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The breaking light sample is the song 8060710103 up tempoed from a length of about 10 minutes, to a length of 2.5 minutes, then bass expanded and vocoded. Then I added my instrumentation.
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Just some quick fun!
enjoy :)
(ps. It gets really good, It's a building tune)
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a sound collage of various voice memos on the ipod nano. Michelangelo's didj tries to tie it all together.
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A song about the classic dice-rolling game:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41/cant-stop
Lyrics:
It feels so nice when I throw the dice that I think I'll do it again
It'll be okay if I can find a way to make a 3 or 6 or 10
I've come…
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A song about a classic boardgame:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5/acquire
Lyrics:
Sit yourself right down my friend and I'll tell you how to play
You're goin' first because your tile is closest to 1-A
I recommend you start a chain…
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A song about the popular tile-laying game:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/822/carcassonne
Lyrics:
You flip a tile off the stack and then you spin it
We give you lots of good advice
You finally put it down and put a meeple in it
I'm…
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A song about a fun little card game:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza
Lyrics:
The order that you draw the cards
is the order that they'll be om
the only way to get 'em out of your hand is by giving them to me
giving them to…
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not sure how to classify this one - chill with a dash of electronic strings...haunting.
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This is one of those happy accidents that pop out from time to time - with this one, I feel less is more, although a little re-mastering might not be a bad idea....
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Part I of a fully improvised ep. Available for purchase at bandcamp for 5 bucks.
http://maxsipowicz.bandcamp.com/album/the-winter-in-our-hearts
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A friend of mine did an off-the-cuff review of this song, saying "he's taken a subject so depressing and made it sound so good".
What do you think?
ER
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Nothing special - just a little ditty to play with some new toys and get the creative juices flowing.
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This is a tune that's been on the back burner for a bit. I was looking to get a dark Ultravox kind of sound. Anyone feel like puttin' on their Midge Ure hat???
Anyway, these aren't the droids your looking for.
Move along..............Move along.
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This is a new song created using one of Nebulonic ALchemy's guitar tracks in combination with several 'Boop loops' handmade by Hot Wheels Spaulding. I find it interesting that they line up so well, since The were originally two separate songs…
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I have issues at my house, sometimes they manifest themselves in my tracks. In this case, the bassoon and oboe represent the mouse. The guitar is the peanut-butter.
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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This is my first effort with real bongos. I've been so inspired by Norm's talents, that I had to give it a try. I borrowed a set of bongos from my brother Asa.
http://alonetone.com/asalennon
I had to play 18 holes of golf to get my hands…
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I had not touched my keyboard for a long time - couple months? So it was inspiring to play it again. I set it up in the living room of the new house and played pianoteq on my laptop using a Just Intonation tuning (below). Actually I had to improvise…
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2010 Groovy Soca on the Direct Sunshine Riddim coming out of Combination Studios in England.
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A few of you know I accidentally wiped out one of my SD cards that had all my works in progress on it. I'm just starting to piece it all together again - A slow process. This was supposed to be a reprise to "In My Head", but ended up being in…
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A song about Rising to new challenges...
Even though you Might not want to really....
Geir Alfsen on Vocals Lyrics and Guitar..
Me on the rest...
Hope you Like it...
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Keyboards: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Written/Recorded: 2006
Old music library track. I recorded this with a cheap Yamaha keyboard my step-father gave me. Wish I would have add little more to the repeat of the melody, but I think I…
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As chance had it, I found myself in an acoustically great room, full of cajons! Well, they were unfinished cabinets actually, but they had lovely tones. Since this is the stuff dreams are made of, I had no choice but to seize the opportunity and…
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Something I did last year - A song about the crazy college days (Or Uni where applicable :) )
Bad Old Days
Everybody's drinking their wine
Driving slow and taking their time
Better off when I sip moonshine
Not rubbing alcohol 'cause I…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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Written: 2004
Composer: Doug Sparling
Midi demo written in vi on a Linux laptop.
Piano music created at the command line on a Linux laptop.
These are the first tunes I composed after switching from performing to writing. I don't own a piano…
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the next time youre bored and in burger king, try holding some ice cubes against your eyes. it stings like christ and also looks like youve been crying just in case you wanted people to feel sorry for you
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Inspired by a couple people. And the general pretentious ideology in general.
