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once upon a time there was a beautiful princess, her name was christine. then this other random dude, i think he was a street sweeper wrote her a song and sang it to her on late october eavning. he then asked her to commit to love and they have…
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when your stuck but you see where you're going.
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this one has a guitar track. It gets lost in the mix in places (intentionally) but it's there. And a sample from butthole surfers "waiting for jimmy to kick". The clean bass track is too low but the master tape is currently missing. Oh well...
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For the 2008 Holiday Challenge - see http://www.sidedown.com/holiday/
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Cover of the introduction to Stairway to Heaven on my soprano ukulele.
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60 bpm, a
fading, just so, the light
the light out my window
hold tight, hold tight
fading
stretching out
this road, goes on and on
out the window
who even knows which road we're on
stretching, forever
but i'd rather sleep my life…
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70 bpm, bb
featuring j.welles
there is nothing that i would rather do
than to hold you close and
feel your lips on mine
there is nowhere that i would rather be
than right here by your side
holding your hand eternally
troubled times…
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80 bpm, b
the bombs fly down towards the city
the bullets scream fast as lightening
and i can't believe what we do to each other
the children cry for their mothers
the mothers cry for their children
the tears they cry fall for nobody…
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90 bpm, c
after the leaves have blown away
and all of the color fades
the ground is like ice, the sky is grey
over and over, every single day
everything is dead, everything's dead outside
goes to your head, goes to your head in time
the…
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100 bpm, db
see my face in the mirror
wondering what i've become
though things, couldn't be clearer
i can't explain the things that i have done
weird and probably crazy
my sanity is an enormous doubt in my life
no ghost no monsters or…
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110 bpm, d
there are a lot of angry voices
that do not belong to me
inside this skull that i sometimes call home
every time i try to tune one or tune one out
they gang together and whisper softly to me
surrender, give in, let win
don…
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120 bpm, eb
it's the sound, getting in my brain
deep inside, and on a dusty day
it feels like rain
falling down
and fills me up with song
there's a note
i almost hear it now
and it grows
and on a quiet day
it sounds like a promise…
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100 bpm, f
she sits behind a very large desk
and talks on the phone all long
somewhere inside she's waiting
but i don't know what she's waiting for
slam it down, get up down
run away
she lays upon a very large bed
watches tv and brushes…
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90 bpm, f#
won't you please come over
won't let me entertain
i've got to get the scoop on you
it's driving me insane
cause your serious demeanor
has got me mystified
and there's a frisky little tiger in you
that you can not hide, don…
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80 bpm, g
when she's away
i go out
escape
when i wake up
all alone
escape
return to where i was
in this song
i make excuses all day long
in this song
forever, now together
when she's away
i cry out
escape
when i wake up
all alone…
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70 bpm, ab
she trys too hard to be the master
of her everything
what will be will be
random chance has no place here
if it can't be cleaned or put away
and her highway stretches far and wide
selfish seeking silence in the fray
simply…
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Cròniques d'en Joaquim Torner des de Copenhaguen per a ràdio Sabadell. Episodi 3
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I decided to tap into my latent '80s Depeche Mode subconscious, and this bouncy tune popped out! Ian Beardsley heard an earlier version of this and immediately detected Spanish flamenco hidden in the techno dance chords. I opened up the stage…
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this a blues tune I've been playing around with and last Saturday lyrics just starting popping in to my head. I did a demo of it. I'm going to try and flesh it out with some harmonica and bass. Thoughts on what else to do to it are welcome!
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This is my little society statement... who knows?
Enjoy!
Doug
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Preliminary version of the soundtrack accompany my most recent video experiment, a convoluted collage of appropriated material heavily distorted and blended together.
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Ok I loaded this up previously, but after listening to the mix in the car I had to re-mix it. The wife says it's much better now.
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like the title says. departure from the norm for one of the BNS lads
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it is icy. it moves. it is glacially inevitable. the listener may percieve tension. a desire to break free. a wish to increase velocity. it is impossible. it will proceed at its own pace. relax.
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it is zajjy and offbeat. it is almost a tao of tonality. it is dizzy. it is not gillespie. do not follow its path too closely. it knows not its destination. generative music.
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if I admitted that I can't do drum programming to save my life?
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Built from odds and sods lying around my hard drives plus my own electric piano wankery.
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This track started with an accident.
I started building a pattern in Elysium. When I was happy with that, I recorded a bunch of it with Live. I loop recorded with quantization. When the thing looped around, I realized that Elysium was still…
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Look out for the random Cliff Richard arse abuse references. if he ever records anotha xmas song..su gonna hunt im down. :)
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pedal steel slop over a tricky rhythm.
Percussion derived from a Pat Mastelotto sample.
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The tabla percussion loops are from the great Zakir Hussein.
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Sometimes when I take a walk in the woods I get lost.
The organ sound is from a bootleg recording I did of a Carl Stone concert.
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Just a fun sort of chunky syncopated thing set to a reflection I wrote for a friend.
Enjoy!
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24 hour EP more than 24 hours late. I was going to title it "Perpetual Interruptions EP" but I went for something more positive. Due to weird bug in some part of my set up, there is a kick drum in only one side of the stereo for the first few…
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This is a short experiment with the music program Reason 4.0. As I develop my chops in Reason I will be posting my short experiments on here for your feedback! Thanks for listening!
