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I wrote this in the early 1990's but re-recorded it in 2006.
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Multi-talented Warri based OAP and gospel rap artiste, Godspower Kabowei has dropped his take on social vices and moral decadence in this new hardcore rap piece: "Gospel For The Street" produced by Just1 of Firsty Productions. Please Download…
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My first attempt at a Christmas original! I've gone topical.
Written by / all instruments, voices: Rog Hildreth
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This is me doing my best impersonation of Danny Gatton - a bit of a foot-tappin' country guitar workout :-)
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Track 5 from my RPMX album Cold Ground Was My Bed
Inspired by Salvador Dali. Mostly.
Gravity failing
Cats float flailing
Furniture in midair
Salvador smiling
Rainbows crying
Clocks melting everywhere
Pachyderms stilted
Lovers…
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The last of the RPM Reg has given up on real women he's gonna build his own........
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Muriel Jeanne Skinner promised that if it were possible she would come back from the dead to
tell me about the afterlife. She has not returned..
Opened the window to let some air flow through
A bird flew in and landed in my living room
Something…
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This is my first upload. I mostly have a vocal here. It's a song that I'd love to get some collaboration on from the guitarists in the community. Let me know what you think?
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a laid back jam along tune . Cheers all, smokem if ya got'm.
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Song #1 for the 2014 National Solo Album Month.
It's November again, so it's time for another NaSoAlMo. This year I am thinking of trying to write longish songs, and I would like to find a way to get my 12-string into every song somehow…
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Track taken from my ''Dead Man's Shoes Acoustic Takes'' album 2008.
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DDo 105 galaxy you know.....not some FB error code
For my musical friends, this is Em with an added 9th to an A minor with an added 9th note to an augmented A flat and an augmented G.
Take the lead..........
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This one is pretty cool. We recorded it right after RPM. I just got round to mixing it up.
I just love jammin' with Bethan.
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live looping with "Skully", my customized fretless junk Strat.
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19 - Damage Over Time
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i still love you
especially when you're here
oh, how i hate you
everytime you are near
// damage over time
// (i believed in you)
// all you left behind
// (i believed in you)
i still…
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This is a song nearly 20 years in the making.
It's a wholly new version.
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A Bluesy, Psychedelic Folk version of the Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne hit, PARANOID.
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Baby can you here the thunder tonite?
Baby can you here the rain coming down, down?
Lately Ive been dreaming of you lying next to me and I realise your gone
And I cant seem to find
A way to stop these tears, from bleeding out this heart of…
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I started paying attention to popular music when puberty reared it's ugly head in the early 1970's. The music during that time appealed to me not because they protested something but because they had something to say. I liked the songs because…
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!!! Please use the utube link !!!!
as this is my piano moment #5 set to video that i made this past weekend Oct 6th 2013. Take Note of the sea lion at about 2:20 into this.. it has survived a meeting with a great white shark!! and is still…
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crux
i heard my darling snarling
and our little stomachs churning
he said i should be earning
some kind of verbal warning
but i found out in the morning
as the cardboard moon was waning
i heard the pitter-patter
of the footprints in the…
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Yeah I know, trying to kill one of my favourite songs is madness, but the story is ... my daughter was getting lonely in her flat so she got herself a friend, Roscoe the Pug, could've tried to write one, but came in my head. I'll take the flack…
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Reg is getting heavy with DJBride........
I want rid of my Grieving heart (Lyrics)
She was my Princess she’d said she’d love me forever
She said that she’d need me for ever and ever
She lied to my face, looked me right in the eye
told me, told…
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Thanks to Colin Garvey for giving his energy to this little duet... And to Genevieve for making good on a promise.
BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME
Born at the right time
Underneath the summer sky
Always walked a fine line
Making good and barely…
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Transmision de Flymagic en Discomagic Radio 12/12/12
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Any resemblance to the Yiddish word Chutzpah is of the purest intent. With a doff of the hat to Sheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein ...and Mad magazine for all of their influences. that indeed did rot my brain
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Again my aussie friend Kelvin on acoustic guitar & me on vocal , live recorded into the BR-800 onboard mic's
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I am slowly coming to the realization that I am sacred.
I trust you do as well.
It was so easy to be bitter
To hate the life I was born into
And I almost lost myself in this fight
Cutting what was so sacred
I could not see beyond…
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Carnagie creepers jeep flipchart geranium. Evil streaking beakers leak bacon on a cranium. Lay low bilbo, said bag it mr. super, i shoe horn my corn fed friends with sally hooper. My time is 5 later, my eyes are radiators, my fingers are side…
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Poor old Monkey they put him a rocket and shot him into outer-space..........
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I redid this song it needed drums.
i did all the parts by me lonesome
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Another cover, this time in Italian with Manu taking the lead...
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Once upon a life
By OsCKilO
Once
Upon a life
Do we find
A happy ending
More
Are the times
That we try
To race from the line
Slow down Laddy
Wont you go a little bit Slow
So Daddy can
catch up
Hey there Laddy
I could run fast in my day
And…
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This is a 12 string nylon MIDI patch.
