What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

thanks!

yeah nice work dude

stålar is excellent!!

drum machine + acoustic guitar

http://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/gabriel-ii

i stumbled across a folder of recordings i made between 2003 and 2008, occasionally interesting often boring, quite curious as to what 20-year-old me was trying to do on this inscrutable rhythm experiment https://soundcloud.com/eeeeeein/when-yr-256-11-06-2005

https://soundcloud.com/constantlightduo/constant-light-young-trucks

*not one of my long droney things, i promisx

Meant to say so earlier but I really love that one Sash!

I've been channeling some sort of moosh of Siouxsie and Savages with this thing that I did. I like the drums I programmed. Its been fun singing in my natural loweer register again too.

https://soundcloud.com/neverembers/last-chance

(see Jim I fixed the fuxed URL even!)

haw

I like it!

yeah! sounds good. I like the creepy synth chords.

Thanks! :) Yah I had that sort of slightly goth 80s new wave thing in mind, I suppose. Sytrus has some really nice synth pads built in (which is what I use for most of my synth work at the moment - nice FLStudio plugin).

Love your voice Trayce

Three ILXors tribute Throbbing Gristle

https://soundcloud.com/constantlightduo/constant-light-human-leg

Was just listeining to this anyway as it happens - its good stuff.

https://soundcloud.com/earlnash/garden-of-delights

This is a mash of some old electronic tracks I made back around 2001-2003. I always seemed to get caught in a box on my tracks and couldn't get them to change, so I would end up with all of these fragments.

best bit of 'walkabout' cover is that i always thought the original could've gone another minute longer. now our versh does!

got a Blue Nessie mic and been doing some recording when the mood strikes me.

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/4a8k4qv94ax0xoz/Ehh_-_Nothingman.mp3 <------- two take version of Pearl Jam's "Nothingman", recorded on a day when I was feeling particularly emo

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/6vac7m124m193p9/Ehh_-_End_Of.mp3 <------ acapella first verse and chorus of Boyz II Men's "End of the Road". never finished because it took so long just to get this much done, but perhaps some day.

First release in quite a while

https://f0.bcbits.com/img/a0689165769_2.jpg

https://iceageproductions.bandcamp.com/album/bereitschaftspotential

first playing session in a couple of months, ages spent fiddling around heading nowhere but i think i ended up somewhere 'nice' if maybe unexciting. (also some volume problems messed up the recording a bit, bah.)

https://soundcloud.com/eeeeeein/gtr7

Cool stuff! Kind of reminds me of some of Keiji Hanio's dreamier outings.

ah, thanks, a very flattering comparison!

I recorded a Varnaline cover: https://soundcloud.com/scarequotes-1/the-hammer-goes-down. Rough and dirty.

^^^ i like it!! i listened to it twice.

i decided to post a song i threw together yesterday on fb (mostly so my far-flung friends who are too busy to ask what i'm up to can see/hear that i am doing something without me forcing myself on them)
i'm guessing that most of my friends would either outright hate it or find it repulsive in one way or another, but i wonder how many made it to the end? it was fun to play. the drums parts/cymbals are me; the rest is three themes from the "days of our lives" soundtrack. it sounds like sleazy incidental music for a 70s movie. i like it! i don't expect very many other people to like it though. it's an admittedly rocky start but gets better as it goes. at least i think so. i'm learning! i can't learn without throwing myself out there like this so please ignore me if you hate amateurish things.

https://soundcloud.com/marshmallowy/days_of_our_and_light2

I listened to the whole thing & thought it was great! I like cheesy library music though.

me too -- i was trolling through the albums on iTunes and stumbled on days of our lives and thought why not?! i feel really at home with cheesy library music for some reason.

also thanks! i think i'm a little overly proud of this because i had never played those three songs together before, so i somehow managed to make that happen after i had pressed record without trying very hard, which kind of made me feel O_O even though it's probably not a big deal to most ppl who play instruments.

Really digging this, LL. Your drumming adds a lot of mystery and tension.

