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February 2008 Archives (all archives)
February 29
This is about one of those times when you know you really shouldn't, but you just can't help yourself...;)
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posted by freya_lamb at 3:03 PM PST - 4 comments
February 28
February 27
This is the last in the RPM 08 songs that I have done. I came down with the flu this last week, and work the next few days. Therefore, I have fallen short of the goal. Enjoy my failure!
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posted by pedmands at 7:14 PM PST - 4 comments
Nedroid's unofficial theme-song (with official, Nedroid-penned lyrics!)
About five years ago (in the early stage of my mefi lurking) my good buddy,
TheMadJuggler asked me to throw together a little tune for his net-buddy, Nedroid. Here's a pretty faithful version of the song I came up with.
I post this as the last song recorded in my shitty little
Haverhill apartment, as a fan/love letter to a fine cartoonist.
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posted by es_de_bah at 2:39 PM PST - 1 comments
February 25
Some light-stepping chilled out beats, inspired by the Portishead mix linked by
isopraxis, and sampling a bar or two of Holst's "Jupiter".
posted by Jimbob at 3:08 PM PST - 3 comments
A musical version of an old Spanish assigment from high school that I found in a box.
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posted by ORthey at 3:07 PM PST - 11 comments
I got a copy of FL Studio and decided to try my hand at electronic music.
Come out sounding more like an SNES soundtrack.
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posted by aleb at 8:50 AM PST - 2 comments
February 24
A song I recorded for the 2008 RPM Challenge.
posted by raster at 5:40 AM PST - 0 comments
February 23
Just a little Garageband thing. I've had that spoken loop forever, anyone know where it comes from?
posted by eafarris at 10:35 AM PST - 1 comments
February 22
A hip-hoppy electronica track intended to give you that Chronotriggery feeling. (It only works if you turn it up.)
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posted by Tlogmer at 4:27 PM PST - 0 comments
February 21
More 4-track clearance. This time, it's a happy, bouncy ditty from 1993: two guitars, some whistling and happily mumbled lyrics. Recorded probably with Fleetwood Mac's
Tusk on the brain, with all knobs turned up to eleven.
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posted by not_on_display at 4:32 PM PST - 4 comments
This song is from the band I have been with for the longest, LOX-P, and was recorded at the same studio and under the same conditions as the last song I posted, War Waltz. On this recording I am the bass player, however I wrote the guitar line as well. Hope y'all like it.
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posted by Slash_fan at 9:25 AM PST - 3 comments
An older song, back from when I thought I could make house music.
Warning: starts out quiet, then gets thumpin' loud. Turn up/down as preference dictates.
posted by tehloki at 3:01 AM PST - 2 comments
February 20
This is a new version of Secret Book, of which I originally posted an instrumental version
here. On the new mix, my wife Lori sings beautifully, and I wail a bit at the end.
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posted by saulgoodman at 8:35 PM PST - 11 comments
More from my 4-track dump onto the PC. Lyrics written very loosely and improvised on the spot; it is about a 6-year old falling in love with the bearded lady midget at the fair, and running away. The song has an anxious, circus-gone-wrong aura to it. It was recorded on 1/26/94 in my bedroom, in the middle of the night so that my roommates wouldn't hear it.
posted by not_on_display at 4:21 PM PST - 1 comments
an eclectic downtempo glitchy track of mine from 2006. some interesting live drumming incorporated then destroyed accordingly. comments welcome!
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posted by Zampa at 11:20 AM PST - 1 comments
in which I rhyme about my name and some area codes I like. simple bass and piano to accompany the kick-snare. also I try my hand at some scratching. 119 is the tempo.
posted by MNDZ at 10:08 AM PST - 2 comments
February 19
Sung by The Infamous Benny Hill, this one is an ode to a female scientist he knows.
posted by tcobretti at 7:58 PM PST - 4 comments
My music production skills really decline when I throw shrooms into the mix... but oh god, the IDEAS
posted by tehloki at 3:06 AM PST - 4 comments
February 18
My husband and I are writing and playing music together. We're just starting to do some recording. Here's one of our first attempts.
