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"pastlife laptops and attic instruments" is a composition from 2004 that I wrote to perform with saxophonist Brian Sacawa. This is the pre-recorded electronic part that accompanies a (mostly) written-out saxophone part and an ad libitum improvisation…
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A track I improvised and (mostly) recorded on Thanksgiving evening.
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A 15/8 shuffle inspired by my rendition of "Greensleeves" recorded last year for Sidedown's Holiday Challenge.
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Not sure quite what happened here, though I think my bass caught whatever disease Chris Squire's gear was afflicted with in the late '70s.
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Sometimes love can be a hard bargain.
Thanks to Richard Hardrick for the inspiration.
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The music was created to mimic the growth of cubes in a video i created for an installation. The video was projected at The Wind Up space in Baltimore, MD.
You can see it on vimeo here » www.vimeo.com/
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Music was scored to video trying to mimic the sounds of the textures in the film as well as the timing and motion. Video is available with music to see on vimeo.com » http://vimeo.com/7692912
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This is a song I wrote at Christmas six years ago. I've always liked it. Just simple guitar and vocal. Merry Christmas everyone!
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Okay, this is the "finished" version...
Lyrics:
I’ve been meaning to get drunk and try to forget you.
Instead, I’m finding new ways to just upset you.
Baby, I just can’t stay in my mind,
Unintended and unsung, just like all the bad bad…
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This is really a true story.
No, really...
And our holiday gift to you & your friends. (Feel free to download it and share it with anyone who you think might enjoy it.)
Oh... by the way... acl is finally waking from a very deep slumber…
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Shuffling down the sidewalk, always glancing, looking for.. for what? What is he looking for? What is he looking for? What is he looking for?
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A transcription of Prima's brilliant original recording. I recorded this attempting to catch some of the character of the reeds and horns using an electric guitar plugged into an amp - that's it. Once all the horn parts were multitracked, the…
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This is a Promo for AM570 KLAC talking about me
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A song about a job application that turned sexy.
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THIS SONG IS FOR THE LADIES & DUDES.THE THAT KNO THEY TAKE CARE THE BED LOVE THIS WAT U YOU TELL THE LADIES..,.
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THIS IS FOR THE SMOKER.THAT KNOW THE REAL VIBE AFTER YOU SMOKE...
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THIS IS FOR THE GUY THAT LIKE THE LADIES THAT GO BOTH WAYS & HOW THEY LIKE THEM.THEN IT'S FOR THE THE LADIES THAT LIKE LADIES
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THIS SONG I WROTE FOR A FRIEND OF MIND A REAL LOVE PROBLEM TALKEN BOUT LADIES THATS LOOK FOR GOOD MANS THEN WHEN THEY GET ONE THE MESS OVER THEM..FEEL ME ON THIS SINGLE
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for all the thick ladies just know they body good
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The raw first verse of a Christmas song I'm working on.
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After I finished working on my demos, I decided to cover this song, just because.
One of Kurt's best.
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I wanted to write a song with piano, it pretty much wrote itself. (The chromatic structure of the guitar solo had been in my head untabbed for years.)
LYRICS:
Flexible bullet fired at me
Following some unknown trajectory
Piercing the walls…
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I had to do a love song so . . . .
LYRICS:
So we were two
less than one now that we're through
It came to pass
nothing good could ever last
It's in the past
Why won't it die
The words are flowing now
a narrative suggested
This…
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I was depressed at my caliber of friends when I had a drug problem. This was the result.
LYRICS:
Most my friends are embryonic
Most my friends are hooked on phonics
Most my friends stick to the comics page
Most my friends are disillusioned…
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I've always liked playground taunts and rhymes.
LYRICS:
Sit in the garden
eating nothing but worms
Tastes pretty good
to me
There's so much bounty
coming out of the soil
I could be feeding
for weeks
Who knows where that's been…
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I know the world needs the upwardly mobile, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
LYRICS:
Success is regressive
Step forward is two steps back
A world unimpressive
judging me for what I lack
Defying convention
all rules are relative…
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I'm afraid of death. Hope I don't die when I'm 44.
LYRICS:
The man in black professed to me
the secret of this life
The conundrum of human pain
The reason for this strife
It doesn't make much sense
I knew that much was true
But what…
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I used to smoke sometimes, so what.
Lyrics (as requested):
Got a bag of weed
Know how to be numb
Light it up and pass it
We all can be dumb
It's fun to smoke marijuana
I'm one to toke when I wanna
I know I'm not poor
enough to…
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I was unemployed for 5 months. This was the last one I recorded before I became just another working man.
