An instrumental I worked on with the intention of eventually using it as the rhythm section of an actual song, with actual words & what-have-you.
Born out of a desire to make it through this godforsaken winter here in Minnesota & hit…
Everyone probably knows the Holy Roller Ice Queen this song was inspired by. She's majorly bipolar, it's either the greatest moment in the history of humankind or a blowout disaster than even Superman couldn't fix.
I accept both the credit…
They used to be called "White Russians", back in the day. Now some people have got to callin' em "Caucasians", which I guess usually wouldn't sit that well with some folk.
Well, not at first. But now that the curtains have closed on Shadowbroker…
World War Nine
Shadow Broker Currency
Vocals : Jack Merlot
Sampling : Ake Kappatsu
Drums : Miroslav Doppelbock
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So, I know you don't really know me
now do ya
But I say…
This song is just... some improvised music I recorded for a Valentine's Day project that I now realize will never happen.
So, in the spirit of the Creative Commons, I'm posting the Tuvan-throat-singing-Buddhist-Monk multitrack vocal session…
This means you're not supposed to be able to get real medication anymore because you've proven to the doctors you're a two-bit grifter & a zero-seven burnout with no hope of recovery.
I know field recordings are somewhat frowned upon here, but this recording, "Soundproof Sex Dungeon", also has Ake Kappatsu noodling around on a filter agent.
Hey, this is Kris bro and I was right, ha!!!!!!!!! GO back and listen to No Doubt's Hey Baby! Better yet watch the vid! Gwen Stafani clearly says: "Girls say, girls say...hey baby hey!...followed by boys say!
I know field recordings are somewhat frowned upon here, but this recording, "Soundproof Sex Dungeon", also has Ake Kappatsu noodling around on a filter agent.
The Dagger Dolls kept their accoutrements inside this small locked cabinet. But that doesn't stop Johnny Rebel After Midnight from taking a wild stab at it, to take another jab at it, to try and break free from the habit that's plagued him so long.
Shorty Reporting from a bumpin' club kittycorner to the Stalingrad Laser Tag Arena.
While the familiar drone of Katelynne's hard Russian house beats new life into old souls, you can hear the off nights from working all the old brites into beamers…
Shorty Reporting from a bumpin' club kittycorner to the Stalingrad Laser Tag Arena.
While the familiar drone of Katelynne's hard Russian house beats new life into old souls, you can hear the off nights from working all the old brites into beamers…
Formed in Melbrooks, Newfoundland, Smug Drugglers are the duo of Tim and Jim Druggler. "Acid Waltz" is taken from the album Butt Dust, said to be recorded under the influence of a potent mixture of carbona and marinara sauce.
A stretched glissando on trombone. No other alteration. Named after this fellow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffing_Billy_(locomotive)
Submitted to Sound-In for 5-12/11/2020.
A very soft cover of the Barenaked Ladies' hit, Brian Wilson. Their (excellent) tune is normally played with gusto. The live version on the Rock Spectacle album is dripping with energy, and that's usually how I like to play it. But today I thought…
This sounds like it should be part of a psychedelic redux of Pokemon Diamond & Perl, where my holo foil benemy ribbles card has tripled in value since Magikarp allied with Radishew Crew.
The first time I played over this song, maybe about 10 years ago - I remember jumping up and down with joy, because it was the first time for me to add some violin tracks, where I felt like they didn't get in the way of what was there.
I made…
That was a pleasant listen - don't sell yourself on the mixing side, I heard just a few minor inconsistencies but overall I think you've got the hang of it.
Written today.
recorded on an iMac with the internal mic and no headphones (!) so it's probably going to be muddy as hell, but that feels about right for now.
LYRIC:
Fill up the glass, Bartender
Ply your art
Quench the fire in here, now…
@Crossroads
@jackmerlot: Hello? I think I'm in the right place, but there is nobody around right now?
@raven: Caw! Never-more.
@jackmerlot: Well a fat lot of good you are. Can you say anything else, or are you one of those greasy, diseased birds with no conscience?
@raven: Kra-Kaw! Never-more...never-mind...he's here!
@mingus: And I suppose you're wondering what you'd do, for a lifetime subscription to Ernie Ball's Bass Strings of the Month club, & a signed copy of the Black Saint & the Sinner Lady?
