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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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I drift through tangled simulated frameworks and kaleidoscopic pixels, the simulation breaking down into a series of patchwork islands on a fractal sea. There is the faintest din of activity from the navigation system, but I'm in no shape to act…
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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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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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Maya Mind is a palette of sonic soundscapes whereby listeners can imagine the accompanying storylines.
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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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Women's march, Salt Lake City, Jan 18, 2025. What will 4th wave feminism look like? How are we perceived by the world? Opening lyrics and melody from dreams.
Kat: vocals, lyrics, keys
It isn’t over
they won’t leave us in the dust
It’s never…
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Was in a good mood and figured I'd give this a shot. Having a little fun :-)
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Well, trying to be at least a little bit reggae-like. Came out okay..... I hope.
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The beach was deserted
We walked at the water’s edge
I knew she was a gift
As close as our future steps
Sunset forgot us
While we discovered life’s
Underformed questions
Washing onto naked feet
The wind rolled in
Carrying the moon…
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2025 RPM Challenge idea number 15 becomes finished song number one.
As I was working on this I had dreams of it being good enough to consider this year's RPM Challenge album's single. Now that it's done? Probably not.
Rhythm guitars are…
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Song 8 for my 2025 RPM Challenge. Experimented with my very old Bass...that doesn't keep its tune very well! Onward I say. Thanks for anyone out there who listens - much appreciated xoox
I don’t want to suffer
I don’t want to cry
I don’t…
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Mid-RPM Challenge 2025 music.
This was inspired by my Stratocaster. Hadn't played this axe in a few years.
Gonna fix that!
More to come by 28 FEB 2025 deadline!
Be well!
-dave
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Broke out my antique TR-707 for this, needed that basketball-on-asphalt kick drum sound. Nicely forces everything into 8-bar chunks but kinda forced me to do a fadeout. I think I managed a decent "bridge" on this.
Lyrics:
I met a mighty…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 09
Written 14th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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**Lost - A A J Russe**
We watch
As the memories
Surely have to fade
The past
That we used to know
Is written in the shade
Without…
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**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2025**
Song number 08
Written 13th - 14th Feb
Demo recorded 15th Feb
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**The Best Of You - A A J Russe**
You’ve got a way with words
People seem to understand
People seem to want to know
Both what…
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Rachel & I went to see the new Bob Dylan movie "The complete unknown" last night of which I throughly enjoyed although Bob did come across as a bit of an arse at times. But anyway I was having a strum and thought I'd try and write a song in…
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A country style drinking tune about a hard-to-understand relationship with a woman lover. This song also has origins in the early 1980's.
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A ballad about what the lady preacher said at my older sister's wedding in the late 1970's.
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A Blues instrumental composition that is inspired by the passing of a loved one.
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A Cajun style tune with a benign political theme.
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Another for the RPM
Reg starts to thinking about things...
Why did God give us thought?
Everyones afraid of the darkness
close your eyes you dissapear
Suddenly you are nothing but a voice
Syllables of sound a constant…
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Another RPM
Reg is dreaming of summer ....
Tangerine
I’m lost in myself on this cold Febuary morning
Walking the dogs trying to smiling inside
But my heart feels sad its yearning for the sunshine
Where everything…
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Another RPM
Things are looking up for Reg I mean its nearly spring
Spring
I think I hear a whisper
I think I hear the whisper
Of spring
its on its way
I can see the snow drops starting to climb back into the world…
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Another RPM
Reg is looking back on his childhood.
Mama says i can't play with you no more
I don’t know how I’m gonna tell you
But mama says I can’t play with you no more
Your not like all the other boys
I can’t play with you no…
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Another RPM
Reg has turned matchmaker he's better at that than being a partner himself
Love makes their world roll
I had a friend who told me, he wasn’t the man he should have been
He’d got tangled in his mind and…
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Another RPM
Reg is just turning himself inside out
Inside out
Everything seems inside out
My guess is thats what its all about
No body knows, how I feel
Everythings hidden, no one, has a clue
No one knows how I…
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Another Rpm Reg is still sad ......
A sad song
I’m going to sing you a song
It won’t take long
The story is sad
But the story isn’t long
I’ll begin the song
About a woman who’s dead
Died in her sleep
alone in her bed…
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One for the Rpm challenge poor old Reg he always has to run he has the fear of love ....will he ever be happy?
I gotta leave
Well I’ve been running from my love for you
Don’t ask me why I’m being stupid
Just seems…
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This cold weather has got me writing and recording. It's a great life!
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Wrote the lyrics to this piece over thirty years ago. Had a hard time putting it to music.
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I think there is a law that all songwriters have to do a train song.
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Every man should have a woman like this. Why? I don't know, but they should.
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© Subjektivni Sud 2014
Dobar dan, gospodjo gde vam je kcer
vec sedmi dan nema je
kod nje bas fino mirise
kod nje bas mirise na ljubav
izgleda da mi je bas to
kod nje nedostajalo
ja misionar juznih drzava
jug
paket za nju
jug
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Song 5 for my RPM Challenge (the half way mark!). Decided to use my Juno synthesizer for this one - I love that thing. Did this yesterday after a nice winter hike. Thank you to anyone out there who listens - much appreciated xoxo
You touch…
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The tune for this came to me in November of 2024 - the month of the holy souls. The arrangement of it came more gradually as I decided how I wanted to produce it.
Prayer for Eternal Rest (The Requiem Prayer)
Eternal rest grant unto them…
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