New SY Tribute/Looking For Your Contributions!
 

HI,

I was thinking about making a new (fan only) sonic youth tribute compilation, and i am looking for your contributions.. don't send them here, just send me a private message and i will let you know my e-mail to which to send your contributions to. If/when you have a song to contribute (mp3, 192kbps+), don't post it here, so that the others will not hear the stuff before its release ;) cuz if everyone knows every song from before, then the compilation will not be very much a surprise ;) would you be interested in contributing? :D you dont have to have a band, it can be electronic or whatever, just that its a SY cover :)

thanks

dont send the stuff to my msn address, cuz i dont check mails there, i am not even sure that e-mail even works... i just use it for messneger... but you can even add me to messenger and send me your contributions there, or just send me a private message and i will let you know my real e-mail. i am afraid to post it here cuz of spam. tnx

cool idea

gonna record some stuff, soon
maybe we´ll do a sy cover

sure, it has to be a sonic youth cover ;)

great idea

my bands has an interesting cover of Contre Le Sexisme... I'm not sure about the fidelity of it tho...

i'm gonna try something... and let you know
(i've already done a contribution for the AXIS OF EVOL/THRILL YR IDOLS tribute)

people:

i'm going to record something but i'm also interested in collaborating with someone to do another song. if anyone's interested, pm me.

I'd love to do this.


Anyone needs a guitar/bass/electronic drum machine/synth player, I'd love to add some stuff.

bumpety for contributors and for people who want to collaborate online and contribute a song

Count Me The Fuck In. Now To Figure Out What Song To Do Is Gonna Drive Me Batty.

when do these have to be done?

you can put me down, but i wouldn't be able to do it until the weekend.

Can I do something that doesn't even sound like the original?

Hey Every-N! Get the fuck on MSN! We need to Stop! Collaborate and Listen!

some answers
 

hi! to answer some questions


the sooner the better, but i prefer a good quality recording in the matter of 3 months than having a track with a bad quality this weekend... take your time, just don't take a year or so.. you will be informed on the status of the release, and according to that you will know that you are in a hurry :)


Of course, i would even prefer to have your own interpretations that are different from the original, and don't try just to copy the same sounds than the original... be creative, dudes! ;) just don't send me U2's vertigo claiming that its a cover of Dirty Boots with altered lyrics :D and don't send me spice girls claiming that is a cover of teenage roit in some very artistic post-modernistic avantgardisic way :D


P.S.: If its possible try to keep master tracks (every instrument separately in a special track) just in case that production mastering will be neccessary, becouse i already expect people sending me tracks with very different volume levels and very different recording qualities. it would be really great if we can have all songs in as similar quality as possible, at least in terms of volume and equalizing.

thanks

cool, then i'll actually have time to work on some songs. Flange-pop halloween? Yes.

Great idea could I do Psychic Hearts though?

I'm doing this. Should have something in 2 or 3 weeks.

cool, noumenal, keep master tracks, every instrument on a separate track, if possible :)


yes okay, do the Psychic Hearts ;) you too, keep the masters :)

bump

I'll play drums......ha!

the only files i have are mp2. can anyone convert them for me? pretty please

I'd contribute, but I'd have a hard time making them sound fresh. If you're looking for a solid cover at X bpm's however, I'm your guy.

i will make them sound fresh if you send me master tracks :) f its possible i would like to add some post-production to your songs guys, just in terms of volume normalizing, equalizing, and maybe adding a tiny tiny reverb to some instruments... thats what i would need master tracks for (192kbps versions at least), every instrument separately in a special track... if you still have it like that send it please... i would then send you the post-produced version of the song, for you to confirm and agree that song is better post-produced... its not that i would like to interfere with your artistic freedom, but i would really like to have the compilation sound as professionaly as possible, or at least have every song in approximately at the same volume level.

Let me know if you use my version soundtrax. I trust that any post-production that you do to it will make it sound a lot better. I need to learn to mix better. It's not easy you know.

Soundtrax,
Are you into audio engineering or something?

we're in the same town. if you want to collaborate or something, i'd be up for it.

an electronic version of "mildred pierce" sounds like a neat idea.

well, not professionaly, its not my job or anything, but i've been making music and recording for almost 15 years and i've always been into how to make music sound profesionaly on a computer, so i know how to make the shit sound cool which apparently most of you guys don't know. When i listened to axis of evol/thrill your idols i thought "fuck, i wish i had master tracks to produce it" ;)

PS: i wrote a private message to habib to make this thread sticky, i recieved no answer, dont know why...

I'm gonna be working with a 4-track deck.... so is it possible to just send you a mixed mp3 and you could still change volumes? Or would I need to send the tape?

i guess you can rip each of four tracks into separate mp3 192kbps, that would be the best, can you do that? it would be perfect... well of course you can send just a mixed mp3, but ONLY IN CASE THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION!, PLEASE!!! I think if you are working with a 4-track deck, there should be an option to rip each of four tracks into separate mp3. dont be lazy, it would require some more work of you, but you would do a lot to improve the sound quality of your song and album as a whole... and i am also thinking that i should put the well produced songs in the beginning of an album, and the bad quality songs at the end of the album, so if you want your song to appear at the beginning, you will do everything to make your recording sound better i guess ;) if there is enough material i might not even include a bad quality songs on the compilation if they sound like a telephone recording... so you better try do your best to get a good sound quality

my buddy and i do a sweet accoustic washing machine cover

it sounds like a folk song


its awesome

im on it

I can do 4 seperate tracks no prob.
But i don't really like the idea of putting cleaner songs before the less clean/muddy ones. I'm sure unless they are like answering machine quality recordings you can fit them together somehow. Give it a kind of mix-tape grabbag feel. But of course i'm not the one making it... just that approach seems kinda bunky. Who cares about mid-range if the song's good?

look...let me have 4 separat tracks... i will send you my post-produced version, and you are going to decide whether its ok or not, deal? ;) if you have heard axis of evol, you know how different songs can be, and they just dont fit together like that... i want to make the compliation really cool :)

I won't doubt you, I realize I was beign dickish. I was in a fightin' ,ood earlier, my bad.

Is it ok if we just sing? I'm not too hot of a guitar player.

what song were you thinking of doing? i might be able to play guitar if you'd like?

Something off Confusion Is Sex or Star Power. That'd be beyond awesome if you could.

i wanna do a noise cover of a song...

ill send something along.

I plan on doing one as well. Its just going to be programming and words and maybe some guitar improv or whatever Every-E wants to add. It'll be thug life.

yeah, i'd be glad too. keep in touch with me when you decide. you can pm or email me. either way is cool