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A folky ballad about the trials and tribulations that happen during home recording, in this particular case using a Boss microBR.
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Let me tell you all a story, most of it is true,
a strange and twisted…
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"Face it, she's gone and not coming back, its time to move on" done in folk style with acoustic guitar and harmonica.
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A prog-rock style song about looking for answers in dreams.
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A prog-rock style song about trying to figure it all out before it is too late.
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A folk-rock tale about facing your fears and surviving to tell the tale.
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A prog-rock style tale of a deep-space rescue mission and amnesia, that sorta thing.
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Synthesizer, guitar, and space echo (Boss RE-20) combine to create controlled noise and keep it musical (that was the goal anyway).
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Written and Recorded: Feb 14, 2010
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity...all fingers, no picks.
I'm a little under whelmed with my lack of melodic development…
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A love song of sorts, a" winter is finally over" song, and a song about traveling into the wild country.
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That's the way it goes some days.
I'm very very sorry.
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A Prog-rock style song inspired from a series of vivid dreams that left a lingering impression with me.
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I wanted to play more directly with noise of various kinds so this piece focuses less on techniques and fancy plugins and more on selection & arrangement of sounds.
I spent many hours going through Reaktor ensembles I've downloaded searching…
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Acoustic guitar and electric guitar tell the story of a good old-fashioned snow storm.
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You go down to the docks, the sun just starting to come up. Its time to greet the day.
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This is a far from finished version of a new song. I have lyrics for it, but haven't recorded any vocals yet. I'll repost it when it's a little more completed. For now though, I'm anxious to post it even as it is. Hope you can dig on it.
-Rain
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A blues-rock song about going up to the big city (Toronto) for work, but feeling terribly homesick for what was left behind.
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This track is inspired by the movie "Seven Pounds".
Gear used: Alesis Micron, Dr202, Mic
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Something is coming...
Gear used: Alesis Micron, E-mu XL-1
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When i was young i had a Lamborghini Countach poster. I never drove one but this is probably how it feels like.
For those who don't get it: old is cool = old's cool != oldschool
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I was mad and drunk so...yeah
Gear used: Alesis Micron, Logic Drums
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Sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut.
Gear used: pure Alesis Micron into Audacity, no post-processing
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Jonathan Thomas looks at the part of Jesus prayer in John 17
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Kind of nice, dancey, electro maybe. Sounds a bit like Sigur Ros or the opening theme in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece "2001" at the beginning.
Gear used: Doepfer Dark Energy (for everything)
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This is my most angry song.
Sodom And Gamorrah
(c)2010 Terry A. Beckett
How many times have we seen it?
Headline the evening news.
How many faces have been featured
While the tabloids expose the ruse?
How many sweet young things
Have tried…
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An Alt.Country style song about a girl named Katherine Lynn
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Happy Valentine's Day Everyone.
I think this song has grown on me in the last few
days. I'm diggin' it. I hope you all do too. I
wanted to hurry up and get the demo out for
Valentine's Day. Finished at 3:05am. Wha whoooo!
I need to…
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A song I wrote for my Bride this Valentine Day's. She said it was better than any present. God is Good!
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Not to sell this piece short, but after yesterday's grueling session, I'm just happy to have written anything at all today.
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i've been having dreams about my ex girlfriend...
it's strange to know someone for 8 years and then, one day, decide never to talk them again.
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Dizzy Gillespy wrote this a long time ago. Later Jimmy Smith did his own version of it. This is a version by me which is based on Jimmy's version. This was all hand sequenced in the matrix editor in Logic Pro except for me on guitar. Just wanted…
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Rough version of my first RPM2010 songs... Hoping to have better vocals if I have time before the end of the month.
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Just a guitar instrumental at this point. I don't know where it's going. I can hear some lyrics, but my pen is on hiatus for now.
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An intrumental Track I put together when Thinking about my family.
One Guitar represents my son, one my wife and one me......
