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A Bonus track for "Summer Twilight on Triton;" more of the same, but shorter.
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that is not a sample you hear in the background, it is the dryer going. leave it in? okay, sure i'll leave it in. it's these artistic decisions we're all forced to make.
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another one i always play on the guitar, inspired by Nick Drake's stuff; half way through this song goes into unknown guitar improvisational territory, where i just played over my own stuff after looping it
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this one goes way ambient in the 2nd half, brian eno-ish, i wanted to experiment with doing a track with no drums
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electronic nutsiness made in reason and then imported into cubase, one of my favorites, incidentally
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The Trinity and Humanity. An interview of Tim Chester by Andrew Cook for the radio programme, Serving Today. www.gbm.org.uk/radio.
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The implications of the doctrine of the Trinity. An interview of Tim Chester by Andrew Cook for the radio programme, Serving Today. www.gbm.org.uk/radio.
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reloaded this in 44.1
a pedal steel gtr improv
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*"We all live in a little Village...your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners." -* **_Patrick McGoohan_**
Modern electronic guitar rock.
One day you awaken in a different place
Where the names…
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*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
You can hear it just below the blowing wind
Feel it in the nerves beneath your skin
Catch a glimpse as you drift away at night
But you can’t decode the meaning inside
Distant shrieking sets your teeth…
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*What would I be thinking about if life had gone in a different direction? A dubstep/new wave hybrid.* **_Burial_** _meets_ **_Chameleons_.**
You would have thought by now
I’d be more concerned about
More important things
Like the cash in…
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**_Underworld_** *with guitars instead of synthesizers. A sequel of sorts. Electronic rock.*
A million drops of rain
One sun behind the clouds
A million stars in the milky way
One moon is shining down
A million notes I’ve scribbled
One…
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*Ever had problems falling asleep? This is a sort of goth track influenced by* **_Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy,_** _and Faith-era_ **_Cure_**. Dark modern electronic guitar rock.*
Down the steps and into the dark
Leave the kingdom above…
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*My take on something like a* **_Neil Young_** *song ("After The Goldrush" meets "Revolution Blues"?)*
*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
Well I woke in a cold sweat from a dreamless sleep
The winds were blowing papers through the empty…
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*The boat left without me.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian, Fennesz, The Cure_**.
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
Stayed under too long
I guess
I lost track of time
Why didn’t you think to check
If I was alright?
There’s not too much sun…
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*Memories, memories before the end.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian_** *and* **_Fennesz._**
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
I remember sunshine
I remember you
I remember laughing
Do you remember
I do
I remember driving
I remember the…
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Instrumental love song for a groovy space chick!
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Music for a computer trying to find the answer to the ultimate question.
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Human finds Alien Spacecraft drifting in space, this is he inner dialog of our fearless (fearful) hero.
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The Aliens are landing and a doomsaying prophet is declaring it the end of the world!
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This song has been hobbling around half-written in my psyche for eons, and it took the RPM Challenge to finally finish it!
Like many of my generation, my first peek into the world of women (and what they looked like under their clothes) was National…
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A song I've had stored in my head for quite awhile, though never committed to tape (erm... binary code) - probably because I thought it was a bit simple and even trite. Having to come up with an album's worth of material in a month cured me of…
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A blatant attempt at exploiting the deep well of The Jesus and Mary Chain/Pixies/Raveonettes/House of Love. A lovingly loud, shiny and guitar-laden paean to those great bands.
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A song I wrote and recorded in one day (the day before the RPM Challenge ended, actually). I really stretched my abilities as a picker here (duff notes and all), but I shamefully admit I really like this song. A reminder to me of the strength…
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Another song held over from my band days. Again, an attempted homage to the Velvets, but perhaps a little too shiny. I still plan to replace the cheesy 'solo' synth with glockenspiel somewhere down the line.
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A song that really crept out of nowhere and one that I don't entirely understand its meaning. Some things in the song I can pinpoint the origin, but some I haven't a clue. I'm really happy with the way it turned out - semi-ok vocal and all.
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A song that ended up in an entirely different place than from where it began. It was meant to have a dark 'David Gray' kind of feel, but ended up being the love child of 'Love and Rockets' and 'Stars on 45.'
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An attempt to evoke images that weren't in the first-person. I tend to write in abstract fragments and this piece is no exception.
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An exercise in configuring sonic spaces - it was only later that I realized the scathing lyrics were self-directed.
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An older song from a previous band that was never quite captured to my satisfaction. I was going for very laid-back "Pale Blue Eyes" vibe.
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A deceptively forceful song dealing with the death of my sister.
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This is basically an accordion jam with a nice bass line!
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Powerlounge - Electric Cheer
An album created for the 2009 RPM Challenge, conceived to be eventually cut into vinyl, and arranged as such, in two halves.
The track listing for side 1:
Welcome to my Weird
Bye Bye Baby
Genius / Madness
Negative…
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Side 2 of my virtual record. It's a long, mostly instrumental suite (a 'Lounge Suite' - I know that's corny but I just cant resist:)
The different sections run as follows:
Opposite Attractions
Sloppy Jo
Too Many Martinis
Prefix/Suffix
A Cup of…
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this is based on the soundtrack of a film called september clues very interesting dunno if its true but fun all the same for conspiracy nuts....
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Easily my favourite track on the album. This was a real forced number at the start of it's life; I was well behind my song quota (5 finished on the 23rd... time to worry) and I needed to knock something out at least. Something clicked about an…
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This is the end of the journey. It's time to maybe think and reflect about some of the things we heard and then forget we ever heard them.
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Why this represents 1993 is really quite a mystery to myself. I was 2 years old, so I've no idea why it strikes me as such a dark and mysterious year. I think I managed to get down exactly what I was thinking with this track.
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The scene setter. This was the first track on the album and I've still got mixed feelings about it. Audibly, I like it. Cohesively, it doesn't REALLY fit in... My girlfriend told me "like it needs to represent the rest of the album. It grabs your…
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There are too many amazing quotes from this film to not sample them SOMEWHERE in my album. Time after time, the 'yo-yo master' line got me laughing, so I thought I'd pay homage to it.
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One of my darker tracks. This tracks epitomises how RPM felt for me; A progressive struggle where I just got my head down and got stuck in with the thing. In a phrase, this track says to me "Just fucking get on with it."
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I'd be lying if I said this entire track wasn't sparked by the opening audio clip. It really made me think about the ways some people create their own enjoyment. Cool.
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A bit less percussion and a bit more rhythm was the idea for this. I say that, but the track had a fully formed drum track alongside it until right at the last when I discarded it in a fit of creative temperament.
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This track is the introduction to the main bulk of the album. It says "WELCOME TO RPM '09" and doesn't let you go until you've gotten to "Dancing With The Midnight Waves", the penultimate track.
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Musical tribute to the ideas of Jane Jacobs (author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities) and Christopher Alexander (author of The Timeless Way of Building).
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I am concerned with the values of my generation.
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Original working title was something like, "And after six years I finally understood why they sing in the streets here, and could go home." It's sort of about anonymity in the modern city. If that sounds pretentious, that's because it is.
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Good old dulcimer bash-up. This is certainly the most aggressive song I've played on dulcimer. I'm sure all those people with solid-body electric dulcimers have done worse...
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Words are from a sestina of the same title by Steve Davenport, who asked us to make music out of it! This was a terribly fun song to record. We did it, of course, while drinking. Thankfully no instruments were harmed.
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I'm going to get all pretentious again and say this one is about the concerning strain of what I might call "religious modernist traditionalism" espoused by technological singularity fanatics (Ray Kurzweil) and authors like Neil Stephenson.
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This song was recorded illegally. Please don't rat us out.
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Started recording this with no idea what to do with the sound. Wound up with three different vocal takes to choose from, didn't like any of them, used all of them.
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through the dead branches, through the dead branches
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I (Al) wrote this song way back, just before the start of the current Iraq war. But it comes back to my mind every time a politician utters words matching a regex something like /(capture and )?kill (Osama )?Bin Laden/. It happened to be Obama…
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*Electronic rock*
I've been reading so much information
About my situation
A chemical mix that I must fix
I think it's magnesium
Pills three times a day
I changed the food that I ate
Re-uptake takes time
I'm sure I'll be fine
I can…
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*Electronic rock. Sounds like* **_IAMX_** *and* **_Depeche Mode_**
This is much better than it’s ever been before
Much more real
More rich
More speed
More more
I feel like I could go forever and it only hurts when I stop
This is much…
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*Ambient, downtempo electronic rock*
As a baby the car’s engine put me to sleep.
My parents drove all night
And they raised me by the TV screen
Now I wake to static late at night
At 30,000 feet above the earth
The Rolls-Royce thrusters…
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*Electronic rock*
0 machine, 0 mirror
Can you make the picture clearer?
And bring me nearer to thee?
