Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

263 points by saadalem ↗ HN
I wonder how many HNers create beats/raps/songs or whatever.. share with us !

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This is probably the one I'm most proud of!

https://soundcloud.com/congratulatinos/caroline

Nice, sounds like real instruments; did you play all tracks yourself (incl. bass, drums, perc, voices)?
This was with a band, all recorded live in a studio except for the vocals which I did later myself
The drummer was incredible, a Senagelese griot playing Sabar drums. Unfortunately he is back in Senegal now.
beautiful stuff, vocals are great and remind me a bit of young the giant's vocals, but over a totally different style of music. really enjoyed the listen!
This is actually really good. Definitely something I would download to my Apple Music library.
It’s on iTunes if you look for Caroline Congratulatinos
That's stellar, really great work.

I think I understand what you mean about music being a way back from despair too; after I dropped out of medical school when my best friend died, I was asked to try and retrieve her music and photos which meant figuring out how to fix a fried external hard drive of hers, and a broken ipod too. The music I recovered was one of the few things that helped me get through a pretty dark time.

I haven't done much in the past year due to creative blocks and not having long train commutes that were conducive to this kind of thing, but here's a few of my better ones. I also put out short albums in 2018 and 2019 for National Solo Album Month, they're there in my soundcloud as well.

https://soundcloud.com/bill-abney/uneven-column-reasoned

https://soundcloud.com/bill-abney/floating-flux-v2

https://soundcloud.com/bill-abney/mercurial-law-v2

https://soundcloud.com/bill-abney/anomalous-metallic-state

I really like the juxtaposition of your HN user name being an alias and your 'artist' name being your real name. :) Like the first song Im hearing, listening to more now.
I probably created this account before I partially gave up on privacy. Thanks for listening!
Your track "Cybernetics" is honestly really good and will likely be on repeat for some time going forward.

Reminds me a little bit of Lemon Jelly.

Love it too, will be a great track for night time riding in the city
I love the mix of the ambience and the narrator. Those PSAs and old narrations really add an interesting dimension to it. Question, where do you find those voice samples?
Good stuff, like the idea of 1 day projects. In my experience the tracks I’ve actually finished are always the ones that came together pretty much in a day. Otherwise they get lost to time.
Amazing! The first baloran pool song has a very interesting texture.
I love the comment you got on the first link, took me a while to get it.

> i can make this song blow up for you Stupid American Pig go look at my cover picture on here my contact is there

This is one of my least favorite features of Soundcloud- the bots and pay for play/exposure 'offers' I get. Some enterprising young females even have bots to post porn links. Spammers leave no stone un turned I suppose...
The Planets is for fans of ambient/electronic post-classical: https://neue.bandcamp.com/album/the-planets

Releasing an album was a creative bucket list item for me. I released my first in 2010 as an accompanying soundtrack to an online digital art project. Then another, and another...enjoy.

I am really liking the track "Aftermath" off your latest album. it's really, really, good. Gives me some nice Tron and Blade Runner vibes.
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Yes I’m very interested in edm production and working on some side projects in the space! Have tried producing a bit of everything (DnB, bass music etc) but might focus more on house/techno since it can be easier plus DJs will find it easier to mix into their mixes.

https://soundcloud.com/fellfire