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The life story of an Irish itinerant. This song was made popular by the Dubliners
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Yeah, so I finally consolidated my music collection over from my other mac and found my grand total for 2009.
This is my 60th track of 2009.
I wrote my first track for a MIDI class in the fall of 1999 (did I mention I'm a 10th year sophomore…
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An Irish pub song made popular by the Dubliners and probably the Clancy brothers too.
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A song about an Irish immigrants who has a dream of the old country, but awakes in Calafornia. Made famous by Christy Moore, the Dubliners, Paddy Reilly etc
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A tale of a Irishman leaving the west of Ireland for the unfamiliar shores of England, but first he must travel the Rocky Road to Dublin. Popularised br Luke Kelly and the Dubliners
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Another tale of Irish immigration! Set to the melody of a Gordon Lightfoot song "The sinking of the... (I forget the name of the ship!)
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The Polka is thought to have originated in eastern europe by the Czechs. The people of west kerry in Ireland took the polka into their heart and are renowned for their own polkas. The two polkas in this recording are known to me as "John Ryans…
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Most recent and favorite recording i made in a while.
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an old song but more recent recording with drums
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courtney keesee on vox. back in the good old woodshed collective days. listen for the thunder in the background as we were recording.
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guitars, synths, tabla, tambourine, and elephants (the lead melody at around 01:40)
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Alright, so it turns out that I lied.
THIS song is actually #60 of 2009. I forgot about how I turned the instrumental "lucid traum" into the spoken word 'drama' "wake me up" for a class project.
(http://yelyah.com/music/song/lucid-traum…
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A contemporary song written by Jimmy McCarthy and adopted into the Irish ballad scene. From the singing of Christy Moore.
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Another Contempory song absorbed into the Irish folk / ballad scene. Again from the singing of Christy Moore
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A song by the Furey Brothers about stealing away.
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A song about working for a dodgy builder in England called McAlpine. Because of the harsh regimented working conditions his workers nicknamed themselves McAlpines "Fusiliers". From the singing of Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners.
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This is is a bit of a sea shanty. A sailor decides to go back to sea but then regrets his decision. From the singing of Luke Kelly and the Dubliners. The hero of this tale recommends getting married and staying in bed all day as an alternative…
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No vocals on this track ... Voice coincidence? Don't listen before beddy byes!
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This is a remix of Mason Proper's tune Safe for the Time. Check out their other music here:
http://masonproper.com/
It is a dark piece of Basic Channel techno dub-itude
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A tribute to the late great Michael Jackson. If you like it, or want to hear more, head on over to http://www.remixfight.org and vote.
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I do intend to title this, eventually... (Harp Ocarina... Nifty, huh?)
It's the first piece I wrote for DungeonHack. I'll probably pick this apart to write a few variations... It's got like three "moods," and I need pieces with one...
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This is a sad-ish... maybe "spooky" variation of Harp Ocarina.
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... And another not-that-great variation of Harp Ocarina. This is my basic idea of what a battle song could sound like in an rpg... maybe...
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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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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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When I tweeted about maybe doing an Irish rap tonight, I wasn’t actually serious (though it has been on my todo list for a few years).
But I took a walk, and the idea of going for it stuck in my head. So I started developing it on the walk and…
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http://ccmixter.org/files/dabra/22162
Daniel Brandell, http://www.myspace.com/danielbrandell
Calling Sister Midnight, http://callingsistermidnight.com
furkosbot, http://www.myspace.com/nagyfejmarvin…
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ccMixter Collaboration
Daniel Brandell, http://www.myspace.com/danielbrandell
Shannon Hurley, http://www.myspace.com/shannonhurley
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(...featuring Reese Richardson [guitfiddle], Becky Beighly [lyric], Chris Golinski [drums], Eric Evans [bass], and KSS [trumpet/vocal/engineering].)
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A song about immigration. This song has nearly reached national anthem status in Ireland.
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This song has everything. Love, betrayal, gunfights, hold ups, prison break outs and whiskey.
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You know those people who like to break out the family photos or something of that sort with which to bore their guests? This is my version of that.
Most of what makes this song special to me is for all the same reasons that you won't share…
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The 3rd song I ever really wrote. Someday I'll record the vocals to it and then we can all laugh together.
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Yes, it is obvious the choir is composed of mildly skilled amateurs, but I like this song very much.
And the first thing I'll do when I get a editing tool is cut off the applause at the end, too lengthy because it was an encore.
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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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Another experiment. The name comes from the fact that I was in the woods; not because I was really concerned about making woodsy sounds...
Thanks again to glu and Chris McGrath for opening my eyes to some different Live tricks...
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Came up with this while dialing in my new amp. It's just a jam sort of based on the main taking care of business riff.
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Let us celebrate our failures and our successes!
I submit my failure here for consideration.
I actually want to do something more with this just because it's a lot darker than I usually write. Unfortunately, it never turned into something musical…
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old stuff,very lo-fi made w punch of samples, vocals and e-guitar. Recorded w tape recorder
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Very, very rough sketch (no words, just 'woahs') of a title track.
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An old song from a lazy Sunday, originally written for a certain musical and biological brother on his birthday.
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Some friends throw other friends going away parties.
Songwriting friends say "hey, what a great idea for a song."
Tech notes:
I've been losing my voice today and ended up having to go back and do retakes to try to get as close to on-pitch as…
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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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Recorded July 2009. Song originally by The Black Keys.