The only thing missing from this
arrangement is you.
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A new original from me. Another one-voice, one-guitar, "live" performance in my broom-cupboard. This time it's the good ole tin guitar.
I wrote this one in 2002 during the "dark years" lol. I've ummed and aahed over the years on whether to…
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I did it!
Starts off a little cheesy, but I really was on a train, going in a westerly direction, when I wrote that!
Enjoy!
xox
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This is a big song... Give it room to play and it'll grow up to be a healthy tune!
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Random blue mood. Vocals by MJ, from a different song by a different side project, which I 'borrowed' for now.
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You know how good mixing means EQ, compressing etc? Yeah, disregarded everything here.
intro bluesy guitar sample from here: http://archive.org/details/MiZ2012-01-26.wklitz.schoeps.sbd.flac16 "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"
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Growing up in Ohio we used to see the signs the hoboes left on trees and mailboxes. Bits of ribbons and cloth-signifying friendly,and-cold hearted bastards who'd sic the dogs on you.
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This is not a haiku,
Though at first you may think it is.
The poet enjoys your confusion.
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[recorded in glorious 4-trak at lotek studios in the '90s]
straining to maintain
straining to maintain a sense of dense intensity
vainly feigning pain of a spurious immensity
a furious refrain of precarious opacity
nefarious pretence…
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Naively conceived, written and published in February 2012 for "Contemporary Chamber Music" (vol.1), an RPM12 album.
The titles of the pieces in album are follow each other in a certain order - see album description.
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From a idea born in the mind of Greg Connor, who wrote half the words. I supplied the tune,at his behest. Perhaps someday he will take it up and add his accents to it.
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Poor old Reg she's left him again...........
JUST ONE OF A MILLION LONELY MEN (Lyrics)
Can't find love in this cold hard city
There ain't no love and there ain't no pity
Walking alone in the lamp lit town
Trying to hide my sorrowed frown…
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Written by Greg Connor
Lyrics:
Old Country Songs
Wooden Chair by the window
Gibson on my lap
And the time I spend strumming
Is never coming back
The sun is shining on me
Evening won’t be long
I’m living in the city
Singing…
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This is the title song from my first LP.
FEATHERS IN THE WIND by SNOWGEESE.
Snowgeese was my first wife, BarbaraAnne and me. Michael was a new friend we met when we moved to Texas that liked my songs enough to produce and arrange and record…
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Started out be an innocent little jazzy study in quartal harmony, but the DL4 was still in my signal path and things went downhill from there! Another done with my beloved '58 Stratotone
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New AR track, really keen to get a great mix, so I'd be very grateful if you could let me know how it sounds on your speakers. I'm a bit unsure about the bottom end.
Any mastering tips?
Thank you!
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Composed, performed, produced by Alex Jenkins aka Gasserpe, September 2011. BMI
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Inspired by a perfect morning watching the Sun come up over Lake Superior.
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Nothin' new - this track replaces a different version of the same tune your Quill had up for a while. Missing this trio a bit; musing over some old tracks; thinkin' the loose feel and the reckless solo and the nice smoky vocal in this version…
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The second of seven unfinished leftovers from RPM 2007 to finally get completed. The lyrics are about my strong desire to vacation in San Diego... permanently. Just a little 12-bar. I liked this one a lot more before it was finished. Now I…
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Indie Alternative Electronic Rock by KAZIMIERZ. www.kazimierz.co.uk
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Written by Rog Hildreth.
Copyright 2010.
All instruments/production by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from "The Anxiety Bomb".
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under the influence of fine cheese and alkyhol oldrottenhead didn't care anymore
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The whole world could be falling to pieces but it really doesn't matter because WE'RE IN LOVE!!!!!
(I was especially happy to throw in a line about 2012 and the Mayan Prophesy!!!)
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Maia was from Georgia. The Georgia that was part of the the USSR. She drew pictures of her sisters. She lived on orange juice and tea. (Horns by my brother, John.)
MEETING MAIA
Where the tram stops in front of the Van Gough Museum, I waited…
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A song for a very special friend, and I'm glad she loved it. I hope I can soon post some songs of her and me together here.
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here is my cover of a boy named bri's "some may say" from his 2011 RPM album. the original is here.
http://alonetone.com/boynamedbri/tracks/some-may-say
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written on a Bad day with Chicken pox....
But Spent a Great Day with my Son who also had it.
Jim Called later that day.
He added a vocal/Lyric the day after as my voice is shot...
This is a song about good times with your wee ones..
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Reg threw Norms 7th son in the Cellar tonight and it wasn't long before young Johny Cash had jumped all over it.................
Daddy didn’t love his 7th son
I was born when the storm really started rising
When the ships crashed the rocks…
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Peter Thörn: Alto sax and Fretless Acoustic guitar. Fieldrecording of Irish Sea.
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A sad and peaceful piano ambient piece with a touch of avantgarde jazz in a winter landscape.
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This one is more of a reading set to music of part of a piece i wrote about a place i used to live. We used to walk most days down into the valley and i long to be back there, hopefully one day i will ...
There are a few fluffs in the reading…
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Well, I love this song...
