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Recorded: August 1, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD - capo II), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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The average person thinks as many as 50,000 thoughts a day. Many of these thoughts are negative and self-destructive. I believe that all of the inner tension in your life is created by your thoughts. Your thoughts make you ill and your thoughts…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. I'd just finished the trance track, it was 3am, and I wanted something completely different.
It's 110bpm, the piano is NI AkousticPiano Steingraber 130. The bass and organ are done…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the first track I did, when I was still fresh.
I'd wanted to play around with Guitar Rig 3 since getting it at the weekend. The guitars are ableton loops mangled with guitar…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the second track I did.
I'm an old trance head, so I had to have a go at making a trance tune during the 24 hours. This had the advantage that I could stretch out the breakdown…
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One of four tracks I did for the August 2009 24 hour challenge. This was the last track I did, and it shows.
I was pretty tired after finishing 3am chill, and had to mess round for ages mangling loops and trying out different things before…
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Written, recorded, and mixed in 24 hours. August 01-02, 2009, from 6am to 6am.
Instrumentation: Two acoustic guitars, electric guitar (picked and bowed), fretless bass, about 7 different flutes, two tabla drums, rattles, tambourine, didgeridoo…
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Okay I need to say a few things. Please read before listening!
I did not do the 24 hour challenge but I did try and hang around in the chatroom as much as possible with Glu, SisterS, and ChrisM while they battled through it.
At about midnight…
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Jonathan Thomas looks at how God is faithful even though we are unfaithful.
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I hesitate to upload this, but there are a couple folks around who like this sort of thing. This is an edited down version of a jam I had with myself back at the end of 2007. Live to 2 tracks with the aid of the Jamman. I think it was the first…
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Just one of those passing moods. Just finished today - august 2 2009. I resisted the temptation to try to develop it any further and just let it be what it is
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This is just an untitled electronic/dance/house thing I started a couple weeks ago and a little stuck on what to do next with it. Any ideas? Also uploaded to Kompoz.com to see if there's anyone out there that would like to add to it.
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NOT FINISHED. shining up old songs. this one is headed in this direction. if i put it up on here, i have to finish it.
love,
masochistic super ego.
Here's the old version:
http://alonetone.com/ttworkman/tracks/tiny-little-babies
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August 24 hour challenge..
Pretty cohesive tail for a 57 second track.
[Compare to "Firecracker" recorded for RPM 2010. This was the initial kernel that led to that track.]
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Warning - uses Brainwave Generator for samples - so if you feel a little groggy listening to it, that's why.
Don't play while operating heavy machinery.
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August 24 hour challenge..
Full name is Ray Bradbury's Cursed Bionic Orchestra, but it wouldn't fit.
Lone improvised track (musically) during the session. Listen with headphones for best results.
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August 24 hour challenge..
Irving Finkelstein wanted to rap, but the 1 BPM tempo was just too much for him.
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August 24 hour challenge..
Started out as a parody track, but gradually got more and more demented..
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August 24 hour challenge..
Audio footage from a local flood -- listen midway through, and the reason for the name becomes clear.
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August 24 hour challenge..
Last track written, but I'm happy with how it came out.
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August 24 hour challenge..
I couldn't pass up on the name. =)
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A song I started writing the music for last night. Just got it finished so I thought I would upload. Words by Gordy Macdonald.
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More solo piano. Yay.
I'm also doing my own version of the 24 hour challenge... the wrong way. This is day #1 of that challenge.
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I got word this morning that my dog died sometime overnight, following his emergency surgery.
It's never easy to lose a pet, but I find it's especially difficult when they're young and you were expecting to spend many more good years with them…
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This is a track that I started and glu finished (more like knocked out of the park).
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Brief musical sketch, to be transformed into a teary-eyed country weeper.
Instrumentation:
1 Dobro Resonator Guitar, played on both sides of a slide.
[If you give a page a dobro ...]
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First, I did Voices. Then glu worked his magic. Then I hated my guitar part so I redid it. Here's the result.
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First post-24h tune. Music written and recorded throughout the day... and lyrics in the evening. WARNING: This one is another cliché romantic synth-pop tune; same *muse* as the last one.
