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2021 50/90 Song Number 50!
WOOHOO! Success! 2014, 2020, and now 2021.
I kinda like this one. It's kinda swampy, in a good way. I like the strummy solos. I probably should have put more work into them but I think I can live with this…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 49
I like this one and I can't figure out why. It's certainly not because of the recording because it's pretty hacky. You can pretty much hear every punch and every edit. It's certainly not because of the vocals because…
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Not much to say about this. It consumed me for awhile, and I'm not convinced it's worth it.
A little keyboard intro, bass, drums and a bunch o' guitars. And some stress and sweat.
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Released as a single earlier this year.
This version the song is sung by the lovely Theresa Johnson
An optimistic track for these dark times.
VERSE 1
When dreamers fly
We need them now more than ever before
And if they talk about…
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Released as a single earlier in the year with the very lovely Erin Sullivan on vocals.
A song about a woman facing up to the fact she is dying and trying to reconcile the life she lived.
VERSE 1
Sweet life
Something that you take for…
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I’ll Drive David L Graham
I never begged to have the power
I just need to be me
Don’t matter what you believe
Unless you want to run with me
Then we’ll see what we see
But I get to drive… I get to drive
Chorus…
Cause this is my…
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Words by Geoff Matthews
A slightly odd structure, led by the lyrics, which has a very different intro verse the chords of which are not then repeated though the song.
Seems to work though.
As ever with @geoff61 the lyrics needed minimal…
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A collaboration with @cindyrella
Love the words
What is the Shape of Love?
© 2021 Cindy Prince
Does love have a shape?
Does empathy
Or honesty?
Amnesty?
Or charity?
Does love have a shape?
Chorus
What is the shape of…
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A song written and recorded for the Record Every Month Challenge in September 2021
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From Lyricist in South Africa.
Currently we have unrest in SA
The Streets are not a safe place
Fire and bullets are common place
Every journey must be carefully planned
Zuma is in jail for contempt of court
not His many crimes
But He…
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Now I am completely aware there is a Pink Floyd album with the same name but the name seemed to suit the topic covered very well.
What is the topic? The absolute evils of social media and how it is rotting our once great civilisation from the…
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I love David Taro's stuff (@davidtaro) and I asked him if he would put some vocals on one of my tracks. Happily he agreed and this is the result.
Hope you like it.
THIS WELL IS DRY
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He’s cruising down the highway.
Cutting up…
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I was absolutely delighted when Sonya agreed to do some vocals on this collaboration with @kristi
I think you will agree that she has done an absolutely stunning job and lifts the song to another level. She brings some real soul and feeling…
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A collaboration with Geoff Matthews, a UK based lyricist and Bill White a US singer songwriter based in Peru.
These are excellent lyrics from Geoff that graphically paint a picture of the grinding poverty of the dust bowl depression era in…
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V1 It began on one spring evening:
She was the smartest one around,
She had more than anyone
Or now i have found
V2 She has now become my friend,
My calm my love my one
The one that i need more
Than any other one
C Yesterday was special…
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Turn down the lights, relax and take an cosmotomic ride with a down-tempo vibe. Recorded for the RPM Challenge, Record Every Month Challenge, September 2021
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2021 50/90 Song Number 48
Not bad. I like the phaser on the guitars in the A section, and I like the wah on the rhythm near the end. That wash of noise underneath is actually a guitar solo that was sort of hiding the slow wah effect so I…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 47
Well now that this one is done I think we can forget it ever happened. I don't know, maybe I'll take the sections with the harmony vocals and the wah-wah on the rhythm guitar and try to work those into a song that…
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First foray with a Eurorack module in conjunction with my Pure Data patch. Also using a delay box from Timebox Instruments on this which has some theremin ability. Created for this week's Sound-In fest.
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Everyone does a song about their beautiful snake, so here's mine. He's a spotted python, and named Snapper because he bit me on the drive home from where we got him.
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It all went wrong so quickly
Too much to contemplate
I wished id changed things earlier
But now its far too late
Our love is like A blanket of stars
Once bright But now slowly dying
My whole heart I put into you
But now ive given up trying…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 46.
Not terrible. It feels punky to me which implies that this is what punky sounds like to people who don't really know what punky sounds like.
Short and sweet. I think the chorus could stand a rewrite, but otherwise…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 45
Eh. Not really feeling this one anymore. It's not terrible as a big dumb rocker, but it lost me somewhere. The mix sounds pretty ratty to my tired brain right now. Maybe I'll like it more in the morning.
All…
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This one makes me really happy. Soothing and a little snappy. Guitar, bass, lyre, bongo, bodhran (brush), vocals.
