"I Wish You Knew" You've flown everywhere from Abu Dhabi to Zimbabwe Read every book and seen every foreign movie But what will quench your thirst? I wish you knew because that is what I need too. You hold multiple degrees from a couple of fancy…

"Dear Vacuum" Will you be my refuge? Be my haven from the truth Give me an impossible gift Give me an everlasting excuse To rebuild my delusions In perfect isolation Scientific loneliness There is nothing left to lose I hate the harshness…

"Mobius Waltz" Born of a snowflake What new form will I take? Must we shift our shape as pressure fluctuates? Are we the product of stardust and fallout gravity wells from which there's no way out? Selecting memories from a silver platter Thoughts…

"A Whiff of an Epiphany" A sharp burst of air cuts through the fanfare dries the idealized fantastic madness and the layer of satirical political sadness Release my hold on the dream Melt the nightmare's frozen scream The sum of it…

Even een sampletje voor de band.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Don-Blackburn/109630439067289?sk=app_57675755167 This is a picture of my daughter

from the upcoming Dream Chemical tape. 11/11/11 on hauntedsoundsystem

This is my punk version of Phil Collin's Against All Odds

Need some vocal ideas...

Rough cut - need some vocal ideas

This is the first original piece I've recorded. In 2001 when I was living in Toronto I met a girl called Amy Jones. She was and remains just a friend, but I thought her name sounded great for being part of a song lyric! So the song isn't about…

Radiohead have been my favourite band for a long time and this is the first song of theirs I really loved. I regularly sing this one at karaoke nights. The recording is me in my bedroom with my keyboard, and is based on the acoustic version from…

Shockingly I first became aware of this track while watching the 2009 film Watchmen (I'm a bit rubbish like that!). It is of course a beautiful Simon and Garfunkel song and although I get the accompaniment slightly wrong I think I've done a pretty…

Every male artist under the sun has a version of this classic Cohen track it seems. I am no exception! This one I only uncovered recently with a bad vocal track. I removed the vocals and stitched on some new ones, but it's a placeholder only…

This is the first thing I ever recorded using Garageband. The echoey effect in the background is the computer's processor fan - I'm playing the guitary sound back through the speakers! It's a slightly slow version of I Will by Radiohead and I…

The piano on this track is from my late grandmother's house - it's the piano I had growing up but eventually my gran gave us her grand piano and took our old upright. I think my brother has it now. Anyway, it's a dull, serviceable old beast but…

So this was my attempt at being nostalgic. I grew up in the UK in the era of Britpop where soulful working class bands sang about not very much in Northern accents. The words are pretty much meaningless, the drum beat is repetitive, the piano…

Another Radiohead cover. One of the first things I spent a lot of time working on. It's a five-piece a capella version, and my hard work really shows in the underlying harmony parts which are very tight. Sadly the melody part isn't quite up…

Hello, I thought I'd upload a track from 1993's Strange Beauty today. It was reviewed by the WMR (Weekly Module Reviews) team (in 1996 I'm guessing.) These reviews were published on "uesnet" about music posts to the same system - Usenet is an…

Been awhile since I've done some decent remixing, so I give you another NES classic. Castlevania. a game created for the NES by Konami back in 1986, with great music composed by Kinuyo Yamashita, was one of very few classics I managed to beat…

Trying to reach into the void. This one almost got away from me.

A song about discontent.

From the album JOE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH