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a stream of consciousness type lyric with my modus operandi as a songwriter outlined in the chorus.
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Guess who came down the cellar last night......Johnny's tune was playing on the juke box and nobody could stop him.......Thanks Johnny......
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Kept in the Cellar is a piece for piano, percussion, and processed street signs in 17 edo.
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This is a track from my retrospective album Heptadecaphilia.
Details, online play, PDF that has background on the music, images, and links to videos are to be found here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1007
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I Got the Idea for this tune when I left Geir at Stanstead Airport.
Recorded it Last night after a Gig....
For the Folk Fest...
Pretty PennyWords and Music by Tharek Mokbul
-Lyrics-
Pretty Pennies sing about the troubles in the way.
Tells…
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I saw discussion of Bleu tuning on the yahoo tuning groups – all of which were tempered to a pure octave. Embolden by Andrew Heathwaite’s 88 cent guitar I decided to try the tuning without tempering to make the octave pure. So I made a scala…
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The "hook" sums it up:
"Out of the darkness, won't you come?"
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Not the most accessible tuning - 13 edo splits the octave into 13 instead of 12 parts. So everything is guaranteed to sound different. That could be the charm or the problem for you. This piece focuses more on melody than most of mine.
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This song was made in the month of June 2011, and is supposed to be a sort of frenetic fusion of styles.
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Chris sent this track to me earlier today with the request that I add some percussion to it.
I had something different in mind.
After the first take I was afraid to return it to him, fearing that he would convert it to 23 edo or something…
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This one was saved from an old cassette heading towards the bin....some might say it should have carried on ..............it is an early recording of Thetworegs ad-libing unplugged from an hotel room in Germany on a wet Sunday in 1994......Elvis…
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Norm set me these drums for Dancing on my own a while back but Reg went and dumped the file so we couldn't use them. So i'm using them now, while Reg gets Gone.........Thanks Norm
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Don-Blackburn/109630439067289?sk=app_57675755167
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i was listening to a post of this Beatles cover by oldrottenhead this morning,,it is a really great song, so this evening i sort of just sort of sat down an let it happen,,i didn't even really know the song as much as i might like,, but i find…
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Berceuse (means cradle song - or lullaby) by Chopin Op. 57 midi recorded by Ron Lubetsky, M.D. in 1997. And indeed I can tell from the midi file this was a real performance. I ran it through pianoteq in Sonar X1. I hope you enjoy it.
http…
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The berimbau is a Brazilian instrument associated with Capoeira, which is a Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, sports, and music. It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native…
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This is a composition that was realized by playing a Fender Mustang which has a divided pickup connected to a Roland GR-20 guitar to midi converter / synthesizer. The GR-20 generated piano and saxophone sounds (in two passes) which were re-tuned…
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The island of Cuba was a Spanish possession for almost 400 years (1511-1898). The land-owning elite held social and economic power, supported by slaves, both indigenous and of South American and African descent, until slavery was abolished…
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A manipulated ambient-ish piece
Sound sources, 5 string bass, 18" and 14" china cymbal, cornet, mixed tuning, 6 edo, 12 edo, unconstrained pitch.
kudos for anyone who listens to the whole thing.
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Fathers Day on Sunday....
Thought I'd write a song for my son.
Here you go lad...
As the Sun shines....Lyrics
And my boy.....
You Smile so wide as the sun shines.
But you will keep your joy as the clouds try,
to stop our light…
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Here's a song for that horribly obnoxious person who's unfortunately in your life or workplace!!!
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Good friends, family, my adorable pet--you all bring a smile to my face!!!
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You stole my heart (and some of my property) a long time ago--and now you're back at my doorstep like nothing ever happened! Gonads, anyone?!?
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I was crazy about you back then---But now? Not so much!!!
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A jive-era feel, with lyrics about working hard to get what you want!
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Everybody who said we'd never last have broken up and here we are, still together!!!
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The millionaires are doing just fine, thanks---but the rest of us are barely getting by!!!!
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I'll lose control but maybe find love instead....
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I dedicated this song to my old friend, Ed Begley, Jr. and to all those who are working to make this a cleaner and better place to live!!!
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Is my future just to be....your ancient history?
