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“White coral islands in a dark blue sea.
Luminous clouds of hyacinth flakes.
Jet-black snow and hailstones flavored like oranges.
Pink snow, flakes the size of saucers.
“Vast things poised like crows over the moon.
Dark shadows crossing…
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“There doesn't seem to be anything to discuss. A needle that no one ever lost, in a haystack that never was.
“We've been damned by giants, sound asleep. Things that are leprous to the faithful. Things that deep-sea fishes are bumped by…
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“The fittest survive. Not the strongest; not the cleverest -- Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. ‘Fitness,’ then, is only another name for ‘survival.’” – Charles…
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“All imaginings that materialize into machines or statues, buildings, dollars, paintings or books in paper and ink are graduations from unrealness to realness.” – Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919
Various electrical doodads played…
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“A very interesting and curious phenomenon happened. Our greasy, shiny brains may be of some use after all.” – Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, 1919
VCV Rack patch with drums added in Reaper.
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Robbie (or I guess Danny) is really ready to go to the beach! (Also, when I read the title, I thought of a hurricane warning... It’s been a long couple of years!)
Robbie Robinson – lyrics, songwriting, vocals, guitars, bass, recording
Daniel…
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Robbie and his buddy Danny came up with the words for this one, and Robbie recorded most of the instruments on his own. I (Kevin) just added MIDI drums.
Robbie Robinson - lyrics, vocals, songwriting, guitars, bass, recording
Daniel Shea…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 19 becomes finished song number 20.
The 20th and final song worked on for this year's RPM. I think we're going out on a high note this year. I like this one. Everything is working for me except for the…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number four becomes finished song number 17.
I'm waffling between not liking this song and thinking it's just meh.
The guitar in your left speaker is a Les Paul Custom and the one in your right is a Les Paul…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number nine becomes finished song number 15.
This one is not going to make the RPM Challenge album cut. That middle bridge section... what was I thinking? Laughably bad.
The rhythm guitar in your left speaker…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 18 becomes finished song number 14.
I like the song all right, but the performance could have (should have) been better. It's okay, I guess.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure…
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A bit of Frankenstein of a song, lyrics cobbled from old lyric fragments, with variations on bass and melody and piano motifs, like I couldn't make my mind up where it was heading. Something about it, so has made the cut!
*Tech Notes*
Hmm…
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The song started life as more sonic doodles using the Numanesque 1979 synth emulators -- so if you think it's 80s, you're a year out!
Was also working on transitions from verse to chorus (as I've listened to too many fawmers doing this rather…
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TL;DR: it's got percussion in it.
I had an idea for percussion-heavy song: that I found tough to articulate because it's not a usual thing for me. More practice required.
I dialled back the bpm as the percussion became (even more) a wall of…
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This started out from some sound design doodlery. A couple of the synths I've been using have some non-standard routing options, so I've been getting better acquainted. They're not modular, though the Reason hosted stuff does have visible, virtual…
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I sold my upright piano earlier this year: it had been underused for a while and my head's been buried in the DAW for a long time. So played arpeggios into DAW instead. Then quantised them within a inch of their lives. More doodles with the Backbone…
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Ditty with jangles, bass and celloish thing (all Halion) and plenty of triplets. [Drum sounds from Groove Agent; edited using the new Drum Pattern editor. New for Cubase that is ... but every other DAW has had for 20 years, I suspect.] Vocal synths…
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Hmm. The trigger was to use a random Wikipedia page [via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random ] -- it gave me a 1990s Brazilian film I'd never heard of. Although it sparked a song, the verses that more obviously related to the film got…
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I'd been recommended some free plug-ins for DAWs. One of these plug-ins emulated synths from yesteryear that were bizarrely nostalgia inducing. Which led me down a path to a sort-of retro style song. It's possibly anachronistic: I didn't check…
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Not _entirely_ sure where this came from, probably the muted trumpet sound, that's only possible to play in the wearing-a-black-turtle-neck style. Other motifs followed suit.
'Tis mainly from Cubase Halion sounds ... Reason double bass, and…
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TL;DR: this is a synth-pop track about being true to yourself.
For the last couple of days of January, I'd been listening to Pete Shelley's "Homosapien"¹, on repeat, like a deranged teenager. The idea was to overdose on a song I liked, so that…
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*Lyrics*
Looking down at the scars
Seeing bars on your window
There's a beauty
In the broken life I see
Don't cover the tears
Glory in your flawed story
Scratch the surface
To let it bleed
Roll up your sleeves
We choose to sing…
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This song had been a "fragment" for a couple of years -- a state the befalls many an aspiring melodic doodle, sound design or chord cadence.
