interesting stuff Neverywhere, do you own your own label?

https://soundcloud.com/thetelepathickid/follow-me

With the new Soundcloud. they stopped putting in the HTML code for the tracks. Ah well.

This one's mostly made of Fela Kuti samples, and is a beat I gave to a rapper. But I liked it so much and though I did such a good job I put it up on my soundcloud anyway.

TTk@
Yes, i own the label...

And on soundcloud.... i feel they ruined it...one of those updates that are totally useless......it is now looking the part but functionality went down the drain. Reminds me of Myspace, wich ones was THE site to discover new music but now completely dead...the result of a total revamp of that site....which gave all kinds of nw functions but became a nightmare for the actual music...oh well....

you can take that follow me beat if you want, the rapper I sent it to doesn't want it.

I'll give you his cast offs. >_>

It has landed....

[img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51+4+0HNsPL._SL500_AA280_.jpg[/img]

I am so proud....think i will send mr Anthony a copy.
He will be thrilled!

Four songs now also on soundcloud...rest will follow: https://soundcloud.com/#jvgm

The cd has found it's way on to the 3voor12 luisterpaal....think of it as the dutch pitchfork site...
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/#!/luisterpaal/albums/Weissmuller.html

I am a happy man!

Funky shit man, love the cheesy synth!

@CanyonJoe love the clarinet sounds towards the end, nothing sounds better than a clarinet

woah Joe. that was super sweet. You've got some talent thurr. @secondlpanet is right, the clarinet really works.

fl studio presets :3

Thanks guys, really nice to hear : )

great stuff as usual Joe

also would like to present the Glimmerpost EP, an EP of shoegazey indie pops with that dude who plays guitar and bass and sings.

http://glimmerpost.bandcamp.com/album/glimmerpost-ep

maybe fans of deerhunter and ducktails? my friend compared it to Baths which I don't really see at all.

Maybe @psychedelicufo might like it too. Perhaps @hedgeway.

I just got recommended music. I'm part of the cool club now guys.

im sure a lot of people read this thread including myself, we just dont make music so we dont post in it.

I had no idea. Apologies. :\

Hey, that Glimmerpost release is cool! I like that the percussion takes a more prominent and interesting role than it often does in shoegaze. How did you get those drum sounds?

Also, @CanyonJoe, that's a neat composition as well.

Das neue Ωhmspiel.

https://soundcloud.com/ohmspiel/chateau-migraine

i'd like some details on what you did with this glimmerpost TTK!
did you do mixing only or?

ah cool dude, well done! i only checked out one or two songs, checking the rest later! Really like the vibe on this

no he's talking about all the bands he's in

@TTK

You definitely made a nice project out of it!
The drums are very versatile, soundwise and rythmwise, yet it flows nicely and the overall sound is still very cohesive throughout.

Favorite track: Unchanged
simple but very effective. love the chords.
And dat low ass kick.

thanks for giving feedback Joe, we really appreciate it.

I'll listen to your stuff on the weekend, my net's kinda slow at the moment.

I am drinking whiskey and this is giving me feels. Nice job man.

@Ocaml - Nice.

@TTK - I'll giver a listen today.

JUST A LIKE ALEX DAMNIT DON'T BUY MY MUSIC

I DON'T HAVE A FACEBOOK SO I'M SUPPORTING YOU MONETARILY!

I know you don't, I keep trying to find you when I'm bored.

a dude I met on another forum, also does guitar and bass

yeah



there's other forums

nice track, it sort of reminds me of Akron/Family but creepier.

ocaml i like that a lot

Nice Ocaml! thats a great dark vibe you're laying down!
Mind posting the lyrics?

@TTK I liked your page too ya dirty skank

Per Aspera Ad Astra by Serge van Lieshout

Some nonhiphop. all recorded instruments.

Here's a sample from my upcoming EP Selected Ambient Works for Scary Video Games 2013-2013:

Dublin Goblin by vestenet

Thats nice @vestenet.

doing vibrato on the pads, thats pretty cool indeed.
what MPC do you got Amf?
i just got my 2000 in the mail today!

That was great man, dope happy start of the day!
love that flute lick

Pretty stuff @CanyonJoe.

@vestenet The title made me laugh, and the song is sufficiently creepy.

@TTK That beat is super solid. It's not far off from that Vanilla tape (in a good way).

111 by thetelepathickid

done something different from hip hop beats

Can anyone recommend me some controller gear (and software)? Pad controllers. I can't play piano, so anything with keys probably doesn't make much sense. I do have my RB Keyboard controller which is Midi capable should I need to (learn how to) add instrumentation that way.

It can be cheap enough that it's largely disposable and I buy some actual good shit later. Or a great value in that I'll get a lot of mileage out of it until I need to be really serious.

I don't really have time to go hunting pawn shops and used gear in music stores at this stage as I'm more curious how capable I will be and... whether or not I will actually put time into it. So whatever gear I have shouldn't have TOO massive of a learning curve. (Keeping in mind I'm a software engineer, and a gadget person to begin with, so my concept of a difficult learning curve may not jive with others)

Also keeping in mind I have a couple ipads and I know there's lots of software out there. Sure it won't get me velocity control, but maybe some of the apps are 'good enough' to tinker with. I just have no clue what they'd be.

