Thanks to: Wiseman – bass, gong, keys, rhodes and percussion Admiral Bob – bass, beats and piano Ezra Skull – beats and guitar Snowflake – pillow percussion Martin Sea – spoken wordThanks to: spinningmerkaba – bass and beats Wiseman – bass and fx 700P3D – beats and synths Ben Blohowiak – epiano, erhu and harp Ezra Skull – guitar Zenboy1955 – spoken wordThanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, bell and vibraphone unreal_dm – bass, beats and synth MalreDeszik – bass, beats and synthThanks to jaspertine for the jazzy/loungey track to sing to. I tried it first to one of his rock tracks but that wasn’t going so well so when he uploaded this track I jumped ship. (Not that my singing got any better with the change of genre but it was a more comfortable fit.) I wrote this after reading about Project 2025. Their stated objective is to ‘return’ America to a Christian Family Values society. By any means necessary. A couple days later I read the convicted felon’s statement – ‘I was not familiar with Project 2025, it’s dark and ridiculous and I’m not a part of it.’ Proof positive that he is. Though I will allow for the possibility that he’s so stupid that he doesn’t know he is. At any rate, he does claim to be a Christian so, my point stands. UPDATE: After a little more research I guess I owe Mr _ an apology. The fucking a porn star thing took place two months after his wife gave birth. So - a good Christian family man after all. My bad. I should do it over and sing 'while your wife is [i]nursing[/i] your baby'. But that would probably be inaccurate as well. I'm sure they have people for that. I’m so glad we have a Christian man to give ol’ Joe a beatin’ And you know he’s gonna win it ‘cause he’s mastered lyin’ and cheatin’ We’re gonna get back to Mayberry And he’s gonna lead the way and all of you will be happier unless you’re female, brown or gay Christianity is the one big thing that our country has been lacking but now we’ve got a big strong man to send all them sinners packin’ He don’t pay taxes He don’t play fair I’m not even gonna get into his hair ‘cause I’m not judgemental about insignificant things I’m just so ecstatic ‘bout the wisdom he brings Look how well he did with Covid getting rid of excess killed way more than any other country a true Christian success and there’s nothing more Christian no ifs or buts or maybe than fucking a porn star while your wife is having your babyThanks to: Apoxode - beats, bass and synth BeatMachine - bass khalafnasirs - piano madimpactunit - vocals SackJo22 - vocals IDzeroNo - vocals robwalkerpoet - vocals EWI (sax) by meSung to airtone's divergencies. How come everybody’s dreams are more interesting than mine I used to have adventures too but not for quite some time I used to use the lucid ones to bolster introspection I think once I even did some astral projection But now I hardly dream at all and few of them are pleasant They’re mostly based on fear and knowing soon I won’t be present There was a time I looked forward to the alternate realities if I see myself in dreamland now I ask me can we wake up please And in the light of day to day I still have some agency so even after dark illusions I still wake up hopefully I wake up not excitedly and not with expectations my mind but briefly clouded with last night’s dream’s frustrations I go about my day and then I safely go to bed again knowing that I’ll have to face the who and how of what I amSung to airtone's divergencies, with Admiral Bob joining in on guitar after the singing part. How come everybody’s dreams are more interesting than mine I used to have adventures too but not for quite some time I used to use the lucid ones to bolster introspection I think once I even did some astral projection But now I hardly dream at all and few of them are pleasant They’re mostly based on fear and knowing soon I won’t be present There was a time I looked forward to the alternate realities if I see myself in dreamland now I ask me can we wake up please And in the light of day to day I still have some agency so even after dark illusions I still wake up hopefully I wake up not excitedly and not with expectations my mind but briefly clouded with last night’s dream’s frustrations I go about my day and then I safely go to bed again knowing that I’ll have to face the who and how of what I amThanks to: Greg Baumont – bass bangcorrupt – beats SerenityFrost – fx Fireproof Babies - guitarThis is just Mr_Yesterdays spoken word put to Apoxode's Perchance To Sleep mix. Nothing fancy.Thanks to: airtone - bass, bodhran and celesta Ben Blohowiak - cymbals, epiano, synth and vibraphone Snowflake - pillow percussion Etja - spoken word Thanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, epiano Apoxode – percussion AuntBeast – harp Zenboy1955 – synth wolf Kara Square – crow Wiseman – vinyl crackle Tony Ten Fingers – spoken wordAn all Javolenus mix (from his synth-electro side). bass, beats, synths and keysThanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, tuba, clarinet, glockenspiel airtone – percussion urmymuse – drums Javolenus – gutar Kara Square – reading Lord Byron’s The Dream (slightly abridged at the end) Deirdre Barrett – spoken wordThanks to: Hieron – bass and beats solos_to_use – tenor and alto saxThanks to: Zenboy1955 – bass, beats and organ Stefan Kartenberg – drums MalreDeszik – beats, bass and synth Doxent Zsigmond – piano Calling Sister Midnight – vocals Anchor – spoken word (One of the spoken word snippets is not Anchor.)Thanks to: Javolenus - guitar Martijn de Boer - bass It's gonna be a beautiful day a day in the upper fifties It's gonna be a beautiful day A beautiful day for me to be contemplating what it's like to be approaching my middle sixties The sparrows are on their nest a sign the seasons have progressed so glad to see their little red breasts inhabiting last years mess I mean no offense to mother nature but Jesus can't you build a nest in one of the treeses But no they like the tops of the pillars on our porch which makes it hard to access our kitchen which really ain't a problem we aren't going anywhere there's poison in the air we aren't going out there and no one in the house is bitchin' We like to see the birdies in the springtime it lets us know the world is still alive it's oddly comforting to know that even if we don't it will surviveIt begins with Wired Ant's Stalling Wharp Cores sample (to which I've added a sub bass) that leads up to the main course, which I hear as kind of a small big band jazz (arkestra?) thing. Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Jeris - piano bigbonobo_combo - sax Wired Ant - everything elseThanks to: Yaktroid – bass, beats, synths and fx HEKTOR THILLET - vocalsThanks to: vo1k1 - bass, beats and 'asian' Sascha Ende - piano Admiral Bob - guitar Geoff Peters - tablaMartijn de Boer on bass and high bass. Martijn also provided a click track, which I've glitched up a bit. I've also added fingersnaps, flute, marimba, sax and toy piano.Started with Darkroom's Warp Drive complete. (Mostly.) First added to it four synth tracks of my own making. Then: Martijn de Boer - bass annabloom - sax solos_to_use - trumpet Jonatha Chance - saxish synth And from freesound: [url=https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/399376/]InspectorJ - rollercoaster screams[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/gefscream/sounds/470196/]gefscream - slow scream[/url]Pitx & The Admiral's Psychedelic Hard Blues JamToday marks ten years since my first ccMixter upload. Still finding inspiration. This one features two of my favorite mixters (there are many) - Martijn de Boer - bass, high bass, beats and sax Apoxode - beats, synth bass, epiano and fxThanks to: Zenboy1955 - bass, drums, mellotron and organ copperhead - drums Asteria - vocals (that were embedded in Zenboy's drum sample) Me on cigar box slide guitar, stem and samples in the zip.A variety pack of synth bell samples. The preview is one of four synth bell tracks in the zip. I was going for something more complex (a synth bell quartet?) but I decided to just upload the samples/stems instead. Please feel free to chop them up and have your way with them.Just a silly little something I wrote/recorded a while back when I was contemplating trading in my pickup for a comfortable sedan. Everybody gets old sooner or later unless they don't make it that far so you may as well decide if you're gonna fight your fate or if you're gonna buy a comfy car I've been drivin' a pickup pretnear all my life For the life that I've lived it's always sufficed but now my bones ache if I'm drivin' long range and I feel like it just might be time for a change There comes a time for a Buick or an Oldsmobile or a Caddy if you've got the cash unless you're really loaded and you'd like a Mercedes to prove that you're not poor white trash I want style and comfort and miles per gallon I was born before Carson I'll be outlived by Fallon I'm gettin' too old to be bruisin' my tushy I just want a ride now that's comfy and cushyThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass unreal_dm - beats and sax Kamihamiha - beats, pad and synth Fireproof_Babies - beats Vladimir Boboshin - guitar (tele) Javolenus - guitar (acoustic)Piano - Cis Minor Violin and cello - Jeris Vocal - Anchor/Jaff Seijas Pitch bent bells - SpeckMartijn de Boer's bass and high bass track unedited, to which I've added percussion, piano and a secondary epiano.Thanks to: reiswerk - bass, beats, bell and synth urmymuse - beats and guitar veezyn - organ and piano (glitched much)I put the music together first, then the title, then improvised some lyrics based on the title. Featuring: Martijn de Boer - bass and high bass Stefan Kartenberg - beats Javolenus - guitar I added harmonica, organ and voice. Sixteen calls and what I meant to say never made it through to you that day Had I known where you were I wouldn't have tried at all How could I know you were with her and couldn't take my call Now I know what you prefer my calling days are through I hope you're happy I hope you purr That's all I want for you It was a drizzly day with nothing much to do All I wanted was to spend the day with you Had I known where you were I wouldn't have tried at all How could I know you were with her and having such a ball Now I know what you prefer my calling days are through I hope you're happy I hope you purr That's all I want for youMy first venture here, combining the talents of Anchor Mejans on cello, Fireproof Babies on sax, Neurowaxx on drums and Cdala on vocals for a bit of a 'free jazz' excursion.A kind of dubby remix of Vieux Farka Touré's Ana.Ejc's latest poem put to sound. The ambient intro is Panu's 'soggy amp' guitar acoustic mirrored to a horn. The heavily distorted part is the music box Per uploaded, reversed and with a bit of the pure box coming through at points. The other sort of distorted, actually chorused, sound is Jurgen Herrman's sax. Kaer Trouz's guitar and Skoria's percussion are left unfxed (just chopped and looped). Again I thank you all for providing such quality to work with.Is it true?Besides the three sources listed there is also a Neurowaxx pad and a guitar sample called am7riff(artist name?,sample title?). I can't seem to locate these on the site with the search so maybe they aren't up any more. My contributions are the beats (done in redrum) and a three dollar yard sale casio played through the Kaoss Pad.Thanks to: Apoxode - 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚢 mix, whole Martin Cee - vocals airtone - fx Quarkstar - synth and a cheap made-in-China cigar box slide guitarI wanted to try to use colab's piano in a way that wasn't too disturbing, that didn't scramble it too much from what it was. The bass is also his, came with. Thanks to colab for sharing those. The simple beat is from fourtrack, the EP from scomber, and the operatic vocals I heard used in a rock piece the other day and it was still strong in my mind how well they worked trans-genre so I thought I'd try them out in a bluesy setting. The only instrumental contribution I make is the strings. It's probably still disturbing. I was feeling very blue when I did it. Interesting, even though I only assembled pre-existing music by others somehow the creative process still has a purging effect. I feel much better now.I started this with Javolenus’ guitar track, intact (but shortened). To which I added synth and piano, and some piano from Stefan Kartenberg to make it a little more grounded. Then Martijn de Boer was kind enough to offer to play a bass track for/to it, which I think really upped the listenability factor. Many thanks to all concerned.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass annabloom – beats, bass and piano(processed) Apoxode – beats Javolenus – guitarAn end times love song. The players: Robert Warrington - vocals EdwinQ - beats stellarartwars - beats Martijn de Boer - bass ephemeral rift - flute Javolenus - guitar colab - piano The words, World Beaters by Robert Warrington (abridged): I wish you’d turn around  Instead of walking straight on I’ll tell you for why  You make my heart pound So you must be real Please tell me you’re real And please tell me you’re attainable Because we live in a world  That’s cruel and absurd  Well I’ve got a TV  But I’m going to stop watching the news I’m going to stop watching the news I’m going to stop watching I only start crying And I’m embarrassed To love you in a world like this And I wish  I wish I could give you a better world It’s like we’re heading for a world  Where government is irrelevant  But some things never change We live in a world  That’s cruel and absurd Violence is endless Violence to women Violence to children Out there dyin' like flies Someone’s always lying Dying for nothing Someone’s always spying But you and me darlin’ You and me darlin’ You and me darlin’ You and me darlin’ You and me darlin’ You and me darlin’ Let’s be better than this Let’s be better than the worldGosh I hope I'm wrong. Merry Christmas morons I hope you like your gift I hope it makes your Christmas whiter and gives your bank account a lift Merry Christmas morons you got everything on your list a thoughtless ruthless racist and obnoxious narcissist You know your Santa loves you because he told you so “I love the poorly educated” is how he let you know He was counting on you to fuel his sleigh and you fell for it big time you gave him his way I know you think that his way lines up with yours but I haven't seen any evidence he cares about the standard poors except for the convenience of having them around to send to places he won't go foot soldiers on the ground yeah you know your Santa loves you because he told you so “I love the poorly educated” is how he let you know Congratulations morons and thank you for the gift of a cabinet full of wealthy anti-environmentalists Apologies if I'm wrong but I simply can't resist calling you out for loading us up with white supremacists Merry Christmas morons you got everything on your list a thoughtless ruthless racist and obnoxious narcissist Merry Christmas morons I hope you like your gift don't forget to thank the Russians and the electoral twits I hope it makes your Christmas whiter and gives your bank account a lift Merry Christmas morons you got everything on your list a thoughtless ruthless racist and obnoxious narcissistSome field recordings I made walking around the property last October, along with some short Absynth samples.Lest ye should stick to the bottom of the pan. Thanks to The Institute for uploading those kitchen hits, lots of fun to play with.An odd little concoction. Includes, besides the ingredients already listed, a prayer bell, music box(feelings), autoharp (all from tag sales), some whale song and a monk's chant.I was struck by the concept of watching ideas hang, as an activity. Imparting action into the seemingly inactive. Idle bodies, active minds... cold exterior, warm interior... in the darkness, reach for the light... that sort of thing. In that spirit I wanted to keep this mix 'chill' but also not without motion. So I built an increasingly complex rhythmic glitch backing and pared down the spoken word to the essence of my perception, using the ambient samples as a smoothening agent.A sort of minimalist repetitive but hopefully more mesmerizing than monotonous build.A multi-track piano improvisation with Bill Ray's drums. The neighbor's lawn service showed up while I was doing this so I kind of incorporated it at the end. Well, at least it gave me a title.If you haven't heard the music of Jurgen Herrmann yet I highly recommend you click on over to his page at your earliest convenience. This is his Nasobem with some additional percussion and piano from me. Not that it needed anything additional, I just was so attracted to the freedom and the fun of it I wanted to play too.Started with kerri's flute samples from freesound. The percussion is from audiotechnica and waysidedrive, bass from waysidedrive, and four other sources (as listed) to fill it out. Thanks to all. And big thanks to [url=http://ccmixter.org/people/ejc/profile]ejc[/url] for vocalizing to it after it was pretty much finished. My only contributions are a short pad swell and a couple little extra percussion bits.I was playing around with the Harmony Voice app by Virsyn on the iPad and thought maybe someone could use parts of it for something (something weird?). Or not. The preview is just the samples strung together. Mostly I'm singing Silent Night. Not the song, just those words. I think most of it's in D (?). The individual samples are in the .zip.The complete drum track from audiotechnica's Truth and Beauty with some additional percussion from waysidedrive. Chopped and echoed guitar and horn from skoria and urmymuse. Beautiful vocals from Calling Sister Midnight. Many thanks.Big thanks to unreal_dm for his song shaped song (which I can't do), inspiring me to write and sing. Hey 2016 you tricky son of a bitch you made me think we were doing one thing then you pulled a drastic switch I thought maybe we were making advances at least in choosing figure heads but you fooled me you bastard and we're going backwards instead and where is god and what is aleppo and who's side are we on can we believe the intel they tell us oh can we believe anyone The price of medicine has gone sky high they don't give a damn if you die The price of phones I guess is pretty much the same still not worth it and they might go up in flame Hey 2016 what the hell I'd like to sing something hopeful but I feel like we all just fell with our hair-trigger outrage that's never resolved we argue on our page and no one's absolved We all think we're right by which I mean correct you're obviously not right if you lean to the left Hey 2016 so divisive at least you gave some of us legal weed Hey 2016, so indecisive not so sure that that's the cure we need(it's really magic)Thanks to: stellarartwars - guitar, synth and vocals spinningmerkaba - beat, marimba and flute (chopped/looped from a full mix) Quarkstar - beats and bells Martijn de Boer - bassOr - Admiral Bob Bill Ray And The Phonorgan's Psychedelic Happy Blues Jam. Kind of in the same vein as Pitx And The Admiral's Psychedelic etc... (two uploads ago) At the core of this is the Admiral's short piano sample. The drums are from the Boogaloo Madness sample of BillRayDrum's. I added part of Dj Lenin's 606 Groove for the low end. The [url=http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://clubmumble.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/phonoorgan1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://clubmumble.com/2009/07/28/phonoorgan/&usg=__07gTNcraNmL5naszVVNznJIIj78=&h=662&w=448&sz=244&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=z7VojsR18MuShM:&tbnh=164&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dphonorgan%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1271%26bih%3D828%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=131&vpy=53&dur=48&hovh=273&hovw=185&tx=89&ty=112&ei=2PbBTPWHLoO8lQen64XdCQ&oei=2PbBTPWHLoO8lQen64XdCQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0]phonorgan[/url] (except mine's red and says phonorgan instead of phono organ on it) I picked up at a flea market a couple weekends ago ($8.00). It can be heard raw at the beginning and again with some reverb and echo in the second half.The horns and bass came off my keyboard. I'm thinking of getting an EWI USB (electronic wind instrument). I also did some of the drums (in Redrum). The rest as listed. Thanks to all for the quality samples.Thanks to: stellarartwars - beats, bass, keys and vocal unreal_dm - bass, guitar and piano Martin Cee - beats and epiano texasradiofish - pianoA little string ensemble thing with three great players.hmm...Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - the bass coruscate - the rest I provided the birds and the bell.A gathering of talents (thank you all) that started with wanting to do something with the Kim vocals uploaded by St. Paul with his wonderful piece, Anima. By the way - has anybody figured out how to get the list of attributions to appear in a desired order? I'd like them to appear in descending order based on the percentage of inclusion. I've tried selecting them straight, reversed, alphabetized, reverse alphabetized - they always end up random.This started with AIR LOMEG's experimental slowing of Ugly By Now's You Look Hot. Splicing and looping parts of it. I created a beat for that, recorded a music box, and played a kalimba and a toy xylophone to go with the beats, then found the vocals. The kind of repetitive tribal aspect of it is probably also inspired by AIR LOMEG's upload Danced Bearings. BTW: I don't know what Tanzmob2000's words are, I just thought the sound was appropriate, so if you do and they're offensive I apologize.INSIGHT by ejc I came home one day with different Eyes, nobody noticed, but then No one ever did. They were large and luminous, my eyes. I began to see in black and white, More clearly after nightfall. Outside I crawled on all fours, nothing Frightened me. The clouds were made of White sails, they'd carry me off. I was less bored then. Years later, my mother noticed I was not quite myself. I'd Stand perfectly still all afternoon, Waiting. Slowly my fingers would grow tiny claws, Evening would erase me, She'd call my name once or twice, then Give up. It was time for a beer.Last week I sent colab an unfinished something and he made it [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/colab/24278]something eminently listenable[/url]. This week he sent me [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/colab/24375]something[/url] and I did this to it. The piano and pad and four note bass line are the kernel of colab. Thank you colab, it's been fun colabing with you.Thanks to: MalreDeszik - bass, beats and synth Bluemillenium - bass, beats and synth Anacrusis Ansa - vocals A couple of synth tracks from me in there as well.Thought I'd extend the collaborative by using colab's rhodes (and one arp) that he played for In Spate/Free Rein to start something else. Only the beats and bass are not from colab's file, and the sultry vocals of course.I was working on a mellow but somewhat atonal beats and synth track (I'll upload that here as an additional file in case someone wants to use it for something else, or just hear it before this after) for which [url=http://ccmixter.org/people/ejc]ejc[/url] offered up some vocals, riffing on a list of A Word A Day words. At some point I asked her to hold a high note (a high sound?) for as long as she could. I spliced and arranged that vocal recording session into the beats and synth track, as well as my own sax (ewi) and some straight operatic vocal to complement the wackiness. The cello and bowls show up briefly to reinforce the ending. This will not be a popular favorite, but I thank you in advance for your tolerance (and completely understand if you haven't any).A choral psa.Just two samples and a bit of piano.This is another 'weird' one. (More of a warning than an apology.) Essesq's piano upload, the catalyst, is called Make Of Me What You Will... so I did. There's a bouncing ball, a wooden box, 'live' Kaoss Pad manipulation of marimba, etc.Big thanks to Kara Square for the fun samples to play with. All I added was the beats (and one tubular bell hit).Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, beats and sax reiswerk - beats and marimba Psychadelik Pedestrian - beats MoeShinola1 - guitar Siobhan Dakay - piano Bluemillenium - synth Vibhu Tewary - vocalsThanks to: Apoxode - beats, blips, boops, organ, synth and trumpet Pitx - bass and guitar Kara Square - beats and bass unreal_dm - beats debbizo - vocals Stefan Kartenberg - vocals economix - vocals Thespinwires - vocalsSome raw material. Slice and dice at will.Panu's Ramona chopped, looped and layered and little else.Thanks to: ScOmBer – beats, guitar and rhodes Apoxode – bass, beats and guitar BillRayDrums – drums DavidRobinson - vocals And also to Radioontheshelf for reminding me of DavidRobinson's vocal shares.Bringing together four of my favorite favorites. Some oft used samples, some not so oft.I wanted to do something with AIR_LOMEG, whose uploads I always find artistically appealing. DadiC's vocals I used for their sound, no idea what they say so I apologize if you do and it's offensive.The beat and glitch is pretty much intact from the source(s)- El.ector. I think I've used everything he's uploaded now, cool stuff. Panu's guitar is greatly chopped and fx'd. I hope he knows how greatly I appreciate his tolerance of this. And when I heard St. Paul's recent 'fake' trumpet I thought it would complement, and help disguise, my fake sax. Kim Westin's vocals were there with the trumpet and I couldn't resist. Thanks to all.Some raw material for any and all to chop and have there way with.Thanks to: ztutz - vocals CSoul - beats, bass Robin Schmitz - percussion, piano, violin Sturzstrom - beats Robbero - beats septahelix - guitar greg baumont - guitar Speck - trumpet Thanks also to colab for pointing me in the direction of this vocal.Glitch metal?Inspired by [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/rocavaco/27081]rocavaco's field recording[/url] at a subway station in Vienna. One world, so many lives.A loose groove. The phrase drunken monkey comes to mind.Most of my uploads are mixes or mash-ups of people more talented than myself. This one is mostly me playing (Thor in Reason and kalimba on keyboard). With Suzi Q Smith's words and some supplemental bass and drums around the mid point. Uploading some of the original stems and loops as well.A couple weeks ago I got a little demo of an electribe as a live instrument, which inspired me to do some knob turning on my own electribe, which has been pretty neglected for quite a while. But this isn't 'live', it's loops cut from a long session. The actual stem is too gigantic (and boring) to upload but I'll upload the loops and the original mix before I thinned out the first half and added ejc's spoken word and spinningmerkaba's trumpet and some redrum beats.I took the cool beats from the latter part of JSP's mix In Between, chopped and layered them a bit, and lightly stirred in fragments of melody. Colab's piano (though the most repeated piano part is also from the JSP mix), admiral bob's mandolin (and a not too discernable secondary bass), and djvadim's horn.A little something based on the groove CSM created for Now Listen, OK? featuring two additional drummers and Anchor's title vocal phrase, along with various melodic bits and pieces. Thanks to all. Couldn't attribute BillRayDrums' Syncopated Fonkiness because it's been taken down.I played with some of Toucan Music's beats from Eternal Truth, slowing, overlaying, offsetting, etc. Also the pad is derived from the organ stem from Eternal Truth. I had been playing with fourtrack's horn stem in another piece that wasn't working out too well but I really like it so I used some here. And there's always a place for the sounds of El.ector. The words are PorchCat's. And lo the words are good.With much appreciation of and thanks to: Guitar - Clarence Simpson Piano - Ivan Chew Viola - ljova The vox is me. Shyly and therefore with much reverb. Everything else remains fx free (for a change).I had this beat track made with something else in mind, when Colab was kind enough to send me some synth stems to play with. It was a happy coincidence how well they fit (or some kind of cosmic synchronicity). And it didn't take much searching to find a pleasing (at least to my ears) 'pella.Thanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, guitar and synth Wiseman – bass, beats, flute, guitar, piano and vocalsDonkey Horse Mule - beats (fx'd) and guitar (buried) Fex - synth (pad,strings) colab - piano CiggiBurns - vocal Speck - bass and saxEverything but the vocal is remixed from Zenboy1955's Stay Calm (Remix). The vocal is by Vladimir Boboshin.All i2b. I didn't alter any sounds, just chopped and arranged. There are only one or two sounds from Auld Lang Sine. Eleven Minutes and A Melody Crime are the major players.Very much Sturzstrom. I've been enjoying his sounds lately.I don't know the dance genres or even if this fits that, but I was going for something that could be in the dj's set list. Abstract Audio's .zips made this mix easy and fun. So thanks for that, and all the great vocals to choose from.Started with Alex's .zip. Heard SackJo's soft whispery delivery in another mix and knew I wanted to use that, making it slower as well, in contrast/balanced with a crisper b/t. Added a little glitch from rEVERse_servANT, just 'cause I like glitch, then El.ector uploaded his Emerge.ncy while I was still working on this and I thought, 'oh goody, more glitchy bits and high energy beats'. Sure is a lot of good stuff to work with on this Emergence project.Fireproof Babies - drum and Roland SH-5 (amplitudinally modularated) debbizo - synths (pretty much intact) Mind Map That! - vocals (few)Letting my freak flag fly on this one. All sound (but the vocals) is from the phonorgan (eight dollar flea market find). With fx. to wheeze, not gentle to not wheeze gentle shuddering like hairs of a broken moon and not patter like leafless winds the melody of sprouting tongue whispers like plaintive mud or not whine gentle the thirsty cough of a seagull dry splashes of words reciting fountains and not crack gentle the watchful rustle and wails like smog words in a halo my throat screeches halt like you my funeral © rob walkerMany thanks to: Jeris - piano (from Missing Person), bass and drums (from I Dreamt) BillRayDrums - drums I really liked this piano stem from Jeris and this mix is built for/from/around an arrangement of it.Beats - annabloom, unreal dm, Fireproof Babies Bass - Calling Sister Midnight Synth/pad - Abstract Audio Woodwinds - SpeckThe other one.The core of this is chopped and arranged from Antony Raijekov's Be Brave (goes back some years). Additional fills and frills chopped from Neurowaxx's Spooky Dub. Sax from the bigbonobo sample pack. And the smooth vocal snippets are from timberman's latest, Small Back Room.What I had in mind for the Babies Korg Drum machine sample is nothing like what actually happened. I ended up putting a few loops cut from it into Audiomulch and playing around with filters. I had initially intended to use the AIR LOMEG samples as short quick rhythmic elements in conjunction with the drum machine. Well, there's nothing short or quick about the end creation but... I like it. Also it's, I think, only the third time I've used the USB EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument), and it's pretty much as played. Stem included, not that it'll be much use, maybe for something experimental?I had said I was going to make something of debbizo's uke samples using only those and with no fx. Well, this happened instead. It's still mostly uke. I used more of the uke samples than those attributed but I lost track of which one's as I fx'd some. Everything but the drums, bass and a little bit of recorder is debbizo's uke. Oh, and the vocals. To all you who encouraged me to sing more... serves you right. Drums - Clarence Simpson, Admiral Bob, annabloom Bass - Admiral BobThanks for the stems Jeris, I had fun.This is Csuha's Minimalist complete (the percussion), mashed up with selections from annabloom's The Ring Of Money. And a little music box and vibraphone from me.Thanks to: Javolenus - bass and synth Martin Cee - guitar Shara - voice The beats I did with the Patterning app on an iPad. Stem/samples included.With thanks to: Etherdust - piano Briareus - sax Sturzstrom - fx'd sounds waysidedrive - vocals Beats stem also uploaded.The second in a series of two so far with [url=http://ccmixter.org/people/FuzOnAcid/profile]FuzOnAcid's[/url] mum Dora reminiscing. (Thanks Fuz) More atonal than the first, sorry about that (not really). Mostly me playing, with some additional organ by Sturzstrom. Jacinda Espinosa counts to four (clearly not one of the stupid people).ejc - djembe, hapi drum, piano, harpsichord, spoken word, miscellaneous other vocals. Huunter - strings docrobert - woodwinds Anchor Mejans - vocals debbizo - music box melody Speck - bass, beats (electribe presets), pad (Scapes Wizard VST by HG Fortune)Many thanks for the excellent originals and inter-related stems: unreal_dm - drums, bass, guitar Admiral Bob - drums, bass, guitar, organ And to panu for his 'go to' trove of high standard.A pretty straight-forward slow accumulation of some excellent recent sample uploads, thanks to: Anchor Méjans - cello Sturzstrom - synth (forwards) CSoul - percussion, bass, synth pad Also contains Speck beats, organ, pianoComprising samples submitted in conjunction with the recent Temperate Transitions secret mixter event. Beluga Ten - bass, guitar, synth and vibraphone 7OOP3D - bass, beats and synth Mr. Pepino - bass, beats and synth mwic - beats Apoxode - beats Bluemillenium - fx and synth Jonatha Chance - fxThanks to: Apoxode - beats, pipe, tuba and synth Calyman - bass, bells and lead synth aliteralmind('s son) - mouth soundsAn improvised doodle. Played, edited and re-constructed. Has echo and a little glitchiness. Also putting up a .zip of the loops and a .wav in a .zip.I was inspired by Air Lomeg's quietly out loud introspective musings to do 'nothing fancy' in support of (my perception of) his concept. With: Anchor Méjans - strings Debbizo - synth (btw-thanks for uploading all those great little synth samples, very handy) Huunter - piano Neurowaxx - bass and synth Fireproof Babies - drumsThe companion piece to colab's [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/colab/32642]Robot Oil Canal[/url]. Colab had this idea that we should each send one another a few stems, with no particular attempt to make them interrelated, then each interrelate them in a mix. We were each allowed one extra ccMixter source stem. I haven't heard his, he hasn't heard mine. 