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Don't Know What It Is (About KDHX)

This one's for a good cause, to support efforts to save my favorite St. Louis indie radio station. [more inside]
posted by limeonaire on Nov 1, 2023 - 5 comments

Out of Metal and Wire

It's track 5/5 on the Hellish EP, and the highest tempo by a good measure, at a brisk 175bpm with it's own kind of groove.
posted by Wolfdog on Jun 23, 2023 - 1 comment

Pressures Accumulating

This is a piece for (synth) strings, trumpet, and drums. [more inside]
posted by ignignokt on Mar 28, 2023 - 1 comment

Make Right the Time

This is my synth-based anthem cover of the song by singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt. This version is an earlier draft from 2018, mostly from a whirlwind month when I was trying to get as much done before my trial of Ableton Live ended. Me on vocals, synth/loops. Many thanks to not_on_display for the arrangement idea and feedback through multiple iterations. Basically I made this to help myself feel better, and I figure it's something I could share especially now. [more inside]
posted by rangefinder 1.4 on Apr 1, 2020 - 9 comments

Invocation

Electronics + Piano. Lots of harmonic and rhythmic drive.
posted by Wolfdog on Oct 25, 2019 - 1 comment

Sebastia

Song about the creeping realization of depression while in a beautiful place. Features guitar, horns, electric guitar, percussion. [more inside]
posted by Corduroy on Jan 23, 2019 - 10 comments

When Green Leaves Spring (It's Good To See You)

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 on Dec 30, 2018 - 6 comments

When the Curtains of Night

I'm happy to present my collaboration with not_on_display: this is our version of a neat little tune that was included in The American Songbag (a 1927 folk song collection by Carl Sandburg); the song there was itself derived from a late 19th-century song by William S. Hays. [more inside]
posted by rangefinder 1.4 on Jun 28, 2017 - 8 comments

my idea 21

Quick song recorded this morning on Music Memo with (automatically added) bass and drums, and some synthesizers and (fair warning) voice-cracking singing. [more inside]
posted by Corduroy on Apr 28, 2017 - 4 comments

Again

Another song recorded with Music Memo providing the drums and bass (NSFW). [more inside]
posted by Corduroy on Jul 2, 2016 - 2 comments

Warmup Jam

This was recorded by the band I'm in (Ghost Flowers) on August 1, 2013, at our practice space before the actual practicing-of-songs started. It's a thirteen-minute variation on one chord, has nice ebbs and flows, and has a steady mid-tempo beat. [Not part of my "Unu..." series, just filler while I juggle four songs of that at once.] [more inside]
posted by not_on_display on Mar 14, 2016 - 4 comments

Going

Piano, drums, bass. [more inside]
posted by ageispolis on May 21, 2015 - 3 comments

Nostalgia

This one has maybe the most tracks of any song I've ever made. [more inside]
posted by TheNegativeInfluence on May 4, 2015 - 2 comments

Bridge to Nowhere

You can feel the beat rising, incrementally, step by step. Melody, chorus, melody, chorus... The air clears. It's that part in the song that builds and builds to it's highest point and then [more inside]
posted by TheNegativeInfluence on Jan 26, 2015 - 2 comments

it's the same idea

Wrote and recorded this a couple of years ago. This is where I left it, a couple of notches or more away from perfect... but it's got some good things about it, including a really messed up (in a good way) guitar solo. [more inside]
posted by edlundart on Jan 26, 2014 - 0 comments

Climbing Up the Walls

Only three tracks left until we've finally finished the full album of OK Computer. The idea here is pretty simple--since we've made basically every other track super creepy, it was time to make the creepiest track on the album something completely different. Presenting rock and/or roll. [more inside]
posted by askmeaboutLOOM on Jul 7, 2013 - 2 comments

Tail End of the Home Stretch

From a Third Person show from a couple nights ago in Nagaoya, Japan. Video here.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Mar 4, 2013 - 3 comments

number four

the fourth song effort in my album month efforts. an excellent example of my need to stop making dense songs and fill out that thirty minutes.
posted by tmcw on Nov 23, 2012 - 0 comments

fuq's theme

Everyone needs a theme song to play when they enter a thread. Here's mine. Super ADHD massive drums, cuts, and effects that explodes into hard house. [more inside]
posted by fuq on Nov 2, 2011 - 8 comments

Without My Pants On

Submission for this month's "record a track before you put on your pants in the morning" challenge. I sat down in my underwear at 7:35am to put together a song about what might have happened if I had sat down without my underwear. [more inside]
posted by davejay on Oct 20, 2011 - 8 comments

Voytek the Soldier Bear

An incomplete mix of a song I'm working on about a bear who joined the Polish Army (the subject should sound familiar). [more inside]
posted by COBRA! on Aug 1, 2011 - 1 comment

Riding Your Train

I posted a solo version of this song here before, but this time around my new band the Smoke Benders shakes 'em on down. From our second gig, at the tiny Bar Isshee, Shibuya, Tokyo, January, 20, 2011. Video here.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Jan 22, 2011 - 9 comments

Ain't I Lucky

Here's another tune from the Smoke Bender's [previously] first gig. Video here.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Dec 29, 2010 - 6 comments

Half-Steps B

a little piano piece that I recorded in the lull before going out on a Friday
posted by tmcw on Sep 12, 2010 - 1 comment

the two of us

I had a few hours to myself this morning and wrote this song. [more inside]
posted by dobie on Sep 11, 2010 - 10 comments

