THIS JUNE. PROCRASTINATE SOME MORE.

[imapiratearg]

I have no idea how I'm going to communicate with everyone I want to involve in my and coordinate them on a single day, so I am planning on doing a really low-key, ambient album by myself.

[Linds]

I'm not linking it, but if anyone wants to listen to my 15 minutes, PM me and I'll send you the link. When I have a whole day to myself, I'll go for a whole 30+ min of mostly new material (I like some of the tracks I worked on as is).

[StaedlerMars]

Link it!

Or send it to me. I'll PM you just to make sure.

[Sox]

Who wants to do a duet Michael Jackson cover album using pots and pans? We could call it "Michael: King of Pots".

[valley_parade]

Ladies and gentlemens....


valley parade presents: The News at Six Foot One

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?9m2e22pdnkg

AND!!!!

Production Meeting: The Making of "The News At Six Foot One" bonus EP

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?3woddpcz12j

I started at 10:35 yesterday morning and finished around 9:30 last night. 11 hours!

[Caspian]

I hope not everyone makes an ambient one. yes, it's the easiest to do, but hell if I'm going to listen to hours of possibly very low quality ambient. (not making any comments to any one in particular; my broadband is currently capped so I haven't downloaded anyone's, I just have the feeling that everyone is going to do ambient).

Expect some low quality doom/sludge/nadja-ripping stuff off me next week, though. It's going to own your butthole(s) so hard. SO hard.

[DynamiteKid]

I can assure you the stuff I'm doing isn't ambient.

It is, however, crap. But that is deliberate. We take in punk, metal, reggae, dance, country, acoustic balladry and some kind of bizarre electro-rock genre we invented that is mostly based on this keyboard Mark bought for £1 at one point.

[valley_parade]

My bonus EP has two ambient tracks, but everything else is raping-your-ears guitarness.

Frig, there's a little punk thrown in. if you can play punk tuned CCFBbEbG.

[Albatron]

Sorry,
I'm doing ambient,
but I think It will be interesting,
or at least I
hope so.

[valley_parade]

Were you trying to post in haiku?

[Sox]

Nah, that's Albatron. Albatron is poetic.

Edit: I plan on more than one album, none of which I'd describe as 'ambient'. I'm waiting for a guitar set-up so I can record a straight forward, mostly instrumental guitar album, I'm waiting for somebody with a nice voice and a knowledge of Michael Jackson for the previously mentioned cover album, and another which will be a long single piece of music improvised over a CD of public domain ambient noises and sound effects from the BBC.

[Linds]

Most of the 15 minutes I did could be described as ambient, I guess, but 3 of those tracks are recorded sound and only 1 was composed with the purpose of being ambient. Mostly because I wanted a sleepy sounding track.

[imapiratearg]

I thought the songs were really cool.  The noise was just sort of atmospheric, and not really entertaining.  I liked what you did, though.

[Albatron]

Were you trying to post in haiku?

If i was trying
to post in haiku, I would
have done it like this.


If I can find a good way to incorporate my poetry into music for this, it'll be much better than the ambient/drone stuff I was messing around with.

[Linds]

The noise was just sort of atmospheric, and not really entertaining.

If I'd had a better mic, they would have been better. The concept behind them got lost. 

[GenericName]

Can I record a cover of a Modest Mouse song if it doesn't count towards my thirty minutes?

[Sox]

That fits in with the rule, sure.

[StaedlerMars]

The noise was just sort of atmospheric, and not really entertaining.

If I'd had a better mic, they would have been better. The concept behind them got lost. 

You're track three was pretty awesome though.

[valley_parade]

I think the funniest thing about this challenge is that Linds and I practically made the same track. We rock that hard, guys. That hard.

[Linds]

Indeed.

[valley_parade]

Incentive for people to come to Tronnocon: We will be PERFORMING said track.

Oh maaaaaan. Show of the decade.

[Linds]

I'll play the computer! (Basically click play and sit behind my laptop bobbing my head.)

[Ballard]

I think the funniest thing about this challenge is that Linds and I practically made the same track. We rock that hard, guys. That hard.

This could only be a Rickroll.

[Linds]

Not really.

Mine:

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?ntaxc4msxxc

Shane's:

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?gcl9zm1pdy1

[valley_parade]

I'll play the computer! (Basically click play and sit behind my laptop bobbing my head.)

See, that's the exact same thing I did. I just made mine sound all fuzzy.

[Sox]

I have no idea which album I'm gonna record, but I promised Shane and Linds I'd start at midnight tonight. I think that compared to most of you guys, I have a more than ideal set-up:





How many of these instruments do I actually know how to play? Well, I like to think I've gotten pretty good at the pots and pans.

[imapiratearg]

Damn you.  I wish I had a ukelele.

[valley_parade]

So first Linds and I are loop buddies, and now Darryl's got the same amp that I do.

Guys, we gotta do some different stuff, seriously.

[Liz]

Darryl, that is an impressive set-up. I am jealous.

[DynamiteKid]

Damn you.  I wish I had a ukelele.

They cost like, two bucks. Even half an ass's worth of effort would get you one.

[Barmymoo]

I am HELLOF doing this next week (or actually it's the week after) when I crash my friend's house and demand the usage of his microphone. We were planning on recording some stuff anyway so this is a good opportunity.

