lou Reed/Metallica Collabo Anticipation Thread

ILX pre-covers LULU -- the Lou Reed/Metallica album

And we have a sort-of official thread now:

ILX Pre-Covers LULU I and II -- When The Realms of Loutallica's Reality Were Breached

ilx comp v. five - this is not the music of l. ron hubbard, music maker (available to download)

"Now That's What I Call ILX" (comp # whatever: we cover/mutilate/remix the POP HITS of the day)

Annnnnd announcing a new compilation:

ILX Christmas Compilation: Deck the Halls With Boughs of LOLly

Didn't realise we'd never finished the DI one. I suspect everyone went "oh god how can I possibly cover these songs" and gave up lol.

One of these days I'll get over my lack of confidence and DO a track.

I'm thinking about reviving the DI one in the new year...

Cool. I still wouldnt mind doing "fallen down the wire" (well, if I can ever work out the words, ha)

The newest!

Written More as a Rock Band in a Room: ILX Pre-Covers Animal Collective's Centipede Hz

Is it really 10 years since volume 1? Wow...

Good to see the comps are still going :)

Searching for 'IMM Song Challenge' brings up a few threads for the occasional I Make Music song challenge series.

Throwing Shadows and Avoiding the Industry Treadmill: ILX Pre-Covers The Next Day

Even Newer...

kinda sad that so few of these are streaming. even some of the ones that used to be streaming aren't streaming anymore.

right, which ones do we recall, that aren't listed here/above?

ILX Christmas Compilation: Deck the Halls With Boughs of LOLly (Christmas 2012 edition)

ILX Pre-Covers NIN's Hesitation Marks (2013)

Did not know this existed: A download page for ILX vol 2 : http://cdtrrracks.com/Various/ILX%20Comp.%20Volume%202/

Download & Listen to COMP TOGETHER - ILX Covers The Beatles (Available Now!) (2012)

did you actually download it? seems fake
xpost

It does, doesn't it? I know my track is not 6 mins plus long..

Working toward that box set? Think you gottem all?

ILX Comp (Do Not Listen If You Hate Us) (2002)
the ILX compilation vol 2 (2004)
ILX Has a Bucket!!! (ILX Compilation Vol 3) (2007)
No ILX on the horizon (2009)
12SBU - ILX Wire Covers Compilation 2010 (2010)
ILX Compilation v4: Tiny Music (2010)
ILX Pre-Covers LULU I (2011)
ILX Pre-Covers LULU II (2011)
ILX Compilation v5: This is not the music of l. ron hubbard, music maker (2011)
Now That's What I Call ILX (2011)
ILX Christmas Compilation: Deck the Halls With Boughs of LOLly (2011), (2012), (2013)
COMP TOGETHER - ILX Covers The Beatles (2012)
ILX Pre-Covers Animal Collective's Centipede Hz (2013)
ILX Pre-Covers The Next Day (2013)
ILX Pre-Covers NIN's Hesitation Marks (2013)
ILX precovers "SYRO" by Aphex Twin (2014)

Think that's all of them, there are a few that got mooted but not completed (or started, even)

That's, Of Course, If You Should Remotely Care -- ILX Pre-Covers World Peace Is None Of Your Business

Thank you, yes.

Someone has been hard at work!

https://www.discogs.com/label/1056692-ILX-Compilations

One Missing:

ILX Compilation v6: FREESTYLER - rock your microphone

Noted. (I am said someone.) That said there should be updates/improvements to them, per the comments left on many of them.

(xp) That was a good one too.

I only remember this because Jordan S pointed it out way back then, but our tracks on ILX Comp Volume 2 were switched around/mislabeled (his is 5:14 long, mine is 4:25).

I thought I recognised the lil' pic there.

It's funny, once in a while I put my name (or people I know) in certain websites (you know, you have as well). I wondered if someone with the same name as me had nicked in ahead and taken the "no-number" version.

For a second, I thought someone had. Then I clicked on the link, and found it was me!

Thanks! (rlly)

This is just reminding me of my sporadic IA about the fact that my discogs page is incomplete and I can't edit it. Bah. (But on the topic at hand, good work Ned.)

I never saw the cover for the ILX Next Day comp and EL - OH - EL, for reals.

So without joining some illegal piracy ring how do I get zips of all these sent to me so I can teach my kid what REAL MUSIC is?

