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Nothing beats when the MN songwriters convene. Greg and Colin sure brought some awesome sound to this song at the coffee table to improve the version that I recorded myself earlier this month. It's what I call a TOTAL MAKEOVER.
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
You could have bought everything you wanted
In the world there is nothing you need
You could have saved everyone from this
The water’s over the wall and it’s up to our necks
Oh…
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"Est-ce Mars" (better translated to "Is it March?") is a piece of piano music by Sweelinck (1562-1621).
Writing this, I just found out that the actual theme was written by Pierre Guédron, a French…
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Thanks to Greg Connor for adding a sweet lead guitar track to this song. Sounds pretty special now.
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More from the way back machine. A set of polkas from the 1992 Scartaglen album "Last Nights Fun". Former band mate Mike Dugger wrote the first 2 tunes and I can't remember where we got the last tune. There is a live version of this up here. This…
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Another rant, again from a few years back. And yes, lyrics from News items at the time. Again no offense meant, just a rant !!!!
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RPM 2k15
vocals by David George
you said it a thousand times before
i know, i know, i know
as if you thought i wasn’t listening
anymore
if i could i would ease your sorrow and your pain
so you won’t ever have to say these things again…
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JESSE JAMES performed by the late Danville Dan (Frank Koehl) (rhythm guitar, main vocals) and also posthumously featuring his son, Gene Eric Mann (Rick Koehl)(chorus vocals) and his grandson, Robster the Rock Lobster (Robert W.D. Koehl)(chorus…
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BROKEN BOTTLES
Broken bottles on the shore
You're molded to the bathroom floor
Just like you were the day before
All throughout the year and more
No excuse, you're such a mess
You break your word, you're honor-less
A heartless soul…
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A mash of tracks from Roger Sundström and Paul Mimlitsch, I added some bass guitar.
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the actual title of this tune is
"the truth is something everybody lies about"
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Boston, Massachusetts is not just a college town. It's THE college town. I mean it. Seriously. There is a major university in just about every neighborhood, and there are institutions of higher learning on nearly every street corner. Add…
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My first attempt to work with loops I created using midi.
With Mr Sandbags (reichatron). There's a really cool version with guitar added by Mac somewhere too, but it's weirdly vanished! Will add as soon as I find it.
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Song from our upcoming mix-tape ARCADIUM, main artist Damien Reeder Aka Doc, and Fame D. Eloheem Aka Fame... Please share, and help spread our music to the world if you like it
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This has been in my head forever, but I never managed to pull it together until now. The lyrics were inspired by @_FloridaMan on twitter. Formerly known as RPM 2014 #4
Is it overreaction
when everyone acts that way
does it lead to distraction…
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RPM 2014
there’s hissing on the ground
keep your legs up high
listen for a rustle in the leaves
you can’t trust your eyes alone
it’s not a monster coming out
of a deep hole in the ground
this is real, I tell you
so real
you can’t trust…
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just a recording done with my new 7-string guitar, it's working good so far...
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We've always adored this song, there is another version but decided to re-record it. Now I think the Good Wife sounds quite good, when I think of the crap health problems she endured over the last 4 years. I am bias of course !!!! Lastly apologies…
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i always wanted to do a version of i am the walrus.
i did not include the radio part in the middle, nor all the
king lear quotes uttered. but i did use most of the strings
they used for effect. this is a kind of prog - psyche - hard rock…
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Orphans were asked to contribute a track to a new 'Halloween Compilation' - released by Whiplash Records - this is our cover of the Coops 'Dwight Fry' - Hope you enjoy!
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Here is a John Lee Hooker Song that Buck and I used to sing in Duluth. We were playing in a group called *"THE LARRYS"*
I love Bucks harmony on this!
I moved away a couple years ago, and Buck stopped by for a visit last Friday. As you can…
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we all have cover a Pink Floyd song at some point, and the only way to cover a perfect song is to make it completely different. Deep down, I think everyone was hoping the wall was not too high, and the song could end on a happy note of breaking…
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Had this one written before the end of year. Finally hit the record button a couple of weeks ago with some electric rythym guitar tracks and built it from there. I was having a problem getting the song to mix right and had an idea to try a different…
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Heres Track 5 for the RPM carry on with the Saga of Reg......Well after his night of falling of the wagon Reg has realized that he needs to get his head together and stop...but how....he needs help....desperately .......
What Have I Done Where…
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I've put this one up too as i couldn't decide which one to choose..........
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from yesterday - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Falls
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My dedication to all the night people.
~Midnight, alone, you~
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For you to speakSo it seems we lost our voice
Stripped down bare on copper line
Raw to subtle ears
I wait
On the line
I wait for you to speak
Of some good news to hear
While we talk ....
Can you speak your mind
I still wait for that old voice…
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If i never get a cold again it wont be to soon!
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Had written this one many years ago. I had it recorded originally in a different key and with different instrumentation but it I just was not happy with it. I deleted the original lyrics for the chorus and added a bridge section and lyrics. I…
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Had a couple of ours spare this morning while the gang have gone for a bike ride/walk....so here goes...
Lets Fly (Lyrics)
Everybody's laughing but I feel like to cry
As I watch the party pass us by
I don't know what to think or what to do
Baby…
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Wooden Sam
Mike Basil: Lead Vocal
Gary Miller: Rhythm Guitar
Mick Lovering: Lead Guitar
Andy Gupta: Bass
Todd Vierra: Drums
John Scunziano: Lyrics
Composed by Steffen Offermann & Mike Basil
Mixed & Mastered by Steffen Offermann…
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Mindaugas Rex Lithuaniae is a piece for string orchestra – Mindaugas was the only King of Lithuania.
details and a picture
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2267
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Re-uploaded cause it was getting stuck at 2 minutes in :/ Replacing the audio didn't work either.
Funny how we can feel like the most important person in the world, and yet the most flawed. To many if-then-else parameters
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What is a suicide chicken? Listen to this tale of shock and awe and find out! Tom Pecard on bass and bg vocals.
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Wow, 3 months since my last upload.
I need to get it in gear!!
Congratulations RPM'ers, sounding good out there!
re uploaded without the trap
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K.G. had a moody theme going on some of his tunes this year. love his words. this song is very easy on my ears. hope you agree.
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Rough draft Gustav Holst's In the Bleak Midwinter. Debating whether to ruin this with a vocal part or not.
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Please see the blog page for the complete blow-by-blow description of this collaboration with drummer / composer Peter Thoegersen
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1361
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The other Reg has put his lounge suit on for this one, he's desperate.........and some might say a fool....but is as bigger fool as Reg.............
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I declare my ADAT 8-track to officially be a dinosaur. Welcome to the 21st Century.
This is the first completed song written and recorded entirely in GarageBand. I started it last night and finished it this morning. The rhythm guitar is my…
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After almost 3 months of work (collectively throughout this entire year) I've been working on something, really really working on something. I mean REALLY working. Now... a few months AFTER the 25th anniversary, I give you, The Legend of Zelda…
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Norm and I in a room at his house. See the video for the reason for the name.
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Back to basics here. recorded with the Yeti mic.
Ramblin' round your city,ramblin' round your town
I never see a friend I know
As I go ramblin' round boys
As I go ramblin' round
My sweetheart and my parents I left in my old hometown…
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This is a captured and then edited live performance using the Sonar Matrix view using various samples - some of which were paul stretched.
I'm liking this - if only they had the possibility to change the pitch live it would be like sticking…
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the collaboration team
Norm percussion
Reefwalker bass and voices
Chris 12 string and vocal
john lennon wrote it - coda by paul
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This song was a challenge to write . . .
LYRICS:
Order for your protection
under threat of a gun
You might be confined here
till the damage is done
Lock him up and toss the key
It's for your own good
Straightjacket
Done
Tie me…
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Lucy of the species Australopithecus looks into the distance of Awash Valley in what is now Ethiopia and feels the future of what can be.
Performed in Charles Lucy's 0b5s tuning
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A 7/8 improvisation on a set of 3 Bata drums, accented with afucha, tube shekere and cowbell.
The number 7 is a symbol for perfection or completeness: 7 colors in a rainbow, 7 musical notes in a scale, 7 days = a week, etc.
In Cuba, the…
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...for they do not have to face another tomorrow...
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD
Blessed are the dead for they shall not be lonely
Blessed are the dead for they will not be sad
Blessed are the dead for they shall have no longings
Nothing lost…
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Louis was back in the cellar last night and he was telling Reg how Blue he was and they got to jamming...............This morning i arrived at the cellar to find Bon was passed out in the corner....Dave was right with his guess....He could never…
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a season in hell by rimbaud,set to music by wordless poem,composed on the roland MC 505 groovebox.
