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Emma Lane

Another laptop song. I'm not sure I like the vocal melody enough that it will will stick. I didn't really "write" it so much as I made it up on the spot several weeks ago at an open mic just after I'd finished the words (which I do like) and the backing track (which I also quite like). I get the feeling I'll get annoyed with it in six months and go back and make up another melody (which has happened several times before). It's the only song I know of about a thief who steals weather.
posted by sparkletone on Feb 28, 2007 - 8 comments

Talkin' Atheistic Blues

A song for Franky, his wife who shops at Whole Foods, and their kids who live on YouTube. Above that, a song for George himself. I wrote this back behind enemy lines. The beat was made upon my return and it was recorded the next day.
posted by ageispolis on Feb 27, 2007 - 3 comments

Apparatchik Waltz

This is probably one of the few times you'll get to hear me "sing" on MeFi. This is another song I wrote for the rpmchallenge, singing, programming it, and playing toy piano on it... I think it's also the first song I ever wrote in 3/4 time.
posted by drezdn on Feb 27, 2007 - 2 comments

Feeding the Earworm

Another song I did for the RPM Challenge. In my single-handed attempt to bring video samples back into music, this one uses a sample from an instructional film called "duck and cover"
posted by drezdn on Feb 26, 2007 - 2 comments

Forwards/Back

Beep beep beep. The main keyboard line in this song and much of the chord structure started life as a guitar part. This is the first thing I wrote that uses nothing but my laptop. I was watching it snow, and the basic idea(s) for the song just sort of ... popped in there.
posted by sparkletone on Feb 25, 2007 - 8 comments

Oscillendulum 1

This is one of a series of short pieces (about 10 or 12) I recorded using only a JUNO 60 analog synth (found at a Tokyo junk shop for only 10,000 yen!). The Oscillendulums all share a similar structure (gradual addition and/or subtraction of layered repeating parts), with an eye toward the creation of a sort of liquid polyrhythm. I also had in mind the musical approximation of animal sounds such as frog and insect choruses from a pond, which are part of the inspiration for this series.
posted by flapjax at midnite on Feb 24, 2007 - 3 comments

The Bright Room

This is essentially a remix of The Dark Room. It's robotic, entrancing, and a little creepy if you play it really loud. The only real quality of this track that holds it to the original is our surprise guest named Flute. And maybe a pad or something. I can't really remember.
posted by ageispolis on Feb 23, 2007 - 0 comments

Long Night and Nothing to Do

I wrote this song in one night for a school assignment that was due the next day. The music was really just flowing out of me. I don't even remember writing most of this because I was so tired. It was created to be a score for a 9-minute short film that I made, but it's grown on me so much that I've decided to include it on my first album. It does need some work, though: the mixing is way off in some areas (and even distorted) and it's way too long to include on an album.
posted by Electric Winter on Feb 20, 2007 - 2 comments

Take Me There

If I was to describe this song with sarcastic overtones, I would say this is a regular run-of-the-mill ageispolis techno song. Well, it's not. This song is anything but typical of what I usually produce. Vocals, emotion, melody, structure... christ, what's gotten into me!?
posted by ageispolis on Feb 20, 2007 - 5 comments

Circling Wolves

The oldest song I've written that I'm still willing to play, think about, work on, etc., etc. It's also changed rather radically from its even shorter original form, and it's gone through a couple lyrical rewrites. It grew a beat about six months ago. I think this is probably the final form structurally and lyrically, but I'd probably work on it more if I thought I could improve the sound quality significantly.
posted by sparkletone on Feb 19, 2007 - 2 comments

Flagging.

SAW II-ish experiment.
posted by jchgf on Feb 19, 2007 - 2 comments

Algorithmic

Written in 1992 (at age 14), for an after-school music theory class, using an iterative algorithm (on paper). Came out far too long - I should have exercised artistic license over the math a bit more. I really like the last twenty seconds, though.
posted by dmd on Feb 19, 2007 - 7 comments

Glow

I made this song last summer (2006). It has the usual synth and drum machine, as well as the addition of a little guitar. Very fast-paced, yet relaxed. Oh, and, of course, it'll someday (maybe) have lyrics.
posted by Electric Winter on Feb 19, 2007 - 5 comments

Aware

Very atmospheric. This song will always remind me Christmas, as I wrote most of it during the month of December. Just like my previous track, this will also have vocals someday.
posted by Electric Winter on Feb 18, 2007 - 3 comments

