Vandenburgh: Volume 3 (2009)

Vandenburgh: Volume 3 (2009)

Vandenburgh: Volume 3 (2009)

Vandenburgh: Volume 3 (2009)

Vandenburgh: Volume 3 (2009)

Vandenburgh: Volume 3 (2009)

Vandenburgh: Volume 3 (2009)

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…

*Instrumental electronic hip-hop*

Instrumental electronic hip-hop

Instrumental electronic hip-hop

*Instrumental electronic hip-hop*

*Instrumental electronic hip-hop*

*Instrumental electronic hip-hop with electric piano*

*Instrumental electronic hip-hop*

From the Chill Productions "Planets" project.

From the Chill Productions "Planets" project. What it feels like to fly through Saturn's rings, into its atmosphere, and back out.

Inspired by the Max Ernst painting.

Chorus is NSFW. Inspired by responses to one of my Facebook status updates requesting suggestions for song ideas. I incorporated all of the ideas offered. Took less than 2 hours, start to finish, to write and record. I really like the synth melodies…

I love the Commodore 64. Still have two of them. And a C-128. For me, this song captures the loony spirit of some of the Commodore games I loved playing.

Bluegrass banjo, southern rock drums, goofy synths, vocoded chorus, and DnB rhythms. Technically has a NSFW word in the lyrics, but probably not discernable.

Inspired by a trip to Japan during which I needed to obtain another towel for my friend Dave so he could take a shower. All I really knew how to ask of the hotel staff was "Where is the bathroom?" Hilarity ensued.

Distorted synths and drums, with some grit and an e. e. cummings poem read by the man himself. I am particularly fond of how this one came together, especially at the end.

A dance sundae with some samples sprinkled on top. Not my favorite, but was fun to record.

Dreamy instrumental with piano, middle eastern percussion, and deep bass. Inspired by William Orbit.

A lonely, slow, tune... with a forlorn and sometimes tense distorted guitar (actually my bass). Good music to listen to as you zone out and stare into space.

Melodic, peaceful, and trance-inducing instrumental. Used a synth clav as the underlying thematic instrument, then layered a few other things on top. The "guitar" counter-melody at the end is me playing a bass in the upper registers.

This is the first track I recorded for my 2009 RPM Challenge CD. The music was written in January, but the lyrics were written by a good friend of mine, Sparky Adams, in 1972 right after he returned from Vietnam. Check it out!

Sample-based beat project. Incorporates some pre-made synth sounds as well as highly processed samples from a track called Dying Moon by a friends' band. Public domain audio clip of first moonwalk from archive.org

minimal techno trance

Track 1 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".

dance trance techno

Track 2 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".

Track 3 from the 2005 RMR release "Spoke Of Shadows".