What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

Thanks, Tib. The pandemic seems to have been productive in my case.

https://cutternumbers.bandcamp.com/album/constant-lowrider-cn-mixtape-21

i made a "mixtape" of instrumental tracks i recorded in the past year, mostly sampler-driven with some guitar. i mixed by bouncing back and forth between 4-track and computer, adding effects and vocals and other sounds. it's pretty lo-fi and crunchy but it turned out how i wanted, like if the original songs were being blasted out of a cheap loud car stereo.

This is cool, love to hear those sample pack sounds get used!

I did a fun project with a local band, where they pick a scale + bpm and all record parts without hearing each other (in this case E Dorian + 110 bpm). Then each member produces a track using the stems. They invited me to contribute to a track to this one, so it's somewhere in-between a remix and an original. Would love to try this with other people where I'm involved in generating the stems too.

https://lovelysocialitemusic.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-loops-vol-2

two new tracks.

Anyone who lived in Scotland in the early 00's will recognise the samples...

Ooh a couple of blasts from the past right there. Sounding good!

been trying to learn Ableton, pretty interesting/different work flow

also got a mellotron vst, kinda set out to do something like autumn sweater by yo la tengo but a little more electronic feeling

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/DqwE7

love the sound of that mellotron, the guitar is great too (tremolo effect?)

thanks! I think there might be some tremelo, I use an amp modeling plugin a friend of mine who runs a studio recommended called S-Gear by Scuffham Amps, it's not as well known and it doesn't have tons of amps and effects but I think it sounds pretty real

I usually just track guitar DI then flip through presets until something sounds good do I don't always know what goes into it

sounds v pleasant sh@key

thanks esby 🙂

hopefully this will work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM3gB7N9kzI

i have only started attempting to play guitar and sing at the same for the last couple months, so i'm hoping that if and when additional family members die, my rendition of "sweetness follows" will be a little easier! i still have shakey voice right now, but whatever

That was really pretty, Zach.

holy crap i can only listen to like one half of one line of that song before getting all the way weepy -- kudos to you z for being able to play it over and over and over and record yourself & share it <3 that's therapy

hi,

i have an LP coming out soon. it's about the spirits of two sisters from 1906. here is one song from it

https://maelinbrown.bandcamp.com/

thanks DJI and LL! helps that it's only two chords, i guess :) i ended up learning how to play most of automatic for the people over the last couple months. i love that so much of their music is pretty easy to play

Jordan, I finally listened to Poly Pointillism. I haven't broken anything down yet but I really like it - the sounds themselves and the rhythms. I added it to my cart for the next BC Friday.

I liked that track maelin. Sounded like Radio Dept. meets REM meets NMH.

Nice track!

na, this is great! kind of like alternate reality video game soundtracks. really nice man.

zach you are a braver man than myself. well done.

for all the lofi sadhouse fans in the audience, we have some bullshit for you.

I dl'd that, Austin. Dig it.

thanks for listening, austin

yeah, great stuff Austin! i love the second half when the beat shifts back up and it DriveTime144.1 on the radio

man, thank you guys so much for listening!

also zach, that's literally the nicest comment we've ever received with regards to music. you have no idea how incredibly happy that makes andy to read. the whole idea behind that recording is that he wanted it to sound like a song recorded off the radio from the middle of a mix show onto a cassette tape on an old $100 boombox. this is the recording we were referencing..

Richard Marx, Hazard

Had to pause a few times to advance music on screen lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4f2Zs7Y46I

i hate richard marx and ukuleles.

great stuff.

Lol

Pandemic-themed cello miniature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puWw5CTHj1g

Finally finished a gigantic compilation album! Free to download, of course.

It's also available to stream on YouTube and / or SoundCloud.

Premiered this live acoustic version of one of the pieces from my album today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXmxQcbAGsE

sund4r i dont know if ive ever told you but you are incredible talent, im always impressed with your playing and composition

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

Aw, thanks guys!

Austin - really like that, very chill and spacey. I think I will live my whole life not fully understanding what "balearic" means but it might be? that kinda peaceful yet vaguely nostalgic and melancholy around the edges

sund4r - seconded, and also always appreciate your general knowledge of music on the board, I guess I have always considered myself a "band guy" as opposed to a capital-M Musician like you

Oh, thanks. I've enjoyed your clips as well. Band guys are musicians! :)

Sund4r and austin, those are good! Nice stuff for a Tuesday morning.

Stuck some new tracks up on the old Soundcloud - downtempo, sorta dubby, moody vibes mainly

https://soundcloud.com/pluwa

ooh, sund4r on spotify too

Yes, pls feel free to double my monthly listeners.

Srsly, thanks for the interest! And thanks, paolo, I'm going to listen to your Soundcloud after I get through this last volume of Whiney's noise-rock mix.

paolo I say this every time you share music you've made, but I'm always in awe at how your drums sound and I really admire your sense of restraint in terms of pacing and mood

a little um i dunno jazzy/r&b trip hop (?) i dunno downtempo? i don't know electronic genres but basically music they play in a boutique hotel lobby in like 2005 or something

most pleased that i actually *wrote* a guitar solo not just messing around, like how it turned out

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/the-standard

Matt you need to add some filtered breaks for the full hotel lobby effect! Or send it to a youtube drummer to shred over.

can't get that link to work for some reason

what's an example of a filtered break?

Weird, trying that link again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgL8kr7M5gk

I basically meant Amen or Think breakbeat loops with a low-pass filter opening and closing, that's just what I was hearing. :) Like this for ex:

https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/iridescence-of-clouds

I self-released an EP the other day, probably my most functional club tracks in awhile. I meant to make it a pre-order but got confused by Bandcamp's settings (ie if you publish an album with a future release date, it still releases it right away unless you make it a pre-order), but it didn't really matter. So far I'm happy with my decision to just put it out there rather than continue trying to find a label for it.

https://chants.bandcamp.com/album/quintuple-helix-ep

Also I would prefer not to master my own tracks in general, but I think these came out ok, and it's really the only way to go if you don't want to cancel out the meager profits from Bandcamp/streaming.

filtered disco-house with breakbeat garage and happy hard-core flavours.

Great title, great tracks

Purchased.

That was very generous of you both! You should have just entered Zero but I appreciate it.