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posted by disaster77 at 7:45 PM PST - 4 comments
February 17
A song I recorded for the 2008 RPM Challenge.
posted by raster at 8:28 AM PST - 0 comments
February 16
"The tribes of war are rising again, they're brutal and raw and lying the same"
That's my favorite line of this song. Warning: turn your volume down it's quite loud ;)
The song was recorded in one day and mixed on the next along with 2 others for the band's first demo Cold Day Waltz.
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posted by Slash_fan at 5:21 AM PST - 4 comments
February 15
Another quick song for RPM08. Not so happy with the mix, but I like the way the song turned out.
posted by pedmands at 6:05 PM PST - 2 comments
An imaginary soundtrack theme from a silent movie filmed entirely underwater. A short but sweet instrumental track from Tangemeenie's forthcoming "The Gilded Age."
posted by saulgoodman at 5:50 PM PST - 5 comments
Another Saladabar song. This one is an instrumental and is new. The recording is a live recording from a recent rehearsal made with an Edirol R-09.
posted by mexican at 6:50 AM PST - 2 comments
February 14
Quick 'n' dirty cover of Mississippi John Hurt's old song played on my resonator guitar. Levels are a bit off, volume jumps up and down a little... but here it is anyway.
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posted by ORthey at 4:33 PM PST - 8 comments
February 13
A little acoustic guitar ditty that sounds like something that would be perfectly suited for a front porch.
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posted by cyphill at 9:15 PM PST - 5 comments
Yet another song from the new People Will Blink record. This song really kicks in at about 1:15, so be patient.
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posted by rosco731 at 3:15 PM PST - 3 comments
Another little
bass-and-
vocal 4-track oddity; just a common story that everyone's probably seen unfolding at some point.
posted by Wolfdog at 12:31 PM PST - 4 comments
My friend Mel and I have started a musical project together, and since Radiohead is our biggest mutual influence, we decided to start by covering one of their songs.
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posted by Saellys at 12:24 PM PST - 3 comments
Sketch of a more up-tempo house remix for a down-tempo vocal track. Chance to play with a few new plug-ins.
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posted by cmicali at 10:29 AM PST - 1 comments
This is a southern rock song about starting over, shedding your skin. It's my favorite song that I have ever recorded, and one of the first ones I ever recorded as well.
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posted by Slash_fan at 9:00 AM PST - 1 comments
February 12
I needed to actually finish something, and finish it quickly, or risk my sanity. This is how I spent last night (and an hour or so tonight doing a final mixing pass).
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posted by sparkletone at 9:49 PM PST - 0 comments
Beck's "Black Tambourine" vs KT Tunstall's "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree." A MeFi exclusive!
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posted by flatluigi at 8:51 PM PST - 5 comments
Loopy, mostly off-the-cuff, more-or-less-zero-production bass-and-vocal thing? Primusoidal TomWaitsishness with the slop cranked way up? Lyrics and vocals courtesy of
this guy over here.
posted by Wolfdog at 4:13 AM PST - 2 comments
February 11
I recently unearthed my 4-track tapes from 1993. (I'm still searching for the ones from 1988.) This was one of my favorites on this particular tape. Guitar by me, AM Radio via the electromagnetic spectrum. It was recorded and mixed in less than an hour. I'll throw in the tape hiss for free.
posted by not_on_display at 11:42 PM PST - 3 comments
This is the first song I've recorded on my laptop for my band, Low-Tech Riff Raff. Suggestions on the mix are eagerly accepted.
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posted by tdismukes at 5:27 PM PST - 10 comments
Another song from yet another band I'm in, The Eric Weiler Band. Generally the quick-and-dirty go-to description many people find for us is along the lines of "Tom Waits singing for the E Street Band." Make your own call. I play the Hammond.
posted by sourwookie at 7:38 AM PST - 2 comments
February 10
This one I did for the musical version of NaNoWriMo (aka RPM). It's part of a planned concept album/musical (in the vein of
Tommy or
The Wall) called
Comeuppance by my band
Ready Demolition. This is the third demo I did tonight. Lemme know whatcha think.
