March 18

Lea

Something we recorded a bit more properly than we usually manage in the rehearsal room at the start of the year [more inside]

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posted by multivalent at 4:12 PM - 1 comment

March 13

Waiting Room (Yanni's version)

I woke up this morning and weighed my options. Should I do some work, or record a Yanni-style version of the Fugazi classic Waiting Room? I chose the latter. [more inside]

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posted by umbú at 7:45 AM - 3 comments

March 11

Check The Drain

Back with some new modular action - pretty simple patch with a delay as a sound source. [more inside]

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posted by q*ben at 7:40 PM - 1 comment

February 24

Dotted Lines

A weird shambolic mess of a song about so-called real life intruding on my attempts to appreciate the miracle of existence, the wonder and improbability of life including my own, the majestic splendor of the natural world, blah blah blah [more inside]

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posted by valrus at 7:16 PM - 1 comment

February 17

Hungry Eyes / I Want the End of the World

Little bit of angry background folk punk. Quick and dirty. Double feature, today. Mostly recorded while lying down and being sad. Lyrics in fold. [more inside]

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posted by es_de_bah at 6:32 AM - 2 comments

February 9

Tomorrow Is A Highway

My a cappella cover of a 1949 folk song ("Tomorrow Is A Highway" -- words by Lee Hays, music by Pete Seeger) that I love. [more inside]

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posted by brainwane at 7:40 AM - 1 comment

February 2

The sun has got to shine through all this rain

When joy is so close to the surface, when love is right there sitting too, the road to love another is so short, the path of the heart so true. [more inside]

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posted by Sreiny at 1:04 PM - 1 comment

February 1

I Thought You Knew

Here's another song from the new Coffee Sergeants album Racing Shadows. The drums, bass & guitars are live, take 2 or 3, no edits. Keys and vocals overdubbed the next day. [more inside]

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posted by Devils Rancher at 6:40 PM - 4 comments

January 30

Grandhorse

Soothin' synths

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posted by CarrotAdventure at 11:14 PM - 1 comment

January 7

Wanda's Vision

"Everyone is watching Wandavision but only the wise are listening to Wanda's Vision" - Waikiki Wanda

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posted by CarrotAdventure at 8:19 AM - 1 comment

Selling Tickets

Winter brings that torpor. Here's a slackrock song. Oldish song. Very old riff in the bridge Bouncy, tho. [more inside]

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posted by es_de_bah at 5:44 AM - 2 comments

January 2

Don't Look Back in Anger - Voice Memo Oasis Cover

One of my favorite Oasis songs. Just a quick little cover using my iPhone's voice memo app and the built-in microphone. [more inside]

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posted by Doleful Creature at 5:45 PM - 4 comments

December 31

Everything’s Gonna Be Better On Day One

A writer for Rolling Stone once described Devo as sounding like “fascist clowns”. This is kind of like that.

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posted by spudsilo at 5:14 PM - 2 comments

December 24

Into The Sky

Title track from an instrumental album I just finished. Details inside. [more inside]

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posted by AppleSeed at 2:20 PM - 2 comments

December 11

The New Folk Hero

Well, there's a new folk hero out there, as discussed elsewhere. [more inside]

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posted by limeonaire at 8:13 AM - 5 comments

December 8

Bruce went to CBGBs (to see Suicide)

I just learned that Bruce Springsteen was a huge fan of the synth-punk band Suicide in the late 1970s and used to rock out right up at the stage at their shows in NYC. I decided to do my first weekend recording bender in a while in an effort to assimilate that unlikely factoid. [more inside]

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posted by umbú at 9:29 PM - 4 comments

November 25

Nerds by The Great Disappointment

This song came from a thought that had been kicking around my head for several years, but then turned into a song all at once when I stumbled across the bassline. "When I was a kid I thought the nerds would take over and things would get better. That was half right."

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posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 5:42 PM - 0 comments

November 17

Angel of Love, by The Great Disappointment

Here is a new lyric video I just posted. This song, Angel of Love, is a satirical love song to the military industrial complex and a sardonic celebration of drone murder. And there's some sweet trumpet and Fender Rhodes.

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posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 7:34 AM - 0 comments

November 16

Untitled Chiptune Suite

This is a short (just over 2 minutes) chiptune piece with three distinct moods and melodies arranged into four segments played on a Sega Master System. It's got a nice bop when required, and the melancholy section was a little bit inspired by the theme to Metroid II. [more inside]

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posted by The Great Big Mulp at 5:08 PM - 6 comments

November 9

He’s Got A Bad Ass Truck

A little driving music for the Trump II era.

