reloaded this in 44.1 a pedal steel gtr improv

*"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…

*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…

*What would I be thinking about if life had gone in a different direction? A dubstep/new wave hybrid.* **_Burial_** _meets_ **_Chameleons_.** You would have thought by now I’d be more concerned about More important things Like the cash in…

**_Underworld_** *with guitars instead of synthesizers. A sequel of sorts. Electronic rock.* A million drops of rain One sun behind the clouds A million stars in the milky way One moon is shining down A million notes I’ve scribbled One…

*Ever had problems falling asleep? This is a sort of goth track influenced by* **_Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy,_** _and Faith-era_ **_Cure_**. Dark modern electronic guitar rock.* Down the steps and into the dark Leave the kingdom above…

*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…

Title Track for the album. Title says it all.

Love song for space traveling teens

End of the album, end of our story

Music for a computer trying to find the answer to the ultimate question.

Surf Music for the outer reaches.

Human finds Alien Spacecraft drifting in space, this is he inner dialog of our fearless (fearful) hero.

To infinity and beyond!

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.

A song I wrote and recorded in one day (the day before the RPM Challenge ended, actually). I really stretched my abilities as a picker here (duff notes and all), but I shamefully admit I really like this song. A reminder to me of the strength…

Another song held over from my band days. Again, an attempted homage to the Velvets, but perhaps a little too shiny. I still plan to replace the cheesy 'solo' synth with glockenspiel somewhere down the line.

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.

An attempt to evoke images that weren't in the first-person. I tend to write in abstract fragments and this piece is no exception.

An exercise in configuring sonic spaces - it was only later that I realized the scathing lyrics were self-directed.

An older song from a previous band that was never quite captured to my satisfaction. I was going for very laid-back "Pale Blue Eyes" vibe.

A deceptively forceful song dealing with the death of my sister.

This is basically an accordion jam with a nice bass line!

Powerlounge - Electric Cheer An album created for the 2009 RPM Challenge, conceived to be eventually cut into vinyl, and arranged as such, in two halves. The track listing for side 1: Welcome to my Weird Bye Bye Baby Genius / Madness Negative…

this is based on the soundtrack of a film called september clues very interesting dunno if its true but fun all the same for conspiracy nuts....

This is the end of the journey. It's time to maybe think and reflect about some of the things we heard and then forget we ever heard them.

Why this represents 1993 is really quite a mystery to myself. I was 2 years old, so I've no idea why it strikes me as such a dark and mysterious year. I think I managed to get down exactly what I was thinking with this track.

The scene setter. This was the first track on the album and I've still got mixed feelings about it. Audibly, I like it. Cohesively, it doesn't REALLY fit in... My girlfriend told me "like it needs to represent the rest of the album. It grabs your…

There are too many amazing quotes from this film to not sample them SOMEWHERE in my album. Time after time, the 'yo-yo master' line got me laughing, so I thought I'd pay homage to it.

I would make the 70's sound more like this.

I'd be lying if I said this entire track wasn't sparked by the opening audio clip. It really made me think about the ways some people create their own enjoyment. Cool.

A bit less percussion and a bit more rhythm was the idea for this. I say that, but the track had a fully formed drum track alongside it until right at the last when I discarded it in a fit of creative temperament.

This track is the introduction to the main bulk of the album. It says "WELCOME TO RPM '09" and doesn't let you go until you've gotten to "Dancing With The Midnight Waves", the penultimate track.

Musical tribute to the ideas of Jane Jacobs (author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities) and Christopher Alexander (author of The Timeless Way of Building).

Good old dulcimer bash-up. This is certainly the most aggressive song I've played on dulcimer. I'm sure all those people with solid-body electric dulcimers have done worse...

Words are from a sestina of the same title by Steve Davenport, who asked us to make music out of it! This was a terribly fun song to record. We did it, of course, while drinking. Thankfully no instruments were harmed.

I'm going to get all pretentious again and say this one is about the concerning strain of what I might call "religious modernist traditionalism" espoused by technological singularity fanatics (Ray Kurzweil) and authors like Neil Stephenson.

I lit a string on fire...

This song was recorded illegally. Please don't rat us out.

through the dead branches, through the dead branches

I (Al) wrote this song way back, just before the start of the current Iraq war. But it comes back to my mind every time a politician utters words matching a regex something like /(capture and )?kill (Osama )?Bin Laden/. It happened to be Obama…

*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…

*Electronic rock* I've been reading so much information About my situation A chemical mix that I must fix I think it's magnesium Pills three times a day I changed the food that I ate Re-uptake takes time I'm sure I'll be fine I can…

*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…

*Ambient, downtempo electronic rock* As a baby the car’s engine put me to sleep. My parents drove all night And they raised me by the TV screen Now I wake to static late at night At 30,000 feet above the earth The Rolls-Royce thrusters…

*Electronic rock* 0 machine, 0 mirror Can you make the picture clearer? And bring me nearer to thee? Make me 1ne, make me (w)h0le Scan my imperfect soul And correct the mistakes that you see You're everything I want You're everything…

*Electronic rock* I am painting a picture with blood and wire I am writing my story in glass and fire It's almost right It's almost nice Just one more twist and I'll be fixed Perfect, so perfect This pound of flesh Perfect, so perfect…

*Ambient with vocals* Forget everything Drift in the white noise ocean The sun is rising Let go of yourself See the beautiful blankness It’s Monday morning This won’t hurt a bit Breathe in a clean new program It’s time to wake up

*Electronic rock with a strong dubstep and* **_Burial_** *influence* There's no going back to how it used to be I've known it all along But I didn't want to see Command-Z CTRL-Z There is no "undo" And like it or not, this is you…

*Rap/Hip-Hop with drum machines, synthesizers, and vocals* A lady friend backed up to me last week She gazed into my eyes and then she pinched my cheek She whispered "Take me to my house and you can watch the show" She said "Come check out…