What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

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http://bloodletters.tumblr.com/post/4866013043/month-of-songs-day-23-feeding-song-trying-to
apart from the recording (especially the vocals) being a bit on the quiet side, I'm quite happy with how this one turned out

bernard snowy, Saturday, 23 April 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link

http://bloodletters.tumblr.com/post/5011043476/month-of-songs-day-28-la-intimidad-de-tu
folky story-song — pretty happy with how this one turned out!

bernard snowy, Thursday, 28 April 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link

dj tool disco edit of Undercover Agent For the Blue by Tony Joe White.
Wanted to see what 'swamp house' would sound like. Kind of went for a slo mo riff looping vibe. think it turned out quite well.

http://soundcloud.com/deerdiarydisco/tony-joe-white-undercover

owenf, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link

blues not blue

owenf, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link

oh yeah, I downloaded that after you posted it on tumblr — only listened once through but I liked what I heard!

"Hungry clouds swag on the deep." — William Blake (bernard snowy), Saturday, 7 May 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link

hey bernard, who are you on tumblr?

tylerw, Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link

oh wait, i see you're bloodletters -- been digging the stuff you've posted lately! i'm not "on tumblr" that much so i need to remind myself to check your page more often.

tylerw, Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link

funnily, my record got reviewed in a few places locally. my favorite line from the denver av club: "It’s not all great, but there are definitely a few gems in the rough in the mix." Bring on the faint praise! Also, I was referred to as "the professorial rocker," so .... win?

tylerw, Saturday, 7 May 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link

haha, nice! "the professorial rocker" is a pretty awesome compliment in my book (although maybe less so if you're under 30? would still be totally thrilled to be called that, though!)

"Hungry clouds swag on the deep." — William Blake (bernard snowy), Sunday, 8 May 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link

I mis-read that as "the professional rocker".

got a whole lotta gloves (snoball), Sunday, 8 May 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link

i am over 30 and i have a coat with elbow patches, so i guess it fits. i am not a professional rocker in any sense of the word "professional."

tylerw, Sunday, 8 May 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

another edit
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
done this afternoon start to finish

http://soundcloud.com/deerdiarydisco/talking-heads-this-must-be-the

considering doing an edit a day series for le blog if i can get some suggestions for tracks to undertake

owenf, Thursday, 12 May 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

New York hip-hop, golden era style..Featuring the inimitable Bookwurm over my stinky beats:

http://soundcloud.com/doctor-benway/pudgy-stamps-feat-bookwurm

Space Is The Plaice, Saturday, 14 May 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link

no new originals for a while, but here's robyn hitchcock cover that turned out decently well:
http://bloodcoverletters.tumblr.com/post/5633622057/20-robyn-hitchcock-i-used-to-say-i-love-you

bernard snowy, Thursday, 19 May 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link

lovin that talking heads edit!

broodje kroket (dog latin), Thursday, 19 May 2011 12:45 (twelve years ago) link

Three new ones here, all for compilations.

http://automating.bandcamp.com/album/misc

From the top

First one is for broadcast here at the end of May: http://www.naisa.ca/webcast/index.html

Second is for a local (well, usually my local) compilation of exploratory musics (use headphones)

Third is a terrible cover of The Fall's 'Winter #2'

Radio XL1 (S-), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link

Stereo composition for part of a four-channel installation

http://soundcloud.com/constantlightduo/sasha-margolis-beobachter

Circlework de Soleil (S-), Monday, 13 June 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link

I found an old cd of my rap beats the other day! They're pretty nice, too. I'm kind of reticent to post them tho cause they are heavily (HEAVILY) tagged with my parents phone number.

51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Monday, 13 June 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

lol

hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 13 June 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

lol

can you not re-tag them?

The best solid love doll Candysteen (absolutely clean glasses), Monday, 13 June 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

maybe his parents phone number is the chorus

the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Monday, 13 June 2011 18:58 (twelve years ago) link

http://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/sets/sonnet-of-separation

more like what did u sound like when u were more creative...this is the album i made in 2007. uploaded in its entirety for the first time tho IMM regulars may recognize some old jams.

mississippi john hurt, but alabama john feeling okay (m bison), Monday, 13 June 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link

I mean, I'm saying over and over on them "My name is R***** G*****. I made this beat. If you are interested in it, you can contact me at ###-###-####."