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Our Sound 1 teacher, Eric Spangler, organized a coup of Baltimore's Penn Station via sound. We recorded from the enviroment and then took those samples back into the studio and reworked them. We then took the finished tracks and secretly, from…
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Second piece I did for the installation, one that was less altered and created more natural atmospheres.
Btw the cops came and got us, if thats not art success I dunno what is.
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This sound was originally scored with a video provided by our professor, and the piece was longer, however I feel after the point that I have abruptly cut here, it gets a little lost.
All sounds are recorded and manipulated.
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This is another song snippet from my experimentations with Reason 4.
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sometimes you don't even notice how high you are... or how stupid your voice sounds.
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just keep your chin up and fuck the rest of the world.
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
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Durning the recording of this it was 3 in the morning the fog had rolled in thickly and a fog horn was blowing. When I was monitoring the track I could hear the slow beat 6 bpm of the fog horn.
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I wrote this piece over the course of 2006. Though the majority was committed to paper during that year, the project continues to evolve every time I come back to it. I'm still struggling to find the perfect avenue to represent the composition…
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a song about my first house, after bouncing around rentals for 20 years.
this is the way to my new house
through the city and past the park
it's not quite as far as you might think
this is the way to my new house
there might be a bus that…
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this is 4 bass tracks and drums
the 3rd song i wrote about my wife. maybe someday the second song will show up somewhere.
like a hunter hunts its prey
eyeing me, hungrily
can't keep her paws to herself
and i'm not about to fight it
it…
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the first new song written for the RPM challenge, i love the guitar part, but the words were last minute. some people get tired of my anti-religion diatribe. oh well
Judge me, I want everyone all up in here
cast your stones for slandering…
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this is improvised song that i just made up on night. the words always change and the length as well. it's not really about anything in real life, i just like the "lies to the sun" part.
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rpm song from 2007, my wife's father had just died and i had to drive 4 hours to be with her, then spent 2 days with her and her family, then drove back home and left her there. this is the song about that journey home.
the house is cold…
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based on a poem from Charles Bukowski. the bass part is from an older song i wrote with a band call black water. i hate wasting good parts.
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originally a fast tempo tune, i started slowing it down to add variety. it's hit or miss really.
first you say, that you don't believe me
then you say, that you cannot trust me
then you say, that you can't forgive me
then you say that it…
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this is the first song I wrote for my wife. it is an actually step by step of our first date.
she opened the door and stood there smiling
this exchange between us lasted forever
so i took her in my car and went to eat some vietnamese food…
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the reprise is actually the way the song was written.
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a song from a previous band (kill.pop.), i took the metal out of it and made it more dreamy. this is actually the 3rd version of this song that i've played.
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this was a song i wrote and performed a couple times with a former band (kill.pop.), but we broke up before it ever got recorded. i had to save it, though this version is aweful.
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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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one of 5 songs written July 5, 2005 re: an old band mate visiting after moving away. this is actually about my wife.
close my eyes and fall asleep
and dream of you
hold you close and your kiss your face
and lick your thighs and realize…
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this is one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old band mate was visiting after moving away. we drank alot while he was here.
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one of 5 songs written in July 2005 re: an old band mate visiting after moving away.
when is how, and don't begin
silent thoughts and long lost friends
goodbye for now
just and wise and kind and true
from earth to sky, from me to you…
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Based on the work of Janet Cardiff, my final is an audio walk through of the Digital building, the Brown Center, at the Maryland Institute College of Art. I weave fictions and truth, with recorded sounds and sampled, manipulated and natural. There…
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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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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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I went into the studio to record something I wrote... I came out to find out that 32 students had been gunned down... I already had the mandolin song and melody with a writing direction... and this senseless evil really derailed the whole thing…
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Something just broke and I think it's my heart
It wasn't an arrow. It wasn't a dart
It mighta been a meter that tore it apart
But, something just broke and I think it's my heart
G.
A bedside bomb with no alarm…
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Rick Babb came to me with this song he had written thinking it might express how I feel about the person missing from my life.
It did. I rewrote the verses.
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I was trying to find an image that expresses how lonely and abandoned I feel. This was it.
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This song tells about a guy I know named Gene.
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Gene had a girlfriend. The band would play and they would dance
A…
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I listened to Emilie's music on her MySpace site and was prompted to write this song.
Emilie
She's been there. She'll be there.
She's part of the landscape
At old Uncle Calvin's she's grandfathered in.
She'll be there when you need…
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...after reading John Steinbeck's IN DUBIOUS BATTLE and watching the John Ford movie of GRAPES OF WRATH. The opening and closing statements are quotes from the Preacher in the movie.
A friend said he wanted to do a video of this track. I…
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We were shooting this movie one day when they needed a song for a dance scene. I said, "I wrote a song that might fit here." The director agreed and I ended up getting to write all the music for that movie, RED DESERT PENITENTIARY. directed by…
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Michael Jeffrey showed me a progression on the guitar. I wrote words to go with it.
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"Burning Anna Rose" is a murder ballad. it's about a man who's love takes him out to get him drunk and in so doing, seals her own fate. Despite killing here on a snowy, winter afternoon he knows they'll always be together.
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"We Know Everything (A Requiem for a Rock Band) is just what it says. It's a requiem for a rock band. We all knew, and most of us were in, that greatest rock band that no one ever heard.
Those stories are full of sad clichés like the deal…
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