Also, the way I mentally think about rhythms, it would be nice to have something, I just start playing on, with whatever instrument to get the rhythm out and then I can go in an change the sample in the sequencer on the laptop. I have to assume this is possible (in basically EVERY piece of software) but not having used any of it. I don't know how much is done on the laptop. I've got gear that could almost always be on, at my desk, should inspiration strike.

It's also my impression Amazon.com possibly has some of the best deals on this kind of gear. Yea?

The best way to get gear in my opinion is to build it yourself. It's cheap and you can get exactly what you want out of it. (I'm building a some contact mics and a feedback pedal at the moment, for example).

As far as controller gear you can buy, the monome is one one of my favorites. It's literally just a grid of buttons with programmable lights on it that you can program to do whatever. It's pretty straightforward to build your own if you don't have a lot of money, too. (http://monome.org/)

I do have a problem with software piracy... but I could probably deal with pirating ableton until I had something that in any way would/could (not likely) generate revenue.

Hrm.. $99 for the basic version. Though I see a 30 day trial so that would probably work.

$599 for Push looks pretty sweet, but 3-4 months off. I'm impulsive.

I see there's an Akai APC20 Controller that comes with (some variation of Ableton Live) for $192. Reviews are all great too. Hah..local place sell it a bit cheaper too, and in stock. Dang. *twitch* APC40 for $250. But this looks more like a live controller and less like something you would compose with, like an MPC.

"Your voice is the new keyboard: sing, beatbox, tap a rhythm on your desk, or play any solo instrument to capture your musical ideas as they come. Then use the Melody- or Drums-to-MIDI feature to turn your recordings into MIDI clips that you can edit and reuse with any sound." <- yes. exactly what I'd need. Not sure if that's in the Akai build. It's probably Live 8.<br />
Hrm.

Err wrong prices. $117 from Amazon.com for the 20 and $209 for the 40. I dunno this looks like the way to go to me.

K. Just pulled the trigger on the APC40 and an Alesis Trigger I/O for my RB Kit (which I've upgraded to basically 80% of a Roland V-Drum set).

This... should be interesting.

@Kyle - Will do. I wont get a chance to play with it until after Easter tho.

Cool man, and congrats on the purchase! think you're gonna have lots of fun with it.
personally i get all my stuff from records as of lately, cause i really got into that way of working, also nearby thriftstore's and uncle's soul collection handme-downs helped.
I don't use a lot of plugins. In every daw there are synths available so i suggest playing around with these too, check out the presets and build your own sounds!

can't help you with the acapella's. I got some hiphop acapellas on 12" singles but thats about it.

I use soft synths sometimes, but I always change the parameters and use a lot of effects. In terms of drums, I rarely use the stock sounds, except when I need something really basic like an 808, but mostly I sample old records. I'm still trying to get more comfortable with getting good drum sounds, but I've been getting better. Most of the sounds I use are samples, actually. The only sound I'm regularly okay with using stock is the synths I already mentioned, and occasionally I'll sample synths instead. I definitely use effects and do a lot of chopping with each sample, though.

I haven't messed with it in a while, but I might give it another go soon. I use Impulse a lot.

Spent about 30 mins with it at lunch today. Too much fun. Time to eject my wife's desk (she's not using it) and haul my drum kit and keyboard into my office.

I'm quickly discovering I want the pro version. I can't even make my own instrument racks which will make using my electronic drum kit (no brains, just triggers) more difficult than it need be.

I've only spent about 4 hours with it and it's mostly dicking around. I may need to take a more structured approach. Any sample projects out there and such all assume the pro version too which is making using tutorials, at least the ones that have interested me, difficult. I also haven't yet sat down to use it with an idea in my head, just still exploring the tools I have to see what's possible.

Anyhow I tried to make something from bone scratch last night. Other than the 808 kit.. nothing else is quite the sound I want and quantizing to 32nd beats (and dealing with the lag) was a bit tricky. So I scratched that and tried again with something a little less rapid fire. This is going to take some adjustment to how I dream up music in my head and how I get it down. I'm finding having a keyboard is convenient, but it's also lacking, it's a MIDI to USB interface so there's a smidge of lag and again I can't make my own instrument racks so i need to think in layers rather than patterns. Anyhow I'll stick with the keyboard for now until I'm actually making some solid progress and then I can look into a USB midi interface keyboard.

Maybe I should do what I said I would and just mess with remixing first just to get intimate with the software. I thought there'd be way more access to stems online, but I'm not seeing it. I should go back to some of the old mashup forums I used to frequent... often vocal tracks would show up there. Still waiting on my BIL to send me his vocal stems from his music too.

I tried to pull apart samples from Boyz in tha Hood, but damned if all the sick samples and lyrics there don't run into one another making the sample useless. I should check to see what tracks were originally sampled to make that song.

At some point I will need to come up with a plan.