well executed, sounds decent

but creative music? cmon mang, ur just imitating post-rock/OST music xD

what's funny is that i don't really listen to post rock. the post-rocky ones were inspired by old godspeed. i wonder if i didn't make that obvious enough.

i guess that's not really funny.

reminds me slightly of wolves in the throne room

i'm familiar with wolves in the throne room. krallice and burzum were a big influence on a lot of the songs i recorded last year, which falls in that same general circle of stuff.

actually, listening now it was more krallice last year, and burzum in 2011. check out krallice if you haven't.

yeah i've checked krallice out, but i listen to them about once a year lol, don't really feel attracted to them that often

i went through a 4 month period of listening to them and destroyer pretty heavily, but yeah, i'm with you on that.

i heard we were doing grim trve kvlt ah fuck it
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really like "hello", beautiful especially second half <3

"jesus speed" was nice. sounds like a story. i want an accompanying music video where everything's made out of cardboard and yarn.

the speed of dog is slower than the speed of jesus what does it mean, but no "dogspeed" was nice too howeverrr, and it's subjective of course, as with "stuff" the guitar distorion was rough to listen to, hard to get over.

works better in "untitled" though, might be my favorite c: good shit, as is "some piano".

voice in "colorblind" has promise! could be talking out of my ass but i get the impression that it might suffer a bit from "trying to not be too loud" syndrome (i have it all the time, neighbours...).

haha, the distortion in stuff has some particular qualities i love (sort of mimicking some tones/qualities of the dissonant harmonic solos on the mars volta albums), but i can see how it's obnoxious.

thanks for the thoughtful comments. you're right about the vocals on colorblind. i wasn't comfortable getting loud, but i was in my office at 1am afraid that the 1/999999999999 chance that somebody decides to come in to work or steal office beer would end up happening.

That was awesome

thanks

Can we share music we are working on here? This is a little diddy I'm working on rofl http://nickjeffs.bandcamp.com/track/rough-mix-pre-vocals-ideas

hell yeah, this doesn't have to just be about me.

i love the non-vocal disco style stuff. recently went through a phase of listening to a lot of 80s influenced disco, like lazerhawk, mitch murder, com truise, etc.

what's your recording/composition/whatever setup?

ableton + lots of vsts + fender squire + $30 practice amp + usb microphone rofl

live is awesome. i've been using it for years. the first year i used it i didn't know how to use the loop interface. i recorded exclusively to the session interface.

have you considered picking up a recording interface like this?

something like that + guitarrig vst in ableton is really fun.

Yeah I had nicer equipment before, this is definitely an awful set up. This is probably my favorite work of mine http://nickjeffs.bandcamp.com/album/nick-jeffs-christmas-2011 . Every year I do a Christmas album just to force myself to record something(except this year where I flaked and only recorded one song),

oh shit, i didn't even notice the 'more releases' link. ABOUT TO LISTEN TO YOUR KING CRIMSON HIP HOP.

Rofl pretty eclectic mix on there.

this is awesome. needs some kool keith vocals over it.

dogspeed is a bit boring and drags on. it's a good basis and has some decent stuff near the end, but it needs more.

stuff is just too long. I love the melody at the end, but you should probably get to it quicker. and then maybe transition into something else. I guess it depends on what you intend to do with the song.

hello is pretty short, but that's kind of interesting given the fairly melancholy kind of sound. I suppose it would work as an introduction or interlude or something. I don't know, but it's nice.. is it really a song unto itself, though?

some piano is cool. it has a sort of zelda dungeon feel. I guess that's one of the minor modes (the single note bits.) I'm not entirely sure. I still need to try to solo over that.

I like Untitled quite a lot; there are only a couple of things I would change about it.. the incessant palm muted introduction seems a little excessive, once again. it's just so droning. it's not necessarily a bad thing, but you seem to do that a lot. maybe shorten it, or maybe not. it doesn't really matter once the distorted heavy stuff hits. that's cool. what I really don't like, though, is the punchy drum sound near the end. it just doesn't have the right timbre.

jesus speed is just groovy, mate. it reminds me a bit of this song. the ending is a bit abrupt; you need to find something to complete it. and.. that melody at the end is really great, but there's one note you hit every couple measures or something that sounds heavily major or something, and I think it probably detracts from the mood somewhat.

