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either/or Records

either/or Records is a little name we came up for our music blog. And by we, I mean the dashing Hugh Lloyd and myself (the not-so-dashing). It comes from the Elliott Smith album of the same name. I decided to extend the name into the name for our little record company, even though we don't make records and we're not really a company at all.

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Downloads

Don't Panic
192kbps, MP3, 5.83MB

Chum's Groove
192kbps, MP3, 1.06MB

The Night's Grip
192kbps, MP3, 4.61MB

The Night's Grip [Remix]
192kbps, MP3, 4.61MB

On the Mend
192kbps, MP3, 2.70MB

 

Musical Stylin'

I tend to dabble in a lot of crap: one of those dabblings is music recording. At this point in time, I'm under the label of either/or Records and I currently have 5 tunes for you to take a look at.

Don't Panic

The first recording I did was Don't Panic, a cover of the Coldplay song. This was my first foray into recording, so I basically chose it because it was easy to play (yay for laziness). If I recall correctly, the recording only has one effect, which is on the bass guitar.

Here's what I used:

This was recorded in my study with all the equipment I had lying around.

Chum's Groove

Chum's Groove was done immediately after I finished Don't Panic. It's essentially a test of how the acoustic guitar sounded (since I had it mic'ed up, rather than plugged into an amp). As such, it's pretty damn short, but I quite like the sound of it. The small electric guitar licks were done by my younger brother.

Here's what I used:

The Night's Grip

The Night's Grip was done a considerable time after the previous two. It was for a project for Uni (a sound project) and was only intended to act as a "base" for the rest of my project. Fortunately, it seems that people seemed to like it, so I'm planning to re-record it and extend it so it's musically viable.

This piece is an attempt (I must stress that word) at the downtempo genre (I had been listening to a lot of Zero 7 and Theivery Corporation).

Here's what I used:

The Night's Grip [Remix]

This remixed and remastered version of The Night's Grip was done for Uni. Using the (incredibly) raw data from the original recording, I completely redid all the effects in Pro Tools, rather than whack on some cheap GarageBand effects. I've also added a few ambient noises throughout the piece, the most noticable of which occurs at the beginning (for your information, the speech was from a boring as hell Mapping the Postmodern lecture that I recorded on my MP3 player). I prefer this version of the original, as I managed to hide the fact that this was recorded in a dodgy room a bit better thanks to Pro Tools freedom to do whatever you want.

Here's the breakdown:

On the Mend

A shortened, instrumental cover of the Foo Fighters song, this was the first thing I did on Lexicon Omega unit I picked up. I'm pretty happy with the quality (it's far better than anything I produced in GarageBand) and it was a lot easier to do (I did pretty much no post-processing). I play everything except the electric guitar line, which is played by my brother.

Here's the breakdown:

 

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