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Recorded July 2009. Song made famous by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
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Recorded July 2009. Song made famous by Tracy Chapman
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Song recorded July 2009. Original version by The Black Keys.
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A reverse take (recorded live at a gig) of a couple of Pink Floyd covers. The amazing Bill Pohl on 2nd guitar. It came out sounding strangely symphonic.
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This is the audio version of my blacksmithing lesson from http://ironangelforge.blogspot.com/
This lesson is Blacksmithing Basics - Absolute Basics. It covers terms and the most basic tools in a quick overview, so that students of the craft…
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This is day 24 of my 24 day project. So that means it's over.
And if you're reading this on alonetone, this is lucky track number 100.
24 "songs" in 24 days. Really, the only requirement was to produce a minute of music each day.
I wish…
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I talked to the guy in charge of... well, everything but coding, I think... He gave me a lengthy description of the culture of where this piece is for, including pictures, which I was waiting on... The drums need to be fleshed out, but this is…
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Recorded August 26, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADFGC - capo II), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
Written in 1982 after a trip to Wyoming with a couple of Alex DeGrassi cassettes....
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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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'Hond' is Dutch for 'Dog'. the song was inspired by my dog, which explains the title. it contains a vocal piece of proze (in Dutch) which i wrote about my dog (in the context of a larger story).
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because this music might not be as good for your mind as you (or i) believe it to be.
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song was created on my birthday, 9th of august, 2008. so that's why.
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because the stick in the other song was great-sounding and it is also a reference to a dog.
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i was looking at the moon one night and made a song about how nice it looked.
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an apparently innocent children's song on cut-up piano, while at the same time posing a very deep philosophical question, that is, besides a question in general, also a question asked with respect to your reaction to the song: if you think it…
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'oprotmuziek' in Dutch, would probably translate as 'fuck-off music' in English. in other words, the kind of music you play when you'd like for people to go home, hence the title (and the music).
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this is one of my favourite songs. it's not as strange or complicated or whatever as most of my work, but it's just very nice.
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as i sit and make music till late at night, i sometimes lose track of time, as the title demonstrates.
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English title would be 'today it's a bit cold', literally. it's a story by a Dutch kid about what he did that day and related stuff.
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literal English translation: 'it presses in my head', because of that feeling you sometimes have that something is pressing against the inside of your skull.
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an old song (made with free synth/sampler/sequencer software AXS). gives you 1.43 to take a leak whilst in the middle of an album.
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This program was created for "The Mobcast", podcast of Mobtown Modern, as an introduction to the theme of our third season opening concert, "Loopy", at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore, 9/16, 8 pm.
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A big instrumental in about 3 minutes. Imagine the last few miles of a very long road trip.
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Wrangled in the string band to a play a pleasant little toe-tapper.
Instrumentation
Resonator Guitar
Resonator Bass
Banjo
Guitar Case
Clapping
Serrated Knife
Voice
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I recently bought a monstrous old Emu keyboard sampler, and this is the result.
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Proof that a cheap electric guitar can be a substitute for a drum kit.
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Again substituting a guitar for a drum kit but this time an acoustic.
Structurally, a more straight-forward piece, sounding more like a band than some of the other Ca Va? Oui, Ca Va! songs.
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Another one from back when I was tracking to actual tape. Was going to do a new version at some point, but decided I had lost interest. Sometimes there's no sense in recreating the past! Recorded probably the beginning of 2007
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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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I don't have the source-files for this one, but I think it was made in 2004, probably in the winter
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A badly-tuned kalimba, a toy drum and a novelty stapler... Pop genius.
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I like the atmosphere, but the source is loong gone (ca 1998)
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Totally fake rap-vocals from totally fake indians, you could tell from the cornflakes
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This one was written after coming home in the harsh light of being out all night after learning someone I knew put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. I write this from his perspective...
'Nuff said.
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Probably one of my better gtr riffs/rhythm parts in those days. The song is always borderline going off the tracks...but it was fun to play live.
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The close friend of mine who helped engineer this session said my gtr sounded like a swarm of angry bees. That's the best compliment I can think of. This was a mayhem producer when played live. I barely was able to keep it together in the studio…
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This one is a classic case of "Chasing The Demo".
In other words, I am not happy with it. The demo versions had a ton more feel and groove. This one sounds rushed and doesn't do the song justice. Oh well, such is life when you are on a budget…
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This song was written long before it was recorded, though it stayed pretty much the same from day one of its creation until the studio about 4 years later. My favorite part is my guitar riffs near the end. My least favorite part is my crappy singing.
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This song went through multiple iterations before coming out like this. It was a great song to play live. Did anyone catch the tip of the hat to "Fire and Rain" at the very end of the song?
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That twanging sound at the beginning of the song is me putting my acoustic through an amp with all knobs on 10. Acoustics feedback at 440mhz, which is an A note. The song is in A. It kind of sounds like a high tension electrical wire.
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First take guitar part that I just liked the feeling of, which sounds a bit like a haunting version of Jeff Buckley's 'Hallelujah'.
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Beat created from different strokes on an electric guitar, which is probably of no suprise. Pretty simple arrangement but a fairly strong melancholy-pop song.
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The only song I ever wrote about an actual person I knew. She's heard it and she now sings all corny and gets the words wrong.
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called this track 'dirty awakenings' because it sounds like dirty awakenings.
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A ballad about the perils of life.
Featuring Bugzee & Tragic
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