What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

And I made some new tracks!

https://soundcloud.com/pluwa

Thanks, paolo. Some cool beats there. Some of it reminded me a little of Plastikman stuff I used to listen to.

Thank you!

Here's a new slab of downtempo neo-kosmiche whatevercore from yours truly:

https://foundriver.bandcamp.com/track/more-old-dreams

I labored over the mix for days and I'm still not really happy with it :(
Nevertheless, enjoy!

That's good! Mix sounds fine to me

Feeling King Boy Pato's EBM style jam above too!

Thank you! Have done another EBM-ish thing: https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply/mitsubishi-city

Recorded a few standard classical guitar repertoire pieces (Bach, Tàrrega, Villa-Lobos) over the weekend to promote teaching and event gigs ahead of the summer. All complete single takes: https://soundcloud.com/sund(a)r-subramanian/sets/music-from-the-standard-classical-guitar-repertoire

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Something? A little different?: https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply/low-sky

thank you for reminding me of my favorite novel by that author

x-post thanks for the link

this is a mini lp i made of orchestral pieces to pitch for soundtracks/sync licensing

Wow, that sounds very pro, hope you get some gigs!

Here's me trying to generate a forcefield of notes.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfHMr2mAUjk/

As discussed on another IMM thread, it's amazing how real red light fever is even when recording on a phone in my own house, for zero stakes. Although I think it's worse when playing alone, I'm much less likely to choke when playing along to actual music in a studio or with a band. Anyway it's good to record yourself as a reality check whenever you think you may be in danger of sounding good. :)

that is very nice to hear jordan, thank you! i'm still searching for libraries where i feel like my stuff would fit well, but im hopeful

the last couple of weeks ive been doing a few ambient/orchestral songs, so here they are

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/sets/julambience

Something? A little different?: https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply/low-sky

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Like it!

i finally got some free time to record again and made it about halfway through a cover of a willie nelson deep cut:

https://on.soundcloud.com/yb8z

Did this version of "The Nearness of You" a while ago (remove brackets):
https://soundcloud.com/sund(a)r-subramanian/nearness-of-you

Coming out of the rabbit hole of recording & mixing drum breaks for this sample pack:
https://chants.bandcamp.com/album/drum-basement-breakbeat-sample-pack-vol-1

Learned a lot on the mixing side especially, I think the results are pretty good for one microphone. Would love to another one in the future, maybe being more meticulous and varied about the sound of the drums themselves (I wasn't too fussy aside from adding some muffling, the mic placement was fairly haphazard as well).

Ooh, those drums sound nice, Jordan. I may use some of these!

Here's a new 30-minute mix of whateverthefuck it is I do:

https://soundcloud.com/found-river/woodshed-tales

Thanks! That's very nice sounding stuff, you should put it on youtube with anime clips because that's presumably how you get the big beat bucks?

i made another set of gong songs
if you only want to listen to one, i recommend #20. i think it's the best one. https://on.soundcloud.com/oaUT3

Some good stuff here folks! Number 20 is the best one on the playlist above

I put some new tracks up if anybody is interested. It's not often I get a bit emotional at one of my own tunes (in fact it's never happened before) but the vocal samples on Longer get to me, it's French people talking about being trans and I am going through my Difficult Trans Phase rn. Not really sure about most of what they're saying tbh

https://soundcloud.com/pluwa

Hi folks--I made something almost embarrassingly stupid, because I needed to:

https://on.soundcloud.com/rtsw3

happy holidays!

loool, it's perfect.

I played my annual serious jazz gig backing up a master trumpet player, which is also my annual test of where the floor of my playing is. It was definitely the most relaxed and in control I've felt on one of these gigs, pretty swinging, just a couple moments where I let the time sag a touch (and only on uptempo tunes interestingly, I held the line on all the awkwardly mid-tempo tunes and not-too-slow ballads). That's the thing about playing with a master rather than your peers, if the tempo isn't right, it's *noted* instantly. It was generally a successful night though, always a learning experience but nothing that's going to haunt me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzRS4hzBNt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0bFbrXQlhs

Now back to computer music and recording projects, thankfully. :)

Little holiday funsies w "You're a Mean One, Mr Grinch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9hjFURlyOA

Here's the very first mini-album of the nonsense that I keep plugging away at: https://themanitobanoreply.bandcamp.com/album/you-lived-in-princess-street

Some fine electro workings on there, to my ears!

Thank you for the very kind words!

decided to do my first project in Logic using all in-the-box efx and modellers, ended up spending way too much time on this joke but i think it turned out way better than it has a right to be

https://houseofsleep.bandcamp.com/track/runaway-train-new-wave-version

got a new album of independent rock and roll music coming out at the end of the month, but we've got two tracks up already on bandcamp: https://shreddedsun.bandcamp.com/album/each-dot-and-each-line

https://shreddedsun.bandcamp.com/album/each-dot-and-each-line

full album out today. 12 indie rock songs in 37 minutes. lots of guitars, lots of hooks. there's a slide guitar solo on one song.

