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Christmas time is coming,
You can tell by the snow.
But before you go shopping
I just want you to know.
This might sound funny
But I’m being sincere.
Please just give me money
So I can get what I want this year.
I’ve got…
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How much will it cost to mail this fruitcake?
The one that I have baked with so much care.
Tell me, what’s the postal rate, and how long will it take,
And will it still be fresh when it gets there?
I stayed up all night just…
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What’s the deal with egg nog,
Why can’t I find it all year long?
If I can get milk and I can get eggs,
And I can find myself a steady supply of nutmeg,
Why can’t I find my favorite beverage
Except from around Thanksgiving until…
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Merry Christmas.
Here is my gift for you...
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boy meets girl...boy mistreats girl...girl leaves boy...boy writes song about it...gets new girl!
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I hated my friend's ex-girlfriend. Screw you, Keitha Lynn Barney.
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I'm a complete idiot when it comes to all things midi related. Recently got myself a midi keyboard though and came up with this short piece just messing with sounds in Proteus. Really looking forward to the possibilities of combining this sort…
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Opened for Hentai Improvising Orchestra at 1919 Hemphill in Fort Worth. A 26 minute piece, I had to edit it down to this because of some nasty noise spikes on the louder bits. So whats left is a very sleepy piece.
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Laugh if you must, I actually enjoyed Code Lyoko, it's an awesome series with sly humor and quick wit. I am also a big fan of the big headed chibi anime stuff. The story itself REALLY blew me away. What with the closeness to our internet gaming…
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Ok ya I know the song itself isn't Truly Final Fantasy VII, but this remix was intended to be hard and grungy like Midgar so... put 2 and 2 together and you get fishsticks.
Enjoy
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Not recorded for RPM, but for the expected release of this album. Bones was a chinchilla R.T. got for Xmas '07 that died just after new year's. This is for her. She was the sweetest.
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This is a re-recording from 2006 of an original instrumental I originally recorded in 1997 for a Christmas tape I gave to family.
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Just playing around with some of the soft synths in ableton live 8
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Clocking in at just over a minute, this was something a song that I started on and then kind of gave up on.
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This is a track I've been working on for quite a while so I am glad to finally have it out of my head.
I have a kind of love/hate relationship with time and its humble functionary, the clock. Ticking, in particular, is something I am ambivalent…
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This track is off the third CD. The title is related to playing style which is centered around tappping. Recorded with my Huss and Dalton MJC in open D tuning
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From the second CD. This composition was inspired by memories of a stream close to where I was raised in San Diego. We lived in University City, a new suburb from 1964 to 1978. It wasn't built up back then so you could walk to many canyons…
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windup
I'm feeling something's come over me
I'm feeling something's not quite right
the phone is screaming like an orphan
the cat is nowhere in sight
the empty box is on the table
you've seemed to disappear as well
the windupbird is making noises…
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star
just a star on a sheep on the side of a car
and the picture in your hand from a distant land
with a story can't believe this is happening to me
another mediocre man trapped in a master plan
it's really not the star but the dream inside…
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Background Soundtracks for Personalized Super Triliminal Recordings at:
http://www.personalized-super-triliminals.webs.com
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Martin Luther King "I have a Dream" with a soundtrack music by Utopian Hedonism One of the most famous speech, enhanced with an emotional music...
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A Process Where Parts Of Your Skull Are Drilled To Make Holes So The Evil Spirits Residing In Your Head May Leave
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This Song Is About A Severe Illness Where You Truly Believe The People You Know And Love Have Been Replaced By Machines Or Evil Entities
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Dark Electronica Washed With Distant Voices And Unseen Things In The Night
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Something I was trying to whip up for a friend of mine. He was making a youtube video, something crazy dealing with vegemite or something :P I tried some digeridoo-ish synth sound and was going to add some bongos, or timbales, or djembe, but alas…
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This song speaks to a dichotomy I've noticed about the digital age. While businesses certainly have a lot to say to their customers, and use all kinds of electronic means to reach them, the same is not true of the individual. Now that we have…
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During a folky phase, November 1st 2000. Tascam 8 track.
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Also known as Cooking With Condiments!
A snack. Nothing much of substance in the cupboards or fridge, but doesn't mean you should go without eating.
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A very rough demo. Programmed the drum kit live in one cut. I messed up on the guitar part at one point too. Oh well.
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I spent the day skrewing around with this Roumanian Minor scale again. I am really testing layered drums on this one, Toms mostly.
There's a lot happening. Acoustic, Strat, Bass, 4 Juno tracks, and all kinds of percussion.
Only a two chord change…
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Six guitars playing live repeating patterns. In rhythm?
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Trip hop track, may be listened as a soundtrack...
As usual we tried to create a deep atmosphere with loads of melodies to give the listener a little journey full of new findings every time :)
Anyway this time the BPM is a bit quicker : 87…
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Still under construction. Or maybe not. Bassline might be replaced by a real bass, maybe, and I'm not sure if I'll keep the Ableton Live softsynths as I may replace them with hardware. Maybe. I could just end up leaving it the way it is.
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All sounds on the track are made with Synplant (from Sonic Charge).
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This is an old one...just wanted to share it.
