who here actually makes music?

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''I don't owing to a lack of skill/talent/creativity/charisma but I organized (renting venue, hiring bands, publicity....) my first ever show a few months ago & it was so much fun. There will be more to come!''

that's lovely. I did always want to organise a gig by descension, which i always liked to see.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm a bedroom electronica geek:
Here!

dog latin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

As am I. See Keith McD's response above.

Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 9 November 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mmmm... TR909 is yummy in a dark and brooding Mezzanine-y way. Maybe the odd beat could have been altered - just the bass drum noise, it sounds a little synthetic and not the right noise for that kind of fast beat. Still very nice track though.

dog latin, Saturday, 9 November 2002 17:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just bought an RS-9 for $760.

Zesty.

Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

i used to play in bands with a few records out.
now i have a new band called solution (sorry no website) and try to avoid recording or plugging our stuff (not that i wouldn't do it if i feel like it). for now we just get together and have fun once a week. i love it more than ever.

joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm a rocker. I rock out.

I have no proof of this whatsoever, so you have to take my word for it.

Tom Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 04:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

i do, obsessively. but i dislike everything i make and never call anything finished so nobody really hears anything and i have no mp3s up anywhere. Well actually there's some old business here: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/185/20.html

Honda (Honda), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 05:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I used to but haven't done anything for ages - there's an old song here http://www.beefheart.com/fireparty/membersmusic.htm

Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 10:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ok, I put some of my songs up here:
http://artists.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/AndyN./

A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 16 November 2002 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven months pass...
I do. I've put out a couple of records but the next one is experiencing a very difficult birth.

one year later and it's still being born. goddamn

the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 17 October 2003 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

When's the release date Jimboat?

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 17 October 2003 03:19 (twenty years ago) link

i shifted it from feb '04 to april '04. feb is probably still realistic though

the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 17 October 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link

Putting your music up in a message boad besieged by critics is incredibly brave/stupid. I think so.

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 October 2003 07:45 (twenty years ago) link

I'm the drummer in a band called the German Exchange
http://www.thegermanexchange.com

We have done some fun recordings and are currently struggling to try and afford to release our new ep.
But its all fun!

Mr Monket (apn99), Friday, 17 October 2003 10:55 (twenty years ago) link

mark g - on the upside, most of them don't give a toss!

the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 17 October 2003 10:56 (twenty years ago) link

I do, I just don't record or perform for people.

Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 17 October 2003 11:23 (twenty years ago) link

Surface, that's cool.

mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:07 (twenty years ago) link

FYI - my band broke up.

I have tons of ancient 4-track ridiculosity still stored here, but the newest recording on that site is possibly 3 years old now.

I'm recording on a digital 4-track nowadays and hope to have summa dat stuff ready to ear-peep before the month is over. Like anybody cares ha ha.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:34 (twenty years ago) link

My band isThe Vowels - In Cahoots with...The Vowels release date Jan. 6, 2004. Out on The Sea Isle.

scott m (mcd), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

for the record: i make computer music under the name Handsome Sultan in hamilton ontario canada.

astroblaster (astroblaster), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

i make computer music, some of which im gonna shop DHR as soon as i finish the vocals.
my rock band is playing its first show tonight. im quite excited. we've been together for 5 years and we're only now getting around to organizing our songs enough to play shows.

Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.kilnrecords.com/body/sb/pages/mp3/sb_mp3.html

(you can ignore the Humectant Interruption track on that page since it's not us, tho perhaps you _should_ listen to it anyway).

Russ

Russ, Friday, 17 October 2003 19:41 (twenty years ago) link

i write music of a kind of experimental mind set i guess. Kind of improvisatonal electonic stuff. Kind of similar to stephen mathieu (full swing) if it is close to anything. Although his is not too improv from what i hear.

Still have not posted any although I have burned a few cds for friends.

hector (hector), Saturday, 18 October 2003 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

I'm about to go upstairs and make some music on me drums.
Any suggestions on a (break)beat that I should learn?

oops (Oops), Saturday, 18 October 2003 23:56 (twenty years ago) link

"George of the Jungle"

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 19 October 2003 00:27 (twenty years ago) link

Also, do the burundi beat!

colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 19 October 2003 00:44 (twenty years ago) link

Reggae/dancehall beats are hard as fuck for me to do. They all end up sounding like hip-hop after a few bars. I guess cause it's the opposite of hip hop, ie the kick is usually on the beat while the snare is ALWAYS off the beat. Not just off the beat, but off the off-beat.

oops (Oops), Sunday, 19 October 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...
Hail!

The icefrosted realms of letchworth are killing the false!

Niroth will fucking kill you with necro BM
Autofire will make you skin up with demented beats`o`war

and theres some others too, but they havent bought us enough beer yet.

hehe
Go to www.niroth.da.ru, you bastards!

NecroBastard, Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

I did a song on compilation album called "I wish I was John Peels son" that he played, once.

I laso quiver gingerly on stage playing a tambourine and wearing a large bulb on my head for this band:-

http://www.freedunit.co.uk/

but I guess that doesn't count really.

flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 27 November 2003 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

I make music in my room with a 4-track as well as with a drummer. As of yesterday I own a wonderful new Fender amp, so I will probably be inside most of the weekend if I can help it.

Nothing is online because I don't have a good way of transferring audio into my old, ancient, USB-deficient, 5-gig computer.

Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Friday, 28 November 2003 08:02 (twenty years ago) link

I make drone music with some electronics, my amp and bass guitar.

I play in a band with my roommate and our friend who lives downstairs. We aren't very good, but we sure are loud and noisy.

Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 28 November 2003 08:31 (twenty years ago) link

RARR! I WROTE A KICKASS BASSLINE ONCE

Necro Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 28 November 2003 08:34 (twenty years ago) link

1

Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Friday, 28 November 2003 09:42 (twenty years ago) link

My musical history is long and storied and probably preety boring 'cause it's just that, history. I live in a small mountain town and I've been here for ten years, but I'm being kicked out of town for hating WSP, Phish, and the Dead. So, yeah ,me.

Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 28 November 2003 09:52 (twenty years ago) link

Why didn't you leave, like, nine years ago?

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 28 November 2003 09:55 (twenty years ago) link

sixteen years pass...

Reviving this ancient ILM thread to share ancient music of mine I've revived via Bandcamp, for the purpose of donating to good causes:

'The Irish Sea' is an album of improvisational music I made 20 years ago:https://t.co/wVEKsx9RYt

All sales donated (and I'll double them in full) to community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers here: https://t.co/PmLe0JwWJg pic.twitter.com/yql2K42LuQ

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) October 21, 2020

Stream here:https://t.co/wVEKsx9RYt

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) October 26, 2020

I'm doubling all purchases (before Bandcamp takes their 15% cut) and donating here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd. As of 10/27, that'll be $226 so far.

Soundslike, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link

It's gorgeous! Will definitely be grabbing that this evening.

Evan, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link

Thank you, Evan!

It's funny, I made this music so long ago--literally half my life ago--and haven't made music since, such that it's not even really like I made it. Weirdly, has allowed me to like it, now; whereas I was almost embarrassed that it's what came out of me instead of some cool Brian Eno-esque thing, when I was 20.

Soundslike, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

Made my first new music in 20 years. Have to be in the mood for something quiet, melancholy and very simple--but I like it, to my surprise.

https://www.twitter.com/musicophiliamix/status/1478134648312115206

Soundslike, Thursday, 6 January 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link

Well, that didn't work. Anyway, it's here:

https://ianmanire.bandcamp.com/album/sketches

Soundslike, Thursday, 6 January 2022 05:12 (two years ago) link

Why did you took such a long break? you're good at it!

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 6 January 2022 05:34 (two years ago) link

I like that

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 January 2022 06:13 (two years ago) link

I used to, but my singing voice has deteriorated to the point I either have to write songs that don't wander out of the low register or have someone else sing them (it feels strange to me having someone else sing and interpret lyrics I've written about my own situations if you're not used to it). Also, I'm not even close to up to date on recording gear and/or it's too expensive or too difficult to learn.

Lee626, Thursday, 6 January 2022 07:56 (two years ago) link

Thanks, Moka and Blues!

Don't know why I didn't keep going. I know so many very talented real musicians, guess I felt a bit silly doing my skill-free thing? And then 20 years of life happened? But lately I was just feeling the pull, to play as almost a meditation. So far, it's really providing that.

Soundslike, Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link

just into the first track and this sounds cool. gonna go for a walk with it, ty for sharing!

please don't refer to me as (Austin), Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link

Winter walks seems to be the best application of this music : )

Soundslike, Thursday, 6 January 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link

Really nice! Are you playing or programming those strings and woodwinds?

change display name (Jordan), Friday, 7 January 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link

Thank you!

It's all VSTs played via keyboard (Arturia Keylab 88 MkII. All improvised, in one to four passes. The strings and woodwinds mostly are Spitfire's 'British Drama Toolkit' instrument. I was so clueless, three weeks ago I didn't know there was this huge world of great-sounding sampled instruments...

Soundslike, Saturday, 8 January 2022 03:52 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Made another one. You'll have to be in the mood for music that breathes very slowly, but it might appeal if/when you're in that state:

After a twenty year pause, I've made two albums in two months.

'Sustain' is for when you need to slow all the way down. Improvised sounds, made of heartache, dread, and hope. But it's also mostly pretty.

For those it reaches, may it ring true.https://t.co/7FZIqQcesO

— Musicophilia (@musicophiliamix) February 27, 2022

Soundslike, Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link


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