Make me 1ne, make me (w)h0le
Scan my imperfect soul
And correct the mistakes that you see
You're everything I want
You're everything…
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*Electronic rock*
I am painting a picture with blood and wire
I am writing my story in glass and fire
It's almost right
It's almost nice
Just one more twist and I'll be fixed
Perfect, so perfect
This pound of flesh
Perfect, so perfect…
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*Ambient with vocals*
Forget everything
Drift in the white noise ocean
The sun is rising
Let go of yourself
See the beautiful blankness
It’s Monday morning
This won’t hurt a bit
Breathe in a clean new program
It’s time to wake up
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*Electronic rock with a strong dubstep and* **_Burial_** *influence*
There's no going back to how it used to be
I've known it all along
But I didn't want to see
Command-Z
CTRL-Z
There is no "undo"
And like it or not, this is you…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with drum machines, synthesizers, and vocals*
A lady friend backed up to me last week
She gazed into my eyes and then she pinched my cheek
She whispered "Take me to my house and you can watch the show"
She said "Come check out…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with* **_Run-DMC_** *and* **_Nitzer Ebb_** *influences. Synthesizers and beats.*
Dateline: February 11 in the year 2007
You may want your kids to leave the room
Some graphic content is coming soon
Down the street some kids got…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electronics and glitchy beats*
I had a friend with a problem that everyone ignored
Pretending not to notice when he fell onto the floor
Never asked a question when he showed up late
Lacerations from a situation
Bruises…
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*Rap/hip-Hop with electric piano, Evolver synthesizer, and vocals*
When I wake up every morning I've got music in my brain
And when my head hits the bed every night it's the same
I'm dreaming up rhymes and synthesizer lines
Casting out the…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with a strong* **_Nitzer Ebb_** *and* **_Underworld_** *influence*
Do...Do you remember? Do you remember how it felt when you were young and by yourself?
The world was new but you felt old
You were alone and life was cold…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop featuring an Evolver synthesizer*
All you zombies listen up good because I'm only saying this once
There's no sense in repeating it again cuz repeating it again is dumb
This is a tale that starts with snakes but in the end it…
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*Hip-hop instrumental with electric piano and acoustic guitar*
I know how hard composing good instrumental music is. This track was going to be the backing for a song called "Ouroboros" but it was too pretty and nice and slow.
I ended up…
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*Rap/Hip-hop with glitchy electronic beats.*
It's 20 years since this started up
Let me tell you how it was:
a 4-track Radio Shack tape deck
Hissing overdubs
I tried to get it down
Record what I had to say
I thought I had all the time…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electric piano*
I start off each morning with my favorite drug
Cook it up in the kitchen and take a slug
Coffee so black it helps me to wake
Prepared to attack the problems I face
Maybe it's keeping my blood pressure high…
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RPM '09 instrumental. This one was a lot of fun and relatively painless and unplanned, which accounts for its roughness.
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Sundays have always been a disappointment for me. If you've never spent the entire day just moving about, drinking beer, enjoying the weather and putting off the upcoming week, you should. Maybe not every week.
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Corporate boardroom buzzwords are meaningless and worse than useless.
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A song about someone I know, or at least used to, who is almost as much a mess as the metaphors I threw at this effort.
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This track is an outtake from my Mellotronic EP. It was originally going to be the lead track on that EP, but as the concept for the EP gelled, this track just didn't seem to fit (despite the Mellotron). It's currently under consideration as the…
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instrumental. no relation to westley and buttercup, just the title that stuck.
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anxiety over something horrible that someone might have done, will destroy you when it's something that you'll never know for sure.
leads into 'roost.'
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neglected children are coming back home to roost
kind of goes with 'fret.'
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it is a short experiment in automatic music creation. a choice is made to use a major pentatonic scale. this happy creature is born. he is young, and small. however he has big feet. it is comical music? it makes you smile?
it is bigger version…
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Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming, Arranging
George Brown - Guitar, Lyrics&Melodies
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Jim Tyrrell - Keyboards, Writing, Arranging
Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming, Arranging
George Brown - Guitar, Lyrics&Melodies
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics, Guitars
Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming
Jim Tyrrell - Keyboards
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics, Guitars
Brett Picknell - Bass, Keys, Drum Programming
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics, Guitars
Brett Picknell - Bass, Drum Programming
Jim Tyrrell - Keyboards
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Brett Picknell - Music, Bass, Drum Programming
George Brown - Guitars, Lyrics&Melodies
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George Brown - Music & Lyrics
Brett Picknell - Bass
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Brett Picknell - Music
George Brown - Lyrics & Vocals
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