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I’ll make my exit on the wind
Nevermore to pretend
That I’m fine
Yeah, I’m good, so good
At doin’ everything I should
To convince you
That I’m okay for today
An’ I won’t crawl out of my skin
I’ll just pretend
Some days…
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Seeing as how it had Fly in the title I used my riff Fly for free, pay to land. It seems to fit.
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A long over due changing of the acoustic strings led to this epic production. 40 tracks and 34 plug-ins. Good Gravy that's a boat load of tracks. All kinds of stuff happening.
Enjoy!
you spend your days and your night times
bustin' ass…
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Guitars/Keyboards/Pennywhistles: Doug Sparling
Composer: Doug Sparling
Recorded: 2005
This was my "signature" track several years ago. I wrote this on guitar in the mid-90s while I was getting divorced, but later renamed it and recorded it…
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WARNING! ADULT CONTENT or goofy great........
After a week of computer crashes, I finally got my gear all back to normal. I got my drum kit hooked up yesterday and did a test run which led to this bit of Saturday morning fun that only
proves…
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This is a microtonal Jazz-ish piece produced with some newly developed techniques.
Norm Harris provides the excellent percussion. I probably could have made it easier on myself by not being so chromatic… but there it is.
The piano, bass…
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(Bowers, Rainbowtruth) from the LP "Over the Counter and Through the Woods" circa 1997.
Barnett: Lead vocal/guitar
Osborne: Drums/backing vocal
Bowers: Bass/spoken vocal
Duff: Guitar
One of my favorites. Don't be fooled, the sampled snare…
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They recon if you go down any mine in the world you'll find a Cornishman there working.
Colin did the vocals and twelve string
Matthew did Balron, whistle, backing vocals ect.
I did the acoustic and backing vocals.
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Just another time traveling love song from your ole Uncle Paul.
Mostly MIDI synths and some analog bass and screaming Ibanez.
Drum loops too. I was going to drum it, but these two loops really kinda drive it along.
Enjoy.....
filled…
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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), pretty popsters [ButterflyPolite](http://veryusartists.com/butterflypolite) intone a duet about the nameless people in your neighborhood.
The…
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I present the first of 3 guitar solos - Fender Mustang => Roland GR-20 + DoD FX-7 into Alesis mixer and Alesis effects.
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There is a video for this below
Its all a bit cliche I know - but its what I wanted to do. All of the video footage was taken by me in an undisclosed location somewhere. This is a microtonal piano improvisation that uses Lucy tuning 0b6s meantone…
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Licensed for my new "Forever" CD by HFA this song is from "Prince of Persia". It's a song about having faith that all troubling things will turn out allright. All you have to do is believe it will.
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Not terribly odd except for how I did it with Fretless gutiar.
I recently bought a used Fender Squier for $60, pulled the frets with pliers, filled the cuts with plastic wood, sanded, and jammed. Took about 2 hours to make the guitar fretless…
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Can you dig this? I can! Looking forward to hitting a real studio soon in hopes of doing this song and more.
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i know it's another remix of the same Bolero of fire theme, but I just felt I didn't do it justice. behold this new rock themed track for Bolero of Fire from The Legend of Zelda; Ocarina of Time.
enjoy.
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A track from Amber's new CD album "Forever" is from the film "Yentl" and is licensed for Amber's use on her CD. It is about a young Jewish girl forbidden to enter college (at one time only men were permitted to attend) who dresses up as a man…
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Lyrics
The Good Lifeless has Become Boundless
such that it is written,
went where and windly
with pentacles of pie
like know our way
down the screem
when we find what it
is that can been and be we of their
2 tracks of hobnox…
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Fender Mustang guitar, Roland GR-20, and Fractal Tune Smithy
Alontone refused to accept the update
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A rather quiet, melancholy piece of electronic music.
Don't let it be said that you can't do emotion on synthesizers . . . .
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This is a little piece dedicated to the lost world island of Socotra that grabs a lot of instrumentation from across Asia with little discrimination - the melodic instruments use Afshari with the exception of the Jaw harps which use 9-tET Sorog.
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This is a piece that uses MOTU Ethno 2. All but percussion and voice were performed my Fender Mustang and midi recorded via Roland GR-20. The piece uses the Almak tuning included in Ethno 2. [Amlak recurrent sequence (x^2 = x + 1/3), as a matrix…
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alright..a new collaboration..this is cryptic meadow's tite beat..in my twisted mind..id like to see this song grow..im hot wheels spaulding, and i endorse this message
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Rather dig the style of the vocals I did on this. I imagine the final version of the song to be rather swamp sludge out with all sorts of righteous sounds. I'll get there eventually.