LYRICS:
Last one left to
finish then I'm through
Sorry if I'm
under the gun
Three more seconds
antidepressant
Afterwards we…
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I like 20th century classical music. Grand Canyon Suite, can you dig it?
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LYRICS:
We are all ghosts
who walk the earth
Everyone you see and
everyone you don't see
Don't know we're dead
through self-deception
People pretend
it turns out well
Don't know what'll happen after this
but I can
hazard an educated…
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This one was fun. Backwards tracks, violins and sitars . . .
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Life is unfair; one day I was really mad about that.
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Our sun is in a long, cool, quiet period right now. But average ocean temps are the highest ever, and polar ice and glaciers are melting at an alarming rate. Something is going on here.
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THis is a song about notihngg
it is a work in progress that will never be finished because honestly i will never feel like it
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Something I started working on but don't know where to go with it.
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Just playing around with some of the soft synths in ableton live 8
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Same again with a bit more added. I like this one
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I was writing one song after another after another. This song is about that.
LYRICS:
Everybody wants to find out my secrets
I can reaffirm its true
They say evidently it is elementary
Sharing can be good for you
Pay no attention to…
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The words came first, the music followed. It's about weed.
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Smother me in linen dressings.
LYRICS:
Stitch me a new religion
Suture me with indecision
Grafting faith in place of reason
Hell can't wait
Smother me in linen dressings
Pronounce me cured with Jesus's blessing
Heal this soul for…
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I was sitting with a friend of mine. I said, "I can make a song in three minutes" and I had these chords so this was the result.
Later on, I rerecorded it as a song, and yet again as the version posted now.
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My roommate was a rasta. I'd hear reggae playing in the background almost daily and after a while the subject matter and the grooves really grew on me. This one's for Alejandro.
LYRICS:
I hope the sun is shining
wherever you may be
I hope…
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Sometimes I hate everyone.
LYRICS:
Do I remember? I forget
Self-delusional sensitive mess
Cannot exist without a complaint
Cannot resist without a restraint
Is it amnesia or ambivalence
Cowardice or self-defense
I know enough to…
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5/4 time, prophecy and jazz a la Disenfortunado.
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I could have redone this song, but I kind of liked the grungy feel of this recording.
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I used to be a door-to-door salesman traveling the midwest.
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When I was a kid, I was walking home from school with my foster brothers. Some guy in a black Camaro pulled up on the side of the road and said . . .
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This is a short experiment with Version 0.99.9 of my *Reichenbach* phase-shifted looping Reaktor ensemble (try saying that 3 times fast!)
I took a 2 second long piano sample and fed it into the loopers which were running at 0.98x, 1.0x, and…
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This is a re-recording from 2006 of an original instrumental I originally recorded in 1997 for a Christmas tape I gave to family.
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Another experiment with Reichenbach, my phase-shited looping ensemble for Reaktor 5. This time I fed it a sample from the [Rekkerd.org](http://rekkerd.org/downloads/) mixed bag selection #2 called `106_sandylines_01.wav`.
I let the sample play…
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Not recorded for RPM, but for the expected release of this album. Bones was a chinchilla R.T. got for Xmas '07 that died just after new year's. This is for her. She was the sweetest.
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Christmas song with SATB, plus piano and solo. For practice only.
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My 2 year old son Oslo attempting to sing "Santa Claus is coming to town".
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its a creepy kinda song inspired by a dream i had.
i was with a squad of soldiers descending into some alien structure. and there was a blue guy with tentacles coming from his head.
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I'm a game music remixer and a aspiring game developer, so who can blame me for remaking some old songs from awesome classics.
This is a remake of 2 of Xenogear's tracks. 'Dajil, City of the Sand' and 'Sand Fortress'. I tried for a hard rock…
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Another of [Ronnie's Mixed Bag](http://rekkerd.org/) samples (this one called `120_hollow_01`) and another version of my Reichenbach ensemble for Reaktor.
The major difference here is the addition of playback modes and, in this case, the *slicer…
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I like Anime. In fact I LOVE Anime. and, in correlation to all that is anime, I figured I do a mix about one of my favorites. Rurouni Kenshin. This song is played in the background of some serious situations and plot thinners in the show so…
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War is tough. War is tough on everyone. and War has it's dues. So without further ado I entreat our men and women of the US Military an awesome Electronica piece that will rock your heart out.