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A collaboration between Norm Harris and myself from 2009. At this point I wish I had the percs up louder.
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A live recording (guitar and vocal) written and recorded one afternoon while I had the house to myself. Cajon and bg vocal added.
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If you ever spent any time in the Whiskey well. You know it's a place you never want to revisit......
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from the album "orange"
I feel the same as yesterday
Even though I’m losing my mind
It’s hard to remember my name
When I wake I never know what I will find
Whither away, further each day
I’m invincible
Nothing can slow me down
My feet…
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from the album "Orange"
We'll come this way, knock it off
The same as me, in a souvenir
Should it be, all the sameness ceases to be
All the sameness feels like a blanket on fire
These mini-catastrophes are easy to wait out
Cause we're…
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I tried to get the vocoder to work. It didn't in so many ways....
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Well, I had this crazy idea that *maybe* Buddy Guy was using some microtonal inflections in his cover of Tramp (which are what the "blue notes" are and thought it would be cool to cover it with my fretless guitar. As it turned out it was my ear…
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Hey! I finally found the master track for this one! Whoo!
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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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A good friend of mine Harris Kidd filmed a short piece of work starring my other great friend (and my drummer) Zay Brignall, anywaaays he asked if I could make a soundtrack for it soooo I sat down and watched it over and over and started plunking…
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i know it's another remix of the same Bolero of fire theme, but I just felt I didn't do it justice. behold this new rock themed track for Bolero of Fire from The Legend of Zelda; Ocarina of Time.
enjoy.
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this is a cover done for the french hiphop band, IAM, because although highly political in content, saldy most of what they say is true. - note that the clip was never aired on tv or radio, due to official decision.
lyrics in french (right…
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One day my husband was describing someone as a floosie galore. First I cracked up; then I wrote this song. Do you think I have to share royalties with him? :) I recorded all the vocal parts on this several years ago at Boyd Recording Studio…
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I Love the fact that No man is an Island.
These Guys Made me a Very Happy man By covering one of my songs.
I am Still Over the Moon!!!
Thanks Bro's!!!!!
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This is the first tune I wrote using an actual loop pedal. I really like the rawness of its form. The sound is sharp, it kind of attacks your ear.. but then after it loops around a few times, it calms down and sinks in..
I expect that there will…
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Sometimes the most profound statements come out of the mouths of babes.
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do not follow instructions/its just other people making signs/ an asphault schooner sky/ a plaster walrus eye/ why are people pointing guns at each other/ isnt that crazy/ they mad or sumptin? I just dont get it/ why dont we have/ a global bucket…
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A cover of The Missed Connections off her 2010 RPM CD.
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My opus. By far the longest song I've ever recorded. I tried to make it shorter, but it just didn't work. Sorry. :)
"The Water-Carver" uses a sample from Stereolab's "Changer." (Gane/Sadier)
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A little rough but I loved making it.
My friend Dave had bought a Roland GR-20, so it was critical he did the solo in the middle and end :)
Oh, all made on the Boss Micro BR. Love that thing!!
This was fun to make!
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Song I did for me and my youngest daughter Jenny to dance to at her wedding. She loves watching the birds flying as they Ride the Wind!
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Another electronica styled piece for Ocarina of Time's Lost Woods. I think I made the melody too low, what do you think. Other then that I think I captured the ecentricity of the song through this mix. Also the choi adds a bit of fidelity I think.
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Interactive audio walking tour, a collaboration with artist Kianga Ford.
The Story of This Place is a series of site-specific narratives that offer a portable audio soundtrack that guides the listener through a site with a fictional narrative…
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Li Bao's lament, ‘Fighting South of the Ramparts,’ was probably written in 751, a year of significant military defeats for the Tang Dynasty, which was approaching both its cultural and political peak and soon to face the rebellion of An Lushan…
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After several weeks without playing, I sat down one night at the piano and this simple melody immediately came out of my fingers. Composing sometimes feels like rediscovering a cherished old memory.
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques…
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My cover of Gumbo Stu's (Stuart Walker) Blind In One Eye. Originally on his 2009 RPM Challenge Album, and available here on alonetone. Thanks Stu!
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reloaded this in 44.1
a pedal steel gtr improv
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Thanks to Sister Savage for letting me add a guitar part to her track.
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Recorded at Coldbath Rd. Moseley, Birmingham. I don't remember many warm days in that house. Cups of soup, rolled cigarets, and the luxury of new strings by the sounds of it.
