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(1 of 5 in "Tree Haus" cycle) I regret not doing more about the stodginess of this song - it's the lowpoint of the album to me. Perhaps you disagree but I still wince my way through this. Alas.
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Here's the first time you hear the "Love ZZZV" theme reprised in a slightly different way. Then we morph into a style someone described to me as being medieval. Me, I'm not convinced they liked noise interludes all those centuries ago...
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Thanks for listening to my album, "Love ZZZV"! This opening track is still my favourite of the nine because it features nothing I'd call a mistake and still leaves me in wonder just as to how I wrote it. The extended, classic tracker-style soloing…
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A very simple experiment with layered electric guitars and some laidback beats.
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
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*Hanging out with the young people. I don't get this music. Stolen loops. A Korg PolySix. This is the best of 3 complete versions of this track I recorded.*
I grow more obsolete with each passing day
I used to be so bright when I knew how…
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*A true story. Marasmus. The Duke University Talent Identification Program.* **_Chris Fudurich_** *played some guitar and gave some good guidance on this track*
In 1969 an experiment was devised
20 babies were kept alive
All alone
They…
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This song started with just the title. I think unappeasable is a fantastic word.
Unappeasable:
She’s so unappeasable
I don’t think that she’s feasible.
Oh, I’ve tried to be reasonable
but she can’t see my point of view.
She’s blind…
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I was thinking about a guy that I met one time in the street in Montreal who was just kind of aimlessly wandering about Canada following the death of his son...
Manitoba:
I’m on my way, on my way,
On my way back to Dufresne…
I remember…
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Grew out of my frustration at having to sing, play all the instruments, and engineer my own recording...
Baby, Would You Be My Engineer?:
Baby, would you be my engineer
and keep my headphones sounding clear?
I desperately need someone…
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A song about the lost art of the mix-tape and knowing that someone is trouble but doing it anyway...
Compilation Tapes:
Did I mention that I think that you’re a real fine dancer and I like the way you dress?
I’ve known a number of girls…
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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The original was called "Opportunity." Here's the accompanying words. Hope you like it!
Doug
Winter comes and goes.
Spring between winters.
Boots crunch dry lichens.
Walking on gray stone,
The roots of the earth pulled up through the skin…
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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it is a short experiment in automatic music creation. a choice is made to use a major pentatonic scale. this happy creature is born. he is young, and small. however he has big feet. it is comical music? it makes you smile?
it is bigger version…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electric piano*
I start off each morning with my favorite drug
Cook it up in the kitchen and take a slug
Coffee so black it helps me to wake
Prepared to attack the problems I face
Maybe it's keeping my blood pressure high…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electronics and glitchy beats*
I had a friend with a problem that everyone ignored
Pretending not to notice when he fell onto the floor
Never asked a question when he showed up late
Lacerations from a situation
Bruises…
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*Electronic rock. Sounds like* **_IAMX_** *and* **_Depeche Mode_**
This is much better than it’s ever been before
Much more real
More rich
More speed
More more
I feel like I could go forever and it only hurts when I stop
This is much…
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*Electronic rock with jungle/drum-and-bass influence*
I've never really felt that I was ever good enough
But even I can be improved if I just stay tough
My teeth are metal reinforced
My eyes are plastic lens
And daemons run inside my head…
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Original working title was something like, "And after six years I finally understood why they sing in the streets here, and could go home." It's sort of about anonymity in the modern city. If that sounds pretentious, that's because it is.
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I am concerned with the values of my generation.
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One of my darker tracks. This tracks epitomises how RPM felt for me; A progressive struggle where I just got my head down and got stuck in with the thing. In a phrase, this track says to me "Just fucking get on with it."
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Easily my favourite track on the album. This was a real forced number at the start of it's life; I was well behind my song quota (5 finished on the 23rd... time to worry) and I needed to knock something out at least. Something clicked about an…
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A song that really crept out of nowhere and one that I don't entirely understand its meaning. Some things in the song I can pinpoint the origin, but some I haven't a clue. I'm really happy with the way it turned out - semi-ok vocal and all.