Expect some shouting and weird noises, he's very experimental. Also I can't write songs.

[GenericName]

I just finished, and right within the deadline. It's almost all crap, but that's okay.

I'll upload it when I get back from work. EDIT: Whenever I find my flash drive and/or don't hate it. Have a placeholder.


EDIT UPON EDIT: Nevermind, I'm never putting it up.

[ViolentDove]

On the one day this week I had free to do this, my housemate left the other dynamic mic at work. Damn his hide. Also, he took the goddamn M-box, so I can't use any of our condenser mics either. My effort will be somewhat delayed.

[imapiratearg]

Damn you.  I wish I had a ukelele.

They cost like, two bucks. Even half an ass's worth of effort would get you one.

Where?  The only ukeleles I can find are at the guitar shop and the cheapest one is like, sixty bucks.  And it sounds like shit.  The nice ones are like, two hundred dollars.

[Spluff]

I got a $20 dollar 'toy' one, and it's great fun. It's got a really unique tone.

[imagist42]

So I will try to do this when I get back home next week. Still need to scrounge up the 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter to plug my keyboard into my PC's line-in jack, but if worse comes to worst I can just buy a new one somewhere. Once I'm home and ready I should have time to do this... hopefully... before I get my wisdom teeth out on the 29th... but then I can always just record instrumentals at that point.

[gardenhead_]

ok I'm probably going to end up doing this 24 hours straight, as my new delay pedal comes on the 30th of May and I think my keyboard just died

[StaedlerMars]

Guys, I just got a call from my friend saying that he's going to be picking up my computer for storage later today (which is three days earlier than I expected, I started about 4 hours ago), and since I'm heading out of town to where there is no internet I won't be able to finish. So I'm going to upload the song that I have in a bit.

I really wish I could finish it, but this guy is doing me a huge favour by taking care of all my stuff over the summer so I don't want to inconvenience him.

EDIT:
Here it is, it's a ten minute track, it was to be a concept album, but because of the time cut, it's just the beginning. You can expect the rest of it some time when I have a computer again (possibly July?) for a continuous period of about 18 hours.

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?azjsmpdzqnm

[Gurkburk]

Consider my 24 hours started as of this minute. When they'll end? NOBODY KNOWS!

[Sox]

Update 2-(God I hope I'm in the right thread this time)

6 hours in, I have four songs written. I'm pretty pleased with three of them, but I'm not sure how I should record them. I still have 18 hours left for that though. I'd like the guitar to sound 'clear' and not 'blurry' like it currently does, and I'm not sure how to work around that. I haven't used the pots and pans yet, or the ukulele, or anything other than the two acoustic guitars.
I took a three hour long break when I got frustrated and decided to eat dinner and listen to music for a while.

[Kai]

My regularly scheduled setbacks are now complete! well, except for the theatre banquet tonight. Which I'm going to work around.  By starting right after it.

Even though I should be writing a paper about Naked Lunch as a future-terror exaggeration of the soon-to-be American Dream.

[Sox]

Update 3-(Man, I'm beat)

at 9 hours in I had 11 songs at what'll be approximately 35 minutes. I used only the two acoustic guitars and there's one little Ukulele tune on there. My timing is awful and I flub far too many notes to record them live, so I plan on record as many of the parts as I can as loops and constructing the album like a jigsaw. I hope that sounds okay. I've still got to revise the song titles and lyrics, as well as find a name for the project and the album.

[Sox]

It's almost all crap, but that's okay.
EDIT UPON EDIT: Nevermind, I'm never putting it up.

What?! No! You tease! You're like that girl you hook up with but who never takes her bra off because she thinks her nipples are too small or something. You're like the dude that wears shorts in the shower at the gym because he's worried other dudes will laugh at his junk. You're like your favourite band you go to see live and they say "Hey, this is a new song" and after tuning up they say "Actually, we're not gonna play that one".

You hated it THAT much? Well, fine...

...EVERYBODY STOP! STOP RECORDING! Challenge is over! No more entries accepted! That's right, GenericName has RUINED it by not uploading his album.

Edit: Actually, that's a lie. Challenge is still on. Back to work guys.

[DynamiteKid]

EDIT UPON EDIT: Nevermind, I'm never putting it up.

A brother playing pussy is a brother that's getting screwed.

[GenericName]

No, that was less "I hate it soo much" than "In a freak accident known as 'I forgot to unmount my flash drive before removing it', half of my material disappeared".


Here's 12 minutes of it, though.

Code:

nope!

[Johnny C]

Okay I'm starting tomorrow, but I need help.

Post album covers that are really awesome but look nothing like what the album actually sounds like. I am going to make the title tracks of those records.

[Kai]

Got home a couple of minutes ago, so my album starts now (even though I should sleep and write a paper)

[DynamiteKid]

No, that was less "I hate it soo much" than "In a freak accident known as 'I forgot to unmount my flash drive before removing it', half of my material disappeared".


Here's 12 minutes of it, though.

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?fmhz3o1mu1l

Cheerfully withdrawn.

My record should be ready next weekend.

[Sox]

My apologies for jumping at you, Alex. This is half of a good effort! I can tell! It's better than what I expect my final product to be.

[öde]

the last 7 minutes are silence!

They weren't supposed to be, but by the time I came to the mastering stage, I thought my arms were five metres long and my computer was screaming at me.