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So i sat in my room one day incense burning, with my $100 pawn shop 2nd hand bass guitar which i painted white with the same paint as my walls and i turned the reverb on full and started doing volume swells with the knob on my guitar.. i sat for…
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This is me playing the piano interlude of here's to life. Was finally able to upload it onto my computer using my Yamaha YPG 235 and some midi driver!
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Li Bao's lament, ‘Fighting South of the Ramparts,’ was probably written in 751, a year of significant military defeats for the Tang Dynasty, which was approaching both its cultural and political peak and soon to face the rebellion of An Lushan…
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Live mashup with Holly Bass on vocals, Jill Paige on piano. Recorded live at Playbill Cafe in Washington, DC.
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We found a nice bathroom, and, moved by whimsy, decided to write this little shuffle for y'all. Took us about 15 minutes to write and record. It'd lose its spontaneity, otherwise, no?
Style:
Crosby-Stills-Nash-Young-esque Bathroom Folk
Instrumentation…
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I composed this string quartet on a freeware music notation program. It just kind of came to me. Pretty short, but I'm sure I could expand on it.
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There's a note that sounds like it's getting abruptly chopped off somewhere in the song. Hopefully, you won't hear it, because I couldn't figure out what was causing it.
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So I still hate Ableton Live with a passion for anything piano related. But things seem to go better if I head straight to arrangement view once I'm out of the improvising stage and do my recording there, rather than trying to think that session…
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This is how i wake up... this is how i fall asleep...
This is what i think about... when i'm trying to sound deep...
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Recorded: August 8, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (DADGAD/DADGBE - capo III), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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I'm convinced that composing/recording daily is the best way to really find out if a DAW fits your workflow. And I think Ableton Live nailed its final nail in the coffin for me tonight.
See, if I weren't writing so much, so quickly, I would be…
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Just a quick conceptual sketch of a new piece we're brewing. 210 bpm, 5/4, with 6 bars per phrase. We'll probably take this down once we've got more there. Our poor pianist will probably get carpal-tunnel syndrome from this.
Instrumentation…
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Partita for solo violoncello was composed for Sumire Kudo in the spring of 2007. Although it is a single movement work, its form derives from a collage-like assemblage of diverse materials that can be heard as fragments of movements from an imagined…
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This was a collab tween us and Sinergen Drug from Aukland NZ. Amazing deep vibes.
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I think it's too repetitive. The bass is too harsh. The beats are stale.
Don't agree with me though. :)
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Dedicated to the king of pop himself.
I would love to have Michael comment on this song.
Myself and a synth voice are on the vocals.
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Ol' Banjo Bill kept playing this riff, so we decided to make a little ditty out of it. We're thinking of actually making it a song.
Instrumentation:
Banjo
Guitar
A Comb and a Pen
2 Fairly Drunk Singers
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Small sketch, to be made into a real-life song, once the cellist takes care of his debts.
Instrumentation:
Piano
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this is classical music half the parts are played live in one go then copied for other instruments. the original takes are three and a half minutes long then copied to make this 6 minute piece all the parts were played on the laptop keyboard…
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I am not BT, so no rain drops were quantized in this production.
Storm was recorded last night on my Tascam DR-07 (with wind filter and limiter).
Just a simple piano improv. That of course had to be tweaked far out of the improv stage.
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I've had a bit of a love/hate relationship with this one.
I enjoyed making the beats and think that part came out pretty good but everything after that felt rather haphazard and didn't feel right to me.
I was close to abandoning the track…
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"B-E-E- to da uh-uh-oh-O-N-E!" This Is the BeeOne Anthem! From BeeOne's First Album "In My Opinion" from HoodBizne$$ Music Group!
Written, Performed, and Produced by Beeone for A Blackman's Ent./HoodBizne$$ Music Group.
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"I'm In Da Hill Makin Everyday Deals, Good Or Bad Just To Pay My Rent; And Dat's What's Up!"
This was the first "HoodBizne$$" album. Straight fiyah... Braak Buck Buck! From BeeOne's Underground Debut "In My Opinion".
Written and Performed…
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We decided we've got too many odd ideas, so we're going to start a series of Esoterica. Here's our first.
