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Here's a song about that crush on the teacher many of us will remember - but maybe not totally admit...
Many thanks to another cultural landslide (http://alonetone.com/anotherculturallandslide ) for sending a neat MIDI riff for this song. We…
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This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
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This is from our album, "When I Was Your Age," recorded entirely in the month of February for our third year participating in the RPM Challenge. "When I Was Your Age" is a collection of 13 songs looking back at when we were kids.
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This is a remake of a song I wrote a long time ago. I think I was influenced by Peter Gabriel's "Intruder" and "Family Snapshot", two songs where he travels into the mind of the deranged. So in this case we don't know what the offense was exactly…
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this is the slightly sparkly version of my version of Moschell's "Boxes and Strings" from his 'Circus of Freaks and Fools' RPM Challenge CD. I recorded it as a video last night and redid it in the studio (unfinished sauna) today.
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A cover of David Marcoullier's excellent piece. All lyrics and music are by him, and this is just my version.
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Worked on this track at the end of January.. Then the RPM came and it did not fit with the other tunes... so I decided to get off my behind and upload it for you all to enjoy. Takes place at the zoo,
the plot is, of course, two chimps in love...
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About a trip to Des Moines, Iowa, more info here.
http://www.sonador.us
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Guitar and Drums recorded Oct 16, 2008; Vocals and Bass recorded on Oct 19, 2008. Drums arranged with DrumTrack.
http://www.sonador.us
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Bass Heavy Guitar and Hydrogen Drums recorded Jan 9, 2008; Lead Guitar and Vocals recorded Jan 15, 2008; All tracks recorded in one take to a Tascam Portastudio 424 MKIII.
http://www.sonador.us
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My friend Nihco and I found the piano and vibes sitting on the stage after school one day, and there happened to be some mics near both of them. The background noise is actually people who were sitting and talking in the hall, as we were too lazy…
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Using the fox trot beat from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with the composer on all other instruments. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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Using cha cha and rhumba beats from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with all other instruments played by the composer. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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Using the rock & roll and fox trot beats from the 1958 record album "Rhythm Accompaniment", with the composer playing all other instruments. Written and recorded in February 2009 for the RPM Challenge.
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You know when you're creating something and it comes out exactly how you wanted it, and then it becomes you favorite? This one is still my favorite and has not been dethroned yet.
The song is all by me - words, vocals, bass, the "guitar…
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driving that Infiniti all along the coast
doctor of divinity - I didn't mean to boast
with your strange affinity for whiskey & coke
and looking at the stars
brother Shawn, here's a disk for your collection
we're gonna go check out this here…
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My instrumental compositian for the great state of Louisiana.
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My song honoring the only man lost during the journey of the Corps of Discovery.
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My song about the hazards of the Missouri River.
A snag is an above water branch and a sawyer is a below water log or branch. Hence, "Tom Sawyer," from Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens).
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My story song about an indian site on the Missouri River near Boone county Mo.
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My story song in honor of Pierre Cruzatte, the one eyed fiddler of the Corps of Discovery.
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A punk/pop tune relating to my being a bit of a soap-dodger. Or so my lady says.
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Hey, notice the new forum section... Track Therapy? discuss with me: http://alonetone.com/forums/track-therapy/topics/help-me-find-direction-for-this-track
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Protest song about the war in Iraq. Very Incubus influenced from the Light Grenades album
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An RPM 2009 song. Well, this was a personal story for me that came about when your past intersects (briefly) with the present.
Lyrics:
20 years running through time and I remember
all the magic lines
that in our younger days
we drew…
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The lyrics were co-written with Mike Novak. I sent him the music, and we worked from there. I've done that a bunch with friends from Canada (Me Man Jack - check them out) and its fun to collaborate..
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This is my newest song made using Reason 4. Compositionally it might get slightly repetitive but I am hoping that there is enough variation that it will keep the listeners attention through the whole piece. Enjoy and let me know what you like…
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For some reason the first upload of this plays faster than it should, hopefully this will play at the correct speed, I will leave the other up as some people seem to like it
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This is the finished version of Trance-Indental. the second half has come out very different to what I thought it would, but I like it. Give it time to build as it progresses.
