Waluby :: Free Music Podcast
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So, I thought I had lost this mix one day, but thank goodness I found it on my computer. This is unique in that the beat comes from my old casio keyboard that has preset drum loops with some auto-fills and different drum sounds I could alter when the beat is playing. I recorded a scratching sound on the synth at the same time the beat was playing, and then added several other layers with both the casio and synth.
08.31.10Come Again :: Free Music Podcast
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[ratings]
Here’s an original recorded the same night as Come Together in the previous post. Be sure to turn you speakers all the way up, it’s a little quite. The extra sounds you hear are coming from Joe’s iPhone.
03.3.09Cucumber Wire Boat :: Free Music Podcast
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A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I watched a hilarious movie called, Super High Me. The basis of the movie is that a comedian goes 30 days in row without smoking any marijuana. Then after experiencing 30 days sober, he smokes constantly for 30 straight days in a row.
In one of the scenes, the comedian has to undergo a memory test in which he is given 3 words at the beginning of the test that he needs to remember by the end of the session. While sober, he has trouble remembering the words by the end of the session, so during the period in which he smokes, he’s obsessed with the 3 words, cucumber, wire, and boat.
This was a hilarious scene and I just liked the words “cucumber”, “wire” and “boat” together. It sounded like an interesting surrealistic idea to start off writing a song with. So after the film, I wrote down these words quickly to describe a little surrealistic scene of the “Cucumber Wire Boat”.
Jeremy happened to have just written the music so when we got together that Sunday, I just ad-libbed the words I’d written over his production work.
Reinvent Ourselves :: Free Music Podcast
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Reinvent Ourselves actually started lyrically from two different scraps of writings that I had.
The first part, I was obviously in a really dark mood and started framing an almost dystopian kind of situation. I guess the idea of a police state or a warlike situation was in my mind at the time. I wasn’t really quite sure where to take it after the first couple of lines, however, and just left it the way it was in my notepad to revisit at some other time.
The second part of the song was drastically different, focusing on brighter days. The idea of escaping from an unhappy situation and “getting away” to someplace nicer and more enjoyable.
When Beavis, Jeremy and I got together the following Sunday, Jeremy had written the base music production for us to work from and I noticed how drastically the music changed as it progressed, especially with the introduction of the deep bass line about halfway through. Beavis laid down some sweet guitar to bootstrap a lot of the sound together in a tighter fashion and I started playing around with using some of these lyrics and noticed that the two scripts actually went together in a story-like fashion so I went with it.
02.10.09Promise :: Free Music Podcast
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Working on some of the ideas for our most recent project has required a lot of focus on very dark progressions a lot of really heavy sounds. So, just as a light diversion, I wanted to write something a brighter and more lighthearted.
To be honest, I didn’t really start with any idea in particular. I’ve been listening to a lot of Faunt’s work lately and am enamored with their “video game”-style production sounds. I love how lighthearted everything sounds, even though their lyrical content may be focusing on some intense subject matter. It makes listening to a sad song a happy experience.
So basically, that’s where I started and I just played around the most lighthearted sounds I could find in my collection and just assembled them together in a fun way.
02.3.09Thugs :: Free Music Podcast
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Over the last couple of weeks, things have been incredibly busy for us as we’ve just been getting over all the obligations life throws at us in the new year. Because of this, getting together to play in a simultaneously collaborative environment has been difficult. So, instead, we’ve been producing material individually. In as many cases as possible, we’re working on doing some asynchronous projects where we can each record aspects individually and then pass it along to the next person.
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Identity :: Free Music Video
For something a little different this week, we played a bit over at Jeremy’s house and I brought my camera along to try taking some video of the band. We’re planning some future work with video and I wanted to capture some stuff while we were all playing.
I hadn’t really planning on keeping any of the audio along with the video, however, this particular video came across pretty decently so I thought it’d be a good one to share on the site.
Now, I don’t think we really planned on having any vocals while we played and didn’t set up anything to capture vocal work but I just felt like singing so I just pretty much sang/yelled as loud as I could control over the instruments. Surprisingly the mic picked it up ok and this is what we ended up with.
Hope everyone enjoys it.
How to get by :: Free Music Podcast
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Creepjacker :: Free Music Podcast
Creepjacker starts abruptly with a crash of disjointed noise loosely connected for moments with syncronized stops. However, after some drunken chaos, the song finds it’s way into a lighthearted stroll underlined with distortion and tension.
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Seahorse
A note a warning to listeners, Seahorse isn’t exactly a song; it’s a short collection of noise from one of our sessions.
The end result is a strange collection of saw-like reversed signal instruments in an open and non-rhythmic atmosphere. I found the sounds to be an interesting and complex arrangement of noise and just wanted to post it up as another example of the strange things that can come from our jam sessions.
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