So, Tropers can do music too, right?

Yes, it sounds very Beatles-ish.

And thanks. I thought hearing Bloody Tears in a Jazz arrangement would be cool.

And to answer your question, here. Brain Bleach is right over there.

edited 9th Jun '12 8:06:29 PM by PhysicalStamina

I've done it again. It was supposed to be around 5~6 minutes long, and look what happened.

Also, this song is a complete mess. I went against everyone that said that putting too many instruments and melodies at the same time was bad and confusing... Not that I actually feel guilty about this.

I used to do that all the time. I'd find my stuff reaching 8-9 minutes in length.

First beat I managed to make on my own. I'm still not entirely sure what the hell I'm doing, so please listen to this like it's the audio equivalent of a four-year old's fingerpainting.

Not bad, but it needs variety. The song is just the same four chords for 2 and a half minutes.

So uh... I made a remix of Bad Apple in the style of Todd Edwards.

There were only two acapellas: one of the Japanese version, and one of Cristina Vee's English version. The former still had the bass intact, while the latter had some background noise I at least tried to EQ out. If it turns out there's a better acapella... welp.

edited 11th Jun '12 2:57:19 PM by PhysicalStamina

I like the simplicity, but as Stamina said, it needs variety. It's just two instruments flipping between playing and not playing. But well, if you can sort that out, I can see a bright future for your next attempts 3=

Man.. How come you put out a new song every few days? Each song of mine takes around a month to make and they don't even yours' quality!

Believe me, it's hardly that frequent.

However, I did finish this last night.

edited 11th Jun '12 6:56:09 PM by PhysicalStamina

Well I would like to put up some links to the stuff I make, but since I'm a newbie here I am not allowed to do so. I will just point to my signature instead, eh? Or look for "Kandis Ra" on Soundcloud and Bandcamp.

Enjoy (if you find it) and let me know what you think of it.

edited 18th Jun '12 2:56:25 AM by KandisRa

Not half bad. I enjoyed it.

Here's something I made recently.

very nice, although a bit repetitive for my taste (especially the first minute feels a bit stretched imo) - but that's just my personal taste (always want something somewhere to happen) - btw. is the distortion (on the bass etc.) intentional or rahter, you know, just mixed too loud? but very nice sampling work on the vocals

now I'm hungry...

The latter. I always sucked at mixing.

So, I ended up making another Fake Band song, "Hello Muscle Palace" by Carnival Weasel. The lyrics are taken verbatim from some "spam poetry" that was once received by a Harry Potter fan site.

I noticed you sampled "The Wizard" by Black Sabbath, Fatboy Slim used that same sample in "The Weekend Starts Here".

Here's a Pogo-inspired track I did using samples from the game Hyperdimension Neptunia.

edited 19th Jun '12 5:26:51 PM by PhysicalStamina

Yeah, it's actually mostly samples other than the vocals and a kazoo, the Black Sabbath sample is just the one I didn't try to make any less recognizable.

Speaking of which, where did those drums come from?

Drums = "Baby Strange" by T. Rex... Actually not remotely disguised - I was originally giving them some weird compression but it fucked with the rest of the mix.

bass = "Public Image" by Public Image Ltd, probably the least blatant element in there.

Thanks. Sampling those.

Here's a French House thing I did.

I looked up the actual song out of curiosity and promptly o.O-ed. Good job french-house-izing it though.

Also, for the hell of it I'm putting out an open invitation for anyone to join me in any future "fake band" songs - I had the idea of gradually putting together an album of them, and they'd probably sound more convincingly like the works of different people if there were different vocals and / or non-sampled live instruments on one some of them.

Rap album still needs to be worked on - I will have the house to myself for the first week of July so I'll have more time to record songs with vocals without disturbing anyone then.

edited 19th Jun '12 6:31:24 PM by MikeK

I really wanna post up this really bizarre Eurobeat/alt-rock-type track (with a brief Stax-type interlude and an interpolation of lyrics from Adele's "Set Fire to the Rain") I did using my best friend's horrible singing that I forced him at gunpoint to record, but I don't know whether or not he'd want me to post it on the internet. He hasn't even heard it yet anyway

If this all sounds like I was deliberately trying to make a genre fusion thing, rest assured, I wasn't. I made it as a joke. I was pretty much just messing around with the drum samples built into my keyboard and then just added the vocals (which were recorded months earlier as a joke in the first place anyway—they talk about missing someone's birthday party because of robot wrestling, which was totally awesome, and he made up the words as he went along) and (deciding I didn't have the patience to use my keyboard to play something synth-sounding) made up some two chord guitar riff that barely ever changes, followed by overdubbed (and unintentionally Velvet Underground-ish near the end) guitar solos. Then I beefed up the bass by using Audacity's "Bass Boost" button rather than bothering to record a bass track. And, after screwing around with the leveling of the mix for a while, decided "screw it" and distorted most of the guitars and ended up with vocals that probably clip in certain parts because I was too lazy to level each tiny part of them myself (or, rather, I tried and lost my patience since I ended up duplicating vocal tracks a few times and adding effects like echo and something that made the voice sound like a robot at one point, and I was already taking several hours for the tiniest of things in this and had to get it done by the next day).

Also it has a random Dinner For Schmucks sample in the beginning (the "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not" exchange). I wanted to also put in dialogue from another part of the movie at one point, but the scene's background music was too intrusive and the line was too long.

edited 19th Jun '12 10:58:45 PM by 0dd1

just wanted to quickly throw something in here to share with you guys

http://soundcloud.com/kandis-ra/2306-1

I got quite bored at work and started to play around with some loops and stuff (mainly I cut some songs up and played around with the fallout).

I'm using these two great songs here:

Bill Evans & Jim Hall - Darn That Dream / Charles Mingus - Freedom

This track is far from being finished, so WIP! (especially the transition between the parts, and I also have no idea where this thing goes or where it will finish and don't let me get started about mixing and stuff)

And with that, I'm off to some football, it's Zizou's 40th birthday after all.

edited 23rd Jun '12 12:11:46 PM by KandisRa

I suggest finding a way to make the intro more interesting.

Here's a remix I did of Pogo's "Meetings At The Meadows". If it sounds like something by The Avalanches, I've been listening to them a lot lately.

edited 3rd Jul '12 11:05:02 AM by PhysicalStamina

I've been working on an album with Mixcraft 5 over the past few days (The first 2 tracks were made on something else, and are kinda poor compared to the rest of the album.) and I really like what I've done. I only have one song left to work on, and that just needs a guitar solo, but the person I want to help with that hasn't responded to my email yet. But anyway, here's what I have so far:

http://tylergreen1.bandcamp.com/album/out-with-a-bang

This is a Jungle remix of something from Negima.

Found a cool pad and started playing with it a few days ago. I actually made this both using a new program(FL Studio) and while I was on an airplane. Tried to throw a little bit more variety in, especially past the halfway mark, but it's still on the simplistic side.

For a second there I thought you wrote "Juggalo Remix."

edited 9th Jul '12 2:19:10 PM by KingNerd