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Rhythmic groove with bass and "guitars". In addition to the obvious bass track, the two distorted "guitar" tracks are actually also basses, EQ'ed and altered with various effects to sound less bassy and more guitary.
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Written on a temporary absence from the internet, this is me retreating into my shell (and taking half damage.)
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Grew out of my frustration at having to sing, play all the instruments, and engineer my own recording...
Baby, Would You Be My Engineer?:
Baby, would you be my engineer
and keep my headphones sounding clear?
I desperately need someone…
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This is a track from our album "Fallen They Be" submitted as a part of the RPM Challenge 2009.
Guitar - James Blair
Guitar, Drums - Jason Hannah
Vocals, Keyboards - Casey J. Payne
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*Rap/Hip-hop with glitchy electronic beats.*
It's 20 years since this started up
Let me tell you how it was:
a 4-track Radio Shack tape deck
Hissing overdubs
I tried to get it down
Record what I had to say
I thought I had all the time…
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A song that ended up in an entirely different place than from where it began. It was meant to have a dark 'David Gray' kind of feel, but ended up being the love child of 'Love and Rockets' and 'Stars on 45.'
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This song has been hobbling around half-written in my psyche for eons, and it took the RPM Challenge to finally finish it!
Like many of my generation, my first peek into the world of women (and what they looked like under their clothes) was National…
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electronic nutsiness made in reason and then imported into cubase, one of my favorites, incidentally
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another one i always play on the guitar, inspired by Nick Drake's stuff; half way through this song goes into unknown guitar improvisational territory, where i just played over my own stuff after looping it
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that is not a sample you hear in the background, it is the dryer going. leave it in? okay, sure i'll leave it in. it's these artistic decisions we're all forced to make.
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didn't know what to call this track, but once i came up with a title, it wrote itself! i heard on npr about how all this junk of ours is making outerspace around Earth a very dangerous place to be. this track is trying to reflect that danger.
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this is about a couple who are at odds with each other because of their goals, could also be viewed as a guy who wants his partner to commit suicide with him?
i usually play this on guitar, but for the RPM Challenge, i wanted to do it electronically…
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you are like the rain that falls with the snow
or is it the other way around
i dont know
all i know is i love you
and cant get above you
it is driving with no place to go
the muscle and the bone i find
that keeps my heart in line
just…
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Lyrics:
A lazy hound lying on the couch
sleeping the day away
The sunlight comes pushing through the curtains
warming the old dog's face
The savory smell from a wood burning stove
holds you while you awake
Brew some tea while others emerge…
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"In a reformatted world with deleted people, there are still enough dead links that some individuals might indirectly be aware of the existence of those deleted. To everybody else, they'd seem either spiritual and/or mentally imbalanced…
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Rough sketch of a proposed dreamy 12 string piece that I couldn't pull off on the 12 string so did this quick electric version with vocal pads. Not sure of the recording quality- sounds OK in my cans and kinda crappy on my monitors. Recorded march…
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Guitar and vocals. Kind of the opposite of last years 'Honey, Why You Stay With Me'.
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02 – Falling Down Again. Written 17th/18th Feb. Recorded 17th/18th/19th Feb.
A slightly schizophrenic pop song, with a vocal section that also betrays me wanting to be a Beach Boy. Worryingly there is actually a red sticky trickle that seeps…
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[Thanks to Helen and Colin for coming to my aid with the warblings! :) ]
When You Least Expect It
And you're out to dry
And its all too hectic
Thats when it comes x 2
And it feels electric
And you feel alive
Cos when you least expect…
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It aint like no ones done this before
But how can you tire of beautiful chords
In the fifties
In Tenessee
Where my love
was born
Two young men upped and
crossed the yard
both cold cos it was rainin hard.
One of them turned said…
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The ninth of 9 demos I recorded in Jan. 2009 for the upcoming Spooky Garcia album that Rob and I are recording for RPM '09. I would have posted the eighth demo I recorded for the album but it sucks.
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The seventh of 9 demos I recorded in Jan. 2009 for the upcoming Spooky Garcia album that Rob and I are recording for RPM '09.
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There was a contest. I entered. I made the Top 100 and the Judges' Picks lists. Looking back on the whole thing, I'm REALLY glad I didn't win. It was the "Public Radio Talent Quest." The idea was to find the next great public radio host. Three…
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Recorded: Feb 4, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (EBEF#BE - capo II), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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My second tune for 2009 RPM Challenge.
Recorded: Feb 01, 2009
Details: Epiphone Les Paul (EBEGAD - capo II), Seymour Duncan Pickups, POD XT, Boss RC-20 Looper, EBow, Audacity, Sound Forge.
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Rough and Slow acoustic version of the more poppy [lifeline glu and sudara collaboration](http://alonetone.com/doublemeanings/tracks/lifeline).
If you like 4 minutes of the same 3 chords, you'll LOVE this song.
Now that I have two microphones…
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Definitely one of the more “approachable” songs from our debut album “In My Mind”.
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Another fingerpicky gospel instrumental. From the old days.
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Part of an audio sculpture I'm working on that uses the stuff I usually cut out of my radio interviews and turns them into...something new.
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Also for the film, "Pattern Pattern," this goes with a scene of an artist. First you see him up close for a moment. He's drawing. Then you see him walking a distant ridge at dusk.
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Imagine a Mexican quintette playing a fast waltz. There are 3 melodies played in 3/4 time, in a sort of non-standard ABCABC format. The title is a photographic/geographic/melodic play on words. There is a merging of European waltz and Mexican…
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Written by Imogen Heap but performed and arranged by Shae Peebles
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This is the first 100% Liz-written song! Hooray!
