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Track 5 from A Half An Hour In the Dark. Nirvana cover.
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Track 3 on Tarbosaurus Antagonist. Written and recorded from February 2009- January 2010.
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The execution is not perfect, but the concept works.
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The lyrics continue the theme of the previous track, if you care about that sort of thing.
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I guess this would be the "centerpiece" of the album. Like the rest of the album it really stumbles along the line between droney and simply repetitive, and it needs a bit of a reworking to reach its potential.
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these 2 "new" songs are a test to see if I now have what I need to successfully upload material. These 2 songs were recorded 20 years ago on a Tascam 4-track. The band is the Riptiles.
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2010 RPM Challenge Track. Lyrics are below:
No one explains it to you
When you offer to take the blame
When no one rails against you
All their comforting words are the same
Does it upset you Enough to awake you
Or will you repeat so…
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This is a cover of a song by Sister Savage, from her kickin' 2010 RPM Challenge album, Juped 2k10. It also introduces the genre of acoustic crossdressed spacecheese (these damn kids today with their flying cars and their hyperspecialized genres…
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Cave Street posted a track recently, their contribution to the Woody Guthrie Project, organised by Akron Family.
http://akronfamily.com/woodyproject/W.G.A..html
I wanted to take a shot at this too, so here's my demo. It was really just half…
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Sometimes you just look at your capo and think... hey, I aint used you for a while - its rough and sloppy but hey... just like me!
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Track 6 from my 2010 RPM Challenge Album "King Astro" written and recorded entirely in February.
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My attempt at being the male version of Sister Savage. I apologize in advance if you think it sucks.
As requested, the lyrics...
"She"
Lyrics and Music by Daniel Parkhill
She's ripped the fabric of my world with harsh intention.
She…
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Archtop Guitar, electric guitar and Roland vocoder. Drums are BFD2 and a tabla I picked up that week at a thrift shop.
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Started with a little guitar riff on the archtop, Played roland rs9 string synth through tremolo amp. Also has my tenor steel pan played live.
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Archtop song... usually I play this faster... Vocoder for the lyrics... Drums BFD2.
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Vocoder song about AI, strange loops and consciousness. Synths. E. Guitar.
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Started with three blind mice clav bassline. Added RS9 strings, vocoder. same strange loops...
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Ha.. slowed down a punk song I wrote and added some anthem synth line for a indie rock feel I guess.
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Last song of RPM album. I'm particularly fond of the last ten seconds. :D
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Soothing and sad, a synthesized tune for the lovelorn and loveless. And just those with a perennial tear in their eyes.
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A song celebrating the animator for The Teller of the Tale. Music is post-avantgarde neo-progressive rock.
New version uploaded 12 Dec 2010
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This is the 3rd of the trio of UU auction songs. A love song was requested, so I wrote one based on my wife's favorite china pattern.
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No, not those kind of angels. Hope in the dark.
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There is a whole class of songs by singer songwriters who gush in various ways about taking the big chance, following your bliss, following your heart, living your dreams, yada yada. These songs are ALL from the point of view of those who are…
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Another downer, what can I say? Oddly enough though, it makes me smile.
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Probably the single saddest song I ever wrote. This album is kind of a combination of hope and longing and loss. This one is definitely about loss.
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This song is musically and thematically related to an earlier tune from an older album called "house of strangers." That song was a plea from one partner to another about a marriage that was failing. This song comes when it becomes obvious that…
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i just want to push through
but i keep seeing your favorite foods.
i can't get you out of my head
so i bring up some sweet epitaph
and when i said i would love you forever i meant it
but now i also love someone else
and i need to stop living…
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life is always better with a little bit of tension.
i think that we will make good friends
because my life’s complex
and you’re already taken.
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you take me as is
you don't mind a work in progress
you say my flaws make me attractive
you take me as is
(thank you wikipedia)
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I wrote it for a friend of a friend. It was originally about a woman, but although I liked the music a lot, the words didn't quite satisfy me. On a whim, I changed a pronoun here and there, and the song became a story.
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i'm not afraid of being alone
i just like the company
in a forest with no one around
tears are dry and wounds don't bleed
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cheating is the main way
bad communicators chose to end it
and since we’re not taught to talk
it is an epidemic
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I was thinking about Haiti...
i don't know what to say
i don't know how to feel
when i'm way over here
and things are going well
my house is standing still
my friends are still alive
the smell of spring is in the air
and i just can't connect…
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Another free jam, stream of consciousness type thang
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One of only two tracks on the album where loops were used more than instruments, or at least as much.
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Many of the most harmful things seem small and/or innocuous.
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I have a love for solid, well-crafted love songs. Unfortunately, that's not what you're going to get here!
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Daft Punk and Wire hire Le Tigre for an homage to Bert Convy.
And the password IS 'raincoat.'
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This is a song from my ill-fated 2010 RPM Challenge album. I really don't like much about this except the drums, I'll probably use them to make an entirely new track.
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A track from my 2010 RPM album. This is the 2nd installment of the Fear Trilogy.
