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“These bleats of pedantry should be regarded as respectfully as we regard rag dolls that keep infants occupied and noiseless.
“Millions ruled by a small band of esoterics.
“The great difficulty that authoritativeness has to contend with is…
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uncensored. inappropriate. illegal. Play this track anyway. Or don’t. You do have a choice.
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Wrote a few tracks while on the commuter rail today.
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This is the other most important of the previously unrecorded tracks. It is without a doubt, one of the best songs I've written in my life. It is also the most straightforward love song I've ever written.
The live performance is from an Emblem…
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This is one of the most important of the previously unrecorded newer songs, "Frequency." I didn't know what it was about when I wrote it, now I think I kinda do. The core idea is that it's about being unable to see something because it's vibrating…
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Some of us are helplessly watching our country burn while imbeciles fan the flames.
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I saw her mother
Just the other day
She didn’t know me
So I froze on what to say
When she was happy
Nothing made her frown
Danced so much
They even gave her a crown
She was , she was royalty
Really wish that she remembered me
She…
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I saw you walk right by me without a second glance.
I heard you talking right behind my ‘ugly’ back.
Who knew that we could turn from friends to strangers so so fast,
I thought that this was just the end.
I always argued it was your fault…
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Baba Ibo also known as NNABUIKE TOCHUKWU PAUL is a fast rising talented musical artist. Music motivated me to be strong in God and to strengthen my faith. Baba Ibo never stops to amaze his fans as he drops a mind blowing music titles DAILY BREAD…
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From this side I see only one side
and I don't have to say
that I can't pretend
Just don't let her down
And at last there's a chance to remain
above all, friends
and yet we don't know
just don't let her down
and I'm wrong and…
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Alone again, shrinking under the city lights
small price, large fee
cashing out
pressures building by the by
in a world set a fire
Everyone is
Everyone is not
the dripping stars of the melting sky
Alone again, at a bus stop in July…
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You'll lose everything like lightning casts shadows on the wall
you'll be delighted by the persistence of vision
The cool
of the breeze
the clouds,
the rain
The snow,
the seas,
the stars,
the lakes
The ponds,
the bees,
the frogs…
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I'm mistepping, I'm a step behind
Everybody wants to own you
everybody wants to show you up
I'm mistepping, I'm a step behind
Notes:
Matt Parker on bass
Jarrett Osborn on Drums
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“White coral islands in a dark blue sea.
Luminous clouds of hyacinth flakes.
Jet-black snow and hailstones flavored like oranges.
Pink snow, flakes the size of saucers.
“Vast things poised like crows over the moon.
Dark shadows crossing…
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“There doesn't seem to be anything to discuss. A needle that no one ever lost, in a haystack that never was.
“We've been damned by giants, sound asleep. Things that are leprous to the faithful. Things that deep-sea fishes are bumped by…
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“The fittest survive. Not the strongest; not the cleverest -- Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. ‘Fitness,’ then, is only another name for ‘survival.’” – Charles…
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“All imaginings that materialize into machines or statues, buildings, dollars, paintings or books in paper and ink are graduations from unrealness to realness.” – Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919
Various electrical doodads played…
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“A very interesting and curious phenomenon happened. Our greasy, shiny brains may be of some use after all.” – Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919
VCV Rack patch with drums added in Reaper.
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All the nations of the world have
Gathered here to show the best they’ve got
In the past: Olympia
Today a different town, a different spot
The possibilities are endless
This event has not been done a lot
In the field of excellence
One…
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Come step onto the dance floor. Imagine a romance. A little bit of love and magic is in the air.
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sure it is ambient ... experimental types of ambience,..using the dexed and vital --- serious work in vital -- I should of made the video of me doing that..
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Robbie (or I guess Danny) is really ready to go to the beach! (Also, when I read the title, I thought of a hurricane warning... It’s been a long couple of years!)
