Me and my Swedish guitar player friend Gus are working on a jazz guitar/bass duo project. In this rehearsal recording we play one of the easiest jazz songs ever written and still somehow manage to fuck it up (NFSW, some swear words at the beginning). Also, the furnace is running for pretty much the whole take. Sorry about that.

posted by CarrotAdventure at 9:54 PM - 0 comments

Imagine an anthemic indie punk song written by Ric Ocasic

posted by nikaspark at 7:37 PM - 1 comment

A simple pop song for synth, drum machine and vocoder. Featuring another cheeky sequence from the Prophet-6! [more inside]

posted by CarrotAdventure at 11:50 AM - 0 comments

Loud, obnoxious, a bit chiptune-y. A fun palate cleanser in preparation for the upcoming challenge.

posted by q*ben at 8:42 PM - 1 comment

A bit of a departure. This is a bit of living noodling with a drum machine and a couple of tracks laid down with an OP-1. There's no real tune here, just an atmosphere. Something that's probably impossible to recreate, so enjoy.

posted by srednivashtar at 4:11 PM - 1 comment

We have a Prophet-6 at work right now and I just found out that the sequencer is polyphonic. Programmed a chordy little loop and messed around with it a bit while grabbing it on my H2. Hope you enjoy the pure, unaccompanied sound of this gorgeous synthesizer!

posted by CarrotAdventure at 10:50 PM - 4 comments

Song about the creeping realization of depression while in a beautiful place. Features guitar, horns, electric guitar, percussion. [more inside]

posted by Corduroy at 11:37 AM - 5 comments

Slowly mutating melody with some clicks, bass, and wobbly lead.

posted by q*ben at 8:57 PM - 0 comments

A more completed version of the song I posted a couple of weeks ago

posted by nikaspark at 12:06 AM - 2 comments

A noisy version of the piece where every instrument is played through at least two overdrive pedals. [more inside]

posted by Existential Dread at 8:31 PM - 1 comment

vocodin' [more inside]

posted by CarrotAdventure at 6:49 PM - 0 comments

Instrumental piece I recorded for the Short, "These Few Hours".

posted by alexx51 at 10:42 AM - 2 comments

A work in progress, think drop nineteens mixed with modern indie pop

posted by nikaspark at 12:09 AM - 1 comment

Utah 1988

posted by ageispolis at 4:39 PM - 1 comment

Song written with my old band, Big Ghost, about unseasonable New England weather. Bit of an oldy but goody, I threw together this recording to send to my old bandmates on the east coast as I live in sin in California. Hope you enjoy. If you can, please help me with toning down the harshness while keeping the excited sound. [more inside]

posted by es_de_bah at 5:41 PM - 2 comments

Ramon Fernandez, tell me, if you know, Why, when the singing ended and we turned Toward the town, tell why the glassy lights, The lights in the fishing boats at anchor there, As night descended, tilting in the air, Mastered the night and portioned out the sea, Fixing emblazoned zones and fiery poles, Arranging, deepening, enchanting night. Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon, The maker’s rage to order words of the sea, Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds. - Wallace Stevens

posted by ageispolis at 9:33 PM - 2 comments

It's here

posted by CarrotAdventure at 7:49 PM - 2 comments

A song for the new year, about making it through another year, and doing it together, and finding the ways to do it without the folks who didn't. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 12:24 PM - 8 comments

I did a cover of my favorite song by Pinback. It's as close as they get to church, I think.

posted by umbú at 8:14 AM - 1 comment

This short (1:16) instrumental ditty is what happened when I started learning a new recording platform that came with loops of instruments I'd always wanted to play or include on my recordings: pedal steel guitar (I was super excited about this especially -- I've wanted to work with pedal steel for a really long time), baritone guitar, and mandolin. And did I mention the bossa drums? Not sure if I went overboard but I had fun and liked the result. [more inside]

posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 12:52 AM - 6 comments

"I can't do anything without thinking about you next"

posted by CarrotAdventure at 6:00 PM - 4 comments

This is a song that I deeply regret, but it's been going around in my head for weeks now so I have to get it out. I originally thought that it would sound good as a thrash version, but this seems quite nice. Please feel free to add an instrumental and send me a copy :)

posted by h00py at 3:46 AM - 8 comments

"Gymnopedie" is just a pretentious word for "Barefoot". I made this for DJ Stashu's Homemade Polka Contest on WFMU. [more inside]

posted by moonmilk at 8:40 AM - 5 comments

Track one off our most recent release, a dual album set called Infrared & Ultraviolet. This is the first song on Ultraviolet. For once we get right to the point, & make a short & sweet 8 1/2 minutes. Made up on the spot - totally improvisational. Titled such because there's three of us & we mirror one another as we play. Plus, it breaks space. [more inside]

posted by Devils Rancher at 6:36 PM - 1 comment

bluebar wrote a sweet little ditty on guitar, and I doubled him on the wurlitzer

posted by umbú at 9:57 PM - 2 comments

Another weird, haunting indie folk song from yours truly! There is also a weird, haunting music video located here. This is all part of my first official release, which I am super excited about, under my stage name MK Ellison.

posted by Bluebird Wine at 4:45 PM - 4 comments

A groovy bit sandwiched in between two playful piano improvisations a la Kate Bush sort of 3 movements, if you will 1. Prelude 2. Groove 3. Postlude or 'Outtro"

posted by CarrotAdventure at 7:39 PM - 3 comments

Just having a play on my day off

posted by CarrotAdventure at 3:40 PM - 0 comments

Just some four-on-the-floor.

posted by ageispolis at 10:50 AM - 2 comments

Trying out a new thing with an honest song about actual life. [more inside]

posted by tmcw at 10:02 PM - 5 comments

Walking with pushchairs to make the little one sleep forces you outside. [more inside]

posted by multivalent at 2:45 PM - 0 comments

'Scheme' is a new song by Sredni Vashtar. [more inside]

posted by srednivashtar at 4:59 AM - 1 comment

"Space Calliope Noise" is a good descriptor for this, the first "song" from my new la la blah blah dum dum dee dah music thing, Bulbs for Leonard [more inside]

posted by not_on_display at 11:54 PM - 2 comments

Chiptune fun, dressed up with a vocal sample

posted by q*ben at 3:20 PM - 4 comments

Happy Birthday Gordon Lightfoot

posted by ageispolis at 12:02 PM - 2 comments

So I feel like I owe a thank you to MeFi Music--this is the first place I started putting all my works in progress, even when it was just iPhone voice memos. Getting a few thoughtful comments was really encouraging and lovely. Then I graduated to better home recordings on SoundCloud and here, and today I put out this "official" first single everywhere. Yet another intense, moody alternative folk song with a real guitarist this time. [more inside]

posted by Bluebird Wine at 9:27 PM - 2 comments

"'I will work for honey!' This girl looks at me and goes, 'what?' I go 'yeah, it goes like this.'" [more inside]

posted by OverlappingElvis at 11:42 AM - 1 comment

Finally taking the full rig for a proper spin again!

posted by CarrotAdventure at 7:33 PM - 1 comment

Fanfare for the common synth

posted by CarrotAdventure at 12:17 PM - 1 comment

Wrote it in Garageband on a plane from Seattle to Austin. Electronic, trying to make synthwave. Maybe it's transgaywave.

posted by nikaspark at 11:34 AM - 1 comment