Great to hear the band back together!

yeah i like this

thanks dudes! it was a fun album to make. i'd been shouldering most of the songwriting burden on the other recordings we had done in recent years (sarah writes songs too but tends to work slowly), but our drummer ben suddenly decided to write songs for this one. it was so nice having another person contributing tunes and it was a trip singing his lyrics and playing his guitar parts (i tend to be really chordy in my songwriting but he's more about leads and riffs)

yeah well done NA and gang! golden void and crushed are hitting the spot.

i accidentally bought it when i was logged out of bandcamp so i won't be able to integrate it into the rest of my bandcamp collection (if anyone has any fixes on that let me know!)

https://ncxkd.bandcamp.com/track/--20

Some Bill LaBounty vaporwave

Ain't been doing the uke covers much but dusted off some Lightfoot the other day

Gonna maybe see about trying to write some originals to deal with the glut of thoughts in my head. We'll see!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW5LCfM3UJA

I’m going to be in a concert tonight at 5 PM ET of soloists singing songs by Daniel Pinkham. It will be live-streamed and published here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ky2M5EqC9A

djp timestamp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ky2M5EqC9A

you killed it!

Thank you!

Put out a new sample pack of breakbeats & drum recordings, this one was more fun to make and tbh it feels much easier to get producers interested in a resource than to get anyone to listen to a new song, or DJs to check out a new track (even a promo). Much less saturated.

(https://chants.bandcamp.com/album/drum-basement-breakbeat-sample-pack-vol-2)

i recently set everything of mine to private because reasons, but decided to bring a few favorites back to youtube (including my rescinded contribution to the ilm post-covid comp). idk, i like some of my recordings. think of it as novelty music, inspired by smooth jazz or children's songs; commercial jingles from an alternate timeline. it was all created to listen to very loud on headphones while walking outside on a very hot day, so i've titled the playlist "music for walking." thanks for listening.

I pulled myself away from Baldur's Gate 3 long enough to finish something:

https://on.soundcloud.com/ookg9

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tl;dr- first new recording in six+ months. new recording, old song. i'm having a hard time reconciling that i've written a song i like and am proud of. see song info for more downer diary entries.

i hate that i keep posting in here. and in the nicest possible way: i really don't give a fuck if anyone ever hears a single note of my music ever. i don't ever want any of my music on a physical format. if anyone ever tried to give me any sort of compensation for any of my music, i may become personally offended. an ilxor who shall remain unnamed reached out to compliment something of mine once and i promptly thanked them, shut down that social media account, and set all of my music to private. making music is just something i do to bide my time amidst the madness, much like posting here.

but god fucking dammit, i know when i've come up with something i like and it's the reason i struggle so much with fucking everything in life. like--- does anybody work on anything because they just like what they're doing? i believe in airy fairy bullshit like robert smith having a normal job after the band didn't work out. and yet, still keeping the old guitar and amp around to play every few months as he can: it's the only way to hear his music.

i've struggled with this sort of thing my entire life but it's time to just drop the charade: i'm proud of a lot of my music. i'm not a very good musician in terms of my playing skill, but i've listened to enough records to know what kinds of chord changes sound cool and moody. and i stick with what i know -- bill evans famously said that's the perfect starting place in music: what you know.

i know some of my songs so well on guitar that i can go for many months without even thinking of a guitar, but play them from memory on the next occasion that arises. some of them are what they are, some are still unfinished with new insights awaiting, and some of them will most likely remain forever sketches; all of them are fun for me to play, no matter the unfinished feeling a lot of them have.

i always thought the song i'm posting about would stay in that last category forever and it's a song i've even posted on ilx before. when it's a song that's been played as much as this one, i have to start to believe it becomes a diary of sorts. anymore, it feels like every time i play it, i add more details to the emotions behind it.

i hate the idea that a song can't change and become better over time. like why is the initial studio recording always treated as the definitive version? what if your songs don't ever really stop ameliorating the more you play them?

my mental health is worse than ever, my heart is in a state of entropy, and my life absolutely influences my music, so when it's something like this, it feels extremely cathartic to say a song i've been exploring for the past five years finally feels finished.

and it also feels like a major fucking jam to me but what do i know, i can't even play the damm thing without flubbing a bunch of notes because i'm 1) too excited about the new revision and 2) too fucking heartbroken about the failed relationship that inspired it to practice.

anyway, thanks for listening. there's a dorian gray-esque "don't get too close to your art" cautionary tale in here somewhere i reckon.
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chips i will definitely check that out when i'm able to focus a bit more efficiently.

I sang a couple of songs a capella at my uncle’s funeral service last month:

No Man Is An Island: https://on.soundcloud.com/Us4fgfWXwzKTutXv7

You’ll Never Walk Alone (the sound guy accidentally started the next song partway through, oops): https://on.soundcloud.com/5tP28awPx1AnA8m29

Some new stuff, feeling very happy with it.

https://themanitobanoreply.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-of-the-false

Some new stuff, feeling very happy with it.

https://themanitobanoreply.bandcamp.com/album/a-moment-of-the-false

― cocaine bear say hi to me (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 10 September 2023 12:34 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I really like it, especially tracks 2 and 3. I love the way the distorted guitar bursts in in track 2, and the combination of low and high synth pads in the right and left channels on certain sections in track 3. (Did you not consider bringing back the higher pad for the ending? Maybe it wouldn't combine well with the guitar.). Also, the treatment of some of the drum sounds during rolls, where those sounds are very delicate, almost like pinpricks, very quiet but clear. Did you just high-pass-filter them, or is there something else that created that effect?

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/for-you

first time recording my voice in ~2 years

https://soundcloud.com/matthewmathieu/for-you🕸

first time recording my voice in ~2 years