@jackmerlot: Hey, wait a minute. A guy that kinda looked like you gave me this card. *pulls out business card, printed on heavy bond stock with slightly raised monogram letterpress printed on it*
@mingus: Ah, uh, yeah. I mean, Ah Um.
@raven: Kraaaakkow! RED-RUM!
@jackmerlot: Hey, thanks a lot for meeting me, but you're not actually the guy I meant to meet here.
@woodyguthrie: May I help you?
He's standing in a State Fair Kissing Booth about 20 yards from @crossroads.
Do you wish to trade business cards with Woody Guthrie? ( y/n )
"She did? Why wasn't I informed?" asked Jack Merlot to the two uniformed Minneapolis police officers.
All three of them were on their bicycles. The officers had come up alongside Jack Merlot to remind him that there is No Bicycle Riding on Nicollet Mall Unless You Are an Officer of the Law, but they also stayed in momentum with Jack, as they struggled to answer his plaintive query.
"Probably because you're not that important." said Officer Friendly. Jack turned left onto Washington Avenue & proceeded to find his way to Nordest, where at least there was a cold beer waiting for him.
Cave Street posted a track recently, their contribution to the Woody Guthrie Project, organised by Akron Family.
http://akronfamily.com/woodyproject/W.G.A..html
I wanted to take a shot at this too, so here's my demo. It was really just half…
Aww, man. My cousin's youngest just turned one; his name is Arlo. I never axed my cousin if they named him after Arlo Guthrie, but I guess in the back of my mind I always assumed they probably considered that when they named him.
"This Machine Kills... Fascists." written in Sharpie marker on Woody Guthrie's acoustic guitar.
Man, I hate fighting the city buildings administrators or f*cking around all day the the Landlord/Tenants Union so I can get the hot water turned back on.
Even the cosmos needs system maintenance. When its IT department decides to delete something, sometimes that something doesn't want to go without a fight. Even computer viruses will do what they can to avoid the reaping hand of a virus checker…
The Wife is a self confessed “Not a morning personâ€.....
I am a morning person (well... Wake up happy person).... and so is the boy....
This causes some friction sometimes.... LOL!!!!!!!
We went to a church fate today... Was…
jupiter leads with a rythym guitar and sings a crazy off the cuff story, while hot wheels simply plucks pretty randomly at his five strings. A ballad about a mexican cat, with a spiky ,lively six minute intro.
So, if jpt_io is a moon orbiting Jupiter, & the I/o in Io stands for Input/Output, that means that /u/jpt_io on Reddit is the Comptroller of the Currency of the Input/Output Bus of the Solar System.
Oh, cool, someone else uses their pocket phone to harness the modern generator apps for something unusual.
Usually, I get flustered because people think I should somehow be able to buy a Kurzweil or a Korg or even a Roland when that's simply not in the cards for me. I use the Android sound generator apps to create textures & fill up space with patterns of rhythm & melody, & I've started to feel a little bit foolish for even trying to make moderne sound performances, since I mostly rely on an acoustic guitar & my vocal mics to multitrack my compositions.
On a cold and lonely trip through hyperspace, our protagonist wonders whether he'll ever see the sunrise on Ganymede again. (All sounds produced acoustically!)
If you ever get back to Ganymede, be sure to stop & look at the Ganymede Model Train Museum, which is actually in a structure about the size of a British police booth, except it's magenta with titanium highlights.
The museum is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Say hi to Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged if you do happen to bump into him, jolly well.
This is an ode for a good friend of mine that had took his own life at the end of last year. I was in the midst of writing some other songs and it stopped me in my tracks. I just wrote basically how I felt about this tragic ending to a very special…
I'm sorry to hear about your friend.
I get scared sometimes when I'm alone too much & I think about the ways people who have taken their own lives affect me. I guess it's easy to understand that it's not a matter of finding a reason to do it; it's a matter of getting help before any action is taken, & somehow getting through the quicksand long enough to find a reason to be OK again.
I think this is the first song that I've posted here under Mannequin Races that actually has a guitar in it. You can't really tell that it's a guitar but it's in there (middle section around the 1:50 mark). The guitar is heavily modulated but…
What I mean is, your Circuit Bending outshines that of World War Nine.
But check out my old, old AloneTone page ( http://www.alonetone.com/jackmerlot/tracks ) & listen to Skeleton Key 73 or Around & Aboot as good examples of what kinds of synth sounds I've managed; maybe you can give me some advice on how to get some better sequencer software into my flow so I'm not trying to play five instruments at once.
