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Used Hainbach's excellent Landfill Totems VST for these noisy ruminations. Also had some samples from an LP recorded by a local high school band nearly 40 years ago, but I re-rendered this version without those samples, just in case...
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This one combines a tape loop I made, hardware synths (the volcas again), the RPM-40 drum machine, my guitar effects processor, and a few more samples I found online.
Kevin Craig - Synths, tape loop, mixing.
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Was playing around in VCV Rack, trying to build a generative patch so the synth would make music on its own. (Can't remember if I used one of Omri Cohen's VCV patches as a starting point, or was just following along with one of his videos. Either…
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Pushing buttons is how I made almost all of this album. It's also how a lot of us make a living. It's also how various forms of media keep us engaged and enraged.
Used volca Keys, volca Sampler, and Korg Monotron to make most of the noises…
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Our niece came to visit one night during February and helped me test out some new synths I'd picked up for RPM Challenge (volca Keys and Sampler 2). We added a nice drum track from the old Suzuki RPM-40 drum machine my dad gave me several years…
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Input the chord sequence from a Spice Rack Collective song I wrote on guitar, converted a bass take from that song into MIDI, added a couple of VSTs, programmed some drums, and added some royalty-free voice samples I found online somewhere. Pretty…
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Demo #19 for FAWM ’22. Written and produced for a 1 hour challenge based on the prompt 'medicine'.
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Guess I just needed to say something ......
Well, the line's been drawn, we'll ignore and we'll invade,
It's best if you run, or get on your knees and pray,
After midnight, bullets…
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Song #4 of the 2022 RPM Challenge.
I like this one. If this were a real album and I had to pick a single for release this one would be on the short list. Even if it is in 6/4 time and GarageBand's drummers almost always put a pointless crash…
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Words and music by John Nicholson - Vocal by Marthie Nel Hauptfleisch
We were living our youth
From sun up to sun down
Holidays lasting forever
In our little town
We swam all day long
And under the bridge at night
Laughing and joking…
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RPM Challenge 2022 song number 3.
This one is okay. I have a feeling that anytime I work in 6/8 time I come up with exactly this song. I knew the lyrics in the chorus (the second line) were bad but I thought I could live with them. Now…
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Demo #18 for FAWM ’22. Written and produced for a 1 hour challenge based on the prompt 'life's a ghost'.
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Demo #17 for FAWM ’22. A collab with FAWM member @dreamscuba. Lyrics and vocals by @spazsquatch Music by @dreamscuba
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The galactic plane hangs over the Canadian woods
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 15
Written Wednesday 23rd February 2022
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I wasn't able to stop! I really meant to, but... Oh well.
It's still February, so it can go with the others.
IT IS MY FIRM INTENTION TO…
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The second song started for the 2022 RPM Challenge is the second song finished. I'm sort of working off a first in first out queue this year. I didn't plan it that way, but that's how it's going.
I'm disappointed in this one. It's not a…
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So with renewed focus on RPM 2022 I set about at least creating an EP if an album wasn't possible... This track was written and recorded over a period when there seemed to be relentless storms following each other without respite. Power cuts aside…
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guitars and bass in whole tone (mostly)
if you prefer to watch it https://youtu.be/y3mX0SsqOLE
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Punks On Helium and Fentanyl
I played the guitars. I also did the vocals, but I pitch-shifted them for extra fun! Drums were programmed by me. Enjoy!
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ok....
Barbara has a north facing Balcony perfect for
astro observations,
out come the scopes to view the heavens as they are and were.
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Just kind of came up with this while futzing around.
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I think this is kind of a cool take on "boy-meets-girl" from a guys point of view.
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A rythmic based song with maybe a jazzy feel to it. Fun to play.
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I usually try to see what I can come up with using three simple chords. This kind just happened with the lyrics popping into my head while I strummed the chords.
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Just a little something that popped into my head while futzing around trying to come up with a song idea.
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 14
Written Monday 21st February 2022
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This is it ... FAWM's all finished for me... time for a lie down now.
There's still nearly a week to go, but I'm done, 14 songs written in 16…
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Track 2 of my failed RPM... just a quiet acoustic ramble.
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First track of my, now defunct EP RPM challenge effort. It has not gone well :)
Week 1 - road being resurfaced outside.... noise noise noise!
Week 2 - got some tracking done
Week 3 - Bad tooth infection needing extraction for week 4
Week…
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Wordle baffles so many, including me. A collaboration with some of my friends on wikiloops who provided the music to my poem....Enjoy, pretend you're in a smokey bar in the 50s....
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An epic song about bathroom remodeling. Written and recorded by request.
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So many things are going wrong
It’s been getting worse far too long
I cannot bear to look at you
You cannot do the things you used…
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Instrumental Track from Goada Bull, a Philadelphia area based project in which was created and maintained by Bill Ramsey.
Some collaborations with musicians included Eric Shurley of Ketosis/Mesmeria/The Solutionists, Tom Amey of The Unknown/The…
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Foe the people of Ukraine and the hope for a better tomorrow.
