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Compositionally this song started out with the drum pattern and grew from there. I'm not sure why I chose the title 'Mad Man' but in some ways I thought it was fitting.
Anyway, this song is dedicated to crazy geniuses whose academic work is…
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A further development of flakey, would love it if someone could put some chill type vocals on it
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Thamyris invented the 8 string Cithara and challenged the muses to a musical duel. His punishment for losing was to have his hands cut off. Now all he can do is imagine one last chattar solo as he takes his last breath. The gods have taken away…
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D-Day is the first Utopian Hedonism song, build within the Reagan's speech about the Normandy Landings (6 june 1944)
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This is basically a simple organ jam with some glitch elements thrown in for good fun!
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Traditional Irish - Arranged by Doug Sparling
Based on a recording by Na Casaidigh.
Played late at night, as a lullaby of sorts. Now go to sleep, little child...
Guitar players - check out my GuitarNoise.com lesson for this tune: http://www…
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My first recording with guitar in many a month. inspired by herbie hancock's headhunters
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My Pirate song. Sounds more like a polka band, but what the hell. I had fun doing it.
a song for Gumbo.
we sailed the angry seas
til we found a neutral port
we rowed the ship to shore
to go and find a fancy whore
down at the Buccaneer inn…
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This is going to be a series of 5 pieces for xylophone and two trumpets
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Dedicated to Chi Cheng, Bassist for the Deftones who is currently in a coma.
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Dedicated to Chi Cheng bassist for the Deftones, who is currently in a coma.
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Dedicated to Chi Cheng bassist for the Deftones, who is currently in a coma.
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A short piece to go at the start and end of a project that I am playing with. Sort of funky electro trancey chill !
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This is my 2007 Pirate Day song, written and recorded September 19th 2007. I like the innuendo, but maybe it's too subtle - nobody else seems to notice ;~)
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With lyrics and vocals by Eric Mantei. Collaboration via Kompoz.com
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My first composition that uses an odd time signature for a few measures. My drum fills are also more elaborate. It's just a little tune to bob your head to, tap your toe, you know, the good stuff!
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This is a real old tune. I remember about 81 or so. My brother Asa wrote it.
I felt like recording something, so this is it.
A rude kinda fun song with that cowboy stylin' :)
Lyrics:
It didn't take me long
to find out you were wrong
when you…
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This track evolved over a couple of weeks. playing with sounds that I recorded and layering synths.
I have tried to give it different textures as it progresses. hope you like it and would love your feedback
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Heinrich Hoffman's horrific childrens poem set to music. The vocal is a reading by Murray Lachlan Young, lifted from youtube...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YShvM678AM
I remember being scared shitless by this book (and especially the pictures…
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they're down there and they're making a tunnel under my bedroom floor... all night i hear the scrape of tiny picks and shovels and i cant take much more. i don't who they are but i know what they want, and i aint nobody's fool... i got some gas…
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Its a song that was inspired by a dream I had. In fact.. it was the soundtrack to the dream. The ending is purposely left with a feeling of being not finished, as I can't remember how the dream ended.
I hope you all like it :)
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The berimbau is a brazilian percussion/string instrument that is the foundation for this tune.
Thanks to Dana (Alontoner) who added the sweet backup vocals to make this a much better piece.
And thanks also to K. Scot Sparks (Alonetoner…
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The Hollow Men
Sad Hippie Thing
1993
Greg Melvin: Vocals, Rhythm Guitars, Keyboards
Doug Sparling: Lead Guitars
David Albrecht: Bass
Terry Adams: Drum Kit
All songs written by Greg Melvin
Arrangements by Greg Melvin and The Hollow Men
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Just a spontaneous (and very rough) two hour tune. Written and recorded yesterday, edited and mixed today. I might as well get it uploaded now because I'll be spending the next two weeks preparing to move across the country.
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We…
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Recorded August 28, 2009
Details: Martin D1 (DADFGC - capo II), Shure SM57, Audacity, Sound Forge.
After digging this tune up really I really wanted to try it again on acoustic (which I don't play much). This is a second take recorded in…
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Solo acoustic finger picking thing I've been working on for a while. Sometime around 1968 I started studying with Mr. George Bennett who taught me the rudiments of finger picking. Later when we played some gigs together he also taught me the rudiments…
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This evening I couldn't get any satisfaction, so I struck out in to new territory, whacked a load of reverb and echo on everything and set off. This is what I found.
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Some experimentation that started with sandbags saying that he was looking for a wood sound. I responded with marimba plus monster reverb... and I quickly noodled together an ambient thing.
I wondered aloud whether I was done or should continue…
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Originally this piece was written for a guitar. But I love my R3 so much! I'm playing with it. So this piece is just an electronic version. As always, all sound patches were programmed by me.
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Made this over the last couple of days. all original no samples. Done with GR20 guitar synth, GT10 pedal board and Korg emx synth.
feedback welcomed thanks
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F*ck yeah, I had some fun with this one.
I broke my brain today
It wasn't that pleasant hey hey hey
If I seem a bit confused
That doesn't mean my brain has been abused
Stomp brain stomp....