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A grief song. You know this place. If you don't then move on while you still can. Seriously. Don't click ..
This is a tidied up version, I managed to get rid of some of th noise and rebalance the vocals 18/3/09
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Banjo and Guitar and Vocal. Sometimes you don't want to look back.
this si now a tidied up version of this track 18/3/09
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Accompanied by Jim Bouchard on Slide Guitar, this is "the way my people does". The unsung heroes.
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There's a whole mythology woven into this song, and hence into the album, and the weave is fine and warm.
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Remedies are funny things. You want to get better but you don't want to change.
This is now a minimally tidied up version of this track 18/3/09
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I'm still sort of working on this and may upload a revised version
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A song all about the passing of time, the seasons, love and life
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This is written by my friend Stuart Walker, and he gave me permission to record this for my RPM 2009 album. It reminded me of early Leonard Cohen so I took it in that direction with the finger picking and spookiness
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reading too much sci-fi makes you paranoid and using too many effects pedals can make your songs repetitive, loud, and long.
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i don't know. another paranoid delusion, i guess.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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An instrumental track recorded for the RPM Challenge 2009.
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*Modern electronic rock. Guitar, synthesizer, samples, drums.*
*Sounds like **_Depeche Mode_** *and **_U2_**.
*Recorded at The Hive in 1997. Mixed with* **_Ken Kessie._**
*When you're depressed, nobody wants to see you.*
You all said…
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Folk waltz with great harmony
The video is live acoustic in my living room
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A work in progress. I like singer songwriter ftuff but also like to play around with trance and the like.
This has a way to go yet but maybe you could give a little feedback
Thanks
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Folky song about a mans life at sea. written a few years ago.
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This was done using a vocal track that Imogen Heap put up. This is my music to back that up. 90% of it was done using a roland guitar synth, the gr20
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A model of the Solar System which whirls and turns all the planets in their correct orbits at the correct relative speeds
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I believe the recording in the background is from a spy station. The other is a Spanish sonnet.
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I could not turn off certain synthesizers while I was programing this one, so I kept it as it was. Desperate sounding, I thought.
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Tartessos (possibly the "Tarshish" of the Bible) was a fabulous city in Southern Spain that the Greeks and Phoenecians often visited. I wanted to evoke a sense of adventure.
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The first track begun, the last one finished. My attempto write a techno-middle eastern fugue!
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Aural and astral travel to fabled lands and back.
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i have replaced the old file with this as it is more compatible num
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Written and performed quickly (approx 2 hours) during a "dark day". This is not a political song but rather a song about the "helpless feeling" during the current strange economic times.
When I used to get down I'd put on an old song I loved…
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Rhythmic groove with bass and "guitars". In addition to the obvious bass track, the two distorted "guitar" tracks are actually also basses, EQ'ed and altered with various effects to sound less bassy and more guitary.
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Dreamy instrumental with piano, middle eastern percussion, and deep bass. Inspired by William Orbit.
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Bluegrass banjo, southern rock drums, goofy synths, vocoded chorus, and DnB rhythms. Technically has a NSFW word in the lyrics, but probably not discernable.
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My re-imagining of a piece by kjwise as a Harold Budd/Brian Eno-ish collaboration.
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*Instrumental electronic hip-hop with electric piano*
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A rewrite and expansion of one of my original songs, from a time when I was distrustful of things like drum samples and dynamics. ;P I don't mind discouraging those ninety-nine out of a hundred listeners with noisy glitchiness if it suits the…
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Written on a temporary absence from the internet, this is me retreating into my shell (and taking half damage.)
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(1 of 5 in "Tree Haus" cycle) I regret not doing more about the stodginess of this song - it's the lowpoint of the album to me. Perhaps you disagree but I still wince my way through this. Alas.
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Here's the first time you hear the "Love ZZZV" theme reprised in a slightly different way. Then we morph into a style someone described to me as being medieval. Me, I'm not convinced they liked noise interludes all those centuries ago...