Unknown

One of the better songs I have lined up for my first album (which is still in its early stages). Heavy drums, synth, happiness. Also, this is my first post to MeFi Music.
posted by Electric Winter on Feb 16, 2007 - 8 comments

Terracota

As per request, this is the track that immediately follows Au Courant. The speaking is samples from a beat poem by Burroughs and the rhymes are mine. This is one of those songs that you toy with for months before you're happy with it. I am also struggling with the levels so any assistance would be much appreciated! (work-in-progress)
posted by ageispolis on Feb 12, 2007 - 8 comments

Troglodyte Mode

A goofy little 8-bit song I wrote today for the RPM Challenge.
posted by drezdn on Feb 11, 2007 - 4 comments

Au Courant

Experimental electroclassical hip-hop track. First one to name the classical piece I lifted for my main brass sample gets a lollipop. (Hint, I play it in entirety in incredibly high-pitched, fast motion near the end of the track).
posted by ageispolis on Feb 8, 2007 - 11 comments

Cade

I must have had a sad, sad look when she turned to say goodbye, because she tilted her head, raised her hand, touched my face and said: don't worry, we'll be fine. And it was right then when she said it that I realized we were going to be perfectly fine indeed, we were just not going to be together anymore. I went back into my house and wrote this song.
posted by micayetoca on Feb 6, 2007 - 15 comments

Virtuosi

I made this one today with a tiny low-quality string sample. This particular mix dances between halftime and doubletime throughout. I hope you can dig it.
posted by ageispolis on Feb 6, 2007 - 4 comments

The Reddish Egret

Egret's (of the Reddish variety) are musically inspiring. This track is divided by two tempo changes (see if you can spot them!) and is thus in three parts. I figure a bird as cool as the Reddish Egret deserves a musical trilogy. Also, the high-pitched vocal sample is actually a rendering of the last note Thom Yorke sings on the opening track of The Eraser.
posted by ageispolis on Jan 31, 2007 - 3 comments

Before It Dies

Here is a "Mahayana Jazz" track with some tasty drums. I hope you find this delicious and remember to get away from that tree before it dies.
posted by ageispolis on Jan 29, 2007 - 3 comments

The Birds Do Thus

An ambient electronic piece I put together a long while back. This is a tonal explication of a Frost poem I love. I felt that his words were perfectly descriptive of my own dissociated days spent in a haze of necessarily indulgent coma, when I should have been out doing other things. I built it on a framework of 32 bar phrases. There was something significant about the numerology of it, but I have since forgotten why. Maybe because it was 2002 and I was born in 1970, or something like that.
posted by isopraxis on Jan 27, 2007 - 4 comments

Radio Panda

This one is freshly squeezed.
posted by ageispolis on Jan 23, 2007 - 1 comment

Amlie

Something I put together last year on a weekend, barricaded in at home. I was mucking about with my 505 and watching far too much of the 24 hour cable news channels. I never did get around to re-recording it: I wanted to clean up the strained bits of the vocals (I am not a vocalist), and work out a guitar track to add. But that's not going to happen anymore, so here it is in all its novice mysanthropy. Its my 1st MeFiMusix upload, so let me have it.
posted by isopraxis on Jan 20, 2007 - 4 comments

Rocks And Gravel

This track is built around a beautiful song from Bob Dylan's Freewheelin' Outtakes bootleg. Enjoy!
posted by ageispolis on Jan 20, 2007 - 4 comments

Acidspit13 (digital, with piano)

Here's a "golden oldie" way back from 2005, it's trancey but breaks convention in an ambient/acid sort of way. Intentionally chillin' groovetrak.
posted by ageispolis on Jan 18, 2007 - 2 comments

Jilted Like J-Lo

A short funky little electronic song I wrote last year under the DJ Dial-tone name.
posted by drezdn on Jan 15, 2007 - 0 comments

iLust Your iPod

I stare at you across the lecture hall in Psychology class. Your long, white cord and your smooth rectangular body. If I had to narrow this track down to a particular genre I would have to go with "electro orchestral folk-hop." This beat is a impassioned symphony expressing the desire for iNtimacy in today's society.
posted by ageispolis on Jan 14, 2007 - 4 comments

If There Is Any News

This song is by Skist (my duo with singer/electronicist Haruna Ito). It's from our new CD. [lyrics inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Jan 13, 2007 - 6 comments

The Dark Room

I have been composing this piece for quite some time now and I am happy with the current result uploaded here. It's a fun, jazzy, bopping track with overdriven drums, horns, and a surprise guest named "Flute". Enjoy.
posted by ageispolis on Jan 12, 2007 - 4 comments

