24 Hours, May 2009

[Sox]

Is it really that time of year again already? Why yes, yes it is. It's time for the second annual 24 Hours May challenge! For those of you who already familiar with this, here's last years (incomplete) archive:
24 Hours, May 2008
There's two albums missing, but they'll probably appear someday.

The goal is simple: You have 24 hours to make a record.

When you're comfortable, start the clock. You then have 24 hours to produce a record by any means neccessary. When you're done, you post it here. At the end of the month, all the entries get posted on a blogger archive of the event.
This time there are no restrictions. It can be as long or short as you want, you can include as many covers or samples as you wish. Throw up a remix album if that's how you swing.

Get those creative juices flowing! Edit: Unless you're kinda busy or stressed out, like me. Then you don't have to. The rest of you? I'll fucking cut you if you don't take part.

Update: Backstreet Boys tribute record currently stands at...
1) Sox - Larger Than Life
2) A_Pack_of_Wolves - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
3) October1983 - I Want It That Way
4) Christophe - Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
5) Dynamite Kid - As Long As You Love Me
6) Patrick - Don't Want You Back
7) Billiumbean - Shape Of My Heart

[Scandanavian War Machine]

fuck yeah!

i love this.

[StaedlerMars]

Man, I've been waiting for this since april came around.

Exams end the 20th. I'm all over this.

[Be My Head]

I will participate for sure!

Expect it to be amateurish to the max!

[sean]

expect one from me late may. and yes, i fully plan to do this. i've already mentioned to my friend were putting as much musical equipment as we can into his basement after finals.

[Avec]

I don't know anyone with personal recording equipment. This is going to be very ghetto.

[Be My Head]

For me, I'm going to have to convince someone to bring their mics and recording equipment over here, which could be tricky.

Hey, are we allowed to have other musicians playing in addition to us?

[Sox]

Yeah, last year we had several bands and duets. Anything goes. There are no rules.

[Rolling20s]

I had a lot of fun with this last year. I ended up recording myself and my cousin with a single Rock Band mic via my computer. I think we're gonna use his recording equipment (he does freelance professional recording and wants more fidelity), but I say, don't let fidelity get in your way. I also want to try and meet the requirements that were used last year (at least 30 mins, all original), but only because I had so much fun writing new stuff last year.

I'm looking forward to hearing the submissions!

[october1983]

I'm in again. Hell, I might even do it twice.

[greenMonkey]

Question:  is it 24 hours to record an album, or 24 hours to write and record an album?  Because I have a ton of songs that I have written which desperately need to be recorded, and I was wondering if those could count towards this (as long as they were all recorded within a 24 hour period).

[imapiratearg]

Aw shit yes.

Checklist for album:
Bunch o' guitars: check.
Bassist: check.
Drummer: check.
Keyboards: check.
Bag o' weed: check.

Hell yes, I am so ready for this.  It might be around mid May, though.

[scarred]

24 hours? I'm down. Possibly this weekend, even.

[Sox]

Question:  is it 24 hours to record an album, or 24 hours to write and record an album?

Write and record. The exception would be if you were to produce a covers album, but you'd still have to learn them.

[Harun]

i'd be able to this if it was in June, as I'm still in school till then. I have enough of my guitar rig/drum programming/recording/mixing workflow down that if I do decide to do this, I could crank an album out over a weekend if I wanted to. Maybe if I am not super busy with schoolwork/workwork before the end of the month, I might surprise myself. Who knows. Probably not.  But maybe.

[valley_parade]

It can be under 30 minutes?

I've been working on some really Nadja-esque stuff lately..I'm in.

[a pack of wolves]

I think I might actually make an album this year. I have a narrow window of opportunity, but it will be a nice way to celebrate finally being done with university.

[Sox]

Where are you these days? Do you not love us anymore?

[a pack of wolves]

Aw, you know I'll always love you. I've just been really busy trying to finally get my degree after all these years, and I went and got myself a girlfriend so I don't spend so many nights aimlessly on the internet as I used to. Also, I remember coming on here a while back and most of the discussions were either about things I did not care about (equipment and bands I find tedious) or seemed like conversations I'd seen here umpteen times before. It seems better this time around though.

However, I have a load of work to get done in the next few weeks and therefore procrastination shall drive me back into the forum's arms.

[DynamiteKid]

I will attempt this at the end of May.

[Be My Head]

I'm having trouble with equipment, I might not get this done in May, but I'll do my best.

[DynamiteKid]

I might just do a record's worth of acoustic ambience. I only have a guitar and a lap-steel here, I can't do much else.

[Sox]

One record from last year consisted mostly of recorded silence.
Does anybody reading still feel they have a good reason not to take part?

[valley_parade]

Was that Linds'? I quite enjoyed it.

[Linds]

It wasn't silence, it was badly recorded library noise (and a lecture?), but it pretty much sounded like nothing. I think I'd do something like that again if I ever get a decent microphone.

I have no equipment, just my laptop. Like last year. I will probably sit down on one of my off days and do this again. I was kind of sad I never got past 15 minutes on the last one, but I was silly and tried to do it during finals. No school to interfere now!

[sean]

shit! a pack of wolves, good to see you back man!

[scarred]

Started at about 3:30 (Pacific time) today. Taking a break. This is hard.

[Zingoleb]

Okay, I'll get a bunch of people together.

WE RECORD NOW

EVERYTHING IS IN C

GO!

(or not)

[scarred]

Okay. First attempt was not quite a success... I only knocked out 6 real songs in the 24 hours. If we're allowed to try again, I definitely will at a later point - I think it's a great exercise.

Without further ado, I present the mini-album that came out of this project. As you can probably tell, it's got a sort of sci-fi theme.

All instrumentals btw.

"Battle For Orion V"

1. Strange New Worlds...
2. The Agenda For Tonight's Meeting of Interstellar Horrors
3. Ruins of Dunsmuir
4. Rooftop Chase
5. The Needs of the Many
6. Battle for Orion V
7. Daybreak

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/?ykgzao1fnyz

No art yet.

[Sox]

Congrats on been the first to beat the challenge this year! I look forward to listening to this.

[Jeans]

I tried to do this but then I revised the things I had written and I thought "oh god stick to journalism you fucking twit" and I stopped.

[Koremora]

Scarred, your album was like a sweet Deastro EP. Me likey. 

I want some artwork to go with it, as it's stayin' in mah library, and I'm anal about having artwork for all my albums.

[scarred]

This can be temp artwork if you like.

Glad you approve of the tunes, though!

[KvP]

As soon as the KP3 comes in and I know how to use it, it will be on.

[Koremora]

My new M-Audio keyboard will be coming in 4 days, at which point I'll be figuring out more stuff on Ableton for a couple weeks so I can do an ambient-ish album in late May.

[billiumbean]

Will participate when I find my voice.  It will probably be one very long song.  Is that cool?

[Koremora]

Anything goes.

[Rolling20s]

Looks like the date is set for my cousin and I to begin recording. Friday, May 15th. As an added bonus, we're also going to take video of the recording process and put it up on the Youtube. Hopefully it won't be boring as hell.

[DynamiteKid]

Will participate when I find my voice.  It will probably be one very long song.  Is that cool?

I like the way you think, mister.

[Dollface]

I can post couple lyric or more here if it helps but i must warn they might be good or total crap.

i only need to figure out how i can get my creative engine going.

[KharBevNor]

Right, I'm starting this now.

[DynamiteKid]

I'm doing this after all my assignments are in this month with a guy from my university. We are Small Town Gypsy Massacre.

[Caspian]

Might do this tomorrow. Expect a bunch of lovecraftian doom tunes, limited only by my lack of patience at programming drums.

[KharBevNor]

Right, I've finished with a few hours to spare. Don't reckon I've got another track in me. Sbe a bitort of a post-industrial/idm effort, maybe a bit more mainstream than my normal work, but on the other hand, maybe not.



Track List:

1: Wintermute
2: Heterodyning
3: Spiral Factory
4: Blak Diamond Train
5: Cities of Refuge
6: Leviathan Dub

Code:

http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?niywzno1jmq

Copy, paste, switch the !, you all know the score.

[scarred]

This is rad.

[imapiratearg]

So I think I will do this like on the 23rd, or something.  Write in 12 hours on Saturday, record in the other twelve on Sunday.

[Sox]

The Backstreet Boys won the Deathpoll.
Now who's down with recording a song for a Backstreet Boys cover album for this thing? You sign up, then we divide 24 by the number of people, that's how long you'll have to record it.
Get creative, do whatever you like to the cover. Just, make sure nobody else is already doing the same song. Post if you want in, I'll edit the list into the first post. Come on, let's make something ridiculous and awesome.

[a pack of wolves]

I'd kind of like a crack at Everybody (Backstreet's Back), I probably won't be able to do it until much later in the month though.

[Sox]

I think I want to do "Larger Than Life"

[october1983]

I'd be up for doing I Want It That Way. Oh man this could be hideous.