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, bass, recording
Daniel…
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After we’d recorded some tracks for “Fog” at the first Saturday session of the month, I (Kevin) asked if we could just jam for a few minutes. Kenny came up with the chords, then played bass and sang, while Matt and Robbie played guitar and I bashed…
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Robbie and his buddy Danny came up with the words for this one, and Robbie recorded most of the instruments on his own. I (Kevin) just added MIDI drums.
Robbie Robinson - lyrics, vocals, songwriting, guitars, bass, recording
Daniel Shea…
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Rebecca wrote a sweet poem and we put it to music!
Rebecca Tannehill – lyrics
Kenny Tannehill – vocals, songwriting, acoustic guitar, recording
Robbie Robinson – lead guitar, background vocals
Margaret Bibb – background vocals
Kevin Craig…
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Robbie and his buddy Danny came up with the words for this one, then Robbie brought the guitar parts and we added the rest.
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, lead and background vocals, guitars, piano, recording
Daniel Shea – lyrics…
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At the first group recording session, I (Kevin) mentioned “Foggier By the Day” as a potential working title for this year’s RPM Challenge album, as that’s kind of how everything feels, and we’d all taken a few dramatic pictures over a couple of…
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This one started out with me (Kevin) recording some drum parts to a click track after the group wrapped up a Saturday recording session. I took the drum parts home and threw some MIDI keyboard loops over them, consciously trying for a Boards of…
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Robbie showing off his John Lennon influence.
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, lead vocals, guitar, recording
Kenny Tannehill – background vocals, bass
Margaret Bibb – lyrics
Kevin Craig – lyrics, recording, MIDI drum programming…
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Straw can be light and golden yellow
Is often used to stuff our pillows
Straw is the hay you see in the fields
All those hay bales give good feels
The scarecrow of Oz was made of straw
though his brain held nothing at all
Dorothy held…
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Demo for FAWM '25. A collab with @villedog inspired/adapted from original lyrics by @johnkaniecki
[Intro]
Excuse me
Buy, Buy! Buy, Buy!
Excuse me
Buy, Buy! Buy, Buy!
Excuse me
Buy, Buy!
I don't want your junk
[Verse]
I…
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Glory's Gonna Shine
Verse 1:
I woke up with a feeling deep down in my soul,
The world keeps on turning, but it’s out of control.
Storm clouds are rising, you can hear the thunder roll,
But I know my Saviour’s in control.
Verse 2:
Seven…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 18 becomes finished song number 14.
I like the song all right, but the performance could have (should have) been better. It's okay, I guess.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 20 becomes finished song number 13.
As the great Ian Gillian once said, can I have everything louder than everything else.
This mix kinda got silly as every level kept going up and up and up. It's a fun…
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What the hell's a djembe? No, me neither. So it gets an airing in the intro. Tried to hit a just-behind-the-beat edginess to fit in with the just-behind-comfortable intent of the song.
Titles are hard.
*Tech Corner*
More clangs and thuds…
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A bit of Frankenstein of a song, lyrics cobbled from old lyric fragments, with variations on bass and melody and piano motifs, like I couldn't make my mind up where it was heading. Something about it, so has made the cut!
*Tech Notes*
Hmm…
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The song's about betrayal: about mixing with the wrong crowd, who then drop you from a great height. It's a love song. Maybe I should find a twee skirmish instead of relying on that Muse.
*Tech Notes*
Hmm. The usual set of twenty-three sound…
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The song started life as more sonic doodles using the Numanesque 1979 synth emulators -- so if you think it's 80s, you're a year out!
Was also working on transitions from verse to chorus (as I've listened to too many fawmers doing this rather…
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TL;DR: more guitary than my preferred synthery. With production practice too.
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For a recent collab, I undertook collation duties: mixing received stems without (hopefully) losing their original energy. Those stems were played on real instruments…
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TL;DR: it's got percussion in it.
