May 19
A dilettante's first blush at Ableton Live and a MicrKORG
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posted by lordaych at 3:36 AM - 0 comments
May 18
An old "wall of guitars" rock demo. Come for the fuzz, stay for the drum machine.
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posted by erikgrande at 10:26 PM - 1 comment
May 17
This is about 6 passes of live-looping that all fit together nicely with the same mood (bleak, minimal, meditative) and tonality.
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posted by nameinuse2 at 8:58 PM - 0 comments
song 8 - those square pegs are going to fit in those round holes or ELSE
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posted by pyramid termite at 7:17 PM - 0 comments
Intensely silly.
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posted by chococat at 9:48 AM - 4 comments
May 16
song 7 - someone's always got to be the police ...
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posted by pyramid termite at 3:56 PM - 1 comment
Final version of the rough acoustic demo I posted a few days back. A bit of blue-eyed soul, a bit of BONNY era Prefab Sprout, a bit of TEMPTED era Squeeze and a few 10cc harmonies, and the guitar from Alison. Did I miss anything?
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posted by unSane at 9:55 AM - 3 comments
Delta blues cover of Alt-J Breezeblocks. Consider May's challenge: Accepted.
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posted by AnTilgangs at 8:27 AM - 0 comments
May 15
First song off my new EP, strange psychedelic pop, maybe a little scary
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posted by drmadrigal at 11:23 PM - 2 comments
May 14
Make love like you're going to die.
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posted by Pecinpah at 9:52 PM - 0 comments
May 13
song 6 - a long one with lots of guitar and some screaming
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posted by pyramid termite at 12:31 PM - 0 comments
May 12
A synthy Mother's Day to all!
posted by CarrotAdventure at 5:32 PM - 0 comments
Music I wrote while searching for Minsky's
The Society of Mind. A kind of experimental Baroque for piano.
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posted by bfootdav at 2:14 PM - 0 comments
May 11
This. Is. The. Central. Scrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrutinizer. Now with the spookiest hype men you've ever heard.
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posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 6:55 PM - 0 comments
I think this is the first song I've posted with a guitar solo not done by Dagosto.
posted by CarrotAdventure at 1:26 PM - 0 comments
May 10
In which my Prefab Sprout obsession results in a nakedly sappy love song speculating about the origins and end of the universe.
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posted by unSane at 5:28 PM - 4 comments
Been playing around with synthesis recently - this is the first thing I've made that I'm relatively happy with.
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posted by xchmp at 9:04 AM - 1 comment
May 9
The pulsing drive of this tune unquestionably has a swaying effect and, taken together with this song's layers and subtleties seems to make all the difference. Sway sway sway!!!
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posted by Brodyaga at 7:12 AM - 0 comments
May 8
The next offering in our revisit/completion to the OK Computer challenge; is it troubling to anyone else that I find this version incredibly relaxing
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posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 3:37 PM - 0 comments
May 7
song 5 - so little has changed in 40 years
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posted by pyramid termite at 5:22 PM - 0 comments
This is perhaps one of Ummagma's darker moments, but as the song proceeds, it lets more and more light in. There is a moral to this story, like it or not, but the soundtrack to go with it makes it that much easier to swallow. :)
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posted by Brodyaga at 11:56 AM - 1 comment
To supplement my Music Talk post to the right, I'm looking for a collaborator to take this jam to the next level.
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posted by dobie at 10:30 AM - 0 comments
May 6
A callback for
a year back; the first of
the rest; I promised this track
a while ago.
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posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 9:19 PM - 5 comments
Plink, plink, plonk. I wrote some piano music.
posted by popcassady at 3:56 PM - 3 comments
song 4 - no, you can't give it back cause it won't go away
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posted by pyramid termite at 12:50 PM - 0 comments
A few weeks back I posted
this, which was a bit shit. In trying to turd-polish I eventually scrapped the vocal melody and lyric, opened a mic and this came out. Whether it's any better is anyone's guess, but I do like the juxtaposition of a seemingly sunny melody etc with a sinister lyric.
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posted by Hoops McCann at 11:50 AM - 2 comments
If you let your imagination drift towards southeastern Europe, somewhere wedged between Fellini's Italy and Emir Kusturica's Balkans, and then you put such wanderings into a soundtrack, this is likely what you would end up with - Balkanofellini :)
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posted by Brodyaga at 5:05 AM - 1 comment
May 5
Alternative rock, indie, inspired by Radiohead although it took a different turn and doesn't sound that much like it anymore.
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posted by AnTilgangs at 5:27 PM - 3 comments
If you were to roll up some element of Brian Eno, Robert Fripp and Bill Nelson, and paint it with a slight shoegaze ethereal hue, this might be what you would get… Enjoy this Ummagma track!
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posted by Brodyaga at 4:19 AM - 1 comment
May 3
song 03 - it's difficult when people seem to be so much cooler and together than you
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posted by pyramid termite at 2:06 PM - 2 comments
When a band "dances" on the border between 6 or more musical genres and one of them happens to be progressive rock, the listener is often in for a delightful surprise. Hopefully this song qualifies as one of them. This is "Outside" by Ummagma.
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posted by Brodyaga at 9:49 AM - 3 comments
May 2
A disquieting quasi-ambient piece from January, 1999, which was among my first purely software-synthesized efforts. I think I was listening to a lot of Oval at the time.
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posted by mubba at 7:44 PM - 1 comment
For anyone who loves Tortoise and especially the fired up drive of their first two albums, or maybe Sputniks Down, you will likely love an ear-scoop of this Ummagma track.
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posted by Brodyaga at 12:40 AM - 5 comments
May 1
Some synthpop kids cover Just Can't Get Enough. Others cover Photographic. I'm in the second group.
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posted by infinitewindow at 11:01 PM - 0 comments
song 2 - some ideas just don't catch on so fast - maybe if they'd planted some tulips in front of it ... and painted it green and brown and white with an american flag by it, like the one in holland, mi - but like a dayglo purple green yellow mandala? no ...
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posted by pyramid termite at 1:59 PM - 1 comment
April 30
Little bluesy tune I made back in 2009 with help from some
friendly sheep. For all the flaws in the recording I'm still fond of it.
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posted by capricorn at 6:59 PM - 3 comments
April 29
song 1 of ghost river college pt 2 - which is not as depressing as pt 1 was - a series of snapshots of the mid 70s
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posted by pyramid termite at 3:00 PM - 0 comments
Imagine a carefree diva singing in a non-chalent way as she looks out the window of the passenger side during a road trip. The soundtrack to her ride is based on an indie rock slide-guitar laced tune, which builds in intensity throughout the ride until bang - confusion and collision. That is this Ummagma song in a nutshell, message and all.
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posted by Brodyaga at 1:16 PM - 5 comments
I had a bit of fun with this: it's about a relationship gone wrong. I believe that the dual bass part is rhythmically interesting. Double bass and synth bass rhythmically intertwine and are coupled with a synth trumpet. There may be some Brian Eno influences a la The Drop.
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posted by The Seeds of Autumn at 12:45 AM - 2 comments
April 28
This instrumental explores not only ambiences and walls-of-sound seemingly inspired directly by cosmic travels, but also features electronics, samples, drones, and beautifully melodies peppered with a lot of dissonance, creating sonic tapestries perfectly suited for reflecting, reading an Arthur C. Clarke (or Isaac Asimov) book and taking a journey through the stars. This is Sounds of Sputnik.
posted by Brodyaga at 11:48 AM - 1 comment
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