MeFi Music

I was able to get back to Looptober at the last minute! [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on Oct 31, 2022 - 1 comment

I kinda just chugged and then arranged some chaotic drums for this Looptober loop, which goes three times here.
posted by ignignokt on Oct 11, 2022 - 2 comments

Today's Looptober loop is blatantly Metroid-inspired. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on Oct 8, 2022 - 0 comments

Today's Looptober has a sample I recorded while making tea.
posted by ignignokt on Oct 4, 2022 - 0 comments

This is for Looptober! It's three 3.5 second loops repeated 25 times. There's two dryer parts and one bass part. It's one of those attempts to make the irregular seem regular through repetition.
posted by ignignokt on Oct 3, 2022 - 2 comments

Short looped piano piece to start your day. [more inside]
posted by q*ben on Apr 24, 2022 - 1 comment

A circular melody evolves
posted by ageispolis on Feb 4, 2017 - 1 comment

This is an endlessly rising Radiohead cover vignette; a section from Paranoid Android rises a whole step and repeats itself, and does so again, six times total, before returning to where it started, as a kind of large-scale take on the Shepard tone. [more inside]
posted by cortex on May 9, 2015 - 4 comments

Listen, a song by Sredni Vashtar. Recorded, as usual, at rehearsal. The loop drones throughout and the guitar and bass are sparse and simple.
posted by srednivashtar on May 19, 2014 - 1 comment

Here's an old song from Sredni Vashtar, revamped, restructured and recorded at rehearsal a few weeks ago [more inside]
posted by srednivashtar on May 10, 2014 - 3 comments

An old thing that's been sitting too long, I envision this as the music playing in your head when you've gone to bed, can't sleep, and have gotten back up and gone back to your workspace to crunch on that ONE odd thing that's been bugging you about your latest project. [more inside]
posted by laconic skeuomorph on Oct 13, 2013 - 1 comment

This little number rhymes "burning bush" with "tush". Also "Otis Redding" with "bedding" and "wedding". And "golden ladder" with "pancake batter". Plus, so much more. You are urged to listen. Video and lyrics here.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Nov 1, 2012 - 1 comment

Very rough draft. 1st attempt at looping on my phone. No post-production. Listen at your own risk. [more inside]
posted by Eideteker on Nov 1, 2012 - 0 comments

From a solo gig, August 2012. Uses a little 4-note bass line (loop) and a snare drum. And vocal, including muted trumpet imitation. Pretty minimal stuff. Video here.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Sep 8, 2012 - 2 comments

A wonky, drifting experimental collage of recordings and processed loops. [more inside]
posted by jchgf on May 23, 2012 - 0 comments

Practice with a simple trumpet loop.
posted by Katine on Mar 12, 2012 - 6 comments

Soundtrack for the Super Mario Bros game that never was. [more inside]
posted by Slarty Bartfast on Jul 16, 2011 - 1 comment

a little F&E homage from myself and Peterkins. Me on Guitar, P on electronics
posted by Jonesisdying on Feb 28, 2011 - 1 comment

the last track on my htmpng efforts
posted by tmcw on Dec 10, 2010 - 1 comment

Build a loop, add some licks, and before you know it, you're groovin'. [more inside]
posted by man vs sun on Sep 7, 2010 - 1 comment

This is one of my favourite songs off my most recent EP, The End Of The Beginning. [more inside]
posted by Jon-A-Thon on Jul 5, 2010 - 0 comments

Wow, yet another electro-acoustic song, this time from Thanks To Science, We've Got Love. [more inside]
posted by Jon-A-Thon on Mar 26, 2010 - 1 comment

This another electro-acoustic tune of mine with distinct hints of Ennio Morricone. [more inside]
posted by Jon-A-Thon on Mar 17, 2010 - 5 comments

This is a kind of electro-acoustic-surf cover of a song that's been covered to death. The version I know was Bobby Vinton's. [more inside]
posted by Jon-A-Thon on Feb 21, 2010 - 2 comments

I made this a while ago...it's a simple loop with beats and "chords" created from Mac system sounds (pre-OSX). It would be awesome if someone did something with it.
posted by sredefer on Aug 19, 2009 - 1 comment

The final album version of a song that my band usually calls "the loop song" [more inside]
posted by tmcw on May 29, 2009 - 1 comment

This collage, like this one, this one and this older one, has been mostly done through the use of a looping device and a guitar. And some ambient sounds too. Last part designed to propitiate meditation.
posted by nicolin on May 25, 2009 - 4 comments

