ILX Compilation v6: FREESTYLER - rock your microphone

Hello.... let's do one!
(previous discussions here
ILX Compilation v4: Tiny Music (Deadline/Submissions/etc!!))

This time round there is no restrictions, no theme, no nuttin', freestylin'

• You can submit any song you like, please to send to ilxfreesty✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧. I'd highly suggest either an uncompressed WAV or AIFF, You can also send a high-bitrate MP3 if you'd like, I guess (like 256+). If there's a file size problem drop a note I'm sure we can sort it out somehow.
• Ideally please keep to one song per ilxor
• I am going to set the deadline of Sunday, March 2nd, giving you slightly less than two months. It's the end of a weekend so all you last-minute folk can still throw something together, it can also coincide if you're doing FAWM I suppose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Album_Writing_Month ??

the email address should be

ilxfreestyler @ gmail dot com

Yah mo b there

YAY!!! \(-_-)/

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I'd highly suggest either an uncompressed WAV or AIFF, You can also send a high-bitrate MP3 if you'd like, I guess (like 256+)

Are FLAC format files OK?

Yes! That whole bit was copied from the ILX compilation v4 thread but I can't see why not. It's likely to end up on soundcloud which would accept any of those formats

have asked lollerators to update

I'm in!

So am I.

So far I see....

1. ken c
2. Tom D.
3. Karl Malone
4. snoball

1. ken c
2. Tom D.
3. Karl Malone
4. snoball
5. imago (from ILAFL)

I'M IN

HERE WE GO, LET'S ROCK AND ROLL

Hello, Mark G here..

i'll bite. count *clap* me in

Been a long time, sort of: I think Vol 5 was the xmas one..

just a bit of fun ;)

1. ken c
2. Tom D.
3. Karl Malone
4. snoball
5. imago (from ILAFL)
6. Stevie D
7. Mark G
8. andrew m.

Count me in too please Ken

Hmm, not sure. I'd consider a collaboration, maybe, but I have no real ideas at the moment - I actually prefer working to constraints. /childofdogme

1. ken c
2. Tom D.
3. Karl Malone
4. snoball
5. imago (from ILAFL)
6. Stevie D(eux)
7. Mark G
8. andrew m.
9. MaresNest

emil.y i know! i prefer constraints too but i think i'll give it a try this time. maybe we can give each other a constraint to work to (ooh er)

I clicked onto this tab to see the last few posts and for a second thought I was in the Dead Pool thread, wee bit O_O.

Since I'm here already you can count me in too.

There's our theme then, the last song you will ever write

what, no theme?? I'm in anyways.

xp emil.y -- what if we collaborated on a song about constraints?

i have an idea and if it starts to sound better rather than worse, i might contribute

1. ken c
2. Tom D.
3. Karl Malone
4. snoball
5. imago (from ILAFL)
6. Stevie D(eux)
7. Mark G
8. andrew m.
9. MaresNest
10. Merdeyeux
11. Trayce

Maybes
- sarahell (possibly feat emil.y)
- La Lechera

I'm not a maybe. specifics are a maybe, but I'm definitely in.

cool!

1. ken c
2. Tom D.
3. Karl Malone
4. snoball
5. imago (from ILAFL)
6. Stevie D(eux)
7. Mark G
8. andrew m.
9. MaresNest
10. Merdeyeux
11. Trayce
12. sarahell (maybe feat emil.y)

Maybe
- La Lechera

i'm also available as a very simple rhythm section if anyone needs one
not tied to this idea by any means

xp emil.y -- what if we collaborated on a song about constraints?

― sarahell, Tuesday, January 7, 2014 9:56 PM (Yesterday)

Okay, I'm up for this. Bear in mind I'm not very good at anything. Might use it as an excuse to try to make up one of my Maplin 'horrible screechy noise' kits (this kind of thing), though I'm a bit worried about trying to solder with a cat in the house.

put me in as a maybe. i have countless half assed ideas that may coalesce into at least two thirds of an ass

Thats the spirit! (heh thats how I operate as well. I'm hoping all the inevitable half-thought-out scraps that end up as my WeeklyBeat submissions can be fodder for songs later)

would someone like to give me a constraint? i'm getting performance anxiety two months in advance.

the only thing you can use are samples from a single tv episode

as long as i can slather them in reverb and delay i'm okay with that.

it would be fun(ny) if the constraint was your song had to be about/inspired by an ilx thread, and that would be the title.

can mine be 27 hours long

only if your song is "say what up to u mans and dem"

nah mine would be dude dude is close

1. ken c
2. Tom D.
3. Karl Malone
4. snoball
5. imago
6. Stevie D(eux)
7. Mark G
8. andrew m.
9. MaresNest
10. Merdeyeux
11. Trayce
12. sarahell (feat emil.y)

Maybe
- La Lechera
- electricsound
- crüt

put me down as a maybe.

il do 1

i will be memorizing a single column of the yellow pages

Maybe. But it's been so long since I even cracked my DAW I'm not sure if anything will even emerge.

Good comp so far...