Norwegian Wood

When I'm in a prolonged songwriting funk - which I am now - it can sometime take a cover of a favorite tune to snap me out of it. Let's hope this does. [more inside]
posted by ORthey on Aug 24, 2010 - 6 comments

it shows

This is an angry, broody, dark, but pretty song. I'm proud of it, I think it's one of my best! Includes a pretty sweet xaphoon (!) solo by yours truly, plus background vocals by my wife. [more inside]
posted by edlundart on Mar 30, 2010 - 17 comments

Oh The King

A tune about an odd man who used to roam around my neighborhood as a kid. He wore a crown sometimes. Featuring chococat on drums. [more inside]
posted by ORthey on Mar 30, 2010 - 13 comments

in an aisle seat

Greasy rock song about falling asleep in passenger seats. I could use some help with this. Ok, this is my first attempt at recording with real drums. While I'm happy to finally post something featuring my insanely talented little brother, Mike, I'm sorry to say that the drum recording I started out with was awful and I'm not sure I've made it any better. If anyone has some insight as to what can be fixed and how, or some tips on cheap/lo-fi/hopelessly inept home drum recording, I'd love to hear them. [more inside]
posted by es_de_bah on Dec 1, 2009 - 7 comments

run to you (bryan adams cover)

No, seriously. Just for fun, I decided to do this cover song to test out some drum stuff. Thought I'd share this while I work on some new songs...
posted by edlundart on Aug 17, 2009 - 3 comments

Enceladus

Originally planned as a mix between 70's J.M. Jarre and Steve Reich. Turns out to be more like Giorgio Moroder teaming with Tangerine Dream, on a bad day. [more inside]
posted by surrendering monkey on Jul 19, 2009 - 4 comments

Staring Into Headlights

Dark sounds for an old barn. [more inside]
posted by Baby_Balrog on Jul 7, 2009 - 7 comments

hypotech

we wrote this song at our space a week or so ago. [more inside]
posted by dobie on May 11, 2009 - 8 comments

Rescuer (cleaner mix)

Finally -- a MeFiMusic Challenge I can do! Or rather have done. I actually posted this song before, but I've since gone back and cleaned up the EQ and gated some of the noise from the vocal. The two chords used are D and E.
posted by NemesisVex on Apr 8, 2009 - 3 comments

Boots of Righteous Defense

The first finished recording for my band's new album. [more inside]
posted by dobie on Apr 5, 2009 - 21 comments

The Garden of Forking Paths

Just another folk-rock song about Jorge Luis Borges. [more inside]
posted by ludwig_van on Mar 17, 2009 - 4 comments

Shutterbug

Doo doo doo, doo doo doo, la la la, la la la la. The new hit single from Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies. A chamber-pop meditation on time, aging, and death. [more inside]
posted by ludwig_van on Mar 15, 2009 - 4 comments

come here (aberdeen)

This started as a weird tune with pseudo-Indian wailing/cat meowing vocals, guitar feedback, and a one-note sitar solo. It still has those elements, but the track ended up being an almost radio-friendly, catchy (?) pop-rock thing. [more inside]
posted by edlundart on Feb 9, 2009 - 12 comments

stopping by woods

Back in either middle school or high school, in music class, I wrote my very first melody with a classmate named Mathias Knutzen. The assignment was to take a text from one of our books and create a song with it. We chose Robert Frost's poem and came up with this pseudo-jazzy tune. I always liked it, so I kept the "digital chord sheet" around and played it from time to time. More than 15 years later, here now is a brand new recorded version -- complete with brushed drums and falsetto background vocals. [more inside]
posted by edlundart on Jan 20, 2009 - 5 comments

Martial Family

Free Jazz. Five trumpets, five drums. [more inside]
posted by idiopath on Jan 19, 2009 - 2 comments

Traps

A song about how humans fool pests to kill them, from the pest's point of view. Made today in 2 hours. [more inside]
posted by onehalfjunco on Dec 28, 2008 - 3 comments

Rescuer

Strings, drums, two chords and lyrics vaguely inspired by the '80s TV show "The Equalizer". Also, big rip-off of Craig Armstrong.
posted by NemesisVex on Nov 2, 2008 - 1 comment

Certain Death

A cheery song off my new album Out of It.
posted by frenetic on Sep 10, 2008 - 5 comments

undulate underling

A short, lyrically strange new song partly based on a dream. [more inside]
posted by edlundart on Jul 20, 2008 - 7 comments

casanova ruins

I was walking around in the garment district at night on valentine's day years ago, and spotted a beautiful woman walking alone across the street. Despite being glamorously dressed up, she looked like she had lost all faith in men. She was carrying a heart-shaped balloon and huge flowers. This song is sort of about that. [more inside]
posted by edlundart on Jul 9, 2008 - 8 comments

Untold Demons

I unearthed the very first song I wrote in 1986 and flinched at all the clueless chord progressions my 14-year-old self used. But I could sense some potential behind a few of the ideas. So I reworked it extensively and brought out more of the subliminal inspiration that went into: mid-'80s Heart. [more inside]
posted by NemesisVex on Mar 3, 2008 - 4 comments

Bucketful of Money

A characterization of a rich womanizing pimpy kind of guy. [more inside]
posted by strangeguitars on Feb 9, 2008 - 5 comments

Hated By Girls

This is some kind of punk, and my girls, (wife and her best friend) did the vocals. This is fun! Enjoy!
posted by snsranch on Jan 18, 2008 - 15 comments

Even Then

What if Wolverine decided to become a carpenter? [more inside]
posted by sleepy pete on Oct 14, 2007 - 9 comments

Crossing Over

A short poem spoken with keyboard, percussion, and guitar Darkness falls in the middle of the day, We look to the sky and lord we pray, Darkness grows near, And all those who are dear, Floods the lands with tears, Not a moment to soon, For all men are destin for doom, Come cross over, All are welcome
posted by Randy Curtis on Aug 24, 2007 - 3 comments

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