MeFi Music

It's the summer of 1990, we're in a flat at the bottom of Muswell Hill, and my friend Graham and I have just got back from the pub, so naturally we fire up the ancient 4-track reel to reel and the shiny new SR16 drum machine, and record this... the first ever song I multitracked properly. Rescued off a long-forgotten cassette. I'm sure everything was recorded with an SM58.
posted by unSane on May 23, 2013 - 15 comments

First album I ever bought for myself was Mariah Carey's "Music Box", and it was mostly for the single "Hero". Accordingly, I had to cover that for this month's challenge. I wasn't sure what the hell to do with it, so I recorded an instrumental with: drums, piano, upright bass, melodica, two acoustic guitars, baritone uke, banjo, harmonica, another harmonica in a different key, some flute thing I found, thumb piano, and theremin and also some more theremin, almost all of those just playing improvised melody takes. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Feb 29, 2012 - 15 comments

The year is 1996. I'm in my neighbor's tiny basement studio. I am making my first remotely professional recording. I am earnest. I am 17 years old. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Sep 2, 2010 - 7 comments

A song I made for an animated movie that might exist about people that are addicted to stars. [more inside]
posted by cloeburner on Nov 10, 2009 - 1 comment

A short, lo-fi, catchy piano jam. [more inside]
posted by saxamo on Jul 27, 2009 - 0 comments

A song rescued from cassette imagining the changes that the internet will bring. [more inside]
posted by umbú on Nov 10, 2008 - 8 comments

why didn't i just call this "zomby queen?"
posted by TonyRobots on Jul 7, 2007 - 0 comments

Another mean spirit'd robots song; this one was never released. It was written on a bus from nyc to philadelphia, on the ticket jacket. Probably the longest MSR song ever, with the possible exception of "the distribution of wealth in this country really sux"
posted by TonyRobots on Jul 11, 2006 - 2 comments