Android Dancehall (80's Mix) - Released February 2, 2001
This is a remix of one of my favorite songs from my Patchwerk album done in untra-cheesey 80's synthpop style.
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Mile High Club (Al Mackey Version) - Released February 2, 2001
One of my favorite artists, Divinorum (AKA Bjorn Lynne) recently announced a remix competition for his new track, Mile High Club. Naturally, I couldn't resist...
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Petroleum Product (Patchwerk Version) - Released July 28, 2000
This is a new version of one of my all-time favorites, rewritten for the upcoming Patchwerk CD. I've kept the melodies and structure pretty much in tact, but replaced and enhanced just about everything else. The melodies are both now performed on a synth (instead of sampled, as before).
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Space Opera - Released June 4, 2000
I was listening to "Azure Blue" by a great Finnish surf band called Laika and the Cosmonauts, and I realized that they had made a song that was low-key and melancholy, but definatley was still surf music. So, I got to wondering if such a principle could also apply to synth-rock without falling into the traps of "New Age" or "Ambient" music. Turns out, this concept makes for great space music! Or at least, I think so...
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Basics - Released February 8, 2000
This song will remind those who remember of old songs on the Commodore 64. The Sidstation takes the lead in this one, backed up by simple waveforms from the Nord and K2000 and some sampled C64 drums.
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Numbers - Released February 5, 2000
A happy song about spies! Being a geek, I often read news on slashdot.org. One day they had an article about Numbers Stations, which linked to some sound clips of some genuine Numbers Station transmissions. So, what's a Numbers Station? Well, they are stations that appear and disappear at regular times on certain shortwave radio frequencies where a voice reads out a long sequence of numbers or letters. It is believed that these stations are used to communicate with spies who are in other countries, since the recieving equipment is small, perfectly legal just about everywhere, and impossible to triangulate. The numbers and letters are believed to be encrypted with a one-time-use key, so they're also near impossible to decrypt without that key.
So, I got my grubby old paws on some samples of these transmissions, and decided to put them to music. At first I was going to do a dark and angsty thing, but then I decided to do a sickly happy tune instead. I think it's got shades of the theme from Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" in there.
Well, as I said, I'm a geek.
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Dive - Released January 3, 2000
This song is kind of slow, but it's one of my current favorites. It's my first song to use my new synth, the rare SidSataion. I started this song long before I got it, so it only has a few parts, namely the arpeggiated chords at the middle and end of the song. It also uses a phaser called a Small Stone, which claims to be made of recycled Russian tank parts, and looks like it, too.
Available from MP3.com or FMF.
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Android Dancehall - Released December 24, 1999
Ja! I found this great freeware Vocoder (DOS-based) called the Zerius Vocoder, so obviously it was time to do a Kraftwerk parody! The robot voices are all done with this, using my own voice modulated to waveforms from the Nord Lead. If you use this vocoder, a little advice: For more intelligable results, turn the number of bands up! I think I used 96 bands here.
Available from MP3.com, IUMA.com, or FMF.
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Out There - Released December 6, 1999
This is one of my songs from way back that I've remade using new gear. It's kind of strange and melodic.
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Your Darkness (The Nightmare) - Released October 30, 1999
This is a second remix of Force Majeure's "Your Darkness" that I completed arround halloween. SpooOOooOOooky!
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Woopy - Released August 22, 1999
This is me having too much fun with an arpegiator.
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Underground - Released August 22, 1999
Is it too early for me to be developing a nostalgia for the early 90s? This is a song I did back in college after finding an incredibly generic collection of old Rave and 808/909 samples. It actually comes off an old DAT tape, so the old Amiga 1200 is the MIDI engine behind this one, and the K2000 was the only synth I had at the time.
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Your Darkness (Dark Filter) - Released August 1, 1999
This is the first of Force Majeure's "Your Darkness". This one uses a lot of weird filtering effects.
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King of the Sea Monkeys - Released June 29, 1999
Rock on! More techno-mod-crap stereotypia than you can shake a weasel at. This one always seems to come back and haunt me.
Available from MP3.com or IUMA.com.
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Something Funky - Released June 29, 1999
Funky funky funky funky funky. Ten Geek Points to anyone who can correctly identify the two vocal snippets. Lots of old funk-band samples and stuff went into this one.
Available from MP3.com or IUMA.com.
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Unknown - Released September 29, 1998
This one's got kind of a subtle spookiness to it. Hence the name.
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Spite - Released November 30, 1998
This is one of my old songs from my Amiga days, rehashed on my new equipment. It's kind of mellow and dancey, with jazz-inspired lead.
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Petroleum Product - Released June 29, 1999
A strange song that combines hard and soft elements that flirts between dance and ambient styles.
Available from IUMA.com.
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Pack Mentality - Released May 20, 1999
This is a rather old song with strange patterns.
Available from FMF.
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Aerobatics - Released October 5, 1998
This one was my try at adding some ska elements into my music.
Available from FMF.
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