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posted by grubi at 8:53 PM PST - 1 comments
Greetings, Hive Mind. Long time lurker, first time poster here. This is the first song of my band Cottonkitty's first album, Fight Not the Power of the Cottonkitty, Please. Paulie Walnuts provided the libretto. Hope you enjoy.
posted by DenOfSizer at 9:14 AM PST - 4 comments
February 9
February 7
Dirty, crusty demo recorded at the turn of the century.
posted by chococat at 8:33 PM PST - 7 comments
Another song off of the new People Will Blink record. We wrote this in 2003 and it has been a fan-favorite ever since. Every time we ask Azeem what the lyrics are about, we get a different response. From what I can gather, a pirate is appearing to someone in a dream. I am the voice of said pirate.
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posted by rosco731 at 4:07 PM PST - 1 comments
This was one of those late jam sessions that turned into an early morning song writing session. This melody originated to the sun coming up over the field in my back yard. Its reasons like this that make me thankful we always left a mic on record while we hung out. I'm on mandolin, my friend is playing guitar.
posted by mikeo2 at 6:41 AM PST - 8 comments
A track from my new project called Mustache, as seen in the phrase "In Space, There Is No Mustache".
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posted by BoatMeme at 2:42 AM PST - 5 comments
It's a song about playing make believe games, and pretending that everything's going to be alright, when really it's all gone to shit. It's also somewhat of a sea shanty.
posted by robotot at 12:32 AM PST - 2 comments
February 6
This is an experiment to see if I can create a drum machine beat that swings.
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posted by umbú at 2:04 PM PST - 2 comments
February 5
One of the first songs my band Bone Table put together. We recorded it in July last year in the lounge room of a 16th floor apartment in Hong Kong. None of the neighbours seemed to mind the noise. It's a mid-paced song - lots of guitars, and if you listen carefully you'll hear the drummer smacking a piece of pipe.
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posted by awfurby at 7:06 PM PST - 3 comments
First song off of the new People Will Blink record. This song was written about 3 years ago and went through many transformations before it began to sound... well... listenable. When we played this song live, Azeem used a vocoder during the bridge. He forgot it in California when we recorded, so we used a clarinet, melodica, and recorder in it's place.
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posted by rosco731 at 4:51 PM PST - 1 comments
February 4
oscillating fan man wears a badge of hope. he keeps you cool.
posted by kimyo at 2:32 AM PST - 9 comments
February 3
February 2
Screwing around with some theories on how 5 and boompsh might fit together. After all, with the recession and inflation, Bernanke hopes to make 5 the new 4.
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posted by 31d1 at 6:22 PM PST - 4 comments
My friend and I play a lot of acoustic music around local coffee shops in town. Here's one of the many mandolin tunes we wrote in my living room last summer. I'm on mandolin and my friend is playing backup guitar.
posted by mikeo2 at 5:46 PM PST - 10 comments
A song about breaking up with the love of your life, only to watch them to find the love of
their life straight afterwards.
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posted by RokkitNite at 5:26 PM PST - 3 comments
Minimalist sort of lyrical composition about playing with a band. An attempt at a sort of pseudo-wall of sound composition of Apple Loops behind it.
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posted by nanojath at 1:05 PM PST - 1 comments
A beat I made in Garageband featuring trombone. All the music parts are loops of me, on keyboard, trombone, and bass. The scratching is Mic Santi, my roommate.
posted by MNDZ at 9:26 AM PST - 1 comments
February 1
This is a song about a decommissioned Killbot, forced to work in a kitchen baking and whatnot. He is pretty angry about it.
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posted by notheydo at 5:03 PM PST - 2 comments
cover of the song by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs. Fingerstyle guitar, vocals, banjo. Created for the 2008
Songfight! Gift of Music sidefight.
posted by The White Hat at 10:44 AM PST - 6 comments