Keep up the good work.
I think this is the first song that I've posted here under Mannequin Races that actually has a guitar in it. You can't really tell that it's a guitar but it's in there (middle section around the 1:50 mark). The guitar is heavily modulated but…
Wow, the overall structural & textural aspects of this have me shaking my head out of wonder.
I play the guitar for World War Nine ( http://www.alonetone.com/worldwar9 ) but I also play electric bass & fill in on the Yamaha DD55 Drum Druid when necessary ( usually 'cause Miroslav is too hungover to come to band practice, but I digress ) but one thing I haven't ever gotten the hang of is keys/synths & such.
I've settled for using various filters & Nyquist plugins in Audacity to modify my guitar sound until it's pretty hard to distinguish from an ( amateur ) keyboardist circuit bending his way through some analogue modeling synthesis software, then jazz it up by using found sound object art as a form of collage, and if I get desperate, I'll set up PixiTracker or another tracker on my phone & hook it up to the line0 on the computer with a god damned eighth inch stereo mini jack, god damn it.
And, the hell if that don't work most of the time, just to make sound collages & have something to talk about besides the Trump White House or the Russians or the Wall to Keep Mexicans Out or...
Based on a poem by William Sharp that I found while researching my family history.
The poem has been put to music once already, by one Christopher Goldsack, http://www.sundown.pair.com/Sharp/piratepoem.htm but I wanted to put my own little…
Aye, that Captain is a creeper, a'skulkin' down irie morning.
'N'ah cannah tell from the way he is lookin' at you, never you mind the peacock feather in 'is hand, but, yea cannah be sure that his intentions are matching your ambitions, that, 'e be sure to sell you your hand, after you've had a hook fitted to replace:
in fact, the Captain will *serve* you your hand, parboiled with a side of parsnips, under the irie moon, if'n you 'aven't found something to eat, by then.
Yaargh.
Comments on World War Nine's stuff
sound like something out da jungle... atonement:107=acknljingdac/fofgod[a.l.l.a.h.]
not 2 say i'm disblvn but the devil be thievin-n-dcvn leavin dem lost and hopeless until they di-gress
Play this simultaneously with Parmegiani's Creation du Monde and it all becomes clear.
Wow...wow...wow!!! This is awesome! Your creating again!
I put some music to your vocals and posted it on my page. Thank you.
Are you in Minneapolis?
Hey, this is Kris bro and I was right, ha!!!!!!!!! GO back and listen to No Doubt's Hey Baby! Better yet watch the vid! Gwen Stafani clearly says: "Girls say, girls say...hey baby hey!...followed by boys say!
This is excellent...very scifi...good listening...Just short... :)
Ahhhh yes! Nice to finally hear some Brian Eno-like music....
some1 tell word 60 there is only one God, call it what you want; that doesn't change anything (allah!)
c/fallah:A.L.L.A.H.
get med mar.
jemultitasker plays the guitar and sing at the same time:greatness
Strange and psychedelic feel to it.
Original and catchy. Like it
- mono - like your peace sign ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
keep doing it gem(jem)
Comments made by World War Nine
I find this so-called Butt Dust intriguing & wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Those are some deeply felt primitives you are recording there.
Best of Zoom Academy UNPLUGGED
Huffle Puff Puffing Billy
Oh that is a fine choice.
This sounds like it should be part of a psychedelic redux of Pokemon Diamond & Perl, where my holo foil benemy ribbles card has tripled in value since Magikarp allied with Radishew Crew.
That was a pleasant listen - don't sell yourself on the mixing side, I heard just a few minor inconsistencies but overall I think you've got the hang of it.
