Anyone making indie music with Reaper?

I make kinda folk/roots - country, bluegrass flavoured West Coasty with a groove. I call it roots 'n' roll.

recorded analog, mixed in reaper.

All my stuff was tracked and mixed ITB in REAPER. All mixes of other folks' stuff were mixed ITB in REAPER. All done on Windows.

I can't draw comparisons with the bands that you listed because I don't think I know any of them, but my most recent songs ("I Went Home" and "The Last Word in Love") would qualify as indie. Both songs feature fellow Reaper user and forum member "Triode" on vocals and drums, by the way.

I'm still not clear on what is meant by the term 'indie'. It did originally just mean music produced independently of a record company, but it sort of became a genre and I tend to think of hippie types with acoustic instruments or lo-fi folk rock bands. I have sometimes use the term 'indie-electronic' to describe my own music, on account of I produce it independently, and also because I don't stick to any particular genre (nor have any interest in doing so), so I don't know what else to call it. Any one who is 'unsigned' and producing music is effectively independent, so does that qualify them as indie? And I'm sure there are probably 'indie' record labels. It's all so confusing.

I have no idea what I'm playing, but I rather like shoegaze. MBV are sweet, so are Chapterhouse, Ulrich Schnauss (he's kinda neo-shoegaze) and even Bowery Electric. I think lot of heavy music I like has audible shoegazey influences too, Devin Townsend drowns his stuff in echoes and delays and vocals often have breathy, ethereal quality too.

Does this qualify as indie? All made in Reaper. Sent over to a friend vocalist, he added the vocals and I then mixed it.

a DAW has nothing to do with genre or style. you can do string-quartetts in Reaper ... and call it indie if you like. :-))

I listen to quite a few of the artists you listed there and my primary aim (usually) is to make the kind of music you're describing*. However, what I tend to end up with is a mixture of a wide variety of things because Reaper makes experimenting with mixing genres so much fun and easy. My SoundCloud is for your inspection. * I never used to use the term "indie" to describe the kind of music that term has come to designate. All of what is now called "indie" used to be called "alternative" until that term came to designate another kind of genre back in the 1990's. Personally I like the term "music" but that word confused people.

I wanna say that I have some in my signature. The Bandcamp ep is mostly Post-Rock. Soundcloud only has a couple of demos too. I use Reverbnation mainly for throwing up unfinished tracks that we start in all genres. Hit me up on one of those if you're on those sites. Would like to hear what you do also. EDIT: Villaruse is the main project, The Last White Rajahs is a side thing from last year. (Electronic...or something like that.) Soundcloud should be