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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number six becomes finished song number 12.
I like this one. I thought about naming it "Hyperactive Zany" but thought better of it. The GarageBand drummer would have worked up quite a sweat if it were a real person…
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It's a sick world we ya live in. And with the fulfillment of prophecies of endtimes unfolding, signs we can't miss, "We Call To You" takes our hearts back to Jah.
#Jesussaves
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I don't sing many songs: this one's a duet with Sarah, who _can_ hold a note.
Piano sound from Verve (the plug-in, not the band). I like the affected sounds: like socks & nails stuffed in the wires. Wonky zither from Vital, drone from x…
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With thanks to FBJ Matt [https://fatboyjamz.bandcamp.com/] for the title, which inspired the lyrics and overall intent.
The vocals are largely from synths (I input the melody and lyrics, the synth -- Vocaloid in this case -- generates the tone…
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If I'm being kind to myself, I'll say that I wrote this in a "through-composed" style. Truth is it probably required another verse etc., to nudge the song's story along and provide some semblance of structure. Instead, I was enjoying myself adding…
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This song had been a "fragment" for a couple of years -- a state the befalls many an aspiring melodic doodle, sound design or chord cadence.
This time, the glockenspiel melody that formed the initial draft had another iterative polish, together…
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*Lyrics*
Looking down at the scars
Seeing bars on your window
There's a beauty
In the broken life I see
Don't cover the tears
Glory in your flawed story
Scratch the surface
To let it bleed
Roll up your sleeves
We choose to sing…
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TL;DR: this is a synth-pop track about being true to yourself.
For the last couple of days of January, I'd been listening to Pete Shelley's "Homosapien"¹, on repeat, like a deranged teenager. The idea was to overdose on a song I liked, so that…
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TL;DR: the song's about waiting too long to do the right thing ... and then still choosing to ignore it when you get the chance.
Last autumn, I spent too long polishing production & sound design at the expense of, amongst other things…
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I'd been recommended some free plug-ins for DAWs. One of these plug-ins emulated synths from yesteryear that were bizarrely nostalgia inducing. Which led me down a path to a sort-of retro style song. It's possibly anachronistic: I didn't check…
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Hmm. The trigger was to use a random Wikipedia page [via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random ] -- it gave me a 1990s Brazilian film I'd never heard of. Although it sparked a song, the verses that more obviously related to the film got…
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Ditty with jangles, bass and celloish thing (all Halion) and plenty of triplets. [Drum sounds from Groove Agent; edited using the new Drum Pattern editor. New for Cubase that is ... but every other DAW has had for 20 years, I suspect.] Vocal synths…
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I sold my upright piano earlier this year: it had been underused for a while and my head's been buried in the DAW for a long time. So played arpeggios into DAW instead. Then quantised them within a inch of their lives. More doodles with the Backbone…
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TL;DR: it's got percussion in it.
I had an idea for percussion-heavy song: that I found tough to articulate because it's not a usual thing for me. More practice required.
I dialled back the bpm as the percussion became (even more) a wall of…
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TL;DR: more guitary than my preferred synthery. With production practice too.
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For a recent collab, I undertook collation duties: mixing received stems without (hopefully) losing their original energy. Those stems were played on real instruments…
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A bit of Frankenstein of a song, lyrics cobbled from old lyric fragments, with variations on bass and melody and piano motifs, like I couldn't make my mind up where it was heading. Something about it, so has made the cut!
*Tech Notes*
Hmm…
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What the hell's a djembe? No, me neither. So it gets an airing in the intro. Tried to hit a just-behind-the-beat edginess to fit in with the just-behind-comfortable intent of the song.
Titles are hard.
*Tech Corner*
More clangs and thuds…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 20 becomes finished song number 13.
As the great Ian Gillian once said, can I have everything louder than everything else.
This mix kinda got silly as every level kept going up and up and up. It's a fun…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 18 becomes finished song number 14.
I like the song all right, but the performance could have (should have) been better. It's okay, I guess.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number nine becomes finished song number 15.
This one is not going to make the RPM Challenge album cut. That middle bridge section... what was I thinking? Laughably bad.
The rhythm guitar in your left speaker…
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Glory's Gonna Shine
Verse 1:
I woke up with a feeling deep down in my soul,
The world keeps on turning, but it’s out of control.
Storm clouds are rising, you can hear the thunder roll,
But I know my Saviour’s in control.
Verse 2:
Seven…
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2025 RPM Challenge Song Idea number 13 becomes finished song number 16.
Meh. Waste of a good guitar solo in the outro.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure SM57. The leads are a Gibson Les Paul Standard 50's into…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number four becomes finished song number 17.
I'm waffling between not liking this song and thinking it's just meh.
The guitar in your left speaker is a Les Paul Custom and the one in your right is a Les Paul…
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Demo for FAWM '25, A collab with @nahlej381.
In an interview, David Lynch once called Eraserhead his most spiritual film. When asked if he wanted to expand on that, he replied "no".
This might be my most spiritual song.
[Verse]
My head…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number seven becomes finished song number 18.