Thanks! There's one spot that is my favorite part because it's the part in other songs when I would always feel like "aw yeah" when I was walking down the sidewalk. What a pleasure to make my own! Thank you for listening and for feedback!

i've ruined another song by adding an unsolicited drum part -- this time it's a 14th c dance tune! I think it sounds kinda cool though. Ruining songs is my new musical hobby until I have some new songs to play.
https://soundcloud.com/marshmallowy/trefontanetbn

ha, that sounds quite cool. your contributions don't sound out of place.

i don't know when to shut the hell up but amidst the sloppiness i think there are some quite nice bits in the first six minutes or so of this: https://soundcloud.com/eeeeeein/lofivol

https://soundcloud.com/ndiags/gravity

thanks! i think i understand why people go away into the woods to record things in cabins now -- isolation helps nurture crazy ideas?

I'm starting to get a little worried about the isolation thing. I don't think the walls are supposed to breathe like that if you're not on something.

i have dehumidifiers in the basement -- they take care of the walls

trying to find a new baritone song to prep for auditions (either theatre or choral/musical) and decided on "Lonely Room" from Oklahoma. recorded it to see how it sounded, here's how it came out. ignore the melodramatic bit at the end, and also there are two bars missing because the karaoke track is flawed and speeds up too fast for anybody to sing them prior to the last bar.

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/6u4yha4b6xkocn3/Ehh_-_Lonely_Room.mp3

My album is up on spotify:

https://play.spotify.com/album/6Y7ZbQ4v3mUZnwx8BNaAbH?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

Finally, something that I'm happy enough with: https://soundcloud.com/the-manitoba-no-reply/south-coast

^^^ same sentiment for this: http://automating.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-burst

I dug that btw, kbp

thx for the kind feedback, dogg

yeah, sounding good kbp! south coast seems like a chill place

and nice work on yours as well, S-. i've tried to use a detuned piano so many times and it never seems to work, but it sounds great on your track!

i've ruined another song by adding an unsolicited drum part -- this time it's a 14th c dance tune! I think it sounds kinda cool though. Ruining songs is my new musical hobby until I have some new songs to play.
https://soundcloud.com/marshmallowy/trefontanetbn

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Finally got around to listening to this. What a cool idea! Your hi-hat work is pretty great; lotta nuance happening.

i think playing to recordings and then recording that is pretty much the best thing you can do for learning good time, musicality, etc.

i've got a new track out on a label compilation, something i did late last year to fill a gap in my live set that turned out kinda ok - http://soundcloud.com/chantssound/saturnine

whoa thanks! i have been working on finer movements and practicing super hard with multiple bounce strokes and moving around the kit when i do the, i dunno, calisthenics/power hour portion of my practice. then i find that the other stuff is so much easier and i can focus on sounding good or doing more interesting things. i have always liked that song and so i figured why not add a little something. i hope it's not offensive to the people who made the original recordings. it's not, right? i mean, as long as the original recorded version doesn't have the drum part that i'm playing?

i have learned so much and it's almost my 1 yr anniversary, so it means a lot to hear from people about what it sounds like. i am really trying hard to get over the embarrassment portion of putting myself out there, and this is helping a lot!

also jordan i love the no no no no NO part
your songs always sound so professional

thanks! i'm finally (like just in the last 6 months) feeling like i can make good-sounding mixes of my own material, although a lot of that has to do with using fewer & better sounds to start with.

Thanks Karl. It's not, uh, *meant* to be a detuned piano, rather the only piano that was around. I'd say if anything it's my playing that the most detuned.

Otherwise, me and user Haitch have a new band, saving the world from the utter crapness of World Cup themes!

https://soundcloud.com/constantlightduo/the-big-men-with-a-good-touch-official-2014-world-cup-theme

i hope it's not offensive to the people who made the original recordings. it's not, right? i mean, as long as the original recorded version doesn't have the drum part that i'm playing?

I can't imagine the people who did the original would find it offensive. I'd think a lot of artists would welcome creative additions/repurposings.

Also, Jordan, cool track! Really eerie (in a good way).

Couple of (relatively) new things on my page: a Lou Reed cover for a WFMU show and an excerpt from my new 7".

first new track in forever (god, i say that every time now, sad):

https://soundcloud.com/weinventyou/gimme-more

the only mopey synthpop song for no one that ends with a lawnmower sample

that's excellent!

it's really poignant!