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This song is the second song I have ever made, and it was during a tough point in my life. Leaving School and dealing with getting into college and having to deal with a painful breakup. I owe my life story a song so here it is.
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Ok ya I know the song itself isn't Truly Final Fantasy VII, but this remix was intended to be hard and grungy like Midgar so... put 2 and 2 together and you get fishsticks.
Enjoy
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Who here thinks Tifa from Final Fantasy VII is hot? Who here likes the music in Final Fantasy? Who here agrees that Simon Says sucks.
This is a rock rendition of a soft piano piece by Musical genious Nobuo Uematsu. Enjoy.
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Laugh if you must, I actually enjoyed Code Lyoko, it's an awesome series with sly humor and quick wit. I am also a big fan of the big headed chibi anime stuff. The story itself REALLY blew me away. What with the closeness to our internet gaming…
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A good take on a middleeastern style theme. Sounds refreshing and with the reiterations of a Middleeastern prayer, it makes itself right at home. I've always wanted to do one song like this.
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Ever heard of the saying, you can talk the talk but you can't walk the walk? Well this song wants to kick it in the a#%. This piece is a electronica beat down of coolness and superiority. Imagine having this as your cellphone ringtone.
Hope…
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This is one of many of my originals, it's a Fast trancey type song that I picked up while messing around with FL Studios 7. Like they say, Art oftentimes comes from accidents.
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Think about looking up at the sun on a hot sweaty day, and think about all the times you wished you had a hat and sunglasses. Then imagine accidentally stumbling upon a huge ass oasis with a crap load of beautiful women and awesome drinks with…
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The first song I though my own sweet sexy voice into (lulz). I imagined a soft RnB kick to this as well, but I tried doing jazz, so who'd a thunk it.
Kakariko is a town frequently visited by our young Hylian hero, so I thought this was befitting…
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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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This is the song that is always heard in OoT when Sheik makes it's appearance (I say it's cuz we don't want to ruin the game for anyone who hasn't played it yet.) In it's original format it offers a slight bit of middle eastern sensibility to…
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Bolero of Fire is another Fast travel tune that sounds dark and foreboding. Enjoy my heavy repetative pounder version.
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I was going through a tough time while I was making this, and it took 2 painful weeks to put it all together. This is my most recent work, and it's an ode to my oh so broken heart.
Enjoy
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Another Fast Electronica piece. God I love FL Studios.
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I was going to do vocals for this one, but I haven't come up with a good melody yet.
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I had a bad break up.
LYRICS:
In the dust of our mistrust
I could swear it's gone
I can cry myself to sleep
if I want
In the wake of this heartbreak
I could think you'd care
You only want what you want
That's not fair
No more…
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Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
LYRICS:
Notice the world getting worse not better
White men in sheets decide the weather
and whether or not to eat the weak
Inherit the mighty from the meekest
Federal agents tracking the phone…
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I spent a lot of time alone driving around the Dakotas in the winter. I remember standing, looking out at a perfectly level horizon: all white below, all blue above.
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Kind of Foo Fightery. One of the first songs I wrote.
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This is the second version I've done of this. Finally tidied up the audio on this one and suddenly it's more like a song.
* updated 9-16-12
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For the record, the verses are in 7/8 time.
LYRICS:
This is the last time that I try this
This is the final first attempt
and if I fail in my endeavor
Nobody can claim that I am heaven sent
Still not as bad as the civil war inside…
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I was rushing like crazy every time I touched the piano, this one may have been worst.
Al : Piano, Vox
Jess : Vox
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We never did figure out how to replace the dulcimer part from the album. So the end kind of goes without melody...
Al : Piano, Vox
Jess : Vox
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This song featured the biggest screwup of the concert, which was me stopping in surprise when Jess stopped to turn a page. I should have just kept it going, Jess would have got back in.
Al : Bass, Vox
Jess : Guitar
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Al : Piano, Harmonica, Vox
Jess : Tambourine, Vox
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I forgot to put on my harmonica for this one. So there's a missing solo. Oops.
Al : Piano, Vox
Jess : Vox
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Somehow this outlaw stuff comes out every time i have to do my taxes ...
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I really was carrying the ash from the fire out in the dark and looking at the stars and thinking how weird that was - to be throwing the ashes out in the middle of the night and pitch black and everything
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has an Alan Watts sample in it that discusses the vanishing of the hand when lacking background. as i wanted to keep my hand, i gave some background to the song, and as a result it is pretty well-layered.
i was wondering how you think you write…
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