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My performance on video (see "more") at the odd music convergence with words by Evan Harrington and myself.
Details are available here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=68
The full quality 230 meg video is available here: http://clones.soonlabel…
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From The Calculus Affair's 2010 RPM Challenge Album
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I *think* this is final version of my 4th MOTU demo
- I will see what comments I get, if any.
This is a short, more or less middle eastern-ish piece using the Zurna tuning and Mark of the Unicorn Ethno 2 sample set in Sonar. I performed (and…
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Publicado sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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CROSS-OVER POLYRHYTHMS
This is actually a type of enharmonic polymeter, where 2 rhythms with **different meters** (i.e., a different numbers of beats/measure) are played at the **same tempo**: the measures do not line up each time. These rhythms…
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Please hit "more" — March 01, 2010 — I take a stab at performing a song live on video in several takes. Since this was an improvisation with a couple takes here and there it is not as polished as some may like.
if you want the full quality…
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Another wacky production from the stretchy, bouncy, and elastic world of Rubber. Special thanks to Mark (Launched) for writing this one for us.
We had a whole bunch of fun with this song and you will too.
Enjoy!
Flies in my lunchbox
(Help…
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I realize now that any song with the word "cathartic" in the lyrics has flow issues...
Cheers!
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weeellll ive always loved the Doors,, this is the second of my eventual cd of their wonderful music
comments always welcome
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Many nebulae form from the gravitational collapse of gas in the interstellar medium. As the material collapses under its own weight, massive stars may form in the center, and their ultraviolet radiation ionises the surrounding gas, making it visible…
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Did this one just after I got Garageband. Little bit sloppy but still haven't worked out how to edit yet. If anyone would like to add vocals feel free.
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previously the collab song..."cryptical condition is the state of our mission...and we gotta sell it to the masses, captivate the masses".
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This is a special request by Sister.
It's kinda sloppy. Frankly, because I suck at it :)
I'm not much of a cover musician but I gave it hell.
It's mostly analog. MIDI drums, DB33 organ patch,
strat leads, and Ibanez chords, Dean bass…
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Visit www.2camels.com to read the more about body painting.
This is a jazz fusion piece featuring my Fender Mustang, Guitar Rig 4, GR-20, Session Drummer 3, and the following soft synths ARP2600, Absynth 5, Dimension Pro.
I hope you find…
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More of this sweet little song... cleaned up and arranged!
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From the Angie Fights Crime/AM FM Dreams split album "Faiths" (2010)
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Wanna go for a ride? Hop on in! (Many thanks to JQScutt for his excellent guitar work!)
Lyrics: Charlie Ryan & W. S. Stevenson
Guitar: jqscutt
Percussion & Vocals: Norm
Lyrics:
Have you heard this story of the Hot Rod Race…
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Could it possibly be true that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it?
The song is part of the soundtrack from my book, "PRONOIA Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with…
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I am working on some demonstration pieces for Mark of the Unicorn's Ethno 2 sample set. This is the first mostly completed piece.
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Jonathan Thomas begins a new series in 1 Corinthians. This sermon is entitled 'The elephant in the room'.
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Just messing around on a Saturday morning. A
rough cut at best, but I get a kick out of it.
This is a song by the great Jimmy Dean - 1961
I used to spin this 45 RPM record way back when I
wore a young boy's clothes. I always wanted to
cover…
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A re-mastered version using Norm Harris' excellent percussion
serial improvisation with
korg ms 2000
cameleon 5000
rapture LE
z3ta+
And Norm's percussion room
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Did the guitar tracks first, followed by bass, then drums and vocals last. I wrote this song in a bookstore, after I came home and recorded it, I realized I made the song too short for all the lyrics.
Im talking, she's texting
Im givin…
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Live track with Strung, Drawn and Quartered, a free-form guitar trio.
Kavin: first solo
Darrin Kobetich: rhythm guitar
Bill Pohl: 2nd solo
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Live track with Strung, Drawn and Quartered, a free-form guitar trio.