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Here's a great way to keep some peace at home!!!
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She was mysterious, gorgeous...and we fell in love immediately...but her parents were against us being together and sent her back to their country, leaving me to search for her forever.
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A couple looks back nostalgically on the magical moment when they first met.
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I wonder what they do under a placid, golden moon without the worry of today's who's who
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The whole world could be falling to pieces but it really doesn't matter because WE'RE IN LOVE!!!!!
(I was especially happy to throw in a line about 2012 and the Mayan Prophesy!!!)
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And then came a lion...
Conga / Harmonica (key of D) improvisation.
4/4 90bpm
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ORIGINAL Rock instrumental exploring
new avenues. of retro and current rock
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A FILM SCORE I COMPOSED USING
26 TRACKS AND ROYAL FREE SAMPLES
BESIDE VST EFFECTS AND FX . BEST
REGARDS HOPE U LIKE IT ...NEIL
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This song is a latin . cha cha flavor
bringing together these 2 forces..for
a new sound. hope ulike it regards NEIL
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A favorite style of my wife... like Kris Kristofferson, in a way. Maybe more folk than Outlaw Country...? The song has great meaning for me.
Hope you like it!
Doug
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A song of my friend Darren's which we worked on together.
He's on keys and vox, I'm on guitar.
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a character disorder
I've got a character disorder
you know they say I've got a borderline
personality disorder
and I'm sick of taking orders
like a waiter or or a nun
I want to be the one that gives the orders
I hate the nurses…
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Tight-wad Moody writes song in lieu of Father's Day gift.
Now with extra cheese
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Home made cannon in Just Intonation, cymbals struck by hand and bowed. (I don't own so many cymbals - I made a field recording while walking through the cymbal room at Sam Ash. A most exciting experience actually!) I did buy two cheap cymbals…
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http://chrisvaisvil.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/box_harmonics.jpg
I used Paul’s Extreme Stretch (PES) to take a hammer dulcimer + violin improvisation and divide it into seven streams based on just intonation relationships to A at 55 Hz…
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thetworegs - vocals (holy gospel choir of Regs)
Dave Berry- Strat, bass, organ, drums played on Roland HD-1
"In the Ghetto" (originally titled "The Vicious Circle") is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in…
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Worshiping at an abandoned alter...
Let my breaths be as long as her legs
Let my breaths be as smooth as her back
Let my breaths be as cool as her hips
Let my heart be as still as her tongue
Let my mind be as bright as her skin
Let my…
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Recorded the 1st guitar and bass and vox staurday.
Today, I finished up with a lead guitar track...
LG
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I used about half of the tones produced in my stop sign video as samples looped in Kontakt and improvised on an 88 key controller in 17 equal notes per octave. Not something you'd listen to for enjoyment.
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How the human race has gone down hill ever since
using fire.
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Hammer Dulcimer in Harmonic Series Tuning, processed into 7 streams. Field recording, processed. Details here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=911
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Fulfilling a request by Acid
The video is the whole point / show here. Please put into the comment section what you think the occupants of the car you see at 1:00 where thinking. Or alternately the kid on the bike at 1:20.
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a totally spontaneous improvisation Debbie and I made with the violin and hammer dulcimer tuned to harmonic series starting at G.
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One could use this to compare the changes I made to accommodate the change in tuning because this is the Centaur tuned piece but I changed the master tuning back to "standard" 12 equal.
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Well, I should give some background. Sometimes, for me, the difference in tunings are hard to discern - I don't have perfect or even good relative pitch discrimination. So I can get fooled. The Prelude for a Centaur tuned piano was actually composed…
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Together with a few guitaresque pieces (some are presented here, "Lettres 'D Amour" or "Mar Adentro" for example), this one was my "swan song" in already so distant 2009.
~Sign Of Hope~
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Vocals/lyrics - ThetwoRegs
Music - Dave Berry (Epi Sheraton, bass, keys, Drums played on Roland HD-1)
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there's a story to the story of the fuzzy years of my life.