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A blatant attempt at exploiting the deep well of The Jesus and Mary Chain/Pixies/Raveonettes/House of Love. A lovingly loud, shiny and guitar-laden paean to those great bands.
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The Aliens are landing and a doomsaying prophet is declaring it the end of the world!
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Instrumental love song for a groovy space chick!
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*Memories, memories before the end.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian_** *and* **_Fennesz._**
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
I remember sunshine
I remember you
I remember laughing
Do you remember
I do
I remember driving
I remember the…
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*The boat left without me.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian, Fennesz, The Cure_**.
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
Stayed under too long
I guess
I lost track of time
Why didn’t you think to check
If I was alright?
There’s not too much sun…
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*My take on something like a* **_Neil Young_** *song ("After The Goldrush" meets "Revolution Blues"?)*
*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
Well I woke in a cold sweat from a dreamless sleep
The winds were blowing papers through the empty…
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*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
You can hear it just below the blowing wind
Feel it in the nerves beneath your skin
Catch a glimpse as you drift away at night
But you can’t decode the meaning inside
Distant shrieking sets your teeth…
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*"We all live in a little Village...your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners." -* **_Patrick McGoohan_**
Modern electronic guitar rock.
One day you awaken in a different place
Where the names…
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A Bonus track for "Summer Twilight on Triton;" more of the same, but shorter.
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I read Carla Zilbersmith's blog, carlamuses.blogspot.com, which inspired the song. She's rather inspiring herself.
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A totally sheltered and unable to cope middle-class white kid screws up really badly and is on the run. I don't think he'll make it. Do you?
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from the RPM 2009 album, "Spilt Hony"
This was an experiment to write a song using one sentence. I ended up with 3 small ones.
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I was just imagining a morning at the Waits household.
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you tell me what you want
you tell what you need
i cant give you nothing honey
but this pretty little seed
where has the sun gone
and is it gone forever
will it come back someday
should we just give it some time
i ask you what…
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start here at the airport
feels like im going blind
middle of the day in a dark bar
1000 miles away from peace of mind
im tring to remember
when i was a kid
did the sun set in my back yard
i think it did
what comes before and goes on…
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Another attempt at a Carol Kaye-bassline, slightly more succesfull. I quite like how this turned out although it's kinda slick and not something I could really use in another context (it just sounds like I didn't make it myself which I quite like…
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This started sounding quite Nick Caveish and at the same time I wanted to do something with Joe Meek; so it's a murderballad-variation on Johnny Remember me. There's stylophone and theremin in there. The theremin is quite effective at some points…
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The Dutch painter Mondrian was apparantly a fervent dancer to Boogie Woogie and that image stuck because he seems such a stiff guy otherwise. So I thought that would make a funny subject for a dance-tune. Normally I wouldn't make a song about…
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Here the idea was that I was going to write from the viewpoint of someone who is paralyzed from the neck down and can through technology only watch other peoples life but not participate. It turned out a bit more general and ambiguous than that.
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1.Afsluitdijk
...is a Dutch word and it's the name of the dam/road going from the province Friesland to North-Holland (and Amsterdam) The lyrics are about a 15-year old boy who feels so trapped in the boring Frisian town he's living in that he…
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Lyrics:
I don't know what you want
when you treat me that way
I can't help being turned on
Is that what you want
Just to see what I would do
To see if I'm in love with you
I'm trying so hard
to sit here and ignore
the way that you…
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I'm not sleeping
I'm staring at the ceiling
My mind's a thousand miles away
I'm finding faces in the shapes
of plaster that was scraped on the ceiling
Killing time is not so bad
but when you're trapped inside your head…
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Hurtling towards oblivion thanks to a giant catapult owned by a foul-mouthed voodoo child, he sends a final lewd finger gesture back to the world he sought escape from.
Unbeknownst to him, Voodoo Boy may have a vested interest in using him…
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The final version of this track:
When escaping events that are falling apart, be leery of strangers offering gifts - particularly when they look like something out of Children Of The Corn and they offer to lob you into orbit with a giant catapult…
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The monitors of the omniverse are bored out of their mind, and wish something would happen to break the monotony.
There are some things that transcend the laws of physics - Murphy's Law is one of those things.
