I think I'm getting the hang of this thing. I got most of the way through comping this out and writing a melody when I realized I liked this better. There's singing eventually. [more inside]

posted by TheNegativeInfluence at 12:11 AM - 1 comment

Happy Autumn

posted by ageispolis at 10:32 PM - 5 comments

Riff rock and college football. [more inside]

posted by erikgrande at 9:50 PM - 1 comment

E-40 + Kamaiyah + MJ

posted by ageispolis at 2:55 PM - 2 comments

A quick sketch 2-bar sample + noodling + multitracking [more inside]

posted by q*ben at 6:36 PM - 0 comments

Pretty proud of the vocals. This is a weird one, but my most haunting song yet. I had an image of a supernatural, quiet kind of nightmare where the narrator has a horrible premonition that something is coming for her, tries to run away, but cannot get far enough.

posted by Bluebird Wine at 2:54 PM - 6 comments

I've had this descending chord progression stuck in my head for a few weeks so I decided to record it and cut it up. Another OP-1 jam. [more inside]

posted by q*ben at 11:11 AM - 2 comments

Unassuming country ballad with high production values. [more inside]

posted by erikgrande at 12:10 AM - 1 comment

Folky, catchy murder ballad. [more inside]

posted by peppercorn at 12:35 PM - 5 comments

Simple post rock instrumental. Guitars, programmed drums, crowd sample. [more inside]

posted by signal at 7:50 AM - 2 comments

New song for the album featuring guitar, horns, strings, piano, drums, crooning [more inside]

posted by Corduroy at 10:35 AM - 5 comments

An astronaut's lament [more inside]

posted by grumpybear69 at 8:02 PM - 4 comments

Dark ambient "uneasy listening" from my new Bandcamp release, 11 Spells. Software and Eurorack synthesizers.

posted by Foosnark at 5:58 AM - 1 comment

It's been a while since I posted any of my new songs here. What do you think of my kind of new direction (and quality of the recording)? Alternative folk-ish, acoustic song with clean vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonies. Sounds happy but the lyrics are not. [more inside]

posted by Bluebird Wine at 1:05 PM - 2 comments

Oh ye gods, Ed's song is ruined! But...what if I were to write parody lyrics and disguise them as his own songwriting? Oh ho ho ho, delightfully devilish, cortex! [more inside]

posted by cortex at 8:57 AM - 6 comments

I'm fairly sure when I picked up my guitar tonight I only intended to practise for a bit, not make a short garage instrumental called The Counterforce, yet here we are. [more inside]

posted by Grangousier at 3:25 PM - 0 comments

I say that I wrote this song the day my son was born. What I mean is that sitting in a hospital room after a day full of chaos, with my partner asleep and safe for now, I opened my computer to stare at the screen and type out the few lines I had in me. I wrote what felt in that moment like advice--the only advice I had to offer to the tiny baby in an incubator in an adjacent wing. After an early morning of liver failure, pacing, sobbing, and an emergency C-section, I didn't have a lot left. [more inside]

posted by Maaik at 8:55 PM - 3 comments

Arpin' again

posted by CarrotAdventure at 1:56 PM - 2 comments

I played around with my uke bass tonight while keeping umbuzinho company as he splashed around in the bath.

posted by umbú at 9:05 PM - 4 comments

Prelude played by flute with piano. Written by Charles Callahan for flute and organ. [more inside]

posted by SemiSalt at 8:30 AM - 0 comments

The Korg Monologue steps forward for a cheeky solo feature! [more inside]

posted by CarrotAdventure at 9:28 PM - 3 comments

A cast-off 30-second demo of a Christmas tune you might recognize. [more inside]

posted by uncleozzy at 4:42 PM - 2 comments

Rerecording of Falling Awake. I'm recording an album (right now!) with a friend, which is very exciting. The direction is very different for me, a kind of uplifting take on my melancholy songs. This one builds, and is heavily indebted to Northern Sky by Nick Drake. Features guitalele, drums, harpsichord, organ, bass, piano, harmonies at the end. We're still recording and this hasn't really been mixed, so all thoughts welcome! [more inside]

posted by Corduroy at 11:37 PM - 2 comments

From the Betty Mitchell Sessions!

posted by CarrotAdventure at 10:46 PM - 1 comment

A crazy cross-collab that took place in late 2011 with the help of my unreal pals, Warren and Danye. Big ups to Dan for finding this one on his laptop! [more inside]

posted by CarrotAdventure at 8:41 PM - 0 comments

That is, I just got an electric guitar for the first time and it features heavily in my new song, "Georgia." Catchy, moody indie folk/folk rock tune.

posted by Bluebird Wine at 9:02 AM - 0 comments

This is one of two plus songs written by mistake/default around iphone wake-up tones. Y'know, you wake up at some godawful hour with that godwaffle loop in your ear and eventually you're going to make something of it. I mean...you'd hope, Godwaffles. You'd hope. [more inside]

posted by es_de_bah at 11:25 PM - 1 comment

and finally, the caution doors ends with a hazy sign off and a test pattern ... and lots of feedback [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 4:26 PM - 0 comments

A chill beat made with the op-1. [more inside]

posted by TheNegativeInfluence at 11:47 PM - 2 comments

things seem to be getting crazier [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 4:43 PM - 0 comments

Carbon 7 is an improvisational/experimental trio that creates spontaneous music at the moment it's recorded. I left a tad of dialog at the beginning, so you could here our "process." Dennis gives Ron a hard time about choosing a key, then I call out C# & start it off. Clocks in at a whopping 26.5 minutes, but it evolves slowly the entire way. [more inside]

posted by Devils Rancher at 4:46 PM - 8 comments

no, that's not what this song is about [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 10:34 AM - 0 comments

This song started as a joke and turned into something quite different. My friend and her husband have a lovely cat with an inspiring life story. During a recent visit, she said I should write a song about Magali, and after laughing about possible lyrics, it turned into a heartfelt song about the sweet, loving bond between a man and his cat. [more inside]

posted by Bluebird Wine at 10:08 PM - 0 comments

sometimes you just have to let go [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 5:07 PM - 0 comments

I had the drums and amp mic'ed up anyway, so I decided to lay down this track from Moana.

posted by uncleozzy at 9:33 AM - 9 comments

Put together with my niece on a family reunion trip to Mission Bay. Lots of handclaps and arpeggiator (too many handclaps?) Another mostly op-1 track.

posted by q*ben at 9:12 PM - 2 comments

sometimes i don't know what i'm writing about - sometimes i don't want to know [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 7:03 PM - 0 comments

I wrote the lyric melody 25 years ago and placed it to new music tonight [more inside]

posted by nikaspark at 12:25 AM - 0 comments

confusion [more inside]

posted by pyramid termite at 4:42 PM - 0 comments

This is the only advice I have for new parents these days. Had to salvage this song from a lost-when-near completed track, so the mixing is what I could work with, but I'm pretty happy with it. Enjoy! [more inside]

posted by es_de_bah at 1:34 PM - 3 comments