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Thanks for listening to my album, "Love ZZZV"! This opening track is still my favourite of the nine because it features nothing I'd call a mistake and still leaves me in wonder just as to how I wrote it. The extended, classic tracker-style soloing…
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A very simple experiment with layered electric guitars and some laidback beats.
Copyright © 2009 Tiago Castro Henriques, some rights reserved (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
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*Hanging out with the young people. I don't get this music. Stolen loops. A Korg PolySix. This is the best of 3 complete versions of this track I recorded.*
I grow more obsolete with each passing day
I used to be so bright when I knew how…
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*A true story. Marasmus. The Duke University Talent Identification Program.* **_Chris Fudurich_** *played some guitar and gave some good guidance on this track*
In 1969 an experiment was devised
20 babies were kept alive
All alone
They…
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*Missing one person is worse than missing everyone. "Julia" by* **_Eurythmics._** *Scratchy records remind me of rain.* **_Gary Numan's_** *"The Seed of a Lie".*
When I awake, you are gone
And the poison memories bubble up, one by one
Of…
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Grew out of my frustration at having to sing, play all the instruments, and engineer my own recording...
Baby, Would You Be My Engineer?:
Baby, would you be my engineer
and keep my headphones sounding clear?
I desperately need someone…
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electric piano*
I start off each morning with my favorite drug
Cook it up in the kitchen and take a slug
Coffee so black it helps me to wake
Prepared to attack the problems I face
Maybe it's keeping my blood pressure high…
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*Rap/Hip-hop with glitchy electronic beats.*
It's 20 years since this started up
Let me tell you how it was:
a 4-track Radio Shack tape deck
Hissing overdubs
I tried to get it down
Record what I had to say
I thought I had all the time…
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*Rap/Hip-Hop with electronics and glitchy beats*
I had a friend with a problem that everyone ignored
Pretending not to notice when he fell onto the floor
Never asked a question when he showed up late
Lacerations from a situation
Bruises…
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*Electronic rock. Sounds like* **_IAMX_** *and* **_Depeche Mode_**
This is much better than it’s ever been before
Much more real
More rich
More speed
More more
I feel like I could go forever and it only hurts when I stop
This is much…
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*Electronic rock with jungle/drum-and-bass influence*
I've never really felt that I was ever good enough
But even I can be improved if I just stay tough
My teeth are metal reinforced
My eyes are plastic lens
And daemons run inside my head…
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Original working title was something like, "And after six years I finally understood why they sing in the streets here, and could go home." It's sort of about anonymity in the modern city. If that sounds pretentious, that's because it is.
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I am concerned with the values of my generation.
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Easily my favourite track on the album. This was a real forced number at the start of it's life; I was well behind my song quota (5 finished on the 23rd... time to worry) and I needed to knock something out at least. Something clicked about an…
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A song that ended up in an entirely different place than from where it began. It was meant to have a dark 'David Gray' kind of feel, but ended up being the love child of 'Love and Rockets' and 'Stars on 45.'
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A song that really crept out of nowhere and one that I don't entirely understand its meaning. Some things in the song I can pinpoint the origin, but some I haven't a clue. I'm really happy with the way it turned out - semi-ok vocal and all.
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A blatant attempt at exploiting the deep well of The Jesus and Mary Chain/Pixies/Raveonettes/House of Love. A lovingly loud, shiny and guitar-laden paean to those great bands.
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This song has been hobbling around half-written in my psyche for eons, and it took the RPM Challenge to finally finish it!
Like many of my generation, my first peek into the world of women (and what they looked like under their clothes) was National…
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The Aliens are landing and a doomsaying prophet is declaring it the end of the world!
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Instrumental love song for a groovy space chick!
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*Memories, memories before the end.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian_** *and* **_Fennesz._**
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
I remember sunshine
I remember you
I remember laughing
Do you remember
I do
I remember driving
I remember the…
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*The boat left without me.
