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Took sandbags' [Rytme Shifter 1](http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/rytme-shifter-1) and added my special brand of guitar incompetence.
I bought myself an E-Bow this week and this track was just perfect for playing around. After a day of wankery…
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the lead synth line is 1/8 beat longer than other measures. It repeats 3 times at 8/8 and then the last one 9/8, which causes the lead to sound slightly more varied throughout the track. it starts a little later each time..
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the wifebot inspires
synths, tabla, beatboxing, claps, and love.
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My evening challenge: compose and record a piece in an evening. Song titles will reflect the time of day when the day's light slips into the darkness of night.
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So one too many coffee's and I have insomnia, I decided to mess about with my prototype sequencer Rytme and one of the Logic piano presets (Piano Motion).
I came up with this piece (in the key of A Major) which is rather repetitive (a quality…
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Tried a different way to come up with a lead line.
I kind of like the way it turned out. Kind of Bowie-ish. Love to hear some feed back.
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Had to reload this due to accidental deletion.
This is the first song I made all by myself - words, vocals, bass, and highly FXed guitar- since I don't really play. The drum-track is by Boss BR-1180.
The song is about someone in a crappy relationship…
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Written by [Mark Moschell](http://alonetone.com/moschell).
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(With apologies to Gumbo Stu..)
An attempt to cover his RPM 2009 Challenge song.
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more bioelectrophilia... titi monkeys, sakis, toucans...
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100% field recordings of animals from SE Peruvian Amazon, Madre De Dios region. If this is your first bioelectrophilia experience, check out the album I made while I
Was there this past summer:
http://alonetone.com/glu/playlists/bioelectrophilia…
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Another remixed tune to add to the Goran Bregovic collection.
Let me know what you think! I usually hate house/trance/
4-floor beats but this was fun to remix and program.
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The Ballad of Brie & Jack
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2008 all rights reserved
Met her down at Gluek's one night
after Hookers 'n Blow
Horns were huge, she took refuge
in the arms of Jack Merlot
Jack Merlot
Betty was down from Ye Ol' Wax…
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E.S.P.
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2008 - all rights reserved
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scarecrow sprawls against the spiralling fall
the masquerade celebrating our migration
I'm falling from your pedestal
while you're pondering hibernation
the circumstances…
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by Jack Merlot
copyright 2008 - all rights reserved
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When we had finally captured the raven
Caught the raptor and made her our pawn
We headed out of that No Man's Land
and traveled straight through until dawn
but the shrapnel…
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Witness Protection
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 some rights reserved
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Can I get a witness?
Cuz I've been a stranger
and I know you don't recall my face at all
But you were my sister,
before you were famous,
but now you think…
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This is the finished version of Iris Florentine. The acoustic version is still up, though...
Iris Florentina
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 all rights reserved
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young and lovely, with a wise patina
tapping her toe like Degas' ballerinas…
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This is a straight on Prog Instrumental, available on the CD 'The Citadel of Cynosure & Other Tales' -
Folk Metal Prog Art Pop Symphonic Hard Soft Fast Slow Acoustic Electric Rock from the Genre Busters!
All material is © CITADEL/WE/RMDW…
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So I got Stylus RMX and this was my first attempt to use it multi-timbrally in Logic. It was accompanied by Elysium playing Omnisphere and me playing Reaktor on the keyboard. I still have no idea how to come up with bass lines so this was me playing…
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This is a live in the rehearsal studio recording direct to Zoom H2 of our band Airport Seven. See myspace. The "playa" refers to the desert where Burning Man happens. If that's news to you - google it and go.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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A model of the Solar System which whirls and turns all the planets in their correct orbits at the correct relative speeds
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Read the Stanislaw Lem novel. Memories sometimes have lives of their own. A vast, intelligent ocean.
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One day you realize the world you live in is not what you think it is. They want to kill you for your discovery.
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Remains lost, while creatures swim and live among the ruins
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Perfect Moment features a unique yellow-based bloom with red tips. Its buds open in a slow spiral to show high-centered, heavy blooms that last well. The plant has dark green, leather-like foliage and excellent disease resistance.
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A satsuma is similar to a tangerine.
Many musicians such as Tomita create pieces called "Fantasies".
A fantasy is a dream.
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If my surname were plural, I could have a five of my own.
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I tried so hard to write vocals for this. I even had some recorded but couldn't bear to leave them on. Anyone else wants to give it a go, let me know :)
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*Electronic rock with jungle/drum-and-bass influence*
I've never really felt that I was ever good enough
But even I can be improved if I just stay tough
My teeth are metal reinforced
My eyes are plastic lens
And daemons run inside my head…
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everyone thinks a lullaby is a soft song for children. Not anymore.
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Imagine the whole world was like the movies of the 1930's, Black and White.
