monopoli

Savage Snowstorms

Hazardous Hailstones

Deathly Drizzle

Abnormal Acid Precipation

Sax and Violins

I wanted to end this years record with a tune I could easily fall asleep to and I asked Peter Dematté to play sax over two alternating guitarchords I recorded. I really love what he came up with and have... (more)

Miss Oppurtunity

There's several things I tried out that worked really well here; the popcorn-synthsound from the Dark Energy, the speeding up at the end, the minimalistic hiphopbeat. The lyrics are a bit too bla-di-bla for my taste but whatever...

Reset Your Head Again

See track 4. I decided to kill this this off completely by adding some analogue synthwankery. Features Doepfer Dark Energy, Akai VX90, GPO strings and bongo's!

I Killed a Rapper

Is this years' fillertrack. I had started this backingtrack to fit with a lyricidea I had but I decided against the lyric and turned it into an instrumental. I needed an extra tune since two other tunes... (more)

Ain't Life Great

This tune was sounding so dramafree and happy-go-lucky that I decided to write some (uncharacteristically) dramafree and happy-go-lucky lyrics. The sound at the beginning is from my Nokia-phone which I... (more)

Reset Your Head

I came up with lyrics for the backing track that ended up as Reset Your Head Again, but since I had grown to dislike that backingtrack I decided to just play the song with guitar and voice.

I Let it Happen

One of my better tunes this year I think. Lyrics were meant to be an anti-"My Way". Instead of looking back on life all proud and selfassured, this is from the viewpoint of someone who has just realized... (more)

My Teenage Pornstar Baby

The lyrics were meant to be kinda stupid and obnoxious to set the bar really low for myself in an attempt to get over my chronic lyric-writing block.

Theme from Sex and Violence

Another instrumental; some nice sounds and additional keyboard by Peter Dematté

Still Going Strong

Night falls over Krakow (end credits)

Smoke and mirrors

Smoke, Mirrors and drums

Walking through Krakow

Night

Concrete

Smoke

Water

Opening credits

Edyta theme

Still Going Strong

I don't know what your problem is

I started this one at the end of januari in preperation for RPM. I added lyrics and vocals in february. So it's kind of a bonustrack. Just another throwaway popsong with the awesome stylophone in full effect.

Clique d'Amsterdam

My Clique-contribution with some added ambientsound recorded from my window. This is partly the traditional filler-track but I quite like the ambientsound. If I do a record next year (I probably won... (more)

Credit Crisis

Another attempt at a Carol Kaye-bassline, slightly more succesfull. I quite like how this turned out although it's kinda slick and not something I could really use in another context (it just sounds like... (more)

Johnny Remember Me

This started sounding quite Nick Caveish and at the same time I wanted to do something with Joe Meek; so it's a murderballad-variation on Johnny Remember me. There's stylophone and theremin in there... (more)

Espresso Martini

Trying out a Carol Kaye-inspired bassline here (not completely succesfull; gotta work on my timing some more) and again didn't manage to come up with lyrics. Espresso Martini is a really nice cocktail... (more)

The Machine Against Rage

Another one without lyrics. The title was my workingtitle. And I just thought it was a funny title (I think Rage Against the Machine is kind of silly) I quite like some of the sounds on this one... (more)

Still Going Strong

The most ambitious tune; about a singer that starts out in the late sixties and ends up in the oldies-circuit doing his last big hit from 1982 three times a night.The vocal is a bit low in the mix. I might upload a special mp3-mix for Alonetone shortly

A Quiet Night At Home

The first casualty of my severe lyric-crisis this year. Could have been a good song. Is an OK-ish instrumental now.

Mondrian is Boogie Woogying again

The Dutch painter Mondrian was apparantly a fervent dancer to Boogie Woogie and that image stuck because he seems such a stiff guy otherwise. So I thought that would make a funny subject... (more)

Register and Record

Here the idea was that I was going to write from the viewpoint of someone who is paralyzed from the neck down and can through technology only watch other peoples life but not participate. It turned out a bit more general and ambiguous than that.

Afsluitdijk

1.Afsluitdijk
...is a Dutch word and it's the name of the dam/road going from the province Friesland to North-Holland (and Amsterdam) The lyrics are about a 15-year old boy who feels so trapped in the... (more)

Mermaid

1. Mermaid My Casio-tune (for the Casio Challenge) Recorded through a microphone so you can hear me tapping away at the crappy little keys of the SA-3. Since it started to sound very sinister and reminded me... (more)

Nightflight to the sun

1. Nightflight to the sun I made a lot of guitarbased tunes this year so here I started with synths and stuff. I quickly started to sound like an Italodiscotrack so I added the compulsary cheesy... (more)

One big Eurocity

1. One big Eurocity The title is nicked from a line in a Tuxedomoon-song. I wanted to have lyrics for this one about travelling and coming across similarities in different cities in Europe. But, alas, no time left. It's an instrumental now.

I only want to procrastinate

1. I only want to procrastinate I started recording this on 28 february and added lyrics and vocals two hours before midnight the 29th. It's my favourite now though it's kinda dumb. I started... (more)

Lights speeding home

1. Lights speeding home The lyrics are kinda cliché. I like the tune itself. I tried to make a song similar to Femme Fatale or I'll be your Mirror by the Velvet Underground but it's nothing like... (more)

Underachievers Anonymous

1. Underachievers Anonymous More nonsense lyrics. I quite like the tune though and the vocals are also acceptable for a change.

The lost generation

1. The lost generation As if the last one wasn't miserable enough. This lyric is about "the lost generation"; the generation that came right after the babyboom-generation and was more or less written... (more)

The world's most miserable song

1. The worlds most miserable song This was partly meant for a challenge someone put out in the RPM-forum to make the most tearjerking/depressing song ever. Because of the flu I didn't... (more)

Last day at the office

1. Last day at the office Another nonsense lyric, but I quite like: "a portable swimmingpool, cemented in the lawn, some R&B beeyatch with Gucci flipflops on" I quite like how the sound came... (more)

It's easier when you dont care

1. It's easier when you don't care How true! Based on a blogpost-title by my favourite RPMer. I recorded the guitar and bass-parts this year through a Vox Pathfinderamp at relatively neighbourfriendly... (more)

Vanilla sex and garlic ice

1. Vanilla sex and garlic eyes I tried this method http://www.songmd.com/col_hitlyr... to get out of my continuing lyricwriting-crisis... (more)