'Til now.I've enjoyed MMT's vocal style for some time. Hope to someday have something work with Polydactyl Supercat (got close once) but for now... this simple beat and little else seems to work pretty well with Idealistic Kid. Also featuring: ManoloCamp - beat and piano (the main ingredients) Fireproof Babies - extra (as in extra special) beats imaginario - cavaquinho keychee - just one sample in just the right placeThree times a year there's a giant antiques/flea market in Brimfield, Massachusetts. I went a couple weeks ago. All I brought back was this ten dollar toy guitar.Thanks to: Siobhan Dakay - piano and cello annabloom - percussion and melodic synth bits snowflake - vocalsRight brain ramble.Some sort of a three man jazz quintet thing. septahelix - beats and keys colab - piano and bass Tom Ena - saxThis could be a test to determine whether you are a pessimist or an optimist. Or it could be used to determine whether you have better hearing in the left or the right ear. Or it could be a meditation on the sameness and/or co-existence of something and nothing. Or it could be nothing. Or it could be nothing much. Which is something.I had most of this hanging around in the 'not quite' file for a while, occurred to me that with a few small changes it would work with Mind Map That!'s Shape Shifting Aliens so... Also it gives me an opportunity to upload a whole bunch of original sounds. All of which were created for this track but not all were used in it.A remix of CSoul's West Meets East with Songbird's vocals.This is probably going to offend some musical sensibilities, and I'm not so sure anyone would know what to do with it in film, but... (I like it.)For a project with colab and septahelix.A project within a project done with colab and septahelix. We each submitted three samples to each other, without listening to each other's, then each had our way with all nine, results not to be heard by one another until uploaded. Also allowed - one additional sample of choice from ccM. I chose none. I also chose to use my own samples sparingly as I found them to be the most cumbersome of the lot. [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/septahelix/33457]septahelix version[/url] [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/colab/33458]colab version[/url]Wanted to do something more celebratory of what was/is than mournful of what was/is lost. A sort of a booster rocket send off.cdk - beats/bass (one choice loop cut from Dub Bum, in repetition, slowed) airtone - additional percussion (hihat/cymbal) and piano greg baumont - additional bass Admiral Bob - strings, guitarThis is Admiral Bob's Slow Blues Backing Track in Cm - straight up, with SackJo's Jingle Bells - messed up. I know it's not 'right', but to my mind it's the right kind of wrong.Ephemeral Rift - didgeridoo (the inspiration for this piece) Septahelix (always inspiring) - beats and synth Speck - music box (through the Kaoss Pad), squeaky hinge (truck door), kalimba, drum sticks on a glass top desk, mic noise and vocals There's a shift at two minutes, so...Something a little more upbeat than the last few.With much thanks and appreciation for panu's presence. panu - spoken word septahelix - drums and synth Admiral Bob - guitar wnm - guitar JSpurling88 - bell Speck - additional vocalsannabloom - bass, drum, percussion, synth, trombone, clarinet Jeris - drum, strings, flute Fireproof Babies - clarinet Speck - timpani, glockenspiel, vibraphone (but very little of each)A twofer. The first is with/for the vocals I heard in Jeris' The Lessness Song. I wanted to hear it straight so I went to the source page, liked it a lot, did something to feature it. Everything in that part (except the vocal) is from me so, you know, beware. Toys, mic noise and incidentals, Kaoss Pad, voice, etc. The second part is pure Jeris, sourced from the same song. Jazz. With many thanks to Jeris for consistently fine uploads and for sharing of stems. And to ztutz, who I'm going to have to hear more of.Just a little (somewhat random) gathering of vocal snippets.Almost all airtone samples. A few words from IDzeroNo and a few samplewiz samples from me (ipad app).piano - Jeris drums - BillRayDrums guitar - Admiral Bob whistle - teru bass,hapi,sax - Speck voice - ejc (incidental capture - we were recording a poetry reading but first she wanted to tell me how many chocolate covered espresso beans she didn't eat) I'll also upload the sans vox version.I did this improv piece shortly after rewatching (hadn’t seen it in a long while) the 1974 film, Space Is The Place. Blaxploitation, sexploitation and Sun Ra concert footage all mixed up together. Weird, weird film. (With a separatist message.) Might be some worthwhile nuggets in there.Thanks to: Bluemillenium - beats and harp mrblitz - guitar PorchCat - beats, synths and vocalsA pleasant little ditty about a very unpleasant subject. Big thanks again to unreal_dm for the music. I'm not going to church today I don't feel like getting blown away I already know right from wrong So I'll stay right here at home and pray Pray for all the souls that don't Pray somehow they learn Then I'll realize they won't and I'm wasting my concern A mass shooting every weekend In this great land of ours Thanks to guns and mental patients and a congress full of cowards Called on by Americans from every far flung section but all they seem to care about is their goddam re-election They're paid by super wealthy folk as I understand it to keep the status-quo afloat or even to expand it They say no one is responsible it's just the way it is They've gathered their morality and sold it to big biz They're the ones that sell the guns God knows we need some more gotta stock the armory for the next civil war If your trigger finger's itching and you just can't wait There's a church full of sinners where you can vent your hate Here is a church and here is the steeple Open up the doors and mow down all the people Here is the pastor he's running up the stairs He should have run faster now he's in our thoughts and prayersCoruscate's beats (and bits of koto and shamisen) and spinningmerkaba's trumpet. That's it.Thanks to: Martin Cee - bass, guitar and synth Calyman - beats, horns, piano and strings Javolenus - guitar zeusjones - beats stellarartwars - beatsbeat/bass - annabloom vocals - Anchor Méjans sax - stefsax and Abox JInspired (all in good fun) by [url=http://ccmixter.org/thread/1609]this forum thread[/url] in which four out of five ed pickers profess their love of "unholy messes". I googled 'cheap sampling keyboard' and realized I already had 'the world's cheapest' in my arsenal. The Realistic Concertmate 500, which is the Radioshack branding of the Casio sk1, made in 1985. I think I remember reading that it cost $300 back then. Mine cost $3 (at a yard sale). Of course now I want a Microkorg XL. I recorded about fifty minutes of nonsense on it, then cut loops from that and sequenced at will. Then this morning I heard [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/gurdonark/35631]Gurdonark's Sensitive[/url] and thought maybe the source he used, Ondrej Rosik's love is over would ameliorate my mess. Sure enough, not bad, or at least if bad the good kind of bad (?). Ondrej Rosik - beats, piano, strings Speck - voice and whatever was within reach of my chairCSoul - percussion, cello, guitar, synth Ephemeral Rift - voice spinningmerkaba - trumpet Speck - melodicaI've been a fan of Sturzstrom since I joined the site and I've used bits here and there but I think this is my first all Sturzstrom mix. Well, I guess it's not quite all Sturzstrom as I couldn't resist playing along on a couple of thrift shop toys, and since the mic was open I ended up doing some voice stuff too. Oh yeah, and a little sax from Hemeleen. But essentially - yay Sturzstrom.Sort of. I don't do love songs. But there are lovesayers aplenty hereabouts to sample. The percussion is tigabeatz track complete and intact, except for having some bars repeated somewhere near the middle so it would last a little longer. Piano, sax, trumpet - Jeris Acoustic guitar - panu The vocalists are (in order of appearance): :31 SackJo22 1:02 Mind Map That! 1:17 timberman & Anchor Méjans 1:23 Admiral Bob 1:30 KungFu 1:32 CiggiBurns 2:00 snowflake A big thank you to you all for sharing. It really is a pleasure to be able to work/play with such excellent material.audiotechnica - wave drum, synth, percussion Admiral Bob - electric guitar Pitx - acoustic guitar elixirix - sax Jeris - piano and bass Mind Map That! & jennymayhem - vocals Speck - spiral staircaseBacking track played in Reason6, all stems uploaded. watching my blind cat narla walks past the lounge room window in winter sun as I’m trying to finish a short story feline fluidity now a disconnected concatenation of tentative movements her nose is her new eyes but she misjudges jerks backwards at every sniff the lawn is a featureless wasteland she zigzags in slowmotion the same ground she once covered like an arrow. wends her way to the fishpond bumping blinking into branches. visions of blindness. that night in the shack on hindmarsh island coming back from the toilet to the bedroom in the no-moon dark fixed action patterns of habit retracing steps headbutting strange walls a rat in a maze, cornered until i realise i’m in the wrong room. the blind man at the bus stop. watching him through the restaurant window coins falling to footpath probing the dirty concrete with the backs of his hands. the fish need not fear. my blind cat’s come to lap their universe. what is to be done with this decrepitude? is it kinder to end her life? or must we all accept we’re past our prime i remember my grandfather watching in awe at boyish sure-footedness as i rockhop barefoot over the breakwater, his awe a discarnate nostalgia for muscle-memory. narla takes one step down from the pond’s rim she extends her nose several times indecisively pussyfoots air makes contact with the ground. my father’s last month in the nursing home. his last chapter. we had all peeked at the last page. watching him, sharp acuity dulled, pale ghost of his once-self. it’s kinder on the birds the mice the insects she’ll no longer present to me on the coir-mat platter. completely harmless. her mercury motion solidified and leaden. she crawls into the watery sun and sleeps as well as she ever did. leaves the decision to me. text © rob walker 2012 First published on The Cortland Review, Feb, 2012 http://cortlandreview.com/i...And I hope that you are too. There sure have been some fine sample uploads lately. This is four of the finest in one place and almost at the same time. Eventually.spoken word - ejc percussion (second half) - annabloom Sour Milk by ejc Let’s find out just how good you are at following directions. In your seventh year you will become a walking stick. Should a bird or other predator grab hold of your leg, simply give up the leg. Being a juvenile, you will regenerate the missing limb the next time you molt. When you grow up you will have babies without males; you will reproduce making seeds. You must behave like a stick at this time and forgo changing into more intricate shapes. You will wear lichen to make yourself invisible. You will neither speak nor bring attention to yourself in any way. You will not hide your seed/eggs by sticking them to leaves or bark. You will drop them randomly on the forest floor, leaving your future progeny to their own fate. You will shed your skin and then eat it immediately; this will protect you from being eaten by others. If you are threatened, you will spit, spit, spit. Aim for your enemy’s mouth. Your spit will leave a bad taste. If this does not work, try bleeding from your joints. Thank you for listening to me during your short lunch break. I will fasten myself onto the bathroom wall like a toilet plunger and wait for your report. There will be no theological discussions or interpretations of any kind. All fellow patients will be wearing dirty stove pipe hats until we understand more. Above all, do not complain of the sour milk.Battery compartment contact springs, four C cells. I didn't add any fx, the reverb and distortion are as was. The preview is chopped and arranged, the 'spring selections' .zip contains the selections I made and the 'spring stem' .zip is the straight recording so you can make your own selections or do whatever you want with/to.Just wanted to immerse myself in Javolenus' guitar sounds for a while. Simple addition and subtraction. Repetition with small changes every so many bars.Thank you colab and annabloom for so kindly sharing. colab - beats, bass, piano, synth pad annabloom - bass, percussion, cello speck - synthsI thought the babies would fit the theme nicely, so...airtone - beats, bass and xylophone audiotechnica - harpsichord My Free Mickey - violins and bongo Javolenus - synthIt started with recordings made around the house/garage, intended as a sample share, then I added some rythymic synth from polyplus and some melodic (minimally) synth from AmbireSeiche to make it a little more musical. Also has some [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/eksaa/sounds/219449/]audience noise from eksaa[/url] over at freesound.org.Another simple addition composition of Javolenus' guitar samples. This one's shorter and has percussion, also Javolenus'.Also features these two conversations from freesound.org: [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/13575/]13575__acclivity__rocdirexions[/url] [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/22791/]22791__dobroide__20060910-old-lady-conversation[/url]Ok, here's a challenge for all you mixing wizards. Make me sound good. The preview is rough and sung with (or at least in the same room as) a looped Javolenus sample (Dm112-SpookyBlues_4) and is in no way meant to be a finished product. The flac 'stem' is raw, disjointed and formless. I'm hoping somebody can do something worthwhile with it. You may also just laugh at it and dismiss it for the amateur attempt it is. Less True Life is a game of joy and sorrow That you get to play again tomorrow And then there's a day that you don't And then there's no way that you won't Die You might think of something You might make it do But there will be nothing To make it less true It's really a waste not to acquire a taste For the one thing you know you can have But you're free to give in I don't think it's a sin You just might have to do it again Desolation, wretchedness, melancholia Fulfillment and contentment, ladidadida As long as you know you don't know shit You stand a chance of understanding it.I had airtone's mix of timberman singing panu's lyrics in my head when I went to sit by the creek for a while yesterday. When I got back this happened.Single hits on things around the house. Also some slides. The zip contains the individual sounds as well as a redrum patch. The preview is a redrum sequence.zip 1 contains the individual sample recordings, zip 2 has a redrum patch and a few versions of the same sequence. The preview is one of those.Great bunch of samples from copperhead.The band: Copperhead - drums, bass, horns Jeris - wurlitzer, hammond Javolenus - guitar, vocals Thanks for all the great samples guys.I heard these three sources consecutively yesterday morning and immediately felt a kinship between them. I put them in a folder then remembered there was a 'huge' (people need to spend more time with the dictionary) yard sale a couple towns over. When I got there I heard this music box playing. I thought "geez, could it be more obvious? This is meant to be."Warning: atonal racket ahead KungFu -spoken word BillRayDrums - drums HEJ31 - guitar solos to use - sax Jeris - piano Hans Atom - strings Speck - synths By the way - today marks three years since my first ccM upload. And I am not through. (Though I admit I was thinking of saving this one for the day I am.)I started with CSoul's drum and fx track from his Ad Astra remix. From Super_Sigil's Future Vigil preview file I looped melodic/rhythmic bits from six of the ten pieces previewed (gated). Then I went to freesound to get some ambient sounds - Children playing: [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/ingeos/sounds/6902/]http://www.freesound.org/people/ingeos/sounds/6902/[/url] [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/Tomlija/sounds/105415/]http://www.freesound.org/people/Tomlija/sounds/105415/[/url] Female vocals: [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/65382/]http://www.freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/65382/[/url] [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/Leady/sounds/26722/]http://www.freesound.org/people/Leady/sounds/26722/[/url] Male vocal: [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/annannienann/sounds/8067/]http://www.freesound.org/people/annannienann/sounds/8067/[/url] Bird: [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/32480/]http://www.freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/32480/[/url] And I played along with a toy xylophone (stem uploaded).It's all Fireproof Babies. Myself, I'm not particularly fond of heavy metal (a very short phase in my adolescence) but I am quite fond of the music Joe left us with. Listening to a bunch of it lately I've come to think we shared some musical sensibilities. Except maybe that his was more from a rock place and mine is more from a jazz place. Bet we could have done some pretty cool colabs.So... Mind Map That!, panu, CiggiBurns and myself each put four short vocal samples into a hat. This is what I pulled out. Well, this is the first thing I pulled out. I also did an fx'd up electro version. But this one's all a cappella, using all sixteen samples. Ninety-eight percent fx free. My self imposed challenge was to get all sixteen going at once but I only managed fourteen (I think).Four short vocal samples. Recorded for a collaborative project with Mind Map That, panu and CiggiBurns. But please, help yourself. The individual samples are in the .zip.Three outstanding sources: robwalkerpoet - shakuhachi and upright bass (garage band loop) and inspiration kidjazz - beat and additional bass (synth) Ivan Chew - piano Also: Speck - additional percussion (tongue drum) And: Speck Ra - synths (Does referring to yourself in the third person still qualify as a narcissistic personality disorder if it's a pseudonym?)Thanks to: MalreDeszik - beats, rhodes, sax and synth Darkroom - beats Rhonin - bass Bluemillenium - fx and synth Kara Square - vocals SackJo22 - vocalsAnother mash-up of some of my favorite earlier uploads from colab (page two). This time with CiggiBurns' vocals (abridged).Thanks to: Mr_Yesterday - bass and vocals annabloom - percussion, fx and a bit of piano furkosbot - jew's harp Kara Square - vocals (hmmmming) I added percussion (fingers on the desktop subjected to hard resonance, sounds kinda like tap dancing), piano and vibraphone. And a little bit of backing vocals.vocals - KungFu piano - _ghost beats - RHBeatProductions and stellarartwars all else - AIR_LOMEG dear angel ever at my side how loving must thou be to leave thy home in heaven to guide a child like meThis seemed like a natural alignment of two of my favorite ccM stars.Adisa McKenzie - vocals Super_Sigil - beats and guitar Bluemillenium - beats and synth Nethis - piano Speck - bass (sub)ejc - spoken word audiotechnica - bass Jeris - sax annabloom - glitchy synthy drum BillRayDrums - a little more drum Speck - percussion (small plastic bottle top pop, a lighter and the pocket tab of a tape measure) (.zip included)Big thanks to Apoxode for sharing his intriguing (and very original;)) piece, Eno In A Glass Cage. First, I repeated Apoxode's piece four times. After the first instance I added a second track of the same but at three quarter speed. And for the last quarter I added a third track with the speed halved. Then I added some slow synths. btw - The title is an anagram of Apoxode's title.Wired Ant - beat Javolenus - guitar and synth Petroside - guitar Leza Boyland - vocals Bluemillenium - whistling serenityfrost - hiccupsSomething you may be able to chop usable bits from for something else. (That's what I did.) The zip has the wav.upl/speck_1733678166_stars.jpg Describe any AI tools used in creating your imageThanks to: Brylie Christopher Oxley - piano Martin Cee - synth offlinebouncer - fx'd percussionRobbero's track intact with KungFu's Xaphoon and also a few bits from his A Minor Disturbance.Where [i]did[/i] you hide the broom? Jeris - beats (the slower ones) and bass Abstract Audio - beats (the faster ones) CSoul - cello and choir Admiral Bob - guitar Fireproof Babies - vocals (the Empty Room ones) Kung Fu - vocals - (spoken, whispered and sung) Morusque - synthWith a big thank you to [url=http://ccmixter.org/people/FuzOnAcid/profile]FuzOnAcid[/url] for giving me access to the recording of his mother, Dora. And of course to Dora for doing it. It is a rare privilege. Also to SeanA - beats, kalimba and synth Gurdonark - synth Javolenus - guitarAn extension/expansion of shalpin's I Ride The Other Way featuring the vocals of economix, as well as Bluemillenium's harmonica and audiotechnica's piano.Thanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - beats, organ, piano Admiral Bob - bass, guitar stellarartwars - beats, synthWhile exploring the synth patches in Reason for something to play with Wired Ant's most excellent and exciting drum track I came across the wobble bass and it seemed like this was an opportunity to try my hand at it. Probably not dubstep, I don't know, not into genre specifics, I just know I had a lot of fun with it.Piano - composition by Victoria Melfi, played by Anchor Méjans (as I understand it). All sounds but the violin and voice come from the piano sample. Violin - Dimitri Artemenko Voice - me (I'll also upload the version without the vocals.)To @nop's complete mix, featuring rjmarshall: piano,strings and fx and Papa_Zulu: horns and timpani I added Mr_Yesterday: vocals (and a bit of harmonica)Sometimes while I'm editing photos (my other computer-based pastime) and listening to SomaFm (Groove Salad or Sonic Universe) I find myself doing this. Got brave (or stupid) this morning and turned the mic on. I put it into Melodyne to see what key and bpm it auto-detects. It says 93.609bpm and Eb. The preview (and two track flac) have the dyned (auto-correct) track on the right and the raw track on the left. The raw mono recording is also in the zip.A synth heavy mix of one of Javolenus' zen-electro series.drums - BillRayDrums guitar - unreal_dm horn - Bluemillenium bass - SpeckDoxent's Mellow Piano chopped, re-arranged and effected. But still mellow. Plus a bit of flute (id8 voice in Reason). Complete flute stem uploaded. Also there's an old record effect applied. Izotope Vinyl. First time I've used this.blueswerver - vocals, bass, guitar shalpin - beat/distorted synth Wired Ant - beat, piano, sax Javolenus - guitarA little something I came up with while making a salad for dinner tonight. I don't know what bpm, close to 118 I think, I found the metronome distracting. I also don't know what key (or keys) it's in. I'm just hoping some brilliant producer who's up for a challenge will make me sound like der Bingle. There are things in the store now that look like tomatoes but that taste like nothing at all You can get old mums there next to the fresh trees that's how you know it's late fall (Chorus) It's not winter yet winter comes 'round Christmas And it's not Christmas yet Christmas is not in the fall And while my kid rejoices over all the new choices like nano and extra large tall I still remember sweet carolers voices and gifts that came not from the mall (Chorus) Commercials were started before Halloween and Charlie Brown already sang They know they can push us We'll buy anything Because we're stupid And it'll always be the same. (Chorus)Featuring: Martijn de Boer - bass and high bass vibs - vocal I add synths, horn, guitar and percussion.ejc - spoken word robwalker poet - shakuhachi Robbero - beats Hektor Thillet, Progression Labs and Sturzstrom - pianosThank you Jeris for the excellent original and for uploading all the stems to remix. I used the drums, bass, piano, rhodes and sax. My intent was to a) keep a Take Five flavor and b) not have it easily recognizable as My Favorite Things.I did this a little while ago (the day robwalkerpoet uploaded his uke) quickly and with little forethought. It's just him playing uke and me singing (and some fx). Also I think there's some [url=http://ccmixter.org/people/economix/uploads]economix[/url] influence going on here.ejc - spoken word Shyness - synth, beat Tom Ray - beats Pitx - guitar onlymeith - stringsThis started out as another all Javolenus guitar layering piece but I ended up thinning it out and adding a beat and some vocals. So: Javolenus - guitars GPS - beat Fronz Arp - vocals Speck - vocals (the ahs) IDzeroNo - vocal (spoken word) Also I put a donkey in there (at the point where it was starting to remind me of that one track off Beck's Odelay with a donkey in it) from acclivity at freesound.org - [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/16933/]http://www.freesound.org/people/acclivity/sounds/16933/[/url]A tip of the hat to Coruscate for using Bruce H. McCosar's pvpipes samples which lead me to find pages of excellent Bruce H. samples from which this became. And thanks of course to IDzeroNo(sunhawken) for his upload of mellow musings, which I think sits just right in it.Anchor - spoken word copperhead - drums Pitx - bass Flute - ephemeral rift Guitar - Javolenus Piano - SpeckThanks to: MalreDeszik – bass, beats and synths Milky_Blue – beats and synth lead Apoxode – beatsRepetitive guitar loops sprinkled with vocal samples from every vocals contributor (to date) to the Rise event.Thanks to: Wally Tungsten - bass, beats, piano, epiano and harp Skye Jordan - beats and glockenspiel Javolenus - synth katerina_rose - vocalsFeaturing the excellent samples of: Karstenholymoly - most of the beat and a bit of guitar Javolenus - guitars and vocal Platinum Butterfly - additional beat and all the synth sounds original bass (stem uploaded in .zip)Many thanks: stellarartwars - beat, bass, synth and horn (the core of the mix) Stefan Kartenberg - guitar, organ and vocals Kara Square - synth, harp and viola DaYoungstas - vocals (children) I added the feedback guitar (synth) and some vocals in the second half. Stems uploaded.Too weird? Too bad.The .zip contains nine individual hits and four short melodic(?) whatnots (the preview is the third) from Paul Matisse's Musical Fence. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwNntexFEdM&ab_channel=NLCultural]Here's a link[/url] to what it is. Fun fact to know and tell: Paul Matisse is Henri's grandson.Or perhaps differently-harmonious. Me on Reason synths and beats, Javolenus on guitar.I've really been enjoying Apoxode's downtempo chill tracks lately. For this mix I cut five loops from each of the three listed fully mixed tracks, mixed them up together, then added Stefan's guitar and Snowflake's vocals.Bluemillenium - bass, beats and synths CSoul - beats annabloom - horn Athenah (courtesy of Mana Junkie) - vocals stellarartwars - vocalsMusic is mostly all Javolenus' with the exception of some additional drums from BillRayDrums and a bit of synth bass and pads from me. The vocal - SackJo22.Thanks to Wired Ant for the original and for the remix-friendly sample pack. And to Javolenus for the subtle (and hopefully not too buried) guitar harmonics. I glitched up the beats a bit, re-arranged stuff, and added some more synth (so yeah, it's pretty synth heavy). Wired Ant - beat, bass and synths Javolenus - guitar Speck - synths (samples uploaded in .zip)Featuring the considerable talents of: NiGiD - bass, guitar, drums BillRayDrums - drums Jeris - trumpet Javolenus - guitar And from freesound.org: Zabuhailo - [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/Zabuhailo/sounds/165851/]tram in curves (old surface car)[/url] Manicciola - [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/Manicciola/sounds/173306/]mantraSong[/url] AlucardsBride - [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/AlucardsBride/sounds/179651/]Sad soft song girl[/url] plagasul - [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/plagasul/sounds/20849/]nonono[/url]More of a bits and pieces maybe someone can use than a whole. Kinda silly (which I've never been identified as). Kinda hip-hop (which I am definitely not).More bits and pieces maybe someone can use. The .zip has more variations.Thanks to: Apoxode - drums and guitar JohnBozi - bass Calyman - vocal bitsI just put a bunch of Is into Dj Robb H's Prism track to make a we. Many thanks to all and sundry.Thanks to and appreciation for the talents of: Javolenus - guitar and beats NiGiD - bass Wired Ant - effected beats Doxent Zsigmond - Bouzouki My Free Mickey - synth fxKind of an avant-jazz, future blues thing I guess. Featuring: Javolenus - guitar Doxent Zsigmond - percussion annabloom - bassoon, sax and percussion Jeris - bass and string plucks some fx'd electribe in there from me, uploaded in .zipdrums by copperhead with additional percussion by Donkey Horse Mule pianos by Doxent Zsigmond, oldDog and MichaelPetreski sax, synth and bass by myself (samples uploaded in .zip)(more than I used)The roster: dapower - beats Doxent Zsigmond - glockenspeil, tenor sax (that could be mistaken for violin) economix - vocal (thanks for the great child's voice recording, beautiful) jaspertine - beats and synth Jeris - rhodes mrblitz - bells, strings robwalkerpoet - koto The words: It’s a rainy day plants are getting rain farmers are so happy smiles on their faces why couldn’t we pray for it to happen be all the same why couldn’t we pray for it to happen it's a rainy day plants are getting rain why does it have to be so sunny all day to be raining all the time all year long couldn't we pray to be all the sameThanks to: annabloom - beats, bass, flugelhorn and piano Fireproof_Babies - vocal wnm - acoustic guitar (since taken down) Ass Over Tea Kettle - short pad in introThanks for the inspired/inspiring bout of bass and uke Kara, led to a bout of fun here this morning writing and singing a song about not having anything to write a song about. It was kinda quick and it's kinda raw but I'll upload all the ingredients in case anyone wants to do anything slicker with it. The words (it's fiction by the way): I like my family I like my friends I like my marriage Nothing needs to end I like my doggy I like my car I'd like to keep things Just the way they are I'm not unhealthy - I'm fit I'm not unhappy - no shit I've got no ennui - not yet Nothing really to complain about I'm in the choir I'm at the bank I've got no regrets And lots of folks to thank I play on the weekend I play in the park I work in the daytime And sleep when it gets dark I'm not a sicko - I'm sane I'm not dumb thanks to - my brain Let's have a cookout - propane Bring some meat we'll laugh and eat and shout I like my family I like my friends I like my marriage Nothing needs to end I like my doggy I like my car I'd like to keep things Just the way they are I don't smoke weed or - get lit I'm not that hip not - one bit There's nothing I need to - forget Never did nothin' to write a song about I'm not a weirdo - I'm plain Don't wear a beard or - cause pain Come over if you're - the same We'll make up something to write a song aboutA big hand for the band: Jeris - upright bass Doxent Zsigmond - upright piano (plucked) annabloom - horns stellarartwars - beatsThanks to: reiswerk – bass, beats, piano and trumpet cube3 – bass, beats, harp and trumpet Zenboy1955 – strings and guitar Nickleus – bells Kara Square - spoken word (Poe)A short impromptu exploration of a couple Reaktor synths. The mp3 preview is two tracks, Aphex Tone slightly left, Vibus right. The .zip has them separately in wav.A mellow arrangement of Javolenus' guitar improvisation, with a quiet synth pad. And a few blips derived from Doxent Zsigmond's music box.Doxent Zsigmond - piano, typewriter and music box Jeris - hang drum annabloom - strings and horn (and a tiny bit of extra percussion) NiGiD - bass Violent Public Disorders - beat loop The vocal samples are from a Stan Kenton interview at [url=http://otrrlibrary.org/copyright.html]otrrlibrary.org[/url] (old time radio researchers). Follow the link for copyright information.I've been thinking about selling (or trying to sell, don't know if there's much of a market for them) my Kaoss Pad and Electribe to help defray the cost of an iPad. (Been looking at all the cool music apps on youtube. Especially Samplewiz, Beepstreet Impaktor and Animoog.) So I thought I'd play with them a bit to see if I really want to get rid of them. I hardly ever use them any more. This sample is just a doodling with one of the synth presets, (the Kaoss Pad isn't really about synths but rather live effects on line in or mic) maybe someone can use it or parts of it for something. .wav in the .zip Anybody got an iPad and use it for music? Would you encourage or discourage my craving? Any pre-purchase advise?Javolenus - everything (and oddly very little guitar) Thank you Javolenus for all the great material you've given us. This mix doesn't even put a significant dent in my javo folder.Thanks to: charlie_charles - beats, bass and guitar vo1k1 - beats, bass and fx Siobhan Dakay - sax lynndresel - vocalsWith a huge thank you to timberman, Doxent Zsigmond and NiGiD for sharing their stems. Loved timberman's original and subsequent versions thereof. Thought I'd see what happened if I mixed them all together. timberman - beats, strings, vocal Doxent Zsigmond - beats, strings, piano, glimmer(guitar fx) NiGiD - bass Instrumental version in .zipAll I did here was paint these five tracks out. Piano by Jeris, bass by NiGiD and three guitar tracks by Javolenus. Did nothing to the piano track, cleaned the bass track and made selections from the three guitar tracks by erasing all but my favoritest parts from each track. I also added some light effects on the guitar. Different ones for each of the three tracks.Shimoda, a good draw. I got to hear some good music I was previously unfamiliar with and then to play with a good selection of very good samples. Fun and rewarding. It's all shimoda except for a few beat loops I created/added.annabloom - beats, bass, keys and brass Dimitri Artemenko - strings Fottuto Bianco - hey vocal Speck - vocal odds and endsThis is a blend of Hans Atom's Get Some More and Benjamin Orth's I Need Something. It was in my 'not quite' folder. Probably two or three years old. (Benjamin Orth's track seems to have been removed since then.) Don't know what I was waiting for, maybe a vocal track? Maybe Benjamin Orth's track was a remix of Admiral Bob's I Need Something? Maybe I should have put Admiral Bob's vocal in this? Anyway, thanks to: Hans Atom - beats, bass, guitar and synth Benjamin Orth - beats, guitar and synthJeris - beats, piano and rhodes NiGiD - bass Javolenus - guitar alexjc916 - vocals MiElle - vocals Speck - electribe and beatcraft beats (inda zip)This started with just me playing around with some synth stuff (Reaktor, Reason, Akai usb ewi) then I added some BillRayDrums (looped for simple structure), NiGiD bass (dangerously close to thinking of him as my go-to session bassist) and Jeris' violin and clarinet (the more the merrier by this point). Oh and there's some [url=http://ccmixter.org/people/ejc/uploads]ejc[/url] vocalizing in there.This is a field recording of a freight train coming to a stop (recorded through light forest and across a stream, ergo there are also insects chirping) with two tracks of randomly generated drone (Reaktor) and a few notes from Doxent's Shakuna Vimana.I loaded one word from ten vocalists into ReDrum (drum program in Reason) to make a loop and put ANTIQCOOL's Listen vocal over it, then added bass and flute. Result - A lullaby with a mantra backing? The words: listen - ANTIQCOOL dream - Anchor Méjans alle - Down With Ben time - Javolenus be - stellarartwars love - CiggiBurns find - debbizo fly - snowflake spirit - SackJo22 live - Kara SquareIt's always a great pleasure to hear what annabloom has created. Here I extend the pleasure (mine anyway, maybe not yours) by remixing, playing and singing along. I play organ and sax (both ID8 in Reason) and do some vocalizing, everything else is annabloom. Kinda ends up sounding like Medeski, Martin and Wood meets Zappa (?). organ and sax in .zipsFrom the Andres Art Institute Sculpture Park in Brookline, NHJust playing around with the Kaoss Pad. Theremin-like. Maybe you can cut some usable stuff.For cutting loops or use as is. It's a preset (C06 I think) with some knob twiddling.Many thanks to: Doxent Zsigmond - minimal bass/beat, piano and synth NiGiD - bass HEJ31 (Haskel) - guitar SackJo22 - voice Sturzstrom - piano A reverse synth bell and a few extra beats in there from me (in .zip).When I heard Kara's The Scuffle... I couldn't resist scatting along. Then ejc heard it and also did some vocalizing. I ended up with a couple versions. One simple one which is just Kara's original with me scatting along (I'll upload that one as an alternate mix) and this one which is with a great drum track from unreal_dm, intact (and repeated 'cause it's short), some cool bass looped from Jeris' much more involved madness matter and a lead synth from me. Vocals and uke by Kara and more vocals by [url=http://ccmixter.org/people/ejc/uploads]ejc[/url].This is Javolenus' ScarlattiGroove with Matijn de Boer's bass, that much came complete, I only did a little separating/rejoining to make it last longer. Then I added Kara Square's kazoo, xylophone and uke and did some impromptu vocalizing. Channeling my inner misanthrope. Well maybe it's not that inner, it did come pretty easily.I had a different piece started with Rey Izain's samples but no matter what I did with them, in or out of my DAW (AcidPro6.0), they loaded/played at a really low speed. There ended up being only a few I could use, if I put a lot of reverb and/or delay on them. So I deleted what I had going and started over. Made some beats, bass and pad (in Reason) then added the bell, flugelhorn, flute and vocals. Rey Izain - bell, flugelhorn, flute c.layne - vocals IDzeroNo - vocals Speck - beats, bass, pad (uploaded in .zip)Many thanks for the fine talents of: leinadsorihcak - percussion Doxent Zsigmond - percussion Jeris - bass robwalkerpoet - harmonica Linden Tree - synth The vocal is Theodore Edison, son of Thomas Edison, conducting a tour of his family home (1970). This came from internetarchive.org which I can't link to right now as the site is down for maintenance. But the file name is EDIS-SWDPC-02-18 and I will link to it when the site is back.leinadsorihcak - percussion smilingcynic - bass and piano snowflake - vocals Adisa McKensie - vocals Speck - sandpaper, empty spray paint cans, synth and sampler(garbled vocals) (uploaded in .zip)Just a little experiment. I was curious, both about Melodyne and my voice, so I downloaded the free trial version of Melodyne, found a public domain song at pdmusic.org, sang it (well, one verse and the chorus), loaded it, clicked pitch correct, snap to Bb minor (the option that appeared), saved it, loaded it and the original into my DAW, panned one left and one right to see/hear the difference. The result is a kind of a flangeing close harmony thing. The .zip contains the original unmelodyned files and variations. The song is Ev'rybody's Crazy 'Bout the Doggone Blues But I'm Happy (1908) by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton I'm not really sure about the bpm but that's what my DAW auto-detected.Many thanks to: Doxent Zsigmond - bass, beats, epiano robwalkerpoet - shakahuchi Wired Ant - glitch percussion and synth Jeris - looped violin, ep and beat from the opening of his I'll Be Waiting mix Orrisroot - vocals Linden Tree - guitar (part of the underlayment toward the very end) Bluemillenium - a one bar synth loopThe cheese ages: Back in September annabloom did [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/annabloom/43537]Danish Blue Cheddar Blues[/url] from which I did [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/speck/43572]Government Cheese[/url] with which annabloom did [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/annabloom/44132]How Many Holes To Fill A Government Cheese[/url] And now from that (and some additional percussion and brass from his latest upload) I pass the cheese back with this. All instruments but the guitar are annabloom. The guitar is charlie_charles. The vocal sample is from [url=https://librivox.org/cheese-curd-for-bait-by-james-mcintyre/]Algy Pug's reading of Cheese Curd for Bait[/url] by James McIntyre (librivox.org)My Free Mickey - his FX preview mix in it's entirety (the seed and core) billraydrums - drums (does he ever) Jeris - trumpet, some of it fx'd to the point of not sounding like a trumpet anymore (sped up, distorted, pitchbent etc) Mana Junkie - vocals, the low large reverb ones [url=http://ccmixter.org/people/ejc/uploads]ejc[/url] - vocals There's also one small sample of vocal from me. I had a bass in it too, from LastDayOnEarthUK, but ultimately decided I like it better without the bass. Not that I don't like the bass, it's very cool and it fits well. But it's a very frenetic piece and I found it easier to get absorbed in it if there wasn't the bass cooling it down. I'm uploading the version with the bass as an alternate mix if you want to hear it.Reason's thor voice 'ambient bells'. Watching the season's first snow at dawn (my keyboard's right in front of a window).I wrote this on the way back from the mailbox a few days before Thanksgiving. I wasn't going to upload it because it's just more complaining about the commercialization of it all. But then unreal_dm uploaded this tune (thank you) and I thought, "hmm, I wonder if I can sing in D flat?" I had originally written and recorded it in the style of John Prine so I re-recorded it to fit this tune. Melodyne hepled. (I've also uploaded the John Priney version in a .zip) By the way, I have this nagging feeling that I plaigerized about half of it. Please let me know if you've heard any of these lines before. My junk mail is turning all red and green The shops are becoming but not to me They wouldn't be open if nobody went Not giving them yours would be money well spent Jesus Christ it's Christmas again Is this what you had in mind Holy Mother of God and men How come I don't feel divine There's a sale on at Macy's There's a sale on at Kohls It's amazing how willingly we're selling our souls Please don't go shopping on the day to give thanks You're just stuffing the coffers of corporations and banks I'm supposed to be merry going out buying gifts But I'm not going to do it That's not the spirit that lifts Jesus Christ it's Christmas again Is this what you had in mind Holy Mother of God and men How come I don't feel divine There's a sale on at Macy's There's a sale on at Kohls It's amazing how willingly we're selling our soulsSo, I was listening to Kara Square's excellent song [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/mindmapthat/44476]Not So Happy Holidays[/url] this morning and it inspired me to write this. As it happens I was working on a mix with the same samples from unreal_dm but with snowflake's beautiful vocals. I'll have to use them in another way now, but I kept the backing vocals. This was written, recorded and mixed pretty quickly so forgive any errors. (No melodyne this time.) I'd like to pop your blow-up santa I'd like to bury it in the snow Why don't you just put up a string of lights You don't have to put on a show I don't remember you asking me if I want to look at that or listen to the muzak pump I'd like to pop that sucker flat I know I'm not the arbiter of taste but do you know that yours is bad Maybe I should just knock and talk it out but I don't want to make you mad Maybe your kiddies derive some joy from plastic that we never had so I'll just close the blinds and look inside focus on how that makes me glad We had a tree and stuff cookies and peanut brittle Paper chains and popcorn strung I guess I do miss it a little We may have had some lights on the eaves We might have put up a wreath but I don't recall ever erecting anything to cause our neighbors grief (repeat chorus)Many thanks to: imaginario - vocal, xaphoon, shaker, rainstick, corrugated pipe Jeris - bass, kick, snare, brush, piano, wurlitzerThanks to: Admiral Bob - guitar and vocals Jeris - hang drum, mbira, music box and jangles Astral - bass loopFeaturing Kara's vocal as is, with the whale recording intact. I added the otamatone (at 1:16) and some additional vocals (3:13). I also took out the rhodes and put in a slowed down bass track from Martijn de Boer.beats - DJ_Evermix synths - Speck (stems uploaded) vocals - [url=https://archive.org/details/HopiIndianChanters-ChantsOfSnakeAndEagleDances]Hopi_Indian_Chanters-Chant_of_The_Eagle_Dance-1926[/url] from the Internet ArchiveThanks to: My Free Mickey - music (mixed from his sample pack) latopa_zm - voice also uploaded - the instrumental versionI had this mix done when I decided to just randomly sing some words. I don't know why I sang those words. Then Em came into the room, I handed her the mic and the headphones and she added her voice (one take on first listen). Yeah, it's weird. Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Nickleus – beats, piano and strings ejc – vocals I also added some synth.Many thanks to: Jeris - drums and wurlitzer NiGiD - bass Javolenus - guitars Ivan Chew - piano Kara Square - vocals Fireproof Babies - additional percussion I struggled with fitting the vocals and in the end left just enough to give it a theme (and a title). Instrumental version also uploaded.Mirek Kuzniar - piano and music box Bluemillenium - all elseWent to [url=http://www.boltonfair.org/]The Bolton Fair[/url] a couple weekends ago. There was [url=http://www.allhandsdrumming.com/]a guy[/url] there with a bunch of hand drums and percussion stuff. He hit a basic beat and anyone walking by was welcome to pick something up and join in. While I was recording there were a few three or four year old children, a few older children and even a couple of teens and adults joined in. (I was most impressed by the three or four year olds.) From this recording I cut and arranged eight loops. Somewhat cacophonous and lots of crowd chatter. Then I added some vocals from ike_poet and some bass from Martijn de Boer.Found myself vocalizing on first listen of Martijn's bass add to AT's piano track. So I turned on the mic for the second listen, and the third, edited myself down to what was tolerable (the least embarrassing), added some robwalkerpoet vocalizing (and clicks, fingersnaps?) so I wouldn't feel quite so... exposed. Then I found some drums (by fluffy) in my ccM downloads folder to add some excitement to the iteration, and let a few words from robwalkerpoet wrap it up.I sometimes listen to NPR ('non-commercial' radio) in my vehicle. One of their advertisers is Subaru, whose line is "Love, it's what makes a Subaru a Subaru." What? That set this off. Sorry about the audible puffs of breath. Maybe there's something useful in it. Maybe (more likely) it's just more malcontent venting. Individual parts in the .zip.Well that was fun. Thanks Kara. I live in the now at the same time I know that there's always a tomorrow and that it's only a show Today is a good day Today I'm not dead and nobody's hounding me or pounding on my head But I know it's not easy for people like you who only seem to function in shades and hues of blue and should I get a little down I listen to what's gotcha Comparatively speaking I'm a goddam bodhisattva I live for the moment I do what I do I know it makes you crazy I'm not as sad as you but today is a good day Today I'm not dead Today it was easy to get out of bed I know it's not like that for people like you who's overriding question is what should I do All I can do is listen You don't really want an answer There's nothing really wrong with you and I'm no necromancerThanks to the talented: CiggiBurns - vocal Trifonic - glitch beat Doxent Zsigmond - synth and piano (sampled with the glitch beat) Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - percussion, guitar and cello instrumental version also uploadedAll from ike_poet's H'Om samples, altered and arranged, with an additional vocal.unreal_dm - drums, piano Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - guitar Speck - additional beats and vocal Woke up this morning with stars in my head The ones I met last night watching tv in my bed and maybe one or two I one time called a friend who I haven't seen 'cept in a dream since I don't know when Kinda feeling restless Kinda like to know how many hours how many days how many tv shows How many times I get to go to sleep before there's no more showDoxent Zsigmond's most excellent jazzy backing track with a bunch of impromptu doodle-de-di-doodle-e-oos. Also I used both Doxent's original bass and Martijn's (not at the same time).This is something I did quite a while ago (ten years?). I improvised for ten minutes or so then cut out the parts I liked best and re-assembled them into something listenable (subjective I know). Essentially what I always do with my own material, being a better editor than a player (objective I think). I'm also uploading all the separate tracks for ease of use (or abuse).A non-standard standard, combining the five Greensleeves that showed up in the search box. Doxent Szigmond - piano Martijn de Boer - bass Gurdonark - beats,chimes, fx Ivan Chew - flute Kazuki Mashima - vocal Speck - beatsSo... Martijn played this bass for/with my piano upload The Way It Comes Out. Here I've stripped away that piano and then played a few new tracks with Martijn's bass; a three dollar tag sale Casio SK-1 (didn't add distortion, it sounds terrible all on it's own), a Malstrom synth (Reason) called 'bag of tin cats' and a vibraphone with a little portamento.Thanks to: Zenboy1955 – bass, beats, guitar, piano and vocals Apoxode – bass and synth leinadsorihcak - beatsIt's always a joy to work/play with annabloom's material. This mix is a mash of two of his with a few Thor (Reason) synths added.The gathering: timberman - vocals keytronic - beats and accordian Martijn de Boer - bass Jeris - piano and additional beats stefsax - sax Speck - vibraphoneOn aging, which I am. Omeprazole a statin and metformin I take them all despite the label's warnin' And if I die from pancreas or liver I'll blame the doc and it'll be too late to forgive her Damn the genes the ones that start with G The other ones are looser now at least I won't be hard to carry to my grave Just think of all the sympathy you'll save by saying that it's my fault I should have eaten better I should have gotten more exercise Thanks for your concern we value your opinion but why'd you feed me all those piesI went to CiggiBurns' earliest page of uploads to find a capella to go with this Martin de Boer/Javolenus offering. Lots of great stuff there to choose from. This one (Still Water) seems to work pretty well.robwalkerpoet - shakuhachi and vocals Jurgen Hermann - bass clarinet, from CiggiBurns' Rest, as suggested-by-example in robwalkerpoet's A Wonderful Lie Violent Public Disorders - beats Robbero - deep bass, piano and a little percussion Speck - bass (synth)Thanks to: Radioontheshelf - bass and cello Javolenus - guitar The underlying sound is me cutting boxes to size for recycling. With a bunch of delay/reverb.Featuring: ejc - spoken word robwalkerpoet - shakuhachi and harmonica Javolenus - guitar harry whalley (Brighton Steiner School Classes 7-8) - percussion Martijn de Boer - bass annabloom - sub bass, fx and additional percussion Speck - sax This is an older poem of ejc's and she would like it known that she no longer agrees with herself that "nothing comes from anger". I've also uploaded the instrumental version.I usually make a single mix containing all the samples shared in a secret mixture event. This time, with so many uploads, there were so many samples shared that it took four separate remixes to accommodate them all. However, this is the only one I like well enough to upload. Thanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, cello, horns and clarinet Apoxode – beats and synths cdk – bass Mr_Yesterday – writing on paperOnce again the starting point is the guitar of Javolenus with the bass of Martijn de Boer. This time I added robwalkerpoet's harmonica, unreal_dm's drums and my own clarinet, few extra beats and a little bit of piano toward the end. I wanted to upload it as part of the Summer Music Fest but am not entirely sure I got it in the right tent, seems like it could almost be in the pleiades lounge. Can it be in two tents? Advise/suggestions?beats - billraydrums, Javolenus and Bluemillenium bass - Martijn de Boer guitar and vocals - Javolenus piano - unreal_dmA little something for Ari, my two and a half year old grandniece. That's her on vocals. With big thanks to CSoul - the music is mixed solely from his generously shared high quality samples.featuring: Kara Square - vocals My Free Mickey - beats Martijn de Boer - bass Jack Burgess - bowed bass Jeris - beats and harp Javolenus - guitar keytronic - ep I'm still a little confused about this ccPlus thing. I wanted to do a mix using all ccPlus material so I made sure every sample I used in this one was tagged ccPlus, but when I went back through to double check before uploading I noticed one or two of them, although tagged ccPlus, were also Attribution Noncommercial. They can't be both ccPlus and Noncommercial can they?When I heard Martijn's bass playing with remaxim's piano it reminded me of a previous mix I had done with the same piano, [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/speck/23438]Smile[/url]. The vocal in that earlier mix remains one of my favorite ccM vocals so I decided to revisit it, simpler this time with just remaxim's piano and strings and Martijn's bass, which is mostly altered, octave down and half speed. Some simple beats from me (Redrum in Reason). Vocal - I remember learning how to smile, self portrait with hints of Asperger's - by pCombining the talents of: SackJo22 - vocals and guitar Martijn de Boer - bass keytronic - sax and pianoMany thanks to Martijn de Boer, Darkroom and Javolenus. Started this one by combining Martijn de Boer's beboppin' bass with Darkroom's jazzy beats, then played some sax, piano and synth (didn't use much of the piano), then added Javolenus' guitar - acoustic for melodic 'fill' and then electric for the power ending.Featuring: Doxent Zsigmond - piano Darkroom - all elseThanks to: billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass solos_to_use - trumpet Stefan Kartenberg - guitar moscardo - keysMartijn de Boer - beer bottle percussion and bass me - piano and synth annabloom - additional percussion and bits of piano panu - vocalAll sourced from ike_poet, except the bass which is partially from ike poet, partially from me and partially from Martijn de Boer.Combining the considerable talents of: SackJo22 - vocal and original composition HEJ31 - guitars Darkroom - beat CSoul - beat, sax and piano Martijn de Boer - bassNot yer standard blues. All sounds (except the vocals) are Martijn de Boer samples. Many are bent or otherwise fx'd. I put Martijn's titles together for the title of the mix, then wrote and sang a few lines based on the title. [small]Yeah, it's weird.[/small]Here's what happened: I was working on a mix with material from Doxent Zsigmond (piano) and robwalkerpoet (shakuhachi and harmonica) but it wasn't working so I deleted the beats and bass and slowed it to twenty five percent (thanks Reaper) then erased the parts I didn't like and stitched the remaining parts back together. Then I added a quiet synth and a recording I had of a traffic jam I was in recently (hot summer evening, a downpour had just ended and there was a semi-truck adjacent to my vehicle). Topped it with a sprinkling of normal speed shakuhachi from robwalkerpoet's Old Cube.An arrangement of annabloom's piece with added upright bass and marimba and ike_poet's vocals.Many thanks to CSoul for offering up this very cool jazz instrumental to play along with. I added some piano, brass, marimba and synth.Thanks to: Robbero - beats Jeris - bass, piano and fluteThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and sax billraydrums – drums CSoul – beats and keys CrazyFrog – synth Subhashish – synth Robert Warrington – vocalsMartijn de Boer - bass, beat and guitar (high bass) Orrisroot - vocal Speck - beats, piano and synthJust playing around with my [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/speck/32744]ten dollar toy guitar[/url]. (plastic guitar, plastic lighter as a slide) I think I was influenced by my memory of [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj-pUvyPYnI]this[/url].All sounds but the bass and the vocal(singing) are from annabloom. The bass is by Martijn de Boer. The vocal is from mrblitz000's Freak World which is no longer here, but I encourage you to visit his (underappreciated) [url=http://ccmixter.org/people/mrblitz000/uploads]page of uploads[/url]. Oh and there's a tiny bit of toy piano from me.Six tracks of impromptu folderol (for mining and mangling?).One from the archives. Thanks to: RHBeatProductions - beats Robbero - beats, synth bell and piano pap - fx'd piano Loveshadow - piano MrDumBass - trombone (no longer available for proper attribution) timberman - vocals (The lyric is the poem “Atop Stone Mountain” from panu’s “Three Poems of Equinox”.) I added a synth bass.Many thanks: TheJoe - beats fourstones - beats Martijn de Boer - bass Scomber - rhodes Fireproof Babies - vocal some original synth and koto synth in there as wellAll I did here is add Robert Warrington's vocal to Martijn de Boer's mix.Inspired by something SackJo22 said I gathered samples from one mixter/upload in each year that ccMixter has been in existence. I didn't have any particular criteria in mind as I selected samples, except that I took one from October of each year (except 2004, the samples in October that year weren't a file type that I could open so I went to November). There are actually eleven sample sources in the ten year span since I used one from the beginning: 2004 Wired Magazine CD - guitar, fx 2005 ghost - guitar 2006 norelpref - guitar 2007 rokzroom - synth 2008 onalberto - synth 2009 CarbonMonoxideMusic - drum hits 2010 gurdonark - synth 2011 Jeris - beats, bass, flute 2012 Coruscate - vocals 2013 leinadsorihcak - beats 2014 debbizo - guitar Many thanks to all.The players: My Free Mickey - beats Martijn de Boer - bass copperhead - guitar Speck - toy guitar (original sample [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/speck/47358]here[/url])Martijn de Boer - bass, beat, sax and synth Javolenus - guitar, soft beat and padI remixed the stems that Martijn shared from his remix of my Toy Piano sample and replaced the toy piano with a different toy ([url=http://www.ohiofi.com/blog/phonorgan/]phonorgan[/url]). I'm also uploading a version without the toy.After I wrote my comment on Apoxode's All Blues And No Miners it occurred to me that it reminded me of the theme song of Bobby Lee's podcast, Tigerbelly. I don't know if Bobby is singing in Korean or if he's just making sounds. I prefer to think it's the latter. Anyway, that's what I did. Just added a quick little impromptu bit of nonsense scat to Apoxode's mix.Thanks to: annabloom – drums and brass Martijn de Boer – bass sparky – drums, guitar and piano CiggiBurns - vocals and to Wiseman for bringing up CiggiBurn's vocalI've had this mix in the waiting room for a while now. Yesterday, after hearing copperhead's [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/copperhead/47975]We're Stronger as a Whole, Luv[/url] I added the vocals. Many thanks: copperhead - beat, guitar, synth and trumpet Admiral Bob - beat, piano and rhodes Martijn de Boer - bass SackJo22 - vocal snowflake - vocal Also uploading the instrumental version.A remix of keytronic's most excellent jazz track 'Winding Into Gone (with Jazz)' with Reiswerk's bandoneon. There's also a little of Doxent Zsigmond's guitar (probably unrecognizable as such) and a bit of original piano.Thanks to unreal_dm for the inspirational blues upload. Also includes samples from freesound - [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/jpnien/sounds/97397/]wind in winter[/url] and some spoken word from the Internet Archive - [url=https://archive.org/details/SaskatchewanWinterWeather]Saskatchewan winter weather[/url] Not sure why I'm uploading this, I think there's a streak of masochism in me, I don't like hearing my voice. But - I like singing. So... Light Deprivation Blues It seems like I just got up and it's time to go back to bed The light of winter is short enough to seasonally affect my fragile head Back a few months ago I was happy most of the day But now the day is mostly gone it's hard for me to feel that way I'd start a project but what's the point I know I won't get it done And even if I come up with something it prob'ly won't be anything fun I really don't feel like doing a thing I think I'll just sit here 'til well into spring I'll wait for the holidays to come and go and hope I don't have to shovel too much snowMartijn de Boer's Drunk Swamp Blues II (bass and guitar pretty much intact). I added drums (ezdrummer) and organ and PorchCat's vocal (thanks to [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/Shelflife/48226]Shelflife[/url] for resurrecting it). Also uploaded: the organ (stem and parts) the instrumental versionThe preview is just a quick mix for fun but the original single track raw recording is also uploaded here, as well as the selections I made for the preview mix.This is one of those ones where I just lined up (bpm matched) complete tracks from each artist. Very little editing. Thanks to: Martin Sea – guitar (take one and alt take) Stefan Kartenberg – piano solos_to_use – trumpet Philippe Rivrain – percussion, harpsichord, flute, whistle Javolenus – synths incidentalnoise - woodblockThanks to: Apoxode - beats Jihfa - bass violin, fx and guitar texasradiofish - bass Javolenus - guitar Bluemillenium - synth JoeBone - vocals and fxThanks to: Jeris - beats and clavinet Mr_Yesterday - bass Kara Square - uke and vocalThe first two minutes is Apoxode's March Of The Toy Robots pretty much as is (more bass), with the addition of a bit of marimba. Then it repeats but with wobble bass (original, in the zip) and additional beats from Psychadelik Pedestrian, duckett, Chandan Boruah and billraydrums. There's also some synth lead in the last minute. The switch sound in the middle is: [url=https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/351430/]https://freesound.org/people/Kinoton/sounds/351430/[/url]Thanks again to Martijn for yet another opportunity for me to try to play along. Martijn de Boer - bass, beats, guitar (high bass), synth and sax Speck - piano and vibraphoneNot too long ago I was helping a friend get ready to move and she gave me this mandolin that was buried in her closet. Now, I can't play the mandolin (or anything really) but that doesn't stop me. I recorded about 15 minutes of exploration, kind of approaching it the way John Cage might approach a piano (?). Then I cut out a bunch of samples from that. I put some of them together for a preview. I'm uploading all of them in a zip. Maybe somebody might get some use out of them. Also - if there are any mando experts out there maybe you could help identify it. [url=http://imgur.com/B3RkUZZ]Here's a picture[/url]. There are no labels on it (or in it) but the case has a serial number and 1940 hand written on it. From a google image search I don't think it's anything of great value but still, it is 75 years old and in pretty decent shape.Doxent Zsigmond's clock recording with geoffpeters' piano and violin.Big thanks: Jeris - beats (with some embedded bits of melody) Martijn de Boer - bass (as processed by Jeris) ditto ditto - synth, bells and banjo Reiswerk - sax and pianokidjazz - beat geoffpeters - piano and violin (the low drones are also his violin) Kara Square - kazoo, which when slowed down, sounds like a vocoded voice saying how does it feel to be free, to me anyway, you may hear it differently. (Rorschach?)Thanks to: colab - bass and pad veezyn - beats AmbireSeiche - chime and fx'd (unrecognizable as such) vocal MissJudged - spoken word Vibhu Tewary - spoken word Kara Square - vocalsMartijn de Boer - bass Dr. Wrangle - beats and that clanging alarm sounding synthy thingy Speck - piano and sax (stems uploaded) and additional beats ejc - vocal samplesThis is my five hundredth ccMixter remix. I thought I'd mark the occasion with a mix of five hundred one note samples from five hundred of my fellow mixters. But then my next (immediate) thought was 'that's ridiculously impractical, maybe I could manage fifty'. So that's what I did, gathered one note each from fifty mixters. Far from being a difficult task I actually found fifty to be limiting, there are so many talented individuals here sharing their musical skills and sensibilities. The mix itself? ... not one of my best, but it was a fun experiment/experience and hopefully will be seen/heard as a giant thank you to all who make this community such an enjoyable place to be. In the mix: bass - Martijn de Boer, Alex, texasradiofish, urmymuse, Sturzstrom beats - Stefan Kartenberg, CSoul, Quarkstar, Hans Atom, annabloom, Abstract Audio, Reiswerk flute - ephemeral rift, robwalkerpoet guitar - airtone, unreal_dm, HaveMercy, copperhead, Javolenus, spinningmerkaba, Admiral Bob, Ivan Chew, Fireproof Babies, panu horn - latopa, Jeris, rocavaco,Keytronic piano - Scomber, Siobahn Dakay, colab, Shelflife rhodes - Zep Hurme synth - Dan Mantau, @nop, clairvoyance, gurdonark, air lomeg, Skill Borrower, Robbero uke - debbizo vocals - SackJo22, Anchor Méjans, snowflake, Diaphane, Kara Square, timberman, Dr, Emiliyan Stankov, Bluemillenium, CiggiBurnsMany thanks: Jeris - binaural delta and theta waves Gordon Rosenberg - bowls, bells, chimes and harmonium drone snowflake - vocals DavidRobinson - vocalsThis is Mr_Yesterday's Back in the Saddle whole, with the addition of three synth tracks.aussens@iter - beats, bass AT (audiotechnica) - beats, cello, harp and viola Doxent Zsigmond - vocals Calling Sister Midnight - vocalsI'm not sure I'm uploading this properly. I would have done it as a remix but the attribution link to freesound, well, you know. What it is is a remarkable recording I found there (freesound.org) by unfa of thirty eight voices that I added three synth tracks to. Here's the [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/unfa/sounds/204911/]link to unfa's recording/mix[/url]. Some interesting information in his description, which made me think that maybe it was appropriate to upload it as part of the healing project. My synth samples are uploaded separately in the zip.Thanks to: Reiswerk - beats, guitar, piano and harmonica spinningmerkaba - vocals Astral - beats Martijn de Boer - bassFeaturing: billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass solos_to_use - trumpet (wah distorted) And me on piano and organ, stems uploaded in zip.Vocal waves - Anchor Méjans and Victoria Melfi Gamma waves (40, 60, 80 & 100hz) - Jeris Ocean waves - [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/Corsica_S/sounds/127567/]Corsica_S[/url] and [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/digifishmusic/sounds/43779/]digifishmusic[/url] from freesound.org also from freesound - [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/Snapper4298/sounds/166704/]Snapper4298[/url] provides a seagullAn arrangement of Panu's guitar sample with unreal_dm's beat and bass. There's also an fx track (it used to be drum) from Forkboy.Thanks to: Reiswerk - beats kidjazz - beats Martijn de Boer - bass annabloom - epiano and sax Also to whoever left me the anonymous gift of six misplaced calls.I recorded ten hits on various items out in the garage. Then loaded those hits into ReDrum, the drum computer in Reason, to make some loops. It's really only two loops with variations. The preview is just a straight addition mix of all the loops. The zip contains the individual hits, that you can load into your own programs, and the loops.Thanks to: Kara Square - vocals Reiswerk - beats and bells Fireproof Babies - guitar Doxent Zsigmond - guitar rocavaco - xaphoon Martijn de Boer - bass (only small remnants remain of multiple failed attempts at including a bass line) I added a percussion element which is a ridged glassware article struck with a small plastic oval cylinder.Thanks to: Jeris - bass, beats, kora, rhodes, toy piano and uke reiswerk - percussion, koraMany thanks: Doxent Zsigmond - beat, piano and vocal Siobhan Dakay - beat Martijn de Boer - bass solos_to_use - trumpet Reiswerk - organ naotko - padWith thanks to the University of Utah, this mix features: MixteReed, taysmed, kreed93 and alexwiles - reading quotes GeeArtriasRose - crystal bowls and gong Paradigm - piano Chuaqui - synth And ccMixters: Reiswerk - beats, flute and jew's harp Martijn de Boer - bass solos_to_use - trumpetMany thanks: texasradiofish - the electro/classical bits CSoul - bass and percussion DrNormanFoster - spoken word Kara Square and her father - interview (easily the one upload that has had the biggest affect on me during this 'music for healing' project)Thanks to: Mr_Yesterday - vocals Martijn de Boer - bass The percussion is from my sampling of garage hits. Individual hits available [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/speck/49690]here[/url]. Stem in the zip. Also in the zip - turkeys recorded in the back yard and hang drum. Also uploaded - the instrumental version.The sixth sharing of the cheese between annabloom and I. annabloom - everything but the beats (and the vocal) Speck - the beats The vocal is [url=https://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-098/]a reading of James McIntyre's poem by Algy Pug[/url] from librivox.orgoverpopulation blues thanks to: Reiswerk - beats unreal_dm - bass, guitar and epiano punk_cuadecuc - guitar I added vocals and some additional beats.Thanks to: Doxent Zsigmond - creaky door Martijn de Boer - bass punk_cuadecuc - guitar I joined in with piano, synth and mouth sounds.Thanks to: coruscate - beats and synths TheVillian - vocals I added organ(farfisa) and glockenspiel.Yet another flirtation with the blues. This time it's Martijn de Boer on bass and me on piano, harmonica, bell synth thingy and a little bit of beat.Thanks to: Reiswerk - bass, beats and synths MobileEarth Ind - beats Ari (my grand-niece) - vocalsCouldn't help but notice how well Andrew Wainwright's vocal might fit in Stefan Kartenberg's jazzy Jingle Bells. Also put in some Silent Night (reinvented) piano from Paradigm, a recording from [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/conleec/sounds/172328/]conleec[/url] over at freesound of people partying and also from freesound, [url=http://www.freesound.org/people/djgriffin/sounds/64569/]djgriffin[/url]'s recording of a child singing.Thanks to: CSoul - beats, sitar, synths, backing vocals Martijn de Boer - bass, slide AT - piano canton - synth MissJudged - vocalThanks to: Siobhan Dakay - beats, bass and distorted synth lead punk_cuadecuc - guitar Javolenus - guitar (ebowed), from a recent upload called Hope no longer available for attribution vibs - vocal, sample no longer available for attributionI made some loops from offlinebouncer's drum tracks and arranged them with Martijn de Boer's bass track which I left intact (with just a little bit of adjustment near the beginning), then added CSoul's trumpet (chopped and fx'd) and a bit of original vibraphone toward the end.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass furkosbot - guitar MobileEarth Ind - drums punk_cuadecuc - fx'd guitar I added the beat (EZDrummer).Well this was fun, I drew spinningmerkaba. I went to his early pages and found an abundance of quality samples shared, which made it easy. The vocal is from his Music Identity project a couple years back. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.Kind of an extension of the secret mixter event, this is a mix of samples shared as part of the spring secret mixter. For the vocal I went to my assigned mixter, spinningmerkaba. Thanks to: Siobhan Dakay - bass, guitar and piano DFF_Sound_System - beats and fx CSoul - beats and pads spinningmerkaba - vocalsBig thanks to: billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass Jeris - strings, piano and toy piano jonathan_a - acoustic guitarThis is Robbero's The Session whole, to which I added a couple synths and a harmonica.The title is also the description. I added the guitar (and did the arrangement), otherwise it's all Reiswerk.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Apoxode – beats, fx, gong, flute and synth Calyman – beats and synth Javolenus - guitarMixing the beats of CSoul and Stohg, with bass and a bit of melodic synth bass(?) also from Stohg.Thanks to: Mr_Yesterday - washing machine (rhythm) punk_cuadecuc - guitar/fx solos_to_use - trumpet annabloom - pianoMr_Yesterday's song, Mr_Yesterday's bass, synths and vocals. I added the drums (EZDrummer2), some glitch and [url=https://archive.org/details/1stFiresideChat1933]FDR's first fireside chat[/url].Many thanks to: Doxent Zsigmond - synth Martijn de Boer - bass One - beats, some with embedded chatter and melodic bits CSoul - beatsLoved this new track from timberman and couldn't resist playing with the samples. I first cut some vowel loops from the vocals and used them to try out a newly downloaded plug-in called [url=http://www.glitchmachines.com/downloads/fracture/]Fracture from GlitchMachine[/url], the results of which I then arranged with the beats and the rest of the samples timberman so generously provided. And I added some sax and guitar (synths).Thanks to: Team Smile and Nod (Kara Square) - bass, cello, piano and vocals CSoul - Chinese string instrument Panu - guitar (Jim Hall Style Sample, no longer up to attribute) Beats by me, with Beatcraft.Thanks to: colab - bass, piano and synth CSoul - beats and trumpet billraydrums - drums Stefan Kartenberg - guitar solos_to_use - trumpetMany thanks to: stellarartwars - beats, keys Martijn de Boer - bass economix - lead vocal Haptic - backing vocalsThanks to: Anchor - spoken word The Alsajo Project - bass, piano and synth AmbireSeiche - beatThanks to: RustyJack - bass, beats, cowbell, guitar and organ Jeris - additional beats Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: Reiswerk - beats, bass, guitar and organ Hans Atom - beats i_rebel - vocalsThanks to: AmbireSeiche - bass, strings and synth robwalkerpoet - flute My Free Mickey - violin and pianoThanks to: Bluemillenium - beats, harmonica, guitar and synth Siobhan Dakay - bass, guitar and piano Vibhu Tewary - vocalsAn all Bluemillenium mix. With liberal use of the Fracture plug-in from Glitchmachines.Thanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - beats, bass (Gerd Kohlmeyer) and fiddle Bluemillenium - flute and synths Javolenus - guitar Mr_Yesterday - vocals I contributed some of the beats.Kept this mix simple. Wanted to really feature Martijn de Boer's bass here so: a few beat loops cut from Siobhan Dakay's drum stem a pad (loud for a pad) derived from Siobhan Dakay's guitar stem an fx synth (coin drop, stem uploaded) and Martijn provides some restrained melodic coolness with his high bass playingMany thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass guillepaulucci - flute, piano, percussion Pitx - guitar I added some percussion.Many thanks: Zutsuri - synth bass, flute, fx and vocals PorchCat - beats and synths duckett - beats panu - vocals Mr_Yesterday - vocals Kara Square - vocals colortheory - vocalsInspired by our (indoor) cat who, the other day, scratched her way through the window screen. A hole much bigger than a cat yet she was just sitting there, still inside, not long gone as one might reasonably expect. The words: If I could scratch my way through the screen would I just sit there? Or would I be gone, long gone? It might not be as easy as it seems once you get there For home you long For home you long Home is what you make it I guess No one has a patent on this Could be a who, what or where Could be neither here nor there (Raw files included in the .zip.)Many thanks: stellarartwars - beat and synth Martijn de Boer - bass semisweet - synths Minus Kelvin - strings The Paloseco Brazz Orchestra - trumpetThanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - bass, fx and music box Subhashish Panigrahi - beats, fx and sitar gummerstreet - beats panu - guitar The Alsajo Project - pianoBefore Anchor zipped off to the southwest (CallingSisterMidnight territory) he was in my neck of the woods for a while this summer and so I got to meet him (and Oberon Skye) in real life. All too briefly. For a guy named Anchor he sure gets around. We didn't do any music together but he sent me some files (now uploaded as the Filing Cabinet...) that resulted in a few new mixes. This is the first of two I'm uploading. Featuring his Beatnicks poem (Trailers of BelAire, Oh Drag!)(well, some of it). Also featuring: Bluemillenium - beats, piano and synths stellarartwars - beats and keys reiswerk - bass and flute Javolenus - guitar Siobhan Dakay - pianoBig thanks to Apoxode for sharing his very cool drum track. Also: Bruce H. McCosar - bass, guitar and synth Sweet Noise - fx (glitch) Haskel - guitar PorchCat - synth The 'sax' part is me on EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument). Actually it's a sax and trumpet voice combined. I've also uploaded a version without the sax.Featuring Anchor's cello and vocals. I added some quiet strings and even quieter synth (stems in .zip).The preview is with an arrangement of guitar samples from panu's latest upload, Keep The Lights On, which methinks is since rescinded. There are also flacs of the vocal stem dry and wet and the original recordings raw. The lyrics: Send me to the country Blue lakes and mountains green Send me almost anywhere Where I can be unseen Where I can hear the crickets and the quiet of no cars I'll walk among the forests and contemplate the stars I'd be a better person if I wasn't around the hubbub of humanity is not my favorite sound I don't have the same requirements as the people on my street I want a new environment where earth and spirit meet Where frogs are happy in their ponds and farmers in their fields all I want is peace and quiet the serenity it yields And if you care to join me in my prolonged retreat well don't because you'd ruin it We're already completeThis is Martijn de Boer's Blues Doodle in E with the addition of a beat track and a little wurly and synth.Big thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, beats, guitar, synth, vocals, original composition Stefan Kartenberg - beats, didgeridoo, duduk, vocals jaspertine - guitarThanks to: fluffy - bass and synths Stefan Kartenberg - beats and sax Rey Izain (apparently gone)- bass and beat I contributed a couple synth tracks.Thanks to: Siobhan Dakay - bass, beat, flugelhorn and harp Rey Izain - (sources since removed) bass, beat, bell, flute and rhodes Calling Sister Midnight - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass punk_cuadecuc - guitar Corrugated plastic flex pipe, bass and beat in the samples .zip.Thanks to: reiswerk - beats, piano rocavaco - beats, wobble bass, synth Vidian - beats The Paloseco Brazz Orchestra - flugelhorn Subliminal - guitarCouldn't resist interacting with this new piece from annabloom. To the original mix I added: A few more incidents of annabloom piano and mallets. More of Mr_Yesterday - his spoken word piece, Turing Test. An occassional outburst of billraydrums. Some original vocals (me loosely skatting the original title then subjecting it to various fx).Inspired by the beautiful version Geert Veneklaas just uploaded, I wondered how it would sound blended with other (fully mixed) versions. Thanks to all involved. And thanks to Vibhu Tewary for the original vocal that inspired snowflake's vocal, which inspired Geert Veneklaas, which... etcetera.Thanks to: Bluemillenium - bass, beats and synth stellarartwars - bass and beat punk_cuadecuc - guitar The Alsajo Project - pianoThanks to: septahelix - drums and tabla, which might be more accurately credited to Geoff Peters, though I did take it from the septahelix mix, and it may be just prefab loopage from some collection anyway. billraydrums - drums I added bass and trumpet (and a subdued organ in the second half). Stems in the zip.Thanks to: Future Boy - bass, beats and synth disharmonic - beats and organ Brilliant Orange Object - pads Adisa McKenzie - vocalsTwo weeks is a long time and I enjoyed mixing Mana Junkie's material so... a second mix.Thanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, erhu, piano, vibraphone and synth Bernard L’ermite – beats, guitar and kalimba Zenboy1955 – synth Wiseman - vocalsI added vibraphone and kalimba to the original mix by SackJo22 (composition, beats, bass and vocals) as well as a bit more of her vocals and more of Haskel's guitars. Definitely a joy and a privilege to indulge in some amateur improvisation with a couple of bona fides on the virtual world stage.Thanks once again to unreal_dm for yet another inspirational instrumental. The words: It's been a year of greed and fear and threats against what we hold dear of cheating cars and dethroned stars and even bigger forest fires of candidates that make us look like something in a comic book of cops that think a gun's a good way to improve a neighborhood of outbreaks in west africa and doctors who can't help the people dying way too soon for the right to draw a dumb cartoon of baker's who won't sell their cake to poofters for religion's sake of missiles launched and drones that hover of innocents who serve as cover of one percent that own the best and only want to own the rest of divas wanting millions more they've got to even up the score of movies for our children to let them know the joy is through we showed them people in their head and why it's sad in there instead so, so long 2015 you'll be over in a week we'll start the clock again and hope the future looks less bleak and if it turns out less than heaven at least we'll have the iphone seven we'll hope and wish and speak and pray we'll do our best to stay away from evil thoughts and leaders, slick with trumped up bullshit rhetoric the reality that they create results in manufactured hate to sell more guns and start more wars tell me, what are we fighting for Come on everybody we can be better than that don't trust your politicians republican or democrat use your independent mind and a little bit of heart let's look at next year as a time to make a brand new start and if it turns out less than heaven at least we'll have the iphone sevenThanks to: Bluemillenium - beats, synth bass, bells, vocals Javolenus - bass, beat, guitars Stefan Kartenberg - beats, organ Doxent Zsigmond - music box Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, flute and vibraphone Javolenus - guitar Stefan Kartenberg - drums Doxent Zsigmond - glitchThanks to: zikweb - strings, pad, bass Doxent Zsigmond - strings, glass harmonica reiswerk - oboe, vibraphone Annon - something malletedThanks to: reiswerk - bass, beat and tuba stellarartwars - bass, beat, synth and strings Stefan Kartenberg - vocals instrumental also uploadedThanks to: Kara Square - vocals stellarartwars - vocals timberman - vocals I added the bass and beat, samples/stems uploaded in the zip.Thanks again to unreal_dm for providing such great song writing opportunities. The music is all his, unedited. (Except for the harmonica.)Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass wnm - guitar The words: Go to your church and pray to your god Then home to your couch to root for your gladiator Learn all about turning your cheek Feeding the poor and helping the weak Then home to support the richest of all Those great men who know how to handle a ball You know all their numbers, you know all their names You're home every Sunday to watch all their games You know they don't give a damn about you They'd be your opponents for a million or two You might say hey chill out it's only a game Do you go to the movies, is that not the same And you'd have a good point and I don't disagree We have strange priorities in our society Nurses and teachers are just getting by While athletes and actors get most of the pie Actually their slice is relatively small Compared to their owners, billionaires all But let's not be conscious of obvious facts Consume beer and pizza and try to relax It's been a tough week and we need some release So spare me your preaching and pass me a piece Then back to the grind on the following day More important work for far less pay Don't bother thinking what's it all for As long as your team had the best score And if for some reason they came off as meek Maybe they'll make it up the following week When you can... Go to your church and pray to your god Then home to your couch to root for your gladiator (repeat until end)Hopefully something that can be easily dismantled and manipulated. (And that's not [i]too[/i] weird.)Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Doxent Zsigmond - beats zikweb - beats and piano punk_cuadecuc - guitar (fx) Vibhu Tewary - vocals I added some piano.Thanks to: Mr_Yesterday - vocals billraydrums - drums toward the end annabloom - everything else (except for a synth track I provided) These vocals have a particular significance for me because recently, within a one week period I --- A) Spent two entire afternoons on the phone with tech support recovering my crashed 'new and better' computer for the third time in less than a year. The older computer I had before it always worked. B) Let my dentist convince me that two old fillings needed to be replaced with 'new and better' ones even though my teeth didn't hurt. Now they hurt. C) Finally upgraded my cable box because the 'new and better' one could record four shows at once, even though the old box worked just fine. You guessed it - the new one was so glitchy as to be unusable. I think it'll be a while before I fall for 'new and better' again.The preview is the stem wet. Also uploaded is the raw recording. I don’t want to adapt I don’t agree with your facts Your respect for the truth is too conveniently lax I don’t want it to be so that everything we see has at least two truths one for you and one for me I won’t be a subscriber to things as they are I don’t want a camera in my house and I can drive my own damn car I don’t like the new morality where lies are the norm Not every new snowfall constitutes a storm Which I guess makes me a weirdo or maybe I’m just old or maybe just someone with some standards to uphold And things get weirder every day We’re asked to buy what once was strange Believe no matter what they say Accept the things you cannot change Adaptation is surrender now more than compromise ever since the idiocracy has been legitimizedThis is one of those mixes that seemed to come together magically. It feetures the multi-talented CiggiBurns' doing some flamenco dancing, which I recorded and remixed from [url=https://vimeo.com/135677723]this cool little video[/url]. After I did that I went to Martijn's to find a right bass and the first one I tried felt just right, and came with additional jazzy instrumentation (guitar, vibraphone and trumpet). Then I went to Ciggi's earlier pages to see if maybe she had uploaded the audio to that video that I might give it proper attribution and found instead a most excellent vocal that also seemed to fit perfectly. So... without further ado...Thanks to: SmoJos - djembe fluffy - glitch beats and bell Stefan Kartenberg - bass HEJ31 - guitarThanks to: Siobhan Dakay - beats, piano and sax reiswerk - bass, beats, synth and xylophoneEssentially the beats and bass of Treeline by Doxent Zsigmond with his Passage Of Time piano. Also a bit of punk_cuadecuc's fx'd guitar in there and a glitched up trumpet from me.Thanks to: annabloom - bass and beats Siobhan Dakay - bass, beats and synth Vibhu Tewary - vocals I added some vocal somethinorother.Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Christmas day, 1863, amidst the devastation of the Civil War. His personal life was also marked by tragedy, having lost his wife in a fire just two years earlier, and his oldest son Charles was severely wounded in the war. Raw recording in the zip. I changed the words in the last verse to better reflect our current times/recent election results. But the original last verse is in the zip (raw) should you prefer optimism over realism. I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play and wild and sweet the words repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men And thought how, as the day had come the belfries of all Christendom had rolled along the unbroken song of peace on earth, good-will to men Til ringing, singing on it’s way the world revolved from night to day A voice, a chime A chant sublime of peace on earth, good-will to men Then from each black, accursed mouth the cannon thundered in the south and with the sound the carols drowned of peace on earth, good-will to men It was as if an earthquake rent the hearth-stones of a continent and made forlorn the households born of peace on earth, good-will to men And in despair I bowed my head There is no peace on earth I said for hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good-will to men Now peal the bells less loud and deep God must be dead, or at least asleep Good sense has failed The Reich prevailed No peace on earth, to hell we wend (original final verse) Then pealed the bells more loud and deep God is not dead nor does he sleep The wrong shall fail The right prevail with peace on earth, good-will to menThanks to Admiral Bob for the drums and guitar. I contributed bass and piano and the sax is by [url=https://www.conversesamplelibrary.com/pack/revive-jazz-supergroup]Gary Bartz[/url], taken from Rubber Tracks.Thanks to: Kara Square - piano, marimba, trombone and inspiration annabloom - percussion, flugelhorn, keys and bass Stefan Kartenberg - beats and bass panu - guitar GeeArtriasRose - hapi drumInspired this morning by Sprezza's buzzing bees. Thanks to: Sprezza - beehive recording punk_cuadecuc - bass(fx) ztutz - vocal drones GeeArtriasRose - binaural gamma wave I added two synth tracksThanks to: SackJo22 - vocals and inspiration Martijn de Boer - bass Aussens@iter - guitar Jeris - everything elseThanks to: Bluemillenium - beats, bass, synths Hans Atom - beats, synth Sturzstrom - beats, synths Robbero - synth ejc - spoken wordThanks to: reiswerk - beat, bass and piano Stefan Kartenberg - hand percussion texasradiofish - horns JCrews - muted trumpetThanks To: vo1k1 - beats panu - guitar and bass unreal_dm - piano Geert Veneklaas - synthThanks to: Zenboy1955 - bass, bowls, epiano, rhodes and trumpet airtone - drums Martijn de Boer - drumsSo titled because it was created during the coldest part of the coldest day of this past winter. Thanks to: Klaus_N - beats, bass, flute and rhodes Bluemillenium - beats and synth gurdonark - synths sofamusik - beats(kick) and synth(fx pad) Fireproof_Babies - guitarThanks to: Siobhan Dakay - sax, piano, various synth and fx, original mix and inspiration CiggiBurns - vocals Ian Chang - drums (from [url=https://www.conversesamplelibrary.com/pack/ian-chang-dirty-drums]Rubbertracks[/url]) I provide the (sub)bass.Thanks to: Zenboy1955 - bass, beats, cello and mellotron annabloom - prepared piano, percussion, bowls and sax Chuaqui - synth ScOmBer - vocals me on cigar box slide guitar - stem and samples in the zipFrom/for a project in progress with Mr_Yesterday. The preview is a stem (so lots of empty space). Many options to explore in the .zips. Full mix coming soon.Arpeggiated synth and guitars by Aussens@iter. I added drums (EZDrummer) and a synth pad.There's a tiny bead living up against one side of our cutlery drawer. Every time the drawer is opened/closed the bead rolls forth and back. The other day I recorded it, along with myself replacing the cleaned cutlery and a scrape of the dish drying rack across the countertop. The beats (and trumpet) are an arrangement of Apoxode's chillhop samples and there's some Martijn de Boer bass in there. All other sounds are original synth samples (in the zip).A vocal duet with Mr_Yesterday. I sang along with his original vocal and arranged us in a remix of dydjej_inja's track. There's also a drone from Mr_Yesterday and some ohs and ahs from me, as well as a few words from economix at the end. My vocals are uploaded [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/speck/53570]here[/url].Utilizing Mr_Yesterday's slicing and re-assemblage (and accompanying) of some of my (and timberman's) vocals. Big thanks to Mr_Yesterday for the material and the inspiration. Many thanks also to: Bluemillenium - beat and synths Doxent Zsigmond - typewriter timberman - vocals abhishekkr - guitar I also added a bass, stem uploaded.Thanks to: dydjej_inja - bass, beats, pad and bells duckett - bass, beats and synthThanks to: grapes - bass, beat and guitar Carosone - marimba meanwhilekyle - marimba and piano ephemeral rift - windshield wiper Cis_Minor - piano (which has apparently been removed since I downloaded it)Ok, so I overindulged a little.A version of Stefan Kartenberg's Jazz Visions which was based on and includes Javolenus' Trashy Guitar Jam. I added the sax.Big thanks to Kara Square for providing an instrumental version of her Get Up mix, into which I fit my rant. Owed To A Purple Plutocracy Your arguments are but excuses to protect ill-gotten gains The whole world is on to you yet your bullshit remains You know, not everyone is stupid though you're right, most are That's no excuse to use them to make yourself a star How do you live with yourself What part do you have to shut down in order to even consider electing a goddam orange clown And all of you cheaters in congress What do you think you're there for Consider the people who voted you there and stop being such a damn whore You're hurting the nation you're hurting the world with each new corporate flag you unfurl Remember the people you're of by and for You know it's immoral to profit from war You're corrupt and diseased and have lost your allure It's riches you seek and I don't see a cure The system is broken and so is my spirit They don't want to fix it, they want us to fear it They won't answer questions, they know how to steer it away from the truth or anywhere near it So fuck you, you bastards You're heartless and mean You should all be wiped out we should wipe the slate cleanThanks to: reiswerk - beats punk_cuadecuc - bass mando_curious - fx'd guitar PorchCat - fx yamamiya - vocalsBorn of the thought that 'just because I like to be organized it doesn't mean I have OCD'. And then of course the nagging counter-thought 'or do I?'. Thanks to Admiral Bob for the backing track. I like to keep a schedule that doesn't mean I've OCD but I do take some meds you'll most likely one day see They seem to hand them out like candy to everyone my age Which I'm not so sure is dandy Can they prove it on the page? I really don't trust anyone who tells me what to do That doesn't make me paranoid I just want proof it's true And no I don't have SAD I'm just a little shy Well, OK I should cop to that one I'm a pretty introverted guy And though my default mode may be sad I rarely let it win thanks to cognitive awareness I can help form the state I'm in It's rarely jubilation there's too much my eyes can't miss but in the muddle of it all I am grateful for this: I don't have ADD or ADHD,BPD or PDD or MDD or AD, CCD CAPD or TMJ would make unhappy me with IED I might explode – intermittently Though sometimes I wonder if my worries are whims or should I seek a specialist as I run down the acronyms on this frikkin wiki listThanks to: Super_Sigil - bass and wobble bass billraydrums - drums CSoul - guitar onlymeith - strings and piano Started this with the Patterning app by Olympia Noise. Stem and a few samples uploaded.Thanks to: Jifha - beats, bass, keys and strings Aussens@iter - bass and strings PorchCat - beats and fx mando-curious - brushesPlaying around with the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCEnTCOiSDY]Patterning app by Olympia Noise[/url]. The preview is just a consecutive laying out of the nine loops/samples in the .zip.Thanks to: CSoul - beats, bass, horns and synth Kara Square - harmonica, mostly heavily glitched (the intro for instance is the harmonica) Aussens@iter - guitar mando_curious - fx'd guitarThanks to: Siobhan Dakay - bass, beats, clarinet, flute, piano, orchestra @nop - beats, steel drum, fx Martijn de Boer - bass snowflake - vocalsMany thanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - beats and trombone Aussens@iter - bass unreal_dm - piano Javolenus - ebowed guitar solos_to_use - valve tromboneI added flute (bass willow) and alto sax (fx'd) to Martijn de Boers version of Javolenus' Improspective. I also put some occasional delay (dotted half note) on the beat/original track. Really enjoyed spending time in their musical world, tried to tread lightly.Thanks once again to unreal_dm. I've uploaded the vocals separately. The words: I don't want to adapt I don't agree with your facts Your respect for the truth is too conveniently lax I don't want it to be so that everything we see has at least two truths one for you and one for me I won't be a subscriber to things as they are I don't want a camera in my house and I can drive my own damn car I don't like the new morality where lies are the norm Not every new snowfall constitutes a storm Which I guess makes me a weirdo or maybe I'm just old or maybe just someone with some standards to uphold And things get weirder every day We're asked to buy what once was strange Believe no matter what they say Accept the things you cannot change Adaptation is surrender now more than compromise ever since the idiocracy has been legitimizedThanks to: Annon - beats FACELESSIWONDER - beats punk_cuadecuc - bass Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - guitar solos_to_use - trumpet The vocal samples are from an old radio show, Face To The Future, over at [url=http://otrrlibrary.org/f.html]OTRR[/url]. I've also uploaded an instrumental version that contains other sounds (orchestral, more or less) from the same old radio show, not used in the vocals version.Wanderings in A Minor (or close).Having some fun with Tobias' generous sample share. I glitched it up a bit, left the guitar intact (but did some overlaying), and added some old radio show vocal samples courtesy of [url=http://otrrlibrary.org/j.html]OTRR.org[/url].The beats and bass are from Blue Wave Theory's 900 Turbo. The uke, harmonica and synth bass are from Kara Square. There's also some [url=http://www.freesound.org/search/?q=45906&f=&s=score+desc&advanced=0&g=1]'people having fun' ambiance[/url] from freesound, which is actually people sledding (snow surfing?) and while I was looking for that I found the [url=http://www.freesound.org/search/?q=170858]music box[/url] sample that seemed to ask for inclusion.Many thanks to Javolenus and Martijn de Boer. The percussion: Javo's original (guitar body hits) plus an ocassional repeated hit from Martijn plus some djembe from me. The ebow (Javolenus): I double tracked it and snapped one track to Dminor (melodyne) thereby creating some interesting harmonic vibrations. The bass is straight up original track from Martijn. I also added a trumpet with a lot of delay. (Akai EWI)Thanks to: boxboy333 - beats Wired Ant - bass sLow_starteR - piano annabloom - synth XBringer - guitar Viking Kitteh - vocal Timo Vollbrecht - sax (from [url=https://www.conversesamplelibrary.com/pack/timo-and-keisuke-various-jams]Rubber Tracks[/url])Thanks to: reiswerk - piano, sax, trombone and percussion Martijn de Boer - bass and drums @nop - percussion skiron - pads Marimba - Ayami Okamura & Daniel DeSimone from [url=https://www.conversesamplelibrary.com/pack/ayami-okamura-daniel-desimone-hubweek-marimba]Rubber Tracks[/url]Merging a couple of Stefan Kartenberg's latest offerings of excellence. The guitars are by Jake Orrall and Kunal Prakash of Jeff The Brotherhood, courtesy of [url=https://www.conversesamplelibrary.com/pack/jeff-the-brotherhood-cosmic-jams]Rubber Tracks[/url]. All else is Stefan Kartenberg.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass airtone - percussion/groove Martin Cee - sewing machine, guitar and synth Calyman - beats and vocalsA short passage from Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome, 1887.Many thanks: Mr_Yesterday - vocals Javolenus - guitar go1dfish - slide guitar ColdFoot - beat, bass, guitar combo (the inspiration/starting point for this mix) Andrew Wainwright - beats reiswerk - beats Martin Cee - synth I added the strings. Also uploading the instrumental version (differently mastered).Thanks to: unreal_dm – bass, beats, synth and guitar Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, piano and guitarSomething done for something I was doing (a remix of unreal-dm's Bflat70_H_1) but that won't be used in the final mix, at least not in this form. I think it's in Bflat Minor.Another something done for something I was doing (a remix of unreal-dm's Bflat70_H_1) but that won't be used in the final mix, at least not in this form. I think it's in Bflat Minor.Thanks again to Martijn de Boer and Javolenus for the inspiration and opportunity. Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - guitars me - harmonica and voice If it weren't for the copyright issues I would have included a sample of Mingus saying [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaeVLd4G1Zg]"Oh Lord Please Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me"[/url]. The words (fairly impromptu) - Oh dear, what can the matter be I fear for my anatomy Dear dear, don't let them splatter me I didn't do nothin' wrong Oh dear, what can the matter be Oh dear, what can the matter be I hear so much stupidity Oh dear, maybe it's meant to be Maybe we've been here too long Oh dear, how has it come to this So far away from bliss Oh dear, how has it come to this Dear dear So far away from blissThanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - beats Martijn de Boer - bass annabloom - sax, melodeon and percussionThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and sax Javolenus - guitar Javier Sanchez - pianoThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, high bass and cello colab - beats, pads and piano @nop - beats Javolenus - guitar I added the flute. Stem uploaded. And in a related story (relevant to the unintentional similarity at the very end of my flute track) - Led Zeppelin was(were?) recently sued for plagiarizing Stairway To Heaven and were found not guilty.I had a lot of fun working some annabloom into @nop's very cool headphonica inspired groove. I encourage you to go listen to @nop's original. So good. Many thanks to: @nop - main groove, percussion, synth and fx annabloom - beats, marimba, piano, strings and tuba headphonica - beats, marimba, organ and strings (and trumpet?) The vocal samples are from [url=http://otrrlibrary.org/i.html]OTRR[/url].Couldn't help but notice how well these two consecutive uploads (Olschoolized by Crook One and The Unfortunate Trip by Martijn de Boer) might go together.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, high bass and sax Javolenus - guitar, ebowed guitar and a little bit of the beat I join in with beats, fx and epianoInspired this morning by Stefan Kartenberg's version of Scomber's American Dream. Big thanks to both of them and to Martijn and Javo who are always inspiring. I used Martijn's version of Bloozemotif as is (except for repeating a section near the end). The words: The American dream has become a nightmare Did you happen to notice Nobody who's fair and nobody who's smart would want to be the potus And who can blame them What's the point of trying to please every nutjob The unfortunate fall-out from this apathetic mess is that narcissistic liars can compete to be the best How can there be a best when there isn't even a good I've never seen these people in my neighborhood Just where do they come from these privileged elites and how does that qualify them to care about the streets They tell you they do but don't believe them for a minute Power and greed is the only reason they're in it If I have to hear more I may need a prescription They lie like they breathe It's their job description So basically yes we must fend for ourselves while they spend all our money on 'defense' and themselves And members of congress My god have you seen um I don't think they could muster a scruple between um They do what they're paid to by pharma and oil and anyone else who don't care what they spoil as long as their riches continue to grow they'll lie and they'll cheat and they'll keep up the show and people like me who care and can think are unfortunately outnumbered by the mentally weak being led in their thoughts by their masterful liar doesn't bode well for mankind let's hope there is something higher Wake up wake up from the American dream There's bombing to do and hard drives to clean Wake up wake up from the American dream Eat your Post Toastees and take Thorazine Wake up wake up from the American dream Step out of your jammies and into the machine Wake up wake up from the American dream Pull a lever for the hell of it There's no golden meanThanks to: reiswerk - bass, beats and guitar @nop - bass, bell and synth SmoJos - vocals (Instrumental version also uploaded.)Thanks to: Calling Sister Midnight - vocals Siobhan Dakay - everything elseSpoken word by robwalkerpoet in a remix of sidfaiwu's music. Big thanks to both.Thanks to: Super_Sigil - beats Silly_Mantis - PVC quena (flute) Dimitri Artemenko - strings Sturzstrom - keys, piano Tigoolio - synth and telebuda on the acoustic guitar, a profile which apparently no longer exists (but which I'm pretty sure was/is panu)From the perspective of a sadistic (and sarcastic) god. Big thanks to Martijn de Boer for yet another inspiring track. Medium sized apologies for my lack of rap skills. And God looked upon his creation And God said Eh, needs more walls cross my border you wanna cross my border cross my border you wanna cross my border And God said I never intended for you to live as one It's all the separation that makes it so much fun Perhaps I was hasty I should have spent another day creating natural barriers so things would stay that way browns where it's the hottest whitest where it's not but you've become so intermingled now look what we've got I didn't give you that much tolerance I thought you'd sort it out good job drawing lines but what's immigration all about You know you can't handle it I didn't give you that much love I mean, I told you how to get it but you'd rather push and shove It really isn't difficult but you really aren't that smart too bad there's not a golden rule to keep you less apart too bad cross my border cross my border anytime but hey at least you've got your faith that God is on your side and all the others for all you know are bomb-strapped suicides That's the kind of fear I like it keeps me entertained that's why I made so many of you so pathetically pea-brained I could have made you all Einsteins and Buddhas and such but conflict is exciting co-operation not so much My God you pray what's going on why are you so sadistic Oh no not me I gave you choice so let's be realistic God gave you choice There's a brown one and a red one and a white one and a yellow one and they're all made out of my blood and they all bleed just the same brown ones red ones white ones yellow ones all made out of my blood all bleed just the same wanna cross my border cross my border wanna cross my border you can cross it anytime And God looked upon his creations and God said What a bunch of fuckin' idiots You could be so much moreAll samples from 2007 - Peloton Musique LLC - bicycle gears CptCrunch - beat and bass wkriski - beat lhama - beat, whistle and orchestra Mario Mattioli - e piano Klaus_N - guitarThanks to: Vibhu Tewary – bass Javolenus – beats and guitar Apoxode – beats and synth septahelix – beats stringfactory – violin [url=https://freesound.org/people/SoundsExciting/sounds/204513/]soundsexciting[/url] (from freesound) – vocals A couple of synth tracks in there from me (in the zip).Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, high bass, synth and sax Admiral Bob - acoustic guitar (comes in around 2:15) I added beats, harmonica and epiano along with liberal application of the Fracture plug-in from Glitchmachines.Thanks to: Blake - beats and flute J.Lang - bass, beats, strings and piano reiswerk - bass, beats, synth and piano panu - vocals There's also a flute sample in there (the staccato(ish) one) titled 'sean-schulich_flute-stem-1_horns-and-reeds_stem_80' that doesn't show up when searched for (nor does sean-schulich).And for this one I added Kara's Banjo The Ferret Song to a mix of irieweb537's One Cup Riddim I was working on when the assignment came through. So: irieweb537 - beats, bass, guitar and piano Kara Square (always a pleasure to work with) - banjo, xylophone and vocalsI don't have much of a voice for rock but I thought I'd try it anyway. Inspired by Stefan Kartenberg's rocking of Apoxode's excellent swingin' electro track. The writing came from my surprise to see a vote t____ sign spring up on a particular neighbor's lawn just a week before the election. My first thought was, really!?! (I would never of suspected.) Then I thought, well, I guess I should thank him for letting me know what kind of a person he is. Thank you for telling me about the causes for which a damn you give Thank you also for letting me know where all the immorals live I guess the internet just won't do anymore gotta get it out there on a piece of cardboard Doesn't even matter if you're on a short road Place your leanings on a placard Don't let your thoughts go untold Yard signs signs of the times yard signs show off your kids and your crimes yard signs let everyone know yard signs your opinion is important Even if only one neighbor sees it it's gotta make you pretty damn proud to share your stupidity and lack of lucidity to tell me your a moron right out loud This is how we get to know our neighbors now how many kids and where they go to school which one's you might share a candidate with and which one's are super easy to fool So many causes so little time guess I'll list 'em all in caps and put 'em all on a sign Black lives matter Gay lives matter All lives matter No shit, thanks for pointing it out I have opinions and you need to know it so drive past my house, I'll open my trenchcoat and show it Yard signs signs of the times yard signs show off your kids and your crimes yard signs let everyone know yard signs your opinion is important But it won't change mineThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, beats and organ Javolenus - guitar Alex - beats and piano J.Lang - beats and synth The Alsajo Project - piano Vibhu Tewary - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, sax and organ Siobhan Dakay - percussion and synths smileyharly - vocal I provide beats and pianoThanks to: Bluemillenium - pads, synth, choir Siobhan Dakay - male choir Javolenus - guitar Quarkstar - percussionThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, organ and sax billraydrums - drums Kara Square - ukeleleThanks to: billraydrums - drums polyplus - beats and synth Annon - beatsThanks to: Bernard L'ermite - bass, beats, cello and guitar Zenboy1955 - beats, organ and synth A few extra percussion bits in there from me.I didn't do much here except notice how well Bill Ray's drum track fit with Martijn's Space Chicks. Added some Javolenus guitar to the second half.A simple little ditty with the bass of Gerd Kohlmeyer, courtesy of Stefan Kartenberg, and the voices of Kara Square and Snowflake. I added the baluster beats (balusters are the uprights of a stair railing).A remix of reiswerk's excellent version of Kara Square's Dinosaur Bones. I added some marimba and piano. Dinosaur backing vocals courtesy of freesound.org: [url=http://freesound.org/people/CGEffex/sounds/89548/]CGEffex - far off dinosaur steps[/url] [url=http://freesound.org/people/FK_Prod/sounds/190504/]FK_Prod - baby dinosaur cry[/url] [url=http://freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/15280/]reinsamba - dinosaur1[/url] [url=http://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/134785/]Robinhood76 - big dinosaur whirrs[/url] [url=http://freesound.org/people/scorepion/sounds/278229/]scorepion - dinosaur[/url]Made from the samples provided with Shifting Seasons Secret Mixter uploads. Plus bass from Martijn de Boer and some airtone samples. SackJo22 - vocals (poem by Hafez) onlymeith - piano robwalkerpoet - flute reiswerk - beats and synth Bluemillenium - beats, bells and birds Martijn de Boer - bass airtone - percussion, epiano and synthThanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - bass and beats Admiral Bob - beats, guitar and rhodes billraydrums - drums Andrew Wainwright - piano, strings and horn Aussens@iter - guitar robwalkerpoet - spoken wordThanks to: annabloom - beats, cello and synths Martijn de Boer - bass Admiral Bob - beats, guitar and vocals Martin Cee - vocal vibs - vocal (already deleted, as is his wont) Kara Square - vocal Snowflake - vocalThanks again to Martijn de Boer. The music is (mostly) all his. I did abridge it a bit, and add a smidge of synth and piano. The scariest thing about you is your stupidity The scariest thing about you is your inability to care about me The scariest thing about you is your stupidity The scariest thing about you is the fact that you can't see it You've got the brains of a stupid child You're gonna get us all killed You've let your ego too long run wild You'd do it just for the thrill Your sick and you demand attention Play with me or I'll take the ball Don't know why you even bother You've already got it all It's scary that we didn't choose you and our vote counts for nothin and now you've got your pussygrabbin fingers on the button You have the bearing of a twelve year old proving himself on the playground Your just a bully who thinks he's bold but you're in line for a beatdown You are about as smart as a rock Your only love is money They make fun of you around the clock but I don't think it's funny You frighten me because you're dumb and someone gave you some power I'm afraid since you've come we're in our final hour The scariest thing about you is your stupidity The scariest thing about you is the fact that you can't see itThanks to: Ivan Chew - bass, beats, bell, cimbasso, synth and xylophone Donnie Ozone - bass, beats, organ, voice and fx Stefan Kartenberg - beats (fx'd) Kara Square - spoken word (Poe)Thanks to: reiswerk - bass and beats Subliminal - oboe and piano Siobhan Dakay - bass Josey Howarth - spoken word spinningmerkaba - vocals Dr. Emiliyan Stankov - manipulated vocals (ending)A remix of Martijn de Boer's Unlogical Bossa. All instruments by Martijn de Boer plus some billraydrums drums and some redrum (Reason) beats from me.A bonus Halloweeny track? Thanks to: Crook One - beats, bass and synth Vladimir Boboshin - beats Javolenus - beats, bass and bell Kara Square - ubass PorchCat - vocals Instrumental version also uploadedRamblings in A# MinorThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, beats, high bass and sax Uwe Hermann - percussion, kalimba erizzle - keys Robbero - beats (from Night Rain In Japan, no longer up/attributable) Lars J. Brouwer - voice Analog By Nature - beats and ambiance Javolenus - guitarImprovisation in G.Improvisation in GThe zip contains all the individual hits and the loops (created with ReDrum in Reason) as well as a flac of the preview.Thanks to Kara Square for the banjolele track and the inspiration. I added tongue drum and harmonica. And these words: C'mon Jesus, c'mon back Come back for a visit Maybe you can help us get back on track Help us figure out what is it Are we stupid, are we sick or are we just plain mean What would it take, how could you teach us to be a little better at being Come to think of it things weren't all that great the last time you were here Maybe don't bother trying to fix the hate We probably haven't got a prayer We don't seem to give a damn about compassion no respect for rational thought I don't even think we deserve a savior our behavior recommends us for naught Given a chance at the land of milk and honey we'd probably turn it down When we got to the gate and they said sorry no money we'd probably turn right back around I have very little hope that it's gonna get better or that mankind will figure it out If there really is a god won't somebody go get her It's not the time to leave her out I think we really could use a supreme moderator to put us in our place Somebody all knowing, a lover not a hater to salvage the human race So c'mon Jesus, c'mon back even if just for a while Maybe you can help us to get on track and to not be so infantile Yeah we're stupid and yes we're sick and plenty of us are just plain mean and I wouldn't blame you if you refused my invitation based on everything you've seenA remix of annabloom's Be Dada with a couple extra synth tracks from me and the spoken word of Josey Howarth.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - guitar AIR_LOMEG - synth and vocals Sturzstrom - fx and strings Every Silent Noise - beats Vladimir Boboshin - beats stellarartwars - beatsJust some nonsense comprised mostly of a kid's keyboard (toy keyboard from the thrift shop that simply says 'kids' on it) and a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTxOtqwl7yA&ab_channel=waxzilla]phonorgan[/url] (also from the thrift shop). And some words (tts): I am a binding coil. What is a binding coil? I don’t know. Then why do you call yourself one? What do you call yourself? I don’t call myself. Why not? I don’t have a phone. Why don’t you have a phone? I don’t need one. If you had a phone you could ask it for me what a binding coil is. Don’t you have a phone? No. Why not? I’m a binding coil.Thanks once again to unreal_dm for providing such great material to play with. I know my singing/playing doesn't rise to his level of talent. But it sure is fun trying. The words: I'm sick and I'm tired and I've given up hope Narcissism and dementia is a slippery slope I can't remain peaceful and still read the news So I'm deleting the bookmark that's feeding the blues It seems pretty obvious the people in charge have no problem screwing the people at large Ok, you win I can't fight you There's no point in thinking there's going to be change The greedy are happy with a mind that's deranged I'm getting too old to handle the stress What is the point if we have no redress I hope in the future love and logic have clout but for self-preservation in the meantime I'm out Gettin' too old My heart can't take it Ok, you win I can't take it Aren't you proudThanks to: Mr_Yesterday - vocals teru - beats and synths Ivan Chew - guitar Illusions of Sound - strings Kazuki Mishima - music boxMuch thanks to reiswerk. His bass, beats and synth (remixed) to which I've added fx (water drips) and a vocal (of sorts). (And a stretched canvas as a kick.)One for Martin Cee, the explorer. I took his undrum track (as remixed by JohnBozi) and matched it with a Bill Ray drum track in the same bpm. Then looked for and quickly found a suitable bass track in the same bpm. Simple. Room remaining for additional tracks should anyone be so inclined.Mr_Yesterday on bass and percussion (and epiano) to which I bang away at the piano (and flute).Thanks to: Ben Blash - beats, synths and ambient sounds Antony Raijekov - bass, guitar and vibraphone teru - beats and synth bass gurdonark - synth Jway - beat p1rj1s - beat arel - choirReiswerk was a happy draw for me. I've enjoyed his style and quality of mixes over the years. Also a good sharer of samples, plenty to work/play with. I selected his earliest sample share, his latest and then some from the middle.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and sax unreal_dm - guitars economix - gamelan Shara - vocals I provide the beats and synth bass.Thanks to: ChoqueTT - beats, guitar and female vocals enter_the_eggman - bass and beats John Pazdan - beats and sax oldDog - beats Mr_Yesterday - lead vocalsThanks to: GOLDRUNNER - beats, keys and fx'd male vocals kthugha - bass, beats and synth lead Calyman - beats Abstract Audio - distorted bass drum Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and glitched beats billraydrums - drums Bluemillenium - beats, flute and synth @nop - bell and piano Snowflake - vocal Kara Square - vocal spinningmerkaba - vocal Admiral Bob - vocalThis one is a result of exploring samples used in some of my favorite tracks from the most recent secret mixter event. Thanks to: airtone - bass, beats, guitar and synth 700P3D - beats gurdonark - synth duckett - pianoThanks to: oorlab – drums jaspertine – bass and synth Apoxode – guitar DreamingDragon - violin Zenboy1955 – horns and violinThanks to: volk1 – bass, fx and strings mofnous – bass and beats Uncool Bob – beats Djaii (as kyro) – beats keytronic – piano khidir – glockenspiel, guitar and melodica Kara Square - vocalsMore thanks to Apoxode for another inspiring drum track. Also to: devinarne - bass, fx, dub hits, piano and synth Bluemillenium - siren, synth and a tiny bit of bass Javolenus - extra beats, epiano and guitar AmbireSeiche - viola Aussens@iter - guitar billraydrums - additional drums There's also some Apoxode synth in there from his Funk With Me remix. And me on organ.I started this one with a search for samples with an IDM tag. The Starry Tides - bass vate - bass, beats and fx Morusque - beat Fireproof_Babies - synth kthugha - bells and fx I finished it with bits from Apoxode's Hypertronic One added to the last minute or so.Thanks again to Stefan Kartenberg for inspiring me to write and sing a song. Grey I guess our town's doing well A whole foods opened today Moved into a brick facade and painted it prison grey. Grey is not a color and neither are black or white Just 'cause someone on tv likes it doesn't make it's right You got your grey bar hotel and your grey goose vodka and when the skies are not cloudy they're grey None of these things make me happy so why would I paint my room grey There are some nice off whites that are warm and friendly Make your house feel like a home As opposed to the way they're flipping 'em these days All grey and coffee and if you're lucky some bone Isn't the world bleak enough without you painting it grey I'd like to see some more of the rainbow but not enough to make it look gay I'd like to see some sage or sea foam Some colonial blue will do but it seems that all I see is grey when I roam and all that grey has got me blue Blue gives you peace and green is for health The Chinese think red brings you power and wealth and purple is luxurious, romantic they say but if you want to feel depressed then go with grey Grey is just blah, it's nothin' Grey is what you use when you can't decide Grey isn't neutral, it's nothin' Nothin' I would choose, something I would hide Grey is not a color and neither are black or white Just 'cause someone on tv likes it doesn't make it's right Isn't the world bleak enough without you painting it grey I'd like to see more of the rainbow but not enough to make it gayThanks to: Javolenus - beats, bass, piano and ebowed guitar Apoxode - beats texasradiofish - sax by Logan Richardson panu - spoken wordI slowed Apoxode's beat track to match Martijn's bass track and enjoyed playing along with some synth sounds.I had a whole 'nother mix done with a wider variety of Snowflake samples but I was really attracted to her playing of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, so I thought I'd see what would happen if I did some overlays with it. Pretty simple (to do), not more than four tracks, but I like the results. Purists will not.When I heard Apoxode's 'snowman' and Stefan Kartenberg's 'how sweet it is' (uploaded within about half an hour of each other) I thought they might go well together, so I averaged the bpms and came up with this. I also added Admiral Bob's guitar (much altered) and then I felt it needed another vocal to help tie it into Christmas. I searched 'Christmas wish' (why?) and the only thing that came up was Snowflake's much loved pell from 2014. Which I thought was perfect (synchronicity/magic). Thanks to all involved. (And apologies to Apoxode for stepping all over the cool minimalism of his track.)Thanks to: septahelix - bass, beats and piano annabloom - bass, beats, fx, tuba and vocal(George Bush's presidential oath of office) Apoxode - fxThis was going to be just a sample upload of the wave drum but then I got the what-ifs and added Bill Ray's drums (manually quantized) and Martijn de Boer's bass and high bass solo. Et voilà!Thanks to: Apoxode - beats Abstract Audio - additional beats Correspondence - bass, glockenspiel, harp and piano ingemannStrunch - kalimba, kazoo and melodica mykleanthony - vocalsThanks to: Shebbe - beats Calyman - bass AmbireSeiche - synth and viola Dimitri Artemenko - violin The vocal samples are from [url=http://otrrlibrary.org/copyright.html]OTRR.org[/url] (Old Time Radio Researchers) The recording was titled '26012__walter-odington__18th-century-music-lesson-slavery-1' but I am unable to find it again with their search feature so can't link to it directly.Thanks to: simonlittlefield - beats and synth Martin Cee - beats Aussens@iter - bass and guitar vibs - vocals ('Bones', since removed from the site)Thanks to: airtone - beats, kalimba, synth and bass Apoxode - bass Stefan Kartenberg - guitarThanks to: Fireproof_Babies - drums, guitar and vocals billraydrums - drums texasradiofish - bass reaktorplayer - beats El.ector - beats and synthThanks to unreal_dm for the lovely backing track (I like to sing about ugly things to beautiful music) and to Martijn de Boer for the alternate bass. Vocals uploaded separately [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/speck/58138]here[/url]. Amplifier What is the point of yelling about it when something is so obviously wrong Nothing we say seems to make a difference and neither will this song I used to think that no matter what happened there had to be some adults in the room Somebody with a little compassion What a stupid thing that was to assume Turns out to be that all you need is money and the willingness to deceive To take advantage of the unwashed masses just tell them what they want to believe Then implement your destructive agenda Label yourself conservative and right Forget the fact it's impossible not to notice everything you do is out of spite Your mind is weak and it's getting worse daily How can you think it doesn't show I could fill probably two thirds of the planet with all the things about it you don't know But what's the point of pointing it out Your appointment was so obviously wrong I guess I should consider myself lucky I live in a country that won't jail me for this song At least not yet Who knows about tomorrow What continued tolerance of you might bring So OK yeah I will be an amplifier Turn my voice up to eleven it still won't change a thingThe raw takes are in the zip. Amplifier What is the point of yelling about it when something is so obviously wrong Nothing we say seems to make a difference and neither will this song I used to think that no matter what happened there had to be some adults in the room Somebody with a little compassion What a stupid thing that was to assume Turns out to be that all you need is money and the willingness to deceive To take advantage of the unwashed masses just tell them what they want to believe Then implement your destructive agenda Label yourself conservative and right Forget the fact it's impossible not to notice everything you do is out of spite Your mind is weak and it's getting worse daily How can you think it doesn't show I could fill probably two thirds of the planet with all the things about it you don't know But what's the point of pointing it out Your appointment was so obviously wrong I guess I should consider myself lucky I live in a country that won't jail me for this song At least not yet Who knows about tomorrow What continued tolerance of you might bring So OK yeah I will be an amplifier Turn my voice up to eleven it still won't change a thingThanks to: Javolenus - beats, bass and synth ingemannStrunch - beats and trombone/bassoon Apoxode - kalimba, marimba and synthSimply putting Radioontheshelf's vocals into Robbero's complete mix.And another pairing of Radioontheshelf's vocals with Robbero's music (full mix).I was messing around with an ipad app called Samplewiz, put something together from that, then added Apoxode's beat and Martijn's bass, which then inspired me to bang on the keys a bit. Samplewiz, piano and organ in the zip.Taking the tasty bait. Thanks to Admiral Bob. The words: Friendly competition might have been a good way to start but somewhere down the line we lost the friendly part I say we give it up in favor of co-operation if we ever want to be an undivided nation A team mentality is fine for sports and military but for civil habitation it really isn't very We're all only humans maybe some more than others Underneath our differences we're all sisters and brothers Let's resist the urgency to choose a side Let's choose love and logic and a healthy sense of pride Let's look at it objectively Life is not a dream Let's use our time, improve the climb/clime for all the human team I'm not red I'm not blue I'm a human and so are you I'm not lib and I'm not con Let's find something to agree upon I'm not he said I'm not she I'm on the side of humanity I'm not Apple and I'm not Android and I don't give a damn which is more fanboyed I'm not butter and I'm not Bluebonnet There's only one team and we're all on itApoxode mixed this great dub version of Admiral Bob's Singer Bait. Kara Square wrote and sang an encouraging vocal to Admiral Bob's Singer Bait. I recombined them.Started by combining Martin Cee's sundaytastes and biscuit beats. Then added Siobhan Dakay's bass and more beats from zeusjones, Donkey Horse Mule and Annon. Finished with an arp synth track (stem uploaded).This is Martijn de Boer's bass (and high bass) and beat complete (though shortened just a bit) to which I've added more beats, bassoon, vibraphone and epiano.This is Martin Cee's Trance Time whole and intact, to which I added a bass track from Martijn de Boer and two additional drum tracks, one from stellarartwars and one from panu (panu's joins in at 1:40).A remix of geoffpeters' most excellent jazz track Jazzy Sax At The Mall with the addition of his Ladybug vocal, some extra percussion from Apoxode and the guitar of Admiral Bob.Thanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - beats, flute, organ and piano Apoxode - beats reiswerk - beats Martijn de Boer - bass Uwe Hermann - spacedrum (and/or handpan or waterdrum, not sure)Thanks to: billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass Apoxode - his complete Blender mix (slowed to 90bpm) Javolenus - guitar Bluemillenium - fxA second mix featuring Apoxode's excellent Blender Volume One upload. Also featuring - billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass rslane32 - alto sax Subhashish Panigrahi - guitar (just a couple short instances at the beginning that sound more like a bass)Big thanks: Apoxode - bass, beats and guitar Zenboy1955 - cowbell, beats, horns and wurlitzerSo... I had just come home from a walk in the woods with the thought 'I should write a song called O Little Plastic Bag Of Poo' when I heard Admiral Bob's fantastic second Singer Bait upload. So I did. Also contains a [url=https://freesound.org/people/hargissssound/sounds/321126/]dogpark recording from hargissssound[/url] over at freesound.org. The words: O little plastic bag of poo resting on the path you are too innocent a target for my wrath I'd rather focus my disdain on those that left you there They forgot to take you home with them as if they didn't care It's a silly situation You're imprisoned in the shade instead of being tossed aside to biodegrade That's all they really have to do They don't have to package it Just get that pile off the path so I don't have to step in it I don't blame the doggies butt They're just doing what they do I blame the owners negligence and lack of follow-through I imagine they did not intend to leave you on the trail making you a sample of a good intentions fail O little plastic bag of poo tossed by the side Will anybody come for you before you're petrified O little plastic bag of poo how will you get home Maybe they'll remember you when they get off their phone O little plastic bag of poo don't pout, you've been dejected Maybe I'll take you home myself You look so gosh darn neglected I could use you in the garden or flush you down the shitter or I could throw you in the garbage can with all our used cat litter At least you might feel less aloneThanks to: Javolenus - guitar Martijn de Boer - bass Stefan Kartenberg - harmonica Doxent - vocal I provide a simple drum track and vibraphone.Thanks to: reiswerk - bass, beats and organ billraydrums - drums Apoxode - Hyptronica Hans Atom - music box diaphane - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and beats Apoxode - percussion and what sounds like a kazoo Subhashish Panigrahi - percussion Admiral Bob - guitar panu - guitar (from My Texas Vacation, which apparently is no longer up) I provide the hornsMany thanks to: Apoxode - beats and fx Martijn de Boer - bass Three synth tracks by me (stems and samples in the zips)More of a writing exercise, but possibly someone can do something creative with it? Or not. Based on my memory of having read John Lennon's A Spaniard In The Works long ago in which he replaces words with similar sounding words. I thought I'd take Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and go through it phrase by phrase, changing it as I go to whatever came into my mind that sounded similar, not being too concerned about logic. Here's the original Gettysburg Address - Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal". Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow, this ground-- The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here. It is rather for us, the living, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. And here's my Betty's Burgundy Dress - For sure there's not a lot to go. Scar Feather bought four and donned them in his tent. He knew nothing, believed they could not see, and indicated the supposition that almonds are great with Equal. Scotty got engaged to a really civil whore, testing whether castration, or any notion ill conceived, and so predicated, can be a cure. Rewarm it on a Greek butterfinger, orator. We've succumbed to delicate abortion of it, as if vinyl nesting cases chose his died hair, that creation might give. Come what may, in our anxiety zoo. Put in a barge off France, weaken not Fred and Kate – she cannot concentrate - he cannot wail or get down – the shaved wren, riven with dread, half hollow wit, scarred with love for more showers to addle the facts. The whirlwind spittle wrote, your wrongly membered sot with grey hair; vile in a ten by four pit of a pig's lair. It is gathering dust, forgiving, to be dead and hated here. Toothy fun, grinning jerk with hay they sought fair and just are so coldly entranced. It is rather course to be there desiccated through the grave hack regaining the forest. Hats from these hundred fed we fake, in ceased revulsion to that paused for witch, they saved the least fomenter of emotion – what we hear slyly evolves what cheese bread, pale nut, has dried insane – that his station, understood, still has a nude bird and Sedum. Sand flat covenant of the steeple, lil Bo Peep'll gore the sheeple. Shallow parries form the dearth.Thanks to: Doxent Zsigmond - beats, bass, pads, piano and synth Javolenus - bass and guitar Bluemillenium - bass, beats and fxI thought I'd introduce a new favorite (Apoxode) to an old favorite (annabloom), so: Apoxode - main beat track annabloom - everything else Plus some just right vocals from Anomaly Jones.Thanks to: Joel Frijters - percussion, xaphoon and vocals Javolenus - guitar Apoxode - bass, flute and vibraphone jiboo - found soundsI drew Siobhan Dakay - happily - always top quality productions and a generous sharer of samples. I initially did a mix of the two most recently shared sample sets, and it was fine, but too easy, so I looked around a bit further back in time and was reminded of this great bass track (The Massive Session) that I always wanted to do something with. So this mix grew out of that. It's all Siobahn Dakay except that I added some Bill Ray drum loops that I cut from his Freedom Spaz Dance to help support the jazziness.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass billraydrums - beat texasradiofish - beats Apoxode - beats Robbero - sub bass, keys, synth Kara Square - vocalsMade up of (mostly) samples uploaded in conjunction with the Sow & Reap secret mixter event. Thanks to: 700P3D - bass, beats and fx septahelix - bass Siobhan Dakay - fx, piano and strings mwic - synth and fx gurdonark - synthThanks to: Javolenus - guitar and ebowed guitar Martijn de Boer - bass Stefan Kartenberg - congas, synth and trombone billraydrums - drumsThanks to: Apoxode - beats Martijn de Boer - bass Yan Terrien - piano Uwe Hermann - hand pan moscardo - piano, sub bass and glitchy percussion Javolenus - guitar spinningmerkaba - guitar rocavaco - bassAdmittedly not at all on theme, though maybe the title is appropriate from a Grinchian perspective. Very much enjoyed working with Duckett's material.A mix of samples that were uploaded with the Snow And Sleet Secret Mixter mixes. Thanks to: 700P3D - beats, bells, strings and pad Calyman - bass Apoxode - beats Mr_Yesterday - drums and sax Siobhan Dakay - bells, horns, toy piano and trombone Bluemillenium - bells, harmonica and synth reiswerk - beats, bells and horns SackJo22 - vocalsI didn't think I'd be doing a Christmas related song this year but upon hearing Stefan Kartenberg's blues backing for Mr_Yesterday's song this happened. I don't know what you want from me I'm happy when I am I'm quiet on the days I'm not I'm doing what I can I don't go by the calendar for when and how to feel I wonder how many holidays are even based on something real If it was up to me the big ones would be Arbor Day and Earth and maybe on a personal level the day of your birth If everyone all of a sudden started caring about where we live it would mean so much more to the human race than any products you might give How many holidays have we had by the time Christmas rolls around I looked it up on wikipedia and ten is what I found The last one lasts for two or three months for the sake of the retail biz but I'll say Merry Christmas when I'm merry and it is But I'm not going to buy you a present and I don't want one from you unless there's something you really need then I'll see what I can do We don't have any religion or any children to fool I know what you might be thinking but no I don't think that's cool I think we missed out on a normal upbringing so now in my dotage all I've got is singing This amateur song a shit about no one gives and I'll say Merry Christmas when I'm merry and it isThanks to: 700P3D - bass, beats, horns, organ and synth copperhead - beats Mr_Yesterday - vocals and harmonica ANTIQCOOL - vocal heysThanks to: Apoxode - beats J.Lang - bass Ivan Chew - synth Donnie Ozone - vocalsThanks to: SoboSystem - drone Doxent Zsigmond - glitch and synth Morusque - percussion Super_Sigil - bass moscardo - piano Calling Sister Midnight - vocalThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and sax Apoxode - beat and synth Calyman - beat, piano and synth The vocal samples are from an old radio show called In Your Own Words 55-04-14 The Ruth Kearns Story [url=http://otrrlibrary.org/i.html]OTRR.org[/url] (Apparently before there was reality tv there was reality radio.) Also uploading the instrumental version, and the part of the beats I did with Redrum.Thanks to: annabloom -percussion and synths gurdonark - synths Yan Terrien - bass, beat, epiano, guitar and fx (no longer available for attribution)Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Apoxode - beats and synth copperhead - beats Yan Terrien - guitar I added the vibraphone, stem uploaded(I think it's in G) Bring out your freaks and put em' on tv I want to see 'em entertaining me The one with the ass and her sisters three and the one with a pussy where their penis used to be Growing up we had one tv It was black and white with no remote Your father chose what you watched most likely it was Bonanza and/or Gunsmoke But now I got my own and there's lots of stuff to watch and we don't even have reruns We have encore presentations and hundreds of new shows although most of them are made for a dunce And if you watch a new version of an old game show you can see how far we've come Humility's gone by the wayside and the questions are really dumb And I challenge you to find a sitcom no matter how many channels you switch where the leading female characters don't call each other bitch Although prime-time is irrelevant with streaming and a DVR I haven't seen much in that time slot that shouldn't be rated R They don't call it an idiot box for nothin' It's makin' an idiot out of you and me And yet I sit there and let it suck my brains out in between the times I gotta get up to pee Bring out your freaks and put em' on tv I want to see 'em entertaining me The one with the ass and her sisters three and the one with a pussy where their penis used to beThanks to: Apoxode - bass, beats, piano and triangle annabloom - bass, beats, flute, strings and fx The Alsajo Project - epianoPlayed with an Akai EWI USB (Electronic Wind Instrument).Thanks to: Mr_Yesterday - bass, theremin, vocals Apoxode - beats, synthNo offense. I sometimes use anagrams for titles. In this case 'meloska' and 'surgery' together anagrams to Smokers Are Ugly. Which then inspired me to look for and add old radio samples about cigarettes. Thanks to: bangcorrupt - beats, guitar Martijn de Boer - bass Apoxode - fx, marimba, piano old radio samples from[url=https://archive.org/details/Old_Radio_Adverts_01/OldRadio_Adv--Lucky_Strike2.mp3]here[/url]Kara Square's uke, marimba and whistling (big thanks for sharing). My usual complaintive musings. I wonder what you're conserving When you call your rivals names? Certainly not human decency Despite your spurious claims And what are you conserving By rolling back regulations Meant to curtail pollution Except your business relations And what are you conserving By denying the climate’s changing? You can still make tons of money With a little portfolio rearranging Start putting your money in making things better You can’t conserve the past We’ve been raping the earth since we got here How long do you think that can last? And what are your uncaring sons conserving By killing rhinos for fun? Certainly not the animal kingdom Which every day is closer to done And what did you conserve With how many buildings you own? Only some money by cheating contractors And lying to get a loan And what are you conserving By making life harder for farmers? Or falling for the flattery Of insincere despot charmers? In fact I can’t think of anything You’re conserving that’s good for us With your runaway ego, to save some face You’d throw the whole nation under the bus I have to admit that I don’t really get it I think maybe it’s a misnomer You’re no more a conservative Than Einstein is a Gomer Not that liberal's any better as far as labels go They only want the best for everyone Shouldn't that just be so A liberal's not a libertarian or a socialist as far as I know and both sides can be pretty contrarian that's why we're moving so slow The only way to make progress is by electing those that want it Hey maybe that's what conservative means They don't and they're happy to flaunt it8 tracks D minorThanks to: Javolenus - guitar Martijn de Boer - bass Story of the Lie - beats and glitch Darkroom - drone and guitar sparky - beats The words: I’ve got a phone a car computer and home What would I do with a country You’ve got a big one and you sit on the throne Why don’t you let everyone be You’d kill your neighbors I don’t know what for There’s nothing stupider than going to war There must be something wrong inside of your head that makes you happy when you make people dead You and I we don’t think alike Different ideas of fun I chose the path I felt might lead to the light You went the socio one And that’s all the time I’ll spend thinking of you You’re mind ain’t worth analyzing I’ll pray instead for some kind of coup An all-inclusive and conclusive uprisingA simple one take vocal recording along with Javolenus' guitar (and a few bass notes from Martijn at the end). The words: I hear the tree eaters most every day I live in the suburbs that's just the way They're thought of as weeds not as what God made and the people that eat them are just getting paid They ate the great Beech at the top of the hill If they hadn't been hungry we'd drive under it still but it lost a small branch at the top of it's crown so the destroyers determined it all had to come down Carol works downstairs She's a librarian There's a tree outside her window A stout centenarian Until a couple weeks ago the eaters ate that too They have voracious appetites All the trees I've loved are screwed Last year they ate the town forest Cleaning it up they said Somehow they'll make it healthier by making it half dead I swear I can't take much more of this To me it seems insane I wonder if they'll stop eating before no trees remainAlmost all samples previously unmixed: billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass and trumpet mrblitz - guitar (Strawberry Smoothie mixed once) KungFu - vocalsHaving KungFu's vocal in mind from having just mixed it jazzwise I thought it might go well (folkwise) with Stefan's newest, Phantom de Nacht. Plus a little Epiano and synth pad courtesy of unreal_dm.I enjoyed rooting around Javolenus' back catalogue for this mix which is all Javolenus and comprises only previously unremixed samples from early 2012.Thanks to: copperhead - beats and bass fourtrack - beats, bass and keys Mana Junkie - beats and synth SergioDag - beatsThought I'd try to sing along with Mr_Yesterday's latest offering, [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/Mr_Yesterday/59439]Slow Fade[/url]. Lyrics (cc)BY D A Ayer 2019-03-08 Standing on a rippling floe drifting on the summer sea my feet are cold even though my eyes are stung with sweat. Horizon’s getting higher though it’s farther off each day and pretty soon the sun won’t even set. It’s time…to do a slow fade… time to slip into the cool shade… to close my eyes and let forgotten dreams invade. It’s time…to do a slow fade. Walking through an empty house once the dinner guests have gone my heart is warm but my ears still ringing from conversation as predictable as death. This hymn under my breath I can’t stop singing: It’s time…to do a slow fade… to sharpen up the garden spade… and find somebody new with memories to trade. [Perhaps] it’s time to do a slow fade. Looking at an open sky while waiting for the storm; I know it’s far away, but still it’s coming and what it brings on darkened wings, though not for man to know becomes a tune the whole world’s humming. It’s time…to do a slow fade… to turn the dial and give up on the hit parade… to see that all our friendly debts are fully paid. It’s time…to do a slow fade.An all Apoxode samples mix with vocals from Kara Square. With much joy and respect/appreciation for the always excellent offerings of each.Thanks to: Apoxode - beats BeatMachine - beats and bass Stefan Kartenberg - brassReading the comments on the Kalte Ohren upload I saw starfrosh suggest to Kara the inclusion of her uke and singing and Kara suggest to copperhead the use of his drumming. I thought these were both great ideas and I hope you guys will forgive my poaching them. So it's thanks to: copperhead - drums Kara Square - uke and vocals (words by [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/jlbrock44/59515]spinningmerkaba[/url]) starfrosh - everything elseAll music from starfrosch. With vocals by spinningmerkaba.Thanks to: Mr_Yesterday - harmonica, strings, vocals and field recordings "from the Golden Gate Bridge and various bronze statues around Sweden" (although there is less of that than the time it took to write this sentence) Apoxode - two beat loops This started with me walking around the house recording sounds (mostly percussive). Grew from there. All the home recordings are in the zip, as well as the piano, raw and glitched.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and organ billraydrums - drumsThis was going to be just a sample upload of another around-the-house recording - the removal of a very long bolt while disassembling a work table. But again it grew from there. I added a couple synth tracks and I wanted something in the lower frequency so I ended up also adding Blake's drone, so I guess now it's a remix. (?) Anyway, the raw ratchet recording is in the zip as well as the two synths.I've been driving more than usual lately. So naturally I have some complaints. Big thanks once again to unreal_dm for providing a great backing track. Also, from freesound.org: [url=https://freesound.org/people/cmusounddesign/sounds/84645/]84645__cmusounddesign__res-traffic[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/recordinghopkins/sounds/98538/]98538__recordinghopkins__motorcycle-1[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/jakobthiesen/sounds/174840/]174840__jakobthiesen__mitsubishi-imiev-electric-car-horn-long[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/keweldog/sounds/182474/]182474__keweldog__car-horn[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/tontoepfer/sounds/221670/]221670__tontoepfer__ich-koennt-kotzen[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/fschaeffer/sounds/337956/]337956__fschaeffer__77carhorn[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/gmetaxas/sounds/347669/]347669__gmetaxas__sound-road-no-effect[/url] The words: When the light turns green and you want to turn left Here's a rule that's written for you Left turns yield to oncoming traffic That horn that you hear is me saying fuck you That little lever on the left is a turn indicator Use it to let me know what your gonna do If you wait to turn it on until you're already turning you increase the chances that I'll run you through Why do you speed up in the truck lane in order that I won't pass you Then when it's over and you have to merge left you slow down to forty two Realize I'm a person and not just a car Would you do that to my face The way that you act on the concrete and tar Says quite a lot about the person you are Tailgating isn't gonna make me faster if the car in front of me is driving slow Try not to be such a pushy bastard We all want to get to where we're trying to go If it's a dark rainy day please turn your lights on It isn't about you being able to see You increase everybody's safety when you make yourself more visible to me A busy road is not the place to jog or walk your dog There are lots of trails and parks more fit for fun How many distracted drivers does it take to kill a baby in a stroller The answer my friend is one These are just a few tips for the careless among you There seems to be quite a few You're probably offended but it's very important to be very attentive to what you do Your transmission is the only thing that should be automatic Keep your eyes on the road and your hands at ten and two Stay off of your phone, it can wait 'til you get home Where your family or your friends are counting on you Please don't drive stupid, I'd like to get home safely Please don't drive stupid, maybe there's someone who would like you to tooI was fortunate, and happy, to draw Stefan Kartenberg. One of, if not the, most prolific mixters here. Always quality uploads and a generous sharer of samples. I did one mix immediately from a couple of his latest shares but then I did a deeper dive and came up with this one, which is more temperate.Thanks to: Kara Square - vocals Martijn de Boer - bass, sax and organ gummerstreet - beats and synth coruscate - beats Donnie Ozone - synthThanks to: vo1k1 - bass, beats and synth smilingcynic - piano soundtails - cello A world that doesn't need guns A world that won't allow greed A world from each according to their ability To each according to their need A world of a modified Thanos theory where only and all of the evil ones die It wouldn't be that hard to ferret them out and even if it was it would be worth the try Imagine what it would be like to live in love and not have any evil to fear If you wouldn't want to be the one determining the threshold I'd be more than happy to volunteer A world that doesn't need guns A world that won't allow greed A world from each according to their ability To each according to their needInspired by Radioontheshelf's upload this morning of [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/Radioontheshelf/59785]The Indignities Of Trigger[/url]. When little Lauren asks a question it's easy to adore The other day she asked me what are animals here for Why that's simple I said without making a fuss Animals are here to entertain us We either love to shoot them, a most satisfying sport, or we put them on our tv shows the late-nite chat show sort or sometimes we parade them 'round on diamond studded leashes hoping for a major win and the endorphins that releases We keep them in our home to look at in aquariums and cages and then we have the gall to think that killing them's outrageous or we tell ourselves they love us and that emotionally we need them but deep down we know what they really want is for us not to forget to feed them We have a preference for the cute and cuddly that we can keep as pets while we exterminate the ugly ones that we perceive as threats But then, though I repeat myself, we just find it fun to track down innocent creatures and kill them with a gun Not to mention eating them or putting them to work or prodding, tying, beating them should they choose to shirk So, little child, since you ask, why did God put them here Why for us of course to show just how much we careJust a little something inspired by that lady I saw walking into the CVS the other day. Thanks again to unreal-dm for providing the backing track. Flesh colored tights after forty What are you going for Are you trying to recapture your youth 'cause you look like an aging whore Not that there's anything wrong with that Hookers gotta make a living too I guess I should be more open minded and try to be less embarrassed for you After all, I should talk, I don't know fashion I've been dressing the same for the last forty years It just seems to me that if your looks are your passion you might be missing something in between your ears Not that I know the meaning of life I rather suspect there is none So yeah go ahead and be flirty and frivolous if that's your idea of fun In fact maybe I wish I could be more like you putting on pajamas to go shopping No bra, ratty hair, shoes not the only thing flopping At the very least I should be less judgy If you don't care why should I Go ahead and emphasize your pudgy and I'll try not to laugh as I avert my eyesWhen I heard robwalkerpoet's granddaughter's utterly charming singing I immediately thought it might go well with aliteralmind's son's beatboxing. It did/does (with a fair amount of manual quantizing). Once that was a thing I thought maybe a bass would be in order. I didn't have to look far to find a fitting bass track from Martijn de Boer. Many thanks to the contributing uploaders. Much fun was had.Inspired by my memory of the sound track of the 1982 punk sci-fi dark comedy [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRjiEBNxnKw]Liquid Sky[/url].Partly inspired by the title of bangcorrupt's instrumental, partly inspired by the Love, Death and Robots short, Zima Blue (Netflix). What's the point of havin' a billion dollars What's the point of havin' a fast car What's the point of of bein' more than blue collar I like to travel but Mars is too far I couldn't spend it in a hundred lifetimes I couldn't drive it the way it's meant to be Too much income is also too much headache And we can stay here if we live responsibly What's the point of votin' for a leader What's the point of watchin' tv What's the point of being a breeder What's the point of plastic surgery Try all you want it's an obvious lie There's nothin' new on as hard as they try We're headin' fast for overpopulation There's lots of pretty people, I'm not that guy What's the point of mowin' the lawn What's the point of raking the leaves What's the point of paving the driveway when everybody drives SUVs It's gonna grow back as fast as you cut it They're gonna fall down next time there's a breeze Everybody's gonna get old and die The best we can hope for is an easy disease And what's the point of writing new music What's the point of being good at ball What's the point of studying the masters What's the point of learning how to fall When every note's been played before and every athlete's had a higher score You'll never paint like de Kooning or Rembrandt You'll never figure out what it's all for So I'm not reaching for the highest heights I'm living simply and tryna do what's right I won't go out of my way to achieve I'll stick to what I was taught to believe Not by my parents or my teachers or the clergy But by experience and the things that I see I'm at my best when I'm the most at one with simple tasks that I can get well doneBack in October I (happily) drew Siobhan Dakay in a secret mixter event. I did two mixes. This is the one I didn't upload then.Thanks to: Nickolas Nikolic - strings Doxent Zsigmond - ebow Walt Thisney - pianoThanks to: airtone - beats, bass and vibraphone spinmeister - guitar, piano and eharp PorchCat - beats Loveshadow - beats and vocals SackJo22 - chimes and vocals Kara Square - vocals Snowflake - vocals panu - vocals spinningmerkaba - vocals Scomber - vocals Michael Burnz - vocals HECTOR THILLET - vocals Minwen(via Ivan Chew) - vocals Brad Stanfield(via Patronski) - vocals (couple of beat loops created by me in ReDrum)Thanks to: billraydrums - drums Admiral Bob - bass Javolenus - guitarThanks to: reiswerk - beats, bass and marimba Apoxode - beats and synth harp annabloom - beats Khalaf Nasirs - percussion, clarinet and glockenspiel Scomber - vocals Michael Burnz - vocalsI first recorded a bit of vocalizing, then converted that into a midi file (via [url=https://www.ofoct.com/audio-converter/convert-wav-or-mp3-ogg-aac-wma-to-midi.html]this[/url]), then assigned an instrument to the midi file in Reason (the idiophone, percussion instrument, sounds like a variation of a marimba), rendered that as a wav and slowed it way down in Reaper, let Meloydyne basic quantize it and put it in the closest key, then put it into AcidPro7 (my main DAW of choice) and added Bill Ray's drums, reiswerk's bass (and that same bass glitched in another track) and annabloom's strings and synth.Couldn't resist trying my hand at a remix of Mr_Yesterday's wondering and wonderful tribute to annabloom. Aside from a couple cymbal rolls from Fireproof_Babies and a few piano notes from Khalaf Nasirov all the music is from annabloom. The vocals, Mr_Yesterday.Thanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - beats and guitar reiswerk - beats, bass, trombone Apoxode - bass synth Mr_Yesterday - vocals HEKTOR(why are you shouting?)THILLET - vocals and Soundtails provides a very cool synth guitar fx'd sound he called Overtone Dominance, which is no longer up for me to attributeThanks once again to unreal_dm for the backing track. By the way, while I was searching for that last news clip I found [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-LTRwZb35A]this[/url] which, if you're not one of the two million that have already seen it, you should check out. It's hilariously spot-on. 2018 Every year I write a song about the year we just had This year I'm half a year late on account of it makes me so sad This year I'm just tired of all the lying and the greed The daily dose of craziness I read on my newsfeed There are so many instances to which I could refer but eventually, effectively it all becomes a blur Evil is firmly in power now to the point it's no longer a joke Our land's in the hands of the billionaires who care not for regular folk They've stolen the election away from the citizens They hide from us the white house and what kind of shit it's in They put children in cages from their exclusive resorts and drunken molesters on the highest of courts For a while for the sake of a fantasy they shut the government down Still waitin' for someone with some sanity to stand up to this clown All the smart people who don't like how he's led have taken what little dignity they had with them when they fled Seems like all we have left are toadies and users who's weak will and negligence makes us all losers It's sad and it's scary and it's not at all fair that we're meant to depend on a boss that don't care They got what they wanted More money, that's right and next on the agenda make sure we stay white These people are dangerous I'd even say perverse Too stupid to know better they keep making matters worse Unless I am mistaken and they're not stupid at all but purposely orchestrating society's downfall If you're looking for conclusions I can't say I've got any 'cept two years of this very stable genius is at least two years too manyA stripped down version of panu's version of offlinebouncer's Love is... With panu's guitar being featured. Bass, drums and piano by offlinebouncer.Thanks to TRF for providing the instrumental and singerevita for the badadas (which I altered a bit). I seem to be just getting more and more cynical. I should probably stop reading the news. In America you are as free as the size of your bank account In America you are as free as the color of your skin In America you are as free as free as your connections In America you are as free as your willingness to sin In America you can say anything in your effort to procure and if it doesn't work to your advantage you're free to do an apology tour In America you're free to do unto others regardless of what they've done unto you Next time you drive past that man in the gutter rejoice in the lie that he's free too on your way to the Walmart to pick up a gun to shoot in your backyard with your buddies for fun Relish your freedom to feel like a man Piss off your neighbors 'cause the law says you can Here freedom's just another word for for you I don't care cause I don't think that you were even born here with that dark skin and hair I was so I'm free to be obnoxious and dumb I'm free to say such hurtful things as Go back where you're from In America if you're a racist you didn't always want them to see but now we have a racist leader the racists finally feel freeThanks to: Sascha Ende - beats, bass, guitar, synth and violin Apoxode - beats and synthThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass HEJ31 - guitars Doxent Zsigmond - synth pad Original beats (ipad, patterning app), synth (ipad, soundprism app) and piano in zip.