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This is a story about the Ojibwa migration to Chequamegon Bay area in Wisconsin. Inspired by a vision, the Anishinabeg (Original People) or Anishinabe (Refering to One Person) migrated west to where the food grew on the water (wild rice) and…
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I lost track of time this past Friday with this song. I found a sketch of the melody and a few of the lines that I had recorded on my phone in late April 2019. I was getting ready to move from my magical little studio that resided in a 1923 Great…
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"For You" by Wilson Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
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"Begin Again" by Wilson Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
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"Feel Flows" by Wilson Ng, written and recorded in February 2022 for the RPM Challenge.
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Flying back from Sicily on Friday and trying to land in the storm of the century. Plane was blown sideways on approach and we had to do a few more laps before we could land. Damn near put a bingo dot in my knickers. I get inspired by the weirdest…
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So... I entered RPM 2022 and experienced a double-whammy - A massive influx of work and a prolonged period of absolutely no inspiration or creativity! So this is only the second track of a project that's now likely to be an EP rather than an album…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 13
Written Saturday 19th February 2022
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UPDATE: 8 Hours after posting I just spotted that I listened to and favourited a song called... um... "We're Done" by oldfolks2 - check it out…
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Demo #16 for FAWM ’22. A collab with FAWM member @dreamscuba.
Lyrics and vocals by @spazsquatch
Music by @dreamscuba
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Demo #15 for FAWM ’22. Written in an hour for a scrimmage based on the prompt 'Slay'. Ironic that this is the first track after I hit the 14 song goal.
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The first song worked on and the first song finished. The 2022 RPM Challenge is well underway!
I had a few gimmicky ideas for this year's challenge and this song hits on some of them. First, I wanted to get away from the small room reverb…
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Roses staring back at me
Reminding me how it used to be
Letting my mind meander
Sitting, watching from my veranda
Garden once full of happy voices
Now different due to choices
Sadness floating in the air
Remembered from the rocking chair…
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2022 Song of the Week - Week 7
This is a little better effort. I might come back to this one and make the transitions to and from the break a lot cooler.
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See the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NxAnYyoJFs
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Not too happy with it, and I am not sure I would have even kept it except I kinda like The Bridge. Bad mic choices, but I didn't think it was worth going back to re-record everything
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Having trouble getting up from on…
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Test recording of voice modified by a EHX Voice Box on vocoder setting; the modulating signal is the sound from a one-string instrument made from an old crutch. Post production involved adding two copies of the original mono track, panned slightly…
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Well...This is song #10 for my 2022 RPM challenge- the final track for my "album". It's a bit like two songs that found each other somehow. That makes for a very long track! eek. Thank you to everyone who has been listening to my songs...it…
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Demo #14 for FAWM ’22. I've officially hit the FAWM goal!
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What I imagine a live band at the fictional Blauwe Blome bar, from the sci-fi series, "The Expanse", would sound like.
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slow down less than 40bpm this is 30 viva la sloths
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Song 9# for my RPM 2022. I don't know how it happened, but I ended up with a bit of an alternative quasi-delta blues here. I walk a lot of country roads at night so..... The harmonies were fun. Thanks to anyone who listens! Onward…
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part of the VEMOM 21 performance final section divided up-
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 12
Written Friday 18th February 2022
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I had NOTHING. I decided to rest today with so much time left and only 3 to do.
I had this title, but no... must... rest
However, Madame La…
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Adnama17 and Coolparadiso
V1
Sandwiched between the Northern Lights
And the regal Southern Cross
I ran away to a tiny island
One room beach house, a pale new start
On a mustard-colored morning
Through the early morning mist
My voided…
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I have been writing a song a week since the start of 2022. I am terrible self recording so I am just getting to the upload process 😂
This is a song I wrote in week 2. (Jan 11)
I changed the arrangement and chords yesterday when I only had about…
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This is a 42 minute track for sleeping or relaxing. It's a combination of 12 string guitar, mandolin, synthesizers, and even some Elven speech. Thank you for checking this out.
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Demo #13 for FAWM ’22. One hour scrimmage for the prompt "text, supertext, hypertext, megatext, ultratext"... which I interpreted as subtext.
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 11
Written Thursday 17th February 2022
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Feels like I'm on the last lap now. Only 3 more needed.
This one came from a suggestion from Mrs R this morning. I didn't quite fancy it, but…
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This is my true RPM challange. A collections of musical ideas strung out in 10 minutes
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022**
Song number 10
Written Wednesday 16th February 2022
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I've had the little guitar bit in the middle for years and years and years.
Even my wife recognises it, I play it so often.
Yesterday while…
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Contains samples from meshuggah-aztec two-step, meshuggah-Beneath, processed through monome Norns scripts Glacier (by @dwtong) and Granchild (by @infinitedigits). Additional processing and arrangement in ableton live.
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words by @Jayjay
Seems that we keep on trying
To keep this train on the track
Seems that we keep on crying
Cos the pain keeps coming back
Just let it go
Just let it be
If this love was meant to last
Then it shouldn’t be so hard…
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Demo #11 for FAWM ’22. An attempt at the fake genre "slothwave", defined as "really down tempo synth music". Done entirely with Cherry Audio synths and audio clips from the film Cherry 2000 because they match.
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