any genre, any time length, any format. solo projects, projects with bands, one-off mp3s, anything!
as musicians, ideally we want to make music that we enjoy, and if others also do, that's awesome. i'm sure most of you have at least one standout track you've worked on that you're really proud of and want people to listen to!
i'll start with what is my absolute favorite off my latest Noctoran release, "Reflection of the Pale Moon's Eye" from the Thy Curses We Bear Eternal demo in April of 2023:
as the closer of this black metal demo, i really feel like i nailed the feel and the production that i wanted in this song. the riffs don't particularly diverge much from their structure, but i think it really works for the sort of raw-but-atmospheric vibe i was going for with this material.
i'm also really happy with the drum arrangements; there's a sense of flow that i wanted to nail between the start and looping into the main riff with the super aggressive blast beats. it's also the only song on the demo that has a slower, more doomy sort of dirge feeling to it a little after the middle. i am also really happy with how the vocals turned out, going between the shrill highs, deep lows, and the moments where i just scream my lungs out.
overall i've been really happy with this track, and it also feels really good to play live. i think you've accomplished making a truly great track when it gets stuck in your own head.
i don't play out much anymore, but i'm a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, so i'm putting out a little list of different modes i played in that i thought i did well
DRUMS: i come in at 2:06 in this Cutting Room Floor track and play until 3:48. coming in at 3:19 felt like flying to me; i'm proud of the concept which makes that moment stick, and i'm proud of my technical execution overall.
i like this one
i still havent gotten to record a full band version of this track but this one means a lot to me. hearing it with my band with the wall-of-sound shoegaze guitar behind it rly makes it feel complete where I wasn't able to make it feel just from ableton plugins. its a shame no recordings exist of that version of the song, and thats on me.
it's this one, followed by ill moonlight (also band version), followed by this thing ((no homo voice) no omo)
Not the most original pick since it's the album's title track but it's a very important track for me in terms of how it helped me build confidence in my music making. It's the first track i ever made that I did vocals for myself, and I really took my time with it to figure things out. It made me excited to produce happy hardcore!!
I'm pretty puppy proud of it 🐶💗
this track from the first album i made that i was really proud of. its the first song i did for the album and sort of set the workflow for the rest of it. its where i really started understanding how to use synthesizers. this whole album was me being obsessed with bach and autechre and salem. the later songs with pipe organ were all done with a proper sample library but the organ in this song was done with a physical modeling vst that could just simulate one pipe. its one of my favorite songs ive ever written.
tough choice, my actual fav is something i'm currently working on but otherwise
this is for sure messy and in a demo state but also the closest representation of where i wanna go for album 3. sample-heavy, layered, dark, droney guitars, fantastical lyrics that try to tell a story. also big on the understated b side but that's more of its own separate experiment.