Do you feel the tears fall
fall from heaven
gathering as puddles at your feet
does it stain your shoes?
if i stay long...no I won't
i won't bare it any longer
do you feel the heart sigh…
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This one is pretty "dark". Like I said I'm uploading a little bit of everything. enjoy!
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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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This here be last years Pirate Day Song and a little darker as befits it's murky past.
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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 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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An experiment in simplicity. Back to the basics. It's the only counter to stagnation. Don't over think!
This was pieced together quickly while in front of the microphone. Revisiting the editing/mastering process was fun.
Used:
Martin…
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Similar in feel to the other Fragile Moment track. Mostly acoustic guitars recorded sitting in my shop on the H4N and then finished up in Cubase just this morning. September 9 09. Maybe a nice one for bedtime
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Another "jazzy" little number from the basement archives. Someone call the smooth jazz police before I ever do this again...
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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.
Lyrics:
We…
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For our beautiful son Willem, in French Guillaume.
recorded in my livingroom, 16-7-2009.
I called the song Guillaume before because of the beautiful sound.
Since 2012 I changed the title of the song into : Willem.
Because that makes much…
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Our dear friend Lynda is in hospice; we wanted to do a song for her - for all she has done for us. This is that song. k & w
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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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This song was made by two different piano samples (both
from Sudara):
1. One was recorded by Sudara (and gang?) axing away at a hapless old piano in New Mexico.
2. today, I convinced Sudara to noodle on the piano and send it over to me…
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my entry into the 2008 Sidedown Christmas challenge.
I tried the original Mel Torme chords and version and it just didn't fit for me, so i came up with my own chords and arrangement.
this was done around the same time as g=gone so it's a…
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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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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 is just an untitled electronic/dance/house thing I started a couple weeks ago and a little stuck on what to do next with it. Any ideas? Also uploaded to Kompoz.com to see if there's anyone out there that would like to add to it.
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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. This was the last track I did, and it shows.
I was pretty tired after finishing 3am chill, and had to mess round for ages mangling loops and trying out different things before…
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A song about how I don't follow, or care about, fashion or trends.
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OK it's the morning after the party at the China Quay, and our hero is waking up. What has happened?
Influenced by about 6 different doowop tunes (great for hangovers!)
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Recorded by Ger in our manky cellar at the end of May 2005
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Wrote this little piece from 7/14/09 to 7/15/09. A lot more metal than I'm used to playing. Played on my broken-neck Epiphone semi-hollow.
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A quick transitional piece - sort of a hybrid of ambient drone and louder rock.
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So, I start playing my Guild acoustic. However, the strings were new and had gone all slackish, meaning down a few tones. I liked what it sounded like and took them all off. I then restrung the gtr with super heavy guage acoustic strings. I then…
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Started as an "Off the cuff" song that only changed a little from the original.
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My first new song on Alonetone in over a year! A short, simple surf tune, nothing more.
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I decided to focus by timeboxing the amount of time I spent on drums, bass and lead into 30 min sections based on the pomodoro technique. The idea was to spend 5 mins picking the sound for each part, then 25 mins making some loops with it to arrange…
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A collaboration between me, Randal Pflum and Dayton Neely. Comparisons made by reviewers on Garageband.com to Rush, King Crimson, Yes and even Mike Oldfield, you will have to listen to the whole thing to hear the last one.
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For this I wanted to create some longing sounding atmosphere. To create the (somewhat annoying) guitar part in the second half I used an ebow.
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you stand a long time at the door
observe the lighting on the floor
you are not welcome anymore
no…
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Spring 1993
(School Year 92-93):
Track 8
Notes: This is our alumni song.
This version is not introduced by Mr. Martin
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Spring 1993
(School Year 92-93):
Track 8
Notes: This is our alumni song.
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Spring 1993
(School Year 92-93):
Track 1
Notes: We began each concert singing the first song around the walls of the auditorium. The miraculous part was that the place sucked…
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Winter 1992
(School Year 92-93):
Track 2
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Something completely different- Uilleann pipes(Irish bagpipes) and synth. I wrote this tune over 20 years ago in the style of traditional Irish slow airs. It was recorded way back in 1991 for an album that's been out of print for over 15 years…
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This is a little riff I've been carrying around for a few years from my Nozomi Phoenix days in NYC. A dreamy sequence, that reminds me of a Grimm tale.
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to my brother and sister. sometimes you don't realize who you were until you left. i value family so much, but somehow i don't live as if i do. i want to change this.
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Guess who's reading a Tom Waits biography - he gets in yer soul I says!
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For my friend and coworker, because he certainly deserves it.
This song is friends with [song for themcgruff](http://alonetone.com/sudara/tracks/song-for-themcgruff)
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Little instrumental bluesy number at request of Tess and Bethan... later the backdrop to comedy/blushes
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This is a total remake of an earlier posting.
Lead vocals courtesy of fellow Alonetoner, Dana.
In the lyrics, I was trying to capture a sense in which there is something else beyond -
something which draws me as it were homeward. A son…
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Wade Hampton High School (WHHS) Singers:
Conductor: Warren C. Martin
Winter 1993
(School Year 93-94):
Track 3
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