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May be a little soft for…
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Oh crap - somebody broke the multiverse. I should have known those #?%! black holes were a serious security flaw.
We were really meaning to fix that, but never got around to it. (It would have cut into our golf time.)
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Even the cosmos needs system maintenance. When its IT department decides to delete something, sometimes that something doesn't want to go without a fight. Even computer viruses will do what they can to avoid the reaping hand of a virus checker…
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An instrumental song about happiness and puppies and vampires and possibly vampire puppies.
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Just under the wire (it's Feb 28, 23:47 in my timezone)... last track for RPM09
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From the RPM Challenge 2009 album - "Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets":
Native American Industrial?
Sample credits will appear with album info once posted.
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Written while awaiting a CD from one of the artists who participated in the 08 version of RPM.
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lyrics:
The silence sometimes
is all you have to say and I believe it, and you
and everything surrounding the skin beneath your eyes
Time's without a shield or an attack against the sight
of a lifetime that was burning you by
And I may…
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a state of denial/hope
lyrics:
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white lies to keep themselves safe
drown themselves in fermentations
all good girls go to heaven
I don't care what bad boys say
with their little white…
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From your parents you will learn everything and nothing without even realizing
lyrics:
Don't look in the mirror, your skin will never seem as soft
Don't wait in the middle when your mind is already made up
Just make it home, please…
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One of my best melodies, but I can't seem to get the vocals right. Would welcome any one else who might want to take a crack at it.
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Sequoia Memories...Capo @ 5
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Off the coast of California
Where the dolphins ride the waves
We stood and watched them from the cliffs above
Until the sunlight went away
Then we slept in ancient shadows
Underneath the redwood trees…
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Fun little tune about the evils of strong drink.
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Title track to my RPM09 album.
Mostly ukulele and vocal, with a few other things thrown in.
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So many people today want to be the musician they idolize; be somebody that they will never be. This song is for them.
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10 – Strictly Rehearsed. Written 13th Feb. Recorded 13th/14th Feb.
More upbeat shenanigans, this time attacking someone’s who’s off the cuff remarks are pre-prepared (and written as crib notes on their cuffs).
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite…
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08 – Feeling Confuzzzed. Written 19th/20th Feb. Recorded 20th Feb.
Come on Wembley, let’s see those hands in the air. As poppy as they come, including plenty of la la las to sing along with. I was very pleased with my Harrison-style slide…
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05 – Officer’s Mess (March). Written and recorded 2nd Feb.
This is as close to beat-boxing as I am able to do. I can only apologise for the smutty pun.
Info and lyrics at www.butterflypolite.com/uglifruit
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03 – Meteorites. Written 2nd/3rd Feb. Recorded 3rd Feb.
Inspired by the film ‘Stardust’ where our hero meets a (literal) fallen star. The painful low vocals were particularly fun, and their emotional cracking was acting rather than the fact…
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02 – Falling Down Again. Written 17th/18th Feb. Recorded 17th/18th/19th Feb.
A slightly schizophrenic pop song, with a vocal section that also betrays me wanting to be a Beach Boy. Worryingly there is actually a red sticky trickle that seeps…
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[Thanks to Helen and Colin for coming to my aid with the warblings! :) ]
When You Least Expect It
And you're out to dry
And its all too hectic
Thats when it comes x 2
And it feels electric
And you feel alive
Cos when you least expect…
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I heard a story about you
I didnt want it to be true
But it felt like it might
You, well it was all about you
and how the things that you do
Seem strangely undone
And life doesnt help out the weak
A lifetime tends to bring you some…
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Can i get a little whisky in this water said John
The day the world stopped being fair
I didnt know what to say so I said yeah.
I poured a double whisky and I placed it in his hand
And said friend, only true friends understand
He said friend…
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Tell me can you teach me bout your finely written poetry
Dont care about the content I just want to make em notice me
Such a fine hand they'd say wooo, study it closely
Been practicing all day I think I'm ready least I aughta be.
Caligraphy…
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Well I been playing the blues for so long
Kinda feel like playing jazz x 2
I dig the random instrumentation.