I broke my toe yesterday
I stubbed it on the door…
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An 8-bit groove recorded from the NESynth iPhone application and a little love from GarageBand and the Mac text-to-speech tools. Here are the lyrics:
Thought over capacity
I cannot achieve
Maximum velocity
Digital heart racing
Multiplexing
Enumerating…
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Pro Tip:
No amount of multi take recording features will fix it when you're flat/sharp on *all* of the takes.
Based on a true story.
Lyrics:
There's something wrong in the world today
I just can't believe it
I just can't believe it
It's the…
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The psyche is a weird place, I'll just talk about it musically.
The piece begins with the sounds of Sudara's autoharp, the weeping woodwind sounds of the clarinetist from Megafauna Lacrymosa , and a low kick-like percussive sound, which is…
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This song is about someone giving you a lift, and while they drive you there you fall in love with them by watching their eyes in the rear view mirror. It had like five verses but I cUt it down to two with one repeated. In cutting those verses…
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This is one track where I can say, without reservation, that I am really happy with how it came out.
I worked up a beat I liked with 3 Stylus RMX parts making good use of chaos and time designer for the breaks.
For the first time I really…
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Episode One:
Sandbags allowed me to use his mad rhythms- see here for an explanation: http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/my-name-is-harry-palmer Sudara lent me some samples of him playing chords from his new autoharp, an ebow against piano…
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Title track from "Spirit Dwelling" 2005 -- a lot more acoustic work going on then. 8 track recording.
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It's from Berlin Dance Works -- music for modern dance. Dub, world.
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Once upon a time
In a land far away
I wrote something funny here
But not today
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Glu guides you through an instructional song, revealing secrets along the way.
Instrumentation: Director's comments included! beat boxing, real swords, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, vocals, drum programming, tabla, and tambourine. My apologies…
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B.E.T... Raw, Unrefined, Unadulterated, Organic, 100% Pure BeeOne... Made From The Best Ingredients On Earth. From BeeOne's Underground Debut "In My Opinion".
Written, Performed and Produced by BeeOne for A BlackMan's Ent./HoodBizne$$ Music…
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"B-E-E- to da uh-uh-oh-O-N-E!" This Is the BeeOne Anthem! From BeeOne's First Album "In My Opinion" from HoodBizne$$ Music Group!
Written, Performed, and Produced by Beeone for A Blackman's Ent./HoodBizne$$ Music Group.
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I am not BT, so no rain drops were quantized in this production.
Storm was recorded last night on my Tascam DR-07 (with wind filter and limiter).
Just a simple piano improv. That of course had to be tweaked far out of the improv stage.
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So i sat in my room one day incense burning, with my $100 pawn shop 2nd hand bass guitar which i painted white with the same paint as my walls and i turned the reverb on full and started doing volume swells with the knob on my guitar.. i sat for…
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August 24 hour challenge..
I couldn't pass up on the name. =)
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Just one of those passing moods. Just finished today - august 2 2009. I resisted the temptation to try to develop it any further and just let it be what it is
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Okay I need to say a few things. Please read before listening!
I did not do the 24 hour challenge but I did try and hang around in the chatroom as much as possible with Glu, SisterS, and ChrisM while they battled through it.
At about midnight…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. I'd just finished the trance track, it was 3am, and I wanted something completely different.
It's 110bpm, the piano is NI AkousticPiano Steingraber 130. The bass and organ are done…
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This song is about the Celebrate Recovery program at our church. Everyone is recovering from something; pain, addiction, grief, etc.
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NOT FINISHED. another doo-doo draft. just putting it up here so that i kick myself in the pants to flesh it out and write verses and whatnot and redo everything. great!
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So I was sitting on some wanker's loungesuite watching Across The Universe in a big orange woolly jumper and it came to me! What do i want to say to you? " ??? You're Very Pretty". It just stemmed from that line, but instead of revealing your…
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The journey through the static continues.
This one changed quite a bit from start to finish product.
I hope you all like it.
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This was quickly put together as I collected my thoughts for some serious soul searching. I felt a bit funky so why not? This is dedicated to a new friend of mine. Pronounce the title, "Backwards eBeth".
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I needed a place to host a work in progress where it wouldn't be obvious so you might have found a secret mix!!!
So that 4 minute song with the slide guitar that no-one listens to is gone ;-)
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Seems to be that one song everyone likes.
Lyrics:
Stary night, the highway fades
a hundred miles and I'm on my way
I got up late
Lazy days and even crazier nights
there she was, on her way
she stuck her thumb out for me to see…
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Recorded by Ger in our manky cellar at the end of May 2005
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Recorded by Ger in our manky cellar at the end of May 2005
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Recorded by Ger in our manky cellar at the end of May 2005
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Recorded by Ger in our manky cellar at the end of May 2005
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Recorded by Ger in our manky cellar at the end of May 2005
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a fragile little piece.
Instrumentation: broken harp, kitchen sink, electric piano, drum programming, vocals, and loads of wine.
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