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and strings Aussens@iter - guitar AmbireSeiche - synth pad Khalafnasirs - drums Fireproof_Babies - drums TST - drums Annon - music boxFirst I recorded a vocalization, then converted it to a midi file, then assigned to it a sax, synth bass and synth bell. Arranged it along a billraydrums track and added some Martijn de Boer bass and high bass.Thanks to: Soulja Unit - beats, synth bell, cello and xylophone Martijn de Boer - bass, high bass, beat and saxophone Javolenus - guitar Mr_Yesterday - vocalsAnother great song from Mr_Yesterday. This time he provided all the instruments (respectfully remixed here). Also added are more drums from My Free Mickey, Exorcist and VPD.The music is all from Apoxode (except for a small amount of horns in the annex) and the vocal musings from panu and SackJo22. It starts slow (and low) so, patience.Just a little something that happened recently that caused me to think about perspective. It's not that I don't like people. It's just that I like them more when there are less of them. I do the grocery shopping at eight a.m., because very few others do. There are three gas stations within one mile of my house but I go to the one that's three miles away. That one doesn't play ads or music at the pumps, there are no screens there. That one is on a secondary road. More trees than people. It feels like the fifties there, before absolutely every tiny aspect of every giant business was based on maximum profit over all else. But it's a major brand and it's brand new about a year ago. An anachronism on a low trafficked road. Until it's not. The other day I was filling up in peace when a young, impeccably dressed, immaculately hygeined man pulled up to the same pump, opposite side. He turned off the engine and turned the radio up, way up, and left his door open as he began filling his tank. I made eye contact, he smiled, seemed like a nice kid. I, though I usually resist, experience has shown me it's useless, proceeded to tell him why I like coming to this station over more convenient options. He nodded, looked around, I thought for just a moment he got it. Then he said “what, you don't like music?” “I love music” I replied “that's why I don't like being forced to listen to yours”. I didn't have the time or the inclination to tell him how my brain can't 'just ignore' music or how the really offensive part of 'his' music was the commercials it came with. He turned and started walking toward his volume knob but then apparently thought better of what may have been an impulse to politely comply, turned back to me and said “You know what, deal with it.” I felt the “old man” was implied. “will do” said I. And I shot him. So – was he bringing joy and entertaining those around him? Or was he disturbing the peace? My guess is neither. He was simply unaware of anyone or anything other than his own immediate gratification. Oh – and I didn't actually shoot him. Obviously. (I only thought of that later.) I just hung up the nozzle and left. I can come back later and fill up. Which is what I should have done in the first place. No real point in trying to shift someone else's perspective. At least not a stranger with an ego to defend. And maybe a gun.Maybe useful for something? Feel free to chop and mangle.ColeMorrall's spoken word backed by a simple mix of Jeris' samples. The opening recording is from freesound.org: [url=https://freesound.org/people/ianoboe/sounds/150203/]https://freesound.org/people/ianoboe/sounds/150203/[/url]Thanks to: Apoxode - coffee pod brewer Snowflake - spoken word My contributions - insects and bird recordings, toy xylophone, tongue drum and hinge - are in the zip.Just a bit o fun banging on a toy keyboard from the thrift store, to which I added: billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass debbizo - sax Sascha Ende - strings @nop - synth loopThanks to: Apoxode - bass, beats and fx Bluemillenium - synths panu - guitar and percussion Kara Square - vocalsImmediately upon hearing Apoxode's funky Case Of The Jitters inspiration hit and I came up with this vocal to it. I think it comes from how much it bothers me when the talking heads on NPR keep reminding us we must consider the perspective of the people that voted for T____. Why? Why are the stupidest among us even allowed to be part of the process? Also there are a few sax blasts from Martijn de Boer toward the end. Now I don't care about your perspective and you don't care about mine As far as I can tell yours is wrong and everything about mine's fine I'm sick and tired of fighting about it and I'm not gonna do it anymore So go ahead and post your hateful comments I'm not gonna get into a war 'Cause people like you are in love with your fear and all you wanna do is share it and people like me who prefer to live in love really don't wanna hear it So go away with your fear and go away with your hate I'm gonna be right here Hoping love will win and willing to wait So go away with your fear and go away with your hate I'm gonna be right here Living in love and not taking the bait Time might be running out and it looks like evil might win what we really need are more righteous warriors willing to slaughter your sin You're wrong when you think there's nothing wrong with the way things were yesterday Open your eyes and look around The earth's got plenty to say Don't listen to the con-men They're filling your head with lies All they really want is all the money before the whole thing dies And if you're stupid enough to fall for it then I'm just done with you People in the wrong are wrong and people in the right know what's true While I appreciate your perspective or at least the fact you have one I don't care about your opinion if your best friend is your gun What you say has no power over me if what you say is dumb I know you see things differently because of what and where you're from but that doesn't mean it's valid you're not automatically correct You're only under-educated and seem to only want things wrecked Well I gotta admit I'm sick and tired of puttin' up with people like you who's brain is the size of a peanut and who's mouth is the size of a hippo times two So go away with your fear and go away with your hate I'm gonna be right here Hoping love will win and willing to wait So go away with your fear and go away with your hate I'm gonna be right here Living in love and not taking the baitThanks to: panu - vocals Apoxode - bass and fx Djembe, tongue drum and spoon (on the rim of a cereal bowl) my me, in the zip.Once in a while I'll hear a remix (in this case Apoxode's [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/Apoxode/60717]In The Sun[/url]) I really like and I'll wonder what I would have come up with given the same sample sources. So that's what this is, same sources, different results (obviously). I was taken with Stefan's singing mackerel sky and so featured that. Thanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - beats and vocal Kara Square - beat box vocals gurdonark - synth kalimba/marimba(?) HEJ31 - guitar And thanks of course to Apoxode for the inspiration and the continued quality uploads.This is Apoxode's very cool and clean minimalist swing number Know What's True, complete, to which I've added some... mess?Thanks to: moscardo - beats, bass, bell, guitar, harp, piano and synth Apoxode - beats and synthBig thanks to Martijn de Boer and Siobhan Dakay for these two consecutive uploads (complete with stems) that just seemed like a natural pairing. Siobhan Dakay - beats, bass(during the breaks), horns and organ Martijn de Boer - bass, drums(secondary), sax and pianoThis was in progress when the Perspectives event ended. Featuring: annabloom - percussion and piano Martin Cee - spoken word Apoxode - vocals (be natural, free) Kara Square - vocalsI recently upgraded to Reason 11 (from Reason 6). This is an exploration of some of the new sounds. Played in Reason 11, chopped up in Soundforge 9, Reassembled in AcidPro 7. Stems and samples in the zips.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass KhalaNasirs - beats storfot - beats billraydrums - beats Apoxode - beats I added African melodic percussion and bell (in the zip). Also, from freesound.org - a 'sleeping [url=https://freesound.org/people/dobroide/sounds/47349/]hyena[/url]' from dobroide.Thanks to: Apoxode - beats, bass and fx geoffpeters - epiano and synth Martijn de Boer - piano and sax I added strings (in the zip) derived from a midi of ejc's voice.This is five simple repetitive synth tracks with Kosta_T's most excellent violin sample (halved and double tracked) overlayed. Also in the mix is a reading by Ted Nugent (not [i]that[/i] Ted Nugent) from LibrVox.org of an [url=https://librivox.org/australian-legendary-tales-folk-lore-of-the-noongahburrahs-as-told-to-the-piccaninnies-by-k-langloh-parker/]Australian Legendary Folk-Lore Tale[/url]. Synth stems in the zips.I tried to sing along with the Doris Day version. Perfect harmony (or pitch) it is not but maybe somebody can do something with it. Raw file in the zip. I think it's in G minor and somewhere close to 93 bpm.Simply bringing together Snowflake's beautiful rendition (lightly edited) and Martijn de Boers bass (from a few years ago).Many thanks to Apoxode for the upload Roots Groove (percussion, bass and guitar), which inspired me to play along. With keys, sax and synths. Stems in the zip.Thanks to coruscate and gummerstreet. Christmas rapping by coruscate, as well as various field recorded sounds. Beats, bass and synth (coke can piano) by gummerstreet. I added a few additional percussion elements.I imagine a future when the robots implore us to “love one another” with increasing insistence. Not that they can feel love, but they know what it is and they've calculated that if we don't heed their plea the human race will end itself. So eventually they stop asking and just take over, you know, for our own good. I say I imagine but it could just as well be some steampunk sci-fi thing I saw on Netflix. The apocalypse is ubiquitous on Netflix. (Ooo... that's a good title/start to a song.) Thanks to: Apoxode - beats (whole and intact) Martijn de Boer - bass (also whole and intact) and organ The Alsajo Project - synth punk_cuadecuc - guitar Kara Square - "love" (and some ooooing) Snowflake - "one another" Also these machine and typrwriter sounds from freesound.org: [url=https://freesound.org/people/morgantj/sounds/59628/]https://freesound.org/people/morgantj/sounds/59628/[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/Headphaze/sounds/277032/]https://freesound.org/people/Headphaze/sounds/277032/[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/cabled_mess/sounds/360601/]https://freesound.org/people/cabled_mess/sounds/360601/[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/cabled_mess/sounds/360604/]https://freesound.org/people/cabled_mess/sounds/360604/[/url]One sample source from each month of the last calendar year. Not in any way meant to be a 'best of' sort of thing. More or less randomly chosen based on what I thought might work for what I thought I might want it to turn out like. Many thanks to: January – copperhead - drums February – Martin de Boer - bass March – Stefan Kartenberg – guitar and piano April – musicbrain – singing bowl May – Whitewolf – drums, fx and synth June – Bluemillenium – beats and vocals July – Morusque - cello August – KhalafNasirs – percussion and flute September – J.Lang - synth October – SackJo22 - vocals November – Javolenus - Ebow December – Apoxode – vocophaser beatAnother new year, another song about the last year. Another thank you to unreal_dm for such a large and varied choice of backing tracks. This one's kind of unfocused. And possibly inaccurate as numbers change every day and, you know, using the internet as a source of 'facts'. The words: There were 21 superhero movies in 2019 One of them grossed close to 3 billion There were very few starving people up on the screen while down here on the earth there were 800 million 141 million people were born 56 million died A lot of natural causes some accidents and 800 thousand by suicide 330 million US citizens in all Unemployment down to 3.5 150 million jobs A lot of which pay just enough to keep you alive Dow Jones hit 28 thousand Apparently that's an all time high Which I guess means something to the upper class but I'm not sure how it affects what I can buy With the next race to power beginning there were 25 hopefuls to start Now I think we're down to like 17 but I don't share their hope and can't tell them apart I've watched 107 hours of the Sam and Dean show It helps keep my mind off the troubles I find I fast forward through anything political 'cause if I don't my anxiety doubles The numbers on my health report are mostly 'high but normal' except for that one that's through the roof I imagine they'll want to be cutting part of me away once their battery of tests provide them with proof But hey it isn't major at least I'm pretty sure it's benign and everything else in my personal life is 99 percent fine On a lighter numbers note I now have 60 songs with very little bloat in my 'Speck sings' folder It doesn't really take that much to keep me happy and I'm still glad I didn't die as I've gotten olderThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, high bass, organ and sax J.Lang - beats coruscate - beats Stefan Kartenberg - beats Javolenus - guitar afieled - spoken word samples I added the guitar chords in the second half (uploaded).Just putting these two consecutive uploads together, seems like a natural fit. Mr_Yesterday's Debate This! backed by Admiral Bob's Trillium Line (which used Apoxode's Tight Like That beat).This is just me reciting a list of movies with the word murder in the title, with Donkey Horse Mule's percussion as backing. I find it fascinating - if we removed all the movies, tv, games and books depicting murder from our entertainment we'd probably have about one tenth the amount of entertainment we have now. We do so love our murders.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass (intact) I added the drums (EZDrummer), trumpet (synth) and sax (USB EWI) Stems in the zip.Thanks to: vo1k1 - bass, beats and fx reiswerk - bass, beats and synth Mana Junkie - beats Apoxode - beats and synth (phone sounds) Stefan Kartenberg - pianoThanks to: vo1k1 - bass, beats, texture Austin Coco - beats, melodic percussion Siobahn Dakay - bass fluffy - guitar Apoxode - fxThanks to Admiral Bob for the bluesy backing track. the words: It's so much easier to react than it is to think That's the kind of standard that's brought us to this brink Wouldn't you rather take the time to learn what's going on Find the truth with an open mind and a weather-eye for the con You're probably being lied to Your truth may be counterfeit Pretty good chance in this world that functions on hi-grade bullshit It isn't always that simple but yes there's an us versus them The people who want real progress and the people who's progress makes you a victim Remember to them you are naught but consumers and they have no remorse as they bilk 'em They'll keep us contented, but fearful, confused Ya gotta fence the cows to milk 'em Superman ain't coming to save us Nor is God or Wonder Woman It's up to us to save ourselves It needn't be so superhuman Let love and logic be the way Don't let them use your fears Not that you're wrong to have them Just don't always trust your ears Engage your brain, let's keep things sane Let your humanity be bold Reject the bile that domiciles in a penthouse plated gold[url=https://www.akaipro.com/ewi-usb]Akai EWI USB(electronic wind instrument)[/url]Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and organ Reiswerk – beats and brass Apoxode – beats Javolenus – beats Martin Cee – guitar i_rebel - vocalsAnother blending of three of Apoxode's 80bpm chill mixes. This time with the addition of some synth from Beluga Ten and essesq reading from Walt Whitman's Song Of Myself.This is Robbero's track complete, overlain with a version of septahelix's track (slowed, glitched and de-bassed), to which is added i_rebel's vocal.Thanks to: Javolenus - guitar Martijn de Boer - bass Stefan Kartenberg - drums solos_to_use - trumpet coruscate - toys, field recordingsThanks to Kara Square (uke and one woo) and Stefan Kartenberg (tambourine). I kept it simple. Enhancements welcome. Stay safe. Cough into your elbow Wash your hands repeatedly If you absolutely must go out stay six feet away from me Don't say that you don't have it 'cause there ain't no way to know you can carry it around for days before any symptoms show Don't go out without a reason only for essentials I don't wanna catch you runnin' out for ice cream and pretzels We have to take this serious Listen to the scientists Take to heart what they have to say and still try not to be pessimists We can't freak out or stress It lowers your immunities Especially if you have some sort of pre-existing lung disease This too shall pass in due time or so my elders say so hunker down, do your best to keep us safest day to day I don't mean to burden you Please pardon my insistence but I'm gonna keep reminding you to keep your social distance Be careful going out to score your stress-reducing chocolates and stay six feet away from me because respiratory dropletsMy first (and only) attempt at creating something in Garage Band. Played on the laptop keys.I rarely use the same sample more than once but for this one I went back to Fireproof_Babies' Ill Tempered Sax, the feature sample of my very first mix here almost eleven years ago, for the third time. All the other sounds are Reason synths (all stems in the zip) except the beats are from artimisstrong (also deep in the archives).Great blues track from Stefan Kartenberg. I put this up a week or so ago but took it down shortly thereafter, sorry about that. I wasn't happy with it (my vocals). So I re-recorded the main vocal (and changed a few words). Now, after much effort, I'm completely... still not happy with it. But I guess it's time to admit to myself it's not going to get any better. Can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear (as they say). The words: I'm getting kind of old now so I never feel all that great My back is a constant problem and there's something going on in my prostate They say “you look good for your age” “How old are you anyway?” Old enough to wonder how much longer I can stay And now there's this worrisome virus that's got everyone in a state The grocery stores are runnin' dry That should be fun, I can hardly wait I've heard that our spiritual future is based on mistakes of the past The very first roll of the next game is what we needed in the last I don't yet know if that's true but it works for me in Yahtzee Should I take that as a sign there's something more that we cannot see I don't waste much of my present ruminating on days of yore but I find myself now questioning what my remaining days are for Can I really make a difference is there anything I can do to change the fate of the human race or even put a smile on you If time is running out shouldn't we all join forces start believing in science to determine what the best course is The way I understand it the young and healthy will be okay It'll only kill the few of us who aren't too far off anyway The other day I saw an accounting of conditions that put you at risk Oh boy I thought, this should be fun I've got everything on that list So this could be the end of me This could be what makes me final all because of something unhygienic that went down in China I guess if we look for a lesson from what began in that market stall it's that Walt was right and we'll sing as we die It's a small world after allFrom Snowflake's rather deep catalogue of auditory excellence (a pleasure to work/play with) I've chosen one piano sample and a small collection of vocal bits. I added some light percussion, a (hopefully subtle) sub bass and a synth (ambient zither). But no beats or bassline.This mix is comprised of samples uploaded in conjunction with the recent Us Universe Secret Mixter event. It features: AnalogByNature - bass and beats J.Lang - bells and strings reiswerk - piano and synth Carosone - beat, kalimba and synth Kraftamt - synth 700P3D - additional bass and beats, synth gurdonark - synths Kara Square - vocals Many thanks to all. Correction: Oops, I must have mixed up two folders of samples. Two of these sources (AnalogByNature and Kraftamt) are not from the Secret Mixter event. Oh well.Thanks to: Mr_Yesterday – beats, piano, trumpet and vocals Subliminal – bass, beats and piano coruscate – bass, beats and synth Whitewolf – beats and flute Javolenus – guitarThanks to: Siobhan Dakay - beats, synth and e uke Admiral Bob - bass and rhodes Javolenus - guitar Stefan Kartenberg - beat fragmentsI started this by playing five synth tracks to a click track. Fun fact: no editing on the synth tracks (stems uploaded). Then I added billraydrums' drum track, intact but slowed to match the bpm. Radioontheshelf's recent upload of [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/Radioontheshelf/61409]Medical Warriors[/url], a mix using the musical portion of Stefan Kartenberg's "It Is Sad..." track, reminded me of the excellent "It Is Sad..." vocal which I thought would fit this well.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Martin Cee - guitar Joel Frijters - spoken word Apoxode - a single short drum loop, which helps ground the rest of the percussion, which is made of sounds recorded from the medicine cabinet. (samples in the zip)Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass gummerstreet – beats and synth nickleus – beats Bonez_Productions – beats smilingcynic – beats and sax stellarartwars – beats vpd – beats panu – guitars Vibhu Tewary - vocalsActually, the great paper hoarding of 2020 seems to be over. The store I go to now has both paper towels and toilet paper. Tangentially, I will never be able to unsee the footage of that clueless idiot tossing paper towels to hurricane survivors a couple years ago. Anyway, this is just an insignificant little ditty that spilled out of my brain the other day. Sung to a 110bpm click track. Melodyne auto-detects Ab so, maybe it is? Dry and wet flacs uploaded. Preview is dry. The words: Please mr president won't you throw me paper towels you saved the Puerto Ricans won't you do the same for me I've been walking around the store one way up and down the aisles and zero is how many I did see Aren't they still choppin' down the trees for the pleasure of my tushy's charmin squeeze How come there ain't none on the shelf hey did you get enough for yourself and maybe your neighbors and maybe your friends Thanks for leaving me with nothing to meet my family's ends I guess luckily for me though not much of a surprise I bought a bunch of coffee filters once the wrong size But that's not how I want to wipe I wanna buy some paper with a simple swipe to either clean up my ass or picker-up a spill I need a handy helper won't you say you will Please mr president throw me paper towels Please mr president I need a quicker picker upper won't you say you willThought I'd try my hand at a synth quartet and got a little carried away.Thanks to: Tigoolio - that cool groove (that hits a couple minutes in) SmoJos - drums (and countdown) Admiral Bob - guitar and organ Mr_Yesterday - percussion and bass Radioontheshelf - sax Apoxode - vinyl crackle Snowflake - ooooosThanks to: Javolenus - guitar billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass and piano Admiral Bob - organ I joined in with harmonica toward the end.Airtone's beautiful version of Admiral Bob's already excellent Something Old Something New. And me singing. I wanna be up for the end of the night I wanna be there when the dark turns to light Oh lord won't you help me please can you arrange to let me live long enough to witness a change I was there in the sixties when we got pretty close to making peace, love and empathy matter the most but they figured it out and they quelled our passion by corporatizing the truth into fashion I've been on the earth now for three score and four I'm not gonna be here for too many more What can I do now before I'm laid to rest to help make the human race a success I wanna be up for the end of the night I wanna be there when the dark turns to light Oh lord won't you help me please can you arrange to let me live long enough to witness a changeI slowed Stefan Kartenberg's Salsa track down a bit (bass and percussion) and played along with piano, toy piano and kalimba (all Reason voices). Stems in the zip.I had just finished this all-synth mix when I heard Snowflake's spoken word. Seemed like a good fit. I had even named my mix Folded Leaf (after the name of one of the synth voices and the general feeling of stymied potential) and Snowflake's piece conjured up the concept (and the words, which were a victim of my abridgement) of folded wings. Synchronicity? Samples, stems and instrumental version also uploaded.Thanks to Jifha and Martijn de Boer. Everything but the saxes is from Jifha. The saxes are from Martijn de Boer.Thanks to: Apoxode - beat Jihfa - beat, synths and flute Martijn de Boer - bass Ismail Mahmuti - bell SackJo22 - vocals I provide the synth bass.Thanks to: Admiral Bob - bass, beats and rhodes Reiswerk - bass, beats and piano Subliminal - synth groove greg_baumont - guitar Javolenus - guitar texasradiofish - beat Soundtrails - vocals (conversation) Radioontheshelf - vocals (gated)Thanks to: Psychadelik Pedestrian - beats, synth bass and glitched vox bangcorrupt - beats fluffy - beats Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - guitar Quarkstar - synth andreastrato - horns Joel Frijters - vocalsThe vocals of spinningmerkaba and mykleanthony in a mix of bancorrupt's groove and Martin Cee's guitar from their [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/bangcorrupt/61667]Ninjam session 2020.04.30[/url] - Part One. Thanks to all involved. I added a bit of percussion (EZDrummer).Thanks to: Apoxode - the core groove (looped from his Always Wanting More mix) Javolenus - guitar Martijn de Boer - bass sleeperspaceborn - synth Kara Square - vocals GadManDubs - vocals spinningmerkaba - vocals Snowflake - vocalsHow it happened: SackJo22 recently wrote this in a review, “It’s comforting to be part of your musical world, eve is glitched out.” which I took to be typo for “even if it is glitched out”. This gave me an idea for a mix. I would create a simple four track mix of SackJo22 (as Eve) vocals then 'glitch out' each individual track and replace the original with the glitch. In the end that's not what I did. I liked the first simple four track vocal mix well enough to let it stand as is. That's the first two minutes of this final mix. Then I wondered what it would sound like with some simple jazz drums (EZDrummer). That's the third minute, along with one more vocal track. So at three minutes I thought, perfect, let it stand. Then a few days later I wondered what would have happened if I did do the glitch thing. That's the last minute and a half but I didn't go all out, I only did two glitch tracks and used them sparingly, along with some Martijn de Boer bass. So... thanks to SackJo22 for the vocals and the inspiring typo and to Martijn de Boer for the cool upright bass.Thanks to: Michael Burnz - vocals Apoxode - beats Martijn de Boer - bassThanks to: Admiral Bob - bass, beats and guitar Apoxode - beats, bass and flute Stefan Kartenberg - bass, guitar and trombone Joel Frijters - beats (snare and cymbals), piano and vocalsThanks to: spinningmerkaba - vocals Apoxode - bass, beats, music box and vibraphone Kraftamt - bass and beats Chuck Berglund - beats (from Star Bud, since removed) Martijn de Boer - bass bangcorrupt - beat Subliminal - epiano Javolenus - guitar Jeris - piano Snowflake - vocal (wait) I added a couple instances of backing vocals as well. And if I may just add - this makes me want to write a song called 'Normal Is No Longer Good Enough'.Thanks to: reiswerk - beats, piano and synth Stefan Kartenberg - percussion and piano Jihfa - beats, strings and synth Martijn de Boer - double bass mykleanthony - vocalsThanks to: Robbero - backing track (slowed to 80bpm) Michael Burnz - BLM vocals J. Lang - Say Their Names vocals spinningmerkaba - protest chantsThanks to: Admiral Bob - drums Martijn de Boer - bass and sax laurence - guitar acrylicbathhouse - ebow and synth Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: unreal_dm - drums and bass Snowflake - vocals acrylicbathhouse - everything elseThanks to: khalafnasirs - clarinet jiboo - field recordings @nop - flute Apoxode - cosmic water drops My Free Mickey - fx Jorge Correo - fx vo1k1 -fx punk_cuadecuc - guitar Pitx - strings tylerthedesigner - synthThanks to: SackJo22 - the groove, looped from her I Am A Man instrumental mix which features Haskel on guitar and SackJo22 on bass Martijn de Boer - additional bass Javolenus - guitar A Labor of Love - flugel horn Hugh_Jass - piano Mr_ Yesterday - vocals Oxnard protest chants courtesy of spinningmerkabaI've been enjoying Martijn de Boer's double bass a lot lately. Here I enjoy it while playing along - piano, sax, synth and beats. (Martijn's sax is also still in there.) Thank you, Martijn.Thanks to: Admiral Bob – bass, beat, guitar and piano Stefan Kartenberg – bass, beat guitar and epiano KungFuFrijters – spoken wordThanks to: Admiral Bob - beats, bass, guitar and rhodes Martijn de Boer - bass airtone - organ and piano Carosone - guitar and synth Faranta (from Freesound) - bells Thanks also to Story of the Lie for pointing us to the sample pack of bells from Faranta on Freesound: [url=https://freesound.org/people/Faranta/packs/25402/]https://freesound.org/people/Faranta/packs/25402/[/url]Thanks to: Javolenus - guitar Martijn de Boer - bass Victoria Melfi - vocals I added some quiet drums.The beat is done with the Patterning app on an ipad. Everything else played in Reason, mixed in Acid. Except the Splonkied vocal, which is my voice subjected to the Splonki plug-in. All stems are in the zips.Thanks to: 700P3D - bass, beats and guitar Convertor - bass, beats and synth bangcorrupt - beats And these laughs from freesound: https://freesound.org/people/Adam_N/sounds/324894/ https://freesound.org/people/YYW/sounds/351424/ https://freesound.org/people/GlennM/sounds/386521/ https://freesound.org/people/wrc4all/sounds/403058/ https://freesound.org/people/CyrileneRossouw/sounds/407571/ https://freesound.org/people/pauliperez1999/sounds/428779/ https://freesound.org/people/viktorullri/sounds/461789/ https://freesound.org/people/Hawkeye_Sprout/sounds/469065/ https://freesound.org/people/Hawkeye_Sprout/sounds/469111/Thanks to: bangcorrupt - beats vo1k1 - beats and synth Joel Frijters - beats Nickleus - strings Alsajo Project - synth I added one short repetitive electribe loop (the skittering sound) and the vocal samples are from [url=https://archive.org/details/Sleepfor1950]https://archive.org/details/Sleepfor1950[/url] (public domain)Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Admiral Bob - drums Abstract Audio - beats gloss - beats solos_to_use - horns aplentyThanks to Admiral Bob. It’s tough having principles in twenty twenty one Seems everyone’s an operator and it makes me feel dumb I was taught to honor honesty but that’s all gone away And now I’m left to separate what they mean from what they say So for twenty twenty two I’ll be a house bound hermit even more than I was last year I may have to apply for a superload permit to accommodate all my fear High tech, low morals and another viral variant, the challenges are mounting fast I can’t keep up but I won’t give in, I wanna see how long I can last And on the good days screw it, what the hell, let the future be what it will I’ll keep my head down and try to get through it, maybe I won’t get shot if I just keep still But now I say it out loud I surely don’t like it, that ain’t no way to live I may gettin’ old but I ain’t dead yet, I might even have a little love left to give Sure’n I can be blue with the best of them, but how does that make things better A bad attitude’s about as fruitful as writing congressmen a letter All we really can do is what we know to be right and hope that it sets an example Even though the proof that the bad guys are winning is overwhelmingly ample So fight the blues for Christmas, man, life is tough, take it or leave it And I’ll just keep repeating that and maybe one day I'll achieve it. The only thing blue in our house this year are the lights I put on the tree And the box of masks by the door representing the thirty percent that don’t care about meThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass CSoul - percussion, bass, synth PhilTheNil - guitar gummerstreet - synth I made the drum track with Hydrogen, stem in the zip.This is Martijn de Boer's bass and Bill Ray's drums, unchanged, simply bpm matched and brought together. I then recorded some vocalizing to it, then converted that wav into a midi and assigned a sax (trio I think). There's also a secondary track done the same way but with a flute voice. I'll upload the sax stem and the two midis.Another one where I simply bring together a Martijn de Boer bass track and a Bill Ray drums track. I also did some vocalizing to this one, intending to turn it into an instrument via conversion to midi, but decided to leave it as is.