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D's Minor
A song for a special girl.
Solo GarageBand piano, some wrong(?!) notes, lots of suspendy chords.
posted on Aug 6, 2008 - View this thread
sedentary
This season found me in the midst of a little personal crisis and I was sitting idly around the house for long hours. Like me at the time, this doesn't travel too far from where it starts.
posted on Aug 1, 2008 - View this threadOverload
An abstract electronic piece; some of the piano riffs later through the song sound like they're being pushed too fast, which led me to the title.
posted on Jul 31, 2008 - View this threadslinky saturday
butterflies
I just came up with this and recorded it on the H2 (I upped the volume a bit in Audition afterward). I'm pretty bad at finger picking and this owes a lot to John Fahey and Roy Harper. Not that they're bad at finger picking.... There's a faster and shorter version as well, but I liked the drone of this one more.
posted on Jul 21, 2008 - View this threadSpooky Bitch
Messing around with Ableton Live. It might be too long, but I don't care.
posted on Jul 12, 2008 - View this threadProfiling
Rob da Bank
played this on his Radio 1 show in 2005, so it's my most successful track by a factor of about 1,000,000. I hope you like it.
posted on Jul 9, 2008 - View this threadGrendel
Sort of strived for emotional content with this one. If the first part is asking questions, the second is not liking the answers.
posted on Jul 1, 2008 - View this threadAidu
Attack of the Pasta Party Pirates
An original song by my old band, Selected Letters. Alto Sax, Oboe, Violin, Guitar, Bass, Drums, and a good mix of tight arrangement and improvisation. I miss this band a lot, but it was great while it lasted.
posted on Jun 26, 2008 - View this threadThe Determinator.
cc'ed
Another acoustic, instrumental tune. This is the first track I've made in GarageBand (my Ubuntu machine died hard last week).
posted on Jun 16, 2008 - View this threadClotho
Did you ever play Columns for the Sega Genesis/Megadrive?
posted on Jun 13, 2008 - View this threadBlah blah blah (cover version)
This is a pointless instrumental cover version of Meatbomb's recent a capella (one extreme to the other),
Blah blah blah for the MeFi Music challenge, so now you can sing along to the tune*!
posted on Jun 12, 2008 - View this threadInit 2
bond
There was set before me a mighty hill,
And long days I climbed
Through regions of snow.
When I had before me the summit-view,
It seemed that my labour
Had been to see gardens
Lying at impossible distances
.
posted on May 31, 2008 - View this threadJam back in the house
Layered solo instrumental using just a guitar and a loop pedal.
posted on May 24, 2008 - View this threadKingsfold
The English folk tune
Kingsfold rendered very simply in synths. Incidentally, it is also the tune to the hymn
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, and almost identical to the Irish folk song,
Star of County Down. The melody occurs elsewhere in European folk music, I believe.
posted on May 14, 2008 - View this threadspacewreck
No one was really sure how I could've crashed in space, which is by nature, mostly empty. And when they found me, I had gnawed of most of my leg in order to survive, and not in much of a state to explain the events.
posted on May 10, 2008 - View this threadAfternoon Date
A four-piece: guitar, drums, piano, bass.
posted on Apr 30, 2008 - View this threadLazerhawk Rising: Scourge Of The Moonless Depths
Counting Song
A crackly, sketchy demo recording that never found a band.
posted on Apr 9, 2008 - View this threadSunday Front Porch
Stranged Universe
An overly long, low quality, self indulgent metal riff-fest demo with no vocals.
posted on Mar 25, 2008 - View this threadSaturday Morning
Because I thought you might need a theme song for your Saturday morning cartoon starring Steven Seagal.
posted on Mar 17, 2008 - View this threadCurious Little Smile
About twice a year I'm charged with the task of making music for a Japanese design house's fashion shows. One of this season's pieces, for Tokyo Fashion Week, needed to be "airy and pretty and happy", which is not exactly a vein of musical expression that I normally fall into naturally, but, hey, gotta give the bossman what he wants, right? Anyway, this instrumental piece (5:42) is what I came up with.
posted on Mar 11, 2008 - View this threadUntitled
An instrumental composed in an electronic music suite. And I barely knew what the fuck I was doing.
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - View this threadinstrumental
Here is a song without words, yet. I've got some questions on the inside.
posted on Mar 2, 2008 - View this threadcrushed
A bit of lurking darkness to brighten your horrible day.
posted on Feb 22, 2008 - View this threadUnderwater Silent Movie
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 on Feb 15, 2008 - View this threadSummer Helper
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 on Feb 15, 2008 - View this threadJoshua's Lament
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 on Feb 7, 2008 - View this threadV
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.
posted on Feb 2, 2008 - View this threadFountain
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 on Feb 2, 2008 - View this thread404
And now for something completely different... this is a somewhat experimental instrumental track featuring pulsing soft noise, soft organs and a distorted xylophone, fake sitar, and off-key distant "singing."
posted on Jan 24, 2008 - View this threadMinutes To Live, Seconds To Die
Another surf-y thing from my old band, the Brimstones.
posted on Jan 2, 2008 - View this threadFive Fathoms Down
Melodic, slightly exotic, wistful surf music from Hell.
posted on Dec 31, 2007 - View this threadHide and Seek
Just a GarageBand loop creation. Do not operate heavy machinery while listening.
posted on Dec 29, 2007 - View this threadThe sky was filled with rainbows
Mothers
One of the earlier songs by Kinda Panda
posted on Dec 11, 2007 - View this threadNo Hard Feelings
Nighttimesleepyurbantriphopcoffeecup instrumental
posted on Nov 27, 2007 - View this threadMetafilter Music Collab | Teaser #2: Freak Show
A million rounds
Sam's Company
darnyreye
Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm
posted on Nov 8, 2007 - View this threadWhat Happend
Just A quick instrumental all mixed in the Gopher Hole
done with my acoustic guitar.
posted on Nov 5, 2007 - View this threadArabesque
A short Arabic-influenced tune, played on a jazz organ. (OK, it's actually a synthesizer, but one can dream, no?)
posted on Nov 4, 2007 - View this threadit can happen to you
cutting up and mixing mozart's 25th to produce an emotive beat. see if you can spot a few of the phrases that were left in tact.
posted on Oct 22, 2007 - View this threadGravity
Instrumental guitar overdubbing experiment. Unfortunately, not spooky.
posted on Oct 19, 2007 - View this threadBass Overdriven to Scary
Figured a bass overdriven would be spooky enough.
posted on Oct 16, 2007 - View this thread« Older songs