"The Light Dances with The Dust" is a fragment of a song by our frontman, written for a big-band-funk cantata to be performed by The…
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It's generally not a good idea to try to write a vocal song and record it in the same night. Especially if you didn't warm up. Nor is it a good idea to layer 2 pitchy vocals trying to get a stable note.
I do it wrong, what can I say?
Lyrics…
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"You Know Da Flow's Sick, Approach and Get Folded Back!"... Break Move, Cause BeeOne said "Get On Down!" Produced by Flu, from The Album "In My Opinion"
"Break Move" - Written and Performed by BeeOne for A BlackMan's Ent./HoodBizne$$ Music…
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"Aggression of a Backpacker"- Written and Performed by BeeOne for A BlackMan's Ent/HoodBizne$$ Music Group; Arranged, Recorded, Engineered, and Produced by Vipe for SMP/VipaTrax. Recorded at SMP Studio's.
What can I say?... I just went off, and…
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"Bee-Dubb In His Original Anger, Is Lyrical Danger, And I Don't Give A Fuck What's Gangsta" Flu gave me da beat, I went in to do a track with Show, but when I laid the first verse, he was like "you gotta finish dat"... So I did. From The Underground…
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A Mixtape track I threw on the album cuz it was hot. From BeeOne's Underground Debut "In My Opinion".
Written, Performed and Produced by BeeOne for A BlackMan's Ent./HoodBizne$$ Music Group.
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"I Don't Need A Gun To Pop You Homie, The Explooosion From Da Dinomite'll Rock You For Me!"
This was the Fan Favorite, Even tho it was just a Mixtape Track, Over a Mobb Deep Beat. From BeeOne's Underground Debut "In My Opinion".
Written and…
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"I Need My Space, You Need Ya Face, So Giddy Up!"
Bang Bang! Another Banger from "In My Opinion", Produced by The Great Flu! Killed da Kill Bill Sample. From BeeOne's Underground Debut "In My Opinion".
Written and Performed by BeeOne; Arranged…
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"You're Salty Boy Dat's Why You're Attitude Is Shitty-Sour; This Is Da Break-In Hour, I Got It Locked Down!" On Sum Straight 1993 Raw Underground Hiphop Extraordinaire! From BeeOne's Underground Debut "In My Opinion".
Written and Performed…
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"Open Ya Third Eye, Nigga You See Me, Even If Incognito I Can See You In 3-D; Dome-Crackin' While Throwin Niggaz Back Wit My Chi P-(alm); Niggaz Ain't Ready For Da Force Of Da B-E-E!" I went to town on this one. From the Underground Debut "In…
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So this is a song that my friend Gordy Macdonald wrote for his band Side Project around 10 years. Recently he has been going through his old mini disc demos (after finally getting a mini disc player) and he sent me this song along to see what…
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B.E.T... Raw, Unrefined, Unadulterated, Organic, 100% Pure BeeOne... Made From The Best Ingredients On Earth. From BeeOne's Underground Debut "In My Opinion".
Written, Performed and Produced by BeeOne for A BlackMan's Ent./HoodBizne$$ Music…
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Da King Gold Lion speaks On Love... Nuff Said. From BeeOne's Underground Debut "In My Opinion".
Written, Performed and Produced by BeeOne for A BlackMan's Ent./HoodBizne$$ Music Group
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So I bought Logic 9 today as my birthday gift. I suppose I underestimated the transition pains.
For instance, I seem to be unable to hear the click track in Logic. As opposed to how grating and over the top Live's click track seems by comparison…
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The lyric says "there's something in your smile that drives me out to someplace..." I think it says a great deal for the track.
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This is an old track I did when I was an Elektro boy... someone kept going after my feelings...
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This was made with a good friend of mine called Felix, I like the breaks very much, did it with Reaktor 5.
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Longer and with a better ending. Deary deary, I am tired now ... Must rest!
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Based on a true story.
If you listen closely, you can hear me drop a half note over the course of the song. Apparently, I flounder without a pitch reference.
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Glu guides you through an instructional song, revealing secrets along the way.
Instrumentation: Director's comments included! beat boxing, real swords, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, vocals, drum programming, tabla, and tambourine. My apologies…
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At this point I say a lot of thanks to Funspreader for the really great remix of 'Buona Notte'.