One of the earliest songs I've ever made (one of the only I could find) remade with slightly better skills and slightly cheaper equipment. File under easy listening holographic lounge soundtrack. [more inside]
posted by fuq on May 17, 2009 - 1 comment

two more guitar loops based compositions, like this previous one or this old one.
posted by nicolin on Jul 23, 2008 - 3 comments

An atmospheric experiment with loop based music creation on a laptop. [more inside]
posted by sleslie on Apr 10, 2008 - 0 comments

A laptop-demo of a song that I'm doing currently live solo + live with a band. This version if solo + looped, so it's one take, but I'm looking to record it for real pretty soon - so please, I beseech you for constructive criticism! Gracias!
posted by tmcw on Apr 7, 2008 - 1 comment

guitar + guitar. Another mobile
posted by nicolin on Feb 19, 2008 - 2 comments

A big ol' composition kind of song. Just a little bit like "post-rock" I guess. As before but this time with multiple takes, stereo, and fun little stuff scattered all around. It's also my first project using Logic Pro, which seems to rock
posted by tmcw on Oct 2, 2007 - 3 comments

A song that sort of reminded me of the 80s but really isn't very 80s. Again, just an idea, not a whole production. Please, any criticism or suggestions are totally welcome. Thanks!
posted by tmcw on Aug 1, 2007 - 5 comments

Another song I've recorded this summer, guitar, voice, phrase sampler (you can hear the click triggering the chorus here). As always, critique, etc - I'm totally open to suggestions and ideas as far as where (and whether) to develop these ideas
posted by tmcw on Jul 30, 2007 - 3 comments

I think this is a pretty fun riff/song. Using a piano, loop pedal, and recording on my laptop Critique the hell out of it, as usual. (And, yes, I'm technically no pianist.) Any suggestions about how to 'flesh it out' would be welcome, too!
posted by tmcw on Jul 29, 2007 - 2 comments

This is sort of the summer culmination of a song that me and some of my friends have built up. This version is solo (all of the extra 'tracks' are live loops) Oh, and critique the hell out of it!
posted by tmcw on Jul 28, 2007 - 3 comments

It's my usual setup - bedroom recording, loop pedal + Telecaster. This is my more recent sort of loop song, and it has more of a jazzy feel. I run the Tele through a compressor before the loop, too. Yeah, this one's a little long, but I just really, really like it. I recorded it a few minutes ago and was just so happy with how it turned out (I had no idea what it would be) that I'm done for tonight.
posted by tmcw on May 26, 2007 - 1 comment

This is the current 'live' (as in, I've played it once in a bizzarro jam-show) version of this song. It's a single take, straight through, using my favorite pedal (a Headrush E2). I'm really, really going to beg for criticism (constructive, or other kinds), since I don't know really what to do with it or what to improve. So, crits? Thanks guys
posted by tmcw on May 20, 2007 - 7 comments

Unusual music, make with a ukulele, acoustic guitar, and bass, in one shot. Using a MagicStomp as a (very rudimentary) phrase sampler, and Audacity to record. Enjoy
posted by tmcw on Feb 6, 2007 - 5 comments

Acid-ambient space dub loops. This is a live jam I did with a friend while visiting him in Seattle. The rig was comprised of me playing small and very slow beat loops in Traktor at BPMs relationally fractional to a master tempo of 110 BPM, while my friend looped samples in Live, both from prerecorded and live samples from mixboard outputs and sends. There is a Macbook microphone involved in the sampling of the room and as a feedback and reverb source. There is no shared MIDI clock in use - all tempo/pitch control is manual, and listen for long beat-count tempo-drifts of loop components, which are manipulated and intentional. The majority of this dub takes place as variations of two beats in one "measure", sometimes four but never more. This cut of the track is the last ten minutes of approximately one hour of play and loop building. It is pre-release version intended for derivitive works, remixes and redubs. (If you wish to remix, sample, splice, loop, fuck, deconstruct or otherwise destroy this track, I would vastly prefer that you please contact me via the email in my profile for the uncompressed and unprocessed file and the full Creative Commons license. Please do not use this low-bitrate file.)
posted by loquacious on Dec 2, 2006 - 2 comments

An improvised minimal techno song I made last night using a Gameboy and delay pedal, it has been cut down from the original 30 minutes to a slender 7 minutes. Enjoi!
posted by cloeburner on Jul 13, 2006 - 9 comments

Fun little remix I made with DoggieBox for OS X, based on files from this thread about 1940's sex education reels.
posted by squirrel on Jul 2, 2006 - 0 comments