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The most last minute song I have. I woke up early on Sunday February 28. At about 7:00am The riff from the chorus of this song popped into my head. I sang it into the new iOS music notes app so that I wouldn't forget it. The lyrics for the…
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The RPM Challenge does weird things to a guy, I tell you. The chorus to this one popped into my head, fully formed, at about 9:15pm on Saturday February 27. I wrote the whole thing that night, including lyrics and melody, and recorded all but…
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a nice happy song about depression
ol' black dog is sniffing at my door
ol' black dog is sniffing at my door
i've seen him here before
i don't want him any more
ol' black dog is sniffing at my door
ol' black dog don't want me to be free…
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Just a simple little tune to take me out of my minor key, noisy rock comfort zone. G Major. Who woulda thunk it?
Chorus:
Anything you say
anything you want
anything you need
I’ll take care of you
Verse 1:
I’m always here for you…
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Annie Taylor was the first to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel back in 1901.
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Just before I made Feb.ZOIG, I made a noisy, experimental EP (Noisy Exploding Brain) and a minimal ambient one (Jack Shetland EP), and I think because of this, this album ended up as a mix of both styles. This song is the first one that ended…
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I gave myself a rough guideline that most songs should be between 30 seconds and 2 minutes long - this was both because I didn't want the album to be much longer than 45 minutes and because I knew there were going to be certain days when I wouldn…
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I did a little "self-sampling" on this album - the cut up vocals were from my song "Nasty Asterisk". Later on I'd use the exact same backing track to cover "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mixalot, because I realized I'd inadvertently copied that bass-line.
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Man I was really into making these square-wave-sampling, dodgy bootleg 8-bit video game soundtrack pieces for a while.
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For some of these tracks I was really thinking "what can I do to make this annoying to listen to?"
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Originally my idea was to improvise half a conversation, then also improvise the other half as a different character - I ended up deciding just having half the conversation was funnier. Kinda unintentionally inspired by "Pollo Asado" by Ween.
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Somewhat Residents-inspired. The rhythm is me breathing heavily and slapping my desk, run through a lot of reverb.
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Basically a drum-n-bass remix of my earlier song "Mike The Considerate Center For The Performing Arts".
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The experiment here was to program a rhythm at a fairly slow tempo, then speed it up way too much.
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I originally wanted to rap over this beat, and had the idea to improvise nonsense syllables just to figure out what the flow might be like. Ultimately I decided to keep it as it was, as it sounded like a hip hop song from another planet. Also…
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects, sustained square waves, and Korg Monotron.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Imagine the scene, if you will. Four little square waves, afraid and cold out in the wild, begin calling to one another. Over millions of years, here collapsed into several minutes, their calls evolve.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Madame Fortune seems to enjoy spinning that wheel of hers. It's tough to keep up sometimes. As Gilda always used to say, "it's always something."
Executed entirely upon the Korg DW-6000 and Yamaha CS1x.
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I had something to say about this track, but I can't remember what it was. Never mind. ;)
Mostly executed upon the Roland JX-3P, if I recall rightly. Drums, choir pad, and piano courtesy of the Yamaha CS1x.
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Everyone is so full of it these days. Know what I mean?
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Perhaps inspired by a misremembered line of T.S. Eliot? I thought the line was, "I have measured out time in teaspoonfuls."
The proper line is "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons."
Oh well. I like my bungled line better.
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Hey, kid. Find my Facebook page and click "Like," will ya?
Actually, I don't have a Facebook page.
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drone (noun) plural: drones
1.
a low continuous humming sound.
a monotonous speech.
a continuous musical note, typically of low pitch.
a musical instrument sounding a continuous note.
2.
a male bee in a colony of social bees.
a person…
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I wrote this while my mother was terminally ill. She had three stays at Sisters of Providence in Portland at the end of her life. Real-life events did not have the rosy outcome I was hoping for.
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Executed entirely upon the Roland JX-3P if I recall correctly. The title refers to the three interwoven harmonic lines.
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