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Walking around the streets at night, slightly agitated.
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One of my friends has vocals to this tracks lying around somewhere, the story is basically two people meeting on the street somewhere and exchanging stories about how well they're doing in life.
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I used to record all voicemails I got on my landline for posterity, this is one of the less intelligible ones.
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What's rock and roll without a yee-haw or war-whoop before a solo?
This ragged piece of something or other came from a riff I had laying around for a couple of years. I pieced it together kind of last minute for RPM 2006. It's not bad, a lot…
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With a title like this, you have to listen once, right?
There's a lot to tell about this one, but instead I will just say I had a lot of fun doing all the gtr parts on this one. I also really like the bass part in the chorus, which sounds a bit…
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Sometimes magic happens. Sometimes it even happens to me.
Open D tuning (low to high D A D G A D). Just a practice session where I had the guts to press record.
No drugs. Just beer with dinner. Maybe they put something in the creme brule…
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Ebow loop study #2.
This time with a "tone cluster" chord: D/E/F#
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This is what I think it should sound the tabernacle of God that Moses made
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I started with a MIDI file created by seeding the "Meta-Composer" Poodles & Flan with the word "Memory," and then fed it to three virtual VST instruments: Tweakbench Carillion & Tapeworm, respectively a Bell Modeling synth & Mellotron…
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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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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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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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Witness Protection
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 some rights reserved
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Can I get a witness?
Cuz I've been a stranger
and I know you don't recall my face at all
But you were my sister,
before you were famous,
but now you think…
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This is the finished version of Iris Florentine. The acoustic version is still up, though...
Iris Florentina
by Jack Merlot
copyright 2009 all rights reserved
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young and lovely, with a wise patina
tapping her toe like Degas' ballerinas…
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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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For some reason the first upload of this plays faster than it should, hopefully this will play at the correct speed, I will leave the other up as some people seem to like it
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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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Words are from a sestina of the same title by Steve Davenport, who asked us to make music out of it! This was a terribly fun song to record. We did it, of course, while drinking. Thankfully no instruments were harmed.
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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:
I don't know what you want
when you treat me that way
I can't help being turned on
Is that what you want
Just to see what I would do
To see if I'm in love with you
I'm trying so hard
to sit here and ignore
the way that you…
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Lyrics:
Pass me a handle of that old time tennessee
It's been a while since I've seen the devil
It's a common mistake to think that I'm a sweet and gentle soul
but give me a chance to change your mind
Cause you have never seen me like…
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"Choices" by Nikki Giovanni
If I can't do
what I want to do
then my job is to not
do what I don't want
to do
It's not the same thing
but it's the best I can
do
If I can't have
what I want... then
my job is to want
what I've got…
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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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nearly there!! not really sure about this one, it doesn't sound how it sounds in my head but i am getting there...
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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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First day back from the jungle in Central America, remixed this tune. Had to start off the new year in the U.S.A reminding myself that captivity will keep me returning to the jungle forever.
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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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Lost in the shadows of my mind.
Finally finding the light.
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From dis-content and dis-harmony following to the beat of another drummer.
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Descending though the darkness searching for the moment of clarity.
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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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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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cyborg jazz from homeless samples, meditation instruction, and glu.
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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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2005
Deep house ish
This was one of the draughts for a soundcsape for the launch of Estee Lauder's rather 'Beyond paradise' fragrance.
I think it's better than the one we finally used. I thought it was a bit boring at first but quite like…
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