What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

hi, i recorded a new song today and i'm ripping something off, but i can't place what it is: help?

Can't tell. Sounds good, though, other than the noise floor, which is getting a little out-of-control :)

I made another little jam with my setup:

hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3SxkJzTVsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3SxkJzTVsU

"Were Thine That Special Face" from Kiss Me Kate. video is comically small since I shot it sideways and it inexplicably did this (it doesn't usually)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x06x6lUVZuI

since it's Bandcamp Friday I decided to put the music I've been working on during lockdown online here. It's 40 mins of arpeggiated melodies and lo-fi drums and reverbed pads.

― boxedjoy, Friday, July 3, 2020 11:43 AM (three weeks ago)

I love love love track 7 (130).

realize this is more for self-recorded music but haven't been real excited about picking up the guitar lately...or the ukulele, which I haven't played basically since the song I posted here in March. i noodle but between the lack of privacy with the roommates and self-consciousness, find myself playing less.

so I'm mostly just singing....this was me trying something a little more bleak, Brel's "If You Go Away", Sinatra's version. who knows, maybe I'll do a mega-bleak Zoom cabaret one day, lolz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79O0mArSrrk

aight it was time to pick up the geetar....some Lennon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWf_tHHH1mc&t=5s

dafuq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWf_tHHH1mc

Finally released a clutch of beats from 2013 - 2015 that were initially supposed to be rap instrumentals, mostly slow and vibey. Tbh making a ton of music on spec and having it go unreleased (except for one track) was very discouraging at the time, which made me realize that the throwing-it-at-the-wall, lottery-esque nature of producing for rappers was not for me. It was very nostalgic to go back through my hard drive, but I'm glad never have to think about these again!

https://chants.bandcamp.com/album/lo-fi-chill-beats-to-steal-for-your-podcast

This is pleasant, nice atmosphere. My wife actually just said that she likes it.

Yeah these sound great!

Thanks, really appreciate it!

yo Neanderthal, those vids are lit

thanks! finding i have loads of time to keep my voice loose now lol

Jordan, I really dig your beats!

For my part, I just put a new EP up: https://foundriver.bandcamp.com/album/fr-01. I'm not quite where I want to be with this stuff yet, but it isn't *completely* horrible (I think) and I wanted to put something out there. Be gentle pls.

new EP: https://soundcloud.com/disinformation/sets/bstep-the-azure-cloud #megazone23 #brandy

Dig it. Tho' Azure Cloud is a Microsoft product :)

Thanks zchyrs. Really nice synth stuff on yours. Have you thought about doing any beatless tracks? I don't mean that as a diss, I just think it would sound good.

I set up some drums in my garage attic and practiced on a kit for the first time in years. It's been very frustrating and not especially enjoyable, mostly due to being out of practice + sick of my limitations + having watched too many great drummers on Youtube. Luckily these days you can curate the decent moments:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDlyjHCDSdO/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDeTxZzD_2D/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjSAAIDSn3/

Thanks, Jordan! Yeah, synth textures are my main focus with this project. I've made some beatless tracks before (like this one: https://soundcloud.com/found-river/sundogs) but I often feel like something is missing from them. I am currently attempting some stuff that skews closer to "pure" ambient, we'll see how that goes.

i was trying to make a slow hip-hop beat on my sampler but when i recorded it onto my computer, the speed and pitch somehow got doubled and it ended up sounding more footwork-y. i decided to go with it, added back the missing bass and some other stuff. it's still clunky because i don't know what i'm doing yet but i think it's fun: https://soundcloud.com/user-378919876-468565288/porcupine

Working on a lockdown covers EP at the moment, enlisting pals to play what I cannot.

However, I'm about three-quarters of the way into a version of Evil by Red House Painters, now I'm in a moral quandary *sigh*

you could always make it purposely sound like shit?

advice that was not lost on GG Allin

Hah, I put a lot of work into it and it sounds really good so far.

NA that bass sounds amazing. My ear wants to hear your guitar phrases fed into the sampler and chopped up like a footwork vocal.

Unearthed a sort of piano rock/AOR demo I recorded a few years ago -- this was in a phase where the kids were very little and it was hard to find time to record, so I had to stick with imperfect takes, also never got the vocals down the way I wanted so it remained instrumental. Still really like parts of it.

https://soundcloud.com/leonardhand/friends-of-coal-phone-to-myself-demo

Sounds good, man!

thx

thanks Jordan. i considered looking for a vocal sample to chop up in that way but thought the song already had enough elements and that maybe i was moving too far into overt footwork style but yeah doing it with the guitar part could be cool.

I like that a lot NA.

We (mostly shakey/Οὖτις) did a wall-of-sound style cover of an old Casiotone for the Painfully Alone track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBvAv-iR1bY

oh nice! sounds great. i saw owen post that today but i didn't register that it was the ilx band lol.

Here’s ya boy with an arrangement of Go Down, Moses

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CFAfjb7nYX5/?igshid=asty5fh40uk9

Amazing, Dans

concur

Shakey made a new one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6YragW9Qc

Enjoyed that

Some good stuff on here. Feeling the tracks from Jordan, Zchyrs and NA especially.

I've put some new tracks on my Soundcloud!

https://soundcloud.com/pluwa

And while I'm here, anyone got any advice on getting your music out there, ie sending it to labels and DJs etc? I'm sharing my music with my friends but am mainly making it for myself right now, which is a bit boring and lonely. I would like to release tracks at some point but I don't think I'm ready yet.

I have been in touch with one label and someone there said they like my tunes so that's a start

I asked the same question a little while ago here. There was some good advice: what is going on in your musical life

(Nothing has materialized so far for me. I'm probably just going to self-release; thinking of holding it until January since yearly roundup lists seem to start in November these days.)

Thanks, and good luck! I guess it would be best to just keep working because even though I feel that my tracks are getting better I don't think I'm at the stage where a label is going to put out my stuff.

Am I correct in thinking that if you're a bedroom producer the normal process is basically to spend years learning how to make tunes by yourself and then you start firing them off to labels and DJs and hope that someone likes them? Because that's been my strategy so far.

Thanks Paolo. I'd say yeah, that's pretty much what I did/do. If possible, try to find other producers you like who are working in a similar sphere, and send each other tracks for feedback. Find people doing radio shows you like, keep sending tracks. Same with labels, even if you're not there yet, ime if someone likes one of your tracks or hears potential in it, they'll encourage you to keep sending stuff and eventually develop a release.

Making mixes and putting your tracks alongside released ones can be educational too. Putting aside the fact that they're unmastered, it can provide some lightbulbs about what areas you might want to work on.

I'm not saying I have it all figured out, but these are all things that have been helpful to me in the past.

Thanks!

Smith Brindle on Saturday night; at the desk: https://youtu.be/dOOYYQE9HKg

Also Canadian new music publication Musicworks included a live recording I did last year on a playlist of Canadian guitar/electronics music. Studio version should be out soon: https://soundcloud.com/musicworks-magazine/sets/canadian-guitar-electronics

Here's the latest thing my church gig recorded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqWXuhKpr68

paolo I'm always in awe of your drum sounds