colorblind is really cool, but the pitch of your voice on the "there" might be a little high. I'm not sure. and .. I guess you shifted down your voice on the harmony bits or did someone else record that? I don't know if it resonates well with the melody. you could possibly use bass instead. but it's a nice idea.

quite shoegazy, it's alright

Gonna listen after work. You wont get critique or pointers from me tho as it dosent belong in art :)

you can tear it apart, i don't mind. please don't call this art. it's a hobby i'm narcissistic enough to share! :)

replace "share" with "fart" and you got urself some art right there,



you tart

thanks for farting

is it sunday?

new song

I'm replying to the "AMA" part: Brandan dude have you seen my keys???

check the floor around your bed, i'm sure you lose them often. when you give your boyfriend head, you lose your grip and drop them.

sorry. i've been watching a lot of battle rap.

Didnt rhyme 3/10. Also was trick question, I done got my keys right here :@

you have a decent flow
as far as homo rappers go.

ShadyAK, he think he the problem, until the boys carry'em under wood, that how we solve'em

shady A K? more like shady a gay,
the only AK this nigga know is "Aw, come on, my knees ache",
ayyyyee did you catch that? Cuz he blowin' niggas,
Like dust all up in his Nintendo,
cartridge,
but before you push it down and restart it,
take a moment, reconsider nigga how you regard this,
this art, is
retard, ed
i'm sorry i started,
this infernal affair creepin' up like a shark fin,
call him leonardo dicap cuz this nigga's departed

(departed line was kind off the hook)

Brandan you aint verbose,
in fact your flows seen more blows,
than George Jung's nose,
even J-Lo's rhymes have better prose,
homo accusations every line:
that's just projecting defined
stick to begging for zhu and
leave battle rap to a more creative mind

Those bars -- weaker than toxic lg on LAN,
All time lucky, fuck zhu, I ain't no fan,
Just don't cheat to avoid all bans,
|] best bind, all caps, no spam

#BARS

I am glad someone else here gets the concept of bars.

#BARS

WIN

Shut up SlimShadyAK
before I shoot your whole family down with my AK,
you fuckin me brandan ur fuckin with me,
Come at me and i'll knee your face,
you cannot get at my pace ur just,
the ESR's fucking disgrace.
Shady I will fuck your lady like im Peter North,
and bring forth the #FREEZHU,
BREAAAK THROUUUUGH!

that's the worst shit ever

hahahhahaha sooooo baaaaaad :D

Of all the bars so far, i hate yours the most...
And don't be playing the shady card when you're like casper the ghost.
Your quake skill are weak, and your rhymes are even worse,
Stepping against the UK? you're gonna step right in a hearse,
And dont be flexing when you'll just be running out the door,
you aint kneeing no one when your knees are on the floor,
You're a pussy, just waiting on that sex conversion,
And what kind of idiot speaks in the third person?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52181616/something.mp3

getting close to the end of the year. feeling musical!!

good stuff. i especially like untitled and hello.

i never said thanks. thanks!!

something with some vocals

Your voice reminds me of J Mascis, and that's not a bad thing.

thanks, i guess??!

J Mascis = god. so you better be flattered

it doesn't stop happening. i'm sorry. :(

when it gets all funky suddenly... rofl this is great

Listened through dog speed and stuff so far.
I kinda like where it's going but right now it feels like it's missing... presentation? It's hard to accurately describe what makes this stuff sound good yet cheap.

Will listen through more stuff and report back.

brandon: What's it like making shitty music?

i guess it's probably like making decent music, except i don't get the satisfaction of people falling in love with me after i put in my hard work. :(

np i understand

scala: so what kind of music do you listen to?

Is that music? I didn't catch a melodic motif, sounds like poetry reading to me.

dont front like u werent bumpin ur head the entire time bruh. Q Tip = G.O.A.T.

his mind can't grasp the abstract

tru

i don't understand :( are you from another universe ?

I've had 'dogspeed' lurking in my downloads folder for about half a year now and I've listened to it enough times to make my mind up on it...it's really good! Going to download your newest stuff now :)

thanks, i'm glad somebody can get something from it. there's a journal for stuff from 2014 here, but nothing like the dogspeed song (at least so far). that out of the way, 'jesus speed' from this journal post is probably the most similar to dogspeed in style.