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Another track from 2010 RPM Album. This is the first track in the Fear Trilogy. I wish I had the time to edit it down a bit more but I still think it would make great background music for a haunted house display or Halloween party...
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Album: The End of Happy Endings
Year: 2010 (RPM)
Written by: Marc Poirier
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Men don't collect dolls. They collect action figures.
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Trying to be a better man.
Featuring the vocal talents of Clarke McMurray.
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I miss the smell of your hands
Your breath
The feel of your skin
We didn’t have to talk
Just understood
What the other was
We are of the same
But we knew
The end would come
Time is no friend
We are not healed
The pain is old
But feels new…
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This was made with the help of the dinosaur-obsessed Laura Turner who wrote the lyrics, and Chris Harrison who played the blistering guitar solo \m/
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You’re taking me down
Breaking me down again
Circling around
Spinning toward the bottom
It’s a place we know
Where we always go
We can’t get lost
We know the way
Do we crave the dark
Long for misery
Embrace the end
To only rise again
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Like a Persian rug, only less cosy on the feet. Watch out for shamanic encroachings!
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One serious track. It's not like me at all, but there it is.
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I was listening to Leonard Cohen a lot this winter, and these lyrics sort of came out from there...don't know what they really mean, i was more interested in trying to see if I could mimic Leonard's style, which of course I can't, but this was…
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this was my last rpm song...i had a little mandolin riff and threw on the kazoo (which broke in the last verse), and it reminded me a happy bee buzzing around...and there you have it!
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This is one of the tracks that ties into the theme from my RPM 2009 album [Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets].
A fall from grace. Every up has its down. Every down has its up. There's definitely a "ying and yang" thing at work here.
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The most challenging track to record during the RPM Challenge this year. I like how a lot of it turned out, but there were so many clashing pieces, that I was pulling my hair out trying to assemble it.
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Written, more or less, after sitting in a car for four hours, after attending Laurie's Last.
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Low-frills bass and piano piece. Not my usual fare (whatever that is), but still fun to create.
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A silly song questioning the value of using songs to get a message across. Just say 'sorry' - don't write me an opera about it.
Incidentally the note choices in this song really did hurt me.
New lies
Written like you cared for me
A…
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Written for the "My First Sing-A-Long Dictionary" RPM 2010 project.
See myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/
Daddy's away
Posted abroad
Sending home pay
All he can afford
Mummy pretends
But I notice that something has changed
The letters…
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Finally a good cut of this one. Named after Daniel Burnham of Chicago's Burnham Plan, this song is about the downfall of western capitalism. I'm completely unprepared for it myself -- I have no idea what I'll wear.
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A song about the five stages of grieving, as devised by the (late) Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Unfortunately knowing these stages does not help you get over them.
You've been managing expectations
Consultations end in tears
Even if you're optimistic…
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For String Orchestra. First performed in Grassington in North Yorkshire, a place of outstanding natural beauty.
This version is computer generated I'm sorry but it sounds ok!
Thanks
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Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/sinkingdrowning.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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From RPM 2010. It's entirely analog synthesizer, drum machine, and my voice. Effects, too, of course. It's pretty repetitive, but I find it kinda catchy.
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Of course, the title also reeks of jealousy because I couldn't create an IDM track even if I tried. So instead, here's a heavy, layered electronica track that reeks of faux glitchery and IDM-ishness.
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So I just figured out that the EXS24 sampler instrument in Logic Pro (the DAW I use) can also import SoundFont2 files, which I happened to have a bunch of from a previous life as a Cakewalk user. All the tracks in this tune were played using old…
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Welcome to your first lesson in post-apocalyptic ballroom dancing for Martians and Manhunters alike. The track is not really cha-cha, but more like futurejazz, or 1960s mood music done by robots and mutants. 1-2-cha cha cha!
First draft in 2006…
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This was the first track i demo'd for this year's RPM but i just got round to tidying it up and adding the third verse. A bit of a feel good record!
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Track 12 from "They Are Killers" ... originally to be #11, but I decided this was a better one to go out on.
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Track 11... I have to stop writing parts that I can't cleanly play.
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Dang, everyone except Rob (and Laura) (and me) liked the previous version! (Cupid's Own Knife)
Only i did this with the lyrics so maybe one can be a bonus track ...
aargghh ... why didn't i write a *different* song?
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Lyrics @ http://wave.transmit-music.com/softlikeyou.html
Wave 2010 (RPM)
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lullaby featuring piano (but of course!)
Notes:
Today I learned how to add an insert effect to the master channel. The song was way quiet so it got boosted via a limiter. Hurray.
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This is the most hopeful of the songs on the new album. I just decided one day to say "to hell with it, they're not gonna get me down!".
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Well i gues i was just sitting bored at home in new years even and i came up with the hook , then just worked on it on and off, and ended up with this.
Hope you enjoy it :)
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This time around it's the unique combination of bass clarinet and Bebot, the iPhone synthesizer.
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An instrumental piece featuring classical guitar and bass.
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I mostly wanted to make music with a funky clav line I'd come up with, so this is it. For the voiceover, I unabashedly used an awesome monologue by Ken Nordine.
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