Lyrics:
Life is a roller coaster
Just turn on the toaster
I know you're up and down
Just make a happy sound
Flying a dragon…
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Scattered all around me
A night time to behold
The youthful bright standing out
The dull and dying old
The stars that cover my whole sky
Light the dullest night
Everyone who seems them here
Are awed just by there sight
I wonder what…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 44
Another swing thing... sort of. Not as overt as the others, and I really wasn't planning on it. The GarageBand session drummer suggested it and I figured the session drummer knows best, right?
All of the fun of…
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No Surrender
I will never surrender
To those people with their pens
Who try to take my freedom
Only see things through their lens
Ill stand among the chosen few
Ill take the final oath
Ill circumcise their minds
From the silent expanding…
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We can set up camp here... it looks fairly safe.
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2021 50/90 Song Number 43
This is actually my 53rd and likely final song idea for this year's 50/90 and I kinda like it. I mean it is kinda boring, what with what I laughingly referred to as a chorus just being eight bars of Emin7, and one…
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Paris in Summer
V1 Walk me through the streets of Paris
Hold my hand along the river seine
Watch the moon shine over Montmartre
Shelter me from summer rain
V2 In the shadow of the tower
Eating crepes of grand marnier
Smell the croissants…
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This track is a club hoppers jam...
For those who can really dance.
released November 23, 2014
this is track number one on Entice Me
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This version is for my laid back rider's and weed smokers....
credits
released November 23, 2014
Also will be on the Entice me Album
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2021 50/90 Song Number 42
A couple of days ago I posted a song called Goodnight Hold Tight and on the notes I mentioned that there was another song coming that was (completely by accident) structurally identical. This is that song.
Can…
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This track was written because of police harassment and the fact that they wasn't doing their job appropriately and accurately. For years I was being a target by them and society and they did nothing to prevent it, or see why it was happening…
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Song by Steve G ft dami & spokemhan.
Gospel song
Tittle praise to you💪.
Gospel hub
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They walked the valley of the dead;
The road without a light
No sound they made, no word they said;
As day became the night
We moved to where the wronged souls live
These spirits of the past
Each driven by a wild hate
Across the plains…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 41.
I haven't really slept in almost three days and yet I mixed a song. I have no idea if it's listenable or not.
Am I overusing the wah pedal? Why yes, yes I am. Is it bad? Hell if I know, I am so tired I'm not…
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I dreamed this song once, with Eddie Vedder on vocals. It stuck in my mind, and I've finally got around to recording it. Sadly, I can only sing it in my own voice! Ah well :)
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Instrumental Rock type sounds, As the train leaves the station, as the Planes take off, the end of the day. When the day is done and the night begins. etc...,
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V1 I lived it rough
and i lived it tough
I did things i shouldn’t have done
And I always new
that one day
It would end with a smoking gun
V2 But i never thought
It would be today
To say my last farewell
Then i saw his eyes
And i new…
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This is a further modification of The Rise and Fall. It simply takes that piece and runs it through the phaser again, but with slightly different settings. Much more comlpexity ensues. Submitted to Sound-In "Wild Things" for 16-23/9/2021.
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First of two modifications I made from recordings at a dam/waterfall east of Toronto, ON in March of 2021. The original recording was 2 minutes, so I stretched it to twenty, then ran it through the Audacity phaser on a reeealy slow LFO setting…
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Audio only of the video https://youtu.be/cVoKf6toGVA
Guitar (EOB) solo with JHS series 3 fuzz
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So this one is the coda to the 'Waves' project. It started life in the UK in July 2021 and I worked on it during August back in Dubai before completing it back in the UK in September (not a good carbon footprint era!).
It's a fitting end to…
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Sometimes I ..get lost in this world that is found
So found they think there’s reason for the hounds
The hounds- they’ve set on the weak and the fools
Sometime I’m.. lost in this world that is so cruel
Chorus
So cruel.. in their greed…
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A Pure Data composition and live produced work. Video: https://youtu.be/s7e0YzLyW34
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2021 50/90 song number 40.
I am not sure what I was going for with this one, but I got it... whatever it was.
Lots of sauce on this. Delays all over the place, Dotted eighth note echo tricks, panning tricks, backwards tracks, pretty much…
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Re-programming some edges:)
Have a nice weekend!
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Talking to the cat during a recording session! I don't really know what this was going to be at first, but I like what it turned into...
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Lyrics by patty LaKamp
V1
You say let’s go for coffee
I haven’t seen you for so long
At first it sounded fun to me
But boy, I got that wrong!