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Taken from the album ‘The Weight Of Water’, from 2007. (This is a new mix, for 2014.)
Written and performed by Rog Hildreth.
Sometimes I challenge myself to write and record a song from scratch in a single day. This is a story song which…
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Reg had some terrible news that would break any man ......
How it rains down on me
In the early morning of the 14th April
Two days before the rain
Took the smile from my face to turn it to pain
Taking my smile from my face…
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Softly they have touched —
frost and a timid feeling,
the quiet light of dawn.
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- Happy New Year, everyone!
- Updated on Easter days.
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Teejay’s WRLD Praise Da Lord Lyrics
Bhad Mharn Tinz
Yeah, Am Proud To Be A Rockstar
Elevate Gradually As A Loner
Many sleepless night I no recover
With different nightmares it seems life is over
Trying my best to figure out what…
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Teejay’s WRLD - Uptown Disco Lyrics
Benni, Mon kanra, Mon para
Omije jabo loju mii, nigbati moh Gbo rate dollar
Aboki Ogbo kan Kan Oti dii dullard
Agba Baller, 001 Asisat Oshoala
Koko jabele, onikaluku Lon Shey thieh
Alamdullilah, kii…
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The love affair with the Average White Band continues...! This very soulful track has aways been a favourite of mine, and so have produced my own instrumental track with superb session singers doing the vocals.....having seen a gig recently on…
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An instrumental cover of Marty Haugen's Shepard Me, O God based on Psalm 23.
3 tracks $139 Squier Sonic Mustang, 1 track bass. - a bit of reverb
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December 2023 A-side. A big and loud tune about the stresses of the holiday season. Apologies to friends named Joe.
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A day of from the gardening and my first go at organising drums in Easy drummer that funnily didn't turn out to be so hard . I'm playing the Tele with the Kemper and Boss Me-90 Thanks for listening
You shook me from my middle
And you…
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Another song for the Record Every Month Challenge. I was hoping to do two songs per month (as in a single A side and B side). In June I am hoping to do a full 10 song album. I have half a month to go and still a lot of work to do. If I fail…
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(samples music and sound from the film Avatar (2009) including original music composed by James Horner)
Every once in a while there comes a masterpiece so complex and rich that some people have difficulty wrapping their heads around it, so…
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(beat produced by Dr. Dre, from the song "My Name Is" by Eminem)
[Verse 1]
I’m a state away from my family tree
Fuck Alex D
I’m gonna change my name to Randy V
Fuck having children
I’m gonna stick a baby inside of my abdominal cavity…
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5th track from new album Wishing Well. Instrumental composition. Lots of distortion, reverb, and delay! :)
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tennis balls in the dryer for beats.. this is that recording of .. if anyone wants to set down tracks with these "beats" go for it ...
This is actually 3 tennis balls and a pillow in a dryer that is spinning at a kinda normal speed. ---
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A little break, and now back with another drama/film/game trailer type short....! Hopefully enjoyably atmospheric.......
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Based on a riff brought back to life after many years, and remembrance of a childhood fever dream. Wrap this in the context of the past two years and this is the musical result.
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Guess I just needed to say something ......
Well, the line's been drawn, we'll ignore and we'll invade,
It's best if you run, or get on your knees and pray,
After midnight, bullets…
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"Begin Again" by W. Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
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This is a song about a time I took too much drugs. It was an experience that has had a lasting impact on me.
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The last song for volume five of the re-recorded Quarantine Tunes thing. I thought this had too much sauce on it when I mixed it the first time around and here I am loading up even more soup on the second go-round.
I thought this was lacking…
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It's getting silly now. I haven't finished Quarantine Tunes Volume 5 (actually, volume 50/90) and here I am uploading the first song for Volume 6. What a moron!
I am scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as the quality of songs to be re…
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My gut is telling me that when I listen to this version of this song back to back with the one I did this summer I am going to prefer this one. That's kind of the goal for these re-recording projects I'm forcing on myself. Just make things a…
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Cool envelope I found and tweaked over two oscillators being initialized with random frequencies 0-1400 hz. Built two loops into the patch and it's soup! Credit inspiration from Paris Young with reminding me about PD's randomizer object!
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In the early 70s I lived near Haight Ashbury, played music and was deeply involved in that scene. Wrote this song a few years later about those days. Recorded in one take at Rosewood studios..not bragging on the one take, we booked a full day…
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