Oh right I have Ned's email

Plus, Soundcloud.

nice work !
ILX has quite a back catalogue now !
I had totally forgotten some of my contributions.
Also, time flies...

wow

I kind of wish we had a Bandcamp page for all of this, not necessarily to sell but to give a streaming location

yes and so i could delete the syro covers off of my soundcloud

i forgot that the lulu precovers comp had the added challenge that we also had to match the track times of the actual album, brilliant

I kind of wish we had a Bandcamp page for all of this, not necessarily to sell but to give a streaming location

or spotify (but I suppose they only have things that are on a label) !

i forgot that the lulu precovers comp had the added challenge that we also had to match the track times of the actual album, brilliant

yeah, I think that was the funniest to do due to that constraint (and the crazy length of most of the original tracks) !

The Lulu project is easily my favorite of them all, not that there weren't other great ones. But that was a perfect moment and a half.

yeah, I think that was the funniest to do due to that constraint (and the crazy length of most of the original tracks) !

haha yeah; this is why my contribution to that is effectively two separate songs welded together that is a strong ripoff in build and structure of "Insomnia" by Faithless

I did my Bowie one to that constraint, even though I know most people didn't.

My faves are Lulu and the Sciento_Ogy one. A classic year for ilx comps.

For overall quality, I still think Vol3 "has a bucket" is a good starting place, but Lulu is .

Oh lol, I totally forgot about ENGLANDE.

There should be an (online) ILX festival with all these : ILXapalooza !

There was one, it was linked to Vol 3.

And now, I can locate them on my Discogs Collection!

let's do a coronacompilation!!!!

This one?

How good is A.I. at creating chart hits? Trained a neural network (in Torch) on the history of the UK charts and let it come up with its own Top 40. Good to see a mix of genres. #aitop40 pic.twitter.com/hJLdWmbssz

— Bob De Caux (@BobDeCaux) March 5, 2020

The Death Of The UK Chart Single?

yes. could make artwork as well as tracks?

I’m in.

also in

but not the ai shit, just a playlist of our songs

i think the idea was that we would make our own songs but our artist/song names had to be from that list

either that or pandemic-themed

idk

i am favouring a pandemic theme myself but you are all free to argue the toss

'bat love' would be on both themes tbf

I am in, with whatever conceit you guys decide to go with.

pandemic theme 4 sure

Songs of our own devising or cover tunes with apt titles?

songs of our own imo

in whatever, but would be better were there an overarching concept to at least name the tracks

that concept, is COVID

I'm in, although the COVID theme may be a little tenuous as it'll probably be instrumental.

ha

XP - Just make sure there's some ill beatz bro.

right so who's compering this

Think you are?

let me think of how to collate the songs and i might

if anyone is good at this and has done this before and wants to do it then feel free to volunteer though

Testing

I'm in for a song, whatever the concept (but maybe it would be more timely to make a specific virus/epidemic related comp ?).
Gotta find something to do since I'm stuck at home for at least 2 weeks !

Bagsy Gary In The The The Bodrer

Think we are just going for a coronavirus theme now, dl

i had thought the new magnetic fields album would be a good contender for a pre-covers compilation, aside from having to get 28 people to sign up:

01 Castles of America
02 The Biggest Tits in History
03 The Day the Politicians Died
04 Castle Down a Dirt Road
05 Bathroom Quickie
06 My Stupid Boyfriend
07 Love Gone Wrong
08 Favorite Bar
09 Kill a Man a Week
10 Kraftwerk in a Blackout
11 When She Plays the Toy Piano
12 Death Pact (Let’s Make A)
13 I’ve Got a Date with Jesus
14 Come, Life, Shaker Life!
15 (I Want to Join A) Biker Gang
16 Rock ‘n’ Roll Guy
17 You’ve Got a Friend in Beelzebub
18 Let’s Get Drunk Again (And Get Divorced)
19 The Best Cup of Coffee in Tennessee
20 When the Brat Upstairs Got a Drum Kit
21 The Price You Pay
22 The Boy in the Corner
23 Song of the Ant
24 I Wish I Had Fangs and a Tail
25 Evil Rhythm
26 She Says Hello
27 The Little Robot Girl
28 I Wish I Were a Prostitute Again

pre-emptively calling dibs on "Kraftwerk in a Blackout"

Is there a theme for this, or can it be whatever we want? Because I already wrote lyrics for 'For The Sour' from the AI Top 40.

ILX Compilation 7: COUGH PILL NATION - Deadline for submissions is probably mid-April or so

You can import lyrics and ideas from other mooted projects, yes