Have you ever heard a traditional Irish folk song re-worked as a ska song? No? How about with an additional Spanish horn riff? Well, now you have! This song tells the story of an unfortunate guy who hooks up with a girl in the kitchen of her boss…

Beatnik Turtle's take on another ol' Irish classic.

We couldn't resist breaking out the traditional Irish instruments halfway through this one and going all Celtic on your arse.

This old song had a lot of braggin' in it. So, we couldn't resist giving it a bit of the old skool hip-hop flavor.

This song's extremely popular and so has been done to death. We decided if we were going to re-make this one, we had to try something new. So, we hit on the 7/4 time signature, the melodica (thought it was bagpipes, didja?), and arrangement. By…

Never, never again. How many times have we all uttered that statement the "morning after?" This song explores the regrets from the night before and blames it all on "devil drink cider called Johnny Jump Up".

Contrary to public opinion, the term "The Holy Ground" doesn't refer to the Emerald Isle. Nope. It's the name of a whore house that Irish sailors would visit. The Irish have quite a sense of humor...!

This is the first public output after going through about 40% of nickstutorials.com sound design series. All the sounds started off with my sampling myself either saying something, clicking my fingers or clapping. They were recorded through…

Something I came up with on a Sunday afternoon.

all the pounding waves drowning out the sound the sound is poison diving down below sinking very slow drown away the sound if I, can't make it stop your soliloquy I feel the death inside me in this succession the still and quiet I will succumb…

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Inspired by RFK's Mindless Menace of Violence Speech Lyrics Perhaps we can remember if only for a time that violence stops for no man being rich and poor,and black or white we share the same old dreams a captive moment in our lives…

Inspired by New Orleans Lyrics Left from Carolina headed for New Orleans started west out to Tennessee bout' then it started rainin' far as I could see I heard the levys broke and let in the sea Oh Mississippi flow flow to the…

Inspired by my love of New York.

an exploration,using a loop station and guitar rig effects,of musical soundscapes

Not for the kids....

Autumn in D minor (Instrumental)

Op. 15 Book II Exodus

Track 1 from the RPM 2009 challenge album.

Track 2 from the RPM 2009 challenge album. For my brother in Christ, Dave Fellows.

Track 3 from the RPM 2009 challenge album.

Track 7 from the RPM 2009 challenge album.

Track 8 from the RPM 2009 challenge album.

Track 9 from the RPM 2009 challenge album. This one is the odd-one-out from the album. I wanted to do something in February to commemorate Abraham Lincoln's Bicentennial. Of all the concepts I had, this is the only one to make it on the challenge…

Track 10 from the RPM 2009 challenge album.

I Believe by far my most beautiful instrumental track, much the opposite of You Forgot Bush's War Crimes. Maybe because I haven't commited any? I'm growing to accept that most of the time, my instrumentals should be short and sweet.

I've never heard "Horse with No Name" all the way through, and i wasn't trying to rip it off, but i really like the melody i wrote for this and it turned out to fit perfectly with the sound of the bass. Really proud of my composing on this track…

This was supposed to be my "folky" track, but I love the way this turned out. It was originally written Napalm Shoot up but My Chair took it's place on that album.

Drinking coffee at my modest kitchen table around noon, after just waking up, I starred out the skinny window next to my door and saw the back of a stairway. These Lyrics were partly inspired by Bukowski's style, partly remnants of growing up…

A couple months in a metal band called Season's Legion inspired this song. The lyrics were written in what we (Katie Lawrence Co-wrote) thought would be what their singer would have written for this type of song. The title was supposed to be…

Not much to say about this but that it's one of the first songs I actually wrote down every note for. I think that makes it a small cut above most of my instrumental songs.

Inspired partly by a co-worker who was a great, now lost musician. This track is somewhat about my five year stint in Gallup, New Mexico (Bob Dylan anyone?). This was written as a poem before I started writing Slumber Love.

I'm not usually good at mixing two of my songs together, but i think this turned out great. Maybe a little too Velvet Underground. Maybe nothing is ever too Velvet Underground... Written just for Abide.

This is one of the songs I wrote for Filthy Time that's been hiding in the back of a notebook waiting for music to be chugged out. I'm really glad I let this seep for a while before letting loose.

This song is one of the few i wrote just for Abide. I've been listening almost non-stop to Dylan's latest release and this is what I got out of it. I mean no disrespect to Bob, just trying to sing my songs.

I. The triumphant space pioneers land on the new planet, set up camp and decide to have a party.

II. Off in the distance, an ion storm is brewing while the space colonists enjoy cocktails on the spaceship's veranda.

III. The ion storm draws nearer to base camp, and with it, weird alien creatures that are part bug, part raw energy. The bugs play fetch with the elemental forces that surround them.

IV. While the space colonists are sleeping, the alien creatures descend on their camp. A battle between space bugs and the interstellar Orkin man ensues. The space pioneers beat a hasty retreat from the supercharged bugs.

V. The bug-like creatures celebrate their victory over the alien invaders (formerly known as space pioneers).

1, Intro to the arduous task of facing one's personal wall.

2. "This Wall Within Me" exposes the struggle to overcome one's own limitations during the RPM challenge. Story (and struggle) by Mick, music by Alan Hall

Self-titled opening track from Dead In The Water. Part one of the Format Sea suite.

Part 3 of the Format Sea suite. Probably the closest thing to honest-to-goodness electronica here.

Format Sea - Part Four. The outro. (One of the spots where I actually think I got the vocals fairly okay.)

Sorry - I forgot to take my medication when I came up with this one. It began as an exercise in strange sound effects, and developed into this exploration of headphone space.

There's some kind of Tool/Pain Of Salvation vibe to this one, albeit murked up by a lot of electronic ambience.