Hipknowsis – Free Music Download
I’ve had these songs floating around on my hard drive for a while and I figured it was time to share. We’ve been talking about putting together some more tracks so I figured if I was going to move forward I had to clean out the closet.
There are 18 tracks that were recorded over the course of a year or so (2001-2002). They were all done in the Austin’s apartment A.K.A. L.O.W (Lab Overlooking Waikiki). Nothing was rehearsed, it was all improvised. Recorded using very inexpensive equipment, I think the results are great.
We experimented with all kinds of weird things like plug my guitar into his mixer and transforming the output (Transformer), layered vocal tracks (Hi-Intensity), and sampled all sorts of weird stuff. Listening to the tracks takes me back to a very good time, I hope they do the same for you.
Enjoy.
Hipknowsis – Songs For Miles [56.83 MB .zip]
P.S. – Feel free to use the songs, but please give us a link and credit.
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“….Nothing was rehearsed, it was all improvised. Recorded using very inexpensive equipment,..” You forgot to mention the quarts of Miller Lite (and Hinano on the good nights) that also contributed to the Hipknowsis sound. This shit came out pretty nice for something that was: A) Never planned out before or during, B) basically just recording whatever came up, C) on the hard drive long enough after each session (unsaved) to forget which guitar parts were played together and which weren’t so that some (most?) of the tracks are kind of shoved together, D) like you said, recorded on cheap ass equipment. Remember bringing over chicken wire to try and shield the inputs so that we didn’t record that rock station every time? That didn’t work so well but it might have been the most strategy that was put into any of the recordings.
Overall it was fun as hell and worked out way better than I thought it would. You come up with some crazy shit on guitar, now if you could just remember it the next day you would be on something. Luckily we recorded some of it.
Oh, and by the way the ‘Tried by 12′ sample that you figured out and covered with my shitty Costco ukelele is ill. I’ve played that for people (mostly hip hop djs) and they trip. Good shit. The beat I made for that is lame (ocean sounds??) but whatever, still fun to listen to.