I had an idea for percussion-heavy song: that I found tough to articulate because it's not a usual thing for me. More practice required.
I dialled back the bpm as the percussion became (even more) a wall of…
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This started out from some sound design doodlery. A couple of the synths I've been using have some non-standard routing options, so I've been getting better acquainted. They're not modular, though the Reason hosted stuff does have visible, virtual…
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I sold my upright piano earlier this year: it had been underused for a while and my head's been buried in the DAW for a long time. So played arpeggios into DAW instead. Then quantised them within a inch of their lives. More doodles with the Backbone…
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Ditty with jangles, bass and celloish thing (all Halion) and plenty of triplets. [Drum sounds from Groove Agent; edited using the new Drum Pattern editor. New for Cubase that is ... but every other DAW has had for 20 years, I suspect.] Vocal synths…
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Hmm. The trigger was to use a random Wikipedia page [via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random ] -- it gave me a 1990s Brazilian film I'd never heard of. Although it sparked a song, the verses that more obviously related to the film got…
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I'd been recommended some free plug-ins for DAWs. One of these plug-ins emulated synths from yesteryear that were bizarrely nostalgia inducing. Which led me down a path to a sort-of retro style song. It's possibly anachronistic: I didn't check…
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Not _entirely_ sure where this came from, probably the muted trumpet sound, that's only possible to play in the wearing-a-black-turtle-neck style. Other motifs followed suit.
'Tis mainly from Cubase Halion sounds ... Reason double bass, and…
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TL;DR: the song's about waiting too long to do the right thing ... and then still choosing to ignore it when you get the chance.
Last autumn, I spent too long polishing production & sound design at the expense of, amongst other things…
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TL;DR: this is a synth-pop track about being true to yourself.
For the last couple of days of January, I'd been listening to Pete Shelley's "Homosapien"¹, on repeat, like a deranged teenager. The idea was to overdose on a song I liked, so that…
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A mention to freesounds.org -- a hole full of rabbits and, um, a Portland Ferry. The ferry's foghorn makes an appearance on this track: a love song.
Elsewhere there's the usual synthery -- including Vocaloid vocal synth -- plus some orchestral…
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*Lyrics*
Looking down at the scars
Seeing bars on your window
There's a beauty
In the broken life I see
Don't cover the tears
Glory in your flawed story
Scratch the surface
To let it bleed
Roll up your sleeves
We choose to sing…
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This song had been a "fragment" for a couple of years -- a state the befalls many an aspiring melodic doodle, sound design or chord cadence.
This time, the glockenspiel melody that formed the initial draft had another iterative polish, together…
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If I'm being kind to myself, I'll say that I wrote this in a "through-composed" style. Truth is it probably required another verse etc., to nudge the song's story along and provide some semblance of structure. Instead, I was enjoying myself adding…
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With thanks to FBJ Matt [https://fatboyjamz.bandcamp.com/] for the title, which inspired the lyrics and overall intent.
The vocals are largely from synths (I input the melody and lyrics, the synth -- Vocaloid in this case -- generates the tone…
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I don't sing many songs: this one's a duet with Sarah, who _can_ hold a note.
Piano sound from Verve (the plug-in, not the band). I like the affected sounds: like socks & nails stuffed in the wires. Wonky zither from Vital, drone from x…
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Sequel to the "Spectrum EP", Anthem is the first single released by Jahmahn Sheyin. Enjoy Reggae out of Nigeria.
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It's a sick world we ya live in. And with the fulfillment of prophecies of endtimes unfolding, signs we can't miss, "We Call To You" takes our hearts back to Jah.
#Jesussaves
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This was rejected at a songwriter competition. You be the judge.
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Fellas, you can be busy conquering the world, buh nah left ya woman dem lonely at home. Learn from Jahmahn, a certified lover man.
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It's systemic, how dem a have and play we down. But a time is near and Babylon cyaan escape whaa come fi dem.
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