What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

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.

fuck Jordan quintuple helix bangs

Thank youuu <3

Just remembered to listen to Poly Pointillism, really cool

It's great, yeah.

Just saw this, very much appreciated!

Here's a little recent grooveboxing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yG5gZppfto

v chill

Thanks! I'm ever aiming for that elusive chill-but-not-boring zone

my most recent embarrassing display of incompetence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVoeQx3i9sM

actually rather proud of this one, even if it was made a total poseur chump.

I love the flutes in this!

Austin you really need to stop with the brutal self-deprecation, it's not good for anyone

thank you so much for listening. not actually real flute! it's one of the presets in my yamaha mx49. fun synth — a literal library of sounds, some better than others! i wish i knew more about its full functionality.

also thank you for saying so jordan. i'm mostly joking. i actually really like my own music, but i'm completely an amateur, so it's necessary to stay present and understand the context.

if anyone cares, here's the rest of that ep. i think this is probably my favorite thing i've done over the past year or so and it really does feel like an expression of how i feel about the world presently. i am music, blah blah blah, you guys rule.

this is sounding really nice with a cup of coffee on a chilled Saturday morning, well done on this

👐

thank you so much for listening.

Been working on a lockdown covers record for the best part of a year, first one out of the gate is a version of JJ Burnell's batshit 'Freddie Laker'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EuYn8xgF28

https://shreddedsun.bandcamp.com/album/sos-phantoms

four short rock songs by me, my wife, and our friend, recorded quickly and then slowly

Enjoyed it. "Skyway" made me think a bit of Mary Timony.

thanks for listening! i was going for power pop on that one but i am a timony fan

Sounds great NA, great to hear the classic lineup back together.

I did my annual serious jazz gig backing up trumpeter Ler0y Jones, and it was definitely the best one so far. Pandemic pad practice apparently paid off, since I felt more able to relax, breathe, and listen while playing. Sounds so simple, but it can be so hard when your body is not doing what you want it to do.

Short clips here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CXriWMZv0z2/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CX128QGPF46/

Cool.

Nice, Jordan!

short new ep: https://austinato.bandcamp.com/album/ace-sides-ep

I dig this, Austin. Really warm and lovely vibe.

Here's my latest ambient doodle:

https://foundriver.bandcamp.com/track/waterglow

Been going to back to my roots and playing a lot of Clyde Stubblefield-type beats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSb1SXsX1mw

https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAIn2xlBOA/

That style always made sense to me because I'm actually left-handed. :) And it's a lot more fun to pretend it's the '70s rather than practicing the super linear, displaced gospel chops style that's in vogue now.

Funky stuff! Do drummers usually keep time with the right hand? I don't play (I wish I had the sort of living space where I could), but I'm always trying to understand technique so I can apply it to beat programming.

Right-handed drummers do, yeah. The right hand is generally playing more notes on the hi-hat/ride, while the left is on the snare. I'm left-handed but learned righty, so I've always had more trouble with faster right-hand parts. Taught myself to lead with the left (ie left hand on the hi-hat) for certain types of beats, but it never feels quite as comfortable coordination-wise.

I broke my thumbnail so spent a little more time with a pick and finally got this first section of Django's "Minor Swing' solo up to tempo last night: https://soundcloud.com/sund(a)r-subramanian/django-reinhardt-solo-from-minor-swing-excerpt

Remove the brackets from my first name in that URL.

Working on a thing for the first time in a very long time: https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply/in-my-room

Cool groove! Could use some vocals over it. Feels like Violater-era DM track.

Yeah, I thinking vocals would help it out. My own voice isn't fit for purpose, unfortunately.

Uploaded a live recording of William Walton's Bagatelle no. 2 from a Zoom event from a few months ago. Still mean to do a proper recording of a bunch of classical repertoire this spring now that I have decent condenser mics at home (not used here).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPAI1SxXIWA

Embraced middle age by jamming out this standard on my birthday (remove brackets):
https://soundcloud.com/sund(a)r-subramanian/it-never-entered-my-mind