I hope you like and/or enjoy. Cheers!
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This is a composition from July's '96, and it could be said that it belongs to a period in which i was listening to, and composing, in a kind of 'baroque' style, very influenced by J. S. Bach. I hope you like and/or enjoy it.
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Instrumental named after the street I live on (for want of a name and LOL I live on Ellis Blvd.) any way the base for "Tactual Sensation."
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Numbers stations (or number stations) are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast artificially generated voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a spelling alphabet), tunes or Morse code…
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a little jam with Norm's "Cabinets" percussion track.
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A slice of life kind of song about just getting by.
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i got nothin gains no faith, but there whole lotta sick false prophets.
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I'm doing a twenty-four hour project. This is the warmup done in the first ninety minutes.
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Fender Mustang guitar, Roland GR-20, and Fractal Tune Smithy
Alontone refused to accept the update
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This is the accoustic version of fat tragedy. I guess it is a guitar solo. Thinking itself through, but not really anticipating what itself is going to do.
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This is a demonstration piece in A minor.
The left channel is a Korg MS 2000 voice with a split keyboard that is driven from the Roland GR-20 as I play my guitar that you hear in the right channel + GR-20 piano - all played against a session…
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Because after enough smoke and whiskey anything sounds good.
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Sung By John B - he also does most of the instrumentation. My contribution is simply that I wrote the lyrics and composed the music, and if you listen closely I play the guitar parts. A cross Atlantic collaboration.
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Little country ditty with a "hook" :) recorded a few years ago at Boyd's in Wylie. I am singing lead and harmonies. That keyboard player is my talented cousin, Robert Nichols, who turned me onto this site. You can search for him here on Alonetone…
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro.
www.carranga.org
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Another one from the dusty special price bin! It started off as a Pilot cover, but it didn't end up that way.
Dave Berry added the excellent tele solos and the crazy cool noises at the end. Thanks bro, you rock!
I spent more time on this…
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The song that really kicked off this second album of 2009.
"In time all the stars will fade away
Our kind won't get to see it anyway
No shine, just endless black between the gray
I won't be going out in that way"
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got a new threat, new threat baby/ i gotta new threat/ to your existence/pushing daisies/pumpin pistons/in the engine of your destruction/ a generator supports your load/a load of crap/ your new abode/ i gotta new threat, im on your cell phone…
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Lyrics by Brian McCloskey in somewhat of a suprise collab. Musically a kind of feel-good soul-pop. I quite like how this turned out, and nominated it my prefered RPM-track this year.
New version uploaded 12 Dec 2010.
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A Halloween collab we did last fall that I thought was pretty cool. Designed to scare old ladies and make babies cry :) I love the way the song peters off in the end.
All tracks recorded with the Boss Micro BR, mixed with Audacity and mastered…
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Old Paint Ver.II
Continued from Old Paint Version I............
So, I plugged in the cat eater, hit distort and it took on a whole new feel.
I added bass(finger is tore up now), more drums, and low level fuzzed up leads.
The ghost…
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Getting my 7/8 groove on.
Unmastered track from my 2010 RPM Challenge submission.
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The art of war is simple enough
Find out where your enemy is
Get at them as soon as you can
Strike them as hard as you can
And as often as you can
And keep moving on...
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My 2009 Christmas Challenge song. It's rough around the edges and I didn't have a drumset, so fake drums, but all in all, not a bad little diddy. enjoy!
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I never get tired of playing this song.
Written by Leonard Cohen.
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Just working out some rhythms. Toucans come in at about 1 minute.. wish I could get the sound onto vinyl for some proper scratching. I used Sandbags' awesome generative sequencer Elysium for some of the ambient and lower pitched toucans. The lead…
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The beat started out as a short interlude, but a lot of people like the guitar sound so I stretched it a bit longer.
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A spacey electronic number.
Part of my song a week project.
http://yelyah.com/song-a-week/
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2009 Record Production Month Challenge offering. Very pleased with the collective results. This track was the first one completed for the RPM challenge this year.
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07 – What’s ‘Round Here? (A Mystery). Written and recorded 22nd Feb.
A mystery.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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The second of 9 demos I recorded in Jan. 2009 for the upcoming Spooky Garcia album that Rob and I are recording for RPM '09.
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Dedicated to the victims of the 23 day assault on Gaza.
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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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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My only regret is that I couldn't get more power into this song, but no amount is enough. Desoto on bass again.
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On IRC, somebody was asking about routing to I got to playing around attempting to help them out. This throw-away piece came out...
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I originally built this up to some cliche rocking acme but there is no need, so I peeled it back kept it raw. Thanks Su for the critiques on the levels.
Since I am not participating in the 24hr album today, here I am in spirit! This track was…
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A remix of the [lead vocals](http://ccmixter.org/files/shannonsongs/15128) of "Silence" by [Shannon Hurley](http://www.myspace.com/shannonhurley).
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A chill-out track using the vocal samples of [Colors Shifting](http://ccmixter.org/files/cwillits/7781) by Christopher Willits, a pumping bass drum, and some more.
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