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Simple Rock
Wrote this song 1993 when some friends and me used to jam weekly in the house of our female lead singer. The song was originally arranged (and also recorded at that time) as a folk style pop ballad with two or three vocal lines and a rather innocent, harmless pop instrumentation, featuring clean guitars.
In the new version, however, I wanted to spawn a bit more of darkness, although the result isn't too much hardcore.

A video of bunch of analog synthesizers to the music of Automatic Gainsay's song "Mine" (which features many of the synths shown). Video and synthesizers by Marc Doty - who has way too many analog synths than is reasonable. LOL! Analog synthesizers are cool though...

4:03 minutes (4.6 MB) :: Download audio file

Acapella Ballad (Lead vocals, lyrics: narva9 @ ccmixter)

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Acapella Gospel

Lyrics: Katharina von Schlegel, 1752 (arrangement of poem 'Stille, mein Wille')
(Translation: Jane Borthwick, 1855)
Music: Jean Sibelius, 1865
Vocals: Worship Gospel Choir
Percussion: Leafcutter John (binaural drums)

Just a mixdown on-the-fly... two acapellas and one drumtrack. Nice little exercise in postprocessing (time-shifting, alot of cutting and rearranging) - had to tweak all 3 tracks to get a straight (here: 92 BPM) running beat.

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Ironical RockPop song about industry lobby.
Never was too much interested in politics, but a few years ago I somehow came up with the idea to write these lyrics. Well, last week I decided to make it a complete song, so here it is.
The original plan was to create an ElectroPop tune, sorta Kraftwerk style, using distorted vocals for a cool industrial touch. But then it got its own will and turned into a more rocking direction. Anyway, distorted vocals didn't seem to match the new style, and since I wanted to avoid my original voice, I quickly pitched my vocals down by 4 halftones. The result was a strange voice with black flavour... pretty wacky, I would not have recognized myself, or did you?

I wanted to do a kinda retro 80's sounding track. I started out with Hammerhead drums playing LinnDrum samples, and a bass line using virtual Yamaha CS-80 and MiniMoog soft synths. The I added/played my real analog Korg Delta synth. I had to let the oscillators warm up for about an hour before it would keep in tune! But it sounds really good on the track, I think. Nothing like an analog synth. Finally added/played a guitar part to compliment. I don't know if it came out sounding very 80's like, but at this point, I'm stuck - or getting burnt out on the track. :o)

:)