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The idea of this was to combine Otis Redding's Sitting on the Dock of Bay with the perspective of a refugee (or of myself as a refugee) sitting in some port trying to flee to a better life. Though not all lines are perfect I'm quite happy with…read more
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Another unintentional instrumental. I quite like this as a track though it doesn't really go anywhere.
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I had a vague idea to write a lyric about Julian Assange's daily life in the Ecuadorian Embassy; no sun, being confined to a small office-space... I didn't get round to it so I added some lame Mellotron (IK Sampletron) parts and called it finished.
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The lyrics are pretty bad and I had to record the second guitar through an ampsim late in the evening of the 28th. So I rerecorded that part in march and changed the drums slightly. This is where the record starts to fall apart a bit.
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Midlife crisis? I'm not going to reflect too much on these lyrics. It might be interesting to myself to hear again 5 or 10 years from now. I used a guitarnoise with a EH Graphic Fuzz and Hardwire RV-7 with a reverse reverb (I used this too in…
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Another one where the riff fell out of me on a rainy summer's day. The words came to me, or more like fell out of me, while stuck in cold airplane with just a few people, waiting to fly home.
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The song is supposed to be one of those "Saturday Morning Hits", which goes back to when I was a kid watching Top of The Pops in '72-'74 with my older sister in the UK. You would see all these bands playing their hit on TV, with all these kids…read more
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This one's the single. It's fun to play and fun to sing when I was in the studio. It's meant to played loud. Actually, the whole album is. Thanks for listening! Cheers, Gary
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Guest
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Nice song!
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plamy
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Fun track – energetic and feels like there’s a lot going on (which suits your track’s title!).
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I had programmed a drumtrack based on Can's Vitamin C at the end of january in preparation for RPM. Last week I read that the drummer Jaki Liebzeit died the 22th of january. The other idea was to stay on one chord for a long time and use reverb…read more
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Brett Warren
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Great groove to this one. Really hypnotic. Took me 'til about 2 minute mark before I was like, 'wait! damn, this is good!'
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Midlife crisis? I'm not going to reflect too much on these lyrics. It might be interesting to myself to hear again 5 or 10 years from now. I used a guitarnoise with a EH Graphic Fuzz and Hardwire RV-7 with a reverse reverb (I used this too in…
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Another unintentional instrumental. I quite like this as a track though it doesn't really go anywhere.
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Monopoli is the still quite virtual label for anything that gets recorded by Erik Verkoyen. These are mostly RPM records (http://www.rpmchallenge.com/) and instrumental tunes for special projects.
from Amsterdam
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