I kinda like this one. I think it's going onto the final RPM Challenge album. I just wish I couldn't hear the keys on the saxophone clicking. I don't think I've ever…
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Demo for FAWM '25. A collab with @villedog inspired/adapted from original lyrics by @johnkaniecki
[Intro]
Excuse me
Buy, Buy! Buy, Buy!
Excuse me
Buy, Buy! Buy, Buy!
Excuse me
Buy, Buy!
I don't want your junk
[Verse]
I…
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Straw can be light and golden yellow
Is often used to stuff our pillows
Straw is the hay you see in the fields
All those hay bales give good feels
The scarecrow of Oz was made of straw
though his brain held nothing at all
Dorothy held…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 19 becomes finished song number 20.
The 20th and final song worked on for this year's RPM. I think we're going out on a high note this year. I like this one. Everything is working for me except for the…
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The latest single from Dave Saigh (say). This is a contemplation on taking a new step forward in a world of challenges and difficulties.
"A New Breath" is a 2025 winter reflection on going forward through adversity.
So take a listen and…
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sure it is ambient ... experimental types of ambience,..using the dexed and vital --- serious work in vital -- I should of made the video of me doing that..
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did you ever put a wall up in your house?
did you ever want to mitigate thermal conduction?
did you want to make it quiet as a mouse?
did you wanna try to minimize sonic transmission?
you took up a mission
a household decision
it won…
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sometimes your kid insists on standing on you so they can have a feetchair.
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Dudin’ up a street in some small town
With a rhythm in my feet and sunshine golden
No one’s gonna keep-a-me down - i’m alright
Then my phone makes a buzzering sound. Burn it all down.
It’s the clown.
You can never have some time
Don’t…
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In the win
In the call
of the dog
To the yard
It’s a mend
It’s a tool
It’s a fall
In a song
Giving in
To the same
This all hap
penned before
As it lays
All strung
Along
the open floor
-
To the front
To the top
Of it all…
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He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Kanye
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Elon
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Trump
Someone probably should have told him
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Kanye
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Elon
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Trump
Well…
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gotta stop jacking off and get productive
you can’t sit around on your butt all the time
you gotta get to work and get productive
make the most of days in our lives!
Studies have shown that making stuff makes you feel good and is totally…
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Opened a policy and it’s getting old
All of my lives you’re so close to finding out
Go for a hike and these cliffs are beautiful
Pose for a pic for me and oh you fall
You fall
Are you there?
Did you find out?
Are you a-scared?
Where…
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I want you madly and I want it
And I want it want it
Watch me all the time you see another
Another
Another
Think about the time we spent and see if you can find the trusting side
That I’ve been here for you and yours
That you’ve been…
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“White coral islands in a dark blue sea.
Luminous clouds of hyacinth flakes.
Jet-black snow and hailstones flavored like oranges.
Pink snow, flakes the size of saucers.
“Vast things poised like crows over the moon.
Dark shadows crossing…
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“We have complained a great deal. At least we are not so dull as to have the delusion that we know just exactly what it is that we are complaining about.”
– Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919
Live drums, real bass, MIDI key loops…
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Baba Ibo also known as NNABUIKE TOCHUKWU PAUL is a fast rising talented musical artist. Music motivated me to be strong in God and to strengthen my faith. Baba Ibo never stops to amaze his fans as he drops a mind blowing music titles DAILY BREAD…
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I wait, I wait,
For you now.
I wait, I wait,
For you now.
Now that you're ahead I wonder,
Will you turn and wait for me?
I wonder.
If I lost direction,
Would the favor return for free?
I wonder.
Hit the brakes, hit the brakes!
Wait…
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There’s. man by the shallow
He goes there each day
Screams about his problems,
Prays them away
Why’d you come to the shallow?
Do you ever feel peace?
I need a solution
Before my head is fleeced.
The shallow, it saves me
It, holds…
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Push & pull,
Left & right,
Up & down,
Don't forget your dog's in this fight.
Courage!
Might!
All so hard to see in this light.
Couldn’t put it any other way,
Hands up in the air as if they’re trynna say,
Will I ever be…
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Demo for FAWM '25, a collab with @musicsongwriter, @nahlej381 & @djtjb. Lyrics and vocals by myself, piano by @musicsongwriter and anything else done by @nahlej381 and @djtjb
[Chorus]
Call it the Headline blues,
But I can't refuse…
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Demo for FAWM '25, collab with @djtjb... who did the most he could with my vocal which completely falls apart at the end of the second verse and didn't start off strong. 60bpm is a challenging tempo, but the concept was "real time".
[Verse…
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Some of us are helplessly watching our country burn while imbeciles fan the flames.
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This is one of the most important of the previously unrecorded newer songs, "Frequency." I didn't know what it was about when I wrote it, now I think I kinda do. The core idea is that it's about being unable to see something because it's vibrating…
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This is the other most important of the previously unrecorded tracks. It is without a doubt, one of the best songs I've written in my life. It is also the most straightforward love song I've ever written.
The live performance is from an Emblem…
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Wrote a few tracks while on the commuter rail today.
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“These bleats of pedantry should be regarded as respectfully as we regard rag dolls that keep infants occupied and noiseless.
“Millions ruled by a small band of esoterics.
“The great difficulty that authoritativeness has to contend with is…
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