@Crossroads @jackmerlot: Hello? I think I'm in the right place, but there is nobody around right now? @raven: Caw! Never-more. @jackmerlot: Well a fat lot of good you are. Can you say anything else, or are you one of those greasy, diseased birds with no conscience? @raven: Kra-Kaw! Never-more...never-mind...he's here! @mingus: And I suppose you're wondering what you'd do, for a lifetime subscription to Ernie Ball's Bass Strings of the Month club, & a signed copy of the Black Saint & the Sinner Lady? @jackmerlot: Hey, wait a minute. A guy that kinda looked like you gave me this card. *pulls out business card, printed on heavy bond stock with slightly raised monogram letterpress printed on it* @mingus: Ah, uh, yeah. I mean, Ah Um. @raven: Kraaaakkow! RED-RUM! @jackmerlot: Hey, thanks a lot for meeting me, but you're not actually the guy I meant to meet here. @woodyguthrie: May I help you? He's standing in a State Fair Kissing Booth about 20 yards from @crossroads. Do you wish to trade business cards with Woody Guthrie? ( y/n )
"She did? Why wasn't I informed?" asked Jack Merlot to the two uniformed Minneapolis police officers. All three of them were on their bicycles. The officers had come up alongside Jack Merlot to remind him that there is No Bicycle Riding on Nicollet Mall Unless You Are an Officer of the Law, but they also stayed in momentum with Jack, as they struggled to answer his plaintive query. "Probably because you're not that important." said Officer Friendly. Jack turned left onto Washington Avenue & proceeded to find his way to Nordest, where at least there was a cold beer waiting for him.
Aww, man. My cousin's youngest just turned one; his name is Arlo. I never axed my cousin if they named him after Arlo Guthrie, but I guess in the back of my mind I always assumed they probably considered that when they named him. "This Machine Kills... Fascists." written in Sharpie marker on Woody Guthrie's acoustic guitar.
Man, I hate fighting the city buildings administrators or f*cking around all day the the Landlord/Tenants Union so I can get the hot water turned back on.
This Cloud Operation has been isolated by a network technician as being antithetical to the needs of the Cloud Services team.
Mourning person.
So, if jpt_io is a moon orbiting Jupiter, & the I/o in Io stands for Input/Output, that means that /u/jpt_io on Reddit is the Comptroller of the Currency of the Input/Output Bus of the Solar System.
Oh, cool, someone else uses their pocket phone to harness the modern generator apps for something unusual. Usually, I get flustered because people think I should somehow be able to buy a Kurzweil or a Korg or even a Roland when that's simply not in the cards for me. I use the Android sound generator apps to create textures & fill up space with patterns of rhythm & melody, & I've started to feel a little bit foolish for even trying to make moderne sound performances, since I mostly rely on an acoustic guitar & my vocal mics to multitrack my compositions.
If you ever get back to Ganymede, be sure to stop & look at the Ganymede Model Train Museum, which is actually in a structure about the size of a British police booth, except it's magenta with titanium highlights. The museum is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Say hi to Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged if you do happen to bump into him, jolly well.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I get scared sometimes when I'm alone too much & I think about the ways people who have taken their own lives affect me. I guess it's easy to understand that it's not a matter of finding a reason to do it; it's a matter of getting help before any action is taken, & somehow getting through the quicksand long enough to find a reason to be OK again.
What I mean is, your Circuit Bending outshines that of World War Nine. But check out my old, old AloneTone page ( http://www.alonetone.com/jackmerlot/tracks ) & listen to Skeleton Key 73 or Around & Aboot as good examples of what kinds of synth sounds I've managed; maybe you can give me some advice on how to get some better sequencer software into my flow so I'm not trying to play five instruments at once. Keep up the good work.
Wow, the overall structural & textural aspects of this have me shaking my head out of wonder. I play the guitar for World War Nine ( http://www.alonetone.com/worldwar9 ) but I also play electric bass & fill in on the Yamaha DD55 Drum Druid when necessary ( usually 'cause Miroslav is too hungover to come to band practice, but I digress ) but one thing I haven't ever gotten the hang of is keys/synths & such. I've settled for using various filters & Nyquist plugins in Audacity to modify my guitar sound until it's pretty hard to distinguish from an ( amateur ) keyboardist circuit bending his way through some analogue modeling synthesis software, then jazz it up by using found sound object art as a form of collage, and if I get desperate, I'll set up PixiTracker or another tracker on my phone & hook it up to the line0 on the computer with a god damned eighth inch stereo mini jack, god damn it. And, the hell if that don't work most of the time, just to make sound collages & have something to talk about besides the Trump White House or the Russians or the Wall to Keep Mexicans Out or...
Aye, that Captain is a creeper, a'skulkin' down irie morning. 'N'ah cannah tell from the way he is lookin' at you, never you mind the peacock feather in 'is hand, but, yea cannah be sure that his intentions are matching your ambitions, that, 'e be sure to sell you your hand, after you've had a hook fitted to replace: in fact, the Captain will *serve* you your hand, parboiled with a side of parsnips, under the irie moon, if'n you 'aven't found something to eat, by then. Yaargh.