Play this in eight over three and a half
I been playing the blues for so long, make me feel like tryna rap x 2
I think I'll call…
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This song always puts you in a weird mood...forcibly sways your emotional state. There’s some kind of weird juju laced in that song that screws with your emotions no matter how you're feeling.
This song uses a lot of layers for bass along with…
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This is a serious idea. Gives a good feeling of what this can become.
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‘Cut Up’ was a very challenging song for writing bass parts. The guitars in that song are rhythmically dominating. The pay off was a dense piece of music.
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We've scrapped many songs but 'Murray' is the oldest song that has survived the test of time.
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This was written while living in the studio. For some reason this song seems like music appropriate for a chase scene. This is all bass and drums...no guitars yet. Vic's working on it.
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sample based song... basically just messing around on Reason, I still haven't quite figured it out.
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smooth chillout track ... something to relax with a little bit edge ...
peace, rei
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Documentary sound piece for sound 1, remix of Ingrid Burrington's speech
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A tribute to all the beautiful ladies in Sweden...
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"Slow Build Gamelan" is based on three Indonesian Gongs from FreeSound.org: 24615__anamorphosis__GMB_Jegog_1.wav, 24613__anamorphosis__GMB_Gong_Lanang.wav & 24612__anamorphosis__GMB_Gong_Kempur.wav. I took the three recordings & strung…
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so pleased to meet me now please, just go away
no introductions needed, i've got nothing left to say
so many stories that i really don't need to know
this conversation's over, and i really wish you'd go
oh please, go away, save yourself
i…
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This one was inspired by Wen's mom; and is therefore dedicated to all those musicians doing RPM, and all musicians who toil away at home to make their music despite what their friends & co-workers might think of their efforts.
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Cover of original track by Beaus of Beethoven.
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Cover of original track by The All-Night Workers (early song co-written by Lou Reed and JJ Cale).
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You will be asked to take a small survey regarding your feelings at the exit.
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Self-esteem to the xtreme.
An instrumental track I've redone from scratch from a 2006 version, but still want to completely redo someday.
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The track is based on an actual 911 call a hacker made to police in Colorado Springs to "punish" the father of a girl who had spurned his advances. I played the call against a short distorted heartbeat-like rhythm run through a Mutron and several…
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A track using Creative Commons licensed sounds or ones I created from scratch myself. From the freesound Project I used WHALECRY 2 by mkoenig, and bamboo wind chimes by jppi_Stu.
I took 20 copies of the whale song, stretched & chopped them…
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Quick and Dirty memo to self.
Crunchy lofi guitar + voice.
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A track made while warming up for the RPM Challenge 2009; Created from the sample 42544_ERH_long_string_su_51 from The FreeSound Project.
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"NATO (Whisky Tango Foxtrot)," is a Noise piece that's made up of a combination of a Phased noise underbed, liquid, vowel-like sounds, and sprightly chiming tones.
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lyrics:
i got a hot date
and you know i don't wanna be late
i need a ride
to the bowling alley
get ready cuz here i come
put my new skirt on
chewing peppermint gum
did my eyebrows fresh
white musk on my neck
part my hair to the right
cuz its…
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A great driving song . please check out the video as well
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can you say 妈麻马骂? Can you fit a squared peg in a round hole?
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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One of the few songs we've made so far that has a beat :)
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recorded on a mini disc with a stereo mic in a rehearsal studio in brighton uk
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recorded on a mini disc with a stereo mic in a rehearsal studio in brighton uk
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this was the 2nd piece of music again using live called next cos i didn't know what else to call it...
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I wanted to do a sort of homage to cheesy 50's sci-fi movies. This is kind of an ambient/experimental dubby track that was a lot of fun to make.
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That didn't stop her.
Main vocals/bleeps by Shreya, keys and backing vocals by me. Actually, my baby daughter was in my arms while I was doing those vocals and she started crying. Even though I cropped that part, I didn't use any noise reduction…
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This song was inspired by the Life of Pi...and yes, i feel like a drifter at times, floating, going no where.
I've been drifting
i've been drifting for days
going no where
being driven by the waves
driven mad by the wind and her voices…
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Sitting in the Denver airport; watching people walk on by...
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