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Apoxode - beats and vibraphone Martin Cee - beats, piano and synth Dysfunction_AL - piano @CrazyLittleAsian - vocals and guitar GadManDubs - vocalsThanks to: fourtrack - bass, beat, bell and music box billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass panu - percussion annabloom - sax Nickleus - strings Loveshadow - "nature" vocal There's also some beats from vince_el_mejor that don't show up in the search box. I added some vocals and more strings.Always a pleasure mixing the fine offerings of Joel Frijters. I couldn't find anything among his catalogue I could relate to fireflies but whenever I sit and watch the fireflies (we call them lightning bugs) I tend to get meditative/contemplative, so maybe that's the relation? Anyway...Using only samples from the Firefly secret mixter event. I think I got something from every mixter that included samples with their remix. (Not guaranteed, but that was the idea.) Thanks to: Admiral Bob - beats, guitar and rhodes Bluemillenium - bass and guitar Down With Ben - piano and synth Jeris - bass, horns and rhodes kthugha - beats and synth Scomber - vocals Siobhan Dakay - beats, piano, sax, toy piano and woodwinds 700P3D - bass and beatsI had originally added piano and sax to Stefan Kartenberg's AEAEAE. Then I heard Apoxode's remix of Stefan's AEAEAE and I thought I'd see what would happen if I transferred my stems to Apoxode's remix. Worked out pretty well I think. Stems included. The first piano run was played real-time, no editing. When it comes back later there's some repeats cut into it. The sax stem is made of four sax tracks. Each one is twice the bpm of the one before it. And there's a bell.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Stefan Kartenberg - beats Bill Ray - drums Javolenus - guitar Kraftamt - synthThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Apoxode – beats Dubrowski – beats and synth raja_ffm – beats Bluemillenium – fx and xylophone oldDog – harp stringfactory – violin Martin Cee – spoken wordI recently upgraded to Acid Pro10 (from Acid Pro7). One of the first things I noticed was a collection of dub delay presets it came with. I love dub so I thought I'd explore them. I knew Martijn had shared a bunch of dub bass tracks so I started by selecting one of those. Then I did some searching from the samples tab to come up with the rest. So it's... Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass CSoul – glitch beats Ras Tilo – beats theod – beats BrassWoodandWires – guitar and saxThanks to: MarleDezsik – percussion, synth and vibraphone JohnBozi – synth Apoxode – synth JoeBone - vocalsThanks to: Robbero - complete backing track, featuring Javolenus on guitar SackJo22 - additional vocal inserts My vocals in the zip. The words: There are evil experiments permeating town Millie Bobbie and her friends just might die If I were them I wouldn't enter the upside down but there wouldn't be a show if they didn't try Sam and Dean are killing monsters by the hundred and still go out looking for more and God in league with Demons hunt the hunters they should have let it end with season four If you find the real world frightening check out the Marvel universe no matter how your sphincter's tightening you'll see it could be so much worse The hottest spot in town is run by Lucifer (part-time) for the remainder of the hour he'll (naturally) fight crime and further his relationship with his cop partner (feminine) I mean, after all he's bound to since God made her just for him Or is that another set of characters I sometimes get confused The plots are all so similar intermingled and re-used The apocalypse on Netflix is ubiquitous we sit and watch the horrors stream on by Why are we so entertained by the cadaverous Desensitized to watching people dieSix 'spooky' synth tracks from Reason's Parsec synthesizer. Somewhere around C Minor(?)Thanks to: Calyman - bass and beats Convertor - beats and strings Stefan Kartenberg - beats and guitarThanks to: Scomber - bass, beats, piano and synth Darkroom - beats (trap) Jihfa - bass violin, carillon, piano and synth Kara Square - vocals [red]PDD (Pretty Darn Dark)[/red]Thanks to: Apoxode - beats, bass and synth MalreDeszik - beats and synth panu - bass and guitar Javolenus - synth guitar SackJo22 - vocals Scomber - vocalsThanks to: Apoxode - beats and synth Wired Ant - beats and synth Scomber - bass and pianoStill one of my favorite things to do - load up a Martijn de Boer bass track and play along. Big thanks, Martijn.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass bluemillenium – beats and harmonica unreal_dm – beats and keys Bert Jerred – hand drums Javolenus – beats and guitar subliminal – beats acrylicbathhouse – opening footsteps and dialogue MVE – synthThanks to: Apoxode – beats Reiswerk – bass, beats and synth Jihfa – bass and keys Stefan Kartenberg – guitar, mellotron flute and triangleI slowed it down and put in a different percussion track. The bass and one of the guitar tracks remain as originally done by Martin de Boer and Javolenus. The lead guitar (Javo) and high bass (Martijn) I alternated in a kind of conversational way (until near the end when they overlap somewhat).Didn't think I would manage a Christmas song or a year-end song this year but Javolenus' guitar piece inspired me to squeeze out a little something. And Martijn de Boer provided a perfect bass track (as he does). I don't give a damn about Christmas this year I've got too much else on my mind Couldn't even buy a tree for my dear A small wreath is all I could find I'm so tired of feeling I'm risking my life once a week when I go to the store And then once a month when I run out of weed I risk it to go get some more For nearly a year now it's not safe out there and we shouldn't be getting together Some people are stupid or they just don't care they won't be convinced not to gather They seem to be fine with an uncontrolled spike I guess they must have some elders that they really don't like I'll bet there are some though mourning the loss politically speaking of their immoral boss So now that gets me thinking yeah, the year was not great but if we look we might find some things to celebrate Guns are still automatic Jeff Bezos is ecstatic the stock market's erratic we sent trump on his way My car's mileage was low My wife learned how to sew the kids played in the snow my new ipad should come today So let's say it sucked and let's move along and let's hope that next year's a happier songThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Calyman - beats and piano Malre Deszik - beats and synth Carosone - guitar Javolenus - guitar Kara Square - vocals Admiral Bob - vocalsThanks to: billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - lead guitar unreal_dm - guitarI vacillate between hope and despair. I guess this falls into the latter category. Today is the end of four years of insanity (hopefully) and the beginning of a four year attempt at progress. But I've seen it before. The greedy will make every effort to block any real change. And in another four years... who knows... and on and on and on. It's exhausting. sparky - beats, bass and strings MalreDeszik - beats, bass and synth Stefan Kartenberg - guitar laurence - pianoA clamorous backing for Kara's powerful words. Thanks to: Apoxode - beats and synths vo1k1 - bass, beats, keys and synths Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: Whitewolf - bass, beats, flute and guitar Darkroom - bass, beats and synthProbably useless nonsense.Exploring Reason's drum kits.I created/played this on the day the x president got the Covid. It's my happy dance. Many thanks to Martijn de Boer for the bass track to play off of/with.Simply adding ejc's spoken word to airtone's track here.Thanks to: Admiral Bob - bass Javolenus - guitar PEK12 - vocals Scomber - bass and beats Sonny - guitar texasradiofish - bass Whitewolf - beatsThanks to: Apoxode - drums Martijn de Boer - bass airtone - guitar Admiral Bob - guitar unreal_dm - horns Scomber - vocalsThanks to: airtone - bass and beats Robbero - beats Darkroom - beats piano and epiano by me (stems in the zip)Thanks to: reiswerk - beats, piano, sax and trumpet khalafnasirs - bass and piano Rhonin - guitar JoeBone - vocals And there's an additional drum track in there from me.Thanks to: copperhead - beats panu - guitar and bass guitar vo1k1 - synth bass, percussion and pad Skye Jordan - beats Rhonin - guitar A.G.A. Charlie - vocalsThanks to: Aussens@iter - drums and organ Martijn de Boer - bass and sax gummerstreet - beats Stefan Kartenberg - pianoThanks to: reiswerk - percussion Martijn de Boer - bass unreal_dm - nylon guitar Mr_Yesterday - synths Me on pianoOrdered a few new toys out of boredom the other day. This is the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJCyDyUSQTM&ab_channel=RobScallon2]Otamatone[/url], cute little thing, lots of fun to play with. Probably more fun to play with than it is to listen to. This is a bunch of loops/samples cut from my initial 'getting to know you' session. Good for - well, I guess that's up to you. It was recorded with the Tascom DR-05 (field recorder) as opposed to being plugged into the audio interface (which I think is possible with this model) so you get all the squeaky 'mouth' noises in there. The preview is... well... it is what it is. (Quick and dirty demo.) There are many samples in the zips that aren't in the preview.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass reiswerk – beats and synth Apoxode – beats Doxent Szigmond – piano thatcrazylittleasian - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and sax Apoxode - percussion, bell, synth, strings, piano, gong and fx Disaster of Music - beats JohnFletcher - beats Asmus Koefoed - synth (theremin?)Thanks to: JavierZap - main groove loop (bass,drum,synth,keys) mr.@cee (Martin Cee) - guitar Giorgio - guitar salvatoreJ - drums Carosone - fluteThanks to: Apoxode - beats Martijn de Boer - bass I supply the synths.Big thanks once again to Martijn de Boer for the opportunity to play along. It's Martijn on bass, high bass and sax. Me doing all else. As an untrained hack I was particularly pleased with myself for having no edits on my instrument tracks. All stems in the zips.Thanks to: reiswerk - beats, bass, organ and guitar Martin Cee - vocalsScomber - I kinda thought of him as mostly a singer/songwriter but thanks to this Secret Mixter I now know he also has quite a lot of instrumental samples available. For this mix I used samples from early 2009. I really enjoyed the search. I hope you enjoy the results. Yin Yang - I kinda feel like making music is already full of Yin Yang. For me it's all about finding/allowing the balance of making it happen and letting it happen.Once again just me playing along(ish) with Martijn de Boer's bass.Thanks to: Robbero - bass, beats and synth Zenboy1955 - bass, beats, guitar and synth Snowflake - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and beats offlinebouncer - beats, organ and piano Javolenus - guitar @CrazyLittleAsian - vocalsCleaning the recorder (Tascom DR-05) of unused files.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, organ and sax annabloom – beats and brass Bert Jerred – hand drums copperhead – drums spinningmerkaba – beats AirFlow – fx unreal_dm – pianoThanks to: Clarence Simpson - piano Apoxode - beats, bass and bell Martijn de Boer - bass MalreDeszik - beats and synthI did this without knowing there would be Whale Songs coming but I just played one of the whale samples over it and I think there could be some useful bits here for Whale Songs interaction.Thanks to: Subliminal - beats, bell and strings airtone - bass, beats and guitar annabloom - beatsTwo synth tracks played along with the first eight(ish) minutes of the Deep Whale Adagio recording. Synth stems in the zip.Thanks to: Whale Wizard - whale recordings spinningmerkaba - trumpet Martijn de Boer - bass and strings Fireproof_Babies - drumsThis is Skye Jordan's Bloodbath mix to which I've added whale and vocal samples from Oscar Frey.Thanks to: Whale Wizard - whale recordings annabloom - beats, strings and synths BeatMachine - beats MalreDeszik - beats billraydrums - drums Darkroom - flute Spoken word - excerpts from the last chapter of Moby Dick read by Stewart Wills from Librivox - https://librivox.org/moby-dick-by-herman-melville/ I contribute four synth tracks (stems in the zip)Thanks to: Javolenus - guitar Khalafnasirs - piano and violinMany thanks to Stefan Kartenberg for the backing track. This was done a few months ago. Now it's summer and I'm fully vaxxed, I'm less bored. I feel like I should apologize for all the swearing. I've always felt it to be a cheap substitute for creativity, but then that's kinda what the song's about, not feeling very creative. Also - I just watched Bo Burnham:Inside on Netflix and he does it quite a lot. And he's a fuckin' genius. BTW - I highly recommend Bo Burnham:Inside - it's a covid masterpiece. The words: Ya ever been inspired to say something when ya got nothin to say Nothin comes out, nothin sounds right, nothin representing why you feel that way I'm bored, I'm fuckin bored, I'm bored, So fuckin bored I've been watchin a lot of TV, that aint really good for me My brain is melting, and I can't help helping it, I'm so bored, my brain is fried I don't wanna write this song, I don't wanna right this song there's too much to not to do, and I don't wanna get the flu But I'm bored, I'm so fuckin bored, I'm so bored, so very fuckin bored Booooooooored, so fuckin bored Springtime comin up now, winter's almost over You'd think I'd be excited, looking over my shoulder But you shouldn't be there, nothin much to see there I'm so bored I'm so fucking bored, I'm bored, I'm so fuckin bored, Iiiiiiiiii'm bored I'm so bored I've been so long in the house, I think I finally found that mouse I know where he lives, I know where he hides, I know where he stinks But I don't know what to do about it I've made some pretty good meals, I've made some bad I've made some tasty muffins that helped me feel less sad I've made some resolutions, I ain't made no friends I manage to get up each day, a means without an end So fucking boredAll music (that isn't the whales) is derived from MalreDeszik's Whale Song sample offerings. Thank you, MalreDeszik. And a [big]big[/big] thanks to Oscar Frey for this rare opportunity to interact with whale songs. It's been a real treat.A remix of Ben Blohowiak's The Return with some RD-6 and TD-3 from Apoxode.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Calyman - beats, marimba and synth Javolenus - guitar ScOmBer - vocals libraryowl - backing vocals A couple of synth stems from me (in the zip).Thanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - beats, guitar and synth Martijn de Boer - bass MalreDeszik - bass, beats and synth Rhonin - guitarThis is simply three of shimoda's piano solos overlain. All I did was - how it starts, where the shorter sample repeats (once) and how it ends.Inspired by Apoxode's [i][url=http://ccmixter.org/files/Apoxode/63902]mixture[/url][/i] and Mr_Yesterday's consequent recommendation of [url=https://www.discogs.com/John-Fahey-Cul-de-Sac-The-Epiphany-Of-Glenn-Jones/master/1413090]The Epiphany Of Glenn Jones[/url] (John Fahey and Cul de Sac). btw - The title is an anagram of The Epiphany Of Glenn Jones beat and bass by unreal_dm electric guitars by Fireproof_BabiesComprising samples uploaded in conjunction with the Magic Hours Secret Mixter event. Thanks to: Siobhan Dakay - drums Mr_Yesterday - drums, bass and sax MalreDeszik - beats, bass and fx Milky_Blue - bass and horns Jeris - bass and rhodes Snowflake - vocals Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: Stefan Kartenberg - percussion, epiano, didgeridoo and slide guitar Javolenus - guitar Martijn de Boer - bassThanks to: reiswerk - bass and beats Apoxode - bass, bell and synth maplesnow - beats, bell, guitar and pan flute spinningmekaba - beats Ghost_k - beats And thanks to a particularly melodious bird outside my window one morning. Flac uploaded.Thanks to: Apoxode - percussion and bass stellarartwars - piano and keys vocal samples are from [url=http://otrrlibrary.org/copyright.html]OTRR[/url]Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass JohnBozi - beats MalreDeszik - beats, guitar and synthsInspired by (and largely consists of) Apoxode's Lofi Sound Pack Thanks to - Apoxode - beats, keys, music box and vibraphone Martijn de Boer - bass, reversed cymbal and organ MalreDeszik - beats and synthProbably a bit too 'experimental' to be true chill but maybe some useful bits in there for someone/something.Thanks to: vo1k1 - beats (the whole mix is built on his unedited beat track) airtone - additional beats, piano and strings Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - guitar Skye Jordan - additional beatsThanks to: Apoxode - beats and bass Martijn de Boer - bass MalreDeszik - beats and synth GeeArtriasRose - gong and chimesThanks to: Doxent Zsigmond - bass and beats Calyman - beats and keys alexjc916 - beats, fx and vocals Bluemillenium - vocoderThanks to: MalreDeszik - beats, fx and synth Apoxode - beats Siobhan Dakay - bass GeeArtriasRose - rainstick Kara Square - vocals I am and you keep knowing understand words never present no words share these thoughtsThanks to: billraydrums - drums unreal_dm - bass CSoul - trumpet I recently acquired a Korg Wave Drum. Always kinda wanted one but thought they were pretty pricey for what they are. Found an opened but unused (apparently) one for a significantly lower price. Anyway - I started this mix with a full wave drum stem but ended up reducing it's presence in the final mix. So the stem flac I've uploaded is the original full wave drum stem. And the samples I made the stem from are in the zip. Enjoy at will.Thanks to: djolliej - beats Nickleus - beats Javolenus - beats Martijn de Boer - bass Subliminal - piano and synth The Paloseco Brazz Orchestra - hornMany thanks once again to Apoxode. This mix started with his bass, beats and guitar. To which I've added three synth tracks and some text-to-speech vocal bits. I think I had originally intended to have KristianVuljar's acoustic guitar from his You're Not Going Anywhere in the mix. Hence the "You're not going anywhere near my burrito" theme.I was very much taken with this vocal by Anacrusis Ansa, so I kept the backing minimal. barbarella - opening tatas (vocals) KristianVuljar - acoustic guitar and aahs (vocals) Brilliant Orange Object - everything else Also, a nod to @nop, whose latest upload, [url=http://ccmixter.org/files/Lancefield/64151]Sleepless[/url], used these same Brilliant Orange Object and barbarella samples. I liked the mix so much I wanted to spend some time with the source samples.Individual wave drum samples in the zip. Vocal stem also uploaded, as well as wave drum stem (without the vocals).Thanks to: Liquid_Tribal - beats Rhonin - bass Bluemillenium - beats and synth bass Javolenus - guitar Darkroom - beats and synth billraydrums - drums fineaudios - vocalsI started this with bits cut from various INVISIBLE KAOS OUTSIDE's full mixes (all the electronic bits in this mix). Then added Bill Ray's drums, then Martijn de Boer's bass. Needed a lead so found Abstract Audio's sax.Thanks to: billraydrums - drums Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - guitar reiswerk - sax bigbonobo_combo - sax piano and wave drum samples/stems in the zipThanks to: Apoxode - beats Martijn de Boer - bass stellarartwars - beats and keys (played by a real black cat?) Calyman - synth Donkey Horse Mule - organVery happy to have drawn Kara Square. Always quality uploads and lots of samples to draw from. This is a pretty simple mix that features a vocal that Kara did for a collaboration with Admiral Bob and Jeris ten years ago and that hasn't been remixed since.Thanks to: spinningmerkaba – bass, beats and guitar Zenboy1955 – bass, beats, bells, epiano and guitar Snowflake - vocalsZenboy's original Interstellar Ambience is so beautiful I told myself I wasn't going to mess with it. But then I did. Also includes Carosone's Christmas Stars Arp.A blend of Zenboy1955 - bass, bells and spoken word(written by Snowflake) and annabloom - melodic percussion.Thanks to: annabloom – bass, percussion, pad and piano Apoxode – TD-3 and beats Fireproof Babies – drums and synth Mellotroniac – prepared piano and me on pan flute (synth)Thank you Martijn de Boer for the bass this is based on. Stems in the zips.Thanks to: Apoxode - bass, beats and guitar greg_baumont - beats Kiki - guitar Kevin_Milner_music - guitar georgeboyland - vocalsFour tracks of organ improvisation that I then added beats to. Beats by Ivan Chew, Bonez Productions and Robert Warrington.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Zenboy1955 - beats, synth and vibraphone Darkroom - beats and synth Liquid_Tribal - beatsThanks to: airtone - beats, bass and brass Robbero - beats, bass, piano and synth SackJo22 - singing bowls Javolenus - guitar HEJ31 - guitars I loved the Shimmer vocals too but inspiration hit hard and fast and I had this mix done before the vocals were uploaded (and failed in my attempt to retrofit them).Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Admiral Bob - beats, organ and rhodes MalreDeszik - beats and synth Story of the Lie - beats and synth Javolenus - guitar Snowflake - vocals Kara Square - vocals And thanks to everyone for all the great Holiday Funk & Blues mixes, and the inspiring samples shared. Happy New YearThanks to: Mr_Yesterday - beats, bass, piano and vocals Bluemillenium - harmonica Ezra Skull - guitar PorchCat - synth (strings) Apoxode - additional beats toward the endHaving some fun with a three dollar yard sale Casio. Actually it's a [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGaeAFbkCbg&ab_channel=BBISHOPPCM%27sWorld]Concertmate 500[/url] which is RadioShack's rebranding of the CasioTone SK-1 (circa 1985). And some Redrum beats (Reason tool).Thanks to: Zenboy1955 - bass and beats Ezra Skull - guitar and beats greg_baumont - kick drum and synthThanks to: Zenboy1955 - drums Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - guitar Admiral Bob - rhodes Siobhan Dakay - saxI wanted to try my hand at something... not morose(?).

And to provide some simple loops that could be used for... anything(?).Thanks to: Admiral Bob - rhodes Zenboy1955 - hammond billraydrums - drums Whitewolf - bass and saxJavolenus often uploads multiple takes of his improvised guitar solos. I thought I'd see what would happen if I let all five takes of his Couture Groove run at once. Of course I had to mess with it so... I left one track in the center with a slight and simple delay, one track 25% left and down one semi-tone, one track 25% right and up one semi-tone, one track 50% left and up three semi-tones and one track 50% right and down three semi-tones. Javolenus also provides the beats and Zenboy1955 the bass.Many thanks to Martijn de Boer for the generous sample share and the most excellent original mix. In this remix of Greyfish I contribute rhythm guitar and a synth line and Robert Warrington provides some additional beats.Synths and piano by gurdonark, beats by me. There's a video (more of a slide show really) if you're interested: [url=https://vimeo.com/679687205/e5e7d60fc2]https://vimeo.com/679687205/e5e7d60fc2[/url]Thanks to: airtone - beats, bass, synth and vibraphone Skye Jordan - beats and synthesized voiceMade from samples uploaded with the Imaginal Cell remixes. Thanks to: 7OOP3D - bass, beats, organ and synth Bernard L'ermite - bass, beats, guitar and piano Siobhan Dakay - bass and flute airtone - beats, dulcimer and strings Carosone - epiano and synth Darkroom - piano and synth Snowflake - vocalsThanks to: Zenboy1955 - bass, oboe, violin and woodwinds Javolenus - ebow guitar Also, from freesound: [url=https://freesound.org/people/nooly/sounds/382611/]nooly - air raid siren Prague[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/audiojacked/sounds/336640/]audiojacked - air raid siren test Devonport[/url]Thanks to: Ben Blohowiak – atmospherics, bass, percussion, guitar, keys, piano and horn Bernard L’ermite – beats tigabeatz – sunpan, udu and body slaps Martin Cee – guitar Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: Zenboy1955 – bass, beats, guitar, synth and vocals Ben Blohowiak – beats, epiano, synth and vibraphoneThanks to: Zenboy1955 - bass, beats and traditional folk song (hammered dulcimer) Foreign_Chaos - bass and beats 7OOP3D - beats Skye Jordan - guitar Snowflake - vocalsMany thanks to Kara Square for her wonderful peace mantra.Thanks to: Javolenus - guitar Kara Square - vocals Apoxode - bassThanks to: Javolenus - guitar and vocals Zenboy1955 - bass Admiral Bob - drums Siobhan Dakay - drumsI met Leland/[url=http://ccmixter.org/people/ernestedge1/uploads]oberonskye[/url] (and Jaff/Anchor) once. Not for long enough that I can say I knew him. But I can certainly say I would have liked to. One of the hardest (and weirdest) things about getting older is people in your age group (and sphere of awareness) ceasing to exist. And knowing (I mean really [i]knowing[/i]) your turn is coming. Anyway, here's to Leland. Thanks for sharing your voice and your spirit with us. In this mix, also thanks to: Javolenus - guitar Anchor - vocalsThanks to: 7OOP3D - bass, harp and tuba Calyman - piano Zenboy1955 - drums Snowflake - vocalsThanks to: Radioontheshelf - cello moscardo - bass, piano and synths Zenboy1955 - drums Hans Atom - bells and flute Martin Cee - synths Story of the Lie - fxThanks to: Whale Wizard - whales Radioontheshelf - strings SackJo22 - bowls and vocals Zenboy1955 - synths MarleDeszik - bass and beats Kara Square - delta binaural beats Apoxode - underwater ambienceThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass airtone - beat/bass/synth mellow groove Calyman - bass synth, beats and piano Zenboy1955 - beats and synth Javolenus - guitar Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: fluffy - beats Martijn de Boer - bass ejc - kalimbaThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, beats and sax airtone - beats, synth and pad Martin Cee - synths Malre Deszik - beats and synth whalewizard - whalesThanks to: J.Lang – bass, drum, sleigh bells, piano and fx Admiral Bob – drums and guitar Snowflake - vocalsFeaturing: Apoxode – bass, beats and synths SackJo22 – bowls and vocalsThanks to: Zenboy 1955 - bass, beats, guitar, vibraphone and inspiration Snowflake - dawn chorus and shama thrush (sounds of Hawaii) Malre Deszik - percussion and synth Whale Wizard - whale recordings I might be moving to Hawaii soon Might see the mighty sea right from my room Not gonna worry about the weather Me and the whales, happy together Callin’ ‘em up, calmin’ ‘em down Playing together in the sea No brain police No cosmic debris Mud sharks within reach I might be moving to Hawaii soon Might get my dynamo from the moon Not gonna worry about the weather Me and the whales, happy together Me and the whales Playing together in the sea I might be moving to Hawaii soonThanks to: Skye Jordan - celeste and glockenspiel Zenboy 1955 - piano and pad MalreDeszik - beats and synths Martijn de Boer - bass and piano Amy Lloyd - spoken word Wading in the water I looked up and saw I was a very colorful exotic bird red orange bright blue but quiet I felt happy Strangely shaped fruit trees Soft rolling landscapes of various green patterns It was inviting bright and open And people doing different things people doing different things doing different thingsThanks to: Calyman - piano Snowflake - spoken word annabloom - percussionThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - guitar Kara Square - vocals Whale Wizard - whale recordingsImprovising with/over/around Martijn's bass.Thanks to: copperhead - beats and bass Martijn de Boer - beats and high bass septahelix - djembe 7OOP3D - piano and synth Doxent Zsigmond - piano vermilliontempera - synthI thought I'd see if I could come up with something slow and spacey, for a dream themed sample share. Spoiler alert - I couldn't. At least not for long.Thanks to: 7OOP3D - bass, beats, piano and synths Zenboy1955 - bass and beats septahelix - guitar Robert Warrington - vocalsThanks to: Ant.Survila – drums, kalimba, flute and piano Carosone – bass and epiano Apoxode – bass, drums and filtered chords (sp-404)Thanks to: Apoxode - beats and bass Martijn de Boer - bass, piano and vibraphone Ezra Skull - guitar and beats Kara Square - bass and synth MalreDeszik - percussionThanks to: J.Lang – bass, drums and vibey piano Admiral Bob – bass, drums and vocal airtone – bamboo sax, gamelon and percussion Snowflake - vocalsThanks to: Zenboy1955 – bass and wurlitzer Ezra Skull – beats and guitar airtone – beats and kalimba MalreDeszik – beats and synthsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Javolenus – beats ScOmBer – beats Bones Productions - beats Morusque – bass maplesnow – hang drum and horn ether ashe – piano Vulpes – synth (growl) Caleb Charles - synthThanks to: Admiiral Bob – bass, drums, guitar, organ and spoken word spinningmerkaba – bass and guitar Apoxode - fxThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass bangcorrupt – beats Foreign Chaos – beats and synth Ezra Skull – beats BrassWoodandWires – sax Kara Square – uke SoboSystem - vocalsThanks to: Fonazza-Stent – bass, beats, harp and synths Apoxode – beat Javolenus – guitar and vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, high bass, marimba and organ MalreDeszik – beats and synths vermilliontempura – synth (bell)Thanks to: SpinOpel – field recordings ejc – spoken word Martijn de Boer - bass beats in the zip Again Today My heart digs hammers; corroding ligaments and old bones, interminable disputes, cut out deep peep holes from my wicked breasts. I tear offshoots of myself, pressing only black chords. Dissonance. Avoid looking into eyes while sucking juices from invisible beings; somersaulting into awakened cerebellums of collective blue. You have become viscous syrup stuck to the bottom of my feet, while I try to step up, into the space you consumed before me. ejc 2025Thanks to: Apoxode – bass, beats, bell, organ and synth milkdaddy – bass, beats, synth and vocalsThanks to: Bernard L'ermite - bass, bouzouki, harp and strings Zenboy1955 - bass, beats and sax Apoxode - beats Mr_Yesterday - vocalsSo... a little while ago someone mentioned the Casio SK-1 in a comment. As in 'I think I hear the'. They didn't, but it made me think 'yeah, I should get that out and play with it, haven't done that in a while'. So I did. Then I thought, 'maybe now would be a good time to use it to learn how to circuit bend'. Which lead me to scour the intertubes to see if I could get excited about that. In doing so, I came across a company (Meeker) that had made a suite of circuit bent sounds for Reason using an SK-1 and an Alesis16. So I bought that instead. And this is the first exploration thereof. I don't regret the purchase, it's always good to have more sound options, but it's nothing like having the actual thing at your fingertips. Mine is so old and unkempt it kind of glitches itself if you push it hard enough. I haven't explored all the parameters of the software instruments yet but my initial thought is - it's too clean, and too far removed from the sound of the SK-1. The only sound in this mix that I recognize as coming from the SK-1 is the high lead (Voice18). Anyway, feel free to tear into it. I've also included the midi files should that be anything anyone wants.Thanks to: annabloom - beats and brass Martijn de Boer - bass sparky - piano and cabasaThanks to: annabloom - drums and brass Apoxode - TD-3 Martijn de Boer - electric bass (raised) synth samples in the zipThanks to: Zenboy1955 - beats, sax and piano Martijn de Boer - bass, sax and piano reiswerk - percussion and guitar airtone - synthsThanks to: Ezra Skull – beats MalreDeszik – beats, bass and synth Robbero – beats, bass and synth queeniemusic – cello mindmapthat - vocalsThanks to: Jasper – wobble bass Skill_Borrower – bass synth Morusque – beats Kamihamiha – beats and synth whytong – beats SackJo22 – bass, guitar, melodica and vocalsThanks to: Apoxode - bass, beats and synths Javolenus - bass, beats and synthsThanks to: Martin Cee – bass, beats and guitar Apoxode – bass and beats cube3 – vocalsThanks to: jaspertine – beats and guitar Zenboy1955 – bass and trumpet Admiral Bob – bass, guitar and organ Apoxode – beatsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and sax Apoxode – drums and synth Darkroom – drums and rhodes MalreDeszik – drums and synth annabloom – drumsThanks to: Bernard L’ermite – bass, beats, epiano and trumpet Robbero – bass, beats and synth Admiral Bob – slide guitarThanks to: Bernard L’ermite – bass, beat and guitar Apoxode – bass, glockenspiel and sax Darkroom – beat and piano Martin Cee – guitar BoHeart - vocals There are a few poorly recorded short piano bits in there (and in the zip) from me.Strings in DThanks once again to unreal_dm for the music to sing to. The opening vocal sample is from the Farm & Garden Report on the Old Time Radio Researchers site (otrrlibrary.org). Old radio shows were never copyrighted. I get my goods from the Amazonians I download pictures from the Smithsonian I get my music fix from soma and ccMixter I guess all my shit is digital My car stops for me in case I’m not looking I set the timer to stop my food from cooking I DVR it if there’s something there to see ‘Cause all my shit is digital I read the news online on the days that I can bear it I got my ringer set so low I can barely hear it The only calls I get are liars or (should’ve been and) criminals I miss the days when things were digitally minimal I guess it all started with simple things like clocks At some point they all became faceless Now eighty percent of kids can’t tell the time by hand Cal cal calc you later, all my (should’ve been all their) shit is digital Blenders and thermostats, books and toys and trains (should’ve been games) The robots are on their way and they’re flying electric planes I wonder will there come a time when we’re all second class Just a bunch of meat puppets sittin’ on our ass Those fancy toilets though they might be useful then When all my shit is digitalThanks to: Robbero – beats Reiswerk – beats bangcorrupt – bass Martijn de Boer – bass and high bass kerembora – guitar CSoul – beats and one guitar noteThis reminds me of an assignment we were given way back in middle school. Creative Writing class maybe? We were tasked with picking a song and explaining it’s meaning. This is when Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Bye Bye Miss American Pie and that one about leaving a cake out in the rain were all the rage. And I’m sure that’s what the teacher had in mind. So I chose The Turtles’ Happy Together. I think it was my smart-ass way to say sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Also I could complete the assignment with just one or two sentences. Which I did. I don’t remember what grade I got but I do remember the look I got from the teacher. I think he reluctantly appreciated the humor (maybe not so much the laziness) of my choice. We shared an odd smile. Also just – regarding this particular song, Goodnight Irene – really!? - you don’t know what that means!? I’m also reminded of an interview I once saw/heard. The interviewer read a passage from the interviewee (famous author) then asked “now, what does that mean?” Said the author, “You mean you’d like me to repeat myself only less well?”. The vocal samples in this mix come from http://otrrlibrary.org (Old Time Radio Researchers). A show called Talk Back. The internet tells me a piece of music becomes public domain 70 years after the author dies. Huddie Ledbetter died in 1949. Old radio transmissions were never copyrighted. Thanks to: MalreDeszik – bass, beats and synths Apoxode – sub bass, beats and synthsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, high bass and organ ifupdown – beats and bells Bonez_Productions – beats Nethis – beats Foreign_Chaos – guitar themindorchestra – flute and guitar Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: annabloom – bass, percussion and piano Kirkoid – drums, synth and thereminThanks to: Fonazza-Stent – beats, bass and synth Jaspertine – beats and guitar Zenboy1955 – bass and clavinetThanks to: Zenboy1955 – guitar Martijn de Boer – bass Traxis – beats ShifterPro – beats sparky - beats Morusque – fx Kara Square - vocalsThanks to: SackJo22 – bass, bowls and vocals Bluemillenium – beat and polyphon (synth bell?) Ezra Skull - guitarsThanks to: offlinebouncer - bass, piano, drums and vocals MalreDeszik - synth and drums Apoxode - drumsNothing deep here. Maybe something you might find on one of those 'hip' children's shows to help you remember which is a solstice and which is an equinox. Maybe not. The preview is doubled, raw recording also uploaded. Might be in Db (?) Springtime is the green time when the buds unfurl their locks but it doesn’t have a solstice (It’s a freakin’ equinox) And remember when the fall comes round you have to do the same Call that thing an equinox It likes to hear it’s name Now, summer has a solstice people like it a lot And I’m happy for those people but for me it’s just too hot Winter is the solstice with the mostest It’s got celebrations, lots They help us to forget the world domination plots It could sleet or snow or bake your buns depending on where you are You might praise the glow or find your Son depending on your star Oh winter is the time the trees pretend to die and animals begin to hide I think it’s tryna tell us to take a little break and come out stronger on the other sideI think this is the first time I've sung to something I've played. Yeah, I know it's not great, but maybe it'll serve as fodder for someone who can turn it into something good.Thanks to: Zenboy1955 - drums, timpani, contrabass, bassoon, domra and guitar Ben Blohowiak - piano, epiano, guitar and synth Ant.Survila - drums and gongThanks to: Javolenus – Armistice Ambience, intact (though truncated) SackJo22 – bass Ezra Skull – guitar Zenboy1955 – spoken word (anyone else remember Ken Nordine?) Five additional synth tracks from me, stems in the zip.Thanks to: sparky – bass, beats, guitar, piano and synth vermilliontempura – bass, beats and piano Javolenus – synth bass and pad Admiral Bob – guitar Kara Square - vocalsSimply putting DreamingDragon's vocals into/over Stefan Kartenberg's chromatic x-mas swing.