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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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This is one of my new album "SIMPLE THINGS" but the track is not complete, It have lyrics... no recorded yet... so just wait a while... haha.
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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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(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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I do not know anyone named Lilly Child. I just thought the name sounded good.
This is third of 10 "Off the cuff" songs written last June. I have only recorded 4 of the 10
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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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Swallows & Amazons
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 all rights reserved
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she cut a fine figure in those hospital scrubs
and when I saw her I knew she'd be mine
but that was before she met the jack of clubs
before she took to drinking…
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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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Hey, notice the new forum section... Track Therapy? discuss with me: http://alonetone.com/forums/track-therapy/topics/help-me-find-direction-for-this-track
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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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This was done using a vocal track that Imogen Heap put up. This is my music to back that up. 90% of it was done using a roland guitar synth, the gr20
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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:
Slow days start to shape my mind
into a feedback of
negative thoughts that undermine
my efforts to get rid of
impatience wasting all my time
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lyrics:
The silence sometimes
is all you have to say and I believe it, and you
and everything surrounding the skin beneath your eyes
Time's without a shield or an attack against the sight
of a lifetime that was burning you by
And I may…
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this song makes me think of a splintered piece of wood.
lyrics:
It's a cold day out, the kind where you think you're missing
the longer days with the sun beating on your face
but you're beside me and I think
the cold was a gift to lead…
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Turning point #2. The storm clears and though there is an endless blue above, clouds will forever be a part of the sky.
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An ambulance ride through the poor side of town; a delivery of self and social status
lyrics:
The outside was a barren wasteland;
dilapidated houses
garbage on the ground
And the buildings' aging faces
echoed the sirens
and her pain across…
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a state of denial/hope
lyrics:
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white lies to keep themselves safe
drown themselves in fermentations
all good girls go to heaven
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white…
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turning point #1
lyrics:
It was spring time, or their time depending on which one you asked
how much it mattered to two birds flying away from the cold.
She sang and he'd swing, together a flight all their own on wings she swore were made…
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clarity during a swift beginning is a mirage yet unknown
lyrics:
Momma, you've got to see this man I've found
clean cut, honest, and so handsome
We're thinkin' 'bout pickin' up and movin' on
he'll get a job where we'll go
and he'll make…
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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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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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I wrote this one in my head, which doesn't happen very often (I'm not blessed that way). Not sure what you call it, a lullaby of sorts I suppose.
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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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Short theme for a French laundry detergent commercial...it didn't get used, but I like the melody. I Originally wrote it for piano.
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Written after visiting a farmhouse I was considering moving to. Piano, accordion, bass.
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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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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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Interpretation of For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield.
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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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