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| Rec me your favorite creation
Lets get some hype for the music creators on sputnik. I want to hear your personal favorite track, song, composition, or whatever that you have made. Tell me how it was made, its inspirations, why it is special to you or anything else interesting and I will add you to the list. I'll start. | | 1 |  | The Phonies
A Mellow Extinction
Argument - All the electronics in my music up to this point have been made by programmed computer software, but for this track I received my dad's old 80's synthesizer (with floppy disk slots included). The synth had such a unique sound so I recorded a series of chords that I continued to slow down and speed up. I then recorded multiple layers of piano and drums on different speeds. When brought back to the original speed the song has such a hectic but uplifting feeling to it; completely changing the direction of the album. It felt really to cool to combine older technology with more modern like techniques to create a song.
https://thephonies.bandcamp.com/ | | 2 |  | Single Soul
cold drone blues expanded
abby is pretty let's go to albertson's - i tried not to over-analyze any of the parts i was writing for it and as a result i ended up with this long seamless piece that captured all the moods i was aiming for in the right order, with the right dynamic shifts.
https://singlesoul.bandcamp.com/album/cold-drone-blues-expanded | | 3 |  | Traveler (MO)
Something Blue
In Repair and Disappear Here - They're very near and dear cause it's a culmination of what I listened to in high school a lot and having fun with it. Nostalgia trip for me while doing new things for me.
https://travelerstl.bandcamp.com/ | | 4 |  | Meus
Downpour
Downpour - At the risk of sounding totally cliche I'll say that music is the only way I can really understand my feelings. When I put music together I always try and pour out how I feel into the songs. With Downpour, the whole EP really, I learned things about myself that I didn't know were there. Regrets and pain over decisions I though I was comfortable with, etc.
https://meus.bandcamp.com/track/downpour | | 5 |  | Tyler Lemerise
Convulsion | | 6 |  | The Beatles
The Beatles
L.T. Brown - Miles Davis
https://soundcloud.com/ltbrownqc/miles-davis-prod-poivron-vert | | 7 |  | boring bathtimes
Souls in a World of Dense Air
A World of Dense Air (vii) - My favourite is hands down the last track on my last album. i was shooting for something huge with that album and i think that track encompasses the idea of transcending ones life into a cyclic existence perfectly. Through how the track flows and the soaring and wandering outro, its hard to even realise that i made it.
It also might be worth noting that a lot of it was improvised and what you hear is me playing it for the first time.
https://boringbathtimes.bandcamp.com/track/a-world-of-dense-air-vii | | 8 | | The Beatles
The Beatles
Flugmorph's Epic Score.
its really bad btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5WcjRlFEWk
and the other one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmBo09vcm28 | | 9 |  | Echo Tail
Drowning the Pacific
Ends to a Mean - This was the first track I recorded properly for the new album and the first track I have ever done with an acoustic guitar. I wrote the lyrics at a pretty stressed time a few months back with feelings of isolation, recorded the track on a rainy day also which reflects on the lyrics. I did the acoustic rhythm and singing all in one take to make it sound more authentic and raw, and was pretty happy how it turned out. The heavier half of the track was heavily influenced by the Thrice track 'Stand and Feel Your Worth' off the Vheissu album, was listening to a lot during recording. Ends to a Mean is a personal highlight for me so far with the band.
https://echotail.bandcamp.com/album/drowning-the-pacific | | 10 |  | Austlune
Austlune
I miss Fireabove with all my heart | | 11 |  | Sensory Deprivation
SNSRY DPRVTN
Miss Emma - i firmly believe i will never top this, the chord progression i came up with just emits so much sadness, especially when played behind the subject matter. for some reason, i have this morbid fascination with drug addiction, specifically heroin, and i have family and shit who has died of it, so it's sensitive of course. the whole atmosphere of the song to me is exactly what the album cover is too, which is my favorite part about listening to it. like i said, i doubt i'll ever top this, but i don't really care to either quite honestly. drumming is also some of my favorite i've done, specifically during that build at the end, where the bass drones until the explosion. that guitar cracking during that part was unintentional, but it's integral to the song imo.
https://bluemistbands.bandcamp.com/track/lapse | | 12 |  | Ethereal Shroud
They Became the Falling Ash
https://etherealshroud.bandcamp.com/
and
Of Solitude and Solemn
https://ofsolitudeandsolemn.bandcamp.com/album/of-solitude-and-solemn | | 13 |  | Lifeless (RUS)
Unstable Structures
NS1 - inspired by Boards of Canada's Gyroscope (Geogaddi), where child voice (or is it woman) repeating random numbers, kind of strange atmosphere. So I took a sample from the same album (The Conet Project) and put a sad piano music on it.
https://lifeless4.bandcamp.com/album/unstable-structures | | 14 |  | Lost Salt Blood Purges
Only the Youngest Grave
Lanthanesthai - The bulk of the piece (i.e. the back-half noisy drone section) came about completely randomly. I was playing with a cheap distortion pedal and hitting my guitar with bass drum hammers, obfuscating the strings and fucking around with the amp and shit. It turned out to work really well for the sake of this piece, and I improv'd some stupid drum parts, saxophone, violins, etc. to go with it. In the front half of the track I'd had these droning feedback sounds since the very beginning of the recording process for the album and had nothing to do with them until this track came to be, and I devised the saxophone line and broke out into the drum section. Then Mark (from Echo Tail) was good enough to understand what I was going for when he designed the guitar line that supports that main rhythm. Overall, this is my favourite track on the album and the one I'm most proud of, since I was almost 100% sure I couldn't pull off the sound I wanted to...but did, somehow. | | 15 |  | The Heist Revenge
Taunt Me, Daunt Me, Do It Again
Fickle - About a month before releasing it and the other 5 songs on that EP, I had strep and mono at the same time, had to be hospitalized twice and missed 3 weeks of class in my first semester at college. When I returned to campus, my (first) girlfriend, who had given me the mono, had revealed she'd been seeing someone else while I was away and decided to call it quits. Between the overwhelming workload to catch up on, the lack of energy from the lingering mono, and being an emotional wreck from the breakup, the final month that semester was taxing as hell and led to me channeling all that stress into a handful of songs I uncharacteristically wrote and recorded within about 2 weeks - my preferred process is to drag the writing process out and fine-tune everything, but I was afraid to let myself out of the zone here and I needed to let the stress out sooner rather than later. | | 16 | | The Heist Revenge
Taunt Me, Daunt Me, Do It Again
(cont.)I'm not very satisfied with the end result of most of those songs; it also doesn't help that I don't primarily write acoustic stuff and all I could use for this was an acoustic guitar and vox with a borrowed microphone I had to return which added more pressure to get it done quickly. But "Fickle," man, the whole thing came together so smoothly and the recording, which was in one take, is easily the objective "best" recording I've done to date. I normally don't write about love, but with everything going on then and some remaining awkwardness about my parents' divorce 3 years prior, all this anxiousness just came out in one of my best sets of lyrics yet, and I dunno, I guess it just felt really cathartic. The following spring, it became the first original song I performed live, and people seemed to love it. So yeah, probably my favorite creation.
https://theheistrevenge.bandcamp.com/track/fickle | |
YakNips
08.26.16 | great idea for a list, and makes me appreciate argument even more
my favorite composition of mine isn't out yet (although you play on it) but my fave that exists to the world has to be abby is pretty let's go to albertson's. i tried not to over-analyze any of the parts i was writing for it and as a result i ended up with this long seamless piece that captured all the moods i was aiming for in the right order, with the right dynamic shifts.
i tried writing a spiritial successor to it with the same approach but it didn't flow at all and didn't have the same beautiful spontaneity i had captured before, so i figure it'll always be a stand-alone track | Stereochrome1
08.26.16 | http://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=224683
https://travelerstl.bandcamp.com/
My creation | laughingman22
08.26.16 | @Yak That is exciting to hear that the best is yet to come. abby is pretty let's go to albertson's is like a monument to all user music here | laughingman22
08.26.16 | @Stereochrome1 do you have a favorite moment or anything you would like to say about the creation of it? | Stereochrome1
08.26.16 | My favorite moments on it are the tracks In Repair and Disappear Here. They're very near and dear cause it's a culmination of what I listened to in high school a lot and having fun with it. Nostalgia trip for me while doing new things for me. | ButteryBiscuitBass
08.26.16 | Sweet.
Mine -
http://meus.bandcamp.com/track/downpour
At the risk of sounding totally cliche I'll say that music is the only way I can really understand my feelings. When I put music together I always try and pour out how I feel into the songs. With Downpour, the whole EP really, I learned things about myself that I didn't know where there. Regrets and pain over decisions I though I was comfortable with, etc.
| ButteryBiscuitBass
08.26.16 | *were there | laughingman22
08.26.16 | Thanks, updating now with links so everyone can hear the songs with little searching | FullOfSounds
08.26.16 | Final Origin better get in here and talk about his new album, cause that shit rules. | HeckToPay
08.26.16 | i really enjoy my Convulsion EP. it's probably the best thing i'll ever do tbh | laughingman22
08.26.16 | @HeckToPay anything you would like to say about its creation, inspiration, meaning? | gagnonov
08.26.16 | https://soundcloud.com/ltbrownqc/miles-davis-prod-poivron-vert
gotta be this one i figure | BandNewbac
08.26.16 | My favourite is hands down the last track on my last album. i was shooting for something huge with that album and i think that track encompasses the idea of transcending ones life into a cyclic existence perfectly. Through how the track flows and the soaring and wandering outro, its hard to even realise that i made it.
Edit: it also might be worth noting that a lot of it was improvised and what you hear is me playing it for the first time.
https://boringbathtimes.bandcamp.com/track/a-world-of-dense-air-vii | BandNewbac
08.26.16 | this is an awesome idea by the way | laughingman22
08.26.16 | @gagnonov cool track but I have to put an album down for every entry on the list. Let me know if your stuff is in the sputnik database anywhere.
List is updated | laughingman22
08.26.16 | @BandNewbac Yeah thanks, I love hearing the creative ways people make music and learning the artist's motivations for certain songs can make them sound even better. | Flugmorph
08.26.16 | one of the two snippets i glued together on magix music maker three years ago. enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5WcjRlFEWk
its really bad btw | Final Origin
08.26.16 | Looks like I've been requested to talk about my new album, sorry if it seems like I am spamming it on here the last couple of days!!!
Ends to a Mean - This was the first track I recorded properly for the new album and the first track I have ever done with an acoustic guitar. I wrote the lyrics at a pretty stressed time a few months back with feelings of isolation, recorded the track on a rainy day also which reflects on the lyrics. I did the acoustic rhythm and singing all in one take to make it sound more authentic and raw, and was pretty happy how it turned out. The heavier half of the track was heavily influenced by the Thrice track 'Stand and Feel Your Worth' off the Vheissu album, was listening to a lot during recording. Ends to a Mean is a personal highlight for me so far with the band.
https://echotail.bandcamp.com/album/drowning-the-pacific
| Flugmorph
08.26.16 | here's the other one btw hah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmBo09vcm28 | ZippaThaRippa
08.26.16 | Austlune
I miss Fireabove with all my heart | BMDrummer
08.27.16 | https://bluemistbands.bandcamp.com/track/lapse
specifically Miss Emma. i firmly believe i will never top this, the chord progression i came up with just emits so much sadness, especially when played behind the subject matter. for some reason, i have this morbid fascination with drug addiction, specifically heroin, and i have family and shit who has died of it, so it's sensitive of course. the whole atmosphere of the song to me is exactly what the album cover is too, which is my favorite part about listening to it. like i said, i doubt i'll ever top this, but i don't really care to either quite honestly. drumming is also some of my favorite i've done, specifically during that build at the end, where the bass drones until the explosion. that guitar cracking during that part was unintentional, but it's integral to the song imo. yea, i write a lot about my own music, but hey, i actually like this one. enjoy boi. | Relinquished
08.27.16 | I miss fireabove too | zaruyache
08.27.16 | Ethereal Shroud - newest album
Of Solitude and Solemn - newest EP | laughingman22
08.27.16 | updated. | Greem
08.27.16 | https://lifeless4.bandcamp.com/album/unstable-structures
NS1 - inspired by Boards of Canada's Gyroscope (Geogaddi), where child voice (or is it woman) repeating random numbers, kind of strange atmosphere. So I took a sample from the same album (The Conet Project) and put a sad piano music on it. | ButteryBiscuitBass
08.27.16 | That's one of my favourites from the record Snox. | laughingman22
08.27.16 | Thanks to everyone for participating, I'll keep checking the list if anybody else wants to add anything. | GmemberKills
08.27.16 | awesome list. I love all the descriptions too. I just really don't have a answer for myself though. | ashcrash9
08.28.16 | oh damn, just noticed this list
tbh my favorite creations so far haven't been recorded (yet), gonna get to that this fall/winter
of anything I have posted, it'd probably be this song: https://theheistrevenge.bandcamp.com/track/fickle
About a month before releasing it and the other 5 songs on that EP, I had strep and mono at the same time, had to be hospitalized twice and missed 3 weeks of class in my first semester at college. When I returned to campus, my (first) girlfriend, who had given me the mono, had revealed she'd been seeing someone else while I was away and decided to call it quits. Between the overwhelming workload to catch up on, the lack of energy from the lingering mono, and being an emotional wreck from the breakup, the final month that semester was taxing as hell and led to me channeling all that stress into a handful of songs I uncharacteristically wrote and recorded within about 2 weeks - my preferred process is to drag the writing process out and fine-tune everything, but I was afraid to let myself out of the zone here and I needed to let the stress out sooner rather than later. I'm not very satisfied with the end result of most of those songs; it also doesn't help that I don't primarily write acoustic stuff and all I could use for this was an acoustic guitar and vox with a borrowed microphone I had to return which added more pressure to get it done quickly. But "Fickle," man, the whole thing came together so smoothly and the recording, which was in one take, is easily the objective "best" recording I've done to date. I normally don't write about love, but with everything going on then and some remaining awkwardness about my parents' divorce 3 years prior, all this anxiousness just came out in one of my best sets of lyrics yet, and I dunno, I guess it just felt really cathartic. The following spring, it became the first original song I performed live, and people seemed to love it. So yeah, probably my favorite creation. | laughingman22
08.28.16 | @Gmember, really? most of your music has a really bizarre sound it would interesting just to hear a bit about how it was made.
@ashcrash, Just found out that there is a character limit, had to split your description in two segments | ashcrash9
08.28.16 | haha yeah whoops, that ended up being way longer than I thought | laughingman22
08.28.16 | it's fine, it is a little difficult to describe something important to you in just a single short paragraph. |
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