Kavin:rhythm 12 string
Darrin Kobetich: acoustic solo
Bill Pohl: electric solo
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every time you show yourself
i'll let your image float away
I'll let your image float away
you have no power
you have no power
you have no power over me
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This is the first of several songs in a collaboration with Laura Kepner-Adney. Laura has a beautiful voice and a gift for arranging music. It is an exciting project with more to come.
Featuring Ryan Anderson on harmonica.
Lyrics:
As a boy…
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Starting out as a simple and awe inspiring invention, progressing to a more chaotic and demanding machine driven future. - people becoming enslaved to these devices. Feeding the machine.
Phone samples were recorded from the output jack of my…
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This one is called "Your Light".
Hope you Like it!
Peace
Tharek
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-YOUR LIGHT-
-By Tharek Mokbul-
We’ve heard all the compliments.
All said in a day.
They’ve lost all their meaning now.
Wasted away.
They were there…
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I've attempted to get the sound of garden clippers in an offbeat with the associated music, sorta like the offbeat of clapping sticks in traditional Aboriginal music.
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I wanted to record something that sounded like Jimi Hendrix and Jack Bruce (in his Cream days) jamming together.
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I was working on one of my ethno 2 demos and needed a break so I made an improvisation on a series of major 7ths using only the Ethno 2 package.
All of the pitched instruments use the included Werckmeister temperament tuning.
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We really had a wonderful time working with Sister Savage and we have since inducted her into the band under her new virtual ego: Violet Hemlock!
Thanks Tess!
So...Without further Ado...
"Love Song for the Moon"
by VIVIAN CIRCLE featuring…
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Take some words, do some numerology and then some math, take the riff of the numbers that came from the numerological words and then apply some Pi functions to the volume steps inside a tablature program then mess around some more inside fruity…
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My first crack at doing a podcast. Made up of musicians who I am lucky enough to know personally. WARNING:explicit lyrics at about the 13 minute mark. In order of appearance:
Hentai Improvising Orchestra "Track 8" background
Brantley Allen…
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Thanks to Sister Savage for helping us debut our new project. As busy as she is, Sister managed a bit of time and some great Jovian vox for us.
This piece or art is unique, sublime, and psychedelic.
Lyrics:
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2010 Savigear-Reyes-Lennon
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For this Mother's Day week, a conga improvisation dedicated to Saint Monica and all the other mothers who surreptitiously provide for and incessantly pray for their children. Thanks Mom!
** this could really use a tasty melody to go with…
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Another slice of Reaktor based weirdness from the particle collider ensemble I am tentatively naming TMA-2.
You can't tell from how it sounds I guess but the latest development is that particle energy now governs velocity, i.e. more energetic…
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This is a long version of the track "THE GIRLS AND ME" A beautiful collaboration with the great BETHAN MATHIS. Here at http://alonetone.com/bethanmathis you can listen The girls and me"
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This is made with a very experimental Reaktor instrument I am building.
It uses a very simple particle collision model with 64 particles in a 100x100 box. When two particles collide they trigger a sampler to play a slice of either of two samples…
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Hybrid analog/digital rock and roll. I'm trying out some new guitar FX and amp sims in Pro Tools.
They are not so bad all distorted and fuuzzzzed
up.
I tried to sing it, but hey, you know, I give it hell though right?
It's a Goddess of War…
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This is my attack on writing a rock nd roll song! I was inspired by the sounds of Boston and VanHalen and I found the phrase Elegant woman While I was looking through the newspaper one day and immediately thought up a song idea!
soo I hope you…
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Another MIDI mess for my Gunslinger Project. It's short, it's sweet. Nice grand piano plugin.
Added a bit of acoustic.
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We Real (Feat Grim Aka J Reap & Graffikul) '2005 Demo'-
Produced By Graffikul
Lyrics By Joanathan Willams
Lyrics By Graffikul
Lyrics By Bradley Logan
Copyright 2005
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I think this is the first song that I've posted here under Mannequin Races that actually has a guitar in it. You can't really tell that it's a guitar but it's in there (middle section around the 1:50 mark). The guitar is heavily modulated but…
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Based on the prophecy by Grandfather that when "the Great Change" (apocalypse/armageddon/birth of new earth) was about to occur, the sky would turn red. When the sky turns red, get outta dodge! Hit the wilderness, and you better know how to…
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well I thiiink it was one of the maaaany times in which we would go down to the pMundo beach by the river build a fire, burn one (a couple) down and jam out loud, where I came up with this beautiful chord progression. It was then about a week…
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Inspired by and in collaboration with [My First Dictionary](http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com), watcher in the tower [Joshua Wentz](http://veryusartists.com/joshuawentz) pays per view on the television.
This song is totally for the birds…
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Year: 1987
Album:
Modern Clones
Artist's description:
guitars
bass
drums
CZ-101 keys
4-track remastered in Sonar
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My theme music otherwise known as "Slukin'". yamaha drums! play Bass ala de-tuned guitar.
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Haven't done one like this in awhile. A bit more upbeat and "riffy" but I tried to keep it pretty sparse. Thanks everyone.
2010
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This is a redo of "I've Made Myself A Wall", from the 2009 24 hour challenge on Alonetone.
I thought the original version was a little bland, so I wanted to take a stab at breathing some fresh life into it.
For my last RPM Challenge album…
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Enjoying a few tracks on this site with Indian flavor lately. My brothers legs were so red from slapping them to get the perc sounds in this track, I had to laugh, That alone was worth doing the song ;)
Enjoy # 92
Spicy percussion provided by Norm
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Publicado bajo autorizacion y sin animo de lucro. www.carranga.org
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Reworked this one last night...
Crazy where a Song Can Take you...
CROWN OF DUST
Vocals: Owen Bourne
Left rhythm gtr (and Words): Tharek Mokbul
Right rhythm gtr: Geir Alfsen
Lead gtr : Geir Alfsen
Bass: Mark McPherson
Drum programming…
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Written by Tangmo and Skip Moore. Performed by Tangmo, Skip, and David Brimlow.
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B Jones / drums // Sluk / guitar / bass
The Atomic Boys: Sluk & Buzzy Jones (complex drummer)
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Dead to the World
Just a shade
A specter, a ghost
No place amongst the society of perfect being!
Dead to the World
Alien, unwanted
Not here, unseen
Untagged, uncounted
Lost, unwanted, despised, no home, no place, no Soul!
Dead…
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Had to do this in Live....
Not Much time to Record Lately..
One track through the MBR onboard mic..
Hope you Like it!
Peace
Tharek (OsCKilO)
Lyrics
Crown of Dust
By T.Mokbul
If wealth was found in Shitty eyes
A thousand diamonds…
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warning!!! this is a long 10+ min instrumental
It's a piece about 4 years old that was my first attempt at using synth voices,, I am still looking for a good one,, if anyone knows.
The music itself is a tone poem, loosely dedicated to a children…
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I'm singing lead on this. It was recorded to 24 track, 2 inch tape, I'm thinking. I have those somewhere, but they've turned gooey. Sadly, it seems to go into the red during the chorus, but I can't fix that now. I have more stories about the…
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I recorded the vocals on this about 14 years ago. An amazing pianist friend of mine from Europe, G.Longabardi, played the piano. Jonathan Sacks from California flew to Texas to co-write the music. If you're out there somewhere Jonathan, contact…
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One day my husband was describing someone as a floosie galore. First I cracked up; then I wrote this song. Do you think I have to share royalties with him? :) I recorded all the vocal parts on this several years ago at Boyd Recording Studio…
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I wrote and recorded this song about five years ago. All vocals are mine. I would like to redo this song and change a few of the lyrics...but here it is in its current incarnation.
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I call those harmonies at the end, my chipmunk voices....which, by the way, is the best part of this song. This work was done at January Sound in about 1981. Yikes! That's a long time ago.
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Deadlines, freeways, appointments, things to do lists, expectations, getting older, not enough hours in the day to get everything done? ..... make each day and moment count! Thanks to Dave Matthews for a lick I threw in there. Enjoy!
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Recording some match lighting samples recently and felt compelled to put some music to it.
I put the mic up to some raw acoustic guitar. Bass and lead added with FX. Norm added percussion, making it sound waaaay better.
Contributors:
lyrics…
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Kind of a Sonic Youth version of the old folk tune. This was with my band Lincoln The Chain. Our vision was to create new and weird versions of tunes from the old timey days. Traveling music for post apocalyptic underground railroad...
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She said sing for me a song
‘bout a world where we all get along
and she said play for me a tune
that makes me happy and wont you please play it soon
and she said dance but not too fast
take it slow, you never know if this dance will be your…
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This too was actually recorded from my midi controller playing the notes and then constructing chords out of them. All done again except the drums ( im no drummer).
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