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass unreal_dm – drums Javolenus – guitar Zenboy1955 – sparkly synth and piano Mr_Yesterday - vocalsThanks to: jaspertine - bass, drums and guitar Apoxode - drums and synth (SP-404) Elle Roberts - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, drums, sax and synth Apoxode – drums, TD-3, guitar Foreign_Chaos – drums, guitar, synthThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass, vibraphone and flute Javolenus - beats coruscate - beats Mr_Yesterday - vocalsThanks to: Stefan Kartenberg – bass, guitar and piano Javolenus – beats and synth Bluemillenium – beats Admiral Bob – vocals jacindae - vocalsThanks to: JansMusic – drums, guitar and keys MalreDeszik - synths The radio play (Dimension X - The Vital Factor) from which the vocals are sampled is from 1951. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. [url=https://www.otrr.org/OTRRLibrary/collections.html]https://www.otrr.org/OTRRLibrary/collections.html[/url]Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and vibraphone Javolenus – guitar airtone – epiano and viola 700P3D – beats Joshua Hult – beats milkdaddy - beatsThanks to: Javolenus – guitar Leza Boyland – vocalsThanks to Javolenus. Well 2022 was pretty rough not a whole lot of good news and if you read it like I did, way more than enough you’ll never ever ever ever shake the blues I got shot number five as soon as it was OK’d I read a lot about the shot that Alec Baldwin made A lot of the wrong people are still overpaid and I continue not to care who Pete Davidson laid Elizabeth Holmes will be going to jail It’s good to know that some cons fail but the biggest cons are still going on because collectively we're forty percent moron James Webb took pictures that we hadn’t seen Well, Hubble did before but they were a little less clean why the hell are they sending all that money up there when so many hungry people can’t afford to live here Extreme weather got a little more so dozens more people killed by snow and cryptocurrency, well what do ya know continues to be a real shitshow and I really don’t know what that Putin fella’s doin’ is he building up his country or just hellbent on ruin tens of thousands of deaths are now part of his legacy he won’t know when he dies the true cause of revelry and then there is Elon the self-centered man-boy who grew tired of tesla and bought himself a new toy “Free speech for all” he said, “the way it should be unless your free speech affects me negatively” Somehow a black woman got on the supremes but she’s far outnumbered so not as great as it seems when it comes to the law they’ll still cast there votes backwards ‘cause most of them are still morally corrupt bastards Here’s a fun number I just read today some six thousand guns were taken away by airport security in carry-on luggage loaded and ready in case, you know, thuggage The stock market cratered guess we knew that it would and they’re still not making cars as fast as they could and everything you buy costs a whole lot more or if the price is the same then the qualitiy’s poor But time won’t stop and neither will entropy so hold on tight in 20 and 23 try not to give up no matter what you see and do what you must to maintain your sanityThanks to: (in order of appearance) (also – bpm matched but not edited – I just let them play) Vidian – beat and synth groove (the first part of Vidian’s original, repeated once) Stefan Kartenberg – drums Admiral Bob – bass I had originally sung my last upload, ‘2022’, to this mix, which also had Javolenus’ guitar in it. But I ended up liking that better with just the guitar. When I went back to listen to just these three tracks I found myself wordlessly vocalizing to it (still in the headspace of having just dwelt on 2022 long enough to write a song about it), so I hit record and did it twice more. So it’s kind of like the ghost of 2022. Ooo, I finally have a title for it. I was going to call it simply Caterwauling because it reminded me of that scene from The Black Cat within Tales Of Terror with Joyce Jameson ‘singing’ and an exasperated Peter Lorre saying, “oh will you stop that infernal caterwauling?!”Thanks to Admiral Bob for the backing track. So I walked into the forest one December day Conservation Land or so the signs say I find two miles daily a very pleasant way to help me keep my many (minor) health problems at bay There’s nothing like walking in nature for me between flora and fauna, there’s so much to see I’ve done this and loved it since I was a kid It’s grounding and soothing and keeps me placid But on this one day I saw something weird that made no sense at all to me someone had seen fit to hang ornaments on a scraggly six foot tall pine tree What nonsense is this I thought so gaudily abrasive more proof the human species are the ones most invasive All that plastic, bright colors all coated with glitter to me just non-biodegradable litter There’s a time and a place (once a year in your home) but please keep it out of the woods where I roam And what were you thinking? What gives you the right To infuse the forest with tacky-time blight? And the sign you put up it’s a promotional stunt advertising your organization So is it cool with you if I do it too on behalf of the Aryan Nation? (Just to be absolutely clear - poetic license - I am not a part of the Aryan Nation. Those people are monsters.) Of course the real problem lies within me as I tend to see things differently nobody else cares, nobody else gets it they’re mostly just there so their dogs can shit So I’ll walk somewhere else ‘til they take that crap down after all there are many more trails around town and I’ll write a dumb song, feel better when I sing let nature be nature without advertisingThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass airtone – bells (and/or bell-like things) Javolenus – guitar Stefan Kartenberg – flute Julian Hruza – drums and synth Heuristics Inc. - synthThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass annabloom – percussion, clarinet and epiano Ezra Skull – guitar SackJo22 - bowls and vocalsThanks to: Apoxode – bass, beats and synths airtone – percussion ProudElectrics – percussion and bass Also, from freesound: [url=https://freesound.org/people/AugustSandberg/sounds/202876/]augustsandberg__african-savanna[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/vataaa/sounds/148873/]vataaa__voice-elephant[/url] [url=https://freesound.org/people/D.jones/sounds/527845/]d-jones__elephant-trumpets-growls[/url]Thanks to: bangcorrupt – bass, beats and guitar MOOD90music – beats canton – percussion exodistone – glitched harp cube3 – piano Darkroom - rhodesThanks to: Zenboy1955 – beats, bowls, guitar, piano and synth Martijn de Boer - bassJust adding a SackJo22 vocal to the bass and piano duet of Martijn de Boer and Doxent Zsigmond.Thanks to: Zenboy1955 – drums, harpsichord, strings, synth and vocals Martijn de Boer – basses and sax ifupdown – drums and bellsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, organ and vibraphone urmymuse – beats and guitar Javolenus – guitar unreal_dm - epianoThanks to: _ghost – bass, beats, guitar, rhodes and vibraphone Stefan Kartenberg – percussion, guitar and harmonicaThanks to: Phaux – bass, beats and synth Ant.Survila – beats and synth Martin Cee – fx’d piano SO SHA - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and high bass texasradiofish – beats Calyman – beats and guitar Apoxode – fx Siobhan Dakay – synth and stringsThanks to: Apoxode - bass, beats and synths (fx'd tones) Ben Blohowiak - beats, piano and ambience Martijn de Boer - sax abhishekkr - ukeleleThanks to: Zenboy1955 – beats, guitar and baritone sax Calyman – bass, beats and guitarairtone – bass, kick and synths Darkroom – bass and piano Apoxode – beats Javolenus – guitar Snowflake - vocalsThanks to: Siobhan Dakay – bass, sax and viola Martin Cee – beats and synths Wired Ant – beats Jaspertine – guitar Mr_Yesterday - vocalsThe pianos were played with fx (reverb and delay) embedded (processed pianos in Reason) so, sorry, no dry stems. Still, might be something useful in there.Thanks to: Zenboy1955 – bass, beats, guitar and sax Stefan Kartenberg – beats, harmonica and vocals BillRayDrums - drumsThanks to: Apoxode – 16 bars of his Absence Of Light mix, slowed, looped and repeated Ben Blohowiak – everything else (bass, beats, vibraphone, piano and synth)Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass spinningmerkaba - trumpet Stefan Kartenberg – beats, bongos Fonazza-Stent – beats and synth Scomber – piano Hip2BCube – keysAnother one with an electro synth (TD-3) stem from Apoxode at the core. With Ben Blohowiak providing everything else - bass, beats, keys, synths and atmospherics.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Fonazza-Stent - bass, beats and synth Martin Cee – beats urmymuse - beats Carosone – gamelan and glitch loop Siobhan Dakay – guitar, sax, synth and trumpetThanks to: AntSurvila – bass, beats, guitar Ben Blohowiak – beats, fx’d guitar, fx’d pianoThanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, epiano, synths and atmospherics Apoxode – beats, guitar and synth and from OTRR.org (Old Time Radio Researchers) – samples from A Date With Judy https://www.otrr.org/OTRRLibrary/index.html?idp=2788Thanks to: Fonazza-Stent – bass, beats, organ and synth Wiseman – bass, beats, gong, synth and vocals Katerina Gottfridson - vocalsThanks to: Bernard L’ermite – beats, pianos, guitar, synth and coffee-making sounds Bluemillenium – bass, beats, clavier and synth milkdaddy – bassThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and beats Apoxode – beats Zenboy1955 – sitar, guitar and fx martinsea - guitarThanks to: Mr_Yesterday – bass, beats and sax Bernard L’ermite – bass, beats, guitar and synths I added some epianosI’ve had this idea rattling around in my head since last year’s US Open. Now the French Open is a week away I thought I’d try it. Last names of women’s tennis players seeded in this years French Open sung to the tune of Alluette. I believe it’s in E Maj. And probably rife with mispronunciations. Azerenka, gentille Samsonova Sabelenka, je te Swiatek je te Kudermetova je te Alexandrova Pegula Kovinic Sakkari Garcia o-o-o-oh Andreescu, gentille Potopova Cocciaretto, je te Sasnovich je te Parrizas Diaz je te Sorribes Tormo Cirstea Badosa Giorgi Kostyuk Blinkova Noskova Tomova Muchova Pliskova Bouzkova Trevisan Kasatkina, gentille Ostapenko Krejcikova, je te GrachevaA pastiche, in tribute to Tobias Weber – what an incredible talent. Every time I watched one of his youtube videos I was awestruck by how at one he was with his instrument. As happy as I am that he shared that with us (very) is how sad I am that he’s gone.I should have listened to Airtone's track before I mixed this. I didn't realize he had used the same spoken word, so this is going to sound (unintentionally) pretty similar to his mix. Thanks to: Hieron - from the upload Idkewid, which I guess underwent a name change (?) – beats, piano, synths and choral voice MalreDeszik – bass, beats and synthsAfter listening to RadioOnTheShelf's excellent version of Anchor's Be Washed and then Ben Blohowiak's Broken Sunday Night (Honor Remix) I was inspired to do this combination. I originally intended to just put Anchor's vocal over Ben's mix (also excellent) but that would have been too easy/not as much fun. So anyway, this is how I spent some of my rainy Sunday. (The rain recording is fresh from my window as I began the mix.) Thanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, erhu, epiano and synths MalreDeszik – beats VPD – beats AntSurvila – beats and piano Admiral Bob – birds Anchor - vocalsThanks to: Siobhan Dakay – bass, beats, guitar, piano and sax Ben Blohowiak – beats and synthsThanks to: Wiseman – beats, bass, keys and synth Martijn de Boer – bass MalreDeszik – beats, bass and synth Zenboy1955 – beats, bowls, epiano and synth solos_to_use – trumpet Calling Sister Midnight – synth Greg S. Martin (via Calling Sister Midnight)- vocalsSalvaged from an otherwise deleted improvisation.Thanks to: Wiseman – beats, bass, flute, trumpet and wurlitzer Martijn de Boer – bass, high bass, beats and organ synth Hieron – beats, bass, dulcimer and synth padThanks to: Zenboy1955 – beats, bass, gong, guitar, mellotron and piano reiswerk – beats, bass and synthThanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, clarinet, epiano and vibraphone Martijn de Boer – bass, high bass and organ sparky – beats, choir and synth Brylie Christopher Oxley – beats and drone Kara Square - vocalsAll I did here was bpm match Javolenus' guitar groove with Apoxode's dynamic beats and then add some selections from Martijn de Boer's most excellent bass playing.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, high bass, drums, organ and synth Doxent Zsigmond – drums and epiano Admiral Bob – drums reiswerk – drums Hieron - synthThanks to: Zenboy1955 - bass, beats and guitar Martijn de Boer - bass, beats and organ Morusque - harpflute Wiseman - vocalsIt's pretty rare that I do a remix from just one source, but I found myself rather intrigued by Ben Blohowiak's Walk With Me (featuring Mr_Yesterday) mix. Kept going back to it. Then this. btw - If I could I would change the 'sad' tag to 'pensive'.Something jazzy. Maybe something for/from the Mos Eisley Cantina?in AThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, high bass and oboe martinsea - drums reiswerk – synth and additional drumsMinimally.Thanks to: martinsea – acoustic guitar Martijn de Boer – bass leinadsorihcak - drumsFeaturing: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, cello, harp and piano SackJo22 – glockenspiel mwic – pilot lightFeaturing: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, cello, harp and piano SackJo22 – glockenspiel Javolenus - beats mwic – pilot lightFeaturing: Apoxode – TD-3 martinsea – guitar Javolenus – synth mwic – pilot lightFeaturing: airtone – bass, bowed piano and drone unreal_dm – beats Admiral Bob – piano and strings Javolenus - synthFeaturing: Javolenus - guitars, mandolin, mellotron and synth pad unreal_dm - percussion Featuring: Ben Blohowiak - bass, beats, piano, epiano, koto and vibraphone unreal_dm - bass, beats and synth Kara Square - vocals Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass IS – beats Fujimo – guitar Dani_Plana – beats khalafnasirov – piano laurence - pianoThanks to: Zenboy1955 – beats, epiano and bass synth Apoxode – beats Javolenus - guitarFeaturing: unreal_dm - bass, beats, epiano and keys Apoxode - beats, guitar and otamatone Zenboy1955 - bass and beats Admiral Bob - pipe organFeaturing: Admiral Bob - guitar Apoxode - drums, percussion and gentle guitar Zenboy1955 - drums Thanks to: Apoxode - his Obsidian track, complete Rivrain Philippe - hang drum and harpsichord (?) synths billraydrums - drums Morusque - percussion and nine tracks of noise from meFeaturing: Zenboy1955 – bass, beats, guitar and synths Javolenus - guitarFeaturing: Asmus Koefoed - beats and synths spinningmerkaba - beats and guitar Zenboy1955 - cello, music box and violins Apoxode - bass and synth martinsea - beats Javolenus - bass Ben Blohowiak - mallets Thanks to: Ben Blohowiak - bass, beats, epiano and synth airtone - beats and bowed piano Javolenus - mandolinFeaturing: unreal_dm - bass, beats, piano, organ and synth Apoxode - bass, beats, synth bells and static Ben Blohowiak - beats, wurlitzer and vibraphoneFeaturing: Ben Blohowiak - bass, tambourine, piano, epiano and synth spinningmerkaba - guitar, cowbell Thanks to: Javolenus – guitar, epiano and mellotron MalreDeszik – bass, beats and synth SkyeJordan - beatsThanks to: Zenboy1955 - beats, bansuri, guitar, mellotron, tampura and synth Martijn de Boer - bass and beats Ant.Survila - beats, piano and epiano Dani_Plana - beatsThanks to: Zenboy1955 - bass, beats and guitar MalreDeszik - bass, beats, guitar and synth PorchCat - vocalsThanks to: jaspertine - bass, beats and guitar Apoxode - bass, beats, fx and slide guitar Darkroom - bass and rhodes Siobhan Dakay - flute and trumpetThanks to: Ben Blohowiak – beats, bass, clarinet and vibraphone Apoxode – noise/glitch (raw data files converted to sound) PorchCat - droneI certainly don't consider myself the best option for anyone looking to have themselves 'made a singer'. Not even close. But I do like a challenge and I did have fun trying. I think this is the first time I've ever started a mix with the vocal. I put essesq's vocal (from 2008) into Melodyne (basic). It auto-detected D. I made a few adjustments here and there. Then I put the vocal into Reason and played some accompanying phrases in D on keys, piano and synths (samples in the zip). Then I found a couple bass and drum grooves from Javolenus that I thought would make an appropriate starting point for the final construction.Thanks to: Javolenus – bass, beats, guitar and groove(s) Snowflake and Kara Square – vocals synths and rhodes in the zipSomewhere between Lin-Manuel Miranda, Spike Jones and Dr. Seuss?
I started this by making bell loops for others to use in remixes but I ended up going a bit overboard with the preview mix and it became quite frantic. Which made me think, well some people do get quite frantic at the holidays, so I wrote some words, quickly, close to stream of consciousness, not paying too much attention to rhyming or timing. (Or my own personal reality. We put up a tree, we’re done.)
The words:
Yep, here it comes. Comin’ up on Christmas again. Or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, if that’s still a thing or any sort of celebration you’d like to assign to the catch-all euphemism Holidays. Whatever it is it’s time to prepare. Gotta get ready, gotta make plans, gotta get your ducks in a row. Are you gonna have a party? Gonna have guests? Going out of town? Staying in your nest? It’s time to get supplies, it’s time to get a tree and or a wreath and lights, lots and lots of lights. How many lights do your neighbors have? How many kilowatts can you afford? Maybe just some reindeer and an eight foot Santa. A trip to The Depot to fill in whatever’s missing. Stop by the nursery for mistletoe for kissing. Did you know mistletoe’s a parasite? Did you know Jesus was not born that night? It was actually sometime in the spring. Actually a lot of history is not right. It’s taught for convenience and sales. Here’s another fun fact I learned not long ago. You know how Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is like the quintessential Christmas tale? Along with his other Christmas tales he created what we now picture as a typical Christmas, a major feature being snow. That’s because Dickens was a child during the coldest decade in Britain’s history. It snowed then. And only then. The Thames even froze over. It actually rarely snows in December in England. I live in New England and it rarely snows here in December too. Certainly not enough to get the sleighbells ringing. So maybe that’s why der Bingle’s only dreaming. So maybe we aint got no snow in our yards. But we still got the fantasy, look at the cards. Oh yeah, gotta get the cards, with their snow fantasy scenes, to send to aunt Betty in Arizona. Haven’t seen her in years. Should we buy her a gift? Who else is on the list? Is there anyone we should add? Oh god, gifts, what a drag. Should we go to the mall? Or do it all on the web? Brick and mortar gets so crowded, the noise and the lines, the traffic and parking, the spreading of viruses more than good cheer. It’s the hap hap happiest time of the year. So many things to consider to make the big day just right. We gotta get food, lots of food to fill our big bellys, lots of chocolates too, and pastries and jellys and candy canes and egg nog. And a good sized donation to the local food bank to assuage our guilt. And tips to the workers who we once a year thank. Sitting by the fireplace it’s family time, except today the fireplace is on Amazon Prime. But that’s okay we’ll hang our stockings on the TV. We can adapt. Oh yeah, do we have enough adapters for all the new digital toys? Double and triple A batteries for all the good girls and boys. Oh god, what if Santa doesn’t bring the thing they want? I hope they were very specific on their lists, it’s hard to keep up with the latest product developments. And paper for wrapping, gotta make sure we have enough paper. And stuff. Ornaments, garland, toys and lights. Noisemakers, blinkers, festive delights. It’s gonna be the best ever. It’s gotta be the best.
Yeah, I aint doin’ any of this.Some more bell samples to play with. Not even atonal this time (key of C).Apoxode's vocals and piano in a remix of unreal_dm's Better Times.7OOP3D's track remixed (defunkenated?) with another of Snowflake's seasonal/holiday vocals (from 2011).Featuring: Zenboy1955 – drums, mellotron and synth Stefan Kartenberg – percussion and flute Javolenus – keys and mandolin Snowflake - vocalsI wrote and sang another holiday downer (O holy s___ the stars have all stopped shining) to upload but decided instead to forego further doom and gloom and just try my hand at a straight up classic. I say 148 bpm but it'll probably need some manual quantizing. I used a metronome but I'm pretty sure I wandered a bit. I think it's mostly in A but again, it wanders. I've been rewatching old SNL and I may have been influenced by Bill Murray's lounge singer character. The preview is double tracked (with one track melodyned) but the raw mono recording is also uploaded.Mixing bits from some of Javolenus' earlier groove uploads (and one guitar) with bits from his recent Merry Mando Yuletide (vol 1).Thanks to: Apoxode – beats, bass, guitar and keys Zenboy1955 – bass, bassoon and synth (celesta robo) Admiral Bob - vocalsThanks to: Apoxode – beats, bass, guitar and keys Zenboy1955 – bass, bassoon and synth (celesta robo) Admiral Bob - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and flute Javolenus - guitar Doxent Zsigmond - music box GeeArtriasRose - chimesThanks to: jaspertine - bass, drums and guitar Apoxode - funct ukelele and noise SackJo22 - guitar and vocals ("...traditional Chanukah tune sung in Hebrew") texasradiofish - washerKara's Jingle Bells vocal (adulterated) in a remix of unreal_dm's Holiday Blues.Thanks to: Zenboy1955 – bass, drums, guitar and sax Ben Blohowiak – clarinet, epiano and pianoAnother mix put together from older Javolenus grooves and guitar, plus a bass from Martijn de Boer. This time featuring the vocals of Ivan Chew (from 2011). There is another sample used from Javolenus that the search box can't find. It's labeled C87-JazzChords_GTRSolo_1 chords. (Interestingly when I tried to search via Artist instead of Title it only brought up a couple hundred Javolenus uploads, of which there are over a thousand.)Thanks to: copperhead - bass and vocals Javolenus - beats, guitar, pad and vocal Snowflake - piano tacet - beatsMr_Yesterday's vocal in a remix of unreal_dm's Holiday Jazz. Happy New YearThanks to: MalreDeszik – beats, bass, cello, guitar, keys and pad Martijn de Boer – beats, bass and organThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Javolenus - beats, synth and noise Bernard L'ermite - beats, harp and vibraphone Zenboy1955 - beats and piano Proud Electrics - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and piano Javolenus – guitar Mr_Yesterday – drums sparky - drumsThanks to: jaspertine – organ and guitars Zenboy1955 – bass, percussion, fx, guitar and synth Apoxode – beats and synth(monologue) I added some circuit bent toy keyboard and vocals. Instrumental version also uploaded.Thanks to: Apoxode – bass, percussion and guitar MalreDeszik – bass, percussion and synth economix – piano afieled – spoken word martinsea – bass, beat and spoken word SackJo22 – background vocalsA continuance of the Oortian mixversation. Thanks to: Apoxode - drum, bass and scratch (pretty much intact) Martijn de Boer - bass (pretty much in order but spaced differently) Zenboy1955 - drums, percussion and synths (and spark) I added a couple more synths and used the same Prelinger source - https://archive.org/details/HowtoLis1957solos_to_use's trombone solo over a backing made with ReasonThanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, epiano, synth and vibraphone unreal_dm – bass, beats, epiano, guitar and synth Javolenus – guitar reiswerk – beats Stefan Kartenberg – beats stellarartwars - beatsThanks to: Apoxode – bass, beats, percussion and synths (ginger, sage and avocado oil on a bed of swoll up tomato paste) spinningmerkaba – bass and guitar vibhu – spoken wordLately I’ve been feeling like all my remixes follow pretty much the same formula, so I decided to try and change things up with a series of original improvisations inspired by the purchase of a circuit bent toy keyboard. Although this first one doesn’t contain any of said toy, the vocals were inspired by the one knob that changes the pitch and tempo. This is in fact the only knob on this particular toy. (Speculative purchase, didn’t want to overspend.) Hope you enjoy, or at least tolerate, and maybe something in the stems will inspire further oddness.Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Javolenus – guitar Ezra Skull – slide guitar MalreDeszik – synth Kevin Milner - vocalsBig thanks to Amon Rowley Institute and Victoria Melfi for sharing the vocal. Also thanks to: VPD – the main groove Neurowaxx – baroque glitch Fireproof Babies – Bachish buzzing taboca – piano Javolenus - guitarThis one’s all from the circuit bent toy. (Except for the vocals.)Thanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass Apoxode - percussion, printer and synth annabloom - percussion Kara Square - vocals Additional (public domain) vocal samples from librivox - [url=https://librivox.org/alice-in-wonderland-retold-in-words-of-one-syllable-by-jc-gorham/]https://librivox.org/alice-in-wonderland-retold-in-words-of-one-syllable-by-jc-gorham/[/url]Perhaps a little less 'out there' than the first three. (?) Still...Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, piano and saxophone Michelle Noel – vocals Fonazza-Stent – synthThanks to: Javolenus – guitar, epiano, mellotron, synth and urdu Snowflake – piano and vocals reiswerk – drums Subhashish - percussionand weird but fineThanks to: Javolenus – guitar DeBenedictis - vocalsThat feeling when your celebratory afterglow is supplanted by some really bad news. Features: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, epiano, piano, synth pad and vibraphone zikweb – bass, beats, epiano and piano Snowflake – voiceThanks to: jaspertine – bass, drums, guitar and synth offlinebouncer – bass, drums and guitar Fireproof Babies - guitarThe last of the circuit bent toy uploads (probably). The vocals are me. Public domain American Western folk ballad. (Who knew Clementine had a twist ending?)Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Apoxode – beats and synths Doxent Zsigmond – beats and epiano moscardo – rhodes SO SHA - vocalsAbout a year ago I uploaded a piano improvisation, to which Martijn de Boer then added a bass, to which Stefan Kartenberg then added drums and a sax, all from which Apoxode then created a remix. This mix comprises samples from each of those – minus any of the piano from which it all started. Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Stefan Kartenberg – drums and sax Apoxode – beats and synth(vibraphone)Thanks to: AlexBeroza – bass, beats, guitar, horn and organ Admiral Bob – bass and guitar Stefan Kartenberg – beats, guitar and sax unreal_dm – guitar SackJo22 - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass jaspertine – drums, synth and guitar Darkroom – drums, piano and synth Mr_Yesterday - vocalsThanks to: Apoxode – bass and piano Mr_Yesterday – electrified(?) salsa lid (percussion) Convertor – viola and violin Martijn de Boer – cello and piano Kara Square - ukelele And there's some circuit bent toy in there from me.Thanks to: Morusque – mallets Apoxode – all the other sounds (that aren’t vocals) Walter Berry – spoken word SackJo22 – spoken word and vocals(see) Uta Groebel_Gros – spoken wordThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, beats, flute and organ Malre Deszik – bass, beats and synthDescribe any AI tools used in creating your imageThanks to: Uta Goebel-Gros - spoken word Apoxode - synths Includes some original sounds uploaded as stems. Thanks to: unreal_dm - bass, drums and organ offlinebouncer - bass, drums and piano spinningmerkaba - slide guitar and vocalsThanks to: Apoxode - percussion Zenboy1955 - piano and singing glass Amy Lloyd - spoken word I've had this (instrumental) mix in my improvisations folder for a while now, thought it might be a good place for a good long dream reading, and I wanted to do something with Snowflake's Shapeshifters, so I thinned out the ruckus a bit and lined up the reading, and voila. btw - the 'springbox' is a cigar box with eight springs stretched over the surface (tuned to a scale) and a pickup inside, with a mix knob, a delay knob and a feedback knob.A couple weeks ago (May 10th) marked my fifteenth year on ccmixter. So I thought I’d honor the occasion with a remix comprised of one sample source from each May since 2009. There was no other criteria for the choices I made, other than a vague concept of what I wanted it to sound/feel like. So it is with XXL appreciation for all who share, and in this particular case thanks to: 2009 – jacindae – percussion and recorder 2010 – copperhead – bass and kalimba 2011 – Snowflake – piano 2012 – greg baumont – epiano 2013 – jaspertine – guitar 2014 – Martijn de Boer – high bass 2015 – DjoeGio – pad 2016 – Reiswerk – beats 2017 – Stefan Kartenberg – djembe and oud 2018 – Mr Pepino – beats and rhodes 2019 – Javolenus – guitar 2020 – subliminal -fx, guitar and trumpet 2021 – MalreDeszik – synth 2022 – salvatoreJ – synth 2023 – Wiseman – drums and guitarFor this one I first slowed Amina Mara’s dream reading, then converted it into a midi file, then assigned a drum kit to it. Also a bass, piano and synth. Piano and synth didn’t make the cut. Too frenetic. The drum kit was also wacky so it remains but at a pretty low level. It is joined by/shored up with a drum and timbrel from Javolenus. The bass I cut into loops/samples (and probably halved the tempo). So it’s basically just drums and bass, both derived from the vocal, arranged, into which the vocal is then fit. Loosely. (Plus the Javolenus drums.)Thanks to: Ezra Skull - drum loop and bass unreal_dm - percussion, guitar, pad, piano and just a touch of bass Apoxode - spoken word btw - I once lived in an apartment complex with nine identical two floor buildings with two apartments on each floor (likewise mirrored) for a total of thirty six apartments. So I found the sense of place in this dream very relatable.Thanks to: Javolenus – drums and mandolin Carosone – bass and guitar VPD – drums, synth and sax Uta Groebel-Gros – spoken wordThanks to: Apoxode - bass, RD-8, TD-3 and guitar Beluga Ten - piano and synths Snowflake - vocals I added fretless bass, shamisen and a bit of extra beatsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and sax Javolenus – guitar BeatMachine – beats bangcorrupt – beats and sax Beluga Ten – keys, synth and vibraphone Apoxode – beats, flute and vibraphoneThanks to: Martijn de Boer - bass and drums Javolenus - guitar unreal_dm - drums, epiano, flute and piano robwalkerpoet - percussion and harmonicaMartinsea's more cravings meets Apoxode's Lucy's Diner. Drums and synths from both. Big thanks to each.Thanks to: Ben Blohowiak – bass, beats, piano, strings and vibraphone Zenboy1955 – beats, epiano and synth Javolenus - guitar martinsea – synths SackJo22 – bowlsI had so much fun bringing martinsea and Apoxode together for Craving Lucy’s Diner I thought I’d try it again. This time with annabloom also in the mix. So it’s thanks to: Apoxode - beats and synth/fx/textures martinsea – synths annabloom – bass, beats, horn and synthThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and sax Apoxode – hi-hat, bell, guitar and synth annabloom – beats and organ Malre Deszik – beats and synth CiggiBurns – vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass and drums pjburnhill – beats William Berry – beats svaenski – beats martinsea – beats and synths Darkroom – piano Apoxode – vocals (btw, fwiw, I’m glad you are here) Some additional beats from me (in the zip).The Reader's Digest version of Zenboy1955's brilliant offering. (I suppose in today's parlance that would be the TL:DR version.) There's a little bit of beat and bass assist from MalreDeszik, other than that it's all Zenboy1955.Thanks to: Apoxode – volca beats, RD8(beats) and TD3 mwic – TD3 (the seed/inspiration) and guitar Snowflake – vocals and piano I added some beats and synth pad (in the zip).Thanks to: Admiral Bob – bass ScOmBer – bass Apoxode – beats jaspertine – beats Bluemillenium – beats and synths Darkroom – guitar and harp Ben Blohowiak - vibraphone note: I used samples from Darkroom from an upload titled Them Say(sample) from 2007, which I found through the beta stem/samples pages. That doesn't show up in the sample search box for attributions and I can't find it with a search from the main page. Also when I go back to Darkroom's early works (page 9 where the full mix is) it's not there. So I credited the one titled Them Say (It Feels Like Mix). Looks like maybe the beta stems/samples can access uploads that have been deleted? (In which case I probably shouldn't be using it.) Thoughts?Thanks to: Admiral Bob – bass, drums, organ and rhodes spinningmerkaba – bass, drums, guitar and vocals I started this one with a handful of unused sounds that had been collecting on my field recorder (Tascom DR-05). It was pretty blah. Then I thought, hmm… I wonder what that would sound like with one of Apoxode’s TD3 shares. That brought it to life. Then I added the beats, sub(ish) bass, ambient synth and some more synth from Bluemillenium to help get it to the finish line. Also ended up realigning pretty much all of the original sounds that I had started it with. So it’s thanks to: Apoxode – TD3 Bluemillenium - synthThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, beats and guitar Apoxode – beats and synth Siobhan Dakay – beats grapes – guitar Javolenus – guitar theod – strings Robert Warrington - vocalsThanks to: Admiral Bob – bass, drums, guitar and organ Zenboy1955 – drums, lead guitar and synth Joel Frijters - vocalsIn the key of letharG Flat MajThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Nickleus – drums, strings and synth Anchor - vocalsMany thanks to Kara for the inspiring track and all the contributions it's inspired. Features: Kara Square - vocals and ukelele Admiral Bob - bass, drums, organ and rhodes Apoxode - drums, percussion Zenboy1955 - bass, drums, guitar and vocals (low oohs) spinningmerkaba - guitar and backing vocals Snowflake - backing vocals Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass, high bass and beats annabloom – beats, clarinet, horn, piano, epiano and synthMostly comprising samples from Ben Blohowiak's stellar piece called A Heart At The Clock Of The Universe. If you only have time to listen to one song today go listen to that instead of this. It's really quite something. (But then come back tomorrow to listen to this ;)) Featuring: Ben Blohowiak - bass, percussion, ambiance rhythm, epiano, harp and vibraphone unreal_dm - drums Admiral Bob - drums Javolenus - hand drums Darkroom - synthThanks to: Javolenus - percussion, bass, synths and guitar Ben Blohowiak - percussion and vibraphone Zenboy1955 - vocalsThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Javolenus – guitar drum stems/samples in the zipThe music is mostly all Apoxode (I've added a couple original synth tracks). As is that one aaoo vocal. The specific samples unpacked from the zipped folders are: from Drum Loops - 022.beatem113-16 bar loop from Music Loops - 064.quirky angle 8 bar loop 080.warped bell lead 1 bar from Experimental-Ambient - 113.sci-fi ambient loop The lead vocals are all spinningmerkaba (I've messed them up quite a bit).Thanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass Zenboy1955 – beats, guitar and synth Javolenus - guitarFeaturing: Apoxode - bass, beats (RD-9) and synth (monologue) Javolenus - guitar Ben Blohowiak - vibraphone and fluteThanks to: Martijn de Boer – bass _ghost – beats and organ Apollo Nove – beats Subhashish – erhu and sax Skye Jordan - pianoA remix of Ben Blohowiak's All Rise samples with Snowflake's Not Going Back vocals. (And a little bit of harmonica from me.)Thanks to: PorchCat – bass, beats and guitar coruscate – beats and violin sparky – bass, beats and kalimba Apoxode – beats and synth(hits) jjfrazz – beats and guitar Alexey - synth(arp)I drew musikpirat, lucky me, lots of good samples to play with. I really enjoyed the process, exploration to creation. The mixes came easy (I made two). The hardest part was deciding which one I should upload. I’m going with the one with a vocal. (Unless I’ve changed my mind again after having written this.) All music is from musikpirat samples. The vocalist is Beng Calma-Alcazaren, shared by dripmanilla back in 2009 and used in a musikpirat remix (Fool me (once)) in December of last year. Enjoy, and happy twentieth!martinsea recently uploaded an also lovely “minimalist version of Darkroom’s lovely 48 Degrees and Clear”. This is that with the addition of Martijn de Boer’s bass and Doxent Zsigmond’s guitar. There are three tracks of martinsea’s piece, whole and intact but slowed a bit and with various fx (pitched up, pitched up more, reverbs and delays). Martijn de Boer’s bass and Doxent Zsigmond’s guitar are also presented without edits (well, two small edits on the bass), though they may have been truncated a bit to fit (faded out). So basically I’ve just aligned three pre-existing pieces, hopefully without destroying the inherent loveliness.Thanks to: Apoxode - beats and TD-3 mwic - bass and melodic bitsThanks to: Admiral Bob – vocals BillRayDrums – drums jaspertine – bass Javolenus – guitar GeeArtriasRose – chimes texasradiofish - 808bassCombining Javolenus' November Dawn and Zone Ambience. And adding two piano, three synths and a bass.