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posted by spudsilo at 7:22 AM - 3 comments

November 8

The People's Fanfare for the New Kakistocracy (excerpt)

I am so sad, angry and confused by the recent US election result that I created this: a fitting fanfare from the people of the rest of the world. It is puerile and disgusting. [more inside]

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posted by scruss at 10:20 PM - 3 comments

Algorithm by The Great Disappointment

https://youtu.be/iTw4VJBx5BU
Above is a lyric video we put together last week. This is a song from an album I recorded this summer that was supposed to be a solo project but then turned into a band.

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posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 6:25 PM - 3 comments

November 7

12 Minute Travelogues - Jaunt 12 - Miles To Go

The last piece from 12 Minute Travelogues, an ambient music collection of twelve twelve-minute pieces about travel, being elsewhere, and daydreaming. [more inside]

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posted by sonascope at 9:57 AM - 0 comments

November 3

Way Station

My "new" band The Coffee Sergeants. The first single off our new album, Racing Shadows. [more inside]

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posted by Devils Rancher at 7:05 PM - 1 comment

02 - red sunset in detroit - vampire deer

the melonhead goes to the big town - more ambient, chaotic stuff for the other half of the album

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posted by pyramid termite at 4:53 PM - 0 comments

October 31

01 - melonhead - vampire deer

this is a long, chaotic, dissonant track that just goes and goes into space [more inside]

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posted by pyramid termite at 3:43 PM - 2 comments

October 29

Play Guns

Continuing my ambition of actually finishing and posting projects, here's a little love letter to the early 90s. Still has spooky themes! The drums are fine. Could have spent another year doing them properly. Lyrics in the fold. [more inside]

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posted by es_de_bah at 5:57 AM - 3 comments

October 26

Interference

Little loop with some programmed drums, playing with waveshape [more inside]

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posted by q*ben at 2:42 PM - 2 comments

October 22

Beach II

DX7 with effects. Supported by the JX-8P with Juno Chorus I turned ON

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posted by CarrotAdventure at 11:18 PM - 0 comments

October 20

Dyscalyptus

A short, somewhat creepy guitar-arpeggio-centric near-instrumental. [more inside]

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posted by valrus at 8:44 PM - 2 comments

October 17

Saint Voorhees

Quick and dirty lofi folk song. I think it has enough spooky themes to work for October. Lyrics in the fold. Kinda like the lyrics. [more inside]

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posted by es_de_bah at 9:14 PM - 3 comments

October 15

rhubarb groove mix

rhubarb filtered and delayed

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posted by jchgf at 9:26 PM - 0 comments

October 14

woken

Still messing around with the updated rig but trying to get more involved with melodies and overall arrangement. The DX7 and the Korg Monologue are both deadly for leads/melodies and FL Studio's famous Sytrus VST came in handy to provide a last-minute pad before exporting the final mix.

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posted by CarrotAdventure at 9:05 PM - 1 comment

October 9

Maddie Tait

Continued first forays with the DX7

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posted by CarrotAdventure at 8:27 PM - 1 comment

October 6

Dee Ex

Finally acquired a DX7 :D

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posted by CarrotAdventure at 10:17 PM - 0 comments

Skisk Skisk Skisk

I wanted to participate in the 666th Disquiet Junto, so took by first idea and first takes to get this song done. It's built around "six" in reverse sounding like "skisk".

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posted by ignignokt at 7:22 PM - 2 comments

October 5

Beachhead

Transposed melodies [more inside]

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posted by q*ben at 3:15 PM - 0 comments

October 4

Caterpillar

This song, Caterpillar, is the first single from "Apocalypse Pickin' Party" by The Great Disappointment. I think the central theme/metaphor is pretty obvious. We have also released a lyric video here. CONTENT WARNING: there is no graphic violence shown but it sure is implied.

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posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 6:39 PM - 2 comments

October 3

looptober day 3: Bergamot

Mefite aubilenon requested a loop for Bergamot, a cat of strong emotions.

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posted by moonmilk at 8:29 PM - 1 comment

October 2

looptober day 2: hrose

I asked for assignments or suggestions and for this one I chose the assignment "hrose".

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posted by moonmilk at 8:22 PM - 0 comments

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