What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

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

Thanks! I don't think I'm doing anything particularly original with them, unless I've somehow stumbled across some perfect combination of effects in Ableton. I'm less picky about them than I used to be - obviously there's thousands of drum samples in Ableton and I used to spend ages going through them to get the perfect kick or whatever, now I just listen to a few and go 'eh, that'll do'.

Liking the tracks above too!

One more COVID cover from Shakey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7D5wh_Kbto

Andy's sonic obituary for my mom.

<3

this is really lovely and evocative Austin

Thank you so much for listening, friends.💙👋

Made the studio version of the above track "S(h)immer" streamable as another advance track: https://soundcloud.com/sund4r-subramanian/shimmer

4=a as always

Trying to keep the cords from going rusty, tried singing something from Kiss Me Kate on the Smule karaoke app.

https://www.smule.com/p/870266080_3838260461

Sund4r, that's really cool!

Thanks! It was partly inspired by an offhand comment you made once about how I should do something for processed guitar + percussion.

A few new ideas I'm messing around with:

1) Heavily Neil Young-influenced riff: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIR9YX1hau7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

2) Arpeggiated thing with Fender Pinwheel (lesley emulator): https://www.instagram.com/p/CIXFuccBtG0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

3) Drone thing also with Fender Pinwheel: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIXJzGHBxb8/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Oh wow, very cool!

xp

I've praised Sund4r's piece through other channels but I'd like to reiterate that it rules.

Haven't heard everyone else's stuff yet.

Sund4r this sounds beautiful

Oh, wow, thanks. Tbh, it had been long enough since I made it that when I came back to it now, it sounded a bit foreign and I wasn't even totally sure it worked anymore. It's actually very affirming to hear that people are enjoying it! I'm planning for a limited physical release of the album in January at this point.

Sund4r, always engaging and good. Thank you for sharing.

man alive, we can see your videos, but there's no sound? I tried clicking the unmute speaker, but that makes it go haywire.

Junior recorded a new thing last night and I think it's really good.

That was groovy!

Thanks, Austin. I will listen to yours.

Nice groove, Austin.

yr boy has been recording one song per day since he went on xmas break, and will continue thusly until a whole album is complete

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/sets/is-drowning

right on!

My church gig recorded a new carol written by a local composer for this year's lessons & carols service:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLxdzwc5QYs

My church gig’s lessons and carols service is live. I did two of the arrangements; Coventry Carol and God Rest, Ye Merry Gentlemen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMG7WQf7bIY

I have no idea what I'm doing lol.

man alive, we can see your videos, but there's no sound? I tried clicking the unmute speaker, but that makes it go haywire.

I have been having glitches sometimes when I try to do this in browser - it seems like it works better on a phone.

(i.e. in the app)

fwiw, just unearthed this radio live set of my old band (me on drums) that I thought was lost and hadn't heard in about 15 years

https://soundcloud.com/leonardhand/sets/american-altitude-live-on-wprbkeeping-score-at-home

realized i should have posted this here instead of the other thread. i recorded the loops & the rest live in my basement, no overdubs or other people involved :)

I have been working on doing solo stuff all year (what other choice?!) and finally recorded what I consider the best sounding version of this improvised solo percussion jam. I recorded another one that is similar but this one turned out groovier so I am sharing this one. (description: instrumental solo improvisation with various small percussion and drumset)

https://soundcloud.com/marshmallowy/new-recording-33-12302020

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, January 4, 2021 11:32 AM (one minute ago)

LL this is really cool, also I love the image on your Soundcloud page

Thanks for listening! The profile photo is from a hike in TN like 10 yrs ago. One of the most beautiful mornings I’ve ever seen in my life.

whew, so for the first time in over 12 years i made an album. i posted it upthread, but it was only a few tracks in.

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/sets/is-drowning