51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Monday, 13 June 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link

Actually, that was kind of helpful in dating when I made them, cause I know they're from before I had a cell phone so I must have been like 17.

51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Monday, 13 June 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link

I posted a couple more demos up for a drummer we are trying out this week (knock wood). The guy seems like a bro on the phone and hopefully it will work out.

http://soundcloud.com/earlnash

earlnash, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link

at first i thought you meant that they were helping in dating, like you would give them to girls so that they would have your digits

hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:48 (twelve years ago) link

haha me too.

they're lookin' like shits with instruments (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link

"if you like what you hear, call me, and we'll continue the music making in my bed...or yours"

they're lookin' like shits with instruments (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link

Being in a band is kind of like that really.

earlnash, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link

remixed a friend's song:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/9141407580d92650/

The best solid love doll Candysteen (absolutely clean glasses), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 05:02 (twelve years ago) link

lol you guys

51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link

Just started jamming around with a couple of peeps from my locale. This is very rough, but I'm quite pleased with it considering it was about the second time we'd all played together, and this was a very loose jam:

http://soundcloud.com/doglatin/disco-zhivago-catacomb-jam-1

the Sandalled Vandal (dog latin), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:04 (twelve years ago) link

The requested URL "/doglatin/disco-zhivago-catacomb-jam-1", is invalid.

51 suggest gang (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link

link works OK here (UK)

wtf is wrong with people? (snoball), Thursday, 16 June 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link

just finished this, it's called "Margarine"

http://soundcloud.com/clonefeed/margarine-unknown

in no way more ancient than fucking space (latebloomer), Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link

Just tweaked that tracked a tiny bit, here's the final version:

http://soundcloud.com/clonefeed/00-margarine-unknown

in no way more ancient than fucking space (latebloomer), Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link

Drummer tried out last weeke end worked out pretty well. Haven't consumated the relationship, but it's looking good so far.

earlnash, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link

i like that margarine song latebloomer

the beta banned (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/01-track-one-short-edit

hey guys this kind of sounds like shit! like from a sonic perspective i think it sounds pretty shitty. i want to do a self recorded project and this is my first little demo, just figuring out how to work protools etc...

but it's kinda bumming me out...i dunno...any advice?

the beta banned (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link

i like it. sort of starts out sounding like a tears for fears demo or something. (can't really help with the sonic stuff -- i am pretty dumb about all of that).

tylerw, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link

haha tears for fears demo! that's not far off

yeah it just feel like...muddy or something to me

i damn near just want to get a cassette four track because at least that's a defined sound and aesthetic

the beta banned (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link

yeah i've thought about breaking out ye olde 4 track recently. i was even worse with that thing, but working within those limitations started sounding kind of appealing.

tylerw, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link

have you done much eq on it? it sounds like there are a lot of non-bass instruments that could use a low-cut filter, and maybe you could make sure they're not competing for the same space around the low mids. but i think it sounds clear enough, depending on what you're going for of course.

hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link

no jordan, don't know much about EQing...the bass i used this preset on the 36 band EQ plugin called "Bass DI Helper" because I was going direct in with the bass, and that seemed to help...

i'll check for maybe a "low cut filter" on the keyboards, but i think you might be on the right track, maybe that's the muddiness

i guess it sounds ok, this was basically just a test track to get myself acquainted with doing something resembling a "song"

the beta banned (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link

this could be a whole other thread, but maybe try playing around with an eq, like doing exaggerated boosts in a small frequency area just to see where a given instrument lives. i cut everything below ~400 - 500 hz on all kinds of non-bass tracks, but especially vocals and percussion/samples.

hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link

thanks! very helpful advice

the beta banned (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 22:42 (twelve years ago) link

Synthi AKS + field recordings

http://soundcloud.com/constantlightduo/sasha-confluence

Circlework de Soleil (S-), Thursday, 7 July 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link


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