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Lyrics:
I don't know what you want
when you treat me that way
I can't help being turned on
Is that what you want
Just to see what I would do
To see if I'm in love with you
I'm trying so hard
to sit here and ignore
the way that you…
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Lyrics:
Pass me a handle of that old time tennessee
It's been a while since I've seen the devil
It's a common mistake to think that I'm a sweet and gentle soul
but give me a chance to change your mind
Cause you have never seen me like…
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"Choices" by Nikki Giovanni
If I can't do
what I want to do
then my job is to not
do what I don't want
to do
It's not the same thing
but it's the best I can
do
If I can't have
what I want... then
my job is to want
what I've got…
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Lyrics:
I'm not sleeping
I'm staring at the ceiling
My mind's a thousand miles away
I'm finding faces in the shapes
of plaster that was scraped on the ceiling
Killing time is not so bad
but when you're trapped inside your head…
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A lazy hound lying on the couch
sleeping the day away
The sunlight comes pushing through the curtains
warming the old dog's face
The savory smell from a wood burning stove
holds you while you awake
Brew some tea while others emerge…
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Lyrics:
No one told me to watch my back
I was thinking 'bout what I lack
What's a boy supposed to do
Life has got me blue
No one told me to watch my back
Now it seems I've gone off the track
It wasn't that hard to do
It caught me by…
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Lyrics:
I was walking through the square when I heard the towers fell
from a stranger passing by
and they caught it live
couldn't believe my eyes
And we talked a lot about what it meant to be
a free society
and our resiliency
but we…
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Mostly for the opportunity to play the Harmonica.
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My big hit, I guess. Everyone seems to love this track. I do too. It's inspired by The Mars Volta's track "L'Via L'Viaquez," but I took things in more of a Pink Floyd direction with the extended synth solo that is evocative of the instrumental…
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Cover of original track by Beaus of Beethoven.
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A short "Bumper" piece, "Slow Devils" is made from a HammerHead Rhythm Station drum part, a drone made from FreeSound.org sample 30188_ERH_cello_1_loop sequenced.wav, and a loop that Jacob Talkington (of JacobTalkington.com) let me play with.
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This is the first of 3 dramatic pieces I wrote for piano
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Recorded: Feb 14, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGBE), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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Another fingerpicky gospel instrumental. From the old days.
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Just a little jazz like thing! Laid back and smooth.
Lyrics:
"Fish toast miles to taste
Lean for boast in those tan haste
Door foot rant, dough coelocanth.
Dishcloth tree sloth
Frosty spot
Hose harry hand unwind
Meat cat fair on basting rind…
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A test run with my new Line 6 DL4 delay pedal. Recorded with a handheld mp3 recorder, hence the ambient room noise. The DL4 was fed into a BOSS loop pedal also. No overdubs, all on the fly.
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Two jigs I wrote after returning from Ireland. Sorry for the horrid splice between the two tunes...I'll fix that when I get a chance. Penny whistle, mandolin, acoustic guitar.
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Originally a very different song, slowed to a dragging pace and laced with dense moans of twisted agony. There's a little bit of John MacDonald on lead guitar in the build too.
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Feeling a little New Order style roadtrip music.
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A very old song that I should have heeded long ago.
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After I finished collecting and mixing all the trumpet tracks from Montgomeru, I was no longer sure which one of us actually wrote this song.
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More Montgomeru on trumpet. The lyrics for this song were written by myself and Mike Connor back when we were Sloth House.
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The longing is authentic. What more can I say.
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for any one who has a friend or loved one that makes you hope for the best, and fear the worst... this song is for a friend that I have had a long dialog with(years)... he's very self destructive... you don’t care about winning the argument, you…
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Recorded December 18, 2008
Guitar: EBEGAD (capo II)
Lap Steel: EBEEBE
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deeper and deeper i fall to sleep
and i am with you again
i can't wake up and face the loneliness
i won't feel love without you
hear the shattered lines, miles and days
didn't want to go away
nothing i can say
now the only way
fall into…
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here we are, for the very first time
is it safe to touch you
or am I way out of line
now it's over, and our embrace was far too sweet
is it safe to fall in love or is this a game that can never be beat
here we are in my bedroom all alone…
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one of five songs written in July 2005 re: an old band mate was visiting after moving away. he took me for a ride in his single engine sesna.
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A remix my girlfriend Dionne came up with.
Part of “The big crash of '07” album. Which is a collection of mostly prototypes of songs that are lost because of a harddrive failure. C'est la vie.
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Was this the crappy, overlong, attempt at an ambient track that I did to try and fill time?
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There was a director who was so happy to show off his lead singer to the playwrite... she was young and beautiful and a talented singer... when he finally got to present her to the playwrite... the playwrite nodded, and smiled.. he told the director…
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This is one of the prototypes I miss most. It was going to be a great song I'm sure…
Nowadays we would probably have pulled or severely altered the idea for the trancy synth and the electric guitar though.
There are some vocals which weren't…
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didgeridoo, synthesizer, drum programming, bamboo flutes.
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hi peeeepz
just uploaded my latest instrumental track as some of you found Id try again without acapellaz used so you guys (even chixx) are all free to mix / rap / sing on this one, it's called: Runaway Instrumental - catch the link here:
http…
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enyoy this like a deep travel to another space
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I recorded four minutes of bird life in a bamboo patch during my last day in the Amazon.
I arranged the string section with single note samples of cellos performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Another bioelectrophilia tune. This one was made with two bird samples, one of them an eagle.
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The first bioelectrophilia track since returning to the US. This song was made with only 2 saki monkey vocalizations. Note the beginning of the song which demonstrates how one vocalization was turned into part of the percussion.
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I was expecting more people to write songs around the turn of the millenium, so I thought I'd get my bid in.
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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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trying to do a different beggining, and I like to make a turning point in a song.
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A track from the "Water, Wind and Sails" compilation on WM Recordings.
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