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#1 Post by cabangbangq » Fri Jan 03, 2014 11:26 pm

I know we have this topic every few years or so, but I wanted to go back and revive this so that the few remaining active members of ANR could have a chance to listen to each others music. Maybe we could get this topic stickied so that it always remains visible and we could continuously update it with new sounds.

I'm 19 and finally finished with my first semester in college at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. I have two musical projects going right now

Divers - https://soundcloud.com/diversmusic
Divers is my full band project. I write the guitar, bass, drums, and vocal parts and mostly record with Logic either at my old home back in the Bay Area (this was before making the move to college and before my parents moved to Mexico). Divers is heavily influenced by stuff like Jane's, Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies, Radiohead, Deerhunter, Modest Mouse etc. Pretty and/or fuzzy guitars, bass lines a la Avery, lots of dynamic changes etc. I recorded an album of songs last April and am still in the horribly time consuming process of mixing and doing vocal overdubs and intend to release it hopefully by April. The soundcloud page has two rough versions of the songs recorded for the album (drums are programmed mostly), a lot of the other stuff is just little ideas and uncompleted songs I wanted to have for reference. Some of these songs trace as far back as my freshman year of high school, some are relatively new.
My personal favorites:
https://soundcloud.com/diversmusic/summer-waste-rough
https://soundcloud.com/diversmusic/walk-2 (bonus points, if you can guess which song this is an ode to. It's painfully easy to figure out, almost feels like a shameful rip off)
https://soundcloud.com/diversmusic/dont-try-rough

Vacation - https://soundcloud.com/vacation-2
I've been in Mexico since the start of winter break and decided I needed to keep myself interested musically and try something new. I'm stuck with a laptop, a shitty guitar that only has two strings, and my dad's jarana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarana_jarocha). I decided to try and make weird, loopy, rhythm oriented instrumentals that focused heavily on layering different rhythms. I've been listening to a lot of Polar Bear recently and I really dig on the way that EA used samples of more eastern sounding and african rhythms and I've tried to incorporate those type of sounds and build long, repetitive instrumentals around that while doing all sorts of weird octave filtering and modulation to the guitar, which I am recording through the laptop microphone. This is meant to be weird, stoned-y instrumental experimentation. Almost all of these recordings I did in less than 2-3 hours because I really wanted to force myself to work within very limited parameters musically instead of sitting on the songs and expanding etc. I did 7 of these songs in the last 4-5 days, Blue Dreams and Die are both older songs that I thought fit in well with this overall sound
My personal favorites:
https://soundcloud.com/vacation-2/move
https://soundcloud.com/vacation-2/dont-think
https://soundcloud.com/vacation-2/simple-song

I'm really curious in hearing other music from board members. I don't know if Ben Caught Stealing posts here under a different name, but I recall really digging his stuff he posted on Xiola, I know that a few other members have posted music here before, but I don't remember which ones. I would love to have this thread be a place where we can all dump our new ideas and get constructive feedback and criticisms. If Jane's is going to be almost dead and not worth following, at the very least I think the board members should make this topic an active one so we can keep the community alive.

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#2 Post by Matz » Sat Jan 04, 2014 6:59 pm

you're a brave man for posting your music here, I consider this place home of the fiercest music critics on the planet. I think I'll pass for now :lol:

I like that song Walk, nice tune :wave:

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#3 Post by blackula » Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:34 pm

This was the last band I was in that released anything. This is from our full length that was released in 2005. If you like it the album is on the file sharing sites and each track us on YouTube. Sorry, I don't know how to post the YouTube link the proper way.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf6FOrG1wYA

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#4 Post by cabangbangq » Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:07 am

Matz wrote:you're a brave man for posting your music here, I consider this place home of the fiercest music critics on the planet. I think I'll pass for now :lol:

I like that song Walk, nice tune :wave:
I wouldn't have it any other way, I think the best way to improve is to have your music critically analyzed and to be forced to look at it differently. I appreciate the kind words, were you able to figure out the inspiration for Walk musically?

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#5 Post by Matz » Sun Jan 05, 2014 4:59 am

Decon/Jane's I guess?

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#6 Post by creep » Sun Jan 05, 2014 5:21 am

i haven't listened to 100% of the members music here but just from what i heard guysmiley wins so far as best musician. that gospel stuff from blackula is interesting minus the screamo vocals which i am not a fan of. :noclue:

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#7 Post by blackcoffee » Sun Jan 05, 2014 1:13 pm

Cabangbangq, I haven't listened to your band, yet. I really like the first track off of Vacation. I"m going to continue listening to the others. I'm not a musician though I now own a guitar, and am trying to learn some chords. I've also got a Mac and thought it would be cool to create some loops of different sounds through garageband, but I don't know where to start. I've always been a big fan of Massive Attack for what it's worth.

I recently listened to Lloyd Cole on Spotify. I wanted to hear his single from the early nineties. Anyway, I discovered Hans-Joachim Roedelius, who does a lot of cool ambient music and who has a prolific output of music.

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#8 Post by Larry B. » Sun Jan 05, 2014 1:44 pm

I recently listened to the band I was in 5 years ago. How embarrassed I was, but it was fun nevertheless.

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#9 Post by SR » Sun Jan 05, 2014 2:17 pm

Great thread. And the critics on this board to be listened to are not the same as the ones feared. :nod:

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#10 Post by Juana » Mon Jan 06, 2014 12:31 am

I've been working with the Robison brothers (google them) on some things but as for stuff that was just me doing everything I do not have anything like that. I can probably find some Youtubes of me playing like when I played lead with Willie at White Water or something I'll them that shit up.

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#11 Post by nausearockpig » Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:18 am

here's some studio recordings and demos I've done along with some home demos.

https://soundcloud.com/nausearockpig

I've picked up my guitar again after a bit of a hiatus and I plan to rehearse a bit in the coming months and find some shitty gigs to play.. it's just me and my computer for now...

cababangnangnanag i think your music sounds great...

blackula, that's awesome..


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#13 Post by guysmiley » Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:20 pm

creep wrote:i haven't listened to 100% of the members music here but just from what i heard guysmiley wins so far as best musician. that gospel stuff from blackula is interesting minus the screamo vocals which i am not a fan of. :noclue:
:lol: Thanks man. I have been working hard at music the last two years, but being in Japan, real studio time has been very limited. Mostly home recorded stuff the last two years. Maybe I'll get drunk enough to share it sometime soon.

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#14 Post by Mescal » Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:47 am

guysmiley wrote:
creep wrote:i haven't listened to 100% of the members music here but just from what i heard guysmiley wins so far as best musician. that gospel stuff from blackula is interesting minus the screamo vocals which i am not a fan of. :noclue:
:lol: Thanks man. I have been working hard at music the last two years, but being in Japan, real studio time has been very limited. Mostly home recorded stuff the last two years. Maybe I'll get drunk enough to share it sometime soon.
link?

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#15 Post by Mescal » Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:29 am

not expecting many positive comments, but here goes.

http://beta.vi.be/captaindarling

We (drums, bass, guitar) have been playing for a year. (one rehearsal/week). We home recorded some of our stuff.

Since a few weeks we have a singer, who sung over the home recorded stuff. So it doesn't sound all that good, and I'm not sure if the singer's gonna stay .... so I realise that the singer sounds a bit disclocated from the rest of the band. But we haven't rehearsed enough as a 4-piece to have a sound/thing going.

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#16 Post by creep » Tue Jan 07, 2014 7:37 am

Mescal wrote:not expecting many positive comments, but here goes.

http://beta.vi.be/captaindarling

We (drums, bass, guitar) have been playing for a year. (one rehearsal/week). We home recorded some of our stuff.

Since a few weeks we have a singer, who sung over the home recorded stuff. So it doesn't sound all that good, and I'm not sure if the singer's gonna stay .... so I realise that the singer sounds a bit disclocated from the rest of the band. But we haven't rehearsed enough as a 4-piece to have a sound/thing going.
yeah the recordings just do not sound right. the vocals are way too out front and sound odd. the songs are good but just need to be recorded right. i think your singer can sound ok if he was just buried more in the music. :noclue:

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#17 Post by guysmiley » Tue Jan 07, 2014 8:34 am

Mescal wrote:
guysmiley wrote:
creep wrote:i haven't listened to 100% of the members music here but just from what i heard guysmiley wins so far as best musician. that gospel stuff from blackula is interesting minus the screamo vocals which i am not a fan of. :noclue:
:lol: Thanks man. I have been working hard at music the last two years, but being in Japan, real studio time has been very limited. Mostly home recorded stuff the last two years. Maybe I'll get drunk enough to share it sometime soon.
link?
Only had a beer, but oh well. This was my last band that only lasted 2 years and 4 shows long. The singer just went back to England on Xmas day. Not the best quality, I did 100% of the recording and I'm still trying to get better at it. Me and the singer wrote the music. I did the harmony vocals, guitars and a few synths.
Here's the last demo
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https://soundcloud.com/myplasticyouth/sets/demo-1
A few live songs
https://soundcloud.com/myplasticyouth/s ... tbeat-7-13

These are a few solo ideas/covers/and live songs that weren't recorded as well.
A Joy Division cover
https://soundcloud.com/aaronlum/day-of- ... y-division
Weird electro-pop songs
https://soundcloud.com/aaronlum/cottonhead
https://soundcloud.com/aaronlum/syrenas-lyre
Some pop song I wrote for a Japanese chick to play with me at a show
https://soundcloud.com/aaronlum/living- ... res-of-you
A CD I made with a Panamanian friend of mine.
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https://soundcloud.com/aaronlum/conyo-que-calor
An artsy-fartsy bass and no guitar CD I made. About China. Probably the worst recording quality of the bunch.
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https://soundcloud.com/aaronlum/sets/revolt-1989


This was the best recorded CD I ever made about 3 years ago in a studio. Best work I've done guitar-wise. The vocals and style might not be for most.
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http://salvador.bandcamp.com/album/astral-eyes


Oh and I'm building some pedals now. Here's a weird one I made last weekend.

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#18 Post by guysmiley » Tue Jan 07, 2014 8:54 am

Oh and krakle has some pretty cool tunes. Hopefully he will share. I helped out with a doorbell jingle project he did with many people. He's new project is cool, but difficult.

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#19 Post by perkana » Tue Jan 07, 2014 11:43 pm

guysmiley wrote:Oh and krakle has some pretty cool tunes. Hopefully he will share. I helped out with a doorbell jingle project he did with many people. He's new project is cool, but difficult.
http://doorbellditties.bandcamp.com/alb ... ll-ditties
My fave has to be the Star Wars fucked up bell

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