So, Tropers can do music too, right?

Just put out a track from my next vaporwave album, which exclusively samples '70s music.

edited 31st Jan '17 6:38:22 PM by PhysicalStamina

there is no moon but there's a light in the room at the top of the stairs.

Working on making an album over the course of one month, as I tend to do most years for the RPM Challenge. The first piece I ended up completing is called "You Are Beautiful (Amazing Meat)". There is a Dan Deacon piece called "Drinking Out Of Cups", where he took on the persona of a Long Island "tough guy", watched tv on mute, and commented on everything he saw on the screen in character - I wanted to try the same thing, but to make it feel less like a total ripoff, I tried to sound like I was narrating a guided meditation tape instead. The bass is actually a heavily pitch-shifted sample of me saying the word "rotting", taken from part of the spoken track I otherwise didn't use.

edited 6th Feb '17 9:14:03 PM by MikeK

I released a new EP titled Catch-22. It features various genres such as post-rock, ambient electronic, and experimental rock, and it also has influences from artists such as Brian Eno, Miles Davis, and Sigur Ros. It's free to download, but feel free to donate some money if you liked it by buying all 20:34 of it. Up to you, and you can pay whatever you want. Also, some critique on it would be helpful to improving my sound. Thanks!

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edited 19th Dec '17 2:46:09 PM by awdur

Ghost musick, for ghost people, by ghost people.

I done been productive lately!

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edited 19th Dec '17 2:45:59 PM by awdur

I finished my RPM album, Maybe Next Year, but the place I normally put my music up isn't cooperating, so instead I uploaded a few more tracks to soundcloud: "Pizza Systems", "Shut Up, Thanks", and "OMG (Not Ann)". Respective title sources: A machine translated menu from a Japanese Pizza Hut site, what the band name Geggy Tah coincidentally means in Scotland, and realizing I kind of already called a song "OMG" six years ago.

Update: full EP uploaded here.

edited 26th Feb '17 7:07:09 PM by MikeK

So here's a silly "Baby Got Back" cover I unearthed from last year - I had decided that an instrumental I had already made sounded like that song, so I started rapping the lyrics in a deliberately bad English accent. By coincidence I have this thing I do where I pick a year out of a hat and listen to music from that year, and the last year I did was 1992, the year the original song came out. Now I sort of want to run with that idea and do a cover/interpretation of a song from the year every time I do one. Next year on deck is 1959, so maybe I'll do something with Miles Davis or Charles Mingus samples?

edited 2nd Mar '17 12:30:58 PM by MikeK

I Love Your Dog, aka Mike K tries to do a Daft Punk style Bee Gees remix.

Just released my first single today, a cover of a David Bowie song and a Smiths song! Only $2 and I could for sure use the money, so if you can spare it, consider helping me out?

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Should be up on most other digital retailers as well shortly, and as soon as I check my licenses, I might put it up on Bandcamp as well.

Edited by Odd1 on May 12th 2019 at 12:46:06 PM

Your singing is much better than I remember. Still have to watch your tune though.

I'd love to help you, but I'm dead broke. :(

My new album American Woodlands comes out on Sunday, April 30th. It's nine tracks of indie rock and ambient covers with some new and old stylings of mine mixed in. There is an advance single in the form of Naomi (a Neutral Milk Hotel cover) which you can buy right now or just listen to. If you want to and have the money necessary, feel free to buy (or at the moment, pre-order) the album for $1 or more. Cheers!

I have released my first recorder composition album titled Tribute to Tokyo. Comes with sheet music and arrangements of all tracks in this album do not require permission. Have a listen and chip in some money if you like. It's pay what you want.

edited 8th May '17 9:11:35 PM by murazrai

https://nitroanilin.bandcamp.com/album/eclipse

Releasing my third album today, and the first album I released in a more proper manner. I'll let the album trailer tell the rest.

Here's a song I'm working on. It's called "A Quick One, While They're Asleep". Still need to record crummy vocals for the last bit (which will probably be every bit as unintelligible as the ones already there), but thought I'd upload what I have now for criticism purposes. Therefore, all criticism is welcome.

I'm gonna release an album on June 1, 2017. It'll be entitled Mild Thematic Elements. It'll use an ACTUAL microphone for recording and not the crappy webcam I used before, and will cover a diverse range. Also, while the EP had no drums, this one will. The tracklisting is as follows.

1. "Free" (Fast-paced rocker about wanting to live a free life)

2. "Iron Man" (Cover of Black Sabbath, commemorating break-up)

3. "Electric Funeral" (Segueing directly, excerpt, cover commemorating break-up)

4. No title yet (Atmospheric instrumental with wordless vocals)

5. "The Beautiful World We Live In" (Deliberate textbook Lyrical Dissonance, cheesy light-hearted pop with ultra-cynical lyrics, main melody using a cheap '80s keyboard I got off of Ebay)

6. "Got That Blues" (I do a blues-rocker, about me having a bad day)

7. "Knowing The Unknown" ("mystical" tune)

8. "We Belong" (In the Style of '80s hair metal, a Power Ballad)

9. Untitled instrumental (Reprise of track 4 to send us off)

Concurrently i'm working on Two Tales, which will feature two prog rock/prog metal/power metal epics, both telling epic fantasy (With a hint of sci-fi) stories. They are not my own, they are loosely based on another work, which I am not telling what since it will definitely be a surprise. The two, and the plot synopsises, are entitled:

I: "The Legend Strikes": A decades old evil re-awakens and brings destruction.

II: "Balance Of The Gods": When the gods of fire, water, and air are awakened, chaos and possible world destruction ensue.

Release date June/July 2017.

edited 10th May '17 7:42:24 AM by WhatArtThee

I now have a VGM metal cover channel on Youtube. Posting here because I just finished a cover of one of my favorite ever VGM and I'm quite happy with how it turned out!

EDIT: @Packyastuff: This is pretty good! I liked the first half better though, amazing atmosphere.

edited 3rd Jun '17 8:01:24 PM by NEO

@NEO: Thanks! And yeah, you are probably right about the second half of my song not being quite as good... I was thinking about scrapping the last bit altogether because it just gets too repetitive. Do you think this would work better as two siamese twin songs, perhaps? Also, good job on the Rainbow Resort cover; it sounded great to me!

I don't even think these two halves belong together, if I'm not missing the point. It changes mood quite a bit. What I would do is to maybe perform meiosis on the song and develop both halves independently.

And thanks for the compliment :)

I put out a short beat showcase EP yesterday.

Here's me trying to DJ in >80º weather while battling an army of gnats.

Or you can listen to an audio version instead.

I made an album!

edited 2nd Jul '17 7:04:03 PM by WhatArtThee

I kind of have this running joke with myself where I try to see if I can fit the vocals to "Azz Everywhere" by Big Freedia into other songs, and I decided to put together all the mash-ups of this one song I've done so far into one EP-length playlist. ("Omnipresent Posterior" is more of a remix, as only the vocals are sampled and the backing music is completely my own)

Released a new EP to support the double album coming out in a few weeks. Indie rock, lo-fi, krautrock, emo.