Freesound Project

Wow. Stumbled into this place last night, and it lit a fire under me. As an experimental/noise musician lacking in both instruments and recording equipment (being poor sucks), the immense library of unique, unpredictable sounds is an absolute godsend.

So this morning, I immediately started work on the instrumentals for a Noise-Hop album I've been composing for a few weeks, and the results so far are more than I ever could have hoped for.

The album's called "Animals Are Monsters", and is gonna be released (eventually) under my noise pseudonym, "Plague On Wheels". 3 instrumentals tracks have been finished, and can all be found at www.myspace.com/plagueonwheels (in crappy quality... darn myspace music, un-harshing my buzz). All the credits are posted song-by-song on the page's Blog, but I'll also post them here:

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HORIZON LINE
Koen
noise buildup/interlude
xserra
cello fingertaps
plagasul
guitar samples

ASURA CHRIST
sleep
distorted guitar loop
batchku
various piano noises
juskiddink
sampled saxaphone track
anton
didgeridoo drone
plagasul
breakdown ambiance
fonogeno
bell ambiance

MANDALA
hanstimm
main cello ambiance
xserra
sub cello sample
uauaua
saxaphone samples
plagasul
background ambiance

CULT MIND
andrew duke
phonograph loop
phonograph static
patchen
synth loops
bass loop
concierge
street sound ambiance
sleep
guitar squeal
DO Ray
saxaphone loop
plagasul
chorus ambiance
Jovica
loud ambiance
luffy
outro piano loops

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// I didn't put the exact filenames, because I figured whomever's listening to it isn't gonna recognize a sound from a filename. If I need to do this, let me know, and I'll change/add it right away.

Anyway, hope you guys enjoy.

New Track uploading as I type this; check it out.

*credits updated*

Listened to yer myspace. Good sound. I'm a bit of a rap nerd. Not familiar with the genre 'noise-hop', figure you're doing a bit of pioneering there, but i think the name fits whats on your page. Can't wait to hear vocals (obviously something you're approaching with some trepidation).

Noise-Hop's a bit of a made up genre, and it pretty much means Hip-Hop with appreciation and knowledge of noise music, both harsh and ambient.

The only people who have done it so far (to my knowledge) are Mike Patton, Themselves (with theFREEhoudini - GREAT album), and Dalek.

I've already written the lyrics for 2 of the tracks, so as soon as I get my equipment back from my super flakey drummer, I'll be recording those.

Anyway, thanks for the appreciation.

Just listened to your MySpace and I really like the instrumental versions...

Heh, I was wondering whether to mention Themselves to you. Heard "circle", an album by Themselves' poet and emcee dose0ne and producer boom-bip? it's a good one. Keeping an ear to the ground.

Oh yeah, I've been a huge fan of everything dose since my first listen to "It's Them": still one of my favorite hip-hop tracks of all time. I mainly mention theFREEhoudini because, well, it's pretty much the most innovative -- if not the outright best -- rap album ever made, closely followed by Dalek's "Abandoned Language" (to my ears at least). I really have so much respect and love for the potential of hip-hop music... I only wish more people would take chances like those guys, instead of just acting like 14 year olds with a recording contract.

Anyway, that was a bit random, but yeah. Finished another track, but can't get to it (or the credits) until I get a new Power Supply for my laptop. The old one quite literally exploded, almost setting my house on fire. XD