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Executed entirely upon the Roland JX-3P if I recall correctly. The title refers to the three interwoven harmonic lines.
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I wrote this while my mother was terminally ill. She had three stays at Sisters of Providence in Portland at the end of her life. Real-life events did not have the rosy outcome I was hoping for.
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drone (noun) plural: drones
1.
a low continuous humming sound.
a monotonous speech.
a continuous musical note, typically of low pitch.
a musical instrument sounding a continuous note.
2.
a male bee in a colony of social bees.
a person…
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Hey, kid. Find my Facebook page and click "Like," will ya?
Actually, I don't have a Facebook page.
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Perhaps inspired by a misremembered line of T.S. Eliot? I thought the line was, "I have measured out time in teaspoonfuls."
The proper line is "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons."
Oh well. I like my bungled line better.
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Everyone is so full of it these days. Know what I mean?
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I had something to say about this track, but I can't remember what it was. Never mind. ;)
Mostly executed upon the Roland JX-3P, if I recall rightly. Drums, choir pad, and piano courtesy of the Yamaha CS1x.
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Madame Fortune seems to enjoy spinning that wheel of hers. It's tough to keep up sometimes. As Gilda always used to say, "it's always something."
Executed entirely upon the Korg DW-6000 and Yamaha CS1x.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Imagine the scene, if you will. Four little square waves, afraid and cold out in the wild, begin calling to one another. Over millions of years, here collapsed into several minutes, their calls evolve.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects, sustained square waves, and Korg Monotron.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.
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I originally wanted to rap over this beat, and had the idea to improvise nonsense syllables just to figure out what the flow might be like. Ultimately I decided to keep it as it was, as it sounded like a hip hop song from another planet. Also…
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The experiment here was to program a rhythm at a fairly slow tempo, then speed it up way too much.
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Basically a drum-n-bass remix of my earlier song "Mike The Considerate Center For The Performing Arts".
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Somewhat Residents-inspired. The rhythm is me breathing heavily and slapping my desk, run through a lot of reverb.
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Originally my idea was to improvise half a conversation, then also improvise the other half as a different character - I ended up deciding just having half the conversation was funnier. Kinda unintentionally inspired by "Pollo Asado" by Ween.
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For some of these tracks I was really thinking "what can I do to make this annoying to listen to?"
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Man I was really into making these square-wave-sampling, dodgy bootleg 8-bit video game soundtrack pieces for a while.
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I did a little "self-sampling" on this album - the cut up vocals were from my song "Nasty Asterisk". Later on I'd use the exact same backing track to cover "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mixalot, because I realized I'd inadvertently copied that bass-line.
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I gave myself a rough guideline that most songs should be between 30 seconds and 2 minutes long - this was both because I didn't want the album to be much longer than 45 minutes and because I knew there were going to be certain days when I wouldn…
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Just before I made Feb.ZOIG, I made a noisy, experimental EP (Noisy Exploding Brain) and a minimal ambient one (Jack Shetland EP), and I think because of this, this album ended up as a mix of both styles. This song is the first one that ended…
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Annie Taylor was the first to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel back in 1901.
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Just a simple little tune to take me out of my minor key, noisy rock comfort zone. G Major. Who woulda thunk it?
Chorus:
Anything you say
anything you want
anything you need
I’ll take care of you
Verse 1:
I’m always here for you…
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a nice happy song about depression
ol' black dog is sniffing at my door
ol' black dog is sniffing at my door
i've seen him here before
i don't want him any more
ol' black dog is sniffing at my door
ol' black dog don't want me to be free…
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The RPM Challenge does weird things to a guy, I tell you. The chorus to this one popped into my head, fully formed, at about 9:15pm on Saturday February 27. I wrote the whole thing that night, including lyrics and melody, and recorded all but…
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The most last minute song I have. I woke up early on Sunday February 28. At about 7:00am The riff from the chorus of this song popped into my head. I sang it into the new iOS music notes app so that I wouldn't forget it. The lyrics for the…
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I wanted to sound like the guy from Rancid but I don't think it worked out so hot. - Tom
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Cover of a Letter Seventeen song from the 2016 RPM Challenge.
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After his multiple online mixtapes, multiple entertainment deals and massive shows around Nigeria and beyond, the South South base and Playhouse Night Club official disk jockey, DJ Bless a.k.a Da DanceHallKing has decide to drop his first official…
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals and Jeff Treese on solo guitar
i wasn’t certain, if you could hear
when i told you, the rain was falling
but not it’s easy to see in your eyes
but for a moment, there’s hesitation…
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
She’s grey outside
She’s very sad
She starts to cry
It’s looking bad
The frozen ground
Won’t let her in
Yet on it comes
The flood begins
The road ahead
Has warning signs
say…
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
goodbye to the river
we’re waving
and the sun’s up in the sky
the water’s gone, the water’s gone
goodbye to the river
we’re waving
the riverbed is dry
the water’s gone, the water…
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
You could have bought everything you wanted
In the world there is nothing you need
You could have saved everyone from this
The water’s over the wall and it’s up to our necks
Oh…
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
Hope you find the way to feel like
Someone’s waiting there for you
Cause I know you’ll feel much better
When you figure out the truth
It’s the same, no matter what you do
Be who…
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
The princess flashes us a smile
But does not talk to those beneath her
Still we all agree
That she’s the fairest of them all
The princess often tries to hide
Behind a pretty waterfall…
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals and lead guitar by Stan Jones
steps out behind the curtain
looks out at all the faces
the music's loud and we can't hear ourselves
he's making cryptic gestures
jumps on the microphone…
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from the album "Flooded" featuring Ash Reynolds on vocals
just for once
let the loss
fall away
from me now
try to see
the good in you
through the haze
of the world
I wanted to save you
From yourselves
But I forgot to first save me…
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G (co-writer) occasionally says "You Have To Write A Song Like X" where X is something he's heard but wants a different take. This started out as a homage to video game soundtracks by Insomniac. Very happy with it, although the MP3 version has…
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Mad flute soloing by Amber. Plus lovely lovely looping LOVE.
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Looping madness made as an "ease of work comparison" between Garageband 6, Garageband 10, and Logic x pro. $200 later, I kinda like Garageband 6 best out of all of them.
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So, Logic X Pro has great arpeggiators. I was thinking along the lines of It's Not The Night by the Cars (sorry, Greg Hawkes).
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I wrote a really bitchy song about a recent ex-bandie who wanted to "have her cake and eat it too" but I decided not to waste a perfectly good track by crapping bad juju on it. It has a delicious solo in the middle, best heard with headphones on
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Originally written during the More Deranged Lunaticks sessions, this got cleaned up and recorded as a first-pass on the last day of RPM Challenge 2016. Expect a cleaner version soon. Howevs, the track does rock!
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I wrote the riff in college back a hundred years ago. When I bought Logic the other day, I decided this was worth a revisit. Again, RPM...
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I had written ¾ of this 15 years ago - and took a big step towards finishing it this week. Ahh, RPM Challenges!
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I had a string of "interesting" roommates. Of course this song is about a couple of them, cobbled together. You know who you are :)
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