V2
I try to get a word in
But you are makin’ hay
My kingdom for a mute button
To make you…
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Four recordings of various lengths overlapped. Sound sources were various tree branches/trunks - either still vital, or broken off by means unknown - that were sounded either by bowing (with the Jim-bow) or scraped/struck against each other and…
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::: ALVIN PRODUCTION ® :::
DEEJAY ALVIN IN CONSOLE
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::: ALVIN PRODUCTION ® :::
DEEJAY ALVIN IN CONSOLE
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::: ALVIN PRODUCTION ® :::
DEEJAY ALVIN IN CONSOLE
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AlvinProductios
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alvin.production/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7rhI6Xi1Nzf6N2e0Z-NQaA
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::: ALVIN PRODUCTION ® :::
DEEJAY ALVIN IN CONSOLE
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AlvinProductios
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alvin.production/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7rhI6Xi1Nzf6N2e0Z-NQaA
Facebook: https…
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::: ALVIN PRODUCTION ® :::
DEEJAY ALVIN IN CONSOLE
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AlvinProductios
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alvin.production/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7rhI6Xi1Nzf6N2e0Z-NQaA
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::: ALVIN PRODUCTION ® :::
DEEJAY ALVIN IN CONSOLE
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AlvinProductios
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alvin.production/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7rhI6Xi1Nzf6N2e0Z-NQaA
Facebook: https…
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::: ALVIN PRODUCTION ® :::
DEEJAY ALVIN IN CONSOLE
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AlvinProductios
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alvin.production/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7rhI6Xi1Nzf6N2e0Z-NQaA
Facebook: https…
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::: ALVIN PRODUCTION ® :::
DEEJAY ALVIN IN CONSOLE
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AlvinProductios
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alvin.production/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7rhI6Xi1Nzf6N2e0Z-NQaA
Facebook: https…
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::: ALVIN PRODUCTION ® :::
DEEJAY ALVIN IN CONSOLE
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AlvinProductios
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alvin.production/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7rhI6Xi1Nzf6N2e0Z-NQaA
Facebook: https…
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She sits in a bedsit in Boston
Paint peels off of the wall
She know she made the wrong choices
that she's been a fool
She knows she made decisions in a hurry
But now has a life of regret
Sometimes she just cant remember
But mostly she…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 39.
A little song about a girl named Jennifer.
This one came together lightning fast and I think it shows. As I was sitting here mixing it just now I came up with about 10 ideas to make it better and as a result it…
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V1 Is it strewn with bodies
Or paved with piles of gold
Is it warm and inviting
Or tired and bleak and cold
V2 What does the future hold
Pain just like the past
Or perhaps a new world
With happiness that will last
C The road ahead…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 38.
As of now this will be the last 12 bar blues, but I could always sneak another one in under the wire.
I'm kinda tired of this. I waffled on whether to leave the huge ending in place or cut it out. During the…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 37.
Well... I don't know. It was late at night one night back in August, the 3rd to be exact, and I said to myself, "self? You know what you're lacking? Swing grooves."
So I guess this one means I'm not lacking…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 36
It's the 36th song finished even though it was the 10th song started. It's been sitting collecting dust for quite a while.
The idea was to write a proggie 7/8 rocker where the drummer played with brushes. GarageBand…
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V1 You paint your nails like
A faded movie star
Brush your wrinkled dress
The smile is just painted on
A ruse to hide the stress
V2 You say you have a calling card
You'll leave it on the side
But you’ll never call again
Then you find…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 35.
They don't ask how good, they just ask how many.
It's not a total disaster, but I'm pretty disappointed with this one. If the mix sounds sloppy it's because I more or less gave up on this one as I was working…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 34
Groovy.
Or at least it would have been in more capable hands.
Another in a long list of "record this first idea that pops into your head when you plug in your guitar" songs. I wasn't planning on 5/4 time, but…
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This is a Birthday Club song I worked on with the very talented singer and composer Lindsay J Haynes more than a decade ago. I re-recorded some guitar parts, added in the keys and drum loop and mixed it down to what you can hear here.
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I'm still building on this song. Next should be some guitar. Wish me luck!
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I'm excited about this tune. It has been stuck in my head for days. more to come!
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2021 509/90 Song Number 33.
The tempo thing is a gimmick. I had it set in Garageband at 140 bpm but for the first few minutes all the sections have the drummer playing at 1/2 speed. So without actually changing the tempo, the last minute…
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2021 50/90 Song Number 32
Another song with a haiku for each stanza. I was planning on doing this a lot this summer but I think there are only two or three. I still have time to add more but I probably won't. This is unique this year in…
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So you say its over now
My use by date has passed
I didn’t cry not even one tear
In fact i might have laughed
Yes sure it was good once
Love even crossed my mind
I thought maybe our feelings
Might be ones to bind
You seemed surprised…
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Written July 2021
Recorded July-September 2021
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Live improv in Pure Data using a patch I've been working out of for a few weeks. Beginning to do more screen recordings thanks to Linux based Peek. Video of this piece at https://youtube.com/watch?v=GufpxUEB398
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The challenge was to write something in 0 edo - no divisions of the octave.
I present here an orchestral composition in this tuning.
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Vocal sample by Commandaning Officer of the Panzergrenadiere (Röttiger Barracks, Fischbek) from a 1983 TV Documentary during NATO Troop excersise.
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