This time, the glockenspiel melody that formed the initial draft had another iterative polish, together…
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If I'm being kind to myself, I'll say that I wrote this in a "through-composed" style. Truth is it probably required another verse etc., to nudge the song's story along and provide some semblance of structure. Instead, I was enjoying myself adding…
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With thanks to FBJ Matt [https://fatboyjamz.bandcamp.com/] for the title, which inspired the lyrics and overall intent.
The vocals are largely from synths (I input the melody and lyrics, the synth -- Vocaloid in this case -- generates the tone…
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I don't sing many songs: this one's a duet with Sarah, who _can_ hold a note.
Piano sound from Verve (the plug-in, not the band). I like the affected sounds: like socks & nails stuffed in the wires. Wonky zither from Vital, drone from x…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 14 becomes finished song number 10.
This isn't so bad. I used the just-loop-the-bass gimmick and while that sometimes works for me, this time it just feels super repetitive. Not bad, just not very good…
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Music and Lyrics by Sam Wells (c) 2025
An RPM project
Lead Vocals - Felicia (Dreamtonics)
Backing Vocals - Solaria (Eclipsed), Sheena (Dreamtonics) and Hayden (Dreamtonics)
Verse 1:
He wore my face, but his eyes were dead
Like his…
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Radioactive Particulate Matter 118bpm
Music and Words © 2025 by WGP ⎮ All Rights Reserved
Composing, recording, programming and words by Thorsten Hürter & Jørn Erdmann
This track was made in February 2025 especially for the RMP Challange…
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“Transient” was created and mixed on February 21-25, for the 2025 RPM Challenge. It is essentially a trance remix of "Homesick."
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number three becomes finished song number eight.
I had this idea of having a shortish instrumental as the opening song of the album. Sort of like a prelude.
I wish I had thought better because this "song" absolutely…
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It all started with a tinkle on the ivories
Blue eyed boy
some say you’ve got it
The gift of the gab
The harmonious Tounge
That can sing a love song
With all the good intentions gone
Somewhere some blue eyed boy weeps all…
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Within the holographic display of the Generation Ship, this was the first dream that they programmed. It would repeat and echo itself across an infinite number of simulated lifetimes, adding some tender warmth to the Great Sleep.
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At first, all the cogs and gears worked gracefully. Those hibernated on the Generation Ship lived happily under the watchful eye of its holographic array, in a state of simulated bliss.
I could only watch from behind glass. A conductor cannot…
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Over millennia, the Generation Ship passed through the light of thousands of suns. Its sheathing was designed to protect its delicate equipment and sensitive cargo from the hazards of the Dangerous Space.
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Under the holographic array, those hibernated experienced one lifetime after another, fueled by the seeds of the Root Dream. The Root Dream danced with their own memories from a dead planet, and spawned a plethora of evolving child dreams. Each…
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The mindlink to the holographic array is in critical condition. I'm working with an ion refabricator to repair the apparatus, while simultaneously keeping tabs on the Generation Ship itself through a parallel link to the navigation system. Sparks…
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3 part midi piano Instrumental
it’s a little long but great background de-stress music 😉
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number 12 becomes finished song number five.
This is quite the sloppy mess, I think.
Rhythm guitars are a Takamine F-400 S 12-string into a Shure SM57. Leads are a Gibson Les Paul Custom into a Mooer E-Lady into…
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I was talking to someone about "sus" chords and decided to use as many as I could. The theme of the song came naturally.
I can remember what my mother told me many years ago
There’s a cloud that follows me everywhere I go
She said it…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number two becomes finished song number four.
You know, I was a music major in my past. 1989-1991 I attended the University of Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts (it changed its name to UMass Lowell during my last…
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2025 RPM Challenge song idea number one becomes finish song number three.
Dumb rocker with a not-so-terrible chorus, I guess.
The rhythm guitars are a Gibson Les Paul Custom coming out of your left speaker and a Gibson Les Paul Standard…
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Sample credit: Astronauts conversation_2.mp3 by oae888 -- https://freesound.org/s/541587/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
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Sample credit: River Archive: Thames River - Thames Path - July 21 2024 by ilmari_freesound -- https://freesound.org/s/747651/ -- License: Creative Commons 0
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Note: new mix uploaded. Hard-panned guitars were overwhelming on mono speaker setups.
Been around enough to see
The people standing over me
Go from wearing suits and ties
To anything that they desire
I have much experience
To know when…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 12
Written 19th Feb
Demo recorded 22nd Feb
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I knew a girl called Julia, over 40 years ago, I still write songs about her.
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**I Can Hear Your Voice - A A J Russe**
I didn…
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