Unfinished song, just one progression looped really so far with words to the story.
it's "always the top of the street somewhere" was a phrase we used to describe how no matter what…
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This is a recording of Norm and me playing together a few months ago. I didnt have any percussion instruments so Norm was on a Roland electric trap set and I had a cello. I looped some of the stuff we did that night, and retrofitted the rest…
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~timeless~
Rhythms of modern life, which comes from the environment and force us to follow, are often (let say, always) does not correspond to our inner rhythms. First, we do not have time to stop, think, or simply do nothing. Then when we…
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ACTiVE Yodi first single beat by lightskincieted
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This song was created as a part of my song-per-month project for the month of May.
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Bought a new bass guitar and wanted to try it out, so made this last night. Gotta say the bass parts were easy, the guitar took ages to get right though. Now my fingers are sore.
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it's deafening to walk around
to walk around with no sound
it's calm before the storm they say
but I still hear you cursing your style and you way
and were waiting
waiting
waiting for the wayward song to begin
waiting
waiting for the wayward…
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This is a musical setting of Bruce Andrew’s poem “jjj†from his book “Moebius†thanks to PennSound archive.
To create the music I hijacked Norm Harris’ Y Class Steam Locomotive Bell sample and his percussion piece Ilesa and added…
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)
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JI guitar
Fretless Bass
Drums from Sonar
This is replacing the "up way too late" version
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The audio uses all of the audio from that night I bowed the stop sign processed and not.
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I went out during cover of night (to avoid looking like a total crackpot) with a violin bow & Zoom H2 digital recorder and bowed various things in the neighborhood. This is the best - a beautifully resonant 4-way stop sign.
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The music in the video is the harmonic series from the lowest E on the piano, 41.2 Hz, and the 16 harmonics above it. No other pitch is allowed. I used Paul Stretch's filtering and compression to accomplish this BUT the piece was not stretched…
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after a few listens and a good naan bread pizza I feel tripped out listening to this :-)
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Jeff has passed over the rainbow bridge today as I held him. We went out back one last time for a few minutes until the sun came back out and it was too hot. He enjoyed that. The last thing he did was put his paw on my hand and left it there…
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Sad piano loop met bell loop, they got together and the rest is history.
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This man I knew too well
This man I know is gone
This man I see lying here
This man who died in my arms
I can't explain to you
His dark voice
It had a lot of power
It held a lot of pain
He made sure you heard
He made sure you listened
You feared…
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The story of how I did this is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=871
goodnight.
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19 note per equal guitar, loopstation, sonar X1, processing.
Impressions Of Francois-Marie Arouet (De Voltaire) written and read by Ezra Pound
III
To Madame Lullin
You’ll wonder that an old man of eighty
Can go on writing you verses…
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Farewell's from a couple different perspectives, some personal, some not, All difficult. Hope it relates
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A question of existence, and an attempt to see myself through the eyes or others.
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Picture and information here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=859
Line up:
2 tracks (right and left) of hammer dulcimer, fretless bass, and cameo appearances for both fretless guitar and electric psaltery.
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live at Landers Machine Shop in Fort Worth. Rhythm background by El Lobo's percussion group.
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I heard this beat of Norms this morning bright and early an had to jump all over ilesa in my mind she was her instead of a town it was fun but it didn't last.....the same old story.....it was her fault she was too hot.......What can i say
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Ambient video and audio improvisation with my 19 notes per octave guitar, loopstation, Marshall amplifier, Zoom H2 and post-processing.
on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGO0R381HQs
full quality video
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public…
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05 Lessons We Learned
You told me you were there to learn
But we ought to have taught one another instead of fought I thought
I told you I’d nothing to prove
But summer came and you moved away
So I went back to school
September – Another…
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03 Stuff And Nonsense (A Fairy Tale)
Hey m’lady what do you see?
I’m down on one knee
Am I brave enough?
I’d fight knights lately with you as my shield
You hold that appeal
That slowly reveals itself
As I deal with all the other…
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This is in some boring typical genre. I just can't figure out which one. Perhaps Wiccan dances for epileptics? Not sure.
In Cold Hell, in Thicket is a microtonal musical setting of Charles Olsen reading his poem in 1950 as provided by PennSound…
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"Seven Shudders" is a one of those love songs with undertones of suicide, drug addiction, orgasm (seven shudders), as well as nature.
Hope you like it.
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This one is the second part of the Goldenbridge Orphan Trilogy and features Jethro on Bass.