1. ken c
2. Tom D.
3. Karl Malone
4. snoball
5. imago
6. Stevie D(eux)
7. Mark G
8. andrew m.
9. MaresNest
10. Merdeyeux
11. Trayce
12. sarahell (feat emil.y)
13. color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that

Maybe
- La Lechera
- electricsound
- crüt
- get bent
- Branwell Bell

But it's been so long since I even cracked my DAW

Say what?

it gots to be an acapella ???

and what constitutes a freestyle????

ill mk a tite joint, with improvised lyrics..

Yet to get to listen to this, am at work - but thanks for the props guys :) I was worried ppl would think I desecrated Eno :(

the fact the 10 on Arsh's shirt is canted in the same italicised way as the title makes it look like this album is called Freestyler 10

this is bugging me

the compilation is absolutely a grower tho

the fact the 10 on Arsh's shirt is canted in the same italicised way as the title makes it look like this album is called Freestyler 10
this is bugging me
― imago, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:35 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know - noticed that, but then couldn't be arsed to update it thought it was more interesting that way

Have managed to hear about half of this so far. Great stuff! Well done all!

tom d - who is hans krankl?

The track was originally called "Franz Klammer", and so tied in with the Winter Olympics, but in a fit of pique I suggested ken rename it "Hans Krankl" as the release date crept ever closer to the start of the (football) World Cup and the Winter Olympics 2014 became a distant memory. Hans Krankl being the most famous Austrian footballer of the 70s (as Klammer was the most famous Austrian downhill skier of the 70s). I wish I hadn't now as "Franz Klammer" is more appropriate and a better title!

it totally sounds like the winter olympics! i really liked it.

would you like me to change it back Tom? I can see what can be done..

also the blurbs (only 2 songs have one) have been added to the "comments" tag of the .flac file but again this doesn't show on soundcloud i think

Well, change it back if you can ken

i'll give it a go - hopefully doesn't take me 2 months ;)

Just had a listen, very good work everyone.

hope otamatone will feature in the next one

Track three: I don't think Can ever did dub reggae, but if they had...

They did reggae for sure. That track is totally 1979/80... which is a major compliment in my book.

Ah, I meant with Damo. But, yes.

yeah not to blow our collective trumpet too much but this whole album is str8 fucken awesome and I been listening to it front-to-back on a v v regular basis

particularly enamoured w/ ken's, NBS' and trayce's

thanks, btw

Yeah it's a good track. How come you had it sitting around for twenty years? What was it initially?

I just made demos on a four-track in the 90s with my guitar, a second hand drum machine and a mate's bass if I could borrow it. They weren't really for anything, there wasn't ever going to be a group or a live performance or anything. That track is a reworking of something from about 1994, done in about 2000 or 2001 when I was in Italy (so without access to a bass). I think the master cassette was getting very near the end when I recorded it, which has made it sound a bit wobbly, but it's just about get-away-able-with.

that's awesome! i liked the song a lot too.

I haven't done anything since 2001/02. I bought a Focusrite interface thing* a while back which came with Ableton Live Lite, with the intention of trying to start recording things again. I even bought a keyboard with drum pad things on. But there never seems to be enough time to learn how anything works or how to play it.

*clearly I know nothing about the technicalities

ffs trayce i thought yours was an original composition :P

it's a good cover tbf

ill mk a tite joint, with improvised lyrics..

― ronnie jotten (color definition point of "beyond "color, eg a transient that), Thursday, January 9, 2014 2:15 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so bummed this never happened btw

I've decided I like Ken C's the most, because of the amusingly daft lyrics

control-z control-z control-z control-z

Hahah thanks LJ :)

Cheers NBS! :)

Jesus, two years since this. Anybody feel like doing it again?

Volume Seven?

I think the morrissey pre-cover was the last one, oh wait it was the New Order one..

Anyway, it does feel like its time for Vol 7, doesn't it?

FAWM is right around the corner

and the new garageband is here

would be up for this, we have a nice selection of instruments to crank out

my contribution to this one banged so hard if i may pull a deems here

mine was gentle but insidious.

After a decade and a half of inactivity, I've made four new tunes over the last year so I can stick something on V7 should it ever happen

Numbers are growing.

I'll give it a go

If you make a new thread, they will come.

Or not.

Making a new thread might confer stewardship and I am but a song and dance man.

I thought that's what dl was sayin'

Oh, right, I see, maybe he has more of the entrepreneurial spirit than me.

my contribution to this one banged so hard if i may pull a deems here

― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a truck (imago)

You may not.

is there going to be a theme or anything? I was feeling vaguely inspired by pplains' misdirected email post the other day.

I'm up for one of these, even tho I no longer have my lovely studio mic. Its been a year or 2 since I did any tunes :(

They're doing an ILX pre-cover now, the Pet Shop Boys "Whoopee" or whatever it's called.

Super. No that's what the album is called.

ILX Pre-Covers Pet Shop Boys' "Super"

Sabertooth Dream is playing a show next month.

They're doing an ILX pre-cover now, the Pet Shop Boys "Whoopee" or whatever it's called.

Oh well, that's the end of that then. See you all in another two years.

It's a date