Two Versions with Vox (Jim Higgins and Geir Alfsen) are also in existance.. not sure how to link to this site…
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one of those 'it was written even before i started' songs that just rolls out like magic
i tried to keep it simple so as not to destroy the vibe
first finished (if unmixed) track for RPM 2010
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A ROUGH possible acoustic version of Crux's Polaris (we're aiming to make it for the album)
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This Valentine’s Day, sing this song to your SO and there’s a good chance they’ll turn into your ex.
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Oy. About 6 hours of work:
1.5 hours to write the lyrics/melody first thing in the morning
1.5 hours figuring out the harmonic progression…
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couple beers, 6 lonely strings, and an electric noise quicker-picker-upper.
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My sixth piece for RPM.
Composed on the line between Lydian and Locrian. Also, the beat's never quite where the meter is.
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Lyrics
Dies ist meine Lebenarbeit
Es muss geschutzt werden
Meine Leben arbeiten
Meine ganzen Kampfe, Meine Ideen.
There is no life in the Arcades,
Just turtles walking people on chains.
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oh it is so much fun trying to decide who's fault it is that my life has turned out so pitiful (hint, it's mine!)
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not sure how i feel about some of the ideas i'm singing about in this song, but hey, i don't have time to rewrite anything.
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based on the stanislaw lem book of the same name.
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I know it's been a while since I last uploaded, but I have been dealing with alot of stress recently. but, here it is.
AcId is the name of one of my Table Top RPG games that I run with a few of the guys. It's a Post-Apocalyptic set game that…
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this is a song about the train yards in sulphur springs Ky. back in the day .
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The first song (with vocals) I've recorded for RPM month, for the Love Light Shine project.
A depressing tale of redneck angst.
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Hurray patches?
The melody was the last thing that was written for this.
The piano is a placeholder for whenever I get around to actually writing full lyrics. (I have a few lines written down, but I’m not sure if that’s the direction I want…
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I imagine this music playing in a bar sometime in the future, probably in the background while cybernetic bar patrons interface with one another in full view of the world's sensor network.
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a tricky song to describe, and maybe a little bit odd in structure, but i'm pretty happy with this one.
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somehow this song was meant to be silly, but somehow it sounds deadly serious (see jokes, that's how i roll). track for the 2010 RPM Challenge
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My opus. By far the longest song I've ever recorded. I tried to make it shorter, but it just didn't work. Sorry. :)
"The Water-Carver" uses a sample from Stereolab's "Changer." (Gane/Sadier)
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This songs reminds me that this is the moment i have. No longer looking for the dawn for the dawn is here.
This is the moment
this is the moment
that i've been waiting for
I've been waiting for
the dawn and the dawn is coming soon
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My fifth piece for RPM.
Mad funky. Extra goofy.
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this is a traditional blues tune originally recorded 77 years ago by the legendary robert johnson . since then everyone from the stones to clapton have had a go at it ,i have tried to bring it back to it's starting point IE: a man , an old cheap…
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A bit of an experiment for me, but still rock'n'roll.
Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/yoursandmine.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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Oh yeah. The silly a cappellas are back.
Ideas they are like water
Just floating all along
But you really can't hold on
Ideas they are elusive
You can chase 'em everyday
In the end they get away
So get that old idea
And dust it off
It don't…
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Played all at once through a little plastic hole (Micro BR), so I know it needs to be redone. I've been down with swine fever for the past few days and have barely been able to hang onto a guitar, so this ought to be a crowd pleaser :) A song…
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A track for the 2010 RPM Challenge. There are (3) 12 string acoustic parts, (3) key parts,(2) lead electric guitars and drum-machine tracks. Vocals anyone?
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My first upload for the 2010 RPM Challenge! I wanted to make a mean-sounding, minimal, instrumental groove track, and this is what I came up with. I tried a bunch of different bass lines, but they all made it sound too busy.
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"Farmer's Blow" is redneck rap. Oh yeah, I went there.
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If you're on the run
And your nose has gotta go
Don't grab a tissue
Do the farmer's blow
Just tilt your head
To the side
Then block one nostril
And let it ride
You may think
That…
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Track three from the 2010 RPM album "They Are Killers"
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