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A mention to freesounds.org -- a hole full of rabbits and, um, a Portland Ferry. The ferry's foghorn makes an appearance on this track: a love song.
Elsewhere there's the usual synthery -- including Vocaloid vocal synth -- plus some orchestral…
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TL;DR: this is a synth-pop track about being true to yourself.
For the last couple of days of January, I'd been listening to Pete Shelley's "Homosapien"¹, on repeat, like a deranged teenager. The idea was to overdose on a song I liked, so that…
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TL;DR: the song's about waiting too long to do the right thing ... and then still choosing to ignore it when you get the chance.
Last autumn, I spent too long polishing production & sound design at the expense of, amongst other things…
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Not _entirely_ sure where this came from, probably the muted trumpet sound, that's only possible to play in the wearing-a-black-turtle-neck style. Other motifs followed suit.
'Tis mainly from Cubase Halion sounds ... Reason double bass, and…
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I'd been recommended some free plug-ins for DAWs. One of these plug-ins emulated synths from yesteryear that were bizarrely nostalgia inducing. Which led me down a path to a sort-of retro style song. It's possibly anachronistic: I didn't check…
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Hmm. The trigger was to use a random Wikipedia page [via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random ] -- it gave me a 1990s Brazilian film I'd never heard of. Although it sparked a song, the verses that more obviously related to the film got…
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Ditty with jangles, bass and celloish thing (all Halion) and plenty of triplets. [Drum sounds from Groove Agent; edited using the new Drum Pattern editor. New for Cubase that is ... but every other DAW has had for 20 years, I suspect.] Vocal synths…
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I sold my upright piano earlier this year: it had been underused for a while and my head's been buried in the DAW for a long time. So played arpeggios into DAW instead. Then quantised them within a inch of their lives. More doodles with the Backbone…
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This started out from some sound design doodlery. A couple of the synths I've been using have some non-standard routing options, so I've been getting better acquainted. They're not modular, though the Reason hosted stuff does have visible, virtual…
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TL;DR: it's got percussion in it.
I had an idea for percussion-heavy song: that I found tough to articulate because it's not a usual thing for me. More practice required.
I dialled back the bpm as the percussion became (even more) a wall of…
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TL;DR: more guitary than my preferred synthery. With production practice too.
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For a recent collab, I undertook collation duties: mixing received stems without (hopefully) losing their original energy. Those stems were played on real instruments…
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The song started life as more sonic doodles using the Numanesque 1979 synth emulators -- so if you think it's 80s, you're a year out!
Was also working on transitions from verse to chorus (as I've listened to too many fawmers doing this rather…
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The song's about betrayal: about mixing with the wrong crowd, who then drop you from a great height. It's a love song. Maybe I should find a twee skirmish instead of relying on that Muse.
*Tech Notes*
Hmm. The usual set of twenty-three sound…
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A bit of Frankenstein of a song, lyrics cobbled from old lyric fragments, with variations on bass and melody and piano motifs, like I couldn't make my mind up where it was heading. Something about it, so has made the cut!
*Tech Notes*
Hmm…
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What the hell's a djembe? No, me neither. So it gets an airing in the intro. Tried to hit a just-behind-the-beat edginess to fit in with the just-behind-comfortable intent of the song.
Titles are hard.
*Tech Corner*
More clangs and thuds…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 20 becomes finished song number 13.
As the great Ian Gillian once said, can I have everything louder than everything else.
This mix kinda got silly as every level kept going up and up and up. It's a fun…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 18 becomes finished song number 14.
I like the song all right, but the performance could have (should have) been better. It's okay, I guess.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure…
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Glory's Gonna Shine
Verse 1:
I woke up with a feeling deep down in my soul,
The world keeps on turning, but it’s out of control.
Storm clouds are rising, you can hear the thunder roll,
But I know my Saviour’s in control.
Verse 2:
Seven…
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2025 RPM Challenge Song Idea number 13 becomes finished song number 16.
Meh. Waste of a good guitar solo in the outro.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure SM57. The leads are a Gibson Les Paul Standard 50's into…
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Demo for FAWM '25, A collab with @nahlej381.
In an interview, David Lynch once called Eraserhead his most spiritual film. When asked if he wanted to expand on that, he replied "no".
This might be my most spiritual song.
[Verse]
My head…
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Demo for FAWM '25. A collab with @villedog inspired/adapted from original lyrics by @johnkaniecki
[Intro]
Excuse me
Buy, Buy! Buy, Buy!
Excuse me
Buy, Buy! Buy, Buy!
Excuse me
Buy, Buy!
I don't want your junk
[Verse]
I…
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Straw can be light and golden yellow
Is often used to stuff our pillows
Straw is the hay you see in the fields
All those hay bales give good feels
The scarecrow of Oz was made of straw
though his brain held nothing at all
Dorothy held…
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If you're watching, you know. If not, stay away from the elevator.
It has a certain appeal
Disconnecting from half of your life
Getting through the day by forgetting who you are
No need to find a way
Not remembering all that went wrong…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 19 becomes finished song number 20.
The 20th and final song worked on for this year's RPM. I think we're going out on a high note this year. I like this one. Everything is working for me except for the…
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The latest single from Dave Saigh (say). This is a contemplation on taking a new step forward in a world of challenges and difficulties.
"A New Breath" is a 2025 winter reflection on going forward through adversity.
So take a listen and…
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It wasn’t a good month for making a full EP or album for the RPM challenge, but I still got in some fun sound crafting and song making time, and produced something worth sharing. I created several new presets for the Deluge synth community firmware…
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Robbie showing off his John Lennon influence.
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, lead vocals, guitar, recording
Kenny Tannehill – background vocals, bass
Margaret Bibb – lyrics
Kevin Craig – lyrics, recording, MIDI drum programming…
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This one started out with me (Kevin) recording some drum parts to a click track after the group wrapped up a Saturday recording session. I took the drum parts home and threw some MIDI keyboard loops over them, consciously trying for a Boards of…
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At the first group recording session, I (Kevin) mentioned “Foggier By the Day” as a potential working title for this year’s RPM Challenge album, as that’s kind of how everything feels, and we’d all taken a few dramatic pictures over a couple of…
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Robbie and his buddy Danny came up with the words for this one, then Robbie brought the guitar parts and we added the rest.
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, lead and background vocals, guitars, piano, recording
Daniel Shea – lyrics…
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Rebecca wrote a sweet poem and we put it to music!
Rebecca Tannehill – lyrics
Kenny Tannehill – vocals, songwriting, acoustic guitar, recording
Robbie Robinson – lead guitar, background vocals
Margaret Bibb – background vocals
Kevin Craig…
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Robbie and his buddy Danny came up with the words for this one, and Robbie recorded most of the instruments on his own. I (Kevin) just added MIDI drums.
Robbie Robinson - lyrics, vocals, songwriting, guitars, bass, recording
Daniel Shea…
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After we’d recorded some tracks for “Fog” at the first Saturday session of the month, I (Kevin) asked if we could just jam for a few minutes. Kenny came up with the chords, then played bass and sang, while Matt and Robbie played guitar and I bashed…
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Robbie (or I guess Danny) is really ready to go to the beach! (Also, when I read the title, I thought of a hurricane warning... It’s been a long couple of years!)
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, bass, recording
Daniel…
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Come step onto the dance floor. Imagine a romance. A little bit of love and magic is in the air.
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did you ever put a wall up in your house?
did you ever want to mitigate thermal conduction?
did you want to make it quiet as a mouse?
did you wanna try to minimize sonic transmission?
you took up a mission
a household decision
it won…
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sometimes your kid insists on standing on you so they can have a feetchair.
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Dudin’ up a street in some small town
With a rhythm in my feet and sunshine golden
No one’s gonna keep-a-me down - i’m alright
Then my phone makes a buzzering sound. Burn it all down.
It’s the clown.
You can never have some time
Don’t…
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In the win
In the call
of the dog
To the yard
It’s a mend
It’s a tool
It’s a fall
In a song
Giving in
To the same
This all hap
penned before
As it lays
All strung
Along
the open floor
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To the front
To the top
Of it all…
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He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Kanye
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Elon
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Trump
Someone probably should have told him
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Kanye
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Elon
He’s a Nazi
We don’t like Trump
Well…
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gotta stop jacking off and get productive
you can’t sit around on your butt all the time
you gotta get to work and get productive
make the most of days in our lives!
Studies have shown that making stuff makes you feel good and is totally…
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Opened a policy and it’s getting old
All of my lives you’re so close to finding out
Go for a hike and these cliffs are beautiful
Pose for a pic for me and oh you fall
You fall
Are you there?
Did you find out?
Are you a-scared?
Where…
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I want you madly and I want it
And I want it want it
Watch me all the time you see another
Another
Another
Think about the time we spent and see if you can find the trusting side
That I’ve been here for you and yours
That you’ve been…
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To see you at all
To say all that falls
Don’t hide
Do try
You’re the one who gets my
All
All
All
All
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All the nations of the world have
Gathered here to show the best they’ve got
In the past: Olympia
Today a different town, a different spot
The possibilities are endless
This event has not been done a lot
In the field of excellence
One…
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I HAVE COME TO SOLVE ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS
IF THERE'S NO PROBLEM, THAT'S A PROBLEM.
YOU'RE THE PROBLEM.
they charged a hand for a round in the dirty days of the rubber trade
then the Belgians and the USA made Lumumba a saint
but the current…
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RPM 2025 Challenge Submission.. Had Fun using a Vocoder/Synth Combination .. a last minute Track that I decided to add to the Album
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Demo for FAWM '25, a collab with @musicsongwriter, @nahlej381 & @djtjb. Lyrics and vocals by myself, piano by @musicsongwriter and anything else done by @nahlej381 and @djtjb
[Chorus]
Call it the Headline blues,
But I can't refuse…
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Demo for FAWM '25, collab with @djtjb... who did the most he could with my vocal which completely falls apart at the end of the second verse and didn't start off strong. 60bpm is a challenging tempo, but the concept was "real time".
[Verse…
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Some of us are helplessly watching our country burn while imbeciles fan the flames.
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New Track!
All Guitar, Drum programming & Backing Vocals - Ed Price
Lyrics, Vocals, Backing Vocals & Keyboards - Chris Hall
KEYS & MIXING UPDATED 3/4/25
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