Sounds like* **_David Sylvian, Fennesz, The Cure_**.
*Ambient guitar and vocals*
Stayed under too long
I guess
I lost track of time
Why didn’t you think to check
If I was alright?
There’s not too much sun…
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*My take on something like a* **_Neil Young_** *song ("After The Goldrush" meets "Revolution Blues"?)*
*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
Well I woke in a cold sweat from a dreamless sleep
The winds were blowing papers through the empty…
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*Dark modern electronic guitar rock*
You can hear it just below the blowing wind
Feel it in the nerves beneath your skin
Catch a glimpse as you drift away at night
But you can’t decode the meaning inside
Distant shrieking sets your teeth…
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*"We all live in a little Village...your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners." -* **_Patrick McGoohan_**
Modern electronic guitar rock.
One day you awaken in a different place
Where the names…
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The Trinity and Humanity. An interview of Tim Chester by Andrew Cook for the radio programme, Serving Today. www.gbm.org.uk/radio.
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A totally sheltered and unable to cope middle-class white kid screws up really badly and is on the run. I don't think he'll make it. Do you?
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you tell me what you want
you tell what you need
i cant give you nothing honey
but this pretty little seed
where has the sun gone
and is it gone forever
will it come back someday
should we just give it some time
i ask you what…
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Another attempt at a Carol Kaye-bassline, slightly more succesfull. I quite like how this turned out although it's kinda slick and not something I could really use in another context (it just sounds like I didn't make it myself which I quite like…
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This started sounding quite Nick Caveish and at the same time I wanted to do something with Joe Meek; so it's a murderballad-variation on Johnny Remember me. There's stylophone and theremin in there. The theremin is quite effective at some points…
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The Dutch painter Mondrian was apparantly a fervent dancer to Boogie Woogie and that image stuck because he seems such a stiff guy otherwise. So I thought that would make a funny subject for a dance-tune. Normally I wouldn't make a song about…
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Here the idea was that I was going to write from the viewpoint of someone who is paralyzed from the neck down and can through technology only watch other peoples life but not participate. It turned out a bit more general and ambiguous than that.
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Lyrics:
I'm not sleeping
I'm staring at the ceiling
My mind's a thousand miles away
I'm finding faces in the shapes
of plaster that was scraped on the ceiling
Killing time is not so bad
but when you're trapped inside your head…
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Hurtling towards oblivion thanks to a giant catapult owned by a foul-mouthed voodoo child, he sends a final lewd finger gesture back to the world he sought escape from.
Unbeknownst to him, Voodoo Boy may have a vested interest in using him…
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The monitors of the omniverse are bored out of their mind, and wish something would happen to break the monotony.
There are some things that transcend the laws of physics - Murphy's Law is one of those things.
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May be a little soft for…
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Oh crap - somebody broke the multiverse. I should have known those #?%! black holes were a serious security flaw.
We were really meaning to fix that, but never got around to it. (It would have cut into our golf time.)
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Even the cosmos needs system maintenance. When its IT department decides to delete something, sometimes that something doesn't want to go without a fight. Even computer viruses will do what they can to avoid the reaping hand of a virus checker…
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Rough sketch of a proposed dreamy 12 string piece that I couldn't pull off on the 12 string so did this quick electric version with vocal pads. Not sure of the recording quality- sounds OK in my cans and kinda crappy on my monitors. Recorded march…
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An instrumental song about happiness and puppies and vampires and possibly vampire puppies.
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Just under the wire (it's Feb 28, 23:47 in my timezone)... last track for RPM09
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The cosmic equivalent of standing on a ledge and jumping off, except, like Mr. Hawking established, black holes sometimes regurgitate their meals - the original matter is usually corrupted in the process.
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From the RPM 2009 album: "Like A…
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From the RPM Challenge 2009 album - "Like A Dark Mirror Keeping Its Secrets":
Native American Industrial?
Sample credits will appear with album info once posted.
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sung by my family for my mum's upcoming birthday
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Written while awaiting a CD from one of the artists who participated in the 08 version of RPM.
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