Junior High Drama [more inside]

posted by chococat at 12:16 AM PST - 8 comments

There's a song with words and stuff that this was originally based on, but I like the instrumental version better. Mellow, textured, haunting, builds slowly. What do you think?

posted by Bluebird Wine at 7:27 PM PST - 3 comments

posted by dagosto at 2:52 AM PST - 3 comments

An elegy for my stepmother, who passed away from ALS, based on a recurring dream I'd have of seeing her brought back to life in an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation via a transporter glitch. [more inside]

posted by eustacescrubb at 12:21 PM PST - 3 comments

A couple of covers by my band The Phone Calls [more inside]

posted by dagosto at 10:32 PM PST - 4 comments

Recently got a Teenage Engineering OP-1 and this is a first attempt to put the 4-track through it's paces. It's a noisy little thing, extremely digital. In addition decided to put this together without any sequencers so the rhythms are... inconsistent. This is straight out of the device, no additional processing.

posted by q*ben at 6:42 PM PST - 6 comments

About 10 years ago I had a pretty terrible year. A lot of people thought they knew what was wrong with me & also thought they knew how to "fix" me, but they all turned out to be wrong.

posted by eustacescrubb at 6:44 PM PST - 3 comments

My wife had a pessimistic guitar instructor when she was younger, one of those "there's nothing new in music, there's only 12 notes" kind of musicians. So, as a rebuttal to that mindset, here's an in-progress 50+ chord progression that I think is turning out swimmingly so far.

posted by TheNegativeInfluence at 10:47 PM PST - 4 comments