What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

thx guys :)

maybe sounds kind of like Pearson Sound's "Wad" tho ;)

Hahaha, this was kind of a last minute inclusion that I've since decided I really need to replace.

An thanks all for the kind words!

Naw, fuck it. It works.

I was just being an obnoxious trainspotter.

been good about practicing my folk guitar, been fucking with open tunings, never really used them before....this one is the something i wrote last night while watching the Pentagram documentary on Netflix....kinda falls apart right at the end but i kinda happy with it.

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/anabelle-in-open-d

i forgot about this but what do you soundlike making cod-clipse beats in garage band....i'm posting this mostly because i'm proud of the song title:

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/street-dentist

UMS - I'm at work now, but as a fellow amateur fingerpicker I'm interested in this.

PS, did anyone listen to my song? I hate to ask, but I'd like to get some feedback before laying down money to go into a studio and getting it recorded properly. It really is just a demo, but the structure and lyrics are pretty much there.

oh yeah i forgot to post....i liked it, and i think it would benefit from more instrumentation and production....but the vocal stuff is interesting not many ppl try to do stuff like that anymore

Hey cheers UMS. It's interesting you say that because I was going for an almost self-consciously retro approach to songwriting. I wanted to do a song about mods and rockers, but have it apply to pretty much any area of teen culture and the difficulty of trying to fit in and wanting to find ones place in a scene and all that kind of thing. But on the whole it kind of just evolved and I didn't necessarily TRY to make it sound old-fashioned, so what you say there is p interesting to me, because I've no idea exactly what it is I was doing that not many people don't do any more... Don't know if that makes sense.

Street Dentist - yeah great name and a great beat. Love the orchestra samples and the 808 work. What software you using at the moment? I like the idea of producing "rhythms" or even "riddims". I'd like to release a whole album simply made up of beats for people to MC over - something along the lines of http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=23718

Now for Anabelle... I don't often fuck with different tunings myself and I'd really like to try and learn more about it. But this is really sweet and it sounds like you've got it nailed (particularly the tricky chord switch halfway through the bar). Sounds like you're using an acoustic with metal strings. I found moving to nylons opened up a huge new world for me, but like running with sandbags I can no longer play my old acoustic without a pick unless I want to have very sore fingers.

Great work all round mate.

I'm jealous of your country picking track too.

Aw thx, yep they are round wound steel strings, def keep your calluses up

yo m@tt this beat is dope

aw thx rev, it's child's play compared to what real dudes do but i thought it sounded pretty good

http://soundcloud.com/thomasblackburn/tracks

playing with myself in the evenings

"spooky" tag otm. i like it!
nice picking, matt.
rev's track is rad! and dog latin, are you on tumblr? i feel like I've listened to your stuff before...maybe you just sound like someone. anyway, sounds cool, kinda pere ubu goes folk?
i've started playing with someone in the basement, so i may have something to contribute to this thread in the near future.

To say "I Make Music" is putting it in the broadest sense of the word.

http://soundcloud.com/r-mantlebakken/down-on-weekends

ok wtf were you guys on? :)

Ha, staying up too late.

Thanks Tyler! Pere Ubu goes folk is a big compliment in my book, although no I'm not on tumblr :-)

Pplains your track made my smile - like what Paul's Boutique might have sounde like if they'd spent most of their budget on ketamine

Lol

finally got around to adding a few tracks to soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1
"that american life" is a woozy beat
"burning life" is a slow pop song on a bed of ebow
"the joke that tells itself" is a blown-out instrumental

thanks, dl and ums. 1999 was a different time.

digging that ebow tune, n/a
i put up the most recent thing I've recorded: http://soundcloud.com/tylerwilcox/now-you-know
very short! think it might be a ripoff of a GBV song, but I'm not sure which one.

sounds good but yeah very GBV

Fwiw pollard probably isn't sure which old gbv song he's ripping off at this point

lol yes. i actually wrote that song when i was a teenager (and probably at the height of alien lanes mania), but just re-recorded it last month.

sounds great nick, esp. 'that american life' (ha), real legit.

thanks, just did that one this past week and i'm pretty happy with it, gonna try to do some more sample-based stuff with a similar feel

but we'll see if that actually happens

what do you sound like recording a christmas song on the hottest day of the year

http://soundcloud.com/thomasblackburn/christmas-mix

Synth-pop doo-wop:

http://soundcloud.com/resistorsings/ill-refuse

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B06vfsSsETkSQ3R6Z1ZiQmk5SWM

unsure if tihs google docs thing will work

cracklebox that is great

hah so you got the Christmas thing done? It's awesome. Guitars sound amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwyr2lc69uo&feature=player_embedded

good job crackle box though I would need earplugs in concert cause its so harsh and I am so mellow

Ha, cheers, it was a total hack job, did the recording (and err 'writing' the 'song') one afternoon and I mixed it after work the next day to be sent off. Not my studio. Always difficult in someone else's studio.

Anyway, your music is awesome dude, ended up watching them all on youtube, ha :)

Been picking up my guitar a lot more recently, so decided to try and combine the kind of post-punk/rock I always end up playing on the guitar with the house/techno music I've been recording the last few years:

http://soundcloud.com/bleak-house

latham green your music belongs on speculator dj mixes (see djs post your mixes for download)

and thanks, rod stewart made coffee come out of my nose at work "how can an athelete be a musician at the same time erryeehhhh"

i recorded up an upbeat number about getting punched in the face

http://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/man-of-violence

It's a hit! (ba dum pish!)

pow! :D

I also finished off another one the other day, this one is a more straight-up house track, so is under a different alias: http://soundcloud.com/glocknspiel

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/lonely-synth

i have this weird old cheap synth i bought of craigslist that i keep meaning to take home but it's in my office so i made this up the other nite...can hear too much key noise though should have put my phone farther away

does it have a make/model on it? sounds cool, the vibrato is nice.

yeah it's a bit of an oddball synth called the Yamaha PortaSound PSS-680 Music Station

I can't really figure out who it was made for, because it's on one hand definitely a cheap, Casio-feeling unit, got 100 cheesy preset voices and 100 cheesy rhythm preset tracks w/autochord etc...the build quality is low like something you'd buy at Best Buy, plastic and small keys etc...

but the weird thing is that for some reason they included a bunch of features that you'd normally see in a higher-end synth like this digital synth module that basically emulates and analog synth, letting you fuck w/all the sine wave stuff and modulation/frequency/decay etc, except instead of knobs you use buttons...

you can also save sounds but i don't know how to and i bet the internal battery is long dead...so basically just start with a cheeesy preset sound and then start fucking with it with the analog synth modeler thing and you can end up w/some cool sounds...there's also preset effects like stereo chorus/vibrato/portamento/reverb etc

i looked stuff up and i think circuit bender dudes like it

i'm sure a chillwave band would get a big boner over it...got it for $40, neat toy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LW5IyUiktI&feature=related

actually this is the model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBZkqBLGqc&feature=related

It's 2 operator FM, like a very cut down consumer grade version of the type of synthesis used on the DX-7. The sounds are programmable over MIDI using a piece of s/w called PSS Edit, which gives access to additional parameters that aren't available from the front panel.

(I have a semi-irrational desire for these cheap Yamahas, like I know logically that a TX81Z would handily outclass the PSS-680, but it's the latter that I'd want)

it's kinda cool! just don't pay a lot for it....but yeah i've fucked around and gotten some decent tones on it...