Concerta Helps You Concentrate

1. Do you find that at home, work, or school, your mind wanders from tasks that are uninteresting or difficult? 2. Are you always on the go? 3. Do you find it difficult to read written material unless it is interesting or easy to read? 4.Is it hard for you to wait your turn? 5.Is your mind just in a big ol' clutter? Then you obviously need Concerta. It helps you concentrate! This pharmaceutically-inspired technojazz romp reflects my Concerta experiences. (by the way, they are prescribing you SPEED.)
posted by ageispolis on Jan 11, 2007 - 1 comment

awescillate

I sat down thinking I was going to write something dark and moody with lots of electro industrial grit. What I got was a pretty standard dance track. *sigh* Still needs some mastering work to get the sounds 100%, but it's very close to finished. Let me know what you think.
posted by C.Batt on Jan 3, 2007 - 3 comments

tearjerker

Can techno music be sad and banging at the same time? I've been listening to a lot of Jurgen Paape and wanted to try my hand at the sad vocal sample techno song.
posted by subtle-t on Dec 25, 2006 - 3 comments

Glitch

Another DJ Dial-tone joint.
posted by drezdn on Dec 20, 2006 - 0 comments

Boysenberry

A brief experiment in trying to fake synchronized prime-ordinal rhythms.
posted by Blazecock Pileon on Dec 19, 2006 - 1 comment

Dealyspiel (Roughmix)

Electronic, moody little piece, not really house, not really downbeat, but with a little of both.
posted by Herr Fahrstuhl on Dec 15, 2006 - 3 comments

Anbesol

This is a slower song from my personal electronic music project DJ Dialtone. It's free of copyright, so feel free to remix it or do what you will with it.
posted by drezdn on Dec 12, 2006 - 1 comment

2012 Overture

Inspired by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture", I constructed a beginning synth composition and then borrowed the climatic final progression for the conclusion of my piece.
posted by ageispolis on Dec 12, 2006 - 2 comments

Yes, Dope

This is a little ditty I worked up in Logic, as a sort of self-guided tutorial to building loops, aliases, aligning things to a tempo, and adding & quantizing midi notes. The drums are samples grabbed from an unfinished recording session from the late 80's (played by Dennis Bruhn), and the vocals are snippets from a song by The Whores a long-since broken up post-punk band of mine from the eighties, called Girls on Dope. I have no idea what genre to tag this with.
posted by Devils Rancher on Dec 9, 2006 - 5 comments

Sum Yung Punk

A little adventure into some left-field drum'n'bass. Strangely enough, when this song started out, I intended it to be a little ambient-melodic piece for my four-month old. Pretty early, though, it just screamed out for a beat...
posted by Jimbob on Dec 5, 2006 - 0 comments

the most mediocre piano

I made this in 2003 or 2004, when minimal house music was getting big. It's not minimal house music, per se, since the beat is too twerky. However, it does steal from the genre.
posted by subtle-t on Dec 1, 2006 - 2 comments

Ein Nichtnicht

A track built upon Oswaldian traditions, cutting up German minimalist electronic samples with a bit of piano from the Romantic era.
posted by Blazecock Pileon on Nov 27, 2006 - 4 comments

Chopped Nocturne

CN is a happy experiment. Nothing more.
posted by Blazecock Pileon on Nov 26, 2006 - 4 comments

Radio Test

Electronic Instrumental. Unfinished.
posted by cyphill on Nov 24, 2006 - 4 comments

Moon Factory

Another imaginary industrial space. I picture this place as vary large, probably planet sized. Apologies for the abrupt ending.
posted by Area Control on Nov 24, 2006 - 2 comments

Organic Machine

Experimenting with imaginary industrial spaces.
posted by Area Control on Nov 20, 2006 - 3 comments

1982

I created this the first time I really fired-up Garageband, sometime in May of 2005. It's a cliche of itself, provoking nostalgia, and makes me laugh out-loud. Hope you enjoy it and please let me know what you think!
posted by blatant gizmo on Nov 16, 2006 - 2 comments

Neuron

Schitzy, glitzy music from the centre of your CPU.
posted by Jimbob on Nov 5, 2006 - 1 comment

Clear

This is an instrumental song with an early 80's feel that I wrote on piano about ten years ago and arranged on my desktop computer in 2004. This is one of those songs I gave up trying to improve.
posted by starkeffect on Oct 30, 2006 - 2 comments

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