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Suppose the lyrics say it all. A poet's brief dialog with inspiration.
Instrumentation:
Banjo
Guitar
Harmonium
Greek Chorus
2 Clarinets
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Once upon a time
In a land far away
I wrote something funny here
But not today
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It's from Berlin Dance Works -- music for modern dance. Dub, world.
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just over three minutes of circular breathing (breathing in and out simultaneously) on the didgeridoo, a single take.
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From 'Anima 91'-- the whole disc is available for download gratis at GeoffreyArmes.com with pdf notes/art
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hey boy, the waters calm and glassy
hey boy, the wind has died away
hey boy, the sun is up and rising
it's another, another perfect day
hey boy, better grab your pail and shovel
hey boy, and build your castle high
hey boy, don't forget the moat…
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here, this place, the magic is all around us
feel, the breeze, carry away your sorrows
feel, the sand, warm and soft beneath us
see, the light, fading across the water
another day slips away
here, in paradise
touch, the water, cool and wet…
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what is this darkness now, blurring out my eyes
can I hold this feeling before I'm lost in the night
holding on together searching through the gloom
who am I to blame now that we have lost the light
not the sky, falling, not the moon, again
not…
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tall drink of water, short blonde hair
flash you a smile like she just don't care
sharp as a razor as right as rain
ask me again and I'll tell you the same
don’t forget her name, Melissa
boys come running when she's around
then she crushes a cigarette…
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no I won't eat of the body, no I won't drink of the blood
no I won't gather at the river, no I won't carry your burden
no I won't bath in the glory, no I won't bath in the glory
no I won't beg for forgiveness
yes you will
no I won't handle a serpent…
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An ode to quarreling lovers everywhere.
instrumentation:
clapping
drunken singers (3)
clarinets (2)
banjos (2)
piano
resonator bass
harmonium
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James Brown and Planet Rock combine to form a mutant dubstep lovechild of a track
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This was a 'bonus free download' from Berlin Dance Works/Stretch and Breathe Two (last year's work). More worldly dub, mixed on the fly, old style.
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This is from Anima 91, a free download release that mostly featured re-workings of older tunes of mine... this was not 'old', but written in 2006 when it was recorded. It relates experiences I had in West Berlin during the 80s.
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I'd just moved house, needed time off, sat with workstation and burbled a bit, ended up on Anima 91.
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Music recorded 2005 then revisited (remixed?) for a dance score 2007 -- this is an excerpt from the middle section.
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Title track from "Spirit Dwelling" 2005 -- a lot more acoustic work going on then. 8 track recording.
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Who would’ve thought that the last 10 seconds would take me like an hour and a truck load of takes? And thank you Logic multi-take feature for allowing me to indulge so much time in something that was completely tangential to the song.
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First things first... set your volume level to the first lightning strike that opens the track. Nothing is louder than this peak.
That said, this is a collection of sound I recorded by putting the mic near the open window as a thunderstorm rolled…
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Just a quick Bump for the DJ Sathen on RKoL. Also experimenting with Reaper's built in synth for fun.
(For those who may not know: A 'bump' is the promotional "you are listening to.." parts a DJ plays between songs, and RKoL is the ShoutCast…
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Frustrated with how slow my solo acoustic/vocal songs are going, I decided to spend the weekend making something chilled out, just to relax myself and to let people know I haven't died.
Its a short instrumental track. I call this minimalist electronica…
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I've always wanted to make a sexy song, I think
couples need to get closer now, more than ever.
We're only human with a spirit inside us...so
lets all make the right choice:) All the vocals
are my own and its one of the hardest songs I've
ever…
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Because everything is always more magnificent underwater
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Episode One:
Sandbags allowed me to use his mad rhythms- see here for an explanation: http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/my-name-is-harry-palmer Sudara lent me some samples of him playing chords from his new autoharp, an ebow against piano…
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You know that joke about the brick ambient synthesizer (http://possecrewensemble.com/as606/)? Yeah, I totally used that thing on this song.
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This is one track where I can say, without reservation, that I am really happy with how it came out.
I worked up a beat I liked with 3 Stylus RMX parts making good use of chaos and time designer for the breaks.
For the first time I really…
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