It's about a shitty party I went to on New Year's Eve. It sucked really hard. My bandmate MK was on antibiotics and couldn't drink, and this guy kept passing us by way too close getting his ass…
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Short cartoon music written in the style of Loony Tunes/Merry Melodies...
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Trad - I learned this tune from the Robin Williamson penny whistle book. Electric/acoustic guitars, penny whistle.
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Spaghetti Party was our first foray into recording a complete song. MK came up with the idea of writing a song about her friend/co-worker who has "spaghetti parties" which involve him lying on his back on a couch in the basement by himself shoveling…
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When I put these last 3 songs on itunes, my computer did something weird. It told me that these songs were already out there on the internet somewhere. So, in order not to infringe on any copyright laws, I would like to assure everyone that NONE…
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Solo acoustic guitar recorded January 2nd 2009. Hope to do a longer more developed version at some point ,but for now just a short version to learn more about using new DAW software.
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red cowboy and hot burrito were recordings done for a friend of mine who wanted to check out his new (old) drum machine. Both drum parts are constructed from prerecorded beats (from presets or previous owner, I don't know) and have 4-5 bass tracks…
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This was the first song Shreya played me, and she said it came to her in a dream, and I believe it. It's flooring, and her vocals/acoustic guitar are relatively untouched. I added the other virtual instruments, and if you listen carefully, you…
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This piece is my original almost-fugue-sounding arrangement of my favorite Ukranian “Christmas Carol”, Carol of the Bells, as if J.S. Bach had written it. Ingredients: Warmth, depth, complexity, eternal romance. Dedicated to my Belle. This was…
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The longing is authentic. What more can I say.
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it is a winter blanket of snow. it smothers life. it attempts to silence all sound. however, small ghosts of music escape. they always find each other. every winter they dance together. they are the notes of christmas past. 0x0
hw: quicksilver…
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Jeff Archer - Guitar
Joe Lafata - Keyboard Bass
Matt Stahl - Drums
This is my personal favorite of the 5 jams.
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an experimental piece,exploring the musical landscape,which is a palindrome,given that the second track is the first,reversed
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At the end of this piece there is a hidden track.
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I do three things after waking up these days: I shower. I make coffee. I play this song and drink my coffee.
Nothing complicated. Nothing fancy. Just some basic fingerpicking to test my motor skills and bring some aural sunshine into my day.
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A song about not wanting to feel for someone that has treated you badly and left you behind.
Despite having these feelings you still feel this person is above you. As they fly freely and you're left lost on the ground.
When they come flying…
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I sang and played acoustic and electric guitars, bass, and Moog synthesizer on this track.
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From the "Northville" project.
I played acoustic and electric guitars and an ARP Odyssey synthesizer on this track.
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While my wife and I were travelling back down the coast of California (near Big Sur) from a vacation around New Years, we stopped at a turnout over a cliff, and took a bunch of video of at least 15 California Condors, flying and hanging out on…
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exploring the musical landscape,between raga,fugue and ambient music
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The film was supposed to be dark and disturbing, something about a man who works in an antique shop who thinks a mannequin is making him kill people. Or maybe the mannequin really was making him kill people. I don't know, it was hard to tell from…
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[glu](http://alonetone.com/glu) and [Sudara](http://alonetone.com/sudara) pop you one new skool. Their second collaboration. The first was ['back to the cold'](http://alonetone.com/sudara/tracks/back-to-the-cold-warm-mix).
Remix it! The source…
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A remix of Jonathan Coulton's "Code Monkey".
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/
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A reggae version of Colin Mutchler's "Blue Ocean". James Brotherston of The Hustlers is on keys.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/
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This song is going to be the intro to my debut album. I wanted choose to make a beat that would't be the norm in Hip Hop.This beat was the result and everything else just fit. This song is all about BECOMING somthing even though friend or foe…
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This is the first cover song I've ever really recorded in my 15 years of playing and recording.
The guitar and voice are each full continuous takes, I didn't want to do comping (copy and pasting), though the vocal harmony parts were done in…
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Publicado bajo autorización y sin ánimo de lucro.
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This montage is about making music and what it means to people. It uses comments from a number of classical musicians interviewed for a radio series I record and produce called "The Main Street Sessions". The music is from "The Gospel of Thomas…
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After an adventure in re-recording the entire song down a third, we came back to the original, tightened and tuned.
Always the self flagellating perfectionist, it still needs a bit more love. Always the pragmatist, it is probably done for now.
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By Lennard Cohen.
Second vocal is Martijn van Dijk.
Recorded at Richard Beukelaar, 2006
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The text on this track comes off a B-side from one of [Putnam Aldrich's](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putnam_Aldrich) (my great-grandfather) records. He was a harpsichordist, a professor at Stanford, a chain smoker, and apparently had a sense…
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Recorded in Reaper with actual instruments mostly. Drums are virtual because I'm no drummer. Never played one on TV, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express(tm) last night. It ended up being about heckling.
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I thought I'd do one for the Series killer fest on the Songcrafters.org site. My dog Bella decided to join in when I was recording the acoustic and her timing could not have been better......Charlie? well what can I say he was a young man when…
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I made this for the monthly Deluge challenge in April, topic of "metal". All sounds are from the Deluge Firmware 1.2 Preset Competition that I participated in. I made a revised recording on 6-23-2025 with a slightly different arrangement: adjusted…
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