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Junkyard version of the song the Beatles made famous written by Phil Medley and Bert Russell.
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if you are interested in windy dialog about the music go here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=838
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More like a cover of the bauhaus cover of Bowie's song.
Recorded last night in under two hours from starting programming the drums to posting. Recorded for songcrafters.org's Bowie Fest.
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> WHEN THE SUN SHINES THRU
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> The moon is a hole in a canopy blue
> A hole in the sky where the sun shines thru
> The sun shines thru, The sun shines thru
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> The scientist will tell you that I've got it all wrong…
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A nice remake of Zeppelin's classic tune "Tangerine" Hope you enjoy it. Hojo Mixing, Mondo Drums, BC everything else!
Studio 67 May 7, 2011
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Brendon McKenna wanted me to add some things to his nice songs with guitar and voice. Check out his alonetone account.
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Stepping outside of my normal "dub" vibe...this track was an experiment that started out as some support tracks for a live performance at a club for a Japanese band I was producing about 11 or 12 years ago. I had used a bunch of drum tracks and…
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19 note per octave electric guitar, Marshall amp, zoom H2, some footage I shot today and Sony Vegas. Created for ImprovFriday
Download the full quality video (191 MB)
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/video/19_improvfridays.wmv
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a video of my performance complete with dancing ferrets. Full quality video http://micro.soonlabel.com/canon/canon_harmonics.wmv
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Pictured about is my new 19 note per octave guitar which was used extensively for this piece. For more production information http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=800
The text is from an interview with a Japanese woman after the 3/11/2011 earthquake…
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small notes, on a windy,, palms in the desert day
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Im still learning and there are a few mistakes here
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Anther? I know I'm spelling something wrong,but another contest
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Some big dj from New York .. never find out who won this one either!!
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A Russian trance band named "Moonbeam". Never did find out who the winner was!!
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Well,the name of the tune was "Secret Garden",but I don't remember the group,they were from Spain or Portugal.Another contest.
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Rekkerd was moving his family and he decided he wanted to do a sound(music?)contest that had to do with moving. Not really a remix contest,but...
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Good one! make a remix from the sounds of an atom smasher. The world's largest atom smasher in Switzerland!!
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Like to do remixes? Check out www.findremix.com
From another contest,yes.
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You'll notice that there are two with the same title.Both were done for a contest..a drum & bass one..never did one before..but I did figure out that d&b was faster. This is the first one .. slower & not put in the contest,but here…
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You've got to check out www.rekkerd.org. Rekkerd is a dj & producer who lives in the Netherlands.He sponsors a lot of remix contest(Autumn & Moving) and reviews also.
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One I did for a contest that was sponsored by Prime Loops.If you're like me in that you need good great loops,check'em out.
www.primeloops.com
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My very first remix..I had no idea what a remix was at first.
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Another good one .. if only I wasn't late for the contest!!
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One of my favorites..from a remixx contest where the theme was "Autumn".
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as you walked away my heart screamed in pain
you ran away for the last time
can you tell me why i feel like im gona die
love hurts sometimes
can you can you can you
tell me why
im lying on the floor
and im calling out your name…
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Not the best... a few bad skips but made this for a friend.....
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A rough one to keep my account alive :-)
Just capturing some ideas with using my new Freeze and uPOG pedals.
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all vocal overdubs made in the studio on my first solo-CD in 2006, Ploing!
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this is a nice uplifting song that we recently wrote hope you enjoy
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I apologize for the long wait -- I'm going through some life changes that make recording difficult at the moment :D
I've overcome the difficulties for this song which I would like to dedicate to the beautiful woman who inspired it. Her initial…
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Easter Sunday,, soft bubbly white clouds float across a pale blue sky,, above a green green field, filled with rows of those who have passed away,,, my mother and father lie in one such.... fresh flowers, quiet, and sometimes not so, words drift…
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This is the first time I picked up and tried to play a guitar that is in 88 cent equal temperament - the tuning does not contain an octave. Since this was the first time I made some mistakes. Nonetheless I think it sounds interesting.
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Another sample from Texas Tonefreak. Commercially available in the usual places. I play this much slower now, which is how it should be played.
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