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This great old (Public Domain) song by Stephen Foster which I just do and has nothing to do with my current state of life but may not be true for others.
I do this song in a most unusual way. That is to say I changed the melody of the verses…
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Apparently I wrote this three years ago, well, August '06. I just found it. It picks up after a minute or so...
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it is winter. there is breath. it flows in the forest. the white fur is hidden in the trees. it moves slowly toward the heart. the heart beats fast. it runs. the white fur moves slowly. it will always catch the heart, no matter how fast the heart…
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Quite the tongue-twister, Jason's STILL trying to catch his breath after recording this re-worked traditional Irish folk song
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"Tell Me Ma", was featured on National Public Radio's Second Stage. As NPR put it: "Beatnik Turtle is a remarkably prolific and fiercely independent rock group based in Chicago. The eight-piece band includes a full horn section and has been making…
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Mick McGuire was "all that" when he was dating the family's older daughter (who was 40). As soon as he married her and spent all the money, poor Mick was subjected to his Mother-In-Law. Mother-in-Laws have gotten a bad wrap for hundreds of years.
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Another Irish classic. This song tells the story of a group of pub regulars who, upon learning that the pub is on fire, head to the cellar to drink all the booze. You know, cuz it's free that way. What's a few burns?
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This was the song that launched the entire SHAM ROCK album. This is what happens when you turn up the tempo, crank the volume, and add a horn section.
As with most of these songs, we came up with our own music to add to these songs. So, the…
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Have you ever heard a traditional Irish folk song re-worked as a ska song? No? How about with an additional Spanish horn riff? Well, now you have! This song tells the story of an unfortunate guy who hooks up with a girl in the kitchen of her boss…
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We couldn't resist breaking out the traditional Irish instruments halfway through this one and going all Celtic on your arse.
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This old song had a lot of braggin' in it. So, we couldn't resist giving it a bit of the old skool hip-hop flavor.
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This song's extremely popular and so has been done to death. We decided if we were going to re-make this one, we had to try something new. So, we hit on the 7/4 time signature, the melodica (thought it was bagpipes, didja?), and arrangement. By…
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Another ol' Irish song about drinkin' and smokin'. Who knew?
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This is the first public output after going through about 40% of nickstutorials.com sound design series.
All the sounds started off with my sampling myself either saying something, clicking my fingers or clapping. They were recorded through…
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all the pounding waves
drowning out the sound
the sound is poison
diving down below
sinking very slow
drown away the sound
if I, can't make it
stop your soliloquy
I feel the death inside me
in this succession
the still and quiet
I will succumb…
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late night, impromptu, its like emotional diarrhea.
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an exploration,using a loop station and guitar rig effects,of musical soundscapes
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Track 2 from the RPM 2009 challenge album. For my brother in Christ, Dave Fellows.
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Track 9 from the RPM 2009 challenge album. This one is the odd-one-out from the album. I wanted to do something in February to commemorate Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial. Of all the concepts I had, this is the only one to make it on the challenge…
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I Believe by far my most beautiful instrumental track, much the
opposite of You Forgot Bush's War Crimes. Maybe because I haven't commited any?
I'm growing to accept that most of the time, my instrumentals should be short and
sweet.
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I've never heard "Horse with No Name" all the way through, and i wasn't trying to
rip it off, but i really like the melody i wrote for this and it turned out to fit
perfectly with the sound of the bass. Really proud of my composing on this track…
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This was supposed to be my "folky" track, but I love the way this turned out.
It was originally written Napalm Shoot up but My Chair took it's place on that
album.
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Drinking coffee at my modest kitchen table around noon, after just waking up, I
starred out the skinny window next to my door and saw the back of a stairway. These
Lyrics were partly inspired by Bukowski's style, partly remnants of growing up…
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I don't know if even I can tell, but this is inspired by Captain Beefheart's
Trout Mask Replica. Ok, maybe its not so well hidden. Katie Lawrence can be heard
on this track, recording this having never seen the lyrics prior to.
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A couple months in a metal band called Season's Legion inspired this song. The
lyrics were written in what we (Katie Lawrence Co-wrote) thought would be what
their singer would have written for this type of song. The title was supposed
to be…
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Not much to say about this but that it's one of the first songs I actually
wrote down every note for. I think that makes it a small cut above most of my
instrumental songs.
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Inspired partly by a co-worker who was a great, now lost musician. This track is
somewhat about my five year stint in Gallup, New Mexico (Bob Dylan anyone?). This
was written as a poem before I started writing Slumber Love.
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I'm not usually good at mixing two of my songs together, but i think this turned
out great. Maybe a little too Velvet Underground. Maybe nothing is ever too
Velvet Underground... Written just for Abide.
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Supposed to be the biggest joke on this album, Candle turned more into an actual
like-able song. I was trying to make fun of Sonic Youth stuff, but it ended up
growing and becoming an instant Mud Octave classic track. The Lyrics were written…
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This is one of the songs I wrote for Filthy Time that's been hiding
in the back of a notebook waiting for music to be chugged out. I'm
really glad I let this seep for a while before letting loose.
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This song is one of the few i wrote just for Abide. I've been listening almost
non-stop to Dylan's latest release and this is what I got out of it. I mean no
disrespect to Bob, just trying to sing my songs.
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I. The triumphant space pioneers land on the new planet, set up camp and decide to have a party.
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II. Off in the distance, an ion storm is brewing while the space colonists enjoy cocktails on the spaceship's veranda.
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III. The ion storm draws nearer to base camp, and with it, weird alien creatures that are part bug, part raw energy. The bugs play fetch with the elemental forces that surround them.
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IV. While the space colonists are sleeping, the alien creatures descend on their camp. A battle between space bugs and the interstellar Orkin man ensues. The space pioneers beat a hasty retreat from the supercharged bugs.
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V. The bug-like creatures celebrate their victory over the alien invaders (formerly known as space pioneers).
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1, Intro to the arduous task of facing one's personal wall.
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2. "This Wall Within Me" exposes the struggle to overcome one's own limitations during the RPM challenge. Story (and struggle) by Mick, music by Alan Hall
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3. This is the "preferred" track from the 2008 challenge, and I think it stands well by itself. It is the narrative climax to the piece. Thanks, Mick!
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4. The prog album's musical climax, with full orchestral treatment. I did NOT get the London Symphony to come to the session, alas.
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5. The 'Hidden" track, appears after a lengthy pause on the CD version. The little artsy trick that all prog albums must have at the end.
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Part 3 of the Format Sea suite. Probably the closest thing to honest-to-goodness electronica here.
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A quick transitional piece - sort of a hybrid of ambient drone and louder rock.
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MMi's Voices
http://alonetone.com/mmi/tracks/voices-3
MMi wrote the song. I programmed percussion, recorded tabla and vocals.
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brainstorming.
voice belongs to Sister Savage.
I hijacked it from some audio notes
she sent for a song we are working on.
The guitars and percussion were written
and recorded in an hour. They replaced
a previous musical section that I spent…
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This is a song that I wrote. Once again I am playing all of the instruments and doing the singing. The style has been described as a mixture of Depeche Mode and the Human League, but I don't know why anyone would think it sounds like the Human…
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This is nothing to do with what I've been doing.. The truth is I was bored and turned on my roland juno-d and I started mixing up some sounds and well this is it, I know its not my musical area but wanted to try...
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instrumentation:
synthesizers, nylon acoustic, electric guitar + violin bow, tabla, voice
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this is the slow version of a 6/8 over 4/4 idea repetitive thingy...
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Just a little political tale from the dark side. another quickie.
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Instrumentation: Acoustic guitar, synth, tambourine, kitchen sink.
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true hiphop!!! from melatone's free downloadable ep (Pay Attention)
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true hiphop!!! from melatone's free downloadable ep (Pay Attention)
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true hiphop!!! from melatone's free downloadable ep (Pay Attention)
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true hiphop!!! from melatone's free downloadable ep (Pay Attention)
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true hiphop!!! from melatone's free downloadable ep (Pay Attention)
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true hiphop!!! from melatone's free downloadable ep (Pay Attention)
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ninety minutes into this mischievous idea...
sounds:
electric guitar/and with bow, tambourine, fake drummer boy.
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something i found on my pc that i never put bass to, never sorted out the clipping samples on, and that I now no longer have in any form bar this file. shame
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A sample tune from my 2006 cd "Texas Tonefreak" . Commercially available in all the usual places.
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a beautiful thought during a dark hour.
nylon acoustic, electric piano, electric guitar with bow
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this is a reworking of a tune i made a while ago which was a bit boring....
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A tale about true love found on a web site. Or is it!?
Originally written & recorded (simultaneously) in Octobert of 2008. Re-recorded in July 2009.
Lyrics:
Hey you
I saw you on your webpage
Hey you
I want to get to know you
Hey you
Your…
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a fragile little piece.
Instrumentation: broken harp, kitchen sink, electric piano, drum programming, vocals, and loads of wine.
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This is a partial piano demo of the (still) unfinished "tornado warning" vocal song.
Some day I swear I'll finish it!
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Another silly a cappella.
I have all these toys but no inspiration
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I did a brief stint where I used loop libraries.
I still feel as though this track should say "written by Robert Rich".
This is also why I no longer do loop libraries.
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instrumentation:
Mostly electric guitar and violin bow. The end is accompanied by my blubbing and a haunting sound recorded by Sudara (an ebow against what I think is a piano string... he'll have…
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the re working of earlier stuff continues fatter kik jucier sound more mental
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Wrote this little piece from 7/14/09 to 7/15/09. A lot more metal than I'm used to playing. Played on my broken-neck Epiphone semi-hollow.
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this was part of a jam session i did with ben goedde, afterwards i edited it in to individual tracks this being one of them. please keep in mind that this is entirely improvisation. ben is on the sampler (sp-303) and i am on the synth(micron).
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this was part of a jam session i did with ben goedde, afterwards i edited it in to individual. ben is on the sampler (sp-303) and i am on the synth(micron). please keep in mind that this is entirely improvisation. i think this is my favorite…
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tracks i edited out of a jam session with ben goedde. he is on the sampler(sp-303) and i am on the synth(micron). please keep in mind that this is entirely improvisation.
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made this using a some samples from an old electric light orchestra record, you can really hear the pops in the vinyl at the beginning. made entirely on a boss dr. sample sp-303
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