What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

i post here when i am feeling nervy, and it's a place i feel safe being heard.

i know that most of the stuff i record is kinda half-baked -- i meant to say it earlier but I like random collaborations. if someone has a weird urge to add something to one of my tracks, please be my guest. they're only me solo because i don't have other people to play with most of the time. :)

most music is about the listener's interpretation no? :)

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, December 21, 2018 2:12 PM

This is what I mean.

https://deadcrustacean.bandcamp.com/releases

Finally finished with this.

Haha, that cover!

I'm at work, so something tells me I should hold off on listening to that one until this afternoon.🙂

Xmas jazz gig, once again backing up trumpeter Ler0y J0nes. It went much better than I feared, but seeing some other clips back, I both play ahead of the beat & make stupid faces more often than I would like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B11WKj8bAV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AsaiqaWa28

GLOTTUS

https://glottus.bandcamp.com

riyl: ofwgkta, icp, el-p

tw: pure unfiltered white male id

New single for NYE: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/album/faced-asylum-disability-part-two

The best thing I've ever done, coming shortly.

loving "intergalactic groove"

Thank you for listening.🙇

Happy new year everyone. Thank you all for being who you are. Just fantastic people, all of you.🙂

This is a thing I've been working on since finishing MENTAL ILLNESS. It came to me really quickly in comparison to MENTAL ILLNESS. Some of the songs on there were literally years old, but all of the spectral projections songs were created after MENTAL ILLNESS. It's been a really liberating process for me to begin and complete something in a matter of a couple weeks that I'm this happy with. I do feel like, as a whole, this is the best thing I've ever done.

spectral protections: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/album/spectral-projections

Here's a somewhat narrative slideshow, with spectral 6 as the soundtrack: https://youtu.be/7x6rX-IhGRQ

Thank you again, everyone. ilx contributed to saving my life in 2017 and 2018. I'm serious.

New MSS out today as well as the latest weirder VHHP collaborative project. It's more of the usual noise drone experiments if that floats your boat.

The Monophonic Shooting Spree - LIGHTWEIGHT

VHHP - VHHP 2

Found Glottus enjoyable while surfing the web just now.

wow for real thank you, can't tell you how much that means to me

Me and a couple friends have started a house music band. We hope to put out an EP later this year. Here is a sample:
https://soundcloud.com/balboa-park/sunset-summer-quick-master

That state of the universe in the year of ASTRALPOP

PART ONE

PART TWO

Good stuff!

I updated a song I posted upthread. Tried re-recording some of the vocals and tweaking a few things. I'm still not 100% sure it's finished and I guess I never will. It's mainly the vocals I have trouble with - I guess they're deliberately incongruous but I still want them to fit in with the track like they do in my mind's eye

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xzjlBu7ozYCpYbBDf4tRbn9eHrh1mRNl

Any more feedback very welcome - especially re: production. I'm using an old version of Reason, so I can't use plugins sadly.

I think it sounds cool, dl! Listened twice and nothing really is calling out to me to be changed.

[thank you emoji]

I love it, dog latin. You've posted a version previously, right? Very British folk rock. Delicious.

Something something new things I did over the weekend.

Cheers Austin - yeah I did post a previous version before.

I made this little bit of hyper-distorted freeform DFA madness the other day: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SQF-I3_U4-binD1UapBmU8Ss42XGQf0D

Not sure if I'll be doing anything else with it. The vocals are adlibbed in one take. It's bonkers fun. I kinda like it even though it's a bit slap-dash

Checking yours out now Austin :-)

This is very cool. I love the way you've got these sort of poly-rhythms bubbling away with much more drawn out guitar layers. Reminds me at once of Panda Bear and maybe a bit of My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts.

oh that's the second track, sorry

actually don't use the link upthread, use this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywDoIFvkwytpzHWRcE3w-xn5W95aabng/view?usp=drivesdk

Reminds me at once of Panda Bear and maybe a bit of My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Dude.

O_O

haha is that a good thing? i generally don't like it when people compare my stuff to other acts, mostly because it's inaccurate. my old band used to get Super Furry Animals all the time, but they were never an influence

You guys are making a lot of interesting stuff!

Right now I don't sound like anything because my hard drive died, and it had all my sound bank and tracks :-(

Good reminder to back up my shit.

ulp.. me too. and I lost a bunch of things a few months ago too!!

haha is that a good thing? i generally don't like it when people compare my stuff to other acts

Well, first of all, you compared it to actual, "real", professionally made music, which I take as a compliment unto itself; I record in my bedroom, so yeah. And then, you compared it to one of the most influential albums of the past 40 years (in a positive way), which is amazing.

Ergo,

O_O

(also, omg, thank you!)

You guys are making a lot of interesting stuff!

Right now I don't sound like anything because my hard drive died, and it had all my sound bank and tracks :-(

― the sound of space, Friday, February 8, 2019 12:16 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good reminder to back up my shit.

― DJI, Friday, February 8, 2019 12:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ulp.. me too. and I lost a bunch of things a few months ago too!!

― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, February 8, 2019 12:47 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guys, online backup. $5/ month to never have to worry about this happening is dollar-per-value-unit more worth it than any kind of insurance i've ever paid for. for literal decades i never had a hard drive crash that entirely fucked my life up and derailed several ppl's projects/careers... until i did :0 never again!

Or go the opposite route, never connect your computer to the internet and it'll last forever

Although I was recently doing the last pass of edits on the last song on my album, and got a BSoD out of nowhere. Never happened before. I screamed, and briefly contemplated the possibly that the song and my sample banks were lost forever.

Then I restarted, found my auto-save from 10 min before, and re-did the edits.

(also I do have manual backups on an external drive, but only do that every few weeks when it occurs to me, so yeah)

guys, online backup. $5/ month to never have to worry about this happening is dollar-per-value-unit more worth it than any kind of insurance i've ever paid for. for literal decades i never had a hard drive crash that entirely fucked my life up and derailed several ppl's projects/careers... until i did :0 never again!

― (ADVANCE) (320k vbr) (--V2) (aps) (diVX) (2CD) OST - SB (2019) (esby), Friday, February 8, 2019 12:46 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What service do you recommend?

I was stressed out about it for the first few days, then took a zen approach of nothing lasts forever. Having said that, I needed an outlet for my frustration so I decided to make a CSS for this site just to keep me busy while I plan on what to do next.

i've been using b4ckblaze, it's sweet. unlimited backup, syncs every night or whenever i tell it to. already had to do one large restore with it and no problems (other than isp overages for moving ~3tb data)

css: nite mode plx? :)

Nice! That was Tom's Guide's value pick for 2019. Their top pick was IDrive. I'll give it a few days before deciding which one to go with.

I'm using this particular CSS as a user stylesheet with the Stylus extension on Chrome, and I'm happy with it!

It's not a dark theme but, if you want, I can change the colors on it quickly to dark grays :-)

new jams for valentine's: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/album/apologies-gratitude

Cool stuff. Did you drum on those, or are those loops?

We've got a Valentine's Day track too!

https://soundcloud.com/balboa-park/song-for-capricorn

I was messing around with a beat I programmed this afternoon and then realised I could have a go at singing Bjork over it, so I did:

https://soundcloud.com/charlieframe/all-is-full-of-love

DJI- I wish I could play drums! Alas, just loops. I state where they came from in the individual song info on bandcamp.

Here's something else:

https://austinato.bandcamp.com/album/the-best-ever

so is that the best way to release something that samples someone else's work? i have a song that samples a bar of drums and i'd like to release it as part of my album but i'm not sure if that sort of attribution is enough. doubting it will ever be heard by much more than immediate friends but still don't want to be a dick about it.

Is it an old/classic break or from a newer work? Honestly it doesn't matter these days unless real money is involved, but if it's a blatant/recognizable sample then giving credit is nice, especially if it's from someone who's still working.

yeah, it's a cuban beat... not hugely recognizable, but they are currently working (and well paid i assume). i guess i'm wondering if it ever becomes an issue if i put it in the marketplace like spotify/itunes

Not unless they hear it and want money, which won't happen unless it pops off and, y'know, makes a boatload of money.

I like this Austin. Very dreamy! Nice counterpoint guitar tones. Little bit shoegazey, but not obviously so... Makes me think of something on Everything's Alright Forever, one of those hazy hot tunes.

DJI - this is great too. Lovely sorta Balearic-meets-Krautrock vibes. Really really nice

Thank you, everyone!

I figure I'm a guy that records in my bedroom and posts music for free, with the intention of never accepting a single penny for any recording of my music. . . so, I'm not too worried. The two or three folks that download anytime I put something new up will be devastated when the lawsuits from Van Morrison, the James Bown estate, etc., etc. start showing up. I figure it's not me playing the drums, so I should probably give credit.

And, with that, here's something else entirely: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/track/38

It's part of this, which I think will probably be ongoing for quite some time. I'm not exactly sure what it is, yet.

i think that's a good attitude, austin! i have always been very liberal about reusing elements of other people's work in my own, but that's because i always try to place it in a new context rather than just straight up ripping something off, and i'm not making any money off of anything. on the rare occasion that i get commissions or get invited to show something in public, i only use my own elements. if i ever did use someone else's work in something that would earn me money, i would get their permission first.

i would get their permission first.

Essentially what it amounts to.👍🏻