Last minute entry. This was supposed to be, and will eventually be, an a capella/choral twofer with Fitter Happier, but I wasn't able to finish it in time. [more inside]

posted by askmeaboutLOOM at 9:37 PM PST - 4 comments

Oh shit. I lost the power supply to the br-532 in the move, so to be econimical i got a br-800 which arrived this week.. i recorded all this within the last 2 hours and about a half hour ago realized i had no idea how to get it off the damn thing. turns out it was the same way as the 532 but to make a short story short used the mixing on the 800 and um.. here we go.. straight off the br-800.. also played bass for the first time in 500 years

posted by xorry at 8:56 PM PST - 3 comments

Demo of a new song! This is the first one I've written on my own (outside my band) in a long time. Recorded in my living room this morning.

posted by Maaik at 8:31 AM PST - 2 comments

another stab at the July/Aug challenge. [more inside]

posted by dubold at 4:24 AM PST - 0 comments

Deconstruction and rebuild of office house dub 3.3.3 aiming for an inspiration somewhere between Boards of Canada, Nurse with Wound, Aphex Twin and proto-punk Nico/Velvet Underground. This is intentionally very experimental, abstract, noisy, tweaky, melodic and glitchy. [more inside]

posted by loquacious at 11:25 PM PST - 2 comments

Ostensibly a mashup or remix of "Rhythm is a Dancer" by Snap! and "Mr. Vain" by Culture Beat, this is really something distinct altogether: sure, it rips off pretty much every hook in each of the two songs, but I did the instrumentation entirely from scratch and the central chorus in this song isn't directly taken from either source song. [more inside]

posted by LSK at 10:57 PM PST - 0 comments

A dark heart learns from its mistakes much later. [more inside]

posted by hanoixan at 7:51 PM PST - 0 comments

Anyone want to record the lead vocal track for my song "Love To, Honey" posted Aug 25? I can provide whatever stems you need. posted by Ardiril at 10:01 PM PST - 4 comments

Chill experimental NASA and vintage 70s porn dub. (Safe for work.) [more inside]

posted by loquacious at 8:44 PM PST - 6 comments

All noises made from my face, wrangled by various Ableton effects.

posted by Moistener at 5:32 PM PST - 0 comments

Short, fun and bouncy, melodic, dancelike-although-odd-metered, all electronic instrumental. Sort of like a lobotomized Dream Theatre interpreted via Kitsune² would be one way of putting it. [more inside]

posted by Wolfdog at 10:04 AM PST - 3 comments

It's poorly composed, poorly recorded, poorly edited... But it's all mine! [more inside]

posted by limeonaire at 8:47 PM PST - 1 comments

What can you do?

posted by Elmore at 3:36 PM PST - 2 comments

An instrumental rock song, I guess. Someone told me that it's about a guy taking off his sunglasses. [more inside]

posted by danb at 8:42 PM PST - 3 comments

Written for this thing a while ago in which I had a few days to make a song with this title as the prompt and "creative use of starts and stops" as the challenge.

posted by chococat at 8:47 PM PST - 5 comments

My first stab at doing a serious vocal. Most likely, my last, as well. [more inside]

posted by Ardiril at 1:18 PM PST - 4 comments

Last of the tunes recorded earlier this month in a little house in the mountains. Vocal and stick dulcimer. A very prolific songbird who was just outside can be heard throughout this performance. Video here.

posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:28 AM PST - 1 comments

In terms of the origins of punk rock, people always bang on about the pub-rock scene in the UK of the 1970's - bands like Dr Feelgood, Eddie and the Hot Rods etc. Or else the New York Dolls and antecedents like the VU or Stooges are cited. But......... I came across this the other day. It dates from the mid-70's I think. Apart from being one of my die-in-a-ditch all-time-faves, I think this performance shows how Glasgow's very, very finest The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (and, fuck my old boots, they really were sensational - trust me on this one) was actually one of the first UK punk rock outfits. It's just that no-one was using that term to describe non-conformist attitudes back then. This band kicked serious ass (or "arse" if you prefer the correct term) - they had attitude and musicianship to spare. And I'm going to namecheck the lot: Mr Alex Harvey - vocals, charisma, even more charisma, guitar. Mr Alastair "Zal" Cleminson, shit-hot P90-fuelled guitar bezalzlement; Mr Chris Glen - bass and insouciant grinning; Mr Ted McKenna - best rock drummer in the business - bar none; and Mr Hugh McKenna - brother of Ted and the soulful heart of SAHB. Discuss......please... posted by MajorDundee at 3:06 PM PST - 34 comments

Ever since I first saw John Lee Hooker's utterly captivating, almost terrifyingly powerful performance of it, I've been a lover of this song. RL Burnside covered it as well. This is my humble (and following those two performances, I really mean that) offering, from a little house in the hills of Nagano prefecture, Japan. Video here.

posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:24 PM PST - 1 comments

Mellow jazzish tune featuring mandolin, clean electric guitar, and a fake horn section.

posted by danb at 6:39 PM PST - 3 comments

Like all supergroups, the OK LA MeFi Action Band sometimes pares itself down to a solo performer and producer arrangement. Nobody leaves the room, you understand, but everyone takes a drink and everyone but me holds their breath. [more inside]

posted by carsonb at 2:07 PM PST - 2 comments

Another tune recorded the other day at a little house in the woods. Just vocal and stick dulcimer, and a little bird outside that joins me for the very last note. Video here.

posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:14 AM PST - 1 comments

A song from probably january 2010 about the huge windmill on my former college. If you haven't been up close to a windmill, you're missing out on the friendliest giants out there. I am currently without any instruments so I am experimenting with the synths on my computer so I pulled up this old guitar/voice song to play with. [more inside]

posted by Corduroy at 8:12 AM PST - 3 comments

A slow, jazzy improv thing. [more inside]

posted by Devils Rancher at 6:45 AM PST - 3 comments

First recorded song in quite a while. Guitar, and then late night thank-god-I-can-wear-headphones-and-make-music-with-housemates-sleeping keyboard/etc.

posted by tmcw at 2:31 PM PST - 1 comments

This is about that weirdo gazillionaire creep who wants to be president. Video of this same performance at YouTube or Vimeo.

posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:50 AM PST - 7 comments

Titled that because it was the file name Cubase gave it after starting the previous six "ideas." [more inside]

posted by KevinSkomsvold at 9:04 PM PST - 4 comments

A rough work in progress. 134 BPM slinky melodic techno. [more inside]

posted by balistic at 12:24 PM PST - 1 comments

On my mixer, why does the AUX MON leave before the channel fader, and the AUX FX after? [more inside] posted by mahershalal at 3:32 AM PST - 7 comments

It was my birthday yesterday, so I took it as an excuse to finally snag the banjo I've had my eye on in the local music store. Now I just have to figure out how to play the damn thing -- and that's where you come in. [more inside] posted by unSane at 5:59 PM PST - 8 comments

Probably the hardest song off the latest Red On Strike album, the Siren calls the nation to rock! Previously. [more inside]

posted by InfidelZombie at 2:34 PM PST - 1 comments

Beck to release new album entirely on sheet music. [more inside] posted by onehalfjunco at 12:14 PM PST - 4 comments

A short sketch

posted by dagosto at 4:42 AM PST - 2 comments

Furniture. Kind of Pretty.

posted by dagosto at 2:01 PM PST - 1 comments

I made the bulk of this in Loopy. [more inside]

posted by topoisomerase at 9:32 AM PST - 3 comments

PARKING LOT PIMPIN IS A TRAPPY SONG FROM SPACE AGE FAMILY RAINING BRICKS CD. [more inside]

posted by Priesosa at 7:29 AM PST - 4 comments

I have been looking for songs about Omaha lately and have found there aren't many. So I wrote one. [more inside]

posted by Bunny Ultramod at 8:37 PM PST - 2 comments

(During Mobility Testing)

posted by ageispolis at 12:59 AM PST - 3 comments

Here's me bashing away on our crappy piano, from this past winter. It's a song about blindly following things.

posted by chococat at 6:36 PM PST - 8 comments

My Kaossilator and I take the Bowie classic to strange places [more inside]

posted by COBRA! at 7:13 PM PST - 5 comments

This is a Posies cover a few of us did for a Dear 23 list (Posies fan list) compilation in the late 1990s. Personnel: Me, vocal and maybe guitar; Chris Otto, background vocal, guitar, autoharp; Terri Doherty: bass. [more inside]

posted by litlnemo at 6:27 PM PST - 0 comments

Why not tune your guitar the James Taylor way - all strings a bit flat? [more inside] posted by motty at 5:06 PM PST - 11 comments

Lofi Computer stumbles on.

posted by cortex at 2:40 PM PST - 3 comments

Swingy, chordy techno-soul with a strutty bassline. Music for space station hallways. [more inside]

posted by balistic at 6:56 PM PST - 2 comments